I like all the actors but in other shows. What a waste of the picturesque scenery, buildings and actors. A thin 2 arc plot that goes basically nowhere. The 1st plot line is between, Billy Winters, who is tricked into marrying a woman who is pregnant by another (man?). Daughter Beth knows Billy isn't her father, and when she asks who her father is, Billy says he doesn't know it is one of two men. Beth's mother dies, when Beth is young and Billy continues to raise her as his own. As the years pass, Billy starts to see Beth, not as a daughter, but as a love interest. After drinking, Billy visits Beth in her bedroom who then escapes to sleep with the maid. The maid is a friend and confidant to Beth. The maid tells her brother the policeman.
Billy is well off and has tenant farmers and a stone quarry. This is the second story arc. Billy was mean to Beth's mother and beat her and threatens to disinherit Beth. One day a man shows up at Billy's house and asks him to spy on his tenants as there have been bombings in London by Irish dissidents. He blackmails Billy by threatening to tell everyone of him beating his wife. The man shows a report from the maid's brother as to Billy's beating his wife and being, too friendly to Beth. The law is checking on all sources for dynamite. One of the men in the quarry befriends Beth after learning Billy keeps gold at the house. The gold is needed for the bombs. Liam plans with Beth to steal the money and run away but in fact only wants the gold and plans to kill Beth after she robs her father. On the night of her planned escape she gives her father a drug for horses to knock him out. She grabs the the gold and leaves only to be stopped on the way by a mute man. He forces her back to the house and draws a diagram to show her Liam has dug her grave. She's devastated and puts the gold back at which time Billy enters the room. Billy beats her and forces her to leave with nothing. Beth misses the rendezvouses with Liam and instead waits at his house. Beth is pregnant and knows Liam planned to kill her so she tricks him into getting in a boat to leave for a new life. Beth knows Liam can't swim and knocks him out of the boat. Liam drowns and Beth returns to Liam's cottage where Billy finds her and wants her, thus starting the same scenario as before. Three stretched out episodes to tell this tale that could have been told in one. A great deal of the story is at night with bad lighting for the eerie effect I guess. A waste of talent.
Billy is well off and has tenant farmers and a stone quarry. This is the second story arc. Billy was mean to Beth's mother and beat her and threatens to disinherit Beth. One day a man shows up at Billy's house and asks him to spy on his tenants as there have been bombings in London by Irish dissidents. He blackmails Billy by threatening to tell everyone of him beating his wife. The man shows a report from the maid's brother as to Billy's beating his wife and being, too friendly to Beth. The law is checking on all sources for dynamite. One of the men in the quarry befriends Beth after learning Billy keeps gold at the house. The gold is needed for the bombs. Liam plans with Beth to steal the money and run away but in fact only wants the gold and plans to kill Beth after she robs her father. On the night of her planned escape she gives her father a drug for horses to knock him out. She grabs the the gold and leaves only to be stopped on the way by a mute man. He forces her back to the house and draws a diagram to show her Liam has dug her grave. She's devastated and puts the gold back at which time Billy enters the room. Billy beats her and forces her to leave with nothing. Beth misses the rendezvouses with Liam and instead waits at his house. Beth is pregnant and knows Liam planned to kill her so she tricks him into getting in a boat to leave for a new life. Beth knows Liam can't swim and knocks him out of the boat. Liam drowns and Beth returns to Liam's cottage where Billy finds her and wants her, thus starting the same scenario as before. Three stretched out episodes to tell this tale that could have been told in one. A great deal of the story is at night with bad lighting for the eerie effect I guess. A waste of talent.