The Terror: Season 1 Episode 1 Go for Broke
HMS Terror and HMS Erebus set sail to find a Northwest passage through the Canadian arctic.
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Characters/Groups
Francis Crozier - Jared Harris
James Fitzjames - Tobias Menzies
Cornelius Hickey - Adam Nagaitis
Lady Jane Franklin - Greta Scacchi
Henry Collins - Trystan Gravelle
David Young - Alfie Kingsnorth
Sir James Ross - Richard Sutton
Sgt. Solomon Tozer - David Walmsley
Netsilik Hunter - Johnny Issaluk
Lt. Graham Gore - Tom Weston-Jones
Thomas Hartnell - Jack Colgrave Hirst
William Strong - Freddie Greaves
Robert Golding - Mikey Collins
Magnus Manson - Stephen Thompson
Dr. Macdonald - Charles Edwards
Charles des Voeux - Sebastian Armesto
Lt. George Hodgson - Christos Lawton
Sir John Barrow - James Laurenson
Lt. Edwards Little - Matthew McNulty
Lt. John Irving - Ronan Raftery
John Morfin - Anthony Flanagan
Lady Ann Ross - Caroline Boulton
Sgt. Daniel Bryant - Richard Riddell
Lt. H.T.D. Le Vesconte - Declan Hannigan
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Detailed Synopsis
"In 1845, two Royal Navy ships left England in an attempt to finally discover a navigable passage through the Arctic. They were the most technologically advanced ships of their day. They were last seen by European whalers in Baffin Bay awaiting good conditions to enter the Arctic labyrinth. Both ships then vanished."
Sir James Ross and a Translator interview a Netsilik Hunter about the fate of the 1845 arctic voyage. He mentions seeing starving men stumbling in the snow and a man called Aglooka. Sir Ross pulls out three photos of men and the Translator asks the Netsilik Hunter if any of them is the one called Aglooka and the Netsilik Hunter points at Francis Crozier. The Netsilik Hunter then tells them what Crozier told him, that he and his men are going home. The Netsilik Hunter continues that the Tuunbaq was following them and that Crozier told him to tell those looking for him not to stay and that they are dead. The Netsilik Hunter then shows them a set of military buttons.
September, 1846, four years earlier, John Franklin is surveying the ice as Henry Collins gives orders to William Strong on training another. Franklin walks up to James Fitzjames who notices the compass is becoming less reliable. Collins tells Franklin that Crozier is requesting an ice report and Franklin tells him to relay to Crozier that he and Fitzjames will be joining him for dinner. Crozier complains to Thomas Jopson about having to have dinner with Franklin and Crozier and predicts Fitzjames will once again talk about his time in Namibia or the time he was shot while in China.