The Outpost (2018–…): Season 3, Episode 3 - A Life for a Life - full transcript

MISTRESS (VO):
Previously on The Outpost...

- For the Queen.
- KEZZUN GROANS

This man murdered Kezzun.

He was defending the Queen.

Captain Garret Spears

you are sentenced to death by drowning.

GARRET COUGHS

Talon passed you a sleeping death elixir
when she kissed you.

- How could you know my father?
- I knew him in the Plane of Ashes.

You must go to Aegisford.
Raise an army.

The only thing that matters now
is finding the lost kinj.



This is what will free us all.

YAVALLA LAUGHS

Incredible.

Where does it lead?

Maybe the ancient Blackblood city.

It looks bottomless.

Don't!

TORCH CLATTERS

Not bottomless.

TALON:
What's that?

It's Wren's box.
It had the map that led us here.

I've seen it before.

Wren, Zed, come. It's time to go.

No, Zed can't go.
Who's going to keep the Blackfist in order?



Barely keeping it together as is.

If we succeed,
none of that will matter.

No, no, she's right. I should stay.

We also need Janzo.

He is a human.
This is not his concern.

It's alright. I don't have to go.

It's really no problem.
I can just stay right here.

Janzo has a different kind of
special way of seeing things.

He might be the difference between
finding what you're looking for or not.

- Really?
- Don't let it get to your head.

I'm still smarter.

I doubt he knows anything that you do not

but if you think he can help us,
you may bring him. Come.

No, Janzo's not going down there
without me.

The smith was hiding this for a reason.

Perhaps you were meant to help me.

When we find the kinj,
we shall each have a share of the glory.

Wren, come.

Just what Talon and I always wanted.

Tell Gwynn everything.

She has to know
where we're going and why.

- Give me your word.
- You have my word.

They found the entrance
to a vault under the Outpost.

Talon and Janzo have gone down
with Yavalla.

What kind of vault?

Wren thinks it might contain the kinj
we've been searching for

the one Yavalla says
will make peace between us.

Well, I hope they succeed

- although true peace won't come from a kinj.
- Oh, I see.

So does true peace come from starting a war?

What are you talking about?

Where is Baron Aegisford?

How would I know?

I'm always locked up in my room.

Except for the night you left
and got your friend killed

and a Blackblood executed.

He was executed
because he was a detestable maggot.

You were out that night
scheming with Tobin Aegisford.

That's not true.

And now he's missing.

The one man who could return
with an army.

And did you really think that we wouldn't
notice he was suddenly gone?

How did he escape?

How do you know he's not dead in a ditch
somewhere at the hands of your Blackfist?

So you're not going to tell me?

Have it your way.

LU-QIRI GROWLS

Vikka...
HE SPEAKS BLACKBLOOD

HE SPEAKS BLACKBLOOD

LU-QIRI GROWLS

Bring him back, please.

Lock her away in complete isolation.

Oh, and no more visits from her handmaiden.

This is not what we agreed, Zed!

I may say the same to you.

GWYNN:
Zed!

TALON:
Janzo?

HE YELPS

- Janzo.
- Hmm?

If we put these keys into those locks,
is that a good idea or a bad idea?

Yindrian pictograms,
and this is the one for "hourglass".

So we're supposed to find the hole
with the corresponding symbol.

I don't know,
Talon's asking all the right questions.

It all seems a bit too easy.

WREN:
Here's a match for this one.

JANZO:
Wait!

In Yindrian, a full hourglass means
"the beginning".

Whereas an empty hourglass
represents the end.

Yindrians were masters at puzzles.

They were also masters
at ingenious traps and murder devices

so, we have to be very careful
or we all die.

Mine has a triangle.

Triangle's a Yindrian symbol for fire.

Oh, and mine's a skull.

And a skull is the Yindrian symbol for,
um, sacrifice.

Fire and sacrifice?

Pretty foreboding symbols,
don't you think?

It's ashes.
We're standing in a pile of ashes!

- Janzo?
- Hmm?

- No, no, no!
- No!

STONE RUMBLES

THEY GASP

We're in an oven.
We're gonna be cooked alive!

MUNT SINGS:
♪ You drape her in pearls ♪

♪ But don't change the fact ♪

♪ The girl that Tobin loves ♪

♪ Has a hump on her back ♪

♪ Hump on her back ♪

♪ Hump on her back ♪

♪ The girl of my dreams
has a hump on her back ♪

♪ Drape her in pearls ♪

♪ But that don't change the fact ♪

♪ The girl that I love
has a hump on her back... ♪

TOBIN:
Ah, you got anything to smoke?

- No, no.
- Just one...

No, no, no. This is Mum's pipe.

I don't smoke it.
I just like carrying it around.

I'm going to give it to Auntie Gertie
when I tell her the bad news about Mum.

I figure she'd want to have something
to remember her sister by.

I'm sure Gertrusha
will appreciate the gesture.

Yeah.

Sometimes I think,
what would Mum have me do here?

Sometimes I do it.

Sometimes I don't, cos...

Because you can't just go around
killing people.

Well, I know she'd be proud of you, Munt.

You're a real war hero, Munt.

You probably killed two dozen Prime Order
soldiers with that hammer of yours.

Tobin...

if I'm a hero

how come I couldn't save Mum?

Oh.

You can't save everyone, my friend.

But you saved a lot that day. A lot.

♪ Hump on her back ♪

THEY SING:
♪ A hump on her back ♪

♪ The girl of my dreams
has a hump on her back ♪

TOBIN:
Do you have any other songs?

MUNT:
Yeah, we got...

LU-QIRI GROWLS

WREN GASPS

I know you're all thinking really hard
right now but it's getting hot in here.

Hurry! Use the keys.

YAVALLA:
Thank the gods! A door!

TALON:
The door's stuck!

Maybe if we keep using the keys,
it will open the door even more.

Or close them.

Talon, over there.

Yes! Hurry. Use the last key.

It's a skull. There are no skulls!

Wren, if the human will not find it,
take the key.

She won't find it either
because there isn't one!

Just accept it. We're done!

What did you say the symbol
of the skull means?

- Sacrifice.
- WREN: Sacrifices...

- WREN: No, no, no!
- HE SCREAMS

YAVALLA:
Wren!

TALON:
Janzo!

Why would you be so stupid?

It had to be a sacrifice.

MUNT GROANS
- TOBIN: Come on, Munt, stop.

- Be quiet.
- I'm always hungry.

I never could find enough to eat.

One time, Mum locked me into the cellar
for three days with no food.

- I ate my own shoe!
- That sounds like Gertrusha.

She'd lock me in a closet
without dinner if I misbehaved.

MUNT CHUCKLES
Auntie Gertie.

Well, they were sisters.

Family is always alike.

Though me and Janzo are brothers.

We're nothing alike.

That's the difference
between brothers and sisters.

You're gonna need to keep it down
if we're ever gonna find food, Munt.

Sorry, sorry.

DISTANT SQUEAL
- I talk a lot when I'm hungry.

TOBIN:
We may have run into some luck.

Right, so I've never hunted wild boar
with a sword and a hammer before

but the concept should be the same.

One gives chase and drives the animal
into the other's clutches.

- I'll give chase, you be the clutches!
- Munt! Munt!

BOAR SQUEALS
- You idiot.

STONE RUMBLES

- No, no, no, no!
- No, Wren!

TALON GRUNTS

JANZO: You brought jade-lily salve?
It's worth a fortune.

- Yeah, I stole it from you.
- Huh?

Thought it might come in handy.
Someone was bound to get hurt.

I've been saving that for years.

Never thought it would end up on me.

WREN:
What you did was brave.

Stupid... but brave.

Ah!

You know humans don't heal
as well as Blackbloods.

Even with this, your arm may never heal.

Any longer and we would've all been
unconscious and cooked alive.

He did the right thing.

Just like Janzo always does.

There does not seem to be
another way out.

And these... people

they did not die well.

All this writing...

it is just a history of the Yindrian elders.

Yindrian.

Is that the language the smith's books
were written in?

Hm. You remembered, yes.

Yindria was a human civilisation.

They lived alongside Blackbloods
centuries ago.

No handles, no levers.

Just the door we came in by.

It's a complete dead end.

Bad choice of words.

There has to be another hidden door
here somewhere.

Three of us can read Yindrian.

Let's split up and start reading for clues.

Great. I'll, just, uh...
stand here and be useless.

Guards?

Please inform Zed
that I wish to speak with him.

A casual meeting. It'll require tea.

How did my father die?

A painful disease.

Fortunately, he went fast.

Is that when you took
the box from him?

You recognised the meld box
from your childhood?

Yes. Something about that box
terrified me even as a child.

My father took it with him when he left,
didn't he?

Yes. And I did not take it from him.

He gave it to me, Talon.

He passed it to me because he trusted me.

He knew that, in that box,
lay the salvation of our people.

He could not have imagined
that you would be the one

to help me achieve that goal.

Maybe if he didn't abandon his family,
he would be here to see it.

Why did he leave us?

I tell you this,
it was not for a better life.

He lived alone, he died alone.

An outcast.

He got what he deserved.

Why would my mother lie to me?

I do not know the answer to that.

But Talon, without Sai-vek Redwan

none of this would be possible.

I am sorry if I have opened old wounds.

That was not my intention
when I mentioned your father.

He's such a coward.

He should've stayed and actually
protected his family

instead of hiding in another world.

If there's a message in here,
I'm not seeing it.

It's all just, uh, genealogies,
proceedings of councils

some old records.

Well, maybe there's a code
or hidden pattern...

What's this word?
I'm not familiar with this one.

More here.

- Erection?
- What?

I think it means "erection".

"The erection of the citadel
was halted during the flood years."

Right. Thank you.

Makes more sense in correct context.

- Are you alright?
- Mm-hmm.

Is it your arm? You seem feverish.
I can hear your heart pounding.

No, no. Eyes on the wall, please.
Let's keep reading.

SHE SIGHS
I'm sorry I stole your lab.

You must have thought I was such a hag.

Harpy, actually. I called you a harpy.

Oh. I guess that's fair because
I did call you an ineffectual coward.

Oh, really?
Well, I guess we're even then.

Even, except I did steal your lab.

Except that you apologised,
so I assume you're going to give me it back.

Not necessarily,
but I will grant you access.

Access to my own lab?

Until we open the gateway to the other world,
then you'll be rid of me

and you'll have the lab all to yourself.

Fine.

We'll share the lab.

SHE GASPS

Are you alright?

Yeah, I'm just, uh...

I'm just feeling a little... faint.

We're running out of air!

We'll suffocate
if we don't find a way out of here.

Put out the torch.
Talon, put out the torch!

Fire burns air. Put out the torch!

Everyone, stay calm. Don't panic.

It makes you breathe harder. Don't breathe!

Janzo, we have to breathe.
OK? We can't just stop and do nothing.

Well, obviously, but all these writings,
endless writings

- they're just useless, aren't they, Talon?
- We just need to think.

Better think fast or we'll end up like them.

You know, I, um...

I once fantasised about you and I
being trapped in a room together

but, uh, it's, uh...

not quite as I imagined.

Keep it together, Janzo.

Keep that brain of yours working
to try and get us out of here.

I wonder who would survive longer
without air

Blackbloods or humans, hmm?

It's probably Blackbloods.

There's a way out of here.

You can find it. Just think.

It's over, Talon. Just accept it.

You should probably put out that torch.

It might buy us five more minutes of air.

GHOSTLY CRACKLE

CRACKLE INTENSIFIES

Starflower ink...

Janzo.

JANZO AND WREN:
"Life and death are the same piece of thread

viewed from different sides."

AIR RUSHES

What kind of sick game is this?

It was meant to divide us.

"Life and death
viewed from different sides."

The door's closing.

- Wren, we have to go now. Come.
- We can't just leave them here to die.

But you cannot help them.

There's no sense in us all dying
for nothing. Come.

- No. There has to be another way.
- Wren!

It was nice getting to know you.

Shut up and find a way
to get you out of here.

Wren, you have to go. Life or death.

- Wren.
- We'd already be dead without their help!

You have to leave them.
This mission is too important to fail.

- Life or death.
- Come!

WREN:
No... Life or death.

- Wren!
- No, I have to stay.

Wren, please.

Goodbye, Wren.

No... No!

- No!
- THEY GRUNT

No!

No!

You would have killed us all.
It was a test!

"Life or death...
viewed from different sides."

If you'd had left, we would have all been
dead on either side of that door.

You were going to
leave me here to die.

Yes, for the sake of our people.

It was the only rational choice to make.

Apparently not.

Talon?

You weren't going to leave me?

I was lightheaded from near suffocation.

Hm. What's all this?

Last time I checked,
we were not on friendly terms.

Why do you so dislike me, Zed?

Ever since we first met?

Ah, yes, I remember it well.

Vikka and I had just saved your life,
and then you banished us.

Because I sensed
that you were using Talon

and I was right.

You manipulated and betrayed her.

I had a responsibility to my people,
something I think you can relate to.

The difference is I don't cause pain
and death to everyone you care about.

I'm saving you from your own mistakes.

If I didn't stop Tobin returning with
an army, how many lives would be lost?

Lu-Qiri would kill thousands.

They would start with every man
in this Outpost.

Pardon me.

How clumsy of me.

Tea tastes a bit off, doesn't it?

Probably does.

Janzo prepared it for me a while ago.

You know, at the time,
I said I had no use for poison

but here we are.

What have you done?

If I die,
the Blackfist will slaughter your people.

So listen very carefully

because you have exactly one day
to take the antidote

or else it's all over for you.

Call back your demon immediately.

It's too late.

This ring isn't magic. It's a whistle.

Yes, the sound carries far,
perhaps even beyond the Outpost walls

but Vikka is way past that.
He's been gone since yesterday.

I don't believe you. Call him.

RING WHISTLES

As I said, it's too late.

It won't work.

You'd better think of something

cos now your life is tied
to the fate of Lord Tobin.

PLATES CLATTER

Give me the antidote.

A life for a life.
That's Blackblood justice, isn't it?

What was I supposed to do about Tobin?

An army showing up would cause
hundreds of deaths on both sides.

- Killing me won't bring Tobin back.
- No, it won't.

So instead, you're going to release me,
free my people

- and give us back this Outpost.
- If I fail to deliver on your demands?

Then you'll be dead
by this time tomorrow.

Guards!

Search the entire room.
Tear the whole place apart if you have to.

- Searching for what?
- The antidote to the poison I just drank.

MUNT: I'm really looking forward to seeing
my old friends in Aegisford.

Oh, Jarom... My friend Jarom.

You think I eat a lot?
Jarom can eat me under the table

and then eat the table itself.

MUNT CHUCKLES
- Munt, can I ask you a question?

Yeah.

When you were living in Aegisford

what did people say about me?

- About you?
- Yeah.

Nothing, yeah.

Really. Why?

No reason really.

It's just...

I'm not sure I was liked very much
when I was there.

No?

- I mean, I was drunk all the time.
- No.

- I was mean.
- You?

No.

Just a bit of an arse.

MUNT SIGHS

They thought you were a huge arse.

Huge.

Thanks, Munt.

You want to hear some things they said?

TOBIN:
There's my kingdom, Munt.

Aegisford lies just over that hill.

MUNT:
Excellent.

They make good ajvar there.

- More boar?
- Uh... no, thanks.

I can't believe you're still eating.

I can't let it go to waste, now can I?

There's only so much boar
a man can eat and then...

DISTANT GROWL
- Demon?

Not me. I ain't never eat demon.

No, there.

- Is that...
- It's a demon.

You think it came for us?

Yes, you idiot. Now run!

Munt, come on!

LU-QIRI ROARS

Let's go!

LU-QIRI SNARLS

OK. Any ideas?

Why would I have an idea?
I'm an idiot, remember?

Now's not the time, Munt.
This thing wants to kill us.

I guess I'll die an idiot then.

I'm sorry.

You're not an idiot, OK, Munt?
I'm sorry.

Oh. Oh...

I have an idea.

Hey, boy.

Are you hungry, boy?

There you go! Eat.

- TOBIN: OK, that didn't work.
- LU-QIRI GROWLS

TOBIN YELLS

TOBIN GROANS

MUNT WHIMPERS

LU-QIRI GROWLS

HE GROANS

MUNT GRUNTS
Munt the Mighty!

LU-QIRI GROWLS WEAKLY

I should have said, "Hammer of the gods!"

And then...
MUNT SIGHS

LU-QIRI SNARLS

- That's one tough beastie.
- I think we better run again, Munt.

Run, run!

LU-QIRI GROWLS

- Keep going, Munt!
- MUNT GROANS

LU-QIRI GROWLS

TOBIN:
Horses!

We need those horses!

I'm Lord Aegisford!

I need your horses, now!

- Who?
- Lord Aegisford. I own these lands.

- Aegisford's dead.
- No, I'm not.

I was gone, but now I am back.

- They're not for sale.
- What?

- My horses.
- I'm not buying them.

Yeah, like I said.

Let me... let me try.

Noble woodcutter, we beseech these horses.

There is a demon with huge horns
and sharp teeth.

- He's coming!
- Something wrong with him?

- I haven't got time for this.
- Oh, it's too late. There it is!

HORSE NEIGHS

LU-QIRI GROWLS

TOBIN:
Get up.

I've never rode a horse before, Tobin!

TOBIN:
Then you better learn quick.

OK... How do you make him go?

TOBIN:
Go!

LU-QIRI ROARS

CREATURES SQUEAK AND CHITTER

HE CLEARS THROAT

JANZO:
"Life is death.

Death is life.

Only the gods can say

who will live or die."

This is it.

Right here.

Now it is my turn to pass the test.

MECHANISM CLICKS

SHE GASPS

MECHANISMS CLICK

- Your arm.
- I'm alright.

It is just a...

dart!

Every room is designed to kill us,
this whole place.

It isn't a vault, it's a tomb.

Not exactly.

There's a pattern to all of this.

All the traps are designed to weed out
the bad people.

What do you mean?

If Janzo hadn't been willing
to sacrifice his arm.

If Wren were the type of person
to leave people to die.

If we were evil or selfish

we would've all been dead.

But she did nothing wrong.

What could be so bad about having
the courage to take the first step?

Maybe they just wanted to keep
the kinj right where it is.

Maybe it's a test of worthiness.

Someone who can get through this gauntlet
would have to be very smart

and very physically adept.

- I can get through it.
- What?

- No, I'm not gonna let you go.
- Do we have any other option?

We can't go back,
the only way is forward.

And out of the four of us,
I'm the only one who might make it.

JANZO: What if you end up
like one of these three?

With your body cut in half,
head chopped off, riddled with darts?

Poisonous darts.

If Talon doesn't go, I'm going!

Alright, we know about the darts part.
Can you figure out the rest?

Talon, why are you doing this to...

OK. Alright.

Darts from the right, then left.

Rotating blades high and low
from both sides of the walls.

Next, there is a blade, a big blade
coming out of that slit in the ceiling

and then...

all I can see is painted figures
on the walls.

I can't see very clearly.
Talon, this is dangerous.

If you die...

MECHANISM CLICKS

You did it. I can't believe you did it.

What do you see, Talon?

"Death is life."

"Life is death."

"Only the gods will say who lives or dies."

MECHANISM CLICKS

How'd you know which way to go?

Death is life...

so I chose the death side.

I think I've found
the lost Blackblood city.

JANZO:
Talon, don't move!

WREN GRUNTS

YAVALLA GROANS

WREN:
She did it.

She's incredible.

Yes. She opened the whole path
out of here.

WREN GASPS
Spectacular.

YAVALLA GASPS

There.

There it is.

The kinj.

Maybe you should let Wren take the kinj.

You still might not make it.

That is my obligation.

It is my burden to carry.

CREATURES CHITTER

CREATURES HISS

LOUD SNARL

SHE GASPS

INDISTINCT WHISPERS

SHE GASPS

YAVALLA SIGHS

And it is done.

I didn't realise.

Mother? Are you alright?

Yes.

I am wonderful.

My sweet child.

Thank you, Jonesy-o.

- "Janzo."
- Thank you, Talon.

You can thank me once we see
this paradise you've spoken of.

You have the kinj, now use it.

Yes, Mother, open the portal.

Show us what we've accomplished.

I cannot wait to show you all.

But not here.

Not yet.

- Why not?
- Because it is not yet time.

What exactly does your kinj do, Yavalla?

Talon, I told you.

It takes us to paradise.

MUNT GRUNTS

Come on...
HE PANTS

- Whoa.
- TOBIN: We've arrived safe and sound.

Oh, not me. My arse hurts.

HORSE NEIGHS
- Ah...

- Ah!
- My Lord.

Captain.

Jarom!

- Get over here!
- THEY LAUGH

- Munt!
- Ah, Jarom.

- You've come back to us.
- Yes, I have!

MUNT LAUGHS
Lumus!

Munt. Good timing.

It's almost supper.

Oh, good.
I've worked up quite an appetite.

MUNT CHUCKLES

How is this even possible?

Gods, Munt, that poor horse.

Uh, Captain,
there's no time for pleasantries.

We're on the Queen's mission,
and there's a demon on the loose.

MUNT:
Go on, there. Go.

Hey, Captain, when we're inside

have them send a bird to the Queen,
a coded message

that I've arrived safe.

And so... the dark days
of affliction are over.

The subjugation of the humans
at the Outpost

is at an end.

Queen Rosmund will return to her throne

and you, my people

we shall prepare to leave the Outpost.

Blackbloods, humans...

a new era has begun.

CROWD MUTTERS

Blackbloods leaving the Outpost?

I'll believe it when I see it.

Not too soon, I hope.

I received a bird.

Tobin made it safely.

Thank you for calling off your demon.

I did nothing of the sort.

Well, since Tobin is alive,
where's the antidote?

The antidote for what? Willow bark?

- I beg your pardon?
- Willow bark.

Janzo distills it for my headaches.

So to be clear, what you put in my drink
wasn't poison?

No.
Tastes awful, but it's harmless, really.

You were bluffing.

- I'm a champion Octor player.
- You're a devious snake.

Takes one to know one, Zed.

YAVALLA:
Queen Rosmund.

May I have a word?

We would not have succeeded
without the invaluable help

of one they call Janzo.

Such a brilliant mind.

And Talon, I have never seen such abilities.

Yes, you would be wise
to make friends of them both.

I have never wanted it any other way.

And now you will see how truly
I keep my promises.

INDISTINCT WHISPERS

There's still a lot more that
has to be done.

What is it? Are you alright?

INDISTINCT WHISPERS

Yes, it has passed.

Rosmund...

give me your hand.

What are you doing? Let go of me!

GWYNN GASPS

INDISTINCT WHISPERS

You see?

Now we are at peace.

I'm so glad you have joined us.

As am I.

Now, I...

see with your eyes

hear with your ears. I think with your mind.

And I feel with your heart.

Tomorrow we will begin the work
amongst both our people.

Interesting.

Garret Spears is still alive.

Yes.

Rosmund... you must find him.

I cannot risk him skulking about,
possibly murdering more of my people.

He must join us.

Yes, High Priestess.