Brass: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Brass Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Rent Protest
May 21, 1984
As the Prince lays the new stone at the Cottage Hospital, McDuff drops trou, and Isobel and Charlotte arrive nude on Brass Beauty to protest the rent increase. Suddenly, the mortar
Inheritance
May 28, 1984
Charlotte inherits a large sum of money on her birthday. Jack refuses a deal with Austin. Guy tells Morris that Moscow wants him as a mole in the church while Agnes complains to Mc
Hallucinogen
Jun 4, 1984
McDuff decides SBD is a hallucinogen. Bradley pays Jack for his work on Big Tom and offers him the lease on the crutch works. Bradley goes to sack the infant schoolteacher but inst
Jack Loves Charlotte
Jun 11, 1984
Morris confronts Matt about his homosexuality, who doesn't deny it but claims celibacy. Jack declares his love for Charlotte but she rejects him, wishing he was Matt. Isobel procla
Is Bradley Insane?
Jun 18, 1984
Austin tells the family he thinks Bradley is insane. McDuff says that the cause of a raging epidemic raging is the convenience at the back of the munitions factory. Bradley gives P
Election
Jun 25, 1984
Bradley gets out of being certified and turns the tables on Austin. George, blackened but alive, returns home. Bradley decides to sort out Pugh and help Austin win the election, wi
By-Election
Jul 2, 1984
Austin hears Sodbury has died at the chiropodists, which means Pugh will go to the House of Lords and it will be a walkover for him at the by-election. Jack fails to dissuade Isobe
Jack's Proposal
Jul 9, 1984
Bradley tells Austin he is to marry Cynthia Dudcock. Bradley offers to send Man to Paris to paint, as long as he goes with Agnes, but Matt sees through it. Jack asks Charlotte to m
Inspector McDuff
Jul 23, 1984
Hardacre looks at Mountfast's body — Sergeant Pepper says a tramp will have done it. McDuff says his brother Inspector McDuff of the Yard is in the area. George tells Agnes of his
Marshall Snelgrove
Jul 30, 1984
Charlotte and Isobel visit Lady Patience in prison to inform her she's to have the finest defence lawyer. Job shows George and Agnes the official union vehicle: a tandem. Bradley r
The Trial
Aug 6, 1984
During round table discussions, Bradley tells George pithead baths will be installed in order to get workforce on strike. Lady Patience's trial takes place and she is called to the
Charlotte's Letter
Aug 13, 1984
Charlotte receives a solicitor's letter saying she'll inherit Mountfast's money. Bradley is informed by future Tory MP his earldom is no-go, so he decides to join the other side. I
Arms Sales Boost
Aug 20, 1984
Bradley and Jack rejoice in the arms sales boosted by the Spanish Civil War but Bradley feels a world war would be better. Charlotte is distraught having read that Matt's been kill