The 'Miss Scarlet and the Duke' Season 2 Finale Puts Eliza's Life On the Line

Before anyone gets too excited about the fact that the name of the Miss Scarlet and the Duke Season 2 finale is "The Proposal," I regret to inform you all that while there are multiple proposals of various kinds throughout the episode of both a business and a personal variety, none of them is the one we all (read: me) want. Granted, I don't know whether anybody really would have been okay with a big heartfelt romantic declaration from either side of our central couple to close out this hour, if only because this season has had surprisingly little interest in Eliza and Wiliam's relationship, as such.

(This has been the case since the "we're better off as friends" conversation from the premiere, the aftershocks that indirectly lingered over the bulk of the season even when the show hasn't wanted to look too closely at what it means.)

Even though this finale deals not only with the prospect of The Duke leaving London for good and a murder plot targeting Eliza's life directly, not a whole lot changes between the pair by the end of the hour; there's a moment when we almost get something that might be an emotional confession of some sort. (Eliza was crying, y'all!) But the show neatly dodges the question of whatever she was going to say when she honestly thought William was leaving. Even our good old-fashioned lingering hand touch gets interrupted by Ivy.