A chance encounter in the country raises intriguing questions for Esther and Lady Dedlock.

Episode 3 Bleak House

Premiered November 13, 2005
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Episode 3

A chance encounter in the country raises intriguing questions for Esther and Lady Dedlock. Tulkinghorn finally unearths the identity of the mysterious Nemo. While Gridley turns up on George's doorstep, on the run from the law and infected with the fever.

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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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