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Season One:

"The Macon 7"
  • Noah thinking quickly on his feet and making a copy of the coded words in the wooden house. How? Using the fresh blood of a runaway slave that died from his wound and an old cloth.

"The Lord's Day"

  • When Rosalee tells Ernestine that it was her whole stole Tom Macon's seal, Ernestine states that she'll take care of it. How? She pays off Tom Macon's son, T.R., to pretend to have had his father's seal all along. It works.
  • When Tom Macon thinks it was one of the field slaves who stole his seal he order each and everyone to hold up a log, and if no one confesses by the time the last group fall from the logs' heaviness, all of them will get a lashing. And the last group, led by Noah, managed to keep their log up and steady by the time Suzanna sent out a slave to inform Tom she "knows" who took his seal.
  • Rosalee sticks a broken bottle in a man who was about to rape her. The very same man who whipped her.

"Firefly"

  • Pearly Mae risking her own life and turning around to be captured, to save her daughter Boo from being re-captured.

"Run and Gun"

  • Zeke's Dying Moment of Awesome has him taking on a trio of slave catchers by himself and killing them all. With a shot leg and being hit by an axe.

"Cradle"

  • James showcasing his own ingenuity in this episode. On his first day out in the fields, he doesn't make the weight he needs, he is spared a whipping because Sam traded bags. So, what does James do? He makes the bottom part of his bag a few pounds heavier with weights sewn in so the next time he picks cotton, the weight of the bottom will help him make his cut. It seems like Rosalee isn't the only one to inherit their mother's ingenuity.

"The White Whale"

  • John using the law of being a slave apprehender to kill Kyle.
  • Rosalee, Elizabeth, and Boo having a high speed horse chase with Pullman.
    • Rosalee willingly gets off the horse because she knows Pullman is after her more than Boo, facing down Pullman and his strong urge to kill her. However, Elizabeth comes up behind with a gun pointed at her. Pullman gets a shot in at Elizabeth, which distracts him from Rosalee being able to shoot him. And when given a chance to kill him, Rosalee refuses, citing her reason that he can die like an animal.
  • Ernestine getting revenge for Tom lynching Sam and putting his body on display—by hanging Tom herself with the help of another slave. And making it look like a suicide.
  • Seeing that Cato managed to survive, since the last time he was seen he was shot in the leg and facing down slave catcher with guns.
  • Even though she is free along with Boo—and in Canada, where they can't be extradited back—Rosalee decides that she will go back and help free other slaves.

Season Two

"Contraband"
  • Rosalee blowing up part of the town square to rescue Noah from execution.

Alternative Title(s): Underground

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