Esther Summerson is sent to live at Bleak House where she is welcomed by John Jarndyce.

Episode 1 Bleak House

Premiered October 27, 2005
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Episode 1

Young orphan Esther Summerson is brought to the High Court of Chancery, where she is thrown together with two wards of the court, Richard Carstone and Ada Clare. Together they are sent to live at Bleak House, where they receive a friendly welcome from their rich guardian John Jarndyce.

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Bleak House

Young orphan Esther Summerson is brought before London's High Court of Chancery with Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, wards of court who are caught up in the infamous and never-ending case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Meanwhile, Lady Dedlock finds her world turned upside down when her husband's lawyer Tulkinghorn gets wind of a dark secret in her past, and begins a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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