Episode 2 opens with the final night aboard the QEII as she approaches the end of her latest voyage to New York. J.P. Morgan was an American tycoon who wanted to dominate all forms of passenger and cargo traffic. He already had monopolies with many shipping lines and railroads, but he wanted total control. To this end, he instituted a ruinous price war that had an unexpected result: the financial aid of the British government to build Cunard's Aquatania, Lusitania and Mauritania, among the most beautiful and speedy liners of the Golden Age of trans-Atlantic travel.