Freeman is sentenced to be hanged and the Governor unsuccessfully canvasses the prisoners for a hangman finding no volunteer, the Governor has to do it himself, and with Freeman in the noose on the scaffold, offers him a way out. Freeman returns to the colony after a run-in with an escaped prisoner who was thought to be dead, Jefferson. Mrs Johnson is given hope for the future by the insight of Anne Meredith. McVitie is threatened with a hundred lashes by Major Ross, who takes her suicide attempt as an insult but intervention by the Reverend Johnson leads to a compromise satisfactory to Ross's desires and the restart of the church construction. Major Ross's demands on Kitty McVitie that she should spend three nights a week with him prove too much and in her desire to kill herself the blacksmith's body is discovered James Freeman flees into the bush. The Governor also calls a halt to the building of the church. Elizabeth and Barrett's blessing of marriage by the Reverend Johnson at the site of his proposed church is halted by her sickness caused by her pregnancy. Stubbins volunteers to be the new blacksmith to gain remission on his sentence and is being taught to read and write to the consternation of the colony letter writer Letters Molloy.
Kitty McVitie, a prisoner who has a protector and lover in Private MacDonald, catches the eye of Major Ross and he offers the Private promotion to Corporal and extra food in exchange for sex with McVitie for two nights a week with no alternative they agree, but the intervention of the Reverend Johnson meant that the relationship must be platonic.
With the body disposed of the Governor cannot hang anybody even though he suspects Freeman. The plot goes awry, forcing Barrett to kill the blacksmith in the sleeping quarters before witnesses. Starving James Freeman plots with Tommy Barrett and Elizabeth Quinn to kill the blacksmith who has been stealing all his food. Governor Phillip, to maintain order, agrees to have Barrett hanged and gives the task to Reverend Johnson who will not marry them as he does not sanction the Governor's legal power to divorce the pair. The female prisoners are expected to fraternize only with the soldiers and not other prisoners unless they are married an impossible situation because she and her lover, Tommy Barrett, have spouses back in England. When prisoner Elizabeth Quinn is found in the men's quarters, the rules of the penal colony are tested. David Wenham as Captain Arthur Phillip, 1st Governor of New South Wales.Joanna Vanderham as Katherine 'Kitty' McVitie.Jordan Patrick Smith as Private Mulroney.Genevieve O'Reilly as Reverend Johnson's wife.Brooke Harman as Deborah, Governor Phillip's housekeeper.
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The series premiered on 25 June 2015, on BBC First in Australia and BBC UKTV in New Zealand. Filming took place in Sydney in April 2014 and Manchester afterwards. The commissioners for BBC Two are Ben Stephenson and Janice Hadlow. The series, a co-production between RSJ Films and See-Saw Films, was co-commissioned by BBC Two and BBC Worldwide. A thousand prisoners are guarded by one hundred men, and with five men for every woman, tensions are high from widespread polyamory and rape. Set in the first penal colony founded by the British in New South Wales in the year 1788, in which the British convicts live alongside their Royal Navy marine guards and their officers.
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