1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,590 Beowulf, why come so far to watch an old Thane die? 2 00:00:03,630 --> 00:00:05,670 You're nothing, Beowulf. 3 00:00:05,710 --> 00:00:07,670 Your father was nothing. 4 00:00:07,710 --> 00:00:09,710 Kill him. 5 00:00:09,790 --> 00:00:13,470 There'll be no more blood spilt in this hall while I'm Reeve. 6 00:00:13,510 --> 00:00:15,550 - I'm here to see Hrothgar. - Hrothgar is dead. 7 00:00:15,590 --> 00:00:17,590 One Thane must rule us all. Why not you? 8 00:00:17,630 --> 00:00:21,310 - Would you rather it was someone else? I saw you. - Talking to him? 9 00:00:21,350 --> 00:00:24,230 - You're different to the old healer. - I know. - All yours. 10 00:00:24,270 --> 00:00:25,910 A Mudborn killed Bayen. 11 00:00:25,950 --> 00:00:30,350 If I'm not avenged... I'll never enter the Halls of the Dead. 12 00:00:30,390 --> 00:00:32,550 I will avenge you. 13 00:00:32,590 --> 00:00:35,030 The wound wasn't from a beast. He was stabbed. 14 00:00:35,070 --> 00:00:36,670 You don't belong here. Never did. 15 00:00:36,710 --> 00:00:41,030 Slean is your half-brother. You're my blood. My son. 16 00:00:41,070 --> 00:00:44,470 Herot will need you, and you will come. 17 00:02:10,270 --> 00:02:15,670 Today... Hrothgar, Thane of Herot, 18 00:02:15,710 --> 00:02:17,910 will enter the Halls of the Dead. 19 00:02:18,750 --> 00:02:20,870 But my husband is not lost to you. 20 00:02:22,190 --> 00:02:24,190 Take off your father's sword. 21 00:02:40,110 --> 00:02:42,110 Raise it. 22 00:02:43,310 --> 00:02:45,310 Higher. 23 00:03:58,510 --> 00:04:01,830 Rate, the others might be at Herot already. 24 00:04:01,870 --> 00:04:04,270 Ride ahead and tell Rheda 25 00:04:04,310 --> 00:04:06,870 the Varni Thane will come in his own time. 26 00:04:07,790 --> 00:04:10,910 For now... I feel like fishing. 27 00:04:14,310 --> 00:04:16,310 Hyar! 28 00:05:15,910 --> 00:05:17,910 What are you doing here? 29 00:05:19,590 --> 00:05:23,590 - These are the Reeve's quarters. - Now he's gone, what will you do? 30 00:05:23,630 --> 00:05:26,110 It's my responsibility to find Bayen's killer. 31 00:05:26,150 --> 00:05:28,150 I'll leave you to it. 32 00:05:30,910 --> 00:05:33,310 Bayen used to talk about you all the time. 33 00:05:33,350 --> 00:05:38,110 Mostly about how he thought Hrothgar wished YOU were his son, not Slean. 34 00:05:40,790 --> 00:05:43,190 Old men like to tell stories. 35 00:05:43,230 --> 00:05:46,670 When people stop listening, they tell them a little louder. 36 00:05:46,710 --> 00:05:48,710 Make them a little bigger. 37 00:06:02,390 --> 00:06:04,390 Beowulf... 38 00:06:09,070 --> 00:06:12,030 I never thanked you. You saved my life. 39 00:06:12,070 --> 00:06:14,950 I wasn't there for you. I was there for the beast. 40 00:06:14,990 --> 00:06:17,110 Still... thank you. 41 00:06:18,590 --> 00:06:21,310 - May I ask you a question? - Go ahead. 42 00:06:22,550 --> 00:06:24,870 Are you Slean's woman? 43 00:06:24,910 --> 00:06:27,390 Only, I saw him leave your home this morning. 44 00:06:29,270 --> 00:06:31,350 You did? 45 00:06:31,390 --> 00:06:33,390 I did. 46 00:06:33,910 --> 00:06:35,950 I don't belong to any man. 47 00:06:35,990 --> 00:06:37,950 Then... 48 00:06:37,990 --> 00:06:39,990 We're close. 49 00:06:44,310 --> 00:06:46,830 - Is Breca awake? - He has company. 50 00:06:46,870 --> 00:06:49,150 - Wife? - Children. 51 00:06:49,190 --> 00:06:51,190 Quick, even for him. 52 00:06:51,710 --> 00:06:53,590 I'm feeling lucky. 53 00:06:53,630 --> 00:06:55,790 Feeling lucky. 54 00:06:55,830 --> 00:06:57,950 Oh, yes! 55 00:06:57,990 --> 00:06:59,750 Let me win back what I lost. 56 00:06:59,790 --> 00:07:02,430 - Won't happen. - Her parents'll beat her. 57 00:07:03,030 --> 00:07:05,030 Really? 58 00:07:06,190 --> 00:07:08,510 It's character-building. 59 00:07:13,670 --> 00:07:16,630 Take what's yours and get out. And you. 60 00:07:18,830 --> 00:07:22,430 - Children? - Find me a proper game. 61 00:07:22,470 --> 00:07:25,390 If you want a proper game, don't use loaded knuckles. 62 00:07:26,230 --> 00:07:29,750 I'm a married man. I've got responsibilities now. 63 00:07:29,790 --> 00:07:31,470 Up. 64 00:07:31,510 --> 00:07:33,430 The healer said I have to rest. 65 00:07:33,470 --> 00:07:35,190 Up. I need the mind of a murderer. 66 00:07:35,230 --> 00:07:37,030 I told you - it was an accident. 67 00:07:37,070 --> 00:07:39,750 What? You mean, the man you stuck a knife in...? 68 00:07:39,790 --> 00:07:42,350 All right! All right. 69 00:07:55,230 --> 00:07:59,670 That mark on Breca's throat - you know it's from a noose, don't you? 70 00:07:59,710 --> 00:08:02,310 Somebody had a reason to put it round his neck. 71 00:08:02,350 --> 00:08:04,670 - What do you think you're doing? - Living. 72 00:08:04,710 --> 00:08:08,110 - Huh! - Vishka, it's six years since your father died. 73 00:08:08,150 --> 00:08:10,350 Why now? Why this one? 74 00:08:10,390 --> 00:08:12,710 Er... 75 00:08:12,750 --> 00:08:15,070 Vishka, we were going to... 76 00:08:15,110 --> 00:08:16,470 the snares. 77 00:08:16,510 --> 00:08:18,510 They need checking. 78 00:08:28,070 --> 00:08:31,310 Hrothgar wasn't only Thane of Herot. He was also Jarl, 79 00:08:31,350 --> 00:08:34,070 leader of all the tribes across the Shieldlands. 80 00:08:34,590 --> 00:08:38,990 And, to succeed him, you need a majority of the votes at the Gathering. I'm not a child. 81 00:08:39,030 --> 00:08:41,190 Then tell me how they'll vote. 82 00:08:41,230 --> 00:08:44,150 The Thanes will be here by sunset. 83 00:08:47,990 --> 00:08:50,070 The Wisdeth are farmers. 84 00:08:50,110 --> 00:08:54,390 They need our iron, our warriors. Their vote can be counted on. 85 00:08:54,430 --> 00:08:58,790 Scorann is a good Thane and a friend of Herot, but nothing can be counted on. 86 00:09:00,470 --> 00:09:02,470 Go on. 87 00:09:04,390 --> 00:09:06,550 Bregan is Abrecan's. 88 00:09:06,590 --> 00:09:08,910 And my vote is yours. 89 00:09:08,950 --> 00:09:11,030 And the forest people? 90 00:09:11,070 --> 00:09:13,230 The Banning Thane has a weak spot for you... 91 00:09:13,990 --> 00:09:16,110 ...but his vote is uncertain. 92 00:09:16,150 --> 00:09:18,150 Which leaves the Varni. 93 00:09:20,830 --> 00:09:24,950 Rate wishes to see himself made Jarl of the Shieldlands, instead of you. 94 00:09:25,590 --> 00:09:28,990 But, in order to do so, he'd have to convince the others you're weak. 95 00:09:29,030 --> 00:09:31,030 So you lose the vote. 96 00:09:32,430 --> 00:09:34,430 And if I do...? 97 00:09:34,790 --> 00:09:36,790 Rate could challenge you. 98 00:09:39,750 --> 00:09:42,070 You'd have to defeat him in single combat. 99 00:09:49,910 --> 00:09:51,910 Ah... 100 00:10:20,470 --> 00:10:22,470 What was that? 101 00:10:30,510 --> 00:10:34,150 Bayen's body was here. Imagine you stabbed him. 102 00:10:34,190 --> 00:10:36,390 You make it sound like I'm an expert at this. 103 00:10:40,710 --> 00:10:42,510 Varni. 104 00:10:42,550 --> 00:10:46,790 Varr. They said you were licking boots here, but I didn't believe that. 105 00:10:46,830 --> 00:10:48,510 Even of you. 106 00:10:48,550 --> 00:10:51,190 Take me to the woman who claims to be Thane. 107 00:10:51,230 --> 00:10:54,350 Rheda will see you when she's ready. 108 00:10:55,150 --> 00:10:57,150 You may wait in her chamber. 109 00:11:04,910 --> 00:11:07,670 You said Bayen was alive when you found him. 110 00:11:07,710 --> 00:11:11,870 If I was the killer, why would I leave him breathing, with my name on his tongue? 111 00:11:11,910 --> 00:11:14,470 - You were interrupted. - Or I was wounded. 112 00:11:17,670 --> 00:11:19,670 Then you'd have bled. 113 00:11:28,830 --> 00:11:30,830 The black blood of a Mudborn. 114 00:11:31,510 --> 00:11:33,830 The one that killed Bayen? 115 00:11:33,870 --> 00:11:36,310 The beast carried no wound. I saw it. 116 00:11:37,430 --> 00:11:39,430 Then there were two Mudborn here. 117 00:11:45,830 --> 00:11:47,830 Leave us. 118 00:11:48,350 --> 00:11:52,190 - Where's Rate? - The Varni Thane will come when he's ready. 119 00:11:53,070 --> 00:11:55,790 I'm to see you're prepared for his arrival. 120 00:11:55,830 --> 00:11:58,030 Inspect his quarters. 121 00:11:58,070 --> 00:12:00,110 Are you his handmaid? 122 00:12:00,150 --> 00:12:03,230 I'll have you shown there, and you can turn down the bed. 123 00:12:06,870 --> 00:12:10,710 - You insult me. - As your presence here insults me. 124 00:12:12,590 --> 00:12:14,590 But that's the point, isn't it? 125 00:12:20,670 --> 00:12:24,070 There's only one thing that's blood can turn from black to red, 126 00:12:24,110 --> 00:12:26,430 that can shift from Mudborn to human. 127 00:12:27,950 --> 00:12:31,390 Tell him: if he wishes to be Jarl, 128 00:12:31,430 --> 00:12:33,430 he will have to do better than that. 129 00:12:46,790 --> 00:12:48,790 - Rheda... - I'm fine. 130 00:12:50,910 --> 00:12:53,790 - The thing that did this... - ..was a Skinshifter. 131 00:12:53,830 --> 00:12:55,830 And it's living among us. 132 00:13:02,780 --> 00:13:04,420 How could you let this happen? 133 00:13:04,460 --> 00:13:08,700 Let this thing get into my sister's private chamber 134 00:13:08,740 --> 00:13:10,780 and threaten her life? 135 00:13:10,820 --> 00:13:13,740 Slean's Huskarla are responsible for the Thane's safety. 136 00:13:15,820 --> 00:13:19,020 If you'd done what I asked and found Bayen's killer, 137 00:13:19,060 --> 00:13:20,700 this Varni wouldn't be dead. 138 00:13:20,740 --> 00:13:24,820 How was I to know it was a Skinshifter? None have been found here for years. 139 00:13:25,580 --> 00:13:27,580 Leave us. Now. 140 00:13:34,820 --> 00:13:37,140 We're sure this Skinshifter killed Bayen? 141 00:13:39,020 --> 00:13:41,140 Well, if not... 142 00:13:41,180 --> 00:13:42,340 ...who else? 143 00:13:42,380 --> 00:13:45,060 People fear Skinshifters more than any other Mudborn, 144 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:47,740 because they can live amongst us... 145 00:13:47,780 --> 00:13:49,780 undetected. 146 00:13:50,780 --> 00:13:54,460 The Thanes arrive here in a few hours for the Gathering. 147 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:58,020 You'll never win their support if you can't even control Herot. 148 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:01,620 Then we ride out to meet them. 149 00:14:02,340 --> 00:14:04,140 Delay their arrival. 150 00:14:04,180 --> 00:14:06,780 Slean, ride west to meet Scorann. 151 00:14:06,820 --> 00:14:09,820 You and I, brother, will ride north to meet the others. 152 00:14:11,060 --> 00:14:15,020 You swore you'd avenge Bayen's killer. Can you find this thing and kill it? 153 00:14:15,060 --> 00:14:17,060 If it's still here. 154 00:14:31,260 --> 00:14:33,980 What happened to you? 155 00:14:35,780 --> 00:14:38,380 You expect me to run towards a Skinshifter? 156 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:42,820 Give me a man to fight, or even a beast. 157 00:14:42,860 --> 00:14:44,860 But one that's both? 158 00:14:45,380 --> 00:14:47,820 What's that? 159 00:14:47,860 --> 00:14:50,860 It used it to kill the Varni. Maybe Bayen, too. 160 00:14:53,780 --> 00:14:57,780 It's been repaired. Dark edge on the solder. See? 161 00:14:57,820 --> 00:15:01,540 The only other place I've ever seen that... is on this. 162 00:15:09,820 --> 00:15:13,300 Your technique - you don't have any. 163 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:23,580 My leg - it still hurts. 164 00:15:24,420 --> 00:15:25,860 What's wrong with you? 165 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:28,540 I'm better with a blade than you, but I can only make them. 166 00:15:28,580 --> 00:15:30,620 You get to use one in battle. 167 00:15:30,660 --> 00:15:32,660 You're not better than me. 168 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:36,540 Well, not yet. 169 00:15:36,580 --> 00:15:38,380 And I didn't ask to be born a Huskarla. 170 00:15:38,420 --> 00:15:40,340 But you were, and I wasn't. 171 00:15:40,380 --> 00:15:43,340 An ancestor of mine saved some ancestor of Hrothgar's. 172 00:15:43,380 --> 00:15:45,260 You don't appreciate what you have. 173 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:48,620 You don't want anything. What's the point of even being you? 174 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:52,780 I'm sorry. 175 00:15:52,820 --> 00:15:54,820 It's not you I'm angry at. 176 00:15:57,020 --> 00:15:59,900 Vishka... I do want things. 177 00:15:59,940 --> 00:16:01,940 Like what? 178 00:16:02,660 --> 00:16:05,140 Another chance to plant your backside in the mud. 179 00:16:05,180 --> 00:16:08,140 Show a woman has no place holding a sword. 180 00:16:10,260 --> 00:16:12,260 A woman? 181 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:15,460 Come on. And this time, think. 182 00:16:16,140 --> 00:16:18,140 Don't just hack and slash. 183 00:16:25,140 --> 00:16:27,860 - Is this Vishka's work? - Yes, it's hers. 184 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:30,860 But she's out, playing at being a Huskarla. 185 00:16:32,060 --> 00:16:34,380 As soon as she's back, I'll send her over. 186 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:38,700 If it's Bayen's killer you're looking for, 187 00:16:38,740 --> 00:16:41,780 there was an argument at the feast the other night. 188 00:16:41,820 --> 00:16:43,940 Him and a smelter, Tarn. 189 00:16:44,780 --> 00:16:46,780 That's all I know. 190 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:50,500 That's helpful. 191 00:16:51,820 --> 00:16:54,900 You go on. Look into it. 192 00:16:54,940 --> 00:16:56,940 I'll catch up. 193 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:00,900 Take a cold bath first. 194 00:17:06,260 --> 00:17:09,500 He likes to think he's funny. 195 00:17:09,540 --> 00:17:11,540 I thought that was you. 196 00:17:29,220 --> 00:17:33,500 If we work together, we've got a better chance of finding the Skinshifter. 197 00:17:33,540 --> 00:17:36,020 This thing murdered Bayen. 198 00:17:37,740 --> 00:17:40,860 A man I had worked alongside for seven years. 199 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:45,700 Know a smelter called Tarn? 200 00:17:45,740 --> 00:17:47,740 He's their leader. 201 00:17:51,340 --> 00:17:53,340 - Are you going there alone? - No. 202 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:56,100 You're coming. 203 00:18:04,660 --> 00:18:07,420 Life's hard here. People come and go. 204 00:18:08,940 --> 00:18:11,420 Some scrape together enough coin to buy a claim 205 00:18:11,460 --> 00:18:13,340 and move back to the mines. 206 00:18:13,380 --> 00:18:15,260 Others go back to the Farlands. 207 00:18:16,140 --> 00:18:19,060 Those that do stay - they don't see old age. 208 00:18:23,340 --> 00:18:26,420 - I take it you're lost. - We want to speak to Tarn. 209 00:18:26,460 --> 00:18:30,380 And I want to live up in that hall on the hill and drink wine whenever I like. 210 00:18:30,420 --> 00:18:33,940 Have some fine-boned Huskarla sit on my lap as I sip it. 211 00:18:33,980 --> 00:18:37,100 A woman like you can do better than those red-cloaked pretty boys. 212 00:18:37,140 --> 00:18:40,220 But I like them pretty. 213 00:18:40,260 --> 00:18:44,780 Beowulf right? I'd say you were pretty. Once.. 214 00:18:44,820 --> 00:18:47,380 If only we'd met then. 215 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:51,500 Will you take us to Tarn? 216 00:19:08,380 --> 00:19:10,380 Tarn! 217 00:19:22,940 --> 00:19:25,460 Feed them meat. They get a taste. 218 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:28,620 They get a taste... They can't get enough. 219 00:19:28,660 --> 00:19:30,220 What is it you want? 220 00:19:30,260 --> 00:19:32,980 The other night, you argued with Bayen. 221 00:19:33,020 --> 00:19:35,700 Did I? And how's that your business? 222 00:19:35,740 --> 00:19:38,740 You think, because you carved a couple of fingers off a Mudborn, 223 00:19:38,780 --> 00:19:41,540 you can come down here and accuse a man of murder? 224 00:19:42,260 --> 00:19:44,260 That is what you're doing? 225 00:19:45,420 --> 00:19:47,420 I'm just talking. 226 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:57,460 I haven't got time to watch you play the big man before your ugly friends. 227 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,500 On Beowulf. 228 00:20:13,140 --> 00:20:14,660 Huh? 229 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:16,700 On the smelter. 230 00:20:26,940 --> 00:20:29,820 - Pull me in! - The argument with Bayen! 231 00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:33,420 Coin! It was about coin. Talk to Rheda's steward. Talk to Varr. 232 00:20:33,460 --> 00:20:36,820 - Why? - I went to Bayen's place, and Varr was there already. 233 00:20:45,860 --> 00:20:47,860 Come on. Time is running out. 234 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:57,580 Pleasure doing business with you, gentlemen. 235 00:20:57,620 --> 00:20:59,620 Get back to work! 236 00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:09,740 Lagrathorn of the Banning. 237 00:21:09,780 --> 00:21:12,660 He's been in love with you since you were a girl... 238 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:14,860 ...and he visited Bregan. 239 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:18,980 You were always jealous of the way I distracted the boys from your war games. 240 00:21:19,660 --> 00:21:22,540 - I admit it. - And are you distracted now... 241 00:21:22,580 --> 00:21:24,820 by this lover of yours back in Bregan? 242 00:21:26,020 --> 00:21:28,020 An older sister knows everything. 243 00:21:28,740 --> 00:21:31,740 She must be doing something for you. You smile more. 244 00:21:33,020 --> 00:21:35,220 Rheda. Abrecan. 245 00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:42,540 Lagrathorn. It's been too long. How are the forests? 246 00:21:42,580 --> 00:21:46,540 Full of trees. You could have waited for me by the fireside in Herot. 247 00:21:46,580 --> 00:21:50,300 My sister wanted to be sure she could count on the Banning vote. 248 00:21:52,740 --> 00:21:54,740 Now, if you'd excuse me... 249 00:21:57,220 --> 00:21:59,220 Well...? 250 00:22:00,460 --> 00:22:03,140 We've been raided this summer. 251 00:22:03,180 --> 00:22:06,820 Some of my people say Herot has not done enough to protect us. 252 00:22:07,420 --> 00:22:10,740 And the price of your iron always goes up and never down. 253 00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:14,980 Now that's out of the way, what price for your vote? 254 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:18,860 Everything that was your husband's. 255 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:22,900 The fireplace in his hall to warm his feet against, and you to warm my bed. 256 00:22:24,340 --> 00:22:26,340 Riders! 257 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:35,700 Rate of the Varni. 258 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:46,700 Rheda... 259 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:49,340 Making new friends? 260 00:22:49,380 --> 00:22:51,380 Learning more about some old ones. 261 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:54,700 Shall we...? 262 00:23:07,340 --> 00:23:09,340 Lagrathorn... 263 00:23:18,340 --> 00:23:22,780 Now, assuming you asked Rheda to marry you and she politely avoided answering... 264 00:23:22,820 --> 00:23:24,940 what can she really do for the Banning? 265 00:23:28,020 --> 00:23:31,020 So, where's Slean? Sulking from not being made Thane? 266 00:23:54,460 --> 00:23:56,460 Scorann? 267 00:23:57,100 --> 00:23:59,100 Scorann! 268 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:05,900 Come on! The Thanes will be here soon. 269 00:24:05,940 --> 00:24:07,940 Varr... 270 00:24:09,380 --> 00:24:11,500 - What do you want? - That can wait. 271 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:17,660 The Thanes are already late. There's still work to be done. 272 00:24:19,060 --> 00:24:21,060 It can wait. 273 00:24:24,980 --> 00:24:27,660 The alliance must be led by a warrior. 274 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:29,540 Its purpose is war. 275 00:24:29,580 --> 00:24:32,940 It's purpose is to hold the peace. 276 00:24:32,980 --> 00:24:35,940 Something its leader must understand. 277 00:24:35,980 --> 00:24:40,980 I know it's difficult for you to back down now, having voiced your opinion so openly. 278 00:24:41,020 --> 00:24:43,460 What if I created a new post? 279 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:45,860 Something suitable for a great warrior? 280 00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:49,500 Say...'advisor on all matters military'. 281 00:24:53,580 --> 00:24:56,060 You think that's who I am? 282 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:58,100 That I can be bought off with a title? 283 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:01,940 Humans cannot live in peace alongside the Mudborn, 284 00:25:01,980 --> 00:25:05,780 and if we try, we'll all suffer the fate of the lost tribe. 285 00:25:06,340 --> 00:25:09,020 The Mere people were slaughtered 20 summers ago, 286 00:25:09,060 --> 00:25:11,780 precisely because they provoked the Mudborn... 287 00:25:11,820 --> 00:25:15,380 I'll see you don't get the majority you need at the Gathering. 288 00:25:15,420 --> 00:25:17,980 Then I'll challenge you to hand-to-hand combat. 289 00:25:18,020 --> 00:25:21,940 You'll step aside. I'll become Jarl and lead the alliance. 290 00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:23,580 Huh! 291 00:25:23,620 --> 00:25:25,620 That is how it shall be. 292 00:25:26,860 --> 00:25:31,340 I would rather die by your blade than step aside and let you be Jarl. 293 00:25:33,020 --> 00:25:36,060 Well, if you're dead... 294 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:39,180 you won't be needing that golden hall of yours, either. 295 00:25:42,180 --> 00:25:45,460 After you greeted the Varni messenger, where did you go? 296 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:47,460 Need to ask? 297 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:49,420 This hall doesn't run itself. 298 00:25:49,460 --> 00:25:53,180 Tarn claims you were with Bayen late on the night he died. 299 00:25:53,220 --> 00:25:56,900 I'm the steward of Rheda's household. He was her Reeve. 300 00:25:56,940 --> 00:25:59,020 You want to know if I killed him? 301 00:25:59,060 --> 00:26:03,100 And the Varni messenger. I'm your Skinshifter. 302 00:26:03,140 --> 00:26:04,740 You could have just asked. 303 00:26:04,780 --> 00:26:07,220 He'd lie. 304 00:26:07,260 --> 00:26:09,940 I'm not only outnumbered, but outwitted. 305 00:26:09,980 --> 00:26:11,980 Make him put his hand in there. 306 00:26:13,380 --> 00:26:14,940 In the fire. 307 00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:17,020 A Skinshifter can't be burnt. 308 00:26:17,940 --> 00:26:20,100 You didn't think to mention this before? 309 00:26:20,140 --> 00:26:22,140 It didn't seem relevant. 310 00:26:22,580 --> 00:26:24,980 Not directly. 311 00:26:25,020 --> 00:26:27,020 I heard the same thing. 312 00:26:37,580 --> 00:26:39,540 Varr... 313 00:26:39,580 --> 00:26:42,540 No need to apologise. It was my choice. 314 00:26:48,420 --> 00:26:52,300 What now? Burn everyone in order to find this thing? 315 00:26:52,340 --> 00:26:54,660 If we have to. 316 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:56,700 Beowulf... 317 00:27:04,940 --> 00:27:07,260 You wanted to know who I repaired this for. 318 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:11,300 Elvina. 319 00:27:50,230 --> 00:27:52,230 Scorann. 320 00:27:56,270 --> 00:27:58,390 Move! Now. 321 00:28:13,190 --> 00:28:15,190 Split up! 322 00:28:25,030 --> 00:28:26,990 Where are they? 323 00:28:27,030 --> 00:28:29,390 - Who are they? - Brigands. 324 00:28:30,030 --> 00:28:34,430 Caught us on the North Road. Must be after ransom. Are you alone? 325 00:28:39,230 --> 00:28:41,470 I'm sorry to hear about Hrothgar. 326 00:28:41,510 --> 00:28:44,470 Your father was... 327 00:28:45,230 --> 00:28:47,150 I'm not sorry at all. 328 00:28:47,190 --> 00:28:51,790 I've hated him ever since he tricked me into taking that Wisdeth bride to bind his alliance. 329 00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:56,630 I told him so to his face. A Varni, married to a big-boned farmer's daughter? 330 00:28:56,670 --> 00:28:59,990 I've been a walking, talking dead man for 15 years. 331 00:29:00,030 --> 00:29:02,070 What are you doing here? Do I need a reason 332 00:29:02,110 --> 00:29:04,950 to meet the only man who told my father what he thought of him? 333 00:29:04,990 --> 00:29:07,630 - Yes, if it concerns your mother. - She needs your vote. 334 00:29:07,670 --> 00:29:10,270 What is that? 335 00:29:10,310 --> 00:29:14,070 They must have taken my man alive. He risked his life to save me. 336 00:29:14,110 --> 00:29:16,670 If it's ransom they want, you're the prize, not him. 337 00:29:16,710 --> 00:29:19,150 They think you'll hand yourself in to save him. 338 00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:21,190 I wouldn't want to disappoint them. 339 00:29:33,790 --> 00:29:36,510 You should have come in, made yourself at home (!) 340 00:29:42,550 --> 00:29:44,550 The clasp is mine. 341 00:29:45,550 --> 00:29:49,390 It was used to murder Bayen and a Varni messenger. 342 00:29:50,470 --> 00:29:53,510 The killer was Mudborn. A Skinshifter. 343 00:29:56,670 --> 00:29:58,670 Who are your people? 344 00:29:59,430 --> 00:30:01,430 Wanderers. 345 00:30:03,390 --> 00:30:07,230 People of the Mere, the few that escaped the slaughter in the Marshes. 346 00:30:08,790 --> 00:30:11,510 How did you come by a Banning warrior's clasp? 347 00:30:11,550 --> 00:30:13,630 It was a gift to my father. 348 00:30:13,670 --> 00:30:15,670 I lost it at the feast. 349 00:30:16,190 --> 00:30:18,190 You can't think it's me. 350 00:30:20,670 --> 00:30:22,670 The Skinshifter can't be burnt. 351 00:30:23,750 --> 00:30:25,910 And it's wounded. 352 00:30:33,270 --> 00:30:35,270 Then I'll show you I have no wound. 353 00:30:51,270 --> 00:30:53,270 Enough. 354 00:31:47,790 --> 00:31:49,790 Show yourself! 355 00:32:18,070 --> 00:32:20,030 It's a Skinshifter! 356 00:32:22,910 --> 00:32:24,910 There it is! 357 00:32:34,390 --> 00:32:36,390 Move! Move! 358 00:32:44,150 --> 00:32:46,190 Get away! Get away! 359 00:32:50,710 --> 00:32:53,190 - Move! - Did you see it? 360 00:32:53,230 --> 00:32:55,230 Where's it gone? 361 00:33:36,390 --> 00:33:38,750 Tarn? 362 00:33:38,790 --> 00:33:40,550 Are you sure it's him? 363 00:33:40,590 --> 00:33:42,950 He has the wound I gave him. And another. 364 00:33:45,350 --> 00:33:47,350 That Bayen gave him. 365 00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:55,590 That's it? You found the Skinshifter? Are you sure? 366 00:33:55,630 --> 00:33:58,350 - We have to get it out of here. - Huh! 367 00:33:59,110 --> 00:34:03,190 Do you want to explain to the smelters that their leader is a Skinshifter? 368 00:34:14,230 --> 00:34:16,230 - The Thanes. - Come on! 369 00:34:16,950 --> 00:34:18,950 We need to hide the body. 370 00:34:22,750 --> 00:34:24,750 Quickly. They're coming. 371 00:34:40,790 --> 00:34:43,590 Shhh. 372 00:34:46,110 --> 00:34:48,110 (I heard it breathe.) 373 00:34:49,150 --> 00:34:51,590 It's air escaping the body. 374 00:34:55,430 --> 00:34:59,670 When I was a boy, my mother used to tell stories about Skinshifters. 375 00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:04,070 Horrible, horrible stories. 376 00:35:05,790 --> 00:35:07,790 At least, I think she was my mother. 377 00:35:10,670 --> 00:35:12,670 I didn't know her well. 378 00:35:26,950 --> 00:35:28,950 Summon Beowulf. 379 00:35:32,190 --> 00:35:35,030 My son - has he returned? 380 00:35:35,590 --> 00:35:37,590 Not yet. 381 00:35:51,310 --> 00:35:53,310 Axel! 382 00:35:53,990 --> 00:35:58,070 Let my man go... and you can have me. 383 00:35:58,110 --> 00:36:01,230 We'll have you, anyway! Take him! 384 00:36:12,310 --> 00:36:14,310 Wait! 385 00:36:19,350 --> 00:36:22,150 Catch him and cut him to pieces, boys! 386 00:36:25,430 --> 00:36:28,590 Leave that one. Don't you smell the coin? 387 00:36:37,790 --> 00:36:40,510 - Run! - Do that and this one's dead! 388 00:37:28,510 --> 00:37:33,470 His man's missing, and if he doesn't know there's a Skinshifter on the loose, he will soon. 389 00:37:35,030 --> 00:37:38,350 - You found it? - And killed it. Rheda... 390 00:37:38,390 --> 00:37:40,390 Rate... 391 00:37:40,430 --> 00:37:42,710 I'm sorry, but your shieldsman is dead. 392 00:37:43,350 --> 00:37:45,830 He laid down his life to save mine. 393 00:37:46,550 --> 00:37:48,310 Who killed him? 394 00:37:48,350 --> 00:37:52,350 Not who, but what. A Skinshifter. 395 00:37:52,390 --> 00:37:54,390 - Where is it? - No! 396 00:37:55,430 --> 00:37:57,710 Rheda, let us be clear. 397 00:37:57,750 --> 00:38:00,590 You are telling us that the most reviled of all our enemies 398 00:38:00,630 --> 00:38:03,550 is running loose in Herot? 399 00:38:03,590 --> 00:38:06,790 As soon as it was discovered, I had it hunted down and killed. 400 00:38:07,790 --> 00:38:10,310 I favour peace... 401 00:38:10,350 --> 00:38:12,270 but if we have enemies, 402 00:38:12,310 --> 00:38:14,390 they will be struck down without mercy. 403 00:38:16,470 --> 00:38:18,470 Show us the body. 404 00:38:19,630 --> 00:38:21,630 Bring it. 405 00:38:25,150 --> 00:38:27,150 (It's in human form.) 406 00:38:27,710 --> 00:38:30,830 (There's no way of proving it's the Skinshifter.) 407 00:38:30,870 --> 00:38:32,870 (Well, find a way.) 408 00:38:53,830 --> 00:38:56,830 - You murdered Tarn! - He was a Skinshifter. 409 00:38:56,870 --> 00:38:59,790 Tarn was a man! I'm his mother. 410 00:39:01,670 --> 00:39:03,670 Koll... 411 00:39:05,670 --> 00:39:09,910 My son wasn't the best of men, but he was a man. 412 00:39:31,230 --> 00:39:33,910 - It's you! You killed them. - I had no choice, 413 00:39:33,950 --> 00:39:35,950 but to protect my family. 414 00:39:40,230 --> 00:39:42,230 It's not Tarn! 415 00:39:46,190 --> 00:39:48,190 The doors! 416 00:39:50,270 --> 00:39:52,270 Close the doors! 417 00:40:00,510 --> 00:40:02,510 See what that is. 418 00:40:04,430 --> 00:40:06,430 Let us all see. 419 00:40:42,990 --> 00:40:44,990 Koll. 420 00:40:49,030 --> 00:40:52,470 - Stand aside. - That thing killed Argat's brother. 421 00:40:52,510 --> 00:40:54,510 And Herot's Reeve! 422 00:40:55,750 --> 00:41:00,670 When the time comes, we'll toss a coin for the pleasure of cutting its throat, but not yet. 423 00:41:03,670 --> 00:41:06,510 I believe the Skinshifter was acting on someone else's part. 424 00:41:06,550 --> 00:41:09,590 Kill it, and we may never know who. 425 00:41:09,630 --> 00:41:11,630 What makes you say that? 426 00:41:12,630 --> 00:41:14,550 It said as much. 427 00:41:14,590 --> 00:41:17,310 And it used this to do its killing. 428 00:41:18,870 --> 00:41:20,990 Left it in the dead Varni, to be found. 429 00:41:21,030 --> 00:41:25,030 - A Banning clasp. - This wasn't about Bayen or the Varni. 430 00:41:26,150 --> 00:41:29,590 It was about killing your Reeve and stirring up the tribes. 431 00:41:30,630 --> 00:41:33,350 To make my sister look weak before the Gathering. 432 00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:56,910 It makes no sense. He was a loving husband, father. 433 00:41:56,950 --> 00:41:59,630 He lived here in peace for years. He was a good man. 434 00:41:59,670 --> 00:42:02,270 Man? This thing was a murderer of men. 435 00:42:02,310 --> 00:42:04,950 Amongst them, Bayen, who it called a friend. 436 00:42:04,990 --> 00:42:08,470 All Mudborn are killers. It's in their blood. 437 00:42:08,510 --> 00:42:10,510 And what's in yours? 438 00:42:20,230 --> 00:42:24,910 Mmm. My wife... can cook. Try. 439 00:42:26,830 --> 00:42:30,030 Hey... we did a good job today. 440 00:42:30,070 --> 00:42:32,190 We? 441 00:42:32,230 --> 00:42:34,590 I was there, too. 442 00:42:34,630 --> 00:42:36,630 Hey... 443 00:42:37,110 --> 00:42:39,110 Get your own wife. 444 00:42:52,430 --> 00:42:54,670 Whoa. Easy. 445 00:42:56,990 --> 00:42:59,030 Easy. Easy. Shhh. 446 00:42:59,790 --> 00:43:01,790 Easy, boy. 447 00:43:06,150 --> 00:43:08,150 That's Slean's horse. 448 00:43:11,870 --> 00:43:13,870 My son. 449 00:43:18,030 --> 00:43:19,750 They will find Slean. 450 00:43:19,790 --> 00:43:23,390 Rate and Beowulf are looking for him now. There are no finer warriors. 451 00:43:24,550 --> 00:43:27,750 - What is he? - A filthy Mudborn! 452 00:43:27,790 --> 00:43:30,830 If Scorann doesn't arrive, your future is in my hands. 453 00:43:30,870 --> 00:43:32,870 People don't want justice. 454 00:43:32,910 --> 00:43:34,470 They want to see strength. 455 00:43:34,510 --> 00:43:37,310 I was born a warrior, and I'll die one.