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Poldark Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Episode #5.1
Sun, Sep 29, 201958 mins
Ross can't resist responding to his dubiously-jailed former Virginia campaign CO and mate colonel Ned Despard's plea to help liberate him and fight the Mosquito Coast wood company conspirators who eliminated him as competition. Elisabeth's death 'in childbirth' embitters George further, near insanity, unable to tolerate even Valentine referring to his late mother, and even more eager for revenge on cuckolding Ross. he not only refuses to honor his pledge to pay for Geoffrey Charles's switch from academic to military education but plans to ally himself with Ned's nemesis company boss Ralph Hanson and maybe even his daughter Cecily, who seems to have her own dark plans. Ned's colored wife joins the abolition movement. Drake shows boundless patience when his wife Morwena remains unable to 'stand' physical intimacy. Ross finds a magistrate willing help Despard whom he failed to spare conviction, especially after the government asks Ross to do 'secret services' after he prevents an armed assassination attempt in theater. Left in charge of mine and estate as Ross is in London, Demelza hopes to appease bitter unemployed poor's female leader and arson-caller by hiring her, yet suffers a vicious arson attempt.
Episode 2
Episode #5.2
Sun, Oct 6, 201957 mins
Ross tracks down Ned's former secretary James Bannantine, who wasn't heard at the trial and is hesitant to step forward now, but testifies in writing. Ross publishes his testimony as a pamphlet, and Demelza distributes it in public, not realizing the risk. Dwight champions the medical case of mental irresponsibility, only to see the afflicted veteran whom Ross prevented from shooting the king locked up for life in an asylum which practices the harsh therapies Enys abhors. George agrees to invest in Ralph Hanson's mahogany company, but his uncle must seek excuses as his mind wanders off into imaginary meetings with Elisabeth, leaving Valentine unsupervised. Geoffrey Charles trikes an inconvenient friendship with Hanson's headstrong daughter Cecily.
Episode 3
Episode #5.3
Sun, Oct 13, 2019
Hanson's presence in Cornwall raises suspicion and as Demelza wrestles with how best to equip the community to look after itself, Morwenna lends herself to the cause and finds new hope. Geoffrey Charles and Cecily's relationship continues to blossom, but George's sanity continues to deteriorate and Cary struggles under mounting responsibilities. The Enyses look to challenge the county's high society by hosting a ball to introduce the Despards, before disaster strikes and Ross and Ned must spring into action together.
Episode 4
Episode #5.4
Sun, Oct 20, 201957 mins
Ross brings his banker to snickering despair with a plan to risk all his assets to buy the collapsed Warleggan mine. Ross finally gets the magistrate to consider clearing Ned if he keeps his nose clean, but the hothead gets dragged along in public protests stirred by traitor maid Tess, which opens Demelza's eyes. Dwight's gentle methods and confrontation with Elisabeth's tomb sort of restore George to his unbending self. Ross finds lonely Valentine wandering and takes him to the 'miner kids school'. Ross prevents Ned and Tess's grim party of destitute French revolution fans setting fire to the Warleggan estate by inspiring George to reopen the mine. Geoffrey Charles is desperate when Cecily coldly announces her father promised George her hand as good business, elated when she takes Demelza's word his love declaration is worth far more and proposes to elope.
Episode 5
Episode #5.5
Sun, Oct 27, 2019
Ross tries to persuade the government to reinstate Ned as governor of Honduras, but Ned voices controversial views. The miners are distrusting of paper money. Morwenna visits John Conan. Demelza and Sam try to raise funds for a school.
Episode 6
Episode #5.6
Sun, Nov 3, 201957 mins
Ned and Kitty face dire consequences and Ross attempts to help them. Cecily and Geoffrey Charles seek a life together against her father's wishes.
Episode 7
Episode #5.7
Sun, Nov 10, 201958 mins
Ross is shocked to find out - helped by Caroline's bravely contacted society connections - that George's partner Ralph Hanson is backed by his half-brother, judge and prison governor Merceron, who is part of minister William Wickham's informer deal with the London underworld. Back in Cornwall, Ross is captured by the smugglers, and, in league with them, his French Napoleonic nemesis colonel Laurent, who is persuaded to recruit Ross as disgruntled traitor. Geoffrey Charles learns that his fiancee Cecily is kept locked in, arranges for her escape, and begs Ross to help them escape to America on the ship that is returning Kit to Honduras. Caroline blackmails George over his psychotic episode to turn on Merceron and Hanson, whom she has already discredited, but the fiends twist that plot. Drake and Morwenna reveal they are expecting a new arrival.
Episode 8
Episode #5.8
Sun, Nov 17, 201957 mins
Ross and his friends must launch their most daring plan yet to try to save themselves and the country from enemies both at home and abroad.
