Your evil uncle sells you into slavery—meet your new bestie, a Scottish rogue with a price on his head.
Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestAlan, Davie and James prepare for a final confrontation with merciless Colonel MacNab.
15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, with them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.
Acting
Iain Glen's Breck—charm so thick you could spread it on toast.
Cinematography
Highlands so gorgeous you'll catch a cold just watching.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely on location in Scotland during actual miserable weather—actors reportedly loved and hated it.
Stevenson's novel invented the modern 'buddy road trip' structure; this adaptation leans hard into the queer-coded tension between Davie and Breck that scholars have debated for decades.
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