The Outpost,”The Colipsum Conundrum”, Review!

The last episode had the appearance of Everitt Dred, the revelation of Gwynn's true identity and rallies troops to her, At the Outpost, plantings are made, and one farmer uncovers the arm of a body!  Marshall Wythers sees the body of a girl, Lily, killed by Wythers in “The Mistress and the Worm.”  He is frustrated that Danno disposed of the body in a public place.  Wythers tries to clear the crowd of villagers when Gwynn walks up, sees the body of her handmaiden, and looks at him.  Gwynn leaves and Wythers puts a cloth over Lily’s body screaming at the villagers to go away.  The Marshall is always a stickler for the law, he should get the guillotine.  Janzo reads from the book about a Locuri, the Demon, having a child with a human woman resulting in the Blackbloods, Talon disbelieves him.  They have reached Gallow’s Rock and have to wait for sunset.  She has Janzo continue on to an overlook on a rock.  Talon checks her arm and Janzo adjusts her dislocated shoulder.  

At the Outpost, Gwynn has told Garret that his father is a killer, and then brings up his brother whom Garret says died in the mines.  Wythers walks in with his guards.  At the overlook, Janzo tells Talon about reading books about brewing to learn the craft, also that his real mother is a barmaid.  His twin sister was sold to slavers!  Talon sees three Greyskins at Gallow’s Rock.  They have been hinted at throughout the series and only seen in the first episode. Talon wants to wait for nightfall, but Janzo is set on getting the colipsum.  On her throne, Gwynn has called for Wythers, she accuses him of killing Lily. General Calkussar wants to put Wythers under the guillotine for the attempted extortion of the queen.  She sends him to the mines and has Wythers turn over his badge.  At the war camp, a soldier enters a tent, to inform others about a war with the Prime Order.  A black bead is chosen from a bag by a messenger to escape the camp and warn the Prime Order.  Night at the camp, the messenger sneaks through the camp, and starts to run dropped by crossbow bolt.  Morning, Janzo brings the gold to the Greyskins, while Talon flanks them with her sword and holds the blade to the leader’s throat.  He orders a bag thrown of the drug.  The Greyskins take the gold.

The Outpost -- "The Colipsum Conundrum" -- Photo: NBCU International -- é Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

Gwynn is playing cards and her new handmaiden, Naya (Medalion Rahimi) announces General Calkussar.  He has chosen Naya to replace Lily.  She has an announcement that Captain Garret wants them both of them at the gate.  Everit Dred rides through solders to reach a tent where a man is with a woman.  The man gives Dred a message.  Dred orders both of them killed.  The message is that the Blackblood is a woman and at the Outpost!  The prisoner is beaten while Garet tells Gwynn and Calkussar about the messenger and his friends.  Gwynn tells the sergeant not to torture prisoners like the Prime Order.  Garet takes the prisoner away to be put under the guillotine.  Calkussar tells Gwynn to raise her hand to give the order and she is shocked at the death.  She tells the other prisoners to go back to tell the others.  Later, Gwynn tells Garet she does not like killing as part of being royalty.  She asks him about his loyalty oath and swears an oath to her.  He only wants her on the throne, he has no title, and she kisses him.  Night, in a cage, a Plagueling sends out a larvae into a guard who frees the others.  The Plaguelings attack the camp, Garet stabs a Plagueling in the neck, and gets the report that the Plaguelings escaped.  A Plagueling’s larvae bites Garet’s leg!  He checks his leg wound at his tent and says that he needs to return to the Outpost.  A cure or loss of a leg for Garet?  

Talon and Janzo are on the way back on a trail through the woods.  Talon sits underneath a shelter made of trees while Janzo tries to set up metal utensils on a string for warning against the bandits.  Talon tells him to continue reading.  Wythers walks in a mine tunnel and meets with a man, Rogan Three Fingers (Slate Holmgren), and other miners sentenced by Wythers.  They beat him up.  I like the twist of the unyielding Wythers getting punished, but of course his treatment is not just, I have the feeling that he will be redeemed and become important to the realm.  Newly appointed Marshall Higgs (Jake Suazo) chews on an apple when Gwynn asks if Garet has returned.  He gets a log from Danno and finds Garet has checked in.  He sends Danno to find Garet.  Wythers is bandaged and given something to drink from Sill (Yodanda Stange), a woman with an eyepatch, who was paid to watch over him.  Who is this patron?  Wythers wheezes in pain.  

The Outpost -- "The Colipsum Conundrum" -- Photo: NBCU International -- é Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

Talon is suddenly wakened by Janzo.  He found the Book of Denominations, the list of what things are called.  The Book of Names is the next part of Talon’s quest, but I’m no hurry to get there yet.  She goes back to sleep.  Night, a blue portal forms, that tells Talon, “The Dragman comes.”  Some creature prowls outside of the campfire.  Dred has suspicions about Calkussar and marches with one hundred troops.  He says to the girl, Ilyn (Elizabeth Birkner) that she will know who is the Blackblood.  Janzo’s trap alerts them and a Bone Wolf, large, black wolf with bony spikes, drags Talon back.  It closes on Janzo and Talon takes out her sword.  Janzo saves her using a torch from the fire and hitting it several times!  Marshall Higgs reports to Gwynn that they looked everywhere, but did not find Garet.  In Janzo’s room, Garet coughs by the fire and takes a drink.  The wound is puckering!  Is it Janzo using the colipsum to figure out the mystery of the Plaguelings or does Talon find the answer in the Book of Names?  An excellent episode with all of the fantastic elements of the show and great introductions of new characters.  

Five Daggers out of Five! 

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