Carnival Row 2×01 Fight or Flight

Carnival Row 2×01 Fight or Flight

The fae folk are suffering under the new Chancellor Jonah Breakspear’s (Arty Froushan) imposed incarceration of the residents of Carnival Row. Due to the flying ban, many of them succumb to an uncurable desease. To ease their pain,Vignette (Cara Delevingne) and the Black Raven go on a dangerous mission to steal medicine from a supply train. Meanwhile Philo (Orlando Bloom) takes part in an illegal underground fight club to gain mysterious favor from the ringleader.

The next day Ezra Spurnrose (Andrew Gower) is part of the crowd watching the public execution of some fauns who are wrongly accused of the assassination of Absalom (Jared Harris) and Piety Breakspear (Indira Varma). His sister Imogen (Tamzin Merchant) is still on the run with her Puck lover Agreus (David Gyasi). Outwardly still happily in love, Imogen is plagued by nightmares of her brother while Agreus grows increasingly tired of hiding. Their honeymoon bliss is further disturbed when a mysterious airship attacks their boat.

Tourmaline Larou (Karla Crome), former poet laureate, Vignette’s ex-lover and employee at the brothel on Carnival Row, is having visions of the murdered Haruspex Aoife Tsigani (Alice Krige) and the future, which turn out to be true, when Philo is called to a crime scene by Constable Berwick (Waj Ali). Despite no longer working for the police and the prejudice Philo faces for being half-fae, Berwick seeks his help to solve the brutal homicide of a soldier stationed on the supply train robbed by the Black Raven.

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