Monsieur Claude Trepagny distributes sweats and advice no more to the mother superior's liking then his union with gold-digger Melissande before all 'filles du rois' marriages are notarized, and he can take her to his 'doma(ine)', where she can barely wait till daylight to inspect his riches, while squaw housekeeper Mari gloomily watches outside. Chief Ratahsenthos's Iroquois party comes collect their hanged dead, and seize a priest who happened to pray there. Town captain Bouchard can't spare men for a possibly pointless search, strained by reporting to the Québec intendant and the dirty games of Hudson Bay schemer Elisha Cooke, who prefers to go in the stocks rather then give up, trusting his dodgy recruit Duquet, whom Trepagny formally releases as useless, who steals from the agent cash and incriminating papers and lets Thom run away instead of putting the simpleton knave down as ordered. A squaw discreetly nurses a badly burnt settler. Returning, the warriors bump into René Sel, who is ax-dealt. Hamish Goames is rebuked by his Hudson Bay superior for abusing company means for his 'private justice', and instructed to take over from the missing agent.
—KGF Vissers