Ross is unable to help miners who are facing starvation because of a strike. Rowella blackmails Osborne.
Aunt Agatha's deathbed curse haunts George while Ross brings Dwight Enys and Hugh Armitage back to Cornwall.
Demelza discovers that Ross had a secret meeting with Elizabeth while fighting her own attraction to Hugh Armitage.
Ross decides not to stand for Parliament but George Warleggan decides to throw his hat into the ring.