The Outpost, “The Vex Rezicon”, Review!

Janzo, Talon, and Garrett are getting closer to the reaching the Book of Names as well as Everitt Dred.  Some choking noises as Talon wakes.  Janzo is examining Garrett who has not transformed into a Plagueling.  Talon frees him from chains to relieve himself.  Garrett finishes and brings back the chains.  He seems to have worked through the Plagueling infection.  At the shrine, Essa Khan has reached a table with a triangular symbol, but can’t use her knife to open it and there is some black liquid on the blade.  She uses her torch to set it on fire and a stone tablet slides out revealing the Book of Names.  Essa looks at the book, ripping out a page, and then sets fire to the book.  What is on that page?  

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On the desert path, Garrett asks about the Dragman.  Janzo has found water, a lake, and Garrett and Talon rush to drink from it.  Janzo wonders why there is no settlements and sees a creature swimming, a terrapod.  It drags Garrett under and Talon leaps after it.  Does also watch from the water?  She pulls Garrett back with a knife in her mouth and a severed tentacle around him.  Talon gives him a form of CPR.  The tentacle appears from the water and they move away.  Garrett sleeps from his wounds, Janzo worries about being a coward, then they hear Greyskin drums.  The Outpost, Dred’s soldiers are tearing apart a room, and find a flute to show to Dred.  On the way, Talon asks Garrett about his mother, and he replies that she was a washer woman who died. He says his brother, Jayden, was sent to the mines and beaten to death by criminals. Then, he grew up with Gwyn.  

Janzo is impatient.  At the Outpost, Dred wants Calkussar’s daughter, the soldiers search the rooms.  Gwyn watches from a grate with Naya.   Greyskins knock out Janzo and Garrett, then another slams a club at Talon’s face!  The Outpost, soldiers are cutting the hands of women, Gwyn watches from the hiding place.  She asks Naya where she is from and she says the capitol. Gwyn tells Naya to get help from Danno.  The Mistress with her broken arm sees that business is bad.  Then, soldiers enter as Dred appears, he wants the Mistress to get in line.  She pricks her finger to show she does not have black blood.  Dred orders the tavern to be destroyed.  A soldier has a hood removed from Naya.  In a room, Dred wonders why she has sent message about royal heir, to save her mother and sister,  she agrees to reveal Gwyn’s location!  A dangerous, possible double cross!  Gwyn is found by Whythers and Danno.  Unexpected allies.  

THE OUTPOST -- "The Vex Rezicon” -- Photo: NBCU International -- © Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

Night, the Greyskins checks on their captives, one offers colipsum to Garrett because he has the Plagueling inside him.  The Plagueling starts to pull up Janzo to eat and Talon summons the Locuri demon.  She commands it to free her and attack the Greyskins.  She frees her friends and they run off.  The Locuri is killed by the Greyskins.  She struggles over sending it to it’s death.  Janzo has found the shrine.  Naya leads Dred, but the cell is empty.  Whythers has his hand over Gwyn, she bites his hand, and she is held by Danno.  He says he is helping Gwyn to escape.  The underground passageways, Whythers has taken Gwyn to Sill, she leads Gwyn across the narrow ledge.  Whythers wants to stay to fight for the Outpost.  He has a message for Garrett.  Whythers and Danno are found by soldiers and he says they have been infected by Plaguelings.  Marshall Higgs brings women and gold to Dred.  

Day, at the shrine, Janzo, Garrett, and Talon enter, he finds the burned book and can read the title.  Janzo thinks there is more to the book.  Talon rips the spine of the book and finds a talisman on a chain.  Janzo thinks the talisman is the Book of Names. Garrett wonders how they will read it. Whythers has reached the cellar and meets with the Mistress. He wants her to join the fight agains the Prime Order.  She agrees and he kisses her.  On the way back, Garrett wonders if an army was sent to the Outpost.  Danno and Whythers ambush two soldiers.  They attack more soldiers in the revolt.  A soldier brings around a crossbow, but Munt (Adam Johnson), the Mistress’s son, knocks him out.  Naya slips away as they plan their revolt and the solders ambush them.  Whythers and the Mistress get crossbow bolts.  Dred and Ilyn watch.  The number of creatures in this episode are great.  This is charging to a conclusion!  

Four Daggers out of Five!   

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