5x10 Mercy Shall Follow Me

Another great episode from this season!
Since I haven't started this book yet, I don't know what's going to happen. But seeing Jocasta almost get murdered just because she found out Bonnet's intention to get her money through his child - or at least this is what I think she thought. Thank Diana, or the writers, Ulysses was there to help her.
Another think that shocked me was Bonnet having sex with a whore in front of Bree. So out of nowhere. However, I was loving the way she was playing with him while reading Moby Dick and trying to get him fooled in order to be free from him.
And Claire is so damn lucky. No one in the brothel was willing to help them and then she noticed the one who saw and contact her daughter was in need of her help. Also, the scene where Bree is at the beach with Bonnet and with the other guy that tries to buy her, and Claire shouts Bree's name was so powerful. It gave time to Ian hit the guy, Roger got to Bonnet and Claire took her daughter in her arms.
The ending... awfully amazing! And rather quick, for Bonnet's death, in my opinion. When we found out that he's sentenced to be dead by drowning it was a shock. Another one. The the time passes and the water rises and rises, and people leave, and he doesn't die until Bree shot him dead. The question Roger asked was the one I had in my mind after she did that. And her silence as a response to him was loud. And clear.

The parts when Brianna was kidnapped and had to but the time were quite suspenseful, though for some reason the episode was not as emotional as it might have been taking into account its plot. Maybe it is because of having read spoilers, but I did not really feel much tension during the episode, since I knew that all will be well in the end and the Fraser family will kill Bonnet. I guess Brianna is motivated more by mercy as she does not want to kill Bonnet on the spot but rather wants him to have a fair trial, risking that he might escape again. As for Roger's question, I think she shot Bonnet for both of these reasons, because of mercy and to make sure he really died. Even though she may show mercy, Brianna knows Bonnet is a monster and a threat to other people, she does not want any other woman to suffer what she herself had been through. As for Bonnet's death, we know that he was afraid of drowning, so it is an appropriate punishment, but it seems a bit artificial since death penalty by drowning wasn't really a frequent thing? It would have been more ordinary to hang him instead.