Barkskins Season 1, Episode 3 and Episode 4 recap: The fille du roi find husbands
By Mads Lennon
Barkskins Season 1, Episode 3 recap: The Sugared Plum
Episodes 3 and 4 of Barkskins Season 1 see the downfall of two of the show’s villains and the beginning of wedded “bliss” for multiple women under Mother Sabrine’s watchful eye.
Barkskins Season 1, Episode 3 recap: Hamish’s real connection to Cross
The third episode begins shortly after Trepapgny stumbled upon young Thom and Renardette in the woods. Hamish arrives not long after and is ambushed by a manic Lafarge. Luckily, Henri Marth is nearby to impale him, saving Hamish and killing Lafarge once and for all. It makes sense Marth would have his revenge after Lafarge literally set him on fire.
Back in Wobik, Hamish is washing Lafarge’s blood off when he is approached by Bouchard. Tensions rise between the Frenchman and Hamish and Yvon. Bouchard just wants them to get the heck out of town, but Hamish isn’t going anywhere until he gets more answers about the mysterious Randall Cross.
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Hamish and Cooke, the only British men in town, finally have a sitdown meeting. Hamish wants to know everything Cooke knows about Cross so he forces him to have a meeting. Over tea, Cooke accuses Hamish of being in Wobik under false pretenses.
He alleges that the HBC would have already known why Cross was there and may have orchestrated the massacre themselves.
Hamish admits the truth, he is searching for Cross for personal reasons — Cross is married to his sister and has a son with her.
Cooke says Cross is a “company man to the bone,” and that company men take unstable land for themselves whenever they can. He also thinks Cross is dead, to which Hamish says his blood would be on Cooke’s hands if that’s the case.
Cooke counters that assertion and is all like, uh, no it won’t. No one here is going to care about a dead British man. If anything, the French will consider the massacre by the creek an act of war orchestrated by the English if they learn the truth, which sort of makes him and Hamish on the same side. It also means that Hamish should keep his mouth shut near Bouchard.