(EXPLOSION)
Someone just concisely recap everything I missed. (PANTS)
- KIT: What happened to them? - GRAYDON: Possession.
- (GASPS) - (HORSE WHINNIES)
BALLANTINE: Countless more will die.
But you can still save them.
All you have to do is submit.
KIT: Indestructible magic armor.
I can't believe I let you sucker me into something so ridiculous.
BOORMAN: You know, the Cuirass isn't a weapon.
- It's a shield. - KIT: Against what?
Darkness.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
WILLOW: A portal between dimensions is opening.
And when they reach it, Elora will be lost.
(GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(JADE WHIMPERS)
(YELLS)
Avagdu!
(SCREAMS)
ELORA: Graydon's hurt!
We have to get him to shelter!
WILLOW: Nockmaar.
(CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING)
(WILLOW GROANS)
Here, let me help you.
We can't go in.
Don't you see? This is what she wants.
We have to get Graydon inside or he'll die.
He's not the only one.
There's nothin' around here for leagues.
This fortress was the stronghold
of the most brutal tyrant of her age, Bavmorda.
Yeah. Or as Kit calls her, Grandma.
SORSHA: There's more.
It won't be easy to hear this, but you must.
Bavmorda's blood, her spirit, survived.
In me, in your brother, and in you.
(SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING)
Sorry about this, pal.
What do you think she used these for?
Bavmorda knew how to romp.
Legendary parties.
Three, four days in a row.
All kinds of weird shit.
How do I look?
Like a vermathrax at a vestal faire.
- What? - I was...
BOORMAN: No, it was a really good joke.
- Next time leave the levity to me. - (COUGHS, RETCHES)
What happened to Ballantine and Merrick is gonna happen to me.
And you guys are gonna have to stop me before I...
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
What?
What was Ballantine gonna do to me?
What Bavmorda started when you were a baby.
The Ritual of the Thirteenth Night.
Banishing your soul to a realm of perpetual suffering.
Only the combined strength of Willow and Raziel,
the two most powerful sorcerers of all time, was able to stop it.
In the end, using the Fibonacci Hex, if I'm not mistaken, right?
Hmm.
Willow obliterated Bavmorda,
rescued Elora Danan, you,
and saved the world.
Wow.
Then what'd you do?
We all went out and got pissed.
(RETCHING)
And that thing that you did at The Slaughtered Lamb, could you...
Blast his insides out?
A few moments of the most excruciating pain ever endured,
promptly followed by death.
All right, well, could've just said no.
This is all your fault.
BOORMAN: Sorry, how'd you figure that?
Well... (SIGHS)
You sent us on a wild goose chase to find some stupid artifact.
And it doesn't even exist.
We're trapped in some cursed castle, and Airk is still half a world...
Right, Airk, your brother.
And meanwhile, your fiancé, Grayoncé there,
is being ravaged by a 300-year-old demon.
Come on, man.
- Don't say ravaged. - Sorry, bud.
(GRAYDON COUGHING)
(GRAYDON CONTINUES COUGHING)
(COUGHS, GROANS SOFTLY)
How long does he have?
Before it takes hold?
Not long.
Sometime in the small hours of the night, he'll lose control.
(SIGHS)
I mean, we all know it has to be done.
What was the last thing that Ballantine asked you to do?
Kill him.
He's the prince of Galladoorn, Kit, we'd be at war.
Hastur knew.
Right? We all knew that he never should've come.
And if I have to decide between saving Airk
and waiting for Graydon to turn into some kinda monster...
Hey, you should put that in your wedding vows.
Kit's right.
I've had some experience with this before
and I know I'm not strong enough to stop it.
I don't wanna hurt you guys.
But I will.
If Her Highness is in such a hurry to see it done,
she ought to do it herself.
Oh, you don't think I will?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Uh, I don't.
Killin' someone who isn't tryin' to kill you back,
it's not an easy thing to do.
ELORA: (SHUDDERS) Please.
You're the greatest sorcerer alive.
You obliterated Bavmorda.
I mean, there must be something you can do.
When she was young, your age,
Bavmorda was bright, curious, full of promise.
She was abducted by members of a secret long-forgotten sect,
The Order of the Wyrm.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
The Crone radicalized her,
converting her with their warped beliefs, and gifting her with unnatural powers.
What kind of powers?
Well, for example,
she once changed the entire Galladoorn army into pigs.
Raziel and I, eventually, changed them all back.
It was chaos, pigs everywhere.
(CHEWING) Sorry, all of them?
Huh?
You... You turned all of the pigs back into people?
Think so.
(CLEARS THROAT)
The point is, the Order of the Wyrm practiced taboo magic, against nature.
If a rite exists that can extract that kind of evil,
I think I know where we'd find it.
The Malatrium.
Bound in the skin of a satyr.
Gross.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Here, The Purgation of Namshub.
Hey, that's my favorite purgation.
It's a ritual of throwing, of casting out.
But, it's complicated and dangerous, and I'm not yet back to my full strength.
I couldn't even say the seed spell.
No. (SIGHS) Okay.
What do you want me to do?
Call it an introduction to alchemy.
We're gonna make a salve.
Very potent.
A precise mixture of herbs, tonics, and tinctures,
applied at the proper time while the purgation is read aloud
and his fluids drained.
What kind of fluids are we draining?
Blood, pus, discharge from...
On second thought, surprise me.
Go to the armory, fetch me a dagger with an ivory handle and selenium blade.
(GRAYDON COUGHS)
(COUGHING)
The Crone knows we're here.
She'll send her Gales to ensure the ritual is completed.
We'll need to keep watch.
I can do that.
We can't allow Graydon's infection to pass to any of us.
If it does, we won't get out of here alive.
How contagious are you talking, like if he coughs on us?
Or if I touch him and then I, you know, touch my face or...
The vermiscus goo.
Don't sniff it, don't wipe it, don't eat it.
Why would we eat it?
Wait!
There's one thing even more important than that.
No matter what, stay out of the High Tower.
It's maybe, probably a portal to the Netherworld.
(THUNDERCLAP)
Okay, don't touch the evil goo, stay out of the High Tower.
Everybody got that?
I'm feelin' really energized and optimistic about this exorcism.
Hey, I know you're hurting
but you can't keep punishing yourself
- for doing what you had to. - (SCOFFS)
I know what he meant to you, and how hard it was to, you know...
Kill him?
Yeah.
Kit, Boorman's right.
It's not something that you can understand until you do it.
I hope you never have to.
All I remember about bein' a kid is mucking stables,
and mendin' bridles and bits.
And I was grateful, grateful to Sorsha for giving me a home.
But when Ballantine took an interest, he gave me something that I'd never had,
a way to use my anger, to channel it into becoming something.
(SIGHS)
He gave me his sword and I killed him with it.
I know. I...
(SNIFFLES) I'm goin' to the battlements to keep watch.
I'll come with you.
Just help Willow and Elora gather what they need.
(SIGHS)
Sorry.
(SNIFFS)
(SLURPING)
Ah.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER)
Oh, hello, lovely.
What treasures are you hiding?
- (BURPS) - (BOTTLE SHATTERS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
WOMAN 1: Yeah.
(WOMEN LAUGHING)
WOMAN 1: Boorman.
WOMAN 2: Come to us.
(GRAYDON COUGHING)
Is there anything that we can give him for the pain?
No.
Oh, okay then.
I found everything except for essence of nightshade.
(THUDS)
We can't leave out ingredients.
Mix it wrong, we could blow up the whole castle.
- (SIGHS) - Brined possum bladder.
Red-throated possums eat nothing but nightshade.
Cook down its spleen and voilà, essence of.
Is that what you put in your muffins?
- Among other things. - (GRAYDON BREATHING HEAVILY)
Can you just go and check if they have any?
You think that's something people just have in their cupboards?
(GRAYDON COUGHING AND GROANING)
Worth a shot, right?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey, hey, hey! Come on! - Relax.
- (SHUDDERS) Is that part of... - GRAYDON: No.
I was sick, when I was a kid.
With what?
GRAYDON: I don't know, exactly.
Just something bad. (GROANS)
I'm not supposed to talk about it.
(GROANING) It's shameful.
- No, it isn't. - Yes, it is.
It just means you're resilient, is all.
We're gonna fix you right up.
But this might hurt a little. (CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
Or a lot.
(SCREAMING)
(KIT INHALES SHARPLY, CLICKS TONGUE)
Nope.
(SIGHS) Yeah.
"Go ahead, Kit.
"Fetch me some brined possum bladder, and some pixie dust
"so I can sprinkle it on my bum
"and make my gentle wind smell like cinnamon."
Hi.
Hello.
What are you doing here?
You didn't find any eel jelly or nymph butter, did you?
(CLICKS TONGUE) Um, aren't you supposed to be watchin' out for the Gales?
I am. I was. I... (CLEARS THROAT)
There's this door that I've found
and it looks like a great spot for watching.
Boorman, are you plundering my dead grandma's castle?
No, of course not! (SCOFFS)
I don't care if you are.
Oh. Okay, in that case, 100% yes.
Everyone thinks this place is cursed.
Do you know how rare it is
to find an abandoned castle that hasn't been sacked?
Guess not.
I can't open the treasure vault,
which is very frustrating...
Thank you. (CLEARS THROAT)
What are you lookin' for?
Brined possum bladder.
Ah.
- You can never find it when you need it. - (CHUCKLES)
How's the, uh, purgation going?
(SIGHS) It's not gonna work.
And if this ritual doesn't kill him, I'll have to.
Uh-huh.
What?
Nothing,
I just think Bavmorda would be very proud of her granddaughter right now.
(CHUCKLES) Oh, my God.
And she'll never let me forget it.
- WILLOW: Gashog ba-sog tarong amach! - (GRAYDON GRUNTING)
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
Elora.
This won't work if you don't say it with me.
Okay. (BREATHES HEAVILY)
BOTH: Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
- Amach. - Amach?
Hard "K" sound.
Amach?
Perfect.
(GROANS)
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
(GRAYDON GROANING)
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
HASTUR: Look at me. Look at me, boy.
- What? No. You're not here. - HASTUR: You're such a failure.
GRAYDON: You're not real.
What did I tell you?
Give Galladoorn an heir with a claim to Tir Asleen.
Redeem yourself for what you stole from me.
It wasn't me!
- DERMOT: It's okay. - (PANTING)
You can do this.
And I'll catch you if you fall.
GRAYDON: Why are you torturing me?
(SCREAMING)
- What's happening to him? - WILLOW: Keep stirring!
Damn it, where's Kit?
(SCREAMS ECHO)
(VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
(INDISTINCT CHANTING)
THE CRONE: Do you renounce your name, your family?
YOUNG BAVMORDA: I do.
THE CRONE: Will you embrace the light of the Eternal One?
Pledge your life to our endeavor,
that we might deliver this world from suffering,
into his warm embrace?
YOUNG BAVMORDA: I will.
THE CRONE: The Blood of the Six runs in your veins.
You shall be his harbinger.
- Primal Priestess of the Wyrm, - (JAR SHATTERS)
Queen Bavmorda.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
KIT: Ugh.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(BOORMAN LAUGHING) Door, you won't defeat me. I...
Hey, you think spoiled wine can make you...
What?
I'm tryin' to get this damn treasure vault open, and it's killing me.
I really need to know what's in there.
What if it's something really good like
a giant golden statue of an eagle fighting a horse?
You see anything?
No.
Kit's right, you know?
One of us is gonna have to kill him.
Probably.
And it's gonna have to be either you or me.
Yeah.
Ugh! All I ever wanted to be was a knight, to serve.
So far, I hate it.
(SIGHS)
You know, when my partner died,
I spent a lot of time running from myself,
till I realized the only person I'll never get away from is me.
How'd you live with it?
You set your eyes on what you want, you go for it, and you don't look back.
And I think Ballantine would've said the same.
- (SOBBING) - All right, that's... (CLEARS THROAT)
Everyone deserves one good cry per quest.
(KIT GAGS) Ugh.
Look, if you're gonna get grossed out, or faint, or something,
can you just take a few steps back, please?
Amateur.
(GRAYDON COUGHS)
Elora, quickly.
Good.
Ugh! That is foul.
It's not honeysuckle, but I think that means it's ready.
Maybe he won't even feel it.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
ELORA AND WILLOW: Yug shoggog yug sugloth...
Yug shoggog el katuth...
(DISTORTED VOICE) Give me some water, peck.
Or you die.
Understand? Water.
Elora, water.
Hurry up!
(COUGHS)
(IN AIRK'S VOICE) Is somebody there?
Can anyone hear me?
If you can, please, talk to me.
Airk?
ELORA: Airk! We hear you.
Dove?
Is that you?
Where are you?
I'm in a cell, I think.
It's dark and hot.
- I'm alone. I'm scared. - We're coming for you.
- It's not Airk. It's the Lich. - GRAYDON: Please, help.
- He's trying to break our concentration. - No.
Don't let him.
- GRAYDON: Please! - I can't be here.
Listen to me. We have to carry on.
Yug shoggog yug sugloth, yug shoggog el katuth.
Meetach harren, meetach huul...
(IN MIMS' VOICE) You shouldn't be doing this, Dada.
You know how it ends, you can't change it.
You can't protect her.
- Shut up! - Tell her the truth.
- Tell her everything or I will. - Shut up, I say! Shut up!
(GRAYDON GRUNTS)
BOTH: Meetach harren, meetach huul.
- What does that mean? - Focus!
Is there something that you're not telling me?
- It doesn't matter! - What happened to your village?
Listen, if you can't be of any use, leave!
Now, go!
Try to relax.
(GRAYDON SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)
(SCREAMS) Fiddlesticks!
I hate you, door!
I'm sorry. I'm fine. We're fine. (EXHALES)
WOMAN: (WHISPERING) Boorman...
Boorman...
You can make this right.
She took the Lux.
Boorman...
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Those hellions.
(GRAYDON SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)
ELORA: Oh.
Why are you out here?
I needed some air.
It was my choice. Is that okay with you?
Yeah. It's fine.
(GRAYDON SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)
(WILLOW CHANTING INDISTINCTLY)
(SIGHS)
I met these two...
woodcutters when I escaped from Ballantine.
They were eating lunch outside of their cottage.
If only I'd kept going, they'd still be alive.
You were right.
It was stupid to think I...
(BREATHING DEEPLY)
I can't save anybody.
(SIGHS)
Listen, uh, when...
When they took you from the campsite...
(WOMAN CRYING)
KIT: ...we all spread out to go look for you.
Do you hear that?
(GRAYDON SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)
What, Graydon being reamed?
Look, I'm tryin' to tell you something right now, can you...
(WOMAN SOBBING)
No.
That voice.
I know it.
I've heard it before.
Wait. Wait, I'll come with you.
I cannot lose you a third time.
(SIGHS)
Oh, Willow's gonna be pissed.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
WOMAN: Jade, run!
Run!
JADE: Mother?
(SWORD UNSHEATHING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(SHUDDERS)
(EVIL LAUGHTER)
(BOTH GRUNTING)
GENERAL KAEL: Now, you die! (GRUNTS)
Die!
No mercy!
- (GENERAL KAEL SCREAMING AND GRUNTING) - (DOOR THUDS)
(GRUNTS)
GENERAL KAEL: Die!
(VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
(WOMAN SOBBING)
GUARD: Stand aside for Queen Bavmorda.
ELORA'S MOTHER: You cannot stop the prophecy!
BAVMORDA: This child will have no power over me.
- Start the ritual. - ELORA'S MOTHER: (CRIES) No!
Your reign of terror is at an end!
She will come back and she will finish you!
- GUARD: Silence, wench. - ELORA'S MOTHER: My baby will finish you!
Kill her.
(ELORA'S MOTHER SOBBING)
No!
Mother?
(SOBS, SIGHS)
She's here.
I feel her.
I see her!
Oh, she's grown up, fierce and resilient.
She is the beacon of light in a time of dread. (SOBS)
No!
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(BOTH SCREAMING AND GRUNTING)
Sweet mercy! I thought you were...
JADE: How did you get in here?
Through the door?
What?
I just spent the last half an hour barricading the door!
There's definitely something very wrong with this castle.
Right?
God, the spiral staircase just tried to eat me.
I feel like we'd be better off in the storm.
All due respect, Your Majesty,
but no shit.
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
KIT: What?
- (BANGING ON DOOR) - (JADE PANTING)
- KIT: (IN DEEPER VOICE) Who is it? - We have swords!
And crossbows and spiked flails with poison.
BOORMAN: Oh, wow. Okay, I surrender. Now let me in.
How do we know it's you?
BOORMAN: Oh, I don't know, my fiery aroma, my sweet singing voice. Take your pick.
Tell us something only the real Boorman would know.
Okay, you two have totally got the hots for each other.
- We don't. - Yeah, at all.
(BOORMAN GRUNTS)
- Where is it? - Oh! Hey!
You were the only one in the catacombs with me,
- only you could've guessed I had it. - Had what?
The Lux Arcana.
You have no idea what it means to me and what I would do to get it back.
Please remove your grubby hands from my Princess.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Uh, let's start over.
What happened? Where's Willow?
Gone. And we're in big trouble.
The ritual, it worked, sorta.
He was able to draw the poison out of me but,
it got into him and now he's the Lich and I'm, well...
You get my point.
Sorry, do you mind helping me with this? I just... Thank you.
You're okay.
- Yeah. - (SIGHS)
But Willow's not. So come on, we have to find him.
Thank you, by the way, for saving my life.
- GRAYDON: Willow! - Willow!
Willow!
(PANTING) Where could he be?
Just wait, let me...
We can figure this out.
We have to think like he would.
Not Willow, the Lich. Where would he go?
The High Tower!
The Ritual of the Thirteenth Night, a doorway between two worlds. Yes!
- I'll go. It's not safe for you. - No.
Willow saved my life, it's my turn to save his.
How do you know where to go?
I was born here.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(CLICKS TONGUE) Okay, it's very possible
that I might have overreacted a little bit. (CLEARS THROAT)
So I formally apologize. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
But, if you'll give me back my Lux, I'll be on my way.
You said you didn't find it.
Yes, well, I may have lied about that.
Which is irrelevant, because you liars
are the only two people I've been intimately close to since I had it.
- When were you intimately close with him? - When were you?
Uh... (SIGHS)
It's Nockmaar tryin' to get in our heads and pin us against each other.
What's a Lux?
Why does it mean so much to you, that you're ready to turn on us?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Look. The tower.
Seriously?
You have such a low opinion of us.
You really think we're gonna fall for that old chestnut?
No, no, no, he's right.
There's someone up there.
- JADE: Another trick? - KIT: Maybe.
Elora?
ELORA: He's not here.
No.
I don't understand, where could he be?
I don't know, but maybe it's okay.
What do you mean okay?
We have to find him before it's too late.
Don't you see?
It doesn't matter.
(IN DISTORTED VOICE) He can't help you anymore.
Oh, shit!
- (THUDS) - (PANTING)
We're gonna finish the ritual.
Tonight.
(CHANTING)
ELORA: I know you're in there, Gray.
And I know some part of you can hear me.
I've never felt stronger.
You've looked better.
(GRUNTS)
This is what you want, right?
Confidence, strength? I can have that.
Clearly, but that's not what I want.
It's what Airk has.
But it's not why I love him.
What did I say was the number one most important safety rule?
"No matter what, stay out of the High Tower."
- You are the worst apprentice ever! - (GRUNTS)
- Willow! - (GASPS)
(BABY CRIES)
(COOS)
- So tiny and helpless. - (GRUNTS)
Yet you survived, when Bavmorda, the most powerful of sorceresses, fell.
- (ELORA GRUNTS) - GRAYDON: Don't you wanna know why?
(IN DISTORTED VOICE) Black fires forever kindled within.
- Let the second rite begin. - BAVMORDA: Let the second rite begin.
I know why.
Willow defeated her using the...
The Fiberatchi Obliteration or something.
And now he's gonna use it to kick your ass.
(IN DISTORTED VOICE) Is he though?
Do you wanna tell her or should I?
Don't listen to it, Elora.
(VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
You stupid hag!
With my magic, I'll send her into the... Into a...
(LAUGHS) You're no sorcerer.
Into a realm where evil cannot touch her!
Impossible! There's no such place!
WLLOW: Helgafel swath ben helgafel.
Helgafel!
(GASPS)
You!
(THUNDERCLAP)
(BAVMORDA SCREAMING)
GRAYDON: Willow didn't defeat Bavmorda.
She was thwarted by her own carelessness.
(GASPS)
(BONES CRACK)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
GRAYDON: So tell me.
How will you defeat us?
Same as last time.
With my friends.
KIT: Willow, catch!
- Furrock! - (GASPS)
(GROANS)
- (ELORA GRUNTS) - (GROANS)
Get the hell out of Graydon!
- (SNARLING) - (WILLOW SCREAMING)
- (GRAYDON LAUGHS MANIACALLY) - WILLOW: (GRUNTS) Get off!
- (BOORMAN GRUNTS) - (BABY CRIES)
(GRUNTS) We have to.
It's time.
- (GRUNTS) - Just wait!
Wait!
- (BOORMAN GRUNTING) - (BABY CRYING)
She needs her mother.
You can't help her.
But you can help Graydon.
You can still save him.
I can't. I tried. I... I don't have the...
You grew the eckleberry bush! (BREATHING HEAVILY)
The seed charm.
It worked.
I saw it in the woods.
It was...
It was beautiful. (SIGHS)
So I'm gonna need you to get your shit together
and use whatever it is you've got to save Graydon.
'Cause if you don't, you're gonna regret it,
for the rest of your life.
- I don't know how. - Yes, you do.
Just throw out the recipe.
Damn it, Elora! Don't you dare! (GRUNTS)
Get off!
(GRUNTS)
YOUNG GRAYDON: I'm not like you.
I couldn't even load the crossbow that he gave me.
DERMOT: You're smarter than I'll ever be.
Riding and fighting doesn't make a good ruler.
Wisdom does.
Come on, Graydon.
You can do this, and I'll catch you if you fall.
(GROWLS)
(DERMOT SCREAMS)
(SIGHS)
Never doubted you for a second.
(GROANS SOFTLY) Ah.
GRAYDON: Ow.
Why does my face feel on fire?
BOORMAN: That's completely normal. Don't worry about it.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(CHUCKLES)
Hey, you know what, I'm gonna miss this place.
Say what you want about the service, but I think it's got personality.
What is the Blood of the Six?
In the beginning, in the Grove,
six fays betrayed the Mothers to serve the dark power.
That line continued through the ages, strong magic but corrupt.
The Blood of the Six.
So Bavmorda, she was the Blood of the Six.
Which means so am I.
And so is Airk.
Mmm. We have to reach the Immemorial City before she corrupts him.
KIT: Yeah, that's on the far side of the world.
Is that even possible? (SIGHS)
She saved Graydon.
Anything's possible.
We're finally making progress.
You may make a sorceress yet.
(SNARLING)
(GROWLS)
THE CRONE: Take the girl.
Kill the others.
(GASPS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
AIRK: Is somebody there?
(PIANO BALLAD PLAYING)
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS, COUGHS)
(HOARSELY) Hello?
Anybody?
Is anybody out there?