Vanity Fair 1x1 - Episode 1

Lowly teaching assistant Becky issues headmistress MissPinkerton with an ultimatum – pay her properly to teach ather Academy for Young Ladies or find her a station elsewhere.Miss Pinkerton calls Becky's bluff, and Becky is forced topack away her meagre possessions. Catching sight of kindlystockbroker's daughter Amelia Sedley, Becky dabs away hertears and laments her misfortune. Amelia takes pity on the poororphan and offers to take her home for the week. She hasnowhere else to go. Amelia's dreams are like any other girl's– she wants to be married and happy. But Becky wants to makesure tomorrow is better than today, and plans to seize theopportunity to better herself. Becky quickly makes herself athome at the Sedley house, where she targets Amelia's wealthybut oafish brother, Jos. With Amelia's enthusiastic help,Becky makes it her mission to charm Jos into proposing marriagebefore the week is out. Amelia persuades her snobbish fiancé,Lieutenant George Osborne, to take the whole party out for aromantic night at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens - the perfectchance for Becky to secure Jos's affections. George bringsalong his best friend Captain William Dobbin, who is secretlyin love with Amelia. At Vauxhall Becky hangs on Jos's everyword, willing him to propose to her. But Jos is much moreinterested in drinking rack punch and ends up making a drunkenfool of himself. When George ridicules his choice of animpoverished bride and scares Jos off, Becky knows exactly whoto blame for scuppering her plans.Becky must now leave theSedley house and take up her position as governess at a rundownold mansion in darkest Hampshire. Alone in the world again,Becky catches sight of Captain Rawdon Crawley, her newmaster's dashing youngest son.