'Miss Scarlet & The Duke' Season 1 Finale Recap: "The Case of Henry Scarlet"

Taking Miss Scarlet & The Duke as a holistic whole, the series' first season feels as if it could be properly divided into two parts. The first four episodes — the bulk of the season's story — was the struggle Eliza has in being at the forefront of women stepping into traditionally masculine spaces. It's an area where mysteries, mostly period set ones, especially female-fronted ones, rarely dwell. It's a difficult place to traverse, partly because 100 years on (in Eliza's case, 130 years on), there's a level where we don't want to remember just how ugly a struggle it was, and partly because we don't want to face how big a struggle it still is today.

Duke: If we wait, we will no doubt have a disagreement about something irrelevant, and we will have to postpone. Again.

But with the last two episodes, Miss Scarlet allows itself the luxury of letting the struggle lapse for a minute in favor of a two-part adventure where everyone stands on equal footing for a second, fighting the same battle together. It helps that, in this case, it's less of a one-off whodunit, like earlier installments, where the mystery was more singular. (Who is sending the ghostly photos, who killed the dead man in the parlor?) But counterfeiting tens of thousands of pounds (about £8m in today's money) isn't a one-person job. Moreover, it the kind of job that only happens if one has help on the inside.