Original Sins

**"Original Sins"** was the sixth episode of the second season of *Carnival Row*.

## Synopsis

A painful truth haunts Philo as Carnival Row faces reprisals for the horrific events at Bleakness Keep.

## Cast

* Cara Delevingne as Vignette Stonemoss
* Simon McBurney as Runyan Millworthy
* Tamzin Merchant as Imogen Spurnrose
* David Gyasi as Agreus Astrayon
* Andrew Gower as Ezra Spurnrose
* Karla Crome as Tourmaline Larou
* Jay Ali as Kaine
* Joanne Whalley as Leonora
* Jamie Harris as Sergeant Dombey
* Ariyon Bakare as Darius Prowell

Guest Starring* Andrew Buchan as Mikulas Vir
* Dan Ball as Philo Conscience Double
* Neil Bell as Warden Wrenbrick
* Varney Blamah as Constable Tyndall
* Brian Caspe as Nigel Winetrout
* Kevin Michael Clarke as Constable Allerton
* Karel Dobrý as Pact Ambassador Anrep
* Zdenek Dvoracek as Jailor Oren
* Steven Elder as Lt. Quintrell
* Patrick Fitzsymons as Galloway
* George Georgiou as Kastor
* Ryan Hayes as Constable Thatch
* Fraser James as Fletcher
* Marian Mitaš as Lt. Stanislaus
* Eve Ponsonby as Phaedra
* Markéta Tanner as Tirnanoc Sparas
* Daniel Zappi as Ivor

## Plot

In Ragusa, Agreus Astrayon and Imogen Spurnrose talk about their situation. Imogen tries to convince Agreus to give the place a chance but Agreus is still having problems with the idea. Eventually, Imogen admits to him that Leonora said that they would have to kill Agreus if he doesn't conform. Seeing that he has no choice, Agreus agrees to begin towing the line but they also agree to think about escaping.

As part of their new ruse, Agreus begins to appear to be accepting their new life in Ragusa. Meeting with Kastor, Agreus apologises for his previous behaviour and indicates that he is willing to learn about this new society they find themselves in. Kastor informs them that today is Revolution Day, the anniversary of their movement.

Agreus begins plotting their escape, conspiring with one of the former crew members of the *Swan*. They plan to slip away during that night's revolution party.

Agreus to taken to see Leonora who makes a show of loading a revolver with a single bullet. She brings out Ezra Spurnrose, who has been tied up and tells Agreus that he planned to kidnap Imogen and kill Agreus. Agreus is given the chance to kill Ezra without Imogen knowing, but he refuses and Ezra becomes his responsibility. Agreus and Ezra reunite with Imogen, and she berates him for his plan but include him in their escape plot.

Seven years ago, during the fall of Tirnanoc, Rycroft Philostrate and Darius Prowell race through the forest escaping Pact soldiers. Darius is injured so Philo offers to stay behind and cover his escape. While he is shooting at the Pact soldiers, his enemy is systematically picked off by a sparas, a species that are shapeshifters and transform between looking like normal humans and a flying monstrosity. The sparas spares Philo, because he is not wholly human.

The sparas are a rare species, and Philo advises his superior officer to seek an alliance with them to fight the Pact. However, they are under orders to shell the valley where the sparas live to prevent the Pact advance. Under orders, Philo orders the shelling of the valley, and the burning forest leads to the deaths of the sparas.

Present day in The Burgue, Philo is interrogated at Bleakness Keep by the warden. Sergeant Dombey arrives and orders the warden to lay off Philo, at least for the night. Taken to a cell, Philo begins to hallucinate another version of himself.

Vignette Stonemoss flies over The Burgue as chaos reigns; word of the incident at the prison is getting out and the police are searching for Vignette. With the police invading her home, Vignette heads to The Apothecary and finds Tourmaline Larou.

In his cell, Philo argues with a hallucination of his own conscience about his own nature, and his loyalties and who he is.

Vignette learns that Philo tried to save her at Bleakness Keep, but Tourmaline knows that he is still alive because his darkasher in The Apothecary is still alive as will. Tourmaline learns that the attacker is a sparas, and Tourmaline reveals that she saw in a vision that it is coming to kill her.

Runyan Millworthy is taken to Balefire Hall, where in the wake of the death of Jonah Breakspear and Sophie Longerbane, an interim government is being formed. Millworthy is invited to join it. Mikulas Vir encourages Runyon to join because of the calls for reprisal against the faefolk and the proposed razing of Carnival Row.

Constable Berwick visits Philo, believing that all of the crimes are connected and designed to incite conflict between The Burgue and the fae. Philo, having coming to a series of revelations about himself, tells Berwick to leave.

Vignette wants Darius' help in convinving Tourmaline to leave Carnival Row to avoid her fate. Kaine and Phaedra arrive to talk to Vignette, but she is focused on Tourmaline's safety and decides to leave the Black Raven.

Sergeant Dombey arrives at the prison and releases Philo on the condition of him helping them to catch the sparas.