[serene music playing]
- [chirps] - [dinosaur grunts]
I didn't... [whimpers]
[sobs] ...I didn't even know her name.
- [bird chirping] - [Helena sobbing]
- [sobs] - But you can avenge her.
Fight to free all those whose names you do not know,
and may never know.
Helena, are you prepared to do what is necessary,
to fight,
to kill, in order to free these people?
I think so.
Yes.
[serene music concludes]
[intense music playing]
This is dangerous.
[Alasie] Dad,
what on this island isn't?
We would need to return to the camp
for reinforcements for a proper assault.
But the size of the force required to break through
their fortifications, would take everything we have.
We won't need an army.
Indirect methods are the way to secure this victory.
From within and from without.
Just as when we routed Nerva at Beartooth Ridge.
[John] If that drawbridge can be lowered from inside,
then all we would need is a pack of good,
solid creatures to break the outer gate.
But we are too recognizable, you and I.
The Beast Queen and Thunder Comes--
We will need others.
An infiltration mission! Yes!
Alasie, weren't you suffering from Swamp Fever just yesterday?
Yeah, and I got better,
and I helped save the whole village!
Chava said they'd never have gotten the egg
if not for me.
[John] All the more reason not to risk--
I know where we can find some fearsome critters,
just like you were talking about!
Don't be led astray.
You just said I could join the council!
That means that sometimes you actually have to trust me!
Climbing a mountain and fighting trained soldiers
are very different.
I'm not you, Dad. I'm not the people you lost.
I love you, and I know you're worried about me,
but I can't replace your family.
[gasps]
I won't spend my whole life
ignoring other people getting hurt
- so that we can stay safe. - Daughter...
- [groans] - [intense music concludes]
- [bird chirps] - Hmm? [sighs]
- [serene music playing] - Huh?
[breathes deeply] Raising her, loving her...
It's the best thing I've ever done.
If you love her,
then don't fight who she's becoming.
Help her on the path ahead.
Give her the support she needs
to grow into the person she chooses to be.
Can you do that for her, John?
[stegosauruses grunt]
See? I told you
I knew where we could find some fearsome critters!
This is not an adventure.
Both of you must conduct yourselves
as soldiers in battle.
There can be no hesitation.
All our lives depend upon it,
as well as the lives of those we intend to free.
- Understood? - Understood.
Now, these creatures. Hmm.
How can we take charge of so many
- in so little time? - Hmm?
[Meiyin] The guards will soon wonder
what became of the soldier they sent to track down
- their escaped prisoner. - I think I have an idea.
Ah. I love it when she says that.
Don't you, Meiyin?
Behavioral adaptation.
Uh, yeah. "Behavioral adaptation,"
- of course! - [Helena] Correct, Alasie!
This environment has changed the stegosauruses'
social hierarchy.
[Meiyin] Huh. How?
[Helena] They're closer to danger than ever.
They'll protect their young with everything they have.
But if we gain the trust of that little one,
- the rest will likely follow. - Then that's no problem!
- Let her prove herself. - [serene music concludes]
[tense music playing]
[pants, gasps]
- [stegosaurus groans] - [groans]
[roars]
Oh, beans.
Alasie! Get to the juvenile!
- [groans] - [growls]
Easier said than done!
[Meiyin pants, grunts]
[grunts, pants]
- [grunts, groans] - [roars]
- [pants, screams] - [roars]
- [groans, pants] - [groans]
[pants]
Easy. Easy. [pants]
[stegosauruses roar]
[gasps, groans]
[gasps]
[pants]
- [Helena] Alasie, catch! - Huh? [groans] Huh?
- [chuckles] - Oh. [grunts]
[grunts]
- [grunts] - [gasps]
[gasps, whimpers]
[growls]
- [tense music concludes] - [chuckles]
- [growls] - [serene music playing]
[groans]
[gasps, chuckles]
[roars]
[gasps, laughs]
- Alasie, heads up! - Huh?
- [growls] - chuckles]
Not bad.
No.
Not bad at all.
- [chuckles] - [gasps]
Cavalry acquired!
So, how do we lower the drawbridge, Meiyin?
Actually, there's something we could try.
- I saw it in a movie once. - [Alasie] I'm in!
If it breaks the camp and frees those within,
then my spear is at your service.
- [chuckles] - Just a question.
What's a movie?
- [serene music concludes] - [tense music playing]
[Alasie] Guards!
I found this one trying to escape!
[guard] Alert the Legatus.
[Alasie] It worked!
[dinosaurs hissing]
- [groans] - [chirps]
- [hisses] - [chuckles]
Hmm.
[guard] Domina, there was another escape attempt.
Ah. Fresh meat.
[guard] Hold. By order of The Gladiatrix,
High Legatus of General Nerva.
[scoffs]
[guard] Domina, we have...
- [Gladiatrix grunts] - [Alasie gasps]
- [gasps, groans] - [Gladiatrix grunts]
[grunts]
Outfit the plump, little pup for the games.
but leave this one for questioning.
Did this work better in your "movie"?
[groans]
- [gasps] - Bold of you to assume
that a trick so old would work.
Tricks only get old because they work.
[chuckles] That is truer than you know.
- [roars] - [roars]
The guards call you Gladiatrix.
So, you must have been a slave yourself once,
a gladiator of Rome.
How can you do this to other people?
I had a name, once. "Octavia." Before they took it from me.
It turns out that every world is the same.
"Hit first, hit hard."
And that justifies the suffering you've caused?
You think these slaves are any better?
Any one of them would cut my throat
to sit in my chair, and take what I have.
I chose to fight in the arena, the only place I could be free.
[scoffs] Free?
And to be free,
you and Nerva have destroyed so many lives.
[chuckles]
[Alasie pants]
- [dinosaurs growl] - [groans, gasps]
- [pants] - [dinosaur hissing]
- Helena? - Alasie!
[hisses, growls]
[Gladiatrix] We all heard about the woman
who unleashed Nerva's serpents upon his camp
and slaughtered half a battalion.
Your handiwork,
but you wanna talk to me of killing?
- [Alasie gasps] - [gasps]
- [hisses]
[Alasie pants]
- Let her go! - [grunts]
[groans]
I find a person's last moments to be the most meaningful...
[sharply inhales] ...and entertaining.
The fight. The struggle. The desperation.
- [whimpers] - Wouldn't you agree?
[groans] I'll do it!
- I'll fight them! - No.
You will watch.
- [Alasie gasps] - [dinosaurs hissing]
- [pants] - [dinosaurs hiss, roar]
[Alasie screams, groans]
[groans] No! No!
You've kept those soft, little hands clean.
But she is no doubt here because of you.
You give the orders, but you don't swing the axe,
and so, you think you're somehow pure
and innocent.
[Alasie groans]
- [groans] - [dinosaurs hiss]
- [chuckles] - [groans]
[dinosaurs hiss, screech]
[blows raspberries]
[gasps]
You were supposed to be this splendid thing.
The rebel trickster who defied even Nerva himself.
But look at you. Pathetic. [breathes deeply]
And without even the Artifact they say you stole.
You don't deserve the death Nerva would have given you.
All it takes is one person to stand up to you,
and then others will follow.
- [guard grunts] - [gasps]
Like the brave, kind woman who escaped you,
who you sent a soldier to hunt and murder.
What was her name?
If she was one of my slaves, she didn't have one.
And by the time I'm finished, neither will you.
- [tense music concludes] - [serene music playing]
I can't believe
the... the last thing I said to my dad was...
- [sobs] - It's okay, Alasie.
We're together.
- Everything's gonna be fine. - [whimpers]
- [sighs] - [fire worms chittering]
[gasps]
- Alasie. - [sighs] Helena?
Huh. I wonder...
[groans]
There we go.
- [grunts] - [gasps, groans]
Meiyin told me about these fire worms.
[groans]
Nerva's lackeys have been so used
to having everyone under their feet,
they haven't noticed what else is under the ground.
Wait, was this always part of the plan?
- [serene music concludes] - Hmm.
- [suspenseful music playing] - [fire worm chitters]
Use this to break every lock on the prisoners holding cells.
Anyone in chains, let them go.
- [groans] Got it. - [fire worms chitter]
- What about you? - I'm going to the drawbridge.
- [dinosaurs snore] - [pants, gasps]
[pants]
[guard 1] That she-wolf only makes the varmints fight
'cause Nerva don't like her killing so many of his slaves.
- [gasps] - [chain clinks]
[grunts]
- Sorry. [grunts] - [dinosaurs roar]
[grunts]
- [guard 1 groans] - [guard 2 groans]
- [grunts, pants] - [dinosaur whimpering]
[guard 3] Hmm? You hear that?
[guard 4] Yes. Let's check it out.
[pants]
[pants, groans]
[gasps]
- [exhales, pants] - [suspenseful music concludes]
- [groans] - [dramatic music playing]
- [grunts] - [groans]
[scoffs] Hello again, little killer.
- [grunts] - [groans]
[Gladiatrix] And to think a little nothing like you
- got the better of Nerva! - [groans]
- [Gladiatrix grunts] - [groans]
I wanna look into the eyes of the butcher
who slaughtered Nerva's men before I bleed you dry.
- [grunts] What was her name? - [Gladiatrix grunts]
[groans]
- Who? The dead slave? - What was her name?
[groans, pants]
- [pants] - [chuckles]
Annika.
- [gasps] Annika? - [Gladiatrix grunts]
- [grunts] - [groans]
- [grunts, pants] - [coughs]
[Gladiatrix laughing]
You're not paying attention, little killer.
[pants]
- [Gladiatrix grunts] - [groans]
- [chuckles] - [gasps]
What did I say about old tricks?
- [Alasie screaming] - Old tricks...
grow old...
- for a reason. - [Alasie screams]
- For freedom! - [laughs]
How amusing!
I needed a new dwarf jester, and for that,
I'll leave you your tongue!
- [dinosaurs growl] - [prisoner screams]
[screams]
Guards!
- [Alasie screams] - [prisoners scream]
[Gladiatrix pants]
- [Helena grunts] - Huh?
- [grunts] - [groans]
- [Gladiatrix grunts] - [pants, gasps]
Hmm.
[pants, grunts]
[groans, grunts]
[pants, grunts]
[groans, pants]
[dinosaurs growl]
Well done, soldier.
- [screams] - [stegosauruses roar]
[screams, grunts]
- [gasps, pants] - [stegosaurus roaring]
[Meiyin screams]
[stegosauruses roar]
[Meiyin grunts]
[roars]
- [grunts] - Yeah! Beast Queen!
Enough!
Yutyrannus.
[roars]
- [pants] - [pants]
[laughs]
[Alasie screams]
[groans, grunts]
- [groans] - [roars]
- [Meiyin grunts] - [Gladiatrix groans]
- [groans] - [groans]
- [grunts] - [groans]
[laughs, grunts]
[groans, gasps]
- [grunts] - [groans, screams]
[groans, pants]
- [yutyrannus growls] - [pants]
[groans] Hmm. Go on, my pet. Eat well.
[dinosaur roars]
- [roars] - [roars]
[Alasie] Dad!
Hello, daughter.
[gasps]
We'll drive them back, together.
Hmm.
[growls]
Helena!
[grunts]
[pants, grunts]
- [screams] - [roars]
[gasps] Beast Queen.
[growls]
[pants]
- [Gladiatrix screams] - [roars]
Huh?
Training eliminates fear.
[roars]
- [growls] - [growls]
[roars]
[groans, grunts]
[groans]
[groans] You little...
[roars]
[groans]
[grunts]
Look around,
little killer.
You... [grunts]
...and your friends are no better...
than me and mine.
- What was it for? - [dinosaur roars]
To take my camp?
To take my place?
This? This is for Annika.
[groans]
[grunts]
- [roars] - [grunts]
[screams]
[roars, growls]
Every one of you is free!
Join us if you wish,
that we may break these camps, break these chains,
and break the stranglehold Nerva has over this land!
[prisoners cheer]
[sighs]
Huh?
Stop!
It's over.
Take the shot.
[pants]
Helena! Take the shot!
[exhales]
Huh?
[pants] Please.
- [whistles] - [gasps]
- [guard grunts]
[grunts]
Do not let him escape!
[grunts, sighs]
[gasps]
[whimpers]
[whimpers, pants]
- Helena! [pants] - [chuckles, sighs]
Hmm?
[scoffs]
[dramatic music concludes]
[theme music playing]
[theme music concludes]