Sharpe's Enemy (TV programme)

Sharpe's Enemy
Written by	Bernard Cornwell (novel) Eoghan Harris
Directed by	Tom Clegg
Starring	Sean Bean Daragh O'Malley Hugh Fraser Michael Byrne Pete Postlethwaite Assumpta Serna
Theme music composer	Dominic Muldowney John Tams
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Malcolm Craddock Muir Sutherland (exec.)
Release
Original release	1994
Chronology
Preceded by	Sharpe's Company
Followed by	Sharpe's Honour

Sharpe's Enemy is a British television drama, the fourth of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. This episode is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.

In 1813, a band of deserters, British, French, and others, led by Sharpe's nemesis Obadiah Hakeswill (Pete Postlethwaite) and a French renegade named Pot-au-Feu (Tony Haygarth), takes over a Portuguese village. Lady Isabella (Elizabeth Hurley), the wife of Sir Augustus Farthingdale (Jeremy Child), the English military envoy to Portugal, is taken captive. The brigands demand a ransom for her and for another lady taken earlier, Sarah (Helena Michell), the spouse of French Colonel Dubreton (François Guétary).

Sharpe delivers the money for Lady Isabella, while Dubreton does the same for his wife. Sarah mysteriously recites a verse of poetry. Hakeswill demands double the amount and gives each man five days to deliver the second installment. When Sharpe returns to camp, Wellington (Hugh Fraser), the British commander, decides that drastic action is required to discourage desertion before it can infect the rest of his army.

Sharpe also reports seeing a Major Ducos (Féodor Atkine), who accompanied Dubreton. This worries Major Nairn (Michael Byrne), the head of Wellington's military intelligence. He suspects that Ducos, his French counterpart, is scouting the route for a French invasion of Portugal. The village happens to be directly in the most likely path.

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