The Outpost, “Nothing Short of Heroic”, Review!

Last episode, we had the breaking of the siege of The Outpost.  This was by infecting most of the camp with Plaguelings!  Garrett is free of the Capital’s influence and returns to take revenge on the Three.  The wounded Talon walks stumbling through a forest.  She falls asleep and then is wakened by a group of horsemen.  The captain orders his soldiers to surround her when he sees the Blackblood from her wound.  Janzo leads Gwynn and Tobias through his mother’s tunnels.  Gwynn takes possession of the money and has the rest put to the torch.  Morning, the captain tries to give water to Talon, Garrett rides up to see the prisoner.  Gwynn regards a box, but Tobias offers to open it.  Inside is a letter and they find a wolf symbol which Gwynn believes is another clan that could be an ally.  In her cell, the Mistress wakes up while Janzo is studying the Plagueling cure.  She demands that he cure her.  The Mistress says that she raised Janzo as a baby because she saw something in him.  They laugh over his sores that he used horse manure to cure.  She made Janzo her master brewer at ten years old.  Janzo admits that he led Gwynn to her colipsum farm.  It is a nice moment between Janzo and The Mistress.  

THE OUTPOST -- “Nothing Short of Heroic” -- IMOGEN WATERHOUSE -- Aleksander Letic/NBCU International --  © 2019 Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

A soldier reports to Gwynn that some one she knows as Alton is there to see her.  She rushes over and the boy (James Downie) says, “Sister.”  He says he was switched for a court scribe.  Alton’s mention of “Rossie” jogs a memory with Gwynn.  A king to take the throne?  Could he be another Capital deception?   He then shows her a cane that she activates the top to reveal a compartment.  In the camp, the captain wakens seen by Garrett.  The captain offers Garrett the chance to interrogate Talon.  She is tied to a tree.  Garrett tries to explain what happened and strikes Talon.  He starts to cut her bonds and she screams out.  The two start to take on the soldiers.  They defeat everyone and then suddenly more soldiers rush out, but Talon and Garrett take the two horses.  The soldiers coming from nowhere doens’t seem right.  Alton is having a meal while Gwynn questions him.  She introduces Tobin to Prince Alton.  He is young, but will soon be heir.  Tobin notices something strange with him.  Gwynn writes a message to be sent.  In the forest, Garrett tries to explain to Talon, she understands the conditioning at the Capital.  They reach a boat that Garrett is going to take to get his revenge.  He mentions that they had him kill his father.  Talon joins him, she doesn’t quite know that he needs her as a prisoner.  Janzo sees the Plagueling come out of The Mistress’ mouth. This does make it urgent and personal for Janzo to find the cure.    

THE OUTPOST -- “Nothing Short of Heroic” -- ANAND DESAI-BAROCHIA -- Aleksander Letic/NBCU International --  © 2019 Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

Janzo struggles over the cure.  Tobin goes to see Gwynn and admits he loves her.  They kiss.  Janzo is at the site by the wall where he bound the cured Plaguelings and sees an insect.  He remembers the sore on the cured woman and starts to laugh.  He has cracked the life cycle of the Plaguelings!  Janzo scrambles to put the insect caught in the hood and she spits out the Plagueling worm then gasps.  The Mistress realizes that her face is filled with moults.  Janzo happily runs out.  Night, he goes to check the forest for the insects, and sees a nest.  He climbs a tree with a dagger in his teeth and cuts down the next.  He falls down and Plaguelings surround him, but he is able to cut the nest free.  It is great that the curer for the disease gets exposed to it.  Gwynn arrives with soldiers to check on The Mistress.  Once freed, Gwynn has The Mistress arrested and taken away.  A soldier brings Gwynn to see pock marked Janzo with his recruits.  At the Capital, soldiers are looking for a woman, and Naya in a robe hides in a wagon with a Prime Order weapon. At Gwynn’s throne room, Janzo explains finding the stingfly cure, then tries to plead for Naya’s release.  Her decision is seconded by Alton.  She sends him to prison.  His mother sees him there.  Naya leaps out of the wagon and watches as the commander directs his soldiers to move the weapon.  Garrett walks with Talon to the Capital gate and says they are getting married.  Garrett and Talon’s bluff doesn’t seem to work.  The weapon is about to be tested.  Another complication that could turn the tide of the war.  It could be Naya makes it unstable and maybe at the cost of her life!  

Three Daggers out of Five! 

    

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