Red Sails – Episode 5

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 5: Thomas Mercer and his disguised crew seize a guarded East India Company hulk, force open its hold, and uncover silver alongside the opium. As a net draws every eye, Cobb starts a hidden fuse and races to finish the robbery.