The abusive relationship between Lord Seadown and Jinny St. George comes to a head in the sixth episode of season 2. The Buccaneers cast and creators break down

The abusive relationship between Lord Seadown and Jinny St. George comes to a head in the sixth episode of season 2.

The Buccaneers cast and creators break down that shocking death: 'It broke our hearts'

The abusive relationship between Lord Seadown and Jinny St. George comes to a head in the sixth episode of season 2.

By Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker is a senior writer at ** with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies, *Ms. Magazine*, *The Hollywood Reporter*, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books. The author of EW's quarterly romance review column, "Hot Stuff," Maureen holds Master's degrees from both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Her debut novel, *It Happened One Fight*, is now available. Follow her for all things related to classic Hollywood, musicals, the romance genre, and Bruce Springsteen.

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- Things took a deadly turn in episode 6 of *The Buccaneers' *second season.

- After Lord Richard Marable and Honoria Marable go to confront their brother, Lord Seadown, and attempt to rescue Jinny, Richard and Seadown end up facing off against each other at the point of a gun.

- Tragedy ensues that will color the rest of this season and beyond.

**This article contains spoilers from Wednesday's episode of *The Buccaneers, *"Every Single Piece of My Heart."**

We always knew the abusive marriage of Lord Seadown (Barney Fishwick) and Jinny St. George (Imogen Waterhouse) would lead to more heartbreak — but we certainly didn't expect this.

In Wednesday's episode of *The Buccaneers*, Lord Seadown escalates his pursuit of his bride, Jinny, when he returns to England with their son and waits for Jinny and Guy (Matthew Broome) to make their inevitable return from Italy. They do, and with the help of Hector Robinson (Jacob Ifan), Jinny tells her harrowing story to a journalist and they publish it in an attempt to win public support for a law that protects women in abusive marriages.

But when Nan (Kristine Froseth) goes to the opera to advocate for a change in laws that will help her sister, Jinny and Guy also go to confront Seadown. It goes horribly wrong, and Seadown manages to paint Jinny as a mentally unwell woman who has attacked him. She is hauled away and deposited in a mental institution where he will only let her see her baby through a window until she is well, a.k.a. submissive and willing to live by his rules.

Barney Fishwick in 'The Buccaneers'.

Jinny attempts to play along for the sake of her child, but eventually, Seadown's sister, Honoria (Mia Threapleton), and older brother, Lord Richard Marable (Josh Dylan), go to Seadown's home to do some reconnaissance. Honoria sneaks off to find Jinny locked away in an upstairs room. A daring escape attempt leads Seadown to confront his own brother with a gun. At first, it seems as if he will kill himself, but the last moments of the episode reveal that Seadown has, instead, shot and murdered his brother Richard.

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"We didn't see it coming," showrunner Katherine Jakeways tells ** of the shocking death. "It crept up on us as we were talking about it. We knew that we wanted to do a big, dramatic episode with Jinny and Seadown, and we were talking about how that might play out and how the Brightlingsea siblings have never really had a chance to talk and be in a room together. We wanted to get Seadown, Richard, and Honoria in a room together and see how that would play out."

Alisha Boe and Josh Dylan in 'The Buccaneers'.

"We started out talking about the various ways that could end," continues Jakeways. "We thought that would probably be a death. We worked out all of the different options of who it might be. As soon as we started to talk about it being Richard, as much as it broke our hearts, the fact that it broke our hearts was why it felt so right."**

It may have broken the showrunners' hearts, but for Josh Dylan, it was a thrilling development for his character. "I was excited," he tells EW*. *"That was quite fun to be part of, it's a distinct moment. In season 2, [Conchita and Richard] are in quite a good place as a couple, and it made it even more fun to lean into that — to really connect and be present with each other because then it's ultimately really sad."

Both Dylan and Fishwick found the twist as surprising as audiences likely will. "Maybe you expect it to be Seadown who goes, so it was a surprise, but a cool one," Dylan says. "Between brothers, it's so intense. You can't really get your head around that."

Imogen Waterhouse as Jinny St. George in 'The Buccaneers'.

For Fishwick's part, he never expected his character to actually make good on any threat of violence against his brother. "I thought he was too cowardly to pull the trigger," he says. "But I guess that's the extent of how mad he became. It's all the insecurity, paranoia, and the internal oppression that you see building up to this point of total explosion. He's got no care for the consequences, and he just cares about acting on righting the wrongs he thinks have been done to him."

It does seem, for the briefest of moments, that Seadown will kill himself in this moment of mad despair. Richard seems to sense it, embracing his brother and acknowledging that he knows how much Seadown loves Jinny, but that she's gone and Seadown will be alright. But that brotherly empathy is also likely what pushes Seadown over the edge.**

"Seadown revealed this emotional vulnerability that he never really showed to people," muses Fishwick. "His big brother pulls him in, and it's both simultaneously the thing he's always wanted — a hug from his big brother — and he totally loathes the weakness that he's allowed himself to show."

Alisha Boe and Josie Totah in 'The Buccaneers'.

"When he pulls himself out of that, he suddenly feels this compensatory loathing for his brother," Fishwick continues. "And it's just a great big f--- you. It's that last, most desperate attempt to regain status."

Indeed, Fishwick believes that Seadown's obsession with status and his upbringing in the unfeeling world of the British aristocracy is what accounts for his own cruelty, jealousy, and madness. "When I was doing research on the character, I read a book about British public schools in the 19th century, and they were brutal," he explains. "It would've been a very bullying, dominating culture where it's literally survival of the fittest."

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"When you are born into a lack of love and care," he continues, "and you are immediately introduced to issues of status and power that those upbringings of privilege often inculcate, that leads you to thinking, 'Well, what I need to be is high status. That's what I need to do. It's not to be loving. That's not what I've learned. It's not to reciprocate any of that. It's to achieve status.' He's permanently lower status to Richard because he's the second son, and there's nothing he'll ever be able to do about that."

When it came to filming this showdown, a lot of pent-up aggression and complicated sibling rivalry needed to come out in the physical altercation between the brothers. "It was really intense," says Dylan. "It was an unusual thing to film for us in this series — to do something so physical at that level of intensity. Barney and I had a tacit agreement of 'Let's really throw ourselves into it.' There was a bit where he had to grab me. He drew blood from my skin by grabbing me so hard."

Kristine Froseth as Nan St. George in 'The Buccaneers'.

Richard's death leaves many other characters in limbo. Throughout her marriage, but particularly in this episode, Jinny endures so much, including imprisonment in a mental institution and being deprived of her child. In some ways, Seadown's murder trial and jail sentence should be a relief for her — but the realities of 19th century patriarchy will continue to plague her.

"She's still going to live in a society that will be on the man's side," says Waterhouse. "There's a lot of sympathy for Seadown in the beginning, especially from the men. *Your wife's gone mad and run away with your child*. So, it's going to be hard to her to get back into society in the way that she used to, because no one's going to want to marry her now."

Aubri Ibrag in 'The Buccaneers'.

It is not only Jinny's loss, either. The events leave Richard's wife Conchita (Alisha Boe) widowed with a son to care for by herself. "Conchita and Jinny are then having to grapple with this situation where the husband of one of them has killed the husband of the other one," says Jakeways. "Conchita has grown up so much over the course of this series and become this matriarch, businesswoman supreme. She's Lady Brightlingsea, and suddenly, she's on her own."

"The one thing that she thought she could always rely on was Richard," the showrunner continues. "It also gives Honoria a moment to springboard off. She has lost her biggest cheerleader apart from Mabel. It gives her a moment to wonder what she wants to do with the rest of her life and how she's going to go forward from there. So, Richard's death made sense for a lot of our storylines, but it is still heartbreaking for us."

New episodes of *The Buccaneers *drop Wednesdays on Apple TV+.

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