Recap / The Terror S 1 E 3 The Ladder

The British bury the Inuit man in the sea through a hole in the ice, and Lady Silence sets out alone on foot to return to her people. Captains Franklin and Crozier had once been friends, but in England Franklin had denied Crozier permission to propose marriage to his niece, and Franklin's refusal to admit that his orders had resulted in the ships becoming trapped causes their relationship to deteriorate further. They angrily debate their crews' future and disagree sharply about Crozier's suggestion that they send out a party on foot to seek help. Franklin joins a group of armed Royal Marines who have set a hunting blind for the creature, but it ambushes the group, killing a marine and Franklin, who drowns after the creature tears off his leg and tosses him into the hole in the ice where the British had buried the Inuit man. Elsewhere, alone in an igloo, Lady Silence hears the creature outside and finds that it has left her a seal carcass to eat.