Does everyone know who Washington’s man in New York is?
Here is our review of the latest episode of Turn!
ThisTurn: Washingtons Spiesreview contains spoilers.
Then Abes old flame Anna Strong (Heather Lind) learned.
And Abes wife (Meegan Warner) and his father.
And of course the tavernkeeper Abe recruited inside New York City, Robert Townshend (Nick Westrate).
Then officers of the British army discovered Abes secret, starting with Maj. Robert Rogers.
To maintain security, Washington has refrained from ever meeting his top intelligence channel.
Its about what different characters will do with such knowledge.
But Hewlett receives help from an unexpected quarter.
The major also reveals a new motivation driving his actions.
Once the shows most principled principle, Hewlett is now at aphelion to his earlier ethics.
Will he be able to maintain such cynicism?
This episode also introduces a new agent: Sgt.
John Champe (Chris Webster), an American horseman who volunteers to pretend to defect to the British.
As Champe flees to the British lines, the Continentals give chase to make the defection look authentic.
Such a scheme sounds like an outlandish television plot.
In fact, that was an American intelligence operation launched in October 1780.
The main detail thatTurnadds to its version of the Champe story (so far) is that Capt.
Brewster wings the fleeing sergeant with a musket shotshooting closer than he was supposed to.
In the first scene of this episode, Brewster cuts himself while sharpening his hatchet.
Brewster finally has a storyline all his own.
Looking ahead, the French have arrived as a force inTurn, as signaled by their sentries outrageous mustaches.
In a conference with his new colleagues, Gen. Washington insists on a plan to assault New York.
Gen. Rochambeau ever so politely but persistently suggests an attack on the British in Virginia.
Rating:
4 out of 5
