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The Pale Horse Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
2 Episodes 2020 - 2020
Episode 1
Part One
Fri, Mar 13, 202059 mins
A year after discovering his first wife, Delphine, electrocuted in the bath, London socialite antique dealer Mark Easterbrook is summoned by the police when a physically decayed woman, Jessie Davis, is found dead in the street. Hidden in her shoe is a list of names that she wrote on a piece of paper. They include Mark and his secret paramour, Thomasina Tuckerton, whom Mark later finds dead in her bed but fails to report, so "Tommy's" socialite mother later finds her. Mark lies to investigating Inspector Stanley Lejeune that he knows only one man on the list, his godson in constant debt David Ardingly, and discovers on his own that Delphine and Jessie Davis had both visited the village of Much Deeping in Surrey, unnoticed except for its voodoo-like traditions including wooden king effigy decapitation, to consult a trio of women living there. Shopkeeper Zachariah Osborne, also on the list, who had employed Jesse Davis, tells Mark that the women are witches, responsible for the deaths, as nearly all listed people died in the same seemingly natural way fairly recently, fearing they're next, like David. Mark's spoiled wife Hermia secretly suspects him of adultery, having found he lied about a hastily dumped suit.
Episode 2
Part Two
Fri, Mar 13, 202058 mins
Mark hoped for the end of the nightmare, remembering how the death of his first wife Delphine was an electrocution accident. After more suspicious deaths from the list, and Zachary's non-fatal poisoning plus the fatal one of the police detective who openly suspects Mark, he finally believes as the latter insisted that the sorcery David invoked actually works. Believing his spoiled second wife turned them on him, he goes ask the witches to change the spells. Her death changes nothing, Mark gets hair loss but finds out the 'witches' are innocent frauds, the real culprit suddenly confronts him.
