'Barkskins' Episode 6 Preview: What will Hamish and Yvon do with Randall Cross now that he is found?
Spoilers for 'Barskins' Season 1 Episode 6
In a shocking conclusion to Episode 5 'Buttermilk', 'Barkskins' brought Randall Cross (Andreas Apergis) back to Wobik.
Hamish Goames (Aneurin Barnard) and Yvon (Zahn McClarnon) had traveled to the town in the very first episode looking for the missing agent of the Hudson's Bay Company. Their investigations initially refuse to reveal anything substantial — everything pointing to nothing as they ran around in circles, asking every Tom, Dick and Harry about Cross' whereabouts. Their key suspect — the shrewd barrel maker Elisha Cooke (Thomas M Wright) — neither divulged any information nor entertained the duo, adding hurdles in their investigations.
In Episode 5, just like that, Cross turns up at the inn one fine night. It was an astonished Mathilde (Marcia Gay Harden) who discovers him lying in a corner with his head on the table. She had thought of him as any other customer and went to serve him. It is when he picks his head up and shows her his forlorn, exasperated face that she recognizes him. And with an ominous background track that stopped audiences in their tracks, Hamish and Yvon make the discovery too.
It will now remain to be seen what they plan going forward. That Cross is Hamish's brother-in-law was revealed only last week when he tells the company the real reason behind his relentless efforts in finding the man — for his sister and her child. So he will want to return him to his family. At the same time, the company is still looking for Cross, who absconded while in their employment. Hamish and Yvon should also be taking him back to present him to the company.
Whether Cross returns home or to the company, it is safe to say that at this point he knows a lot more about what happens in the underground of Wobik and the wretched dealings of the company than perhaps anyone else across the ocean. This makes him a key character in the series, one who must be protected by all means. Cross is, however, not the only source of stress on the National Geographic series. The Iroquois is closing in on the town, eager to attack the French and drive them away from Wobik. After members of their tribe were slaughtered and paraded outside the town by Captain Bouchard, they are out for revenge and have already started laying the traps.
What disaster is going to befall Wobik only time will tell. In the meanwhile, every man and woman is at the mercy of not fate, but their own actions. Who perishes and who survives?
'Barkskins' airs on Mondays at 9/ 8c on National Geographic.
