Jamestown Episode 1

The series Jamestown episode one, opens up with a ship filled with women sailing towards Virginia. In the boat we meet Alice Kett, Verity Bridges, and Jocelyn Woodbryg whom are all to become wives. The journey to Virginia, Jamestown in not smooth the ship runs into a a storm during the chaos Jocelyn confesses to Alice that she escaped England because she killed a man. Once the woman are kept calm and the storm subsides, Alice and Verity are very grateful for the opportunity to travel to the New World. However, they are unaware of what they have to encounter in their new life. Once the ship lands, each woman is paired with their husbands to be. Jocelyn is assigned to Samuel Castell, a recorder for the Virginia company. Alice is assigned to a man of the name Henry Sharrow, Alice seem to be captivated by who seems to be Henry but she
Later that night during her walk she is attacked by Henry. Alice lets Silas know that Henry raped her, knowing that Silas is determined to make Henry pay. On a route to find gold, in the woods Henry is seen on fire than taken down by an explosion. Alice seem to have a chance with Silas with Henry gone. As for Verity, she is to be married to Meredith Rutter, the town drunk, who she is not very fond of especially when she is put to gamble by him. As a result, she tries to escape to Berkeley Town but on her way there is convinced by Alice to come back because they need one another. Eventually, Verity and Meredith reach an understanding between them. Samuel is asked by both the governor, George Yeardley and his rival Redwick and his secretary to spy on one another. Given his conscious he is not able to do it, so Jocelyn takes this chance to help her future husband by playing them against each other. Last closing scenes Jocelyn and Samuel get married and to Alice’s luck Henry is alive captive by