Red Sails – Episode 1
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In the nineteenth-century South China Sea, smuggler Captain Thomas Mercer is captured by pirate warlord Wei after claiming his opium cargo sank with his ship. Bound to a magistrate’s chair and pressed to reveal the truth, Thomas holds his nerve while his battered crew risks everything to rescue him. But the cargo is still intact, and a marked chart points toward a hidden anchorage behind the last island—where armed enemies and a dangerous reckoning await.
Episode 1: Captain Feng threatens to drown Thomas Mercer over the missing opium, but a mysterious red-sailed junk arrives with a foreign mortar. Its opening shot tears through Feng’s deck and sends Thomas running with the chair still lashed to him—until Feng orders his gunners to sink the other ship.
