There’s a devastating turn of events in The Buccaneers season 2, episode 6, and it’s going to change everything for everyone. This was not an episode to miss, but we have you covered with our recap.
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS for The Buccaneers season 2, episode 6.
We start off the episode in Italy, where Guy is shocked to find out that James is in town. He doesn’t seem to know anything about the wedding ring on Paloma’s finger just yet, and he is focused on fining Jinny to protect her. Only as we know, Jinny already knows that James is in the country.
Jinny shares that she wants to return to England with James. As she starts to think of alternatives, she gets too scared, and she decides that it’s time to go back. However, James makes a decision that changes everything. He takes Freddie and leaves for England, leaving Guy and Jinny to return to England to enlist Nan’s help.
Nan has a plan to help Jinny gain freedom in The Buccaneers season 2, episode 6
Nan has wanted to get a bill passed in the House of Parliament, and now that Jinny is back, she needs to do this more than ever. She turns to Hector, who is sulking because Lizzy chose to leave him at the altar (and I think that’s a terrible decision on her part), to arrange a meeting at the opera so she can talk with the Home Secretary to arrange of the bill to pass.
All she wants is for Jinny to have some control over her life. However, James has enlisted his mother’s help, and the two of them formulate a plan at the opera that makes Jinny lash out so she looks like a mad woman. This leads to James getting control of her to get her “treatment.”
I honestly thought that James was going to have Jinny locked away in an asylum as many husbands did in the time period. Instead, he locks her in the bedroom, taunting her with brief glimpses of Freddie. Fortunately, James’s mother has a change of heart and lets Dick know where his nephew is.
James takes action in ways that he can’t take back in The Buccaneers
Dick and Honoria head to James’s house to get Jinny and Freddie back. Honoria is able to get to Freddie, rushing him out of the house as a fight breaks out between James and Dick.
Well, that’s when things take a turn for the worse. James turns a gun on himself, and it looks like he’s going to take his own life. Instead, he shoots Dick, killing him instantly. James is in shock with his own actions, giving Jinny time to also escape from the house.
Jinny is left to break the awful news to both Honoria and Conchita. This changes everything for Conchita, especially with James likely now vying for control over the estate despite Dick having a son. Of course, that’s if James can avoid arrest for the murder of his own brother.
The Buccaneers airs on Wednesdays on Apple TV+.
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