![]() Suddenly, the disparate pieces of this narrative are coming together in ways that weren't as explicit before: Strange was somehow involved with James being on that slave ship off the coast of Africa, which resulted in him spending more than a decade on African soil being thought dead. ![]() More specifically, James is looking to bring down Strange, which connects a thread back to the premiere. While Stuart Strange was quick to assume James is working for the Americans, the American Dumbarton (Michael Kelly) starts to see the bigger picture: James is willing to trade Nootka Sound to either side as long as it means bringing down the EITC. After one failed assassination attempt, he made the smart play to pull up a will leaving Nootka Sound to the Americans in the event of his death, thereby thwarting all future attempts on his life from the East India Trading Company. But the best, most interesting trick James had up his sleeve was his play with his will. ![]() At first, those claims were just words James clearly seemed dangerous and unhinged, and there are plenty of rumors about his bad behavior, but what proof? Episode 3 started with what the audience has seen and what the characters have seen warping - did James just bite the assassin's neck, or did he actually rip his heart out with his teeth? - and went as far as to finally say the "m" word, magic, which starts to finally paint in the picture of the man the show has been following. ![]() Hardy has steadfastly been playing James as a dangerous man, as he repeatedly says, and with each passing episode we're getting a better sense of how dangerous and cunning he is. ![]()
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