This is the last episode of Taboo (check out previous episodes in the US on FX here, or here for UK episodes on BBC 1) before the finale, and there are a lot of twists and turns ahead!
Rain, water, mud, death. It is Taboo.
A sad funeral for the beautiful Winter.Franka Potente As the brothel madame Helga
Photo credit: FXHelga is heartbroken, and has written a beautiful eulogy for her angel, who she cannot see buried, but commends her to her “father” the sea.
She discusses whether or not James is guilty with Atticus, as they row Winter’s body out to the current.
Cholmondeley gets to see his obsession, Lorna, delivering young Robert to the Delaney household.
Lorna is certain James did not kill Winter, James is not. He wanted a ship, he says. Lorna continues her propensity for getting her boots and dress muddy, walking along the shore. She kindly picks up a dizzy little Mudlark, who runs when she asks about Winter.
James is trying to contact Winter’s sweet little spirit, when there is a knock at the door.
It is his past, bundled in human form as Chichester, come to confront him and offer him a way to obtain pardon. The screen cuts as James suggests an alternative.
“I have a use for you,” he tells young Robert later, giving him the key to the safe.
Walking down the muddy streets, James’s hat is shot off by a mourning Helga, then the ground at his feet is hit.
The scene changes again, to Zilpha in her bath. She has decided to see James, certain in her scheming and murder and her constant attempts to implicate James in her husband’s murder.
But even Zilpha can be unforgiven, if she does not do what he thinks right. He has split from her machinations and she from his heart. He gives her a diamond for her widowhood and dismisses her as she cries.
The gunpowder is hidden at Bedlam, in his mother’s room.
While there, Atticus warns James that Helga will turn against him, but James wants her unharmed.
Brace is not coming out of his room, and James coaxes him out as only James can(threats).
He knows that it was Brace that poisoned his father.
Brace says he was doing him a favor, and remarks to Lorna after James leaves that he wished he would have poisoned James, too. Because he knows what is about to happen to James, and there will be no kindness in the way either The Crown or the EIC will treat him.
Sir Stuart has two women visit.
Helga and her prostitute have come to testify that James was giving gunpowder to the enemy.
Helga thinks they are getting revenge, but instead they are kept in custody, to be freed only if they get a pardon.
This will give EIC the way to Nootka, to trade.
They are coming for James.
James sees his visions at the water’s edge again. He knows he is betrayed.
“I have a use for you,” he tells Godfrey, and they ride.
The Crown is coming for James, and he has Godfrey talking to Chichester.
James waits, a deck of cards in hand at the Molly house, for them to take him. And they do.TABOO — “Episode 7” (Airs Tuesday, February 21, 10:00 pm/ep) — Pictured: Tom Hardy as James Keziah Delaney. CR: FX
Word quickly spreads of James’s capture.
Lorna meets a Mudlark boy, who tells him the truth about Winter’s death. James is innocent.
James asks his captors to let him see Sir Stuart, and they laugh him off.
They want names of his compatriots and the Americans.
The soldiers beat him mercilessly, and put him to the Question(torture).
He does not break.
He asks to see Sir Stuart again, and Sir Stuart has no choice but to comply.
“I have a use for you,” he tells Sir Stuart…
Thoughts and questions about this episode:
Firstly, this is about many episodes. If you search the internet, there are pictures of “ghosts” that are in episodes, James’s Mother and Father among them. Pretty cool inclusion.
“I have a use for you” has become a chilling phrase, hasn’t it?
Will Zilpha become an enemy now? As I have said, I believe there is a hidden malevolence to her. James has a hidden mission, but he is otherwise straightforward.
Chichester is a key in James getting out of this, but what does he have on Sir Stuart that can be greater than James’s so called treason? Sure, he and his brother can be implicated in the murder of those poor slaves, but where does that stand in relation to treason?
Did anyone else nearly get ill at the torture scenes? Incredibly realistic, which I have come to expect from Taboo.
Damn, Sir Stuart is an arrogant jerk, even when he finds out who Chichester is.
Next week is the finale, and the puzzle pieces will hopefully all come together.
Hope to see y’all tweeting Taboo with me then on our account, @Fandemoniumnet.
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