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Marlott reads Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' with its reference to stitched up corpses being revived by galvanization but she is unable to help his investigation. He also learns that Flora is pregnant and places her in a charitable hospital run by Sir Daniel Harvey, a disillusioned former medic, a critic of Chester and brother of the religious Lady Jemima. Pritty is apprehended trying to leave London and agrees to lead Marlott to the murderers through a dark tunnel.
Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Samuel West | - | Sir William Chester | |
Sean Bean | - | John Marlott | |
Eloise Smyth | - | Flora | |
Ryan Sampson | - | Boz | |
Elliot Cowan | - | Sir Bentley Warburton | |
Richie Campbell | - | Nightingale | |
Paul Clayton | - | Confectioner | |
Anna Maxwell Martin | - | Mary Shelley | |
Walter McCabe | - | Percy Florence Shelley | |
Deirdre Mullins | - | Agnes Marlott | |
Sarah Wilson | - | Draper | |
Vanessa Kirby | - | Lady Jemima Hervey | |
Brian Milligan | - | Lloris | |
Niall Cusack | - | Priest | |
Andrew Havill | - | Pastor |
When Lord Hervey (Ed Stoppard) notices John Marlott's (Sean Bean) syphilis symptoms he begins to mention an experimental herbal remedy that is showing promise for treating syphilis. He begins to say it comes from bread mo--, at which point John interrupts him. The cure for syphilis turned out to be found in bread mold and became penicillin.
When Marlott (Sean Bean) visits Boz, he tells him that he "fought against Napoleon at Waterloo." Sean Bean played Richard Sharpe, a British soldier in a series of movies based on the books of Bernard Cornwell, who fought against Naplolean's forces.
In Harlots (2017) Eloise Smyth plays a young girl whose virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder as Billy Oates intended to do.