: Walter arrives at the grand estate of the wealthy recluse Frederick Fairlie to teach his nieces, Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie .
: In 1859, young artist Walter Hartright is traveling to Cumberland to take a job as a drawing tutor. On a moonlit road, he encounters a distressed woman dressed entirely in white who pleads for help before vanishing. He later hears she has escaped from a lunatic asylum. The Woman in White : Season 1 Episode 1
The episode establishes a gothic atmosphere, utilizing to a later legal investigation that hints at a tragic outcome for Laura. : Walter arrives at the grand estate of