There's a celebratory mood in Hunderby as Edmund announces the joyful news of Helene's pregnancy, meaning they'll no longer be leaving for Fiji. "We all believed my wife's womb to be no more than a useless dungeon but I should not have doubted my seed capable of climbing diligently these past months up Helene's fatted thighs. Hunderby is restored this day for my holy cargo does swell her tub."

But a baby may simply not be enough for Edmund as his feelings for Geoff escalate and soon become public knowledge. As Dorothy brands the shipwreck survivor a witch who has cursed the pastor, Brother Joseph blames the foreigner for his own unsavoury misdemeanours and forces Edmund to decide Geoff's punishment for casting his wicked spell on him. Meanwhile, Graham stagnates in a depressed stupor following the end of his relationship with Helene as Hestor keeps his locked up at home.