1 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,710 Beowulf, why come so far to watch an old Thane die? 2 00:00:09,750 --> 00:00:11,790 You're nothing, Beowulf. 3 00:00:11,830 --> 00:00:13,790 Your father was nothing. 4 00:00:13,830 --> 00:00:15,830 Kill him. 5 00:00:15,910 --> 00:00:19,590 There'll be no more blood spilt in this hall while I'm Reeve. 6 00:00:19,630 --> 00:00:21,670 - I'm here to see Hrothgar. - Hrothgar is dead. 7 00:00:21,710 --> 00:00:23,710 One Thane must rule us all. Why not you? 8 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:27,430 - Would you rather it was someone else? I saw you. - Talking to him? 9 00:00:27,470 --> 00:00:30,350 - You're different to the old healer. - I know. - All yours. 10 00:00:30,390 --> 00:00:32,030 A Mudborn killed Bayen. 11 00:00:32,070 --> 00:00:36,470 If I'm not avenged... I'll never enter the Halls of the Dead. 12 00:00:36,510 --> 00:00:38,670 I will avenge you. 13 00:00:38,710 --> 00:00:41,150 The wound wasn't from a beast. He was stabbed. 14 00:00:41,190 --> 00:00:42,790 You don't belong here. Never did. 15 00:00:42,830 --> 00:00:47,150 Slean is your half-brother. You're my blood. My son. 16 00:00:47,190 --> 00:00:50,590 Herot will need you, and you will come. 17 00:02:16,390 --> 00:02:21,790 Today... Hrothgar, Thane of Herot, 18 00:02:21,830 --> 00:02:24,030 will enter the Halls of the Dead. 19 00:02:24,870 --> 00:02:26,990 But my husband is not lost to you. 20 00:02:28,310 --> 00:02:30,310 Take off your father's sword. 21 00:02:46,230 --> 00:02:48,230 Raise it. 22 00:02:49,430 --> 00:02:51,430 Higher. 23 00:04:04,630 --> 00:04:07,950 Rate, the others might be at Herot already. 24 00:04:07,990 --> 00:04:10,390 Ride ahead and tell Rheda 25 00:04:10,430 --> 00:04:12,990 the Varni Thane will come in his own time. 26 00:04:13,910 --> 00:04:17,030 For now... I feel like fishing. 27 00:04:20,430 --> 00:04:22,430 Hyar! 28 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:24,030 What are you doing here? 29 00:05:25,710 --> 00:05:29,710 - These are the Reeve's quarters. - Now he's gone, what will you do? 30 00:05:29,750 --> 00:05:32,230 It's my responsibility to find Bayen's killer. 31 00:05:32,270 --> 00:05:34,270 I'll leave you to it. 32 00:05:37,030 --> 00:05:39,430 Bayen used to talk about you all the time. 33 00:05:39,470 --> 00:05:44,230 Mostly about how he thought Hrothgar wished YOU were his son, not Slean. 34 00:05:46,910 --> 00:05:49,310 Old men like to tell stories. 35 00:05:49,350 --> 00:05:52,790 When people stop listening, they tell them a little louder. 36 00:05:52,830 --> 00:05:54,830 Make them a little bigger. 37 00:06:08,510 --> 00:06:10,510 Beowulf... 38 00:06:15,190 --> 00:06:18,150 I never thanked you. You saved my life. 39 00:06:18,190 --> 00:06:21,070 I wasn't there for you. I was there for the beast. 40 00:06:21,110 --> 00:06:23,230 Still... thank you. 41 00:06:24,710 --> 00:06:27,430 - May I ask you a question? - Go ahead. 42 00:06:28,670 --> 00:06:30,990 Are you Slean's woman? 43 00:06:31,030 --> 00:06:33,510 Only, I saw him leave your home this morning. 44 00:06:35,390 --> 00:06:37,470 You did? 45 00:06:37,510 --> 00:06:39,510 I did. 46 00:06:40,030 --> 00:06:42,070 I don't belong to any man. 47 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:44,070 Then... 48 00:06:44,110 --> 00:06:46,110 We're close. 49 00:06:50,430 --> 00:06:52,950 - Is Breca awake? - He has company. 50 00:06:52,990 --> 00:06:55,270 - Wife? - Children. 51 00:06:55,310 --> 00:06:57,310 Quick, even for him. 52 00:06:57,830 --> 00:06:59,710 I'm feeling lucky. 53 00:06:59,750 --> 00:07:01,910 Feeling lucky. 54 00:07:01,950 --> 00:07:04,070 Oh, yes! 55 00:07:04,110 --> 00:07:05,870 Let me win back what I lost. 56 00:07:05,910 --> 00:07:08,550 - Won't happen. - Her parents'll beat her. 57 00:07:09,150 --> 00:07:11,150 Really? 58 00:07:12,310 --> 00:07:14,630 It's character-building. 59 00:07:19,790 --> 00:07:22,750 Take what's yours and get out. And you. 60 00:07:24,950 --> 00:07:28,550 - Children? - Find me a proper game. 61 00:07:28,590 --> 00:07:31,510 If you want a proper game, don't use loaded knuckles. 62 00:07:32,350 --> 00:07:35,870 I'm a married man. I've got responsibilities now. 63 00:07:35,910 --> 00:07:37,590 Up. 64 00:07:37,630 --> 00:07:39,550 The healer said I have to rest. 65 00:07:39,590 --> 00:07:41,310 Up. I need the mind of a murderer. 66 00:07:41,350 --> 00:07:43,150 I told you - it was an accident. 67 00:07:43,190 --> 00:07:45,870 What? You mean, the man you stuck a knife in...? 68 00:07:45,910 --> 00:07:48,470 All right! All right. 69 00:08:01,350 --> 00:08:05,790 That mark on Breca's throat - you know it's from a noose, don't you? 70 00:08:05,830 --> 00:08:08,430 Somebody had a reason to put it round his neck. 71 00:08:08,470 --> 00:08:10,790 - What do you think you're doing? - Living. 72 00:08:10,830 --> 00:08:14,230 - Huh! - Vishka, it's six years since your father died. 73 00:08:14,270 --> 00:08:16,470 Why now? Why this one? 74 00:08:16,510 --> 00:08:18,830 Er... 75 00:08:18,870 --> 00:08:21,190 Vishka, we were going to... 76 00:08:21,230 --> 00:08:22,590 the snares. 77 00:08:22,630 --> 00:08:24,630 They need checking. 78 00:08:34,190 --> 00:08:37,430 Hrothgar wasn't only Thane of Herot. He was also Jarl, 79 00:08:37,470 --> 00:08:40,190 leader of all the tribes across the Shieldlands. 80 00:08:40,710 --> 00:08:45,110 And, to succeed him, you need a majority of the votes at the Gathering. I'm not a child. 81 00:08:45,150 --> 00:08:47,310 Then tell me how they'll vote. 82 00:08:47,350 --> 00:08:50,270 The Thanes will be here by sunset. 83 00:08:54,110 --> 00:08:56,190 The Wisdeth are farmers. 84 00:08:56,230 --> 00:09:00,510 They need our iron, our warriors. Their vote can be counted on. 85 00:09:00,550 --> 00:09:04,910 Scorann is a good Thane and a friend of Herot, but nothing can be counted on. 86 00:09:06,590 --> 00:09:08,590 Go on. 87 00:09:10,510 --> 00:09:12,670 Bregan is Abrecan's. 88 00:09:12,710 --> 00:09:15,030 And my vote is yours. 89 00:09:15,070 --> 00:09:17,150 And the forest people? 90 00:09:17,190 --> 00:09:19,350 The Banning Thane has a weak spot for you... 91 00:09:20,110 --> 00:09:22,230 ...but his vote is uncertain. 92 00:09:22,270 --> 00:09:24,270 Which leaves the Varni. 93 00:09:26,950 --> 00:09:31,070 Rate wishes to see himself made Jarl of the Shieldlands, instead of you. 94 00:09:31,710 --> 00:09:35,110 But, in order to do so, he'd have to convince the others you're weak. 95 00:09:35,150 --> 00:09:37,150 So you lose the vote. 96 00:09:38,550 --> 00:09:40,550 And if I do...? 97 00:09:40,910 --> 00:09:42,910 Rate could challenge you. 98 00:09:45,870 --> 00:09:48,190 You'd have to defeat him in single combat. 99 00:09:56,030 --> 00:09:58,030 Ah... 100 00:10:26,590 --> 00:10:28,590 What was that? 101 00:10:36,630 --> 00:10:40,270 Bayen's body was here. Imagine you stabbed him. 102 00:10:40,310 --> 00:10:42,510 You make it sound like I'm an expert at this. 103 00:10:46,830 --> 00:10:48,630 Varni. 104 00:10:48,670 --> 00:10:52,910 Varr. They said you were licking boots here, but I didn't believe that. 105 00:10:52,950 --> 00:10:54,630 Even of you. 106 00:10:54,670 --> 00:10:57,310 Take me to the woman who claims to be Thane. 107 00:10:57,350 --> 00:11:00,470 Rheda will see you when she's ready. 108 00:11:01,270 --> 00:11:03,270 You may wait in her chamber. 109 00:11:11,030 --> 00:11:13,790 You said Bayen was alive when you found him. 110 00:11:13,830 --> 00:11:17,990 If I was the killer, why would I leave him breathing, with my name on his tongue? 111 00:11:18,030 --> 00:11:20,590 - You were interrupted. - Or I was wounded. 112 00:11:23,790 --> 00:11:25,790 Then you'd have bled. 113 00:11:34,950 --> 00:11:36,950 The black blood of a Mudborn. 114 00:11:37,630 --> 00:11:39,950 The one that killed Bayen? 115 00:11:39,990 --> 00:11:42,430 The beast carried no wound. I saw it. 116 00:11:43,550 --> 00:11:45,550 Then there were two Mudborn here. 117 00:11:51,950 --> 00:11:53,950 Leave us. 118 00:11:54,470 --> 00:11:58,310 - Where's Rate? - The Varni Thane will come when he's ready. 119 00:11:59,190 --> 00:12:01,910 I'm to see you're prepared for his arrival. 120 00:12:01,950 --> 00:12:04,150 Inspect his quarters. 121 00:12:04,190 --> 00:12:06,230 Are you his handmaid? 122 00:12:06,270 --> 00:12:09,350 I'll have you shown there, and you can turn down the bed. 123 00:12:12,990 --> 00:12:16,830 - You insult me. - As your presence here insults me. 124 00:12:18,710 --> 00:12:20,710 But that's the point, isn't it? 125 00:12:26,790 --> 00:12:30,190 There's only one thing that's blood can turn from black to red, 126 00:12:30,230 --> 00:12:32,550 that can shift from Mudborn to human. 127 00:12:34,070 --> 00:12:37,510 Tell him: if he wishes to be Jarl, 128 00:12:37,550 --> 00:12:39,550 he will have to do better than that. 129 00:12:52,910 --> 00:12:54,910 - Rheda... - I'm fine. 130 00:12:57,030 --> 00:12:59,910 - The thing that did this... - ..was a Skinshifter. 131 00:12:59,950 --> 00:13:01,950 And it's living among us. 132 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:10,360 How could you let this happen? 133 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,640 Let this thing get into my sister's private chamber 134 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:16,720 and threaten her life? 135 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,680 Slean's Huskarla are responsible for the Thane's safety. 136 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,960 If you'd done what I asked and found Bayen's killer, 137 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,640 this Varni wouldn't be dead. 138 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:30,760 How was I to know it was a Skinshifter? None have been found here for years. 139 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,520 Leave us. Now. 140 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,080 We're sure this Skinshifter killed Bayen? 141 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,080 Well, if not... 142 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:48,280 ...who else? 143 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,000 People fear Skinshifters more than any other Mudborn, 144 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,680 because they can live amongst us... 145 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,720 undetected. 146 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,400 The Thanes arrive here in a few hours for the Gathering. 147 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,960 You'll never win their support if you can't even control Herot. 148 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,560 Then we ride out to meet them. 149 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,080 Delay their arrival. 150 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,720 Slean, ride west to meet Scorann. 151 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,760 You and I, brother, will ride north to meet the others. 152 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,960 You swore you'd avenge Bayen's killer. Can you find this thing and kill it? 153 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 If it's still here. 154 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,920 What happened to you? 155 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,320 You expect me to run towards a Skinshifter? 156 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,760 Give me a man to fight, or even a beast. 157 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,800 But one that's both? 158 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,760 What's that? 159 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,800 It used it to kill the Varni. Maybe Bayen, too. 160 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,720 It's been repaired. Dark edge on the solder. See? 161 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,480 The only other place I've ever seen that... is on this. 162 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,240 Your technique - you don't have any. 163 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,520 My leg - it still hurts. 164 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:31,800 What's wrong with you? 165 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,480 I'm better with a blade than you, but I can only make them. 166 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,560 You get to use one in battle. 167 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,600 You're not better than me. 168 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,480 Well, not yet. 169 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,320 And I didn't ask to be born a Huskarla. 170 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,280 But you were, and I wasn't. 171 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,280 An ancestor of mine saved some ancestor of Hrothgar's. 172 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,200 You don't appreciate what you have. 173 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,560 You don't want anything. What's the point of even being you? 174 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,720 I'm sorry. 175 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,760 It's not you I'm angry at. 176 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,840 Vishka... I do want things. 177 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:07,880 Like what? 178 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,080 Another chance to plant your backside in the mud. 179 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,080 Show a woman has no place holding a sword. 180 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,200 A woman? 181 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,400 Come on. And this time, think. 182 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,080 Don't just hack and slash. 183 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,800 - Is this Vishka's work? - Yes, it's hers. 184 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,800 But she's out, playing at being a Huskarla. 185 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,320 As soon as she's back, I'll send her over. 186 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,640 If it's Bayen's killer you're looking for, 187 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,720 there was an argument at the feast the other night. 188 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,880 Him and a smelter, Tarn. 189 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,720 That's all I know. 190 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,440 That's helpful. 191 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,840 You go on. Look into it. 192 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:02,880 I'll catch up. 193 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,840 Take a cold bath first. 194 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,440 He likes to think he's funny. 195 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,480 I thought that was you. 196 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:39,440 If we work together, we've got a better chance of finding the Skinshifter. 197 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,960 This thing murdered Bayen. 198 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,800 A man I had worked alongside for seven years. 199 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,640 Know a smelter called Tarn? 200 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,680 He's their leader. 201 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,280 - Are you going there alone? - No. 202 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,040 You're coming. 203 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,360 Life's hard here. People come and go. 204 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,360 Some scrape together enough coin to buy a claim 205 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,280 and move back to the mines. 206 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,200 Others go back to the Farlands. 207 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,000 Those that do stay - they don't see old age. 208 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,360 - I take it you're lost. - We want to speak to Tarn. 209 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,320 And I want to live up in that hall on the hill and drink wine whenever I like. 210 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:39,880 Have some fine-boned Huskarla sit on my lap as I sip it. 211 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,040 A woman like you can do better than those red-cloaked pretty boys. 212 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,160 But I like them pretty. 213 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:50,720 Beowulf right? I'd say you were pretty. Once.. 214 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,320 If only we'd met then. 215 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,440 Will you take us to Tarn? 216 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,320 Tarn! 217 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,400 Feed them meat. They get a taste. 218 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,560 They get a taste... They can't get enough. 219 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,160 What is it you want? 220 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,920 The other night, you argued with Bayen. 221 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,640 Did I? And how's that your business? 222 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,680 You think, because you carved a couple of fingers off a Mudborn, 223 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,480 you can come down here and accuse a man of murder? 224 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,200 That is what you're doing? 225 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,360 I'm just talking. 226 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,400 I haven't got time to watch you play the big man before your ugly friends. 227 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,440 On Beowulf. 228 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:20,600 Huh? 229 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,640 On the smelter. 230 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,760 - Pull me in! - The argument with Bayen! 231 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,360 Coin! It was about coin. Talk to Rheda's steward. Talk to Varr. 232 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,760 - Why? - I went to Bayen's place, and Varr was there already. 233 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,800 Come on. Time is running out. 234 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,520 Pleasure doing business with you, gentlemen. 235 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,560 Get back to work! 236 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,680 Lagrathorn of the Banning. 237 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,600 He's been in love with you since you were a girl... 238 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,800 ...and he visited Bregan. 239 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,920 You were always jealous of the way I distracted the boys from your war games. 240 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,480 - I admit it. - And are you distracted now... 241 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,760 by this lover of yours back in Bregan? 242 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,960 An older sister knows everything. 243 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,680 She must be doing something for you. You smile more. 244 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,160 Rheda. Abrecan. 245 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:48,480 Lagrathorn. It's been too long. How are the forests? 246 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:52,480 Full of trees. You could have waited for me by the fireside in Herot. 247 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,240 My sister wanted to be sure she could count on the Banning vote. 248 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,680 Now, if you'd excuse me... 249 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,160 Well...? 250 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,080 We've been raided this summer. 251 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:12,760 Some of my people say Herot has not done enough to protect us. 252 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:16,680 And the price of your iron always goes up and never down. 253 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,920 Now that's out of the way, what price for your vote? 254 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,800 Everything that was your husband's. 255 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,840 The fireplace in his hall to warm his feet against, and you to warm my bed. 256 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,280 Riders! 257 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,640 Rate of the Varni. 258 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,640 Rheda... 259 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,280 Making new friends? 260 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,320 Learning more about some old ones. 261 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,640 Shall we...? 262 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,280 Lagrathorn... 263 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,720 Now, assuming you asked Rheda to marry you and she politely avoided answering... 264 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,880 what can she really do for the Banning? 265 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,960 So, where's Slean? Sulking from not being made Thane? 266 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,400 Scorann? 267 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,040 Scorann! 268 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,840 Come on! The Thanes will be here soon. 269 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,880 Varr... 270 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,440 - What do you want? - That can wait. 271 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,600 The Thanes are already late. There's still work to be done. 272 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 It can wait. 273 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,600 The alliance must be led by a warrior. 274 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,480 Its purpose is war. 275 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,880 It's purpose is to hold the peace. 276 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,880 Something its leader must understand. 277 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,920 I know it's difficult for you to back down now, having voiced your opinion so openly. 278 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,400 What if I created a new post? 279 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,800 Something suitable for a great warrior? 280 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,440 Say...'advisor on all matters military'. 281 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,000 You think that's who I am? 282 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,040 That I can be bought off with a title? 283 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,880 Humans cannot live in peace alongside the Mudborn, 284 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,720 and if we try, we'll all suffer the fate of the lost tribe. 285 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,960 The Mere people were slaughtered 20 summers ago, 286 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,720 precisely because they provoked the Mudborn... 287 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,320 I'll see you don't get the majority you need at the Gathering. 288 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:23,920 Then I'll challenge you to hand-to-hand combat. 289 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,880 You'll step aside. I'll become Jarl and lead the alliance. 290 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,520 Huh! 291 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,560 That is how it shall be. 292 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:37,280 I would rather die by your blade than step aside and let you be Jarl. 293 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,000 Well, if you're dead... 294 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,120 you won't be needing that golden hall of yours, either. 295 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:51,400 After you greeted the Varni messenger, where did you go? 296 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,400 Need to ask? 297 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,360 This hall doesn't run itself. 298 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,120 Tarn claims you were with Bayen late on the night he died. 299 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,840 I'm the steward of Rheda's household. He was her Reeve. 300 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,960 You want to know if I killed him? 301 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,040 And the Varni messenger. I'm your Skinshifter. 302 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:10,680 You could have just asked. 303 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,160 He'd lie. 304 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,880 I'm not only outnumbered, but outwitted. 305 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,920 Make him put his hand in there. 306 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:20,880 In the fire. 307 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,960 A Skinshifter can't be burnt. 308 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,040 You didn't think to mention this before? 309 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,080 It didn't seem relevant. 310 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,920 Not directly. 311 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,960 I heard the same thing. 312 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,480 Varr... 313 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,480 No need to apologise. It was my choice. 314 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:58,240 What now? Burn everyone in order to find this thing? 315 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,600 If we have to. 316 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,640 Beowulf... 317 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,200 You wanted to know who I repaired this for. 318 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,240 Elvina. 319 00:27:55,890 --> 00:27:57,890 Scorann. 320 00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:04,050 Move! Now. 321 00:28:18,850 --> 00:28:20,850 Split up! 322 00:28:30,690 --> 00:28:32,650 Where are they? 323 00:28:32,690 --> 00:28:35,050 - Who are they? - Brigands. 324 00:28:35,690 --> 00:28:40,090 Caught us on the North Road. Must be after ransom. Are you alone? 325 00:28:44,890 --> 00:28:47,130 I'm sorry to hear about Hrothgar. 326 00:28:47,170 --> 00:28:50,130 Your father was... 327 00:28:50,890 --> 00:28:52,810 I'm not sorry at all. 328 00:28:52,850 --> 00:28:57,450 I've hated him ever since he tricked me into taking that Wisdeth bride to bind his alliance. 329 00:28:57,490 --> 00:29:02,290 I told him so to his face. A Varni, married to a big-boned farmer's daughter? 330 00:29:02,330 --> 00:29:05,650 I've been a walking, talking dead man for 15 years. 331 00:29:05,690 --> 00:29:07,730 What are you doing here? Do I need a reason 332 00:29:07,770 --> 00:29:10,610 to meet the only man who told my father what he thought of him? 333 00:29:10,650 --> 00:29:13,290 - Yes, if it concerns your mother. - She needs your vote. 334 00:29:13,330 --> 00:29:15,930 What is that? 335 00:29:15,970 --> 00:29:19,730 They must have taken my man alive. He risked his life to save me. 336 00:29:19,770 --> 00:29:22,330 If it's ransom they want, you're the prize, not him. 337 00:29:22,370 --> 00:29:24,810 They think you'll hand yourself in to save him. 338 00:29:24,850 --> 00:29:26,850 I wouldn't want to disappoint them. 339 00:29:39,450 --> 00:29:42,170 You should have come in, made yourself at home (!) 340 00:29:48,210 --> 00:29:50,210 The clasp is mine. 341 00:29:51,210 --> 00:29:55,050 It was used to murder Bayen and a Varni messenger. 342 00:29:56,130 --> 00:29:59,170 The killer was Mudborn. A Skinshifter. 343 00:30:02,330 --> 00:30:04,330 Who are your people? 344 00:30:05,090 --> 00:30:07,090 Wanderers. 345 00:30:09,050 --> 00:30:12,890 People of the Mere, the few that escaped the slaughter in the Marshes. 346 00:30:14,450 --> 00:30:17,170 How did you come by a Banning warrior's clasp? 347 00:30:17,210 --> 00:30:19,290 It was a gift to my father. 348 00:30:19,330 --> 00:30:21,330 I lost it at the feast. 349 00:30:21,850 --> 00:30:23,850 You can't think it's me. 350 00:30:26,330 --> 00:30:28,330 The Skinshifter can't be burnt. 351 00:30:29,410 --> 00:30:31,570 And it's wounded. 352 00:30:38,930 --> 00:30:40,930 Then I'll show you I have no wound. 353 00:30:56,930 --> 00:30:58,930 Enough. 354 00:31:53,450 --> 00:31:55,450 Show yourself! 355 00:32:23,730 --> 00:32:25,690 It's a Skinshifter! 356 00:32:28,570 --> 00:32:30,570 There it is! 357 00:32:40,050 --> 00:32:42,050 Move! Move! 358 00:32:49,810 --> 00:32:51,850 Get away! Get away! 359 00:32:56,370 --> 00:32:58,850 - Move! - Did you see it? 360 00:32:58,890 --> 00:33:00,890 Where's it gone? 361 00:33:42,050 --> 00:33:44,410 Tarn? 362 00:33:44,450 --> 00:33:46,210 Are you sure it's him? 363 00:33:46,250 --> 00:33:48,610 He has the wound I gave him. And another. 364 00:33:51,010 --> 00:33:53,010 That Bayen gave him. 365 00:33:57,690 --> 00:34:01,250 That's it? You found the Skinshifter? Are you sure? 366 00:34:01,290 --> 00:34:04,010 - We have to get it out of here. - Huh! 367 00:34:04,770 --> 00:34:08,850 Do you want to explain to the smelters that their leader is a Skinshifter? 368 00:34:19,890 --> 00:34:21,890 - The Thanes. - Come on! 369 00:34:22,610 --> 00:34:24,610 We need to hide the body. 370 00:34:28,410 --> 00:34:30,410 Quickly. They're coming. 371 00:34:46,450 --> 00:34:49,250 Shhh. 372 00:34:51,770 --> 00:34:53,770 (I heard it breathe.) 373 00:34:54,810 --> 00:34:57,250 It's air escaping the body. 374 00:35:01,090 --> 00:35:05,330 When I was a boy, my mother used to tell stories about Skinshifters. 375 00:35:05,930 --> 00:35:09,730 Horrible, horrible stories. 376 00:35:11,450 --> 00:35:13,450 At least, I think she was my mother. 377 00:35:16,330 --> 00:35:18,330 I didn't know her well. 378 00:35:32,610 --> 00:35:34,610 Summon Beowulf. 379 00:35:37,850 --> 00:35:40,690 My son - has he returned? 380 00:35:41,250 --> 00:35:43,250 Not yet. 381 00:35:56,970 --> 00:35:58,970 Axel! 382 00:35:59,650 --> 00:36:03,730 Let my man go... and you can have me. 383 00:36:03,770 --> 00:36:06,890 We'll have you, anyway! Take him! 384 00:36:17,970 --> 00:36:19,970 Wait! 385 00:36:25,010 --> 00:36:27,810 Catch him and cut him to pieces, boys! 386 00:36:31,090 --> 00:36:34,250 Leave that one. Don't you smell the coin? 387 00:36:43,450 --> 00:36:46,170 - Run! - Do that and this one's dead! 388 00:37:34,170 --> 00:37:39,130 His man's missing, and if he doesn't know there's a Skinshifter on the loose, he will soon. 389 00:37:40,690 --> 00:37:44,010 - You found it? - And killed it. Rheda... 390 00:37:44,050 --> 00:37:46,050 Rate... 391 00:37:46,090 --> 00:37:48,370 I'm sorry, but your shieldsman is dead. 392 00:37:49,010 --> 00:37:51,490 He laid down his life to save mine. 393 00:37:52,210 --> 00:37:53,970 Who killed him? 394 00:37:54,010 --> 00:37:58,010 Not who, but what. A Skinshifter. 395 00:37:58,050 --> 00:38:00,050 - Where is it? - No! 396 00:38:01,090 --> 00:38:03,370 Rheda, let us be clear. 397 00:38:03,410 --> 00:38:06,250 You are telling us that the most reviled of all our enemies 398 00:38:06,290 --> 00:38:09,210 is running loose in Herot? 399 00:38:09,250 --> 00:38:12,450 As soon as it was discovered, I had it hunted down and killed. 400 00:38:13,450 --> 00:38:15,970 I favour peace... 401 00:38:16,010 --> 00:38:17,930 but if we have enemies, 402 00:38:17,970 --> 00:38:20,050 they will be struck down without mercy. 403 00:38:22,130 --> 00:38:24,130 Show us the body. 404 00:38:25,290 --> 00:38:27,290 Bring it. 405 00:38:30,810 --> 00:38:32,810 (It's in human form.) 406 00:38:33,370 --> 00:38:36,490 (There's no way of proving it's the Skinshifter.) 407 00:38:36,530 --> 00:38:38,530 (Well, find a way.) 408 00:38:59,490 --> 00:39:02,490 - You murdered Tarn! - He was a Skinshifter. 409 00:39:02,530 --> 00:39:05,450 Tarn was a man! I'm his mother. 410 00:39:07,330 --> 00:39:09,330 Koll... 411 00:39:11,330 --> 00:39:15,570 My son wasn't the best of men, but he was a man. 412 00:39:36,890 --> 00:39:39,570 - It's you! You killed them. - I had no choice, 413 00:39:39,610 --> 00:39:41,610 but to protect my family. 414 00:39:45,890 --> 00:39:47,890 It's not Tarn! 415 00:39:51,850 --> 00:39:53,850 The doors! 416 00:39:55,930 --> 00:39:57,930 Close the doors! 417 00:40:06,170 --> 00:40:08,170 See what that is. 418 00:40:10,090 --> 00:40:12,090 Let us all see. 419 00:40:48,650 --> 00:40:50,650 Koll. 420 00:40:54,690 --> 00:40:58,130 - Stand aside. - That thing killed Argat's brother. 421 00:40:58,170 --> 00:41:00,170 And Herot's Reeve! 422 00:41:01,410 --> 00:41:06,330 When the time comes, we'll toss a coin for the pleasure of cutting its throat, but not yet. 423 00:41:09,330 --> 00:41:12,170 I believe the Skinshifter was acting on someone else's part. 424 00:41:12,210 --> 00:41:15,250 Kill it, and we may never know who. 425 00:41:15,290 --> 00:41:17,290 What makes you say that? 426 00:41:18,290 --> 00:41:20,210 It said as much. 427 00:41:20,250 --> 00:41:22,970 And it used this to do its killing. 428 00:41:24,530 --> 00:41:26,650 Left it in the dead Varni, to be found. 429 00:41:26,690 --> 00:41:30,690 - A Banning clasp. - This wasn't about Bayen or the Varni. 430 00:41:31,810 --> 00:41:35,250 It was about killing your Reeve and stirring up the tribes. 431 00:41:36,290 --> 00:41:39,010 To make my sister look weak before the Gathering. 432 00:41:58,570 --> 00:42:02,570 It makes no sense. He was a loving husband, father. 433 00:42:02,610 --> 00:42:05,290 He lived here in peace for years. He was a good man. 434 00:42:05,330 --> 00:42:07,930 Man? This thing was a murderer of men. 435 00:42:07,970 --> 00:42:10,610 Amongst them, Bayen, who it called a friend. 436 00:42:10,650 --> 00:42:14,130 All Mudborn are killers. It's in their blood. 437 00:42:14,170 --> 00:42:16,170 And what's in yours? 438 00:42:25,890 --> 00:42:30,570 Mmm. My wife... can cook. Try. 439 00:42:32,490 --> 00:42:35,690 Hey... we did a good job today. 440 00:42:35,730 --> 00:42:37,850 We? 441 00:42:37,890 --> 00:42:40,250 I was there, too. 442 00:42:40,290 --> 00:42:42,290 Hey... 443 00:42:42,770 --> 00:42:44,770 Get your own wife. 444 00:42:58,090 --> 00:43:00,330 Whoa. Easy. 445 00:43:02,650 --> 00:43:04,690 Easy. Easy. Shhh. 446 00:43:05,450 --> 00:43:07,450 Easy, boy. 447 00:43:11,810 --> 00:43:13,810 That's Slean's horse. 448 00:43:17,530 --> 00:43:19,530 My son. 449 00:43:23,690 --> 00:43:25,410 They will find Slean. 450 00:43:25,450 --> 00:43:29,050 Rate and Beowulf are looking for him now. There are no finer warriors. 451 00:43:30,210 --> 00:43:33,410 - What is he? - A filthy Mudborn! 452 00:43:33,450 --> 00:43:36,490 If Scorann doesn't arrive, your future is in my hands. 453 00:43:36,530 --> 00:43:38,530 People don't want justice. 454 00:43:38,570 --> 00:43:40,130 They want to see strength. 455 00:43:40,170 --> 00:43:42,970 I was born a warrior, and I'll die one.