Series 1, episode 6
“Troubled Water”
Rosalee……………………………….. Jurnee Smollett-Bell Cato………………………………………………. Alano Miller
Noah……………………………………………… Aldis Hodge John Hawkes…………………………………… Marc Blucas
August Pullman…………………….. Christopher Meloni Ernestine………………………………………. Amirah Vann
Elizabeth Hawkes……………………… Jessica De Gouw Tom Macon………………………………… Reed Diamond
As the runners continue fighting amongst themselves, Cato and Noah organize them to hijack a gunboat-turned-brothel they find on the river. While trying to stop them as they are overpowering the prostitutes and their customers, August sees Rosalee cutting the boat loose and dives in after her, leaving the others on board drifting downriver with a broken rudder. As Rosalee fights to free herself, Noah uses his last bullet to wound August and allow her to swim back to the boat. When the fugitives find a customer named Barker hiding on board, he offers to help them escape in exchange for sparing his life. Meanwhile, as the Hawkeses complete the transformation of their home into an Underground Railroad stop, Suzanna gives birth to a baby boy as Tom welcomes Atlanta’s powerful religious leader Reverend Willowset to Macon Plantation.
As Ben tends to his wounds, August spots a prostitute named Jubilee hiding in the trees. Knowing where the boat will run aground, she offers to take them there in exchange for protection. Though Ben is smitten with her, when Jubilee sees August negotiate their safe passage with some Indians, she realizes that he’s the one who can save her. To avoid being recaptured, Noah suggests building a raft that their only swimmer, Rosalee, can pull to shore. Unwilling to trust Rosalee or Barker, Cato angrily throws their prisoner overboard. As Henry also doubts she can save them, Rosalee lashes out at Cato when he reveals that he knows she’s their master’s daughter. Meanwhile, after Ernestine tells the reverend’s mute slave that she murdered Pearly Mae, Willowset uses a mass baptism at the plantation to discreetly tell her that he knows about her and Tom.
Suspicious of the activity around the Hawkeses’ home, Marshal Kyle Risdin conscripts John into the hunt for the runaways. While they search an abandoned barn, Underground Railroad “conductor” Clyde Jennings ambushes them – but John stops him before he can kill the marshal. Upon regaining consciousness, Risdin thanks John for saving him, unaware that he and Elizabeth are allied with his attacker. But upon learning that Clyde was captured, John insists on trying to free him. Finally, as news that his wife has left the asylum sends August and Ben to find her, Noah discovers that Rosalee is gone and accuses Cato of driving her away. But as their boat is drifting into an ambush, the runners are surprised when Rosalee and a local tribe intervene to save them.
LOGLINE
As the runners commandeer a gunboat-turned-brothel to make their escape, Tom (Reed Diamond) enlists a prominent religious leader to bolster his Senate campaign. John (Marc Blucas) is conscripted into the search for the runaways.
Directed by: Romeo Tirone
Written by: Jason Wilborn & Jennifer Yale