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    Episode 1: Don’t Call Me Nellie 
  • The first appearance of Rasselas. He talks smack about Thomas in an imaginary conversation with Thomas' horse a la Sven from Frozen.
  • Nell first meets Billy and realizes that if he's been watching her, that means he might have seen her doing the necessary.

    Episode 2: Tracks Less Well Trod 
  • The introduction of Polly, who develops a crush on Nell when she robs her carriage. She smiles throughout the whole experience and asks Nell to tie them up. Nell answers she has no rope and she'll just have to pretend. Polly gladly obliges.
  • While in disguise as nobles, Charles and Nell see each other's wanted poster and tell the innkeeper how hideous these two criminals are.

    Episode 3: A Private Joke With the Queen 
  • Charles is arrested and taken to court. The list of his charges is so long that it piles on the floor and the judge is asleep by the time they're done being read. And they're all highway robbery.

    Episode 4: Devil's Dung 
  • Charles is transferred to a Luxury Prison Suite by his fiancee Eularia Moggerhanger, a newspaper tycoon. Then it's revealed that she only rented it for five minutes so she could visit him in a clean place and he has to return to the regular cells.
  • Nell says she'll spring Charles from prison. When asked how, she puts on a cocky smile and the camera zooms in on her, as if she's about tell them a brilliant plan. Then she says "No idea."
  • Nell finally finds a magistrate willing to listen to her. She launches into a Rambling Old Man Monologue about everyone even tangentially related to the events leading to Lord Blanchefort's murder, even talking about the time Mr. Halliday put his hand up a girl's skirt.

    Episode 5: Excuse Me, I'm a Doctor 
  • A man runs into a tavern asking for a doctor, finding several. But when they realize the patient is a prisoner who can't pay, they all sit down and return to their drinks.
  • As the escaped prisoners run out the door, one man in the stocks halfheartedly waves for help.

    Episode 6: Snatched by Strollers 
  • Polly Honeycombe is back. Her enchantment with Mr. Scribble, the man her father forbid her to marry, gives way to disappointment regarding his nose hairs. She abandons him for Nell, a highwayman she met only briefly during a robbery.
  • When Polly is kidnapped along with George, her fiancé decides not to help rescue her because sometimes "love and circumstance do not align."
  • Nell's very unenthusiastic delivery of "Stand and deliver."
  • Jephia forces Nell to act in a play about her own capture by kidnapping George. Polly is tied up in the audience but still claps, cheers, and boos like a normal audience member.
  • Jephia gets tricked into drinking his own poison. Realizing he's dying, he thinks about his last words only for his abused crew to drop a curtain on him before he can get them out.
  • One of the actors chooses that moment for her water to break. Nell is shown smiling, "Good luck with that," as she starts shooing her sisters out. Gilligan Cut to Nell tiredly helping the woman through labor.

    Episode 7: Stop Printing This Muck 
  • The episode begins with a musical number about Nell, depicting her as a horned, scaly, monster.
  • Nell goes into the newspaper and tells them who they are. The editor claims she's the third "Nell Jackson" in his office, one of whom is sitting right in front of him. And at least she made an effort.
  • Nell trying to tell the newspaper staff all the horrible stories about her are false while Remonstrating with a Gun.
  • While at the newspaper office, George is horrified to see a headline saying Charles has been hanged. However, it's revealed that the paper also has a headline stating he was exonerated, just to cover their bases.
  • Polly writes a proposed correction to the paper's previous articles. Her crush on Nell is still going strong even after finding out she's a woman.
    Polly: Nell Jackson's eyes do not burn like the fires of Hell as previously reported. They are like stars casting their celestial light to guide lost souls."
  • Charles escapes the courtroom by saying "Nell, you came for me!"

    Episode 8: Not Some Cheap Trick 
  • Billy is so hyped to hold up the Queen's carriage that he charges it with a pistol held high, still in his tiny form.
  • Poynton's Evil Gloating about Nell's insignificance followed by her Shut Up, Hannibal!.
  • They capture the Queen's carriage, only to find out it's a decoy and the "Queen" is just Charles in drag.
  • Charles is stuck waiting outside with George. When he suggests sneaking into Broadwater to steal, George guilt-trips him into taking her.
    George: I'm almost all healed from my gunshot wound. And I'm not scared of wolves or Jacobites.
  • Charles rescues the Queen and gives a grand speech about all he suffered through to rescue her. His pockets are stuffed with treasure.
  • The Queen snatches a bottle of whisky from Charles, ignoring his warning about its strength.

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