The third episode of The Outpost S4, which owes its title to the final sequence with which it concludes, becomes an essential chapter within the whole of this new season: the characters acquire greater depth, their intrigues that will set the narrative course to follow and timidly appear the new problems and threats that Talon, Garret, Janzo and their friends will have to face. The issue of religion is pervasive, although it's hard to believe at some points that Tobin or Falista, who seemed to have lived their lives outside the whims of the ancient deities, suddenly seem so abducted by the visions that all possessors of the Kinjs suffer with the awakening of those beings who claim these supernatural parasites for themselves.
There's convenient to underline the prominent role of Two as an antagonist, since from being a merely anecdotal character in S2, he has become the instigator of discord, the female reincarnation of Lord Varys from Game of Thrones in The Outpost. Two is submissive and obedient in the face of the new monarchs. Her words only whisper the story they enjoy hearing. She never contradicts her decisions and refrains from pressuring or revealing her true intentions. Lesson learned from her partner Three, who was murdered because he didn't know how to bite his tongue when circumstances required it. You know, barking dog, little biter, but biting dog ...
Two is patient, and she waits. She just waits. She waits for favorable winds to blow her boat in the desired direction. Her macabre intentions are not only ignored by the innocent Falista and her husband, but by the rest of the characters, who rather prefer to delight in contemplating the head of the queen nailed on a pike. Undoubtedly, Two is a key element for The Outpost that could allow answering certain questions that are still in the air, regarding the origin of the kinjs and their creators. After all, how did the Prime Order come about? How did The Three get their kinjs? What role did these creatures play in Gallwood's political regime? Patience is a virtue…
Of course, if it's necessary to talk about antagonisms, it must be made clear that Two is not the only one who plays that role, because the series, if it has shown something, is that it has no qualms about making a character question his own ideals and ally with the enemy when he lacks alternatives, as is the case with Garret. However, Two stands out for the fact that she is a secondary character who, like Falista, the S4 has given her the opportunity to build himself, to give himself an identity, a purpose and a storyline of her own. The same is true for Tobin, a character whose narrative history has become more independent since Gwynn's death. Tobin has been reborn, and not just in a literal sense.
The third episode introduces changes to the chessboard based on intrigue and new plottwists that put pressure on the protagonists and confront them with their own demons. Garret Spears finally gives in and is tempted by her manumission and by obtaining an unexpected new charge in exchange for investigating the murdering attempt carried out by Luna, who remains hidden in the Blacksmith's House, recovering from her injuries. Euphoric in the first instance, as it seems that fate will allow him to honor his dead father, Wythers, for the first time, Garret accidentally discovers through Talon that the little rogue is the murderer whose arrest he is requested in the palace. However, Talon is absorbed in her own affairs and that conversation with Garret urges her to distrust him more, since the captain, or better to say, the newly appointed Gate Marshall, is on a tightrope and with the sword to the neck.
During Luna's chase into the dungeons, they both realize that the place has been used as a mass grave. Garret ties up the dots and deduces that Tobin's resurrection was the work of Two, which he blatantly throws at Tobin in his next interview, berating him for his means of obtaining the crown and the appreciation of the people. As much as he and Falista try to buy the support of the outposts through public donations, respect is a virtue that can never be bought, especially when monarchs put themselves before their own people. However, no matter how much Spears raises his tone of voice or intimidates Tobin, his freedom depends on her fulfilling the mission that they have entrusted to him, so he must find a compromise solution so as not to betray Luna and protect her while Talon, Zed and Wren venture into the Plane of Ashes to rescue the last of the Blackbloods, whom Falista will bribe with land, shelter, and legal protection in Gallwood in exchange for support and loyalty.
It doesn't take much smart to realize that the position Wythers held was repudiated by Garret and Garret has signed a delicate and risky compromise. The Gate Marshall is responsible not only for guarding and keeping in eye the entrances to the citadel, but for investigating, trying, and executing criminals, tasks that Spears has always hated the most. Garret entrusted his life to the protection of the vulnerable and for that reason Talon doesn't understand he has bowed his head and is willing to unceremoniously imprison an orphan girl who, in any case, would help them dethrone Falista. Countless times Garret has tried to do the right thing by choosing the wrong path, so there is reason to be concerned, as his obligation to help Talon and Tobin at the same time will make him a two-card player whose life will hang in the balance, as narrow as the line between loyalty and treason. Without any doubt, he will have to resort to his little ingenuity to, probably, find a fictitious culprit that allows him to achieve his goal of finding people loyal to his cause because, of course, the brain of the outpost, the inestimable Janzo, is too busy organizing his own underground business together with Munt after the closure of the Nightshade.
For their part, Talon, Zed and Wren's second trip into the Plane of Ashes raises new questions, as our friends come face to face with hostility from the Blackblood people. During their absence, a conflict has broken out between the faithful to the High Priestess and the rebellious Blackfists, something that deeply hurts Zed, as he, at one point, was a supporter of the Blackfists. The last survivors of his race consider him a traitor.
Until now Zed had been an auxiliary character and a sort of counterpart to Garret, even the enemy to beat in Season 3, when he became Yavalla's soldier, but the events that happened in the Plane of Ashes suggest that he will acquire greater weight within the narrative of the series, since if he had acted with haste, he could perhaps have brought back his compatriots and prevented that civil war, even that his brother Corven would have sacrificed himself to save him at the last instance. Without any doubt, this is something that is going to affect him emotionally.
Anyways, the reaction of Falista and the people of Gallwood to the arrival of their new pointy-eared hosts is not predictable either. Who dares to affirm that Falista's intentions are transparent and that she didn't actually send Talon there to remove her from the throne and discourage the rebellious spirits of her followers? Talon didn't promise to return with a Blackblood army and if Falista doesn't see her expectations met, she won't hesitate to reject the initial deal, perhaps claiming that it never existed because there is no royal signature to attest to it.
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