| North and South Miniseries |
| This is the synopsis for the first Book of the miniseries that was included within the press kit. I do not have the official synopsis of book II if you have the one from the press kit please let me know. Thanks BOOK 1 |
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - Chapter 1 (SUNDAY, NOV.3; 9:00-11:00 p.m., EST)
JUNE 1842: At MONT ROYAL, a plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, 18-year-old ORRY MAIN (Patrick Swayze) is leaving for
West Point. Orry is young and idealistic;West Point to him means education, a chance to bring new thought and new techniques to the
cotton plantation that is his heritage. He accepts slavery the way he accepts the ownership of land: slaves are property to be treated
well; but property, all the same. lt is the only life his people have ever known.
CLARISSA (Jean Simmons) and TILLET MAIN (Mitchell Ryan) are his parents: decent, honorable people who see no moral question in
slavery, any more than they see a moral question in killing the living creatures that provide them with beef and pork. lt is, for them, the
natural order.
Eight-year-old ASHTON and six-year-old BBETT are Orry's younger sisters. They could not be more different if they were from
different planets. Brett is gentle and loving; Ashton self-centered, greedy, and unfeeling. And already dazzlingly beautiful.
Before leaving, Orry meets MADELINE FABRAY (Lesley-Anne Down), a dark-eyed Louisiana beauty, and her constant companion,
the free servant called MAUM SALLY (Olivia Cole). Orry and Madeline are immediately drawn to one another, establishing a link that
will last a lifetime. He cannot come home on leave for two years, but they swear to write. Regularly. In Lehigh Station, PA, 18-year-old
GEORGE HAZARD (James Read), the son of ironworks owners WILLIAM (John Anderson) and MAUDE HAZARD (lnga Swenson), is
also heading for West Point. Slavery becomes very much a moral question in this household, mostly in the form of George's sister
VIRGILIA (Kirstie Alley), who is a fiery Abolitionist with strong resolve and a quick tongue. George's older brother, STANLEY (Jonathan
Frakes) couldn't care less about slavery or any other moral issue; he is the family weakling with little of anything in his soul other than
that which serves his own interests.
On their first, accidental meeting, George and Orry stand shoulder-to-shoulder when they fight a gang of roughnecks as the Yankee
and the Southerner are headed for the Point. Moving into a world strange to both of them, a permanent bond is established in spite of
the north-south gap between their backgrounds.
In South Carolina, a brutal but wealthy plantation owner named JUSTIN LaMOTTE (David Carradine) wants Madeline as his wife. She
dreams only of Orry, although her father, NICHOLAS FABRAY (Lee Bergere) is pushing her hard to make this "good match" with Justin.
At West Point, George and Orry deepen their friendship as Orry discovers how many people already resent him because he is
Southern. They also develop a mutual enemy in ELKANAH BENT (Phillip Casnoff), the cadet drill master who makes their lives
miserable. (Fortunately, the vicious Bent is the exception; the cadets around them include young George Pickett, Thomas (later
"Stonewall") Jackson, George McClellan and U.S. Grant.)
1844: George and Orry are on their first leave. Orry finds things changed on the plantation: a sadistic overseer named SALEM
JONES (Tony Frank) is running things, making life a series of beatings for SEMIRAMIS (Erica Gimpel), CUFFEY (Forest Whitaker),
PRIAM (David Harris) and the other slaves. Orry objects, but his father has come to rely on Jones.
Orry's personal life is also shattered beyond his worst fears when he learns that Madeline never received his letters because her
father tore them up - and that this woman he loves so deeply is reluctantly following her father's wishes and marrying Justin LaMotte. . .
whose harsh ways quickly include wife beating.
For Orry and Madeline, life seems to hold no promise.
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - Chapter ll {TUESDAY, NOV. 5; 9:00-11:00 p.m., EST)
1844: When George and Orry return to West Point they find Elkanah to be even more tormenting than ever, and when his sadistic
behavior finally gets him discharged from the Academy he blames the two friends, swearing that he will get even someday.
1846: George and Orry graduate into a world where the talk of Southern secession is
Common place, but there is a more immediate military danger to deal with: both are sent to Texas for the Mexican War. In Washington,
Elkanah Bent visits SENATOR EDWARDS (Gene Kelly), the man who fathered him illegitimately. Edwards is disgusted with his bastard
son, but he must protect his own reputation, and buys silence by arranging a direct commission for Bent as an officer in Texas.
As George and Orry's Commanding Officer in the Mexican War, Bent sends them on a suicide mission, which they survive as heroes,
but at the cost of a permanently disabling leg wound for Orry.
While Orry is in the hospital, George meets an Irish surgeon, PATRICK FLYNN (Robert Mitchum) and, more importantly, the surgeon's
daughter - the captivating CONSTANCE FLYNN (Wendy Kilbourne). Now George has a love of his own.
Orry, crippled, is going home to Mont Royal, where he must live with the lasting pain of separation from Madeline. George, in disgust,
resigns his commission and goes home to help his brother Stanley run the ironworks - but not before thrashing Elkanah Bent in a
fight.
Orry has turned against life, but when George comes to Mont Royal to ask him to come to his wedding to Constance, Orry agrees to
travel North.
Orry begins to meet secretly - and chastely - with the miserably unhappy Madeline, who does not dare to leave the husband she
loathes.
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - Chapter lll (WEDNESDAY, NOV.6; 9:00-11:00) p.m., EST)
The slavery question is causing an ever-greater strain between George and Orry, and even when Orry spares the life of his runaway
slave Priam, at George's request, he feels he is betraying his own people.
George's brother, Stanley, has married ISABEL (Wendy Fulton), a socialite who dreams of making her weak-willed husband rich and
powerful ... a dream which has a setback when Stanley's penny-pinching mismanagement leads to tragedy at the foundry. Their mother
then puts George in overall command of the business. lsabel cannot tolerate this, and begins her campaign to discredit George.
George's sister Virgilia is now a prominent figure in the Abolitionist Movement, and shares a platform with Negro leader FREDERICK
DOUGLASS (Robert Guillaume); her speech accuses all Southerners of running giant "black breeding farms" as the essence of slavery.
Orry and the Hazards are appalled at her extremism, but Congressman SAM GREENE (David Ogden Stiers) is interested . . . a little
in her ideas, mostly in her. He is a married man, and she is willing to share only her ideas. But he won't be so easy to get rid of.
Justin LaMotte, Madeline's husband, finds more reason all the time to abuse her; even her kindness to the slaves infuriates him.
Finally, at one of their secret meetings in the forest, Madeline and Orry make love, but still she cannot leave her husband.
At Mont Royal, Orry becomes head of the family when his father dies, and immediately fires the overseer, Salem Jones - making
another enemy.
Orry's sisters have become young women. BRETT (Genie Francis) is as gentle and lovely as she was as a child, and ASHTON (Terri
Garber) is even more wicked behind her gorgeous face, carrying disaster for any man she meets.
Young CHARLES MAIN (Lewis Smith), a poor relation, is accepted as fully part of the family when he acquits himself honorably in a
duel, with Orry's help. His only family problem is the over-eager attention of his man-hungry cousin Ashton - who particularly wants
anyone she can't have.
One man she can have is JAMES HUNTOON (Jim Metzler), a pompous and prissy young lawyer who is a coming political force in the
Secessionist Movement. She doesn't love him, but she's not above marrying for power.
1852: The talk of secession is more intense; South Carolina has already tried (and failed). The Main family visits the Hazards:
personal friendships are established but the visit ends disastrously, thanks to Virgilia's vicious anti-Southern prejudice.
Before the Mains go home, however, another deep bond is established: Charles Main and BILLY HAZARD (John Stockwell),
George's younger brother, will be starting West Point at the same time. Like Orry and George ten years earlier, the two will enter this
new world as lifetime friends.
Brett Main has also found a new tie to the Hazards - Billy is all she longs for in a man – except that Billy has fallen prey to Ashton's
greedy eyes.
Soon the Hazards will defy public opinion and travel South to visit the Mains. And Virgilia insists upon going along to rectify her
offensive behavior when the Mains were in the Hazard home.
(Even though the Main-Hazard association tiptoes through a minefield on the subject of slavery, George and Orry have fulfilled the
goal of working together: they have become partners in a cotton mill - no slave labor - that Orry established in South Carolina with
Hazard technology.)
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - chapter IV (THURSDAY, Nov.7; 9:00-11:00 p.m., EST)
While the Hazards are visiting the Mains at Mont Royal, Virgilia and GRADY (Georg Stanford Brown), coachman for James Huntoon,
become lovers; she helps the slave to escape and, later, they are married in the North.
Ashton Main also takes a lover - FORBES LaMOTTE (William Ostrander), a young man as harsh and conscienceless as his nephew
Justin (Madeline's husband). Unfortunately for Ashton, Billy Hazard - the prize she really wants - sees them together, realizes what she
is, and finally begins to appreciate her sister Brett, the gentle girl who has loved him all along.
Madeline, still living unhappily with Justin, learns a shocking secret from her dying father: her mother was a mulatto, her great-
grandmother, a slave - a secret known to only a few other people.
Madeline confesses to Orry her secret, and the fear that Justin will kill her if he finds out. Orry convinces Madeline to leave Justin
and flee North with him. They agree to depart in three days time.
At the west Point graduation of Billy Hazard and Charles Main: Ashton decides to “get even” with Billy by taking on as many of his
classmates in one night as time will allow. This encounter – which Charles discovers - leads to pregnancy.
Madeline doesn't like Ashton, but through her friends among the slaves she knows a woman who can perform abortions, and
reluctantly takes Ashton to the woman. Justin, believing that Madeline’s lie about where she was while she was with Ashton means that
she is seeing another man, locks her in her room' Orry is baffled when Madeline fails to make their rendezvous. Justin keeps Madeline
imprisoned, feeding her nothing but bread and water. and kills the loyal Maum Sally when she devotedly tries to free her.
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - chapter V (SATURDAY, Nov.9; 9:00-11:00 p.m., EST)
Justin begins giving Madeline laudanum disguised as “tonic” the drug saps her already failing strength and turns her into a ghostly
addict.
Ashton, having terminated her pregnancy, marries Huntoon, while still regularly sharing a bed - or a haystack passion, promises to
help her get revenge on Billy Hazard for drugged Madeline avoids him at the wedding. The upwardly-mobile secessionist James - with
Forbes LaMotte. (Forbes, in his rejecting her.) Orry is devastated when a drugged Madeline avoids him at the wedding.
Following a political rally in New Orleans, at which Huntoon has been rabble-rousing, Elkanah/ Bent is his guest at a popular New
Orleans bordello run by MADAM CONTI (Elizabeth Taylor). Bent spots a resemblance between Madeline - whom he has seen in
Huntoon's wedding photograph - and a haunting oil painting that hangs in Madam Conti's office. Conti innocently tells him the story of
the painting: that the woman portrayed was a mulatto prostitute who worked for her (Madeline's mother, LAURETTE) Bent now knows
that a "close friend" of his enemy, Orrin Main, is a "negress" – a weapon he may someday be able to use.
Orry comes North with Brett to bring George his share of the profits of their successful cotton mill. Virgilia is visiting at the same time,
and her heated confrontation with Orry leads to a terrible rift between Orry and George. Billy once again asks for Brett's hand and Orry
refuses.
Going home, Orry and Brett, - and, unbeknownst to them, Virgilia - are on the train which is stopped at Harper's Ferry by JOHN
BROWN (Johnny Cash) and his raiders. One of the raiders is Virgilia's husband, Grady; another is Priam, the slave Orry allowed to
escape several years before. Priam is now a "freed slave" who has found that "freedom" in the virtuous North for a black man is not the
same as "freedom" for a white man.
Grady and Priam are killed in a shoot-out with the Militia. and by the time Orry and Brett reach home John Brown has been hanged.
DEC. 1859. .. Virgilia is in an insane asylum in the aftermath of Harper's Ferry; Congressman Sam Greene, who still wants her,
arranges her release. She is functional, but Virgilia is as near madness as a sane person can be, consumed now with the though that
the entire South killed her husband.
AUGUST 1860. .. LINCOLN (Hal Holbrook) is running for President. Virgilia is backing the extremist Gerrit Smith against the
"moderate" Lincoln, who is seen as "too soft" on the South.
Orry is drinking heavily over his fight with George and his loss of Madeline. Brett gets word that Billy is to be transferred to Fort
Moultrie in Charleston and asks Orry to bless their wedding. When he drunkenly refuses, Brett flees Mont Royal and seeks refuge with
Ashton in Charleston.
On the eve of the election, Constance announces to George that she is at last pregnant. Billy arrives in Charleston. Huntoon leads a
passionate. Pro secessionist, anti-Lincoln rally.
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - Chapter Vl (SUNDAY, NOV. 10; 9:00-11:00) p.m., EST)
West Pointers are dropping out of the Academy to take sides in the conflict that appears inevitable. The demand for secession is
leading to huge street demonstrations in the South. During one of the demonstrations Ashton hires a thug to kill Billy and make it look
like mob violence. The attempt fails.
In Texas, the soldiers are fighting amongst themselves; Southerners are deserting. Even Charles resigns his commission in disgust
and heads home to be with his own people.
Billy Hazard, who will be stationed in Fort Sumter, near Charleston, tries to convince Brett to marry him without waiting for Orry's
permission. (Orry has always favored the match but, with the advent of war, he sees the difficulties in a marriage between a Southern
girl and a Yankee officer and fears for his sister's well-being. Finally, at George's urging, Orry relents - he knows what it means to be
kept away from someone you love.)
With the threat of war like a sword at their throats, Billy and Brett are married at Mont Royal . . .but Ashton is calling in Forbes
LaMotte's pledge: with Justin LaMotte's help, he will arrange a rigged "duel" with Billy that will allow him to "honorably" kill the man who
turned her down.
Even in her laudanum fog, Madeline hears and understands this plot, and - as she struggles to escape and warn the Mains - wounds
her husband with a sword. Charles, alerted by Madeline, breaks up the "duel" and Billy kills Forbes in a fight. Madeline takes
permanent refuge with Orry at Mont Royal.
In Pennsylvania, lsabel is pushing Stanley to use the Hazard military contracts for profiteering, while Elkanah Bent has found a
wealthy widow - BURDETTA HALLORAN (Morgan Fairchild) - to inance him in his own schemes to get rich from the coming war.
George and Constance, whose home has been a secret stop on the Underground Railroad for some time, are now the parents of a
baby girl.
1861 ... Orry, carrying a half-million dollars in cash, heads North to see George: it hurts to dissolve the partnership, but his honor
demands that he return George's money so that his friend, a Northerner, will not be forced to indirectly finance the Southern war effort
through the military materiel being produced by their co-owned mill. The visit also serves as reconciliation.
APRIL 12,1861 . . . War. Fort Sumter is fired on. Virgilia raises a mob to attack her brother's home because Orry is there. (George
faces them down and smuggles Orry out of town on a freight train.)
Orry will be in the South's new War Department. George will be on the Northern Army's General Staff.
And a chasm that will last for more than a hundred years has torn violently open in the land.
JUNE 1842: At MONT ROYAL, a plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, 18-year-old ORRY MAIN (Patrick Swayze) is leaving for
West Point. Orry is young and idealistic;West Point to him means education, a chance to bring new thought and new techniques to the
cotton plantation that is his heritage. He accepts slavery the way he accepts the ownership of land: slaves are property to be treated
well; but property, all the same. lt is the only life his people have ever known.
CLARISSA (Jean Simmons) and TILLET MAIN (Mitchell Ryan) are his parents: decent, honorable people who see no moral question in
slavery, any more than they see a moral question in killing the living creatures that provide them with beef and pork. lt is, for them, the
natural order.
Eight-year-old ASHTON and six-year-old BBETT are Orry's younger sisters. They could not be more different if they were from
different planets. Brett is gentle and loving; Ashton self-centered, greedy, and unfeeling. And already dazzlingly beautiful.
Before leaving, Orry meets MADELINE FABRAY (Lesley-Anne Down), a dark-eyed Louisiana beauty, and her constant companion,
the free servant called MAUM SALLY (Olivia Cole). Orry and Madeline are immediately drawn to one another, establishing a link that
will last a lifetime. He cannot come home on leave for two years, but they swear to write. Regularly. In Lehigh Station, PA, 18-year-old
GEORGE HAZARD (James Read), the son of ironworks owners WILLIAM (John Anderson) and MAUDE HAZARD (lnga Swenson), is
also heading for West Point. Slavery becomes very much a moral question in this household, mostly in the form of George's sister
VIRGILIA (Kirstie Alley), who is a fiery Abolitionist with strong resolve and a quick tongue. George's older brother, STANLEY (Jonathan
Frakes) couldn't care less about slavery or any other moral issue; he is the family weakling with little of anything in his soul other than
that which serves his own interests.
On their first, accidental meeting, George and Orry stand shoulder-to-shoulder when they fight a gang of roughnecks as the Yankee
and the Southerner are headed for the Point. Moving into a world strange to both of them, a permanent bond is established in spite of
the north-south gap between their backgrounds.
In South Carolina, a brutal but wealthy plantation owner named JUSTIN LaMOTTE (David Carradine) wants Madeline as his wife. She
dreams only of Orry, although her father, NICHOLAS FABRAY (Lee Bergere) is pushing her hard to make this "good match" with Justin.
At West Point, George and Orry deepen their friendship as Orry discovers how many people already resent him because he is
Southern. They also develop a mutual enemy in ELKANAH BENT (Phillip Casnoff), the cadet drill master who makes their lives
miserable. (Fortunately, the vicious Bent is the exception; the cadets around them include young George Pickett, Thomas (later
"Stonewall") Jackson, George McClellan and U.S. Grant.)
1844: George and Orry are on their first leave. Orry finds things changed on the plantation: a sadistic overseer named SALEM
JONES (Tony Frank) is running things, making life a series of beatings for SEMIRAMIS (Erica Gimpel), CUFFEY (Forest Whitaker),
PRIAM (David Harris) and the other slaves. Orry objects, but his father has come to rely on Jones.
Orry's personal life is also shattered beyond his worst fears when he learns that Madeline never received his letters because her
father tore them up - and that this woman he loves so deeply is reluctantly following her father's wishes and marrying Justin LaMotte. . .
whose harsh ways quickly include wife beating.
For Orry and Madeline, life seems to hold no promise.
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - Chapter ll {TUESDAY, NOV. 5; 9:00-11:00 p.m., EST)
1844: When George and Orry return to West Point they find Elkanah to be even more tormenting than ever, and when his sadistic
behavior finally gets him discharged from the Academy he blames the two friends, swearing that he will get even someday.
1846: George and Orry graduate into a world where the talk of Southern secession is
Common place, but there is a more immediate military danger to deal with: both are sent to Texas for the Mexican War. In Washington,
Elkanah Bent visits SENATOR EDWARDS (Gene Kelly), the man who fathered him illegitimately. Edwards is disgusted with his bastard
son, but he must protect his own reputation, and buys silence by arranging a direct commission for Bent as an officer in Texas.
As George and Orry's Commanding Officer in the Mexican War, Bent sends them on a suicide mission, which they survive as heroes,
but at the cost of a permanently disabling leg wound for Orry.
While Orry is in the hospital, George meets an Irish surgeon, PATRICK FLYNN (Robert Mitchum) and, more importantly, the surgeon's
daughter - the captivating CONSTANCE FLYNN (Wendy Kilbourne). Now George has a love of his own.
Orry, crippled, is going home to Mont Royal, where he must live with the lasting pain of separation from Madeline. George, in disgust,
resigns his commission and goes home to help his brother Stanley run the ironworks - but not before thrashing Elkanah Bent in a
fight.
Orry has turned against life, but when George comes to Mont Royal to ask him to come to his wedding to Constance, Orry agrees to
travel North.
Orry begins to meet secretly - and chastely - with the miserably unhappy Madeline, who does not dare to leave the husband she
loathes.
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - Chapter lll (WEDNESDAY, NOV.6; 9:00-11:00) p.m., EST)
The slavery question is causing an ever-greater strain between George and Orry, and even when Orry spares the life of his runaway
slave Priam, at George's request, he feels he is betraying his own people.
George's brother, Stanley, has married ISABEL (Wendy Fulton), a socialite who dreams of making her weak-willed husband rich and
powerful ... a dream which has a setback when Stanley's penny-pinching mismanagement leads to tragedy at the foundry. Their mother
then puts George in overall command of the business. lsabel cannot tolerate this, and begins her campaign to discredit George.
George's sister Virgilia is now a prominent figure in the Abolitionist Movement, and shares a platform with Negro leader FREDERICK
DOUGLASS (Robert Guillaume); her speech accuses all Southerners of running giant "black breeding farms" as the essence of slavery.
Orry and the Hazards are appalled at her extremism, but Congressman SAM GREENE (David Ogden Stiers) is interested . . . a little
in her ideas, mostly in her. He is a married man, and she is willing to share only her ideas. But he won't be so easy to get rid of.
Justin LaMotte, Madeline's husband, finds more reason all the time to abuse her; even her kindness to the slaves infuriates him.
Finally, at one of their secret meetings in the forest, Madeline and Orry make love, but still she cannot leave her husband.
At Mont Royal, Orry becomes head of the family when his father dies, and immediately fires the overseer, Salem Jones - making
another enemy.
Orry's sisters have become young women. BRETT (Genie Francis) is as gentle and lovely as she was as a child, and ASHTON (Terri
Garber) is even more wicked behind her gorgeous face, carrying disaster for any man she meets.
Young CHARLES MAIN (Lewis Smith), a poor relation, is accepted as fully part of the family when he acquits himself honorably in a
duel, with Orry's help. His only family problem is the over-eager attention of his man-hungry cousin Ashton - who particularly wants
anyone she can't have.
One man she can have is JAMES HUNTOON (Jim Metzler), a pompous and prissy young lawyer who is a coming political force in the
Secessionist Movement. She doesn't love him, but she's not above marrying for power.
1852: The talk of secession is more intense; South Carolina has already tried (and failed). The Main family visits the Hazards:
personal friendships are established but the visit ends disastrously, thanks to Virgilia's vicious anti-Southern prejudice.
Before the Mains go home, however, another deep bond is established: Charles Main and BILLY HAZARD (John Stockwell),
George's younger brother, will be starting West Point at the same time. Like Orry and George ten years earlier, the two will enter this
new world as lifetime friends.
Brett Main has also found a new tie to the Hazards - Billy is all she longs for in a man – except that Billy has fallen prey to Ashton's
greedy eyes.
Soon the Hazards will defy public opinion and travel South to visit the Mains. And Virgilia insists upon going along to rectify her
offensive behavior when the Mains were in the Hazard home.
(Even though the Main-Hazard association tiptoes through a minefield on the subject of slavery, George and Orry have fulfilled the
goal of working together: they have become partners in a cotton mill - no slave labor - that Orry established in South Carolina with
Hazard technology.)
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - chapter IV (THURSDAY, Nov.7; 9:00-11:00 p.m., EST)
While the Hazards are visiting the Mains at Mont Royal, Virgilia and GRADY (Georg Stanford Brown), coachman for James Huntoon,
become lovers; she helps the slave to escape and, later, they are married in the North.
Ashton Main also takes a lover - FORBES LaMOTTE (William Ostrander), a young man as harsh and conscienceless as his nephew
Justin (Madeline's husband). Unfortunately for Ashton, Billy Hazard - the prize she really wants - sees them together, realizes what she
is, and finally begins to appreciate her sister Brett, the gentle girl who has loved him all along.
Madeline, still living unhappily with Justin, learns a shocking secret from her dying father: her mother was a mulatto, her great-
grandmother, a slave - a secret known to only a few other people.
Madeline confesses to Orry her secret, and the fear that Justin will kill her if he finds out. Orry convinces Madeline to leave Justin
and flee North with him. They agree to depart in three days time.
At the west Point graduation of Billy Hazard and Charles Main: Ashton decides to “get even” with Billy by taking on as many of his
classmates in one night as time will allow. This encounter – which Charles discovers - leads to pregnancy.
Madeline doesn't like Ashton, but through her friends among the slaves she knows a woman who can perform abortions, and
reluctantly takes Ashton to the woman. Justin, believing that Madeline’s lie about where she was while she was with Ashton means that
she is seeing another man, locks her in her room' Orry is baffled when Madeline fails to make their rendezvous. Justin keeps Madeline
imprisoned, feeding her nothing but bread and water. and kills the loyal Maum Sally when she devotedly tries to free her.
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - chapter V (SATURDAY, Nov.9; 9:00-11:00 p.m., EST)
Justin begins giving Madeline laudanum disguised as “tonic” the drug saps her already failing strength and turns her into a ghostly
addict.
Ashton, having terminated her pregnancy, marries Huntoon, while still regularly sharing a bed - or a haystack passion, promises to
help her get revenge on Billy Hazard for drugged Madeline avoids him at the wedding. The upwardly-mobile secessionist James - with
Forbes LaMotte. (Forbes, in his rejecting her.) Orry is devastated when a drugged Madeline avoids him at the wedding.
Following a political rally in New Orleans, at which Huntoon has been rabble-rousing, Elkanah/ Bent is his guest at a popular New
Orleans bordello run by MADAM CONTI (Elizabeth Taylor). Bent spots a resemblance between Madeline - whom he has seen in
Huntoon's wedding photograph - and a haunting oil painting that hangs in Madam Conti's office. Conti innocently tells him the story of
the painting: that the woman portrayed was a mulatto prostitute who worked for her (Madeline's mother, LAURETTE) Bent now knows
that a "close friend" of his enemy, Orrin Main, is a "negress" – a weapon he may someday be able to use.
Orry comes North with Brett to bring George his share of the profits of their successful cotton mill. Virgilia is visiting at the same time,
and her heated confrontation with Orry leads to a terrible rift between Orry and George. Billy once again asks for Brett's hand and Orry
refuses.
Going home, Orry and Brett, - and, unbeknownst to them, Virgilia - are on the train which is stopped at Harper's Ferry by JOHN
BROWN (Johnny Cash) and his raiders. One of the raiders is Virgilia's husband, Grady; another is Priam, the slave Orry allowed to
escape several years before. Priam is now a "freed slave" who has found that "freedom" in the virtuous North for a black man is not the
same as "freedom" for a white man.
Grady and Priam are killed in a shoot-out with the Militia. and by the time Orry and Brett reach home John Brown has been hanged.
DEC. 1859. .. Virgilia is in an insane asylum in the aftermath of Harper's Ferry; Congressman Sam Greene, who still wants her,
arranges her release. She is functional, but Virgilia is as near madness as a sane person can be, consumed now with the though that
the entire South killed her husband.
AUGUST 1860. .. LINCOLN (Hal Holbrook) is running for President. Virgilia is backing the extremist Gerrit Smith against the
"moderate" Lincoln, who is seen as "too soft" on the South.
Orry is drinking heavily over his fight with George and his loss of Madeline. Brett gets word that Billy is to be transferred to Fort
Moultrie in Charleston and asks Orry to bless their wedding. When he drunkenly refuses, Brett flees Mont Royal and seeks refuge with
Ashton in Charleston.
On the eve of the election, Constance announces to George that she is at last pregnant. Billy arrives in Charleston. Huntoon leads a
passionate. Pro secessionist, anti-Lincoln rally.
"NORTH AND SOUTH" - Chapter Vl (SUNDAY, NOV. 10; 9:00-11:00) p.m., EST)
West Pointers are dropping out of the Academy to take sides in the conflict that appears inevitable. The demand for secession is
leading to huge street demonstrations in the South. During one of the demonstrations Ashton hires a thug to kill Billy and make it look
like mob violence. The attempt fails.
In Texas, the soldiers are fighting amongst themselves; Southerners are deserting. Even Charles resigns his commission in disgust
and heads home to be with his own people.
Billy Hazard, who will be stationed in Fort Sumter, near Charleston, tries to convince Brett to marry him without waiting for Orry's
permission. (Orry has always favored the match but, with the advent of war, he sees the difficulties in a marriage between a Southern
girl and a Yankee officer and fears for his sister's well-being. Finally, at George's urging, Orry relents - he knows what it means to be
kept away from someone you love.)
With the threat of war like a sword at their throats, Billy and Brett are married at Mont Royal . . .but Ashton is calling in Forbes
LaMotte's pledge: with Justin LaMotte's help, he will arrange a rigged "duel" with Billy that will allow him to "honorably" kill the man who
turned her down.
Even in her laudanum fog, Madeline hears and understands this plot, and - as she struggles to escape and warn the Mains - wounds
her husband with a sword. Charles, alerted by Madeline, breaks up the "duel" and Billy kills Forbes in a fight. Madeline takes
permanent refuge with Orry at Mont Royal.
In Pennsylvania, lsabel is pushing Stanley to use the Hazard military contracts for profiteering, while Elkanah Bent has found a
wealthy widow - BURDETTA HALLORAN (Morgan Fairchild) - to inance him in his own schemes to get rich from the coming war.
George and Constance, whose home has been a secret stop on the Underground Railroad for some time, are now the parents of a
baby girl.
1861 ... Orry, carrying a half-million dollars in cash, heads North to see George: it hurts to dissolve the partnership, but his honor
demands that he return George's money so that his friend, a Northerner, will not be forced to indirectly finance the Southern war effort
through the military materiel being produced by their co-owned mill. The visit also serves as reconciliation.
APRIL 12,1861 . . . War. Fort Sumter is fired on. Virgilia raises a mob to attack her brother's home because Orry is there. (George
faces them down and smuggles Orry out of town on a freight train.)
Orry will be in the South's new War Department. George will be on the Northern Army's General Staff.
And a chasm that will last for more than a hundred years has torn violently open in the land.
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