‘The Crimson Field’ episode 5 preview: Joan awaits a letter
Sunday night’s “The Crimson Field” brought a combination of almost everything you would expect: Violence, humanity, and pain. It’s hard to really think of any positive attributes at all that come from an experience such as war.
there are only two episodes left before this season (and possibly the series as a whole) comes to a close, so what the show has to try to do within the span of that is move the characters forward, and also build towards a decent conclusion. Next week’s episode looks to promise everything from secrets revealed to emotional longing to even a different perspective of the war effort than the ones we have seen already. How will a Sikh regiment be treated and represented? We are very interested already in finding out.
The best way to tease the upcoming episode, though, is to look at the official synopsis below. It’s far more descriptive than we can ever be, given the writers at the BBC know specifically what is coming:
“Colonel Ballard, an aggressively rude and war-scarred commander of a Sikh regiment, threatens trouble for Grace. It seems he would rather be with his men than at rest within the calm sanctuary of the wards, yet when Grace reveals knowledge of Punjabi and an upbringing in India the colonel is temporarily calmed. As Grace tries to discover what has made him so heated, another soldier, Private Gorman, seems focused on riling him further. Will Grace be able to unlock Ballard’s secret before Gorman provokes him into a very dangerous game?
“Flora has decided the volunteers should put on some entertainment, but as the pressure mounts, so do Flora’s nerves. Meanwhile, Joan is still waiting for news from her fiance and Jaco calls her to an illicit meeting, sparking a series of events which will draw Joan into danger. How far will love push her to go, and at what risk to her profession and even her life?”
The Joan story has been set up for weeks now, so we have to say that this is the particular tale we are the interested in hearing more about the rest of the way.
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