![]() James reveals his demands to talk to the President of the 15 states of America and offer him sovereignty of Nootka Sound in return for a monopoly on the trade of tea and safe passage to America. Later, James seeks an American spy in London named Edgar Dumbarton (Michael Kelly), who works as a surgeon at St. Stuart assumes that James knows a lot of secrets and thus tries to bargain a deal with him with money, which James bluntly refuses. ![]() In the meantime, Stuart’s loyal officer, Benjamin Wilton, informs Stuart and the company that James was a cadet at the EIC and was once a part of Stuart’s own regiment until 1802, when he went to Cabinda on a ship called Cornwallis, from where he boarded a ship called the Influence, bound for Antigua, which was a slave ship that sank off the Gold Coast, suggesting the death of James Delaney. The sudden appearance of James worries not only the English monarchs but also his half-sister, Zilpha (Oona Chaplin), who once shared an intimate relationship with James but married an insurance broker, Thorne Geary, after James’ disappearance. Major Spoilers Ahead ‘Taboo’ Season 1: Plot SummaryĪfter the mysterious death of Horace Delaney, his son, James Keziah Delaney (Tom Hardy), returns to London in 1814, exactly 12 years after his disappearance and rumored death due to the sinking of an unknown vessel carrying enslaved people from Africa. Hence, the question is, to whom will James Delaney swear his loyalty and give them an advantage in the war? In the midst of it all, there is one more party that wants its hands on the Nootka Sound in order to create a monopoly in the tea trade with China, and that is none other than His Majesty’s beloved East India Company, which has a love-hate relationship with its own royal Crown. The land is strategically important for the trade routes with China and acts as a border between two first-world countries, Great Britain and the United States of America, which are currently at war with each other. His return sparks a chain of events regarding conflict over a piece of land, the Nootka Sound, which Horace leaves to his son in his will. James gave his house and belongings to faithful family retainer Brace who seemed quite sad not to be going along but his master didn’t believe he was ‘born for freedom’.Set during the early 1800s British Empire, “Taboo” Season 1 follows James Keziah Delaney, who, once assumed to be dead, returns to London after his father, Horace Delaney’s, death. As a final goodbye James was more than happy to murder him – quite elaborately daubed in the red white and blue dyes of his flag. The Delaney contingent – Brace, Godfrey, Cholmondesley, Lorna, Helga, Robert, Atticus and French Bill all assembled at the dock waiting for the newly freed James and his ship.īut there were a few tasks James wanted to take care of himself, with one last visit to collaborator Dumbarton – revealed to be a double agent working for both the EIC and the US. As a new ship was being sourced, young Robert Delaney sprinted about town with letters from James informing his crew of the plan to leave London and with tasks for each of them. Lorna secured safe passage to the US from the American countess spy (using safe word ‘Colonnade’), Atticus arranged for informant Godfrey to be taken to safety and Helga was sprung from the EIC safe house.Īnd the simpering Pettifer took a bullet for the death of Winter! Hooray. ![]()
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