In the process of taking the shortcut, Borch, Téa, and Véa all fall to their deaths. There's a great helicopter shot here which pulls away from the mountain, revealing the sheer, dizzying size of it-and how small the characters look clinging to it. The shortcut is a rickety wooden platform pinned precariously to the side of the mountain, with a deadly drop below. about a shortcut that'll help them get ahead of the Reavers. We return to the dragon hunt and Yarpen is telling Geralt and co. It was never his intention to torment her. He understands why she's afraid, he says. She wakes up in a room with Cahir looking at her, telling her not to scream. Then a Nilfgaardian soldier, clad in that weird, organic-looking black armour, grabs her. "Why is he going to so much trouble?" Before the shapeshifter answers, there's a scuffle, Dara is injured, and Ciri runs into the forest. "The man with the winged helmet," says Ciri, referring to Cahir. Dara attacks with a dagger, but the doppler wrestles it off him-until it starts burning its skin, for reasons that are unclear, causing it to drop it.ĭara grabs the dagger back and holds it against the doppler's neck. "Our name is not Mousesack!" it shouts, before revealing to Ciri that it killed the real druid.
The shapeshifter has finally had enough and reveals itself. In the forest, Ciri finally catches the doppler out with a question about Mousesack's homeland, Skellige. This is the kind of character who usually plays the hero in dragon-slaying fairytales, but in the world of The Witcher he's just an asshole Yennefer think the Reavers are responsible. He dashes away to empty himself, then the next morning Yarpen finds him with his throat cut, dead. Later, the idiotic knight cooks and eats the hirikka, which gives him the shits. But then Eyck charges in, slicing the helpless beast into monster sushi with his sword. Geralt says the creature is probably starving, to leave it alone. Adam Levy is great here, giving Mousesack's evil twin a genuine air of menace.īack at the hunt, Jaskier breaks away from the group to pick some berries, disturbing a creature in the process-a weird, slightly pathetic-looking monster called a hirikka. They leave Brokilon and find themselves back in the dead, wintry woods Ciri has spent most of this season lost in. The doppler grows impatient with their questions, and Dara notices something is off with him. The pair quiz the druid-about how he survived the siege of Cintra, and why it's so important that Ciri and Geralt meet. On the outskirts of Brokilon Forest, Mousesack-well, a shapeshifter called a doppler that is posing as him-walks with Ciri and Dara. And there's another team, the Reavers, led by an unpleasant chap named Boholt. This is the kind of character who usually plays the hero in dragon-slaying fairytales, but in the world of The Witcher he's just an asshole. We also see that Yennefer has an escort of her own-a pompous knight called Sir Eyck of Denesle, whose too-shiny armour glints in the sun, and who cries "For kingdom and glory!" completely unironically. The foul-mouthed, ill-tempered leader of a team of dwarfs, Yarpen Zigrin, shakes Geralt's hand.
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It's a strong episode, but the third-Betrayer Moon-remains the highlight of the series so far. We also see more of Geralt and Yennefer's tumultuous relationship. There are some fantastic moments here, and one so corny it made me wince. A hero hunting a dragon might sound pedestrian for a fantasy series, but The Witcher continues to upend genre tropes, mutating this well-trodden tale into something more interesting. This is another entertaining Monster of the Week episode, to borrow a term from The X-Files, but with a twist. "I've been looking for you, Geralt of Rivia." says Borch. Then a monster's bloody head lands with a thud next to the group-Geralt has finished his hunt. Things are about to turn violent, when a kind-faced old man-Borch Three Jackdaws-steps in, accompanied by two Zerrikanian warriors, Téa and Véa. They settle on Geralt being dead and decide to steal his saddlebags, but Jaskier protests. The witcher has been gone for an hour, hunting a monster, and the men who hired him are getting restless. We open with Jaskier, who is still tagging along with Geralt, writing a new song.
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