Willow (2022) s01e04 Episode Script

1
Someone just concisely recap
everything I missed.
- What happened to them?
- Possession.
Countless more will die.
But you can still save them.
All you have to do is submit.
Indestructible magic armor.
I can't believe I let you sucker me
into something so ridiculous.
You know, the Cuirass isn't a weapon.
- It's a shield.
- Against what?
Darkness.
A portal between dimensions is opening.
And when they reach it,
Elora will be lost.
Avagdu!
Graydon's hurt!
We have to get him to shelter!
Nockmaar.
- 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.
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.
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
No, it was a really good joke.
Next time leave the levity to me.
What happened to Ballantine and Merrick
is gonna happen to me.
And you guys
are gonna have to stop me before I
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.
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.
- Sorry, how'd you figure that?
- Well
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.
How long does he have?
- Before it takes hold?
- Not long.
Sometime in the small hours
of the night, he'll lose control.
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?
Uh, I don't.
Killin' someone
who isn't tryin' to kill you back,
it's not an easy thing to do.
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.
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.
- Sorry, all of them?
- Huh?
You You turned all of the pigs
back into people?
Think so.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
He gave me his sword
and I killed him with it.
I know. I
I'm goin' to the battlements
to keep watch.
I'll come with you.
Just help Willow and Elora
gather what they need.
Sorry.
Ah.
Oh, hello, lovely. What
treasures are you hiding?
Yeah.
Boorman.
Come to us.
Is there anything
that we can give him for the pain?
- No.
- Oh, okay then.
I found everything
except for essence of nightshade.
We can't leave out ingredients.
Mix it wrong,
we could blow up the whole castle.
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.
Can you just go
and check if they have any?
You think that's something
people just have in their cupboards?
Worth a shot, right?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey, hey, hey! Come on!
- Relax.
- Is that part of
- No.
- I was sick, when I was a kid.
- With what?
I don't know, exactly.
Just something bad.
I'm not supposed to talk about it.
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.
Or a lot.
Nope.
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?
Um, aren't you supposed
to be watchin' out for the Gales?
I am. I was. I
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!
- 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.
What are you lookin' for?
Brined possum bladder.
Ah.
You can never find it when you need it.
How's the, uh, purgation going?
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.
Oh, my God.
And she'll never let me forget it.
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
Elora.
This won't work
if you don't say it with me.
Okay.
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
- Amach.
- Amach?
- Hard "K" sound.
- Amach?
Perfect.
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
Gashog ba-sog tarong amach!
Look at me. Look at me, boy.
- What? No. You're not here.
- You're such a failure.
- 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!
It's okay.
You can do this.
And I'll catch you if you fall.
Why are you torturing me?
- What's happening to him?
- Keep stirring!
Damn it, where's Kit?
Do you renounce your name, your family?
I do.
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?
I will.
The Blood of the Six runs in your veins.
You shall be his harbinger.
Primal Priestess of the Wyrm,
Queen Bavmorda.
Ugh.
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.
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.
All right, that's
Everyone deserves one good
cry per quest.
Ugh.
Look, if you're gonna get grossed out,
or faint, or something,
can you just
take a few steps back, please?
Amateur.
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.
Yug shoggog yug sugloth
Yug shoggog el katuth
Give me some water, peck.
Or you die. Understand? Water.
Elora, water.
Hurry up!
Is somebody there?
Can anyone hear me?
- If you can, please, talk to me.
- Airk?
- 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.
- Please, help.
- He's trying to break our concentration.
- No.
Don't let him.
- 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
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!
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.
Fiddlesticks! I hate you, door!
I'm sorry. I'm fine. We're fine.
Boorman Boorman
You can make this right.
She took the Lux.
Boorman
Those hellions.
Oh.
Why are you out here?
I needed some air.
- It was my choice. Is that okay with you?
- Yeah. It's fine.
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
I can't save anybody.
Listen, uh, when
When they took you from the campsite
we all spread out
to go look for you.
Do you hear that?
What, Graydon being reamed?
Look, I'm tryin' to tell you
something right now, can you
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.
Oh, Willow's gonna be pissed.
Jade, run!
Run!
Mother?
Now, you die!
Die! No mercy!
Die!
Stand aside for Queen Bavmorda.
You cannot stop the prophecy!
This child will have no power over me.
- Start the ritual.
- No!
Your reign of terror is at an end!
She will come back
and she will finish you!
- Silence, wench.
- My baby will finish you!
Kill her.
No!
Mother?
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.
No!
Sweet mercy! I thought you were
- 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.
What?
- Who is it?
- We have swords!
And crossbows
and spiked flails with poison.
Oh, wow.
Okay, I surrender. Now let me in.
How do we know it's you?
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.
- 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.
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.
But Willow's not.
So come on, we have to find him.
Thank you, by the way, for
saving my life.
- Willow!
- Willow!
Willow!
- 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.
Okay, it's very possible
that I might have overreacted
a little bit.
So I formally apologize.
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
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?
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.
- Another trick?
- Maybe.
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.
He can't help you anymore.
Oh, shit!
We're gonna finish the ritual.
Tonight.
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.
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!
Willow!
So tiny and helpless.
Yet you survived, when Bavmorda,
the most powerful of sorceresses, fell.
Don't you wanna know why?
Black fires forever kindled within.
- Let the second rite begin.
- 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.
Is he though?
Do you wanna tell her or should I?
Don't listen to it, Elora.
You stupid hag!
With my magic,
I'll send her into the Into a
You're no sorcerer.
Into a realm where evil
cannot touch her!
Impossible! There's no such place!
Helgafel swath ben helgafel.
Helgafel!
You!
Willow didn't defeat Bavmorda.
She was thwarted by her
own carelessness.
So tell me. How will you defeat us?
Same as last time.
With my friends.
Willow, catch!
Furrock!
Get the hell out of Graydon!
Get off!
We have to. It's time.
Just wait!
Wait!
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!
The seed charm. It worked.
I saw it in the woods. It was
It was beautiful.
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!
Get off!
I'm not like you.
I couldn't even load the crossbow
that he gave me.
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.
Never doubted you for a second.
Ah.
Ow. Why does my face feel on fire?
That's completely normal.
Don't worry about it.
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.
Yeah,
that's on the far side of the world.
Is that even possible?
She saved Graydon. Anything's possible.
We're finally making progress.
You may make a sorceress yet.
Take the girl.
Kill the others.
Is somebody there?
Hello?
Anybody?
Is anybody out there?