Red Sails – Episode 13

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 13: Thomas sets the crew’s silver on a camel caravan bound inland, but a rough crossing shifts the loads and a sepoy checkpoint bars the road. He lets Muthu approach the soldiers first, with the cargo and route hanging in the balance.