Overview
- The penultimate episode ends with George Russell being shot by an assailant at a New York gentlemen’s club, leaving his survival and the shooter’s motives unclear.
- Oscar Van Rhijn confronts his suppressed identity by hinting at his sexuality to his mother Agnes in the wake of John Adams’s death.
- Marian Brook sends Larry Russell a letter canceling their engagement over a presumed indiscretion, deepening tensions within the Russell family.
- John Adams’s fatal carriage accident and subsequent bequest of a house and money to Oscar intensify grief and secrecy in the Van Rhijn household.
- Heightened class tensions between old money and new wealth drive emerging power struggles as the season finale airs next Sunday.