The Outpost (2018–…): Season 4, Episode 7 - The Power of the Masters - full transcript

TALON:
Previously on the Outpost.

- TOBIN: Spears!
- Don't let them get away!

Take it,
as assurance that someone I trust

can lead the Outpost until we return.

KINJ WHINES

I saw a drawing there that reminded me
of this thing from the sanctuary.

From the Dragman Sanctuary?

This is where I watched them
take my sister away from me.

JANZO GRUNTS

What in the gods is this thing?

JANZO:
We're trying to save you!



That worked, Janzo. You did it!

Where is everyone?

Kneel before your gods.

Kultor.

KINJ WHINES

Levare.

KINJ WHINES

We are here to return
what never belonged to us.

It is good you have that attitude.

KINJ WHINES

Brothers and sisters...

KINJ WHINES

KINJ WHINES

Come to us, my children



to return our essences

to their rightful owners

as your brilliant queen and king have done.

You see?

We can live together in peace.

I can feel it!

He wants to be free.

Come to us.

Take our kinjes, my gods.

All of you.

Tobin.

It's Tobin and Falista.

What did you see? What happened?

I don't know. It ended.

Are you alright?

Yeah.

Just another vision.

Come on.

Have you finished the communication
to the others?

- Yes.
- Good.

Do you not realise, stupid human?

You're nothing but crops
to be harvested.

I don't understand.

We live to serve you...

SHE GASPS

Falista! Falista, no!

FALISTA GASPS

HE GROWLS

TOBIN:
What have you done?

CREATURE GRUNTS

Now it is your turn

king of humans.

TERA SCREAMS

KINJ WHINES

TOBIN GRUNTS
- TERA YOWLS

TOBIN GRUNTS

TOBIN GROANS

KINJ WHINES

HE SCREAMS

HE PANTS

HE GRUNTS

HE GASPS

HE SCREAMS

HE SCREAMS

TERA BREATHES GRUFFLY

Now we must go after the human.

Everything must be done
in order, Tera.

First, we will get the key
to release our minions

from the Skevikor to help us.

You always have a reason
to stall our progress.

Last time it was that we had to get Janya.

I am pleased to see you as well, Tera.

But perhaps I should have
left you with one arm?

TERA GROWLS

I am impressed, Kultor.

The flames still remain in your belly

even after all these years.

But now I'm spent.

Not for long.

KINJ WHINES

HE INHALES SLOWLY

Thank you, Janya.

Oh, you're very welcome.

We should kill the human
who calls himself king

and free Levare

then go in search of the key
since we do not even know where it is.

That is not true.

I possess memory fragments

of the woman who called herself "Two".

She knew where the key was hidden.

And now I know.

Let the human who calls himself "king"
run from us for now.

We will find him soon enough...

kill him and release Levare.

BELL TOLLS IN WIND

That was really brave of you.

I'm not brave.

I let him take my sister away.

I closed my eyes

and laid there pretending I was dead.

I was close enough to stab him.
If only I'd had the guts!

TALON:
You were just a child.

I'm sorry. I wasted our time.
We shouldn't have come back here.

You said you remembered something
that might be important.

To help us find the key.

If you could just try and remember.

Anything.

WIND HOWLS

LUNA BREATHES SHAKILY

WIND HOWLS

MUFFLED SCREAMS ECHO
- EERIE VOICES WHISPER

MUFFLED SCREAMS CONTINUE

EERIE VOICES WHISPER

MUFFLED SCREAM

MUFFLED SCREAM ECHOES

SCREAMING FADES

He took it.

- Who took what?
- The key was here.

That's why Dred came to the sanctuary.

He came for the key.

And you have no idea
if Falista or Tobin are even alive?

They were alive when the vision ended.

GARRET:
Whoa.

Two escaped prisoners.

Come back to turn yourselves in?

I'm returning by the will and blessing

of King Tobin.

I bear his ring as proof.

What have you done to King Tobin?

Nothing. He gave me his ring

- and he charged me with pro...
- Traitors to the crown!

Arrest him for treason!

GARRET:
Whoa, whoa, hey! No!

Now you...

You don't want to do that.

Oh, but I do.

Kill them!

- You move, he dies!
- COMMANDER GRUNTS

Stop!

In the name of the king!

If you kill me

it proves you're a traitor.

Why would I kill King Tobin's
most trusted commander?

Huh?

I swear on my life
and Queen Rosmund's name

that I would never betray Tobin.

He is my friend
and he is my king.

Tobin gave me
his ring of command.

Look.

I don't care if you kill Garret or not.

Alright? But for what it's worth,
I was there.

He's telling the truth.

You don't care if he kills me?

Why should I trust you?

You do have a point.

You have a choice to make, Commander.

But if you choose to not believe us

you might want to think about skipping town
when Tobin returns

because you could well hang
for disobeying his wishes.

You may take command.

But only until we hear
from Tobin himself.

And then we will see.

And you will see that everything
is as I have said.

What are your orders?

To continue your watch.

As you were until further notice.

SEAGULLS CAW

What are you smiling at?

SHE LAUGHS

VOICE ECHOES
I'm just excited for our future.

And for what comes next...

HE SCREAMS

...once we return our kinjes.

HE PANTS

HORSE NEIGHS

HORSE NEIGHS

HORSE SIGHS

Who knows where that key is by now.

There isn't even a Prime Order
to ask about it anymore.

Wherever it is, it's probably
where he took my sister.

MUFFLED SCREAM ECHOES

The chambermaid.

Uh, there was a chambermaid
that Dred took with Ilyin.

She was thin, pretty, darker skin.

I remember she had this beautiful,
long, dark hair all the way past her waist.

We kids all liked to play with it.

Hair past her waist?

Well, do you remember her name?

I think her name was...

...Neeya?

Naya?

Was her name Naya?

Yes, Naya, that's it!

How in the gods could you know that?

There isn't too many women
who fit the description.

Dred used her
as a spy against the Outpost.

- It's a long story. I'll tell you on the way.
- Where are we going?

Relman.

Last I heard, Naya lives there.

Ouch.

What are you doing here?

Are you gonna stay mad at me forever?

You had one objective, Zed.

HE GROANS
- NEDRA: Bring our people back.

And you didn't do it.

Now think about how many people,
how many children

never got to see this beautiful world.

Then ask me again how long
I'll stay mad at you.

It wasn't as simple as that, Nedra.

NEDRA:
Too late, Zed.

You were too late.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm practising.

Garret's basically king now, so, um...

Well, I guess that's a relief.

Wren, my love.

do you really think these are necessary?

Mm-hm.

HE GASPS
Oh.

What do you suppose they mean?

Hopefully not a body count
of the people he's killed.

They could mean a lot of things.
Most of them probably not good.

Yup. Could mean he's dangerous.

So for as long as I'm spoon-feeding him...

doesn't need his hands, does he?

No, probably not.

Any change in his condition?

His breathing's steady.

He's had about two bowls of this.

- And that's about it.
- JANZO: Right.

We should check to see
if we can find anything in your texts

or the pictographs that resemble
the markings on his neck.

Might be able to determine what they mean.

LUNA:
You really think we're gonna find Naya?

Janzo got a letter from her
before the infection.

She was in Relman,
so hopefully she's still there.

I don't understand why you don't hate her.

You said she was a spy.

She did it to save her family
who Dred was holding hostage.

So, she betrayed you
because she was naive and stupid

and that makes her good?

People do bad things.

Doesn't mean they're bad people.

Like someone who tried to kill me
for something I didn't do.

Point taken.

And I saw Tobin and Falista
and that's when the vision ended.

From what I've been able to surmise
from Wren's High Priestess texts

supplemented by the pictograms

that we saw, um, on the walls
beneath the Outpost

which, by the way,
are incredibly detailed...

Janzo, would you please get to the point
before I'm completely old and grey?

You know, Garret, you saying something
stupid and idiotic like that

actually just takes longer than it would
for me to get to the... point.

Right. To the point I shall get.

We believe that there are seven of these
Blackblood gods

or so they call themselves,
and seven kinjes.

Yeah, so does that mean
they're definitely related?

In the ancient language,
the word "kinj" roughly translates

to a similar concept
in the human belief of a soul.

Right? Sort of, essence.

So a kinj is a soul?

- Sort of.
- Whose?

Well, we believe they belong
to the things that call themselves gods.

So, to be clear, you're saying that
the kinj in my head is someone's soul?

WREN:
Something like that.

It also carries their special powers,
which is why it gives you powers.

Well, then why doesn't it leave me
and fly off to whoever it belongs to?

Well, probably because you have to give it up
willingly like what Falista's trying to do.

Or just let them die and take it.

I don't know. It just all sounds
a bit "out there" to me.

I know. It did to me, too. Surprising.

Think of it like this.

When Yavalla and Gwyn died

we all saw these bright lights fly off.

One black, one white.
The colour of their kinjes.

And then suddenly two gods showed up
possessing similar powers.

Yeah, and when they killed Two
a green light flew off.

And undoubtedly returned to its body.

One by one, these gods are waking up

as the kinjes are returning to them.

So there it is, my kinj belongs to some
sleeping god creature somewhere.

JANZO:
As did Tobin's and Falista's.

HE SIGHS
Which is why I presume they're both dead.

You'll be next, Zed.

You and Talon.

They'll probably hunt you down
and kill you for it.

These gods, you've seen several of them

do they all look like Talon's drawing?

Yes.

Right.

Well, you'd better come see something.
Mmm...

...someone

we have downstairs.

- Um...
- What?

- What are we staring at?
- There was one of them there. A god person.

He looked like
one of the ones you've described.

- Down here?
- Strapped to that table.

And you left it unattended?

Just moments ago he was weak
and feeble and barely alive.

One thing's for certain

he's not weak or feeble.

We need to find him, quickly.

- Let's go.
- Oh...

OWL HOOTS

METAL CLANGS

WIND WHISTLES

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

Who are you?
What are you doing here?

You're not allowed up here.

3-1-3:
Why do the Masters not speak to my mind?

Where are the others?

Why am I the only Kahvi?

Something's wrong with you.

Stay away from me.

SHE SCREAMS
- MUNT: Warlita!

Janzo's monster!
He's not supposed to be here.

MUNT YELLS

HE STAMMERS
I was going to jump

but if I use the stairs...

You alright?

INDISTINCT MARKET CHATTER

I'm looking for a woman.

Calls herself Naya.

Long, dark hair.

Where's Naya?

What? It didn't cost her anything
to help us.

- We're closed.
- Clearly you're not.

We're friends of Naya.

We've travelled a long way to see her.

No outsiders after second watch.

It's alright, Drogo, it's barely past...
SHE GASPS

Talon!
SHE LAUGHS

Gods! What are you doing here?

I'm so happy to see you.

You've come far.
You must be tired and thirsty.

Drogo, get them drinks.

Come! Sit.

It's, uh, not as big as the Nightshade

but I learned a lot from the Mistress.

I can see that.

I've partnered up with a young brewer.
Not as talented as Janzo, of course, but...

good enough.

Is Janzo alright?

As far as I know. Why?

We were corresponding fairly regularly
but then suddenly he stopped writing.

Probably because he has a new girlfriend.

He does?
SHE LAUGHS

That's great! And, uh...

who's this young lady?

This is Luna.

- She's new to the Outpost.
- Hiya.

Welcome. Let me show you around,
get you rooms.

Uh, we can't stay.

We're actually here to ask you something.

You were the wrong that Dred took
to look after my sister, Ilyin.

We need to get the key
that Dred stole from the sanctuary.

You're that Luna?

In the flesh.

You're so grown-up.
SHE STAMMERS

I thought all of you were...

How did you survive?

I managed, no thanks to you.

We need your help.

Where's the key?

Key? What key? What are you talking about?

The staff thing with the round sort of, uh,
thing on it.

The one he stole from the sanctum.

That's a key?

Dred took it to the Reliquary
where he stored all his artefacts

and religious relics, but...

I have no way of knowing
if it's still there.

Well, can you take us there?

I can't. I can't go back to that place.

Dred and his men did terrible things
back there, I...

I have a new life here.

I wouldn't be asking if it wasn't important.

Well, the Reliquary's somewhere north
of Winsley Tower.

Maybe Janzo could help you
locate it on a map.

We don't have time for that.

I'm sorry, Talon.

Look, I understand
that you're scared, Naya, but...

You were supposed to look after
my sister and me.

She's dead now, but I still need your help.

I'm sorry, Luna.

You've done a lot of bad things
in your life.

You might as well add another one
by not helping us.

Luna.

She's right.

I owe her at least that much.

I'll get ready and I'll take you there.

Thank you.

Good.

Let's get going.

GARRET UNSHEATHES SWORD

- And Munt went after it?
- Yes.

These things are strong, Garret.
Possibly too strong for any one of us.

MUNT:
Hello! Hello, stop!

MUNT PANTS
OK, alright.

Alright, alright, alright.

I don't want to hurt you.

I don't want to hurt you.

But you have to come with me.

Surrender yourself.

Can you understand me?

Ah!

KINJ WHINES

3-1-3:
You.

How do you have the power of the Masters?

He can talk.

That's good.

Because he's got
a lot of talking to do.

3-1-3 GRUNTS

HE GASPS

MUNT:
Are you alright?

I'm going to ask you one more time.

What is your name?

Where are you from?

HE SIGHS

Who are the Masters?

Can't you just use your kinj
to make him talk?

Oh, sure, Garret. I can make him
say anything you want.

Just tell me the words and I'll...

I can only control his body, Garret.
I can't read his mind.

HE SHOUTS:
What are you?

Tell me!

JANZO: Why don't you just
beat it out of him, Garret?

A great way to make a new ally.

An ally?
GARRET CHUCKLES

The only way you'll get accurate information

is if you can convince him
that we are to be trusted

which you are making
exceptionally difficult right now.

And did you wanna try?

Be my guest.

But you had better get answers, Janzo...

because you said yourself,
they'll be coming for Zed next

and then Talon.

You, too. Off you pop.

Don't need you threatening him also.

As you wish.

Sorry about that.

I understand you can speak our language.

At least we have that in common.

INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER

What? It was the only empty seat.

Don't you know when to give up?

Hey.

Like you said, there aren't many of us left.

We have to stick together.

All those who died
won't have that opportunity.

Teyva, Bessu, Shenzi, Pok...

Yeah, well, I'd give my life
to have any one of them back.

You know I would.
And nothing can change what happened.

I miss every one of them, I always will.

I even miss all of Bessu's screw-ups.

HE CHUCKLES

Like that time he...

He burned down the whole grassland
just to find his favourite pipe.

It was in his pocked the whole time.

And Tevya, when she harpooned that fireworm.

And then she wouldn't let go,
it dragged her halfway across the valley.

I still have a scar on my backside
that will never let me forget Pok

from when he threw rocks in the lava flow
to see the splash.

Yeah, I remember that.

I was the one who put out the fire
on your backside.

And you thought I was being...

presumptuous.

SHE GIGGLES

SHE SIGHS

I can't just forgive you, Zed.

It hurts too much.

I need someone to blame.

Well, that's alright, you...

You can blame me.

TALON:
This place we're going to...

NAYA:
The Reliquary?

You said Dred did terrible things there.

Dred was relentless in finding
and hoarding mystical artefacts.

If anyone had knowledge of such things,
he would bring them there

and interrogate them, usually to death.

Is that why he took Ilyin?

Interrogation?

Yes.

Your sister was gifted at knowing
when someone was telling the truth.

Something I remember
you also could do, Luna.

Yeah.

Sometimes. Never as well as Ilyin.

So my sister had to witness him
torturing people?

It was horrible.

I'm sorry.

All those years you never saw a chance
to help my sister escape?

Never thought you should
refuse to help your master, Dred?

Take it easy, Luna.

I did everything I could
to protect your sister from that monster

but when Dred caught us trying to escape

I was beaten to within an inch of my life

and then he took my family hostage
to make sure I'd never try again.

Why didn't you just say that before?

You didn't give me a chance.

BAR PATRONS LAUGH

FOLK MUSIC PLAYS

GARRET:
I, uh, saw Nedra leave.

Maybe it was your breath.

Yeah, I probably deserved that.

GARRET SIGHS

All these happy people.

What are they all so happy about?

Don't they have as much to regret
as the rest of us?

HE SCOFFS

Nedra will get over it.

I doubt it.

I know I won't.

As someone who fought against you
basically since you got to this world

I can truly say that you were relentless
in trying to bring your people back.

Talon wouldn't do it.

So, I should just blame Talon.

GARRET:
No, no.

Please, do not do that.
She is barely speaking to me as is

ever since you two were caged up together.

Do you have any idea
why she's been so cold to me?

Beats me.

I mean, I never really understood why she was
interested in you in the first place.

Oh.

Maybe you're just not a good match.

What is that supposed to mean?

We're a perfect match.
What's not good about it?

Well, you're a human, for starters.
She's one of the last living Blackbloods.

Maybe she feels a responsibility.

Did you say that to her?

Did you put that idea in her head?

I didn't say anything
she wasn't already wondering.

And no one tells Talon what to think anyway.
We both know that.

GARRET SIGHS

Just ask her how she feels about it.
I'm sure she'll tell you straight.

Thank you for the talk.

I feel so much better.

Impressive.

There must be some good loot in there.

The relics are kept in a vault
beneath the monument.

There's no windows or doors.

How do we get in?

DOOR UNLOCKS

MUNT EXHALES

All the best food, Janzo.
Just like you said.

He's not going to keep eating like that,
is he, Janzo?

Until all the food is gone?

He hasn't eaten in centuries, Munt.

How much food would you eat
if it had been that long?

HE EXHALES

So much good, Janzo.

I can't even think of that much food.
HE CHUCKLES

So much food, Janzo.

DOOR CLOSES

We're worried about
the ones you call Masters.

You see, we don't really know
what they want.

Do you?

There are many like you, aren't there?

Thousands.

Are they all cocooned behind those doors,
like you were in that place?

Ah...

You're interested in that place, aren't you?

Well, if you can show to me
that you are no danger

I might be able to take you there.

Maybe answer some questions?

Yes.

Good.

First, I need to know your name.

See, for us to be friends, I need, uh...

I need to know what to call you.

3-1-3.

Hm?

That's a number, not a name.

I am...

...3-1-3.

Alright.

3-1-3.

Janzo.

- Janzo.
- Mm.

The ones you call Masters

do they want to live in peace among us?

They do not.

And you?

Are you... are you dangerous?
Do you... do you want to hurt us?

Want?

Mm.

I don't know what it is to want.

I only serve the Masters.

But the voice is gone.

The voice?

The voice inside.

Is this the voice
from the ones you call Masters?

Vorta.

I think I understand.

If Vorta's voice isn't in your head um...

telling you what to do, then...

you won't want to hurt us, right?

Yes.

I won't hurt anyone.

JANZO:
Very good.

I know how to open it.

Dred's zealot guards are
probably still inside.

Ever after he's been dead for so long?

They weren't guarding it for him.

They're guarding it
because they believe it to be sacred.

How many?

No idea now, but usually two at a time.

Open it.

SHE BREATHES HEAVILY

DOOR UNLOCKS

DOOR RUMBLES

GUARDS GROAN

- Nice shot.
- Better than yours.

TALON CHUCKLES

You alright?

I've been better.

NAYA GRUNTS

Looks like they have jewels in their eyes.

- Hold this. I'm gonna climb up.
- That's not what we came here for.

TALON GRUNTS
- GUARD YELLS

GUARD GROANS

TALON GRUNTS
Where did he come from?

I took a life.

TALON: You're acting like
you've never done it before.

You killed Dred, didn't you?

I knew Dred. He deserved it.

I don't know anything about this man.

Wait, you killed Dred?

Yes.

Wow. Now I owe you.

Don't start that again.

Let's just get what we came for and get
as far away from this place as possible.

Are you sure this is a good idea?

Of course not.

I'm just hoping once he trusts us
he'll give us vital information.

Maybe we should've brought
a prison guard down with us.

I already sent them to get Garret.

He doesn't know that you took it?
Him?

Of course not.
Garret would never allow it.

Janzo, however...

is quite the rebel these days.

3-1-3 GASPS

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

The others.

I'm the only one awake.

Why did you do this? It's not time!

This is wrong!

My Naviaspore!

What have you done?
My Naviaspore!

HE PANTS HEAVILY

HE CRIES OUT

HE GROANS

HE SCREAMS

It's alright. Stop, stop, stop, stop.
It's alright!

- It's alright.
- 3-1-3 GROANS

HE GASPS FOR AIR

Without my Naviaspore, I'm alone.

3-1-3 GASPS FOR AIR

Alone.

Alone.

Naviaspore. Navia-something.

I know I saw something
about it before.

It didn't make sense
at the time, but...

Ah! Navia.

- Navia? Same as Naviaspore?
- What does it mean?

"Navia. The voice of the soul

word of command,
to be one with the Masters."

Mm. 3-1-3?

When you say you're missing
your Navia... spore

is that what you feel like you've lost,
the voice of the soul?

GARRET:
Where is it?

Calm down, Garret.

3-1-3 is here.
Everything's under control.

Don't get him excited.

- 3-1-3?
- Yes, that's his name.

Have you lost your mind?

Zed, freeze it.

KINJ WHINES

That's not necessary.
Can't you see that?

We were just getting
somewhere with him.

The only place that that thing is getting
is back behind bars.

Zed, get it walking.

Zed, don't.

I've seen the Masters of his, Wren.
They're deadly. Evil.

My mother was evil.
Does that make me bad too?

You can put as many guards
as you want outside

but 3-1-3 stays here with us.

We have a lot to learn from him.

GARRET SIGHS

I mean, as long as they watch him closely,
I can stay nearby.

Fine. Keep your pet monster,
see what you can learn from it

but, Janzo, bear in mind that there is
an army of those things down here

and nobody knows what they are capable of.

Do not get us all killed
in the name of discovery.

KINJ STOPS WHINING

This place gives me the creeps.

Let's find the key and get out of here.

NAYA: Dred collected artefacts
from many people and places.

These relics are sacred

not only to Dred and The Three
but to other cultures.

I don't see the key here.

- Are you sure Dred brought it here?
- I'm sure.

But that was two years ago.

Maybe if he hadn't killed those men,
one of them...

Shh!

VOICES WHISPER
- Do you hear that?

WHISPERING CONTINUES

No.

VOICES WHISPER

You don't hear it?

WHISPERING GROWS LOUDER

A sort of humming.

Whispers.

The floor is stained with blood.

LUNA MURMURS

That's it.

That's the key!

VOICES WHISPER

Neither of you hear that?

Must be a Dragman thing.

Good, you have it.
Now, please, can we go?

Come on.

Come on.

You have something that belongs to us.