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* BeardOfEvil: El Casco looks like Creator/TimCurry's [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 Cardinal Richelieu]] in Conquistador armor.
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* BeardOfEvil: El Casco looks like Creator/TimCurry's [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 Cardinal Richelau]] in Conquistador armor.
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* BleedEmAndWeep: Ellie Nugent begins the episode by taking a boat from Ireland, riding on horseback across war-torn Europe up to the front lines, bullying her cousin Wellington into letting her stay at the camp, and beating everyone except Sharpe himself in a marksmanship contest. Then, when forced to shoot a man in self-defense, she bawls like a baby (and makes out with Sharpe). Furthermore, when Sharpe tries to tell her she "proved herself," she protests that women prove themselves when they have babies.
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* BleedEmAndWeep: Ellie Nugent begins the episode by taking a boat from Ireland, riding on horseback across war-torn Europe up to the front lines, bullying her cousin Wellington into letting her stay at the camp, and beating everyone except Sharpe himself in a marksmanship contest. Then, when forced to shoot a man in self-defense, self-defence, she bawls like a baby (and makes out with Sharpe). Furthermore, when Sharpe tries to tell her she "proved herself," she protests that women prove themselves when they have babies.
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* BladeOnAStick: El Casco attacks Sharpe with a spear before getting [[spoiler:[[BlownAcrossTheRoom nock-gunned]] by Harper]].
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* WeaponOfChoice: Ellie wields a Pennsylvania Flintlock rifle.
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* ArmyofThievesandWhores: The English servicemen are bemoaned by Lord Wellington as "the scum of the Earth[...] thieves, drunkards, jailbirds." Sharpe can only limply respond, "they fight well, sir."
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* ArmyofThievesandWhores: ArmyofThievesAndWhores: The English servicemen are bemoaned by Lord Wellington as "the scum of the Earth[...] thieves, drunkards, jailbirds." Sharpe can only limply respond, "they fight well, sir."
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* ArmyofThievesandWhores: The English servicemen are bemoaned by Lord Wellington as "the scum of the Earth[...] thieves, drunkards, jailbirds." Sharpe can only limply respond, "they fight well, sir."
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''[[center:[[AC:Summer 1813\\
Wellington's army is driving\\
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French wagon trains\\
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Wellington's army is driving\\
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of Napoleon's Marshal Soult,\\
French wagon trains\\
come under relentless attack.]]]]''
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* AdaptedOut: Captain Lossow and the "King's German Legion" weren't adapted from the novel.
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* CreatorBacklash: Though mostly positive about the tv adaption, Creator/BernardCornwell disliked how this adaption was InNameOnly stating ' I was quite ready for any changes they [the tv writers] made except to Sharpe's Gold, which left me gobsmacked'.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Skillicorn is hanged in the film. In the novel, he Sharpe merely gives him a beating.
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* CreatorBacklash: Though mostly positive about the tv adaption, Bernald Cornwell did not like Creator/BernardCornwell disliked how this adaption was InNameOnly stating ' I was quite ready for any changes they [the tv writers] made (except except to Sharpe's Gold, which left me gobsmacked'.
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* CreatorBacklash: Though mostly positive about the tv adaption, Bernald Cornwell did not like how this adaption was InNameOnly stating ' I was quite ready for any changes they made (except to Sharpe's Gold, which left me gobsmacked'.
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* BleedEmAndWeep: Bess Nugent begins the episode by taking a boat from Ireland, riding on horseback across war-torn Europe up to the front lines, bullying her cousin Wellington into letting her stay at the camp, and beating everyone except Sharpe himself in a marksmanship contest. Then, when forced to shoot a man in self-defense, she bawls like a baby (and makes out with Sharpe). Furthermore, when Sharpe tries to tell her she "proved herself," she protests that women prove themselves when they have babies.
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* BleedEmAndWeep: Bess Ellie Nugent begins the episode by taking a boat from Ireland, riding on horseback across war-torn Europe up to the front lines, bullying her cousin Wellington into letting her stay at the camp, and beating everyone except Sharpe himself in a marksmanship contest. Then, when forced to shoot a man in self-defense, she bawls like a baby (and makes out with Sharpe). Furthermore, when Sharpe tries to tell her she "proved herself," she protests that women prove themselves when they have babies.
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* DrivenToMadness: Will Nugent, who has become a rambling zealot of the "flayed one".
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* NoSympathy: Ayres goes through a HumiliationConga, tries to ingratiate himself with Sharpe, and even displays some genuine heroism at the end, but Sharpe never gets over Ayres' cruel hanging of Skillicorn and shows the man nothing but contempt and, at best, apathy.
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* SmugSnake: Ayres, although he does get a little better.
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* RefugeInAudacity: In the books: Sharpe needs to get the titular gold out of Almeida, as it is pretty much required to keep the British Army in the Peninsular. However, his enemy, Colonel Jovellanos (a Spanish partisan looking to use it to set up his own fiefdom), has successfully faked orders saying otherwise, which the British garrison commander believes. Almeida is one of the largest, strongest, and most secure fortresses in Spain, bristling with defences. So what does Sharpe do? He blows up Almeida. [[note]] Almeida really did explode, ending the Siege of Almeida, and it went down as one of the largest explosions in the pre-nuclear age. [[/note]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: In the books: Sharpe needs to get the titular gold out of Almeida, as it is pretty much required to keep the British Army in the Peninsular.Peninsula. However, his enemy, Colonel Jovellanos (a Spanish partisan looking to use it to set up his own fiefdom), has successfully faked orders saying otherwise, which the British garrison commander believes. Almeida is one of the largest, strongest, and most secure fortresses in Spain, Portugal, bristling with defences. So what does Sharpe do? He blows up Almeida. [[note]] Almeida really did explode, ending the Siege of Almeida, and it went down as one of the largest explosions in the pre-nuclear age. [[/note]]
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* BladeOnAStick: El Casco ttacks Sharpe with a spear before getting [[spoiler:[[BlownAcrossTheRoom nock-gunned]] by Harper]].
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* ManlyTears: Lieutenant Barbier sobs as he watches his men being sacrificed by El Casco.
* RefugeInAudacity: In the books: Sharpe needs to get the titular gold out of Almeida, as it is pretty much required to keep the British Army in the Peninsular. However, his enemy, Colonel Jovellanos (a Spanish partisan looking to use it to set up his own fiefdom), has successfully faked orders saying otherwise, which the British garrison commander believes. Almeida is one of the largest, strongest, and most secure fortresses in Spain, bristling with defences. So what does Sharpe do? He blows up Almeida. [[note]] Almeida really did explode, ending the Siege of Almeida, and it went down as one of the largest explosions in the pre-nuclear age. [[/note]]
* RefugeInAudacity: In the books: Sharpe needs to get the titular gold out of Almeida, as it is pretty much required to keep the British Army in the Peninsular. However, his enemy, Colonel Jovellanos (a Spanish partisan looking to use it to set up his own fiefdom), has successfully faked orders saying otherwise, which the British garrison commander believes. Almeida is one of the largest, strongest, and most secure fortresses in Spain, bristling with defences. So what does Sharpe do? He blows up Almeida. [[note]] Almeida really did explode, ending the Siege of Almeida, and it went down as one of the largest explosions in the pre-nuclear age. [[/note]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: Sharpe needs to get the titular gold out of Almeida, as it is pretty much required to keep the British Army in the Peninsular. However, his enemy, Colonel Jovellanos (a Spanish partisan looking to use it to set up his own fiefdom), has successfully faked orders saying otherwise, which the British garrison commander believes. Almeida is one of the largest, strongest, and most secure fortresses in Spain, bristling with defences. So what does Sharpe do? He blows up Almeida. [[note]] Almeida really did explode, ending the Siege of Almeida, and it went down as one of the largest explosions in the pre-nuclear age. [[/note]]
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* WouldHitAGirl: El Casco’s men kill Bess Nugent and try to cut out Ellie’s heart.
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* WouldHitAGirl: El Casco’s men kill Bess Nugent and try to cut out Ellie’s heart.heart.
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* BleedEmAndWeep: Bess Nugent begins the episode by taking a boat from Ireland, riding on horseback across war-torn Europe up to the front lines, bullying her cousin Wellington into letting her stay at the camp, and beating everyone except Sharpe himself in a marksmanship contest. Then, when forced to shoot a man in self-defense, she bawls like a baby (and makes out with Sharpe). Furthermore, when Sharpe tries to tell her she "proved herself," she protests that women prove themselves when they have babies.
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* HumanSacrifice: El Casco's partisan group uses the Aztec practice of removing human hearts while the victims are still alive.
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** Screenwriter Creator/NigelKneale said of his adaptation:
-->"I didn't use much of [the book]. I used the first ten pages, I think. Then I had an idea which would be more fun to do. It was all about magic by the time I was through with it."
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: El Casco kills Lt. Ayres by throwing a knife into his chest.
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Sharpe and his Chosen Men are assigned to trade British rifles for captured deserters, but their mission is complicated by Provost officers and a woman searching for her missing father.
!!Tropes that appear in this episode:
* BeatStillMyHeart: Among the practices of El Casco’s cult is cutting out the hearts of their victims.
* BigBad: El Casco.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: The fate of El Casco, courtesy of Harper.
* {{Cult}}: El Casco is the head of a cult that believes that they are the descendants of shipwrecked Aztecs.
* EnemyMine: Sharpe and French Lieutenant Barbier join forces to combat the partisans led by El Casco.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Ellie is visibly shaken after shooting a French dragoon during a skirmish.
* WouldHitAGirl: El Casco’s men kill Bess Nugent and try to cut out Ellie’s heart.
!!Tropes that appear in this episode:
* BeatStillMyHeart: Among the practices of El Casco’s cult is cutting out the hearts of their victims.
* BigBad: El Casco.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: The fate of El Casco, courtesy of Harper.
* {{Cult}}: El Casco is the head of a cult that believes that they are the descendants of shipwrecked Aztecs.
* EnemyMine: Sharpe and French Lieutenant Barbier join forces to combat the partisans led by El Casco.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Ellie is visibly shaken after shooting a French dragoon during a skirmish.
* WouldHitAGirl: El Casco’s men kill Bess Nugent and try to cut out Ellie’s heart.
