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Episode 2

Elizabeth’s enemies grow in strength but Robert Cecil, her spymaster, also fights an enemy within. An ambitious aristocrat is trying to takeover his network. At stake is control over the aging Queen and the power to choose the next King of England.

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Episode 3

Cecil exposes the most infamous terrorist threat in British history, the Gunpowder Plot.

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Episode 1

William Cecil, Elizabeth I’s spy master, discovers a conspiracy to assassinate the Queen.

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