(gentle piano music) - End of last series was quite a tumultuous time.
- [Elizabeth] He's been icy towards me.
- [Ross] What does he imagine?
- That Valentine is not his child.
You will never again speak such vile suspicions about your wife and child.
- I swear it.
- The aftermath of that I think at the beginning of this we find them in quite a secure place.
They have Valentine who is fully accepted and loved and cherished.
- My dear, I hope the gifts I brought from London found favor.
- He's gonna leave suspicion, jealousy, Ross outside and try and focus on them.
For all his self-serving, Machiavellian scheming, she is his weakness, she is the thing that he loves most.
That love for her is completely true and consuming.
As a result, Elizabeth gets more authority which is nice, she has much more control over him, over them because he's desperate to make it work.
- [Elizabeth] MP, baronet, High Sheriff of Cornwall.
I must make a point of dancing with him.
- She knows how society works, she knows how he should behave to get where he wants.
She can introduce him to all these people, you know whenever they're at a party she knows everybody, he's being introduced by her.
He's come from lowly beginnings and achieved an enormous amount.
- [George] For a blacksmith's boy.
- You know made a huge amount of money, works incredibly hard, and done amazingly well.
And is finally being granted the recognition he feels he deserves.
The first Warleggan on the bench.
It's massive the idea of that family name now being in the House of Commons.
You know as his powers increase he can find more significant ways to undermine Ross.
He can have people killed, he can influence the justice system.
It's always a toss up I think between power and you know kind of just personal vendetta and I think with George they kinda fuel each other.
- These men... Have no grievance against authority.
- The Carnes he has had problems with from the very beginning, but it's their connection to Ross that really energizes his need to see justice done.
