Episode 2

Name: Episode 2
Released: 2004-11-21
Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin, David Crellin, Rae Kelly Hill, Holly Scourfield, Rupert Evans

Series: North & South

Season: Season 1

Episode Number: 2

Air Date: 11/21/2004

Duration: 60 min

Maria Hale's health ceases and her daughter Margaret decides to contact her brother Frederick - who had to leave England years earlier due to a wrongful court decision. The mill workers in Milton go on strike. In order to get his orders done in time, Thornton hires Irish workers. The angry strikers hear of this and in an attempt to threaten Thornton they hurt Margaret. Overwhelmed at her willing help to save Thornton from the strikers, he decides to propose to Margaret.