Charlotte (Rose Williams) arrives in London and finds it altogether different to Sanditon with the hustle and bustle and no one wanting to help her find the street she's looking for. As well as finding the pub where Otis (Jyuddah Jaymes) is meant to reside but it's only the landlord, Sam Sidaway (Clinton Blake) who lives there and Otis just collects his mail from there. As she leaves she's accosted in the alley and is rescued by none other than Sidney (Theo James). Well that's becoming a common occurrence now and he just happens to be in the right place at the right time again. Though he says he didn't know it was her. She refuses to leave and says they're wasting valuable time if he must take her back. Mary not knowing she's here either as she also forbade her to come. Charlotte recalls "The Sons Of Africa" and Sidney confronts Otis who swears he had nothing to do with it. However he has a gambling debt so Beecroft (Jon Foster) must have kidnapped her. He claims that Otis bragged about the money Miss Lamb (Crystal Clarke) had but Otis swears this isn't so. Anyway his debt has been paid and Beecroft sold her to someone else.
However Sidney thinks they'd be on their way to Scotland by now. But Charlotte thinks Beecroft must still be hiding her until he is actually paid. Being right as she's at a brothel indeed and Howard (Jack Brady) can't wait to marry Georgiana and also get her fortune. As Sidney asks Mrs Harries (Liz May Brice) where Georgiana is as she's his ward. Charlotte isn't happy with Sidney and how he made his money though he admits he abhors slavery and was done with the sugar trade when he found out. Also how Georgiana's father saved his life and this is how he repays him. They catch up to the coca with Sidney performing a daring do, or rather his stuntman, by jumping onto the coach to stop it, rescuing Georgiana. Howard is still owed £1800. Georgiana is angry at him and also at Otis, but Charlotte doesn't think he would take such advantage of her.
Tom (Kris Marshall) tells Charlotte about Sidney's lost love, Eliza (Ruth Kearney) who called off the engagement and married an older, wealthier man, breaking his heart. Making him leave for Antigua and when he returned he wasn't the same. Conveniently mentioned for this episode as she pops up already later at the most talked about ball in London, for which Babbington (Mark Stanley) has scored an invite for Tom so he can sell the regatta and also Sanditon. Babbington says Charlotte should come too but she's not in a good frame of mind. Sidney brings Otis to see Georgiana saying they should have a proper farewell, but somehow you think he's just rubbing it in her face in a way. That he was right all along and Otis was a cad. However Otis tells Georgiana he was prideful in speaking of her and how lucky he was but never about her wealth. Which Georgiana says it too late.
Charlotte apologizes to Sidney about her prejudice against him (here we go Lizzy and Darcy!) and he says he cannot accept as he should apologize to her. She dresses in a gold dress for the ball which impresses both Sidney and Tom. Even dancing with Sidney after she meets Susan (Sophie Winkleman) who says the anger she feels towards Sidney is love. As well as dancing with Tom, who tells her the woman Sidney is with right now is Eliza, his lost love who is now a widow. Seems Sidney is enamoured all over again at seeing her and completely forgets about Charlotte. Appears his apology was shortlived and Charlotte was probably right to misjudge him. Nobody is interested in the regatta or Sanditon and Sidney lends Tom £3,000 to pay the men.
Lady Denham (Anne Reid) is in bad way and says it's just a slight head cold, also telling the vultures that her will is safe and she won't need a priest or a solicitor. Leaving Edward (Jack Fox) tearing up the house in search of it. Seeing it as a way of securing his and Ester's (Charlotte Spencer) future. However Clara (Lily Sarcofsky) has it all along and suggests he burn it and he gives her a fifth. After they do the dirty on Ester right then and there, Clara insists on a quarter share as is a lady's prerogative to change her mind. Edward saying she's far from a lady and she asks if Ester is a lady, knowing about their intimacy. Well Edward isn't exactly a gentlemen either. Apparently Lady Denham has left her money for the building of Sanditon and the donkeys. Begging the question of why she didn't just give it to Tom now if she was so interested in the town and its future.
Again not much going on in this episode of the "poor man's" Pride and Prejudice ha, with two episodes left, things will be tied up very quickly where they've been dragging on for 6 episodes. Babbington asking Charlotte what she thinks of a woman changing her mind about a man in an instant, referring to Ester of course. But she doesn't answer, too caught up with staring at Sidney. Of course Esther would've been better off with Babbington, rather than the roguish pipsqueak Edward who isn't really interested in her all along, but is a master at seducing her to his will!! Charlotte having no answer for Babbington since she has done the same thing, changed her mind about Sidney and then changing it again in an instant after seeing how he is with Eliza!
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