When the Duke of Halstead dies, his second son inherits everything, including the title, house and grounds - plus a whole heap of trouble.
This episode shows examples of...
- Establishing Character Moment:
- Eddie is introduced in charge of a border inspection where he settles a dispute between two farmers King Solomon-style and allows a man with expired papers through with a warning to renew them instead of detaining him.
- Freddy is first introduce as seemingly calm and solemn, managing the estate in the wake of his father’s death. Then he learns he’s been passed over for the inheritance, and throws a temper tantrum.
- Evil Is Petty: Tommy Dixon is this when he agrees to the take the original £4 million and forgive the interest in exchange for a humiliating video of Freddy; it gets Deconstructed when he insists on acting like a Prima Donna Director and verbally abuses Freddy for “not being chicken enough”. Freddy is already suffering an emotional meltdown over the last few days and gets high on coke to deal with the stress of trying to live up to Tommy’s impossible standards. The end result is Freddy blowing Tommy's head off with a shotgun.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The dynamic of the Halstead brothers. Freddy is a coke-sniffing, borderline-Psychopathic Manchild Spoiled Brat who, prior to episode one, incurred a debt to Liverpudlian gangsters to the tune of £8 million. By contrast, Eddie is the second son who rose through the ranks in the military, and throughout the episode remains calm as he learns of said debt, the massive weed operation his father was facilitating, and tries to find a way to solve the massive problem his older brother he has caused.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Freddy is a coke-addict and recognized by everyone as being ill-fit to inherit the estate, to the point where younger sister Charolette believes that the ancestral manor which has been in their family for 600 years would be "gone by Christmas". Even their father recognized this and chose to invoke an oft ignored law that lets him pass the estate to his second son, Edward.
- Plot-Triggering Death: The story begins with Eddie returning on leave from the military to attend to his father's deathbed and shortly after the funeral. The real plot is when he is unexpectedly named the heir to the estate over his older brother Freddy, and as such learns of the Glass' weed-growing operation on the grounds.
