Delaney nootka meaning12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Zilpha and Delaney finally show concrete evidence of their romantic, incestuous relationship. The doctor that stitched up Delaney seems merciless, willing to unstitch Delaney for answers. He was thwarted, to the East India Company’s disbelief, and Delaney was supposed to be kept alive, putting the Company into a greater dilemma. The question of the identity of the hired killer was revealed, as well as the motive: he was hired by the East India Company. He is concluded to be a cannibal, another allusion to the title, Taboo, and a possible connection to his time in Africa. In the third episode of Taboo, James Delaney is revealed to have bitten the Malay’s heart and killed him. Delaney realizes that the government will come for Lorna because of her crime, as part of a plot to control Delaney. She attacks the Duke, and is later saved by Delaney. However, at the destination she is forced to the home of a government official. Lorna goes off to the theater to act, and after she is swept up by a carriage, apparently by a fan. At her home, Zilpha is subject to a violent episode by Thorne, enraged that Zilpha is unable to produce a child. ![]() Zilpha kisses Delaney as an ultimatum to make him stop seeing her, but he still refuses. Later, Delaney and Zilpha meet in an empty church for a romantic reunion. In his office, Delaney gets a visit from Thorne Geary, claiming that he wants to sell ship insurance. Back at his house, Lorna Bow demands possession of half of Delaney’s home, as the legal widow of Horace Delaney, and Delaney agrees to let her live with him and Brace. Delaney pays him to give him information. Delaney visits a brothel of men dressed as women, and identifies one man who works for the East India Company. However, the Company refuses, not willing to risk its important business dealings. The king’s officer, after receiving a letter asking for the monopoly on sea otter pelts from Delaney, visits the king’s enemy, the East India Company, in order to give the monopoly to Delaney from the Company. Delaney visits his mother’s grave, once again begging the question of the meaning of the enigmatic symbol. He questions Brace, knowing that he has all the answers about his mother. He sees a strange symbol on the wall, which matches the tattoo on the back of his neck. After meeting her, Delaney hallucinates about a strange, filthy woman, and peels off the boards covering the fireplace. Winter takes note of the tattoo on the back of Delaney’s neck. She offers his rightfully-earned silver tooth, but he lets her keep it. Still, Delaney boards up his house, and meets Winter again in the basement. The East India Company, thus, realizes that it is in their best interest to keep Delaney alive rather, Delaney’s biggest threat is the U.S. Delaney draws up a will with Thoyt, as a clever way to avoid death Delaney’s will leaves Nootka Sound and all of his belonging to the United States government. At the docks, Delaney and Brace meet Atticus, who provides Delaney with weapons and takes him to Thoyt. Delaney admitted that he didn’t want money for Nootka Sound, but he wanted a monopoly on the tea trade with China, and would trade Nootka with any country that would give him the monopoly. Delaney, shaking from pain, is interrogated by Dumbarton, who threatens to hurt Delaney if he didn’t give him answers. James Delaney is alive, and is stitched up by Dr. Winter orders the other children to saw off the man’s silver-tooth, as they wonder if the scavengers had taken the man’s heart from his body. The episode begins with a close-up on a dead body. ![]()
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