The Shannara Chronicles (2016) s02e08 Episode Script

1 The Crimson have taken Arborlon.
Body's still warm.
Any sign of the other Chosen? Should be six more.
Fresh tracks heading east into the woods.
(BREATHING HEAVILY) WIL: The Crimson, how many were there? Too many.
The Chosen are the keepers of the Ellcrys.
Riga's sending a message.
Anyone who protects magic will die.
We have to stop this.
No, we're not.
You have to see Amberle.
We can't just do nothing.
I'll find The Chosen.
But Amberle asked for you.
She said the fate of the Four Lands depends on you.
So you're going in there to see her.
Now.
(THEME SONG PLAYING) I feel it running through my veins And I need that fire Just to know that I'm awake You don't know how many times I've come to the Ellcrys and tried to talk to you.
I know.
I heard you.
Then why didn't you answer me? There was nothing I could say.
How about goodbye? It all happened so fast.
One minute we were in the Sanctuary and the next you were AMBERLE: I made the choice, Wil.
It was the only way to save the Four Lands.
I know.
And I tried to make peace with that.
It's been difficult, I know.
Difficult? I loved you.
I still love you, Amberle.
What we have AMBERLE: What we had was a moment in time we can always cherish But that time has passed.
Maybe for you.
You made the decision.
You never told me or included me you just left me alone to pick up the pieces.
You're angry.
And you have every right to be but this was my destiny and now you must face yours.
Look I know what's at stake.
The Warlock Lord is back and supposedly I'm the only one who can defeat him.
Except I can't.
I've seen my truth and it's not what you think What did you see? That I fail.
I don't defeat him.
The Warlock Lord kills everyone I care about.
Allanon Eretria And Mareth? Unlike you and my father I'm not strong enough to save the world.
The truth that I saw is that the Warlock Lord wins.
Wil, the truth is yet to be.
The Warlock Lord is powerful in ways you have yet to encounter.
His dark magic is unmatched.
But you can defeat him.
Tell me how.
He has a weakness.
It's the thing that destroyed him the last time he walked the earthly plane.
- The Sword of Shannara.
- Yes.
And, as the Shannara, only you can wield it.
So the one thing standing between my saving the Four Lands and total annihilation is the sword? Then we have a really big problem.
We're not giving our love for free Always out of reach Always out of reach Why has a mortal boy awoken the Warlock Lord imprisoning me in the flesh of my mortal enemy? To be your servant.
And yet there is something else.
Something on your mind.
A desire.
Speak.
I was hoping, my Lord that you might grant me a request.
Catania.
She's the only person that I've ever loved.
If you would grant her life, so that we could be together again I'll forever be in your service.
(GRUNTING) (GROANS) (PANTING) Again.
Faster.
(GRUNTING) This is pointless.
(PANTING) Get up.
You have much to learn.
We are not done yet.
Why can't I just use magic to fight? Because magic is not a weapon.
It must be used sparingly.
- Magic - Yeah, I know.
Magic always has a price.
Again.
Do you think that becoming a Druid is easy? Understand this your life is no longer your own.
You'll be at service to the Four Lands and (GRUNTING) I'll get help.
There's no point.
(PANTING) When I defeated the Dagda Mor I should have sequestered myself into Druid's sleep to replenish my magic.
(BREATHING HEAVILY) But I couldn't.
I had to find Bandon.
The sleep, it takes years even decades.
(SIGHS) What happens if you don't take the sleep? You die, don't you? (SIGHS) (HORSE WHINNYING) - (GASPS) - (GRUNTING) Maybe we can work out a deal.
(WHIMPERING) Buy you a few more hours of your life.
(GRUNTS) (EFFORT GRUNTING) You're dead, Rover! You'll have to catch me first.
(GRUNTING) We don't have much time.
I don't know how to thank you.
(SNIFFLES) Don't thank me yet.
They'll be back.
What now? We need to get you to the tunnels below Arborlon.
You'll be safe there.
Keep up with me.
(SPEAKING ANCIENT DRUID) (SIGHS) It's working.
(GASPS) (BREATHING HEAVILY) Where am I? Catania.
Catania, look at me.
It's okay.
It's okay.
You? - It's okay.
- Get away from me! - It's okay.
It's okay! - (SCREAMS) No! - I'm not going to hurt you.
- No! Okay? I know (SIGHS) I know what you must think of me.
And I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
I'd rather be dead than be with you.
(GRUNTING) BANDON: I never meant to hurt you.
Enough.
Enough.
Come to me.
What have you done? (BREATHING HEAVILY) Catania.
Get away from her! (GRUNTING) When my sword struck the Warlock blade it revealed the truth of what's gonna happen.
I saw flashes of them all dying.
Eretria returning to the darkness Allanon and Mareth, covered in blood.
(SIGHS) I was helpless to stop it.
I could feel myself being pulled under water the whole world going cold.
- Wil - Look, the truth is I fail.
It's as simple as that.
I've seen it.
I've felt it.
(GASPS) Nothing about the truth is simple.
The sword broke when your truth was revealed because you weren't ready to face it.
What truth is that? MAN: Wil.
Dad? What are you doing here? I'm here to help you face your truth.
My truth.
My truth is, I'm no hero.
I don't save anyone.
I'm not you.
You're a better man than me, Wil.
(SIGHS) Me? No.
You're the legendary Shea Ohmsford hero of the War of the Races.
Don't you ever wonder why I became a drunk? Why I died alone in that cave? It was because I was a failure living a lie.
To defeat the Warlock Lord I had to risk making the ultimate sacrifice.
I couldn't.
The thought of leaving Heady behind and never having you was too much.
I was ashamed to be alive because I couldn't face my truth.
Don't make that same mistake.
You have information about the Druid? Yes, General.
He was brought into Storlock several days ago, badly wounded.
And who brought him in? His daughter.
His daughter? They say she has powers, too, sir.
Why would they come to Storlock? The Druids have no use for medicine.
Uh, the Elder Stor was keeping something for him.
Something called a Codex.
And why should I believe you? This is what the demons did to me.
I want things back the way they were before magic.
They will be, brother.
I (SIGHS) I thank you, General.
(SIGHS) We ride for Storlock.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING) What's gonna happen when you're gone? You'll become the last of the Druids.
Protector of magic.
But the Druid's path is solitary.
You'll have to walk alone.
I'm not afraid of being alone.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Fear is the least of it, Mareth.
Even if the Warlock Lord is defeated You mean when the Warlock Lord is defeated.
Even then.
You'll be forced to watch everybody you care about grow old and die.
I'll do what I have to do.
Your feelings for Wil Ohmsford.
(SIGHS) They've grown strong.
And this is an obstacle you'll be forced to overcome.
You don't have to worry about that.
(SIGHS) Love can cloud your judgment and make you vulnerable.
It puts everybody around you at peril.
A Druid must learn to face the future without emotional attachment.
(SIGHS) Like you? Did you ever love my mother? Your mother was beautiful and brilliant.
She could have lived the life of a princess.
But she was also determined and stubborn.
She chose a higher calling.
One of learning and knowledge.
(SIGHS) I miss her so much.
(SIGHS) As do I.
Every single day.
No, you didn't answer my question though.
Did you love her? Your mother was the only woman I have ever loved.
And that love weakened me.
I need to rest.
Go.
But Please, go.
(SNIFFLES) (HORSE WHINNIES) (HORSE WHINNIES) Don't slow down.
We're almost there.
(CHOSEN GRUNTING) Keep running! (HORSE WHINNIES) No one outruns the Crimson.
This is where I belong.
Being a healer.
It's all I ever wanted to be.
Not a hero.
Not a savior.
A simple life.
Before the Elfstones and magic and Allanon.
But that's not our destiny, is it? And now your the world's only hope.
How do I destroy the Warlock Lord so he never comes back? You must sink the blade straight through his heart.
What if I can't, what if I fail? You're a Shannara.
The magic of your ancestors runs through your blood.
It can defeat the Warlock Lord and cleanse the world of evil but only if you accept your destiny and make peace with your past.
You and I are good now.
There's one more you must face.
(GRUNTS) (GRUNTS) (CRIMSON GUARD GRUNTS) (GRUNTS) (GRUNTS) Run! Go to the tunnel.
(THE CHOSEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY) (PANTING) Why do you think we're still alive? My guess? Riga has a thing for theater.
Drawing out the kills for show.
- (DOOR UNLOCKING) - (GRUNTS) (CELL UNLOCKING) (CELL UNLOCKING) Tell me something, Slanter.
Is there anyone that'll miss you when you're gone? A wife? Kids? The Gnome tribe are my only family.
What about you? (SIGHS) There's no one left to miss me.
SLANTER: It makes it easier, I suppose.
That was the plan.
But now I'm not so sure that was the best strategy.
To leave behind nothing but ghosts and regrets to die with a heart that's never known love what kind of life is that? (EFFORT GRUNTING) (GRUNTS) (SIGHS) RIGA: Druid! (GRUNTS) General Riga.
I believe I have something that belongs to you.
And I'd thought that might get your attention.
Bring me the Codex, or your daughter dies.
(CATANIA BREATHES HEAVILY) (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) (GRUNTS) (PANTING) Look at what you've done to her.
- (CHUCKLES) - Look at what she's done to you.
(SIGHS) She is nothing.
She is everything.
(GRUNTS) (STRAINING) She never loved you.
(GASPS) - (PANTING) - WARLOCK LORD: Nobody has ever loved you.
Love is an illusion.
You must empty your heart.
You must free your mind.
(BREATHING HEAVILY) (CHUCKLES) (SIGHS) You must kill your desire.
(SIGHS) No.
No.
I can't.
Darkness does not serve us, we serve darkness.
(SIGHS) Please.
Prove yourself.
(CATANIA SIGHS) (SIGHS) (SIGHS) CATANIA: Bandon, my love (CATANIA SIGHS) - (GRUNTS) - (GASPING) Now you can walk by my side.
Always thought I'd take my last breath on the battlefield.
Not with my hands tied and thrown over a dam like last night's trash.
- (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) - Guess I should've learned how to swim.
- (CHUCKLES) - (GRUNTS) (GRUNTS) (GROANS) How're you boys holding up? Much better, thanks to you.
I assume my men were able to break into the palace with your help.
GRANDAL: That's right.
We have to move fast.
What's the plan? The service tunnels that run beneath the dam.
They'll get you out of the city undetected.
I'll escort you to the entrance, then you're on your own.
If the Crimson find out you're helping us, you know you're a dead man.
That's a risk I'm willing to take.
For a Gnome and a bounty hunter, you barely know.
Queen Tamlin was good to me.
It's the least I can do to honor her memory.
All I ask is that you find Lyria and protect her.
You have my word.
Come on.
Follow me.
(HORSE WHINNIES) No.
At last.
You should have let me die.
RIGA: You're a shadow of your former self, Druid.
Not at all the man I met in Graymark.
You said you would let her go.
Are you really that naive? She's as guilty as you are and will share the same fate.
Thank you for this.
You have no idea what you're up against.
With your death, I am one step closer to purging the Four Lands of magic.
CRIMSON SCOUT: General, there has been no word from Graymark.
I sent men to investigate but they have yet to return.
I'm afraid there's been a breach.
We leave for Graymark at once.
Burn the Druid and his daughter at the stake then scatter their ashes in the wind.
I want nothing left.
It's still broken.
(SIGHS) I have to face you.
You're my last truth.
You're gone.
And you're never coming back.
I have to let you go once and for all.
That's right.
And nothing can bring me back.
ELLCRYS AMBERLE: She loved you, Wil.
And I loved her.
But that moment in time has passed.
You did it.
(CRIMSON GUARDS PANTING) RIGA: Garrison! Who are you? Take him! (CRIMSON GUARDS PANTING) (BREATHES DEEPLY) (CRIMSON GUARDS GRUNTING) Warlock Lord.
Bow.
You have no power over me.
I am impervious to your magic.
And I will not stop until it's purged from this land.
You may be impervious to magic, but not to me.
(STRUGGLING) (GRUNTS) (GASPS) (EFFORT GRUNTING) Mortals are always blind to magic's true power.
(GRUNTING) The Four Lands will not be purged of magic.
(RIGA GRUNTING) - It will be consumed by it.
- (RIGA GRUNTING) (SCREAMING) Tell me did the bitch Queen litter any children? A daughter.
Princess Lyria.
Then we must find her for she is the key to Heaven's Well.
Come.
We have work to do.
WOMAN: Who's going to rule this world? Who's going to rule this world? Who's going to rule this world? Who's going to rule this world? WIL: Eretria! Eretria.
(WIL PANTS) (WIL SIGHS) What took you so long, Short Tips? What happened? You all right? Yeah.
I'm fine.
The Crimson on the other hand The rest of The Chosen? Are they safe? Yes.
Did you see Amberle? What did she say? I'll tell you on the way.
We've gotta meet the others at the enclave.
There's no time to lose.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) (SIGHS) This is all my fault.
No.
Yes.
You only gave Riga the Codex to protect me.
You are more important to me (BREATHES DEEPLY) than any book.
(SIGHS) CRIMSON LEADER: Will your magic save you now, Druid? (CRIES)