David Troy and Vincent Minnucci cover each and every episode of The Terror in depth. Inspired by a true story, The Terror centers on the British Royal Navy's perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, The Terror highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements, but with each other.
In 1845, the Royal Navy set sail on the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror to complete a crossing of the Northwest Passage, trying to make it through a blanket of ice in the Arctic. However, misfortunes at sea, including a sailor falling gravely ill and an accident on deck, cripple the expedition 200 miles away, and the captains have to make a risky decision in order to continue their voyage.
Eight months after Captain Franklin first steered the Erebus and the Terror into thick ice, the ships are still stuck. When summer comes, he sends out lead parties to figure out which direction the ice has melted. The men who trekked east find nothing, while the men to the west travel into dangerous territory and accidentally shoot an Inuit man, thinking he was a bear, but something killed one of their own.
Opening Scene
The Triumverate
Captain Francis Crozier
Sir John Franklin
Commander James Fitzjames
Dr. Henry Goodsir
David
Dr. Stanley's bedside manner
David's vision
Calamities
Man Overboard
The Rudder is stuck
Going down below
Flashing back
Applause at the theatre
A fateful decision
Eight months later?
Sending Out Lead Parties
Trying to make amends with Crozier
Crozier's personal relationship with Franklin
Rum, Sodomy and perhaps the lash?
Sharing their heritage
Reindeer on a boat
The Lead Parties
The first two find nothing positive
The second comes across the power of the ice
Meeting the natives (and shooting them)
Something is out there
Treating the Inuit Man
A warning
Tuunbaq
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