: Within the series itself, a "ball of paper" is used as a dramatic prop in Episode 2, where Sir Stuart Strange uses it to mockingly deliver a notice of termination to his manservant. Academic/Other References
What James finds is a city on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. The East India Company (the true villain of the piece) controls trade, the crown, and the courts. James inherits a seemingly worthless plot of land on the Canadian coast—Nootka Sound—but its worth is mythical. It holds gunpowder, or rather, the raw material for it. In the eyes of the Company, Nootka Sound is the key to global domination. taboo s1