What "Taboo" 5-th episode about
When Thorne's shot at Delaney's chest proves to have been sabotaged, Delaney fires at the second, hugging him. Because the Crown had purchased the saltpetre, the Company pay the consequence for the theft. The Prince Regent decides to make matters difficult for the Company and sends George Chichester, a lawyer for the Sons of Africa, to investigate the sinking of the Influence, the slave ship that has been haunting Delaney's memories and on which 280 people died. Dumbarton tells Delaney that the Americans know about his hidden farm. Bow has followed Delaney's instructions and brought him his father's trunk; he finds the treaty that proves Nootka Sound was bought from the natives, rather than taken by force. Delaney believes that his father bought his mother, a Nootka woman, for beads.
Episode number: 5
Episode release date: 4 february 2017 at 21:15
Status: aired
Rating: 8.2
