Episode 5 - 'The Witness'
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Kissy, Kissy everywhere. And Tessa is all alone without Robert. Poor girl.
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Grisham is icky. "Dashing?" Even HE didn't believe that.
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We see someone (Vera) closing the door and curtain at the beginning after the girl (Carmina?) falls out the window. We are supposed to know the whole time that there is more than just Tessa as a witness!
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"It's too late for a doctor," Tessa tells Grisham. Like Helm EVER could have saved her anyway. Remember, doctors in 1817 were quacks.
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The posse wears hats when THEY ride their horses. Now tell me why Helm can't. I just can't seem to let it go, can I? The perils of being the Scruffy Hat Keeper.
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The poor don't trust the rich. Of course, they don't. Tessa came for her shawl and only her shawl. Why would she want to mourn a girl she didn't know? Silly brothers.
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Val looks damn good in blue. So does Tessie in that last scene.
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There is a blacksmith in town! We get to see him twice! More professionals in the pueblo. Marta even flirted with him. How sweet.
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Mary Rose and Anton spoke pretty openly in front of Montoya and Grisham at the jail. And Anton wonders later how Montoya knows things?
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Tessa: "Who has time to sin?"
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Rich kid. Slumming to be with his girlfriend. Angry mom. He says she could have killed the girl to keep her son away from her. Pirate lady probably wishes she HAD thought of that.
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Mary Rose kills Tessa Alvarado. Montoya gets Tessa's land. The law hangs Mary Rose. Montoya gets HER land too.
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Captain Grisham: "I was the bull LAST week!"
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The Colonel may have given more clues as to why Don Alvarado is dead. Did he too value the truth over his life?
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Marta can fight! Resourceful with kitchen weapons. See, those who see the Queen needing a sidekick? Here you go! I see promise. Then Helm would have to decide which tough girl he liked more. More possibilities for those in the Helm/Marta camp.
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Those strands of hair that hang across Marta's face always! I like it but at the same time it bugs the crap out of me.
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Colonel vs. Tessa at the end of the trial. Very good trading of lines there.
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Tessa: "I knew you were a man of wisdom and courage."
- Montoya: "Yes. I am." I know you are really that thorn in my side the Queen of Swords, and I have no conscience, only fear of public persecution.
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Mary Rose believes Tessa had a "change of heart" or that she just wanted Marta back. Mary Rose trusts the mysterious woman in black that Tessa will not testify. Mary Rose does not know that Tessa DOES know the truth of what happened that night. So why so chummy at the end? I suppose Mary Rose could actually be a really nice person who went nuts for the love of her son, Anton.
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The Colonel is a GOOD thinker. He knows that Tessa is the Queen. So he won't protect her as he might any ol' Don's daughter. He can only tell Grisham he wants Tessa dead so that he can take her land. Because Montoya knows Grisham would blow the Queen's identity all over the place before real proof was discovered. The Colonel also knows Vera is a witness to Carmina's accident, and that she cannot speak at the trial.
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Wow, Vera cares about something real. And another insight into her past and her marriage perhaps?
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She compares herself to Carmina, perhaps using the love of a richer man to increase her social standing.
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Vera is the other Witness. With her money and wifely status to lose. Her affair would surface and her happy little social life would end.
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Vera: "He is a good man. He doesn't deserve this." You know what Vera, darling? Gaspar Hidalgo doesn't deserve YOU either.
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Vera is a possible ally to the Queen. Tessa's friend, and she knows the importance of secrets kept for the greater good of everyone involved. Although Vera's own secrets are unsavory and Tessa's are noble, how does one compare adultery to murder and treason?
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