Episodes
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Episode 3
S1 E3 - 54m
England has a new monarch, King James I, and Elizabeth’s former spymaster, Robert Cecil, faces his toughest test. A group of religious extremists’ plan to blow-up the Houses of Parliament with the King inside – what we call the Gunpowder Plot.
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Episode 2
S1 E2 - 54m
Elizabeth’s enemies grow in strength but Robert Cecil, her spymaster, also fights an enemy within. An ambitious aristocrat is trying to takeover his network. At stake is control over the aging Queen and the power to choose the next King of England.
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Episode 1
S1 E1 - 53m 59s
William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth I’s spy master, intercepts a conspiracy to assassinate the Queen. When he discovers that Elizabeth’s own cousin, Mary Queen of Scots is behind the plot, he lays a trap to capture and execute her.
Extras + Features
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Cecil Makes a Breakthrough
S1 - 1m 4s
Cecil makes a breakthrough with the coded letter. Cecil’s agent arrests two men carrying a large amount of gold and another coded letter. After being interrogated in London the two men admit they are servants of the Lord of the Realm. The Lord’s home is searched and the key to the coded letters are discovered. The Lord is the Duke of Norfolk.
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