Sep

Trinity – Episode 1 – Synopsis and Promotional Photos

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On a bright Autumn day we first see Trinity college – red brick, classical and grand. On the steps of the college sits Charlotte Arc (Antonia Bernath), daughter of the recently deceased Richard. Also arriving for the start of term is Theo (Reggie Yates), a cool fresher, clearly feeling slightly out of place among the eccentric Trinitonians. Meanwhile the beautiful, but icy, Rosalind (Isabella Calthorpe) is visiting her cousin, Dorian (Christian Cooke) in his rooms. With little preamble the pair begin having passionate (and noisy) sex.

Worried about the lack of morals at the college, Charlotte’s mother gives her daughter Richard’s treasured bible and leaves. As Charlotte picks up the bible a photo falls out of her father at Trinity with another woman.

In the office of Professor Linus Cooper (Paul Hunter), the extremely twitchy academic is working on some complicated looking medical files when Maltravers (Charles Dance), the Dean, enters looking for him. In reference to the files Maltraver’s enquires after ‘Galahad’, clearly the subject of their research. According to Cooper he is not doing well and they need a new ‘hourglass’ to continue.

Charlotte introduces herself to Theo, and invites him for tea in her room with a few people. Theo finds himself in a room with four earnest, and quite dull, Christian students who tell him more about the Feast of Fools – how it is run by the Dandelion Club and will be a debauched and shocking evening. In the staff common room Maltravers welcomes Angela Doone (Claire Skinner), the new Warden of Trinity College, and introduces her to the Dons as the woman who will modernise Trinity. But later, when Dorian visits the Dean he warns him about the new modernist Warden; Maltravers informs Dorian that the Feast of Fools has been cancelled by order of the Warden; apparently picking two students from lower-class families to be the jesters for the year is no longer acceptable.

Theo meets a dizzy and vague new student, Maddy (Elen Rhys). Meanwhile Angus (Mark Wood) and Raj (Arnab Chanda), a pair of geeky students, meet, bond over a bong and discuss their main ambition at Trinity; losing their virginity.

As Charlotte works through the night in the lab on a project given to her by Maltravers, the lights suddenly cut out and she sees a shadowy figure in the doorway which looks terrifyingly like her father, Richard Arc. She flees the lab, distraught, and is found by Dorian who comforts her in the only way he knows how…