#2018 episode

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Nicolas Gob and Eléonore Bernheim in The Art of Crime (2017)Un homme blessé: Partie 1/ A wounded man Part 1

S2E3

Captain Verlay receives a set of Gustave Courbet's paintings postcards as a kind of treasure hunt. A corpse is discovered with each riddle solved.

*The first rendezvous takes place at the Temple de la Sybille in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont in the 19th Arrondissement of Paris.

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Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes in Victoria (2016) The King Over the Water

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After an another attempt on her life Albert takes Victoria to the Scottish Highlands with a small entourage, staying with the Duke of Atholl. However they find the duke's entertainment, including a recital by a verbose poet, boring and formal, and they make their escape, sheltering from a storm with a crofter and his wife. Victoria delights in this freedom whilst Drummond, about to enter a marriage of convenience, and Paget enjoy their time together, unaware that courtier Wilhelmina Coke observes their passion, Meanwhile Ernest's attempts to woo the newly widowed Duchess of Sutherland, begin to bear fruit after an initial knockback.

*While Her Majesty did visit Blair Castle, she did so with her daughter as well as her husband, who did not get lost.

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Kjell Bergqvist and Kjell Wilhelmsen in Springfloden/Spring Tide (2016) Episode 7

S2E7

Olivia is determined to retrieve Sandra's computer from Borell's house. The house is heavily guarded so it could be a dangerous mission, but a couple of drawings of the building should swing the pendulum in her favour, and being on her own will not stop Olivia in her quest for the truth.

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Victoria (2016) Entente Cordiale

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After Peel airs his misgivings over wily French king Louis Philippe betrothing his son to Isabel, the Spanish infanta, fearing a Franco-Spanish alliance against Britain, Victoria travels with her entourage to the French court to dissuade the king. She is frustrated by his refusal to discuss the reason for her visit and puzzled by the reluctance of Albert, to support her, until he admits to her Leopold's revelation and is reassured by her view that it changes nothing between them. As a result the pair form an entente cordiale whilst closet gay lovers Lord Alfred Paget and government aide Drummond enjoy a nude dip with Albert. However, on return to England ,Victoria learns of the French king's duplicity though she does have a pleasant surprise for Albert.

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Victoria (2016) The Sins of the Father

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Victoria gives painful birth to a son but severe natal depression prevents her from bonding with him. Unable to support her Albert returns to Germany where he is shocked to learn of his true paternity. Learning also of Leopold's intention to marry Ernest to a dour Spanish princess the unhappy Albert gets very drunk and leaves in a hurry. Back in England Victoria, helped by the Duchess of Buccleuch, begins to resume public appearances whilst Nancy Skerrett has to admit that she took the place of her pregnant impoverished cousin Eliza to obtain work, Eliza now having sold the story of the palace break-in to the papers. Victoria intends to dismiss her but Albert, nursing his own secret, steps in to save her job.

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Victoria (2016) Warp and Weft

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The apprehension of a palace thief alerts Albert to household inefficiency, leading to pay increases for the staff, whilst Victoria receives a deputation from the weavers of Spitalfields protesting against foreign imports. Against the advice of Sir Robert Peel, who cites national unrest, Victoria decides to throw a ball where the costumes are only made by the Spitalfields craftsmen but Peel is proved right as the ball is seen as a costly extravagance whilst thousands are starving and there is a demonstration at the palace gates. The guests number Lord Melbourne, who masks his terminal illness from the queen, but Albert learns the truth and Victoria pays her former mentor an emotional visit.

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Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes in "Victoria"(2016)

The Green-Eyed Monster

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Having resisted his profligate father's financial demands Albert goes to the Royal Society to meet computer pioneers Charles Babbage and the poet Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace, inviting them to a palace function. Victoria is suspicious of her husband's admiration for Ada and calls in her old mentor, former premier Lord Melbourne, who advises her that the relationship is based solely on scientific interests. Victoria and Albert are further reconciled when she tells him that she is pregnant again whilst in the servant's hall a young thief convinces assistant dresser Miss Cleary that there is a ghost on the premises