The Outpost, “There Will Be A Reckoning”, Review!

Garret is captured, but it seems there is an agent of the Capital there at The Outpost.  Talon and Zed quest to find the artifact, but Janzo’s treason has to be dealt with on her return.  In the forest, Zed and Talon walk, they hear a baby caught by a beast.  Zed draw his bow and looses an arrow at the beast that drops the child.  It charges and he puts it down with another arrow.  The mother holds her baby thanking Zed and the father takes her away. Milas argues with Gwynn over the wedding agreements with the Mistress and Aunt Gertie.  He says he wants a deed for the lands to the man who enters bandaged.  Janzo analyzes Garret’s eyes with a lamp.  Milas leaves with Tobin and Gwynn watching him on the battlement.  Zed and Talon look at the night sky.  He asks about her cutting off the tips of her ears.  She touches Zed’s ears and then kisses him.   So it begins.  Morning, at the camp, the husband has brought soldiers.  So it would be better if Zed let the beast take away the baby?  The soldiers close in with Zed and Talon apparently asleep.  One snaps a twig and then Zed and Talon are taking on the soldiers.  Zed is acrobatic in defeating them.  The husband runs away.  It is more important to hunt down the person who saved his child because he is fearful of the person's race? 

THE OUTPOST -- “There Will Be A Reckoning” -- JESSICA GREEN -- Aleksander Letic/NBCU International -- © 2019 Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

Back at The Outpost, The Mistress worries that Milus’ army left and may be taking Tobin’s lands.  She wants her sister to go defend his lands.  Garret wakens in his cell, the Capital traitor takes the watch, and goes to suffocate Janzo with a pillow.  He manages to throw a pot of hot water on him and leaps on the soldier’s back.  Munt is able to knock out the soldier.  Janzo threatens Garret and then has Munt punch Garret.  Munt takes the soldier to be questioned by the Mistress. She has him taken by the Plagueling.  The Mistress sends Munt to go with Aunt Gertie to spy on her.  She sees off The Mistress and Munt follows on a donkey!  It seems like the actor who plays Munt is game for trying anything!  Milus rides with his army as we see above them his army  Janzo is busy experimenting when Gwynn enters.  Garret says he was confused and of course he grabs Gwynn by the throat until knocked out by a soldier.  The bells are sounded in The Outpost, Gwynn and Tobin go to the walls, and see Milus and his soldiers.  A messenger rides in a horse and wants loyalty from the false queen.  Gwynn orders arrows to send a message back.  She tells Tobin that she wants to parley and he offers to go negotiate with his cousin.  Gwynn has the Mistress go with him.  

The Mistress says to Milus that they will send a thousand men.  Milus says that he was three thousand.  Tobin goes to parlay with Milus alone.  Janzo sees them with his telescope and Gwynn sends him back to work.  In a tent, Milus threatens to starve out The Outpost.  The Mistress says she is in pain and she is met by Devin who is a colipsum dealer.  She is sending a man to make the deal.  Milus wants the false queen for his lands to serve as governor.  Tobin enters The Outpost with The Mistress.  He tells Gwynn Milus’ plan.  Birds are released, but they are targets for Milas’ archers!  At a rocky cliffside, there are shrines, Zed says that all of the Blackbloods could live there.  The Mistress wants Danno to scale the wall of The Outpost.  He gives a bag of colipsum to the dealer to get a bag of coins in return.  Garret tries to escape the cage and get the keys to his cell while the guard sleeps.  He snaps a wooden pole and then is about to tie his shirt with the pole to break from the cell.  Garret threatens Janzo.  I like that it is taking some time for Garret to be break free from the Capital’s conditioning, but it also doesn’t make sense that a prisoner would not be searched so they would find the vial to keep his brainwashing. 

THE OUTPOST -- “There Will Be A Reckoning” -- REECE RITCHE -- Aleksander Letic/NBCU International -- © 2019 Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

Janzo finds out that Garret was trying to reach his belt and finds the vial.  Janzo drinks it and discovers it is Niasa root.  The vial makes him compliant.  It is foolish that Garret’s belt is the last place Janzo thinks to check.  Janzo has a cup that will help clear his mind.  Garret hesitantly drinks the cup.  Talon sees the traces of her human family when she was a child.  Zed goes to dig out a tree root to find a gem on a skull.  He attaches the stone to a locket and it glows blue.  Gwynn has the arrival of Tobin who is drinking grape juice.  She asks him what Milas offered to betray her.  They kiss.  The Mistress sees the bag of coins brought by Danno and reports the entire camp will be on colipsum.  A way to stop the army and we have the persistance of Garret even though he lost his ally.  He has taken Janzo’s antidote so it may work in time or give him pause to stop his action. The show seems to shift, Tobin was interesting last episode, now it is Zed who is an interesting romance for Talon.  There is some action, but it needs to move closer to the finale.  Still, the amulet is kinda cool.    

Three Daggers out of Five! 

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