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Vigrid.

(VIGRID AND RIDER CONVERSING FAINTLY)

What did he give you?

[VIGRID] Could be useful down the road.

As we journey.

(DRUM BEATS)

- (WATER SLOSHING) - (BOAT CREAKING)

Thank you, Ivar.

(WATER SPLASHES)

I don't need anything from him or from anybody.

They all betray you in the end.

Everyone except Floki.

- (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC) - He's our free spirit.

[RAGNAR] So, what about our boat?

Do you think it could handle long sea voyages?

(GIGGLES) That's why I'm building it.

But will it be strong enough?

[FLOKI] We won't know that until we try.

(CACKLES)

[FLOKI] Oh, it's beautiful.

Why didn't you believe me? (LAUGHING)

I told you I could do it!

(RAGNAR LAUGHS)

[PRIESTESS] Helga, do you swear to the gods

that you want to marry this man?

I do swear.

[PRIESTESS] Then you are married.

- (FLOKI GIGGLES) - (ONLOOKERS CHEER)

We have a child.

(BABY COOS)

A beautiful girl.

(GASPS) A girl.

[IVAR] He threw us into the world.

We took what we wanted.

(SHIELD BANGS ON DOOR)

(MONKS SHOUTING)

(ATHELSTAN GRUNTS)

(ATHELSTAN SPEAKING OLD NORSE)

You speak our language?

How do you speak our language?

I've traveled.

We are told to travel to take the word of God.

Please, don't kill me.

[RAGNAR] What is your name?

Athelstan.

(DRUM BEATS)

[KING] How did you find this place of great riches

when all before you had failed?

My lord, we had Thor on our side.

But you understand that all this belongs to me.

- By right. - (DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[IVAR] I always thought my father was the hero.

But now that I think about it,

perhaps Floki was the true Viking.

Ragnar Lothbrok challenges you

to meet him in single combat.

- (HARALDSON GRUNTING) - (ONLOOKERS CHEERING)

(ONLOOKERS GASPING)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

[SIGGY] Hail, Earl Ragnar!

[MAN] Hail to the new earl!

[ALL] Hail, Earl Ragnar!

- (EXCITING MUSIC) - [Ivar] Floki drove him on.

- (WEAPONS CLANGING) - (MEN SHOUTING)

[ECBERT] The only way to bring an end to these incursions

is to negotiate an agreement that is good for both sides.

The king will agree to pay you monies and or treasures

to prevent any further depredations of his territories.

He is prepared to offer 5,000 acres of good land

for farming in peace.

- I accept the offer. - As do I.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Look at them, huddled together.

It sickens me.

[IVAR] Only Floki saw how the new gods mocked us.

Only he was brave enough to act.

Floki, what are you doing?

I have had a sign.

[HELGA] A sign for what?

[FLOKI] A sign that blood must be spilled, a sacrifice be made.

I have waited a long time for such a sign.

And now, my purpose is clear.

Floki.

Priest.

Lord, receive my soul.

(FLOKI SHOUTING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

[IVAR] He was a real Viking.

(DRUM BEATS)

Do you know what I did, Helga?

Do you know what I did?

I killed Athelstan.

(FLOKI GIGGLES)

- (OMINOUS MUSIC) - [Ivar] He made my people

the terror of the world.

Everything ready, Floki?

Yes, tomorrow, we attack Paris.

- (BELL TOLLING) - (FLOKI GIGGLES)

- (WAR HORN HOWLS) - (EXCITING MUSIC)

- (WEAPONS CLANGING) - (MEN SHOUTING)

(FLAMES ROARING)

(RAGNAR GRUNTS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

If he dies, he has only asked one thing.

That he receive a proper Christian burial.

Otherwise, we will not leave.

I made the boat that took you to fame.

I made the boat that will take you to your heaven.

Give my regards to Athelstan, by the way.

- (MEN ULULATING) - (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(PRIEST PRAYING IN GREEK)

- (ONLOOKERS GASP) - (WOODEN LID CLATTERS)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(DRUM BEATS)

- (MEN SHOUTING) - (DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[BJORN] We leave the camp tomorrow for home.

But because we intend on raiding Paris again in the spring,

it is important to maintain some sort of presence here.

You will winter here with the rest of the warriors

who decide to stay with you.

(WAVES SLOSHING)

Floki, you killed Athelstan.

Ragnar always claimed we went to Paris

because of Athelstan!

(ONLOOKERS MURMURING)

Therefore, I order the arrest of Floki

for the murder of Athelstan.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

You killed Athelstan out of jealousy.

That is the truth.

Just admit it.

No.

The truth is I did as the gods commanded.

And I would do it again if they willed it.

- (DRAMATIC MUSIC) - [Ivar] And how did we repay his genius?

- (FLOKI PANTING) - (WATER DROPS PLOPPING)

(SHOUTING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

[IVAR] The gods are unpredictable and cruel.

A sickness overcame Floki's daughter.

(HELGA WHIMPERS)

- (WATER DROPS PLOPPING) - (FLOKI PANTING)

What are you going to do?

You've suffered enough, Helga.

(FLOKI GROANING)

[IVAR] All for some sniveling Christian.

Well, my mother knew what to do.

She was the daughter of heroes.

She knew only Floki could show me the path.

Floki, I came to deliver my precious son into your hands.

This is Ivar, who I love more than anyone else alive.

And Floki, I know he is clever.

I want you to teach him the ways of our gods.

Teach Ivar the true path.

Teach him to hate the Christian god

as you hate the Christian god.

Only you can do it.

Not Ragnar.

I will bring him to you every day.

Teach him to be a Viking.

(DRUM BEATS)

[SEER] I have waited a long time.

Show me who you are.

(SNAKE TAILS RATTLING)

(FLOKI GIGGLING)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

He's trying to make it up to you.

I don't care what he wants.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

6A is gonna be pretty cool.

We have Russia, England, Kattegat, Iceland.

We see a lot of different cultures, different colors.

Ivar has a very massive learning experience,

observing what's happening in this whole new world.

Everything is at stake for Ivar.

He is, first and foremost, on the run.

Smart as he is, he always changes

what would be a challenge to an opportunity.

You can be very useful to me.

You are with the king.

It's gonna absolutely blow people's minds.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Where is he from anyway, huh?

He's a Sogdian from Samarkand.

Samarkand.

We're a long way from home.

Indeed we are, my friend.

Tell me again about your father, Ragnar.

Just as Ragnar betrayed Floki,

the gods made his own brother betray him, too.

[SINRIC] You will be very rich

and you will be very important.

What must I do in return?

You will defend Paris against your brother.

(NORSE MEN AND WOMEN SCREAMING)

Rollo!

You have betrayed your own kind! (GRUNTS)

Ragnar will avenge us.

We are going to lift the boats up the cliff.

We are going to carry them across the mountains

and then simply slide them back into the river.

You can do that, can't you, Floki?

I can do it for you.

[IVAR] Only Floki could sail a fleet through a forest.

But because of my father and his brother,

it went for nothing.

Come here, you snake.

Come my way and let my ax slake its thirst on your blood.

- (MEN SHOUTING) - (WEAPONS CLANGING)

One of us will die today.

And it won't be me.

Brother.

No, leave me!

Leave me!

(RAGNAR GROANING)

Enough!

Let them go.

(GRUNTING)

[IVAR] I didn't see my father for 10 years.

Until...

If you want to be king,

you must kill me.

Take it.

No?

You, no? What about you?

No, no?

Anyone?

Who wants to be king?

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

[IVAR] So, I left Floki.

I lashed myself to my father's ill-starred ship.

- (WAVES CRASHING) - (IVAR YELLING)

(WIND BLOWING)

- [RAGNAR] Those soldiers - (ominous music)

will have discovered the wreckage by now.

They'll be looking for us.

(EXCITING MUSIC)

[IVAR] Floki was far away on happier voyages.

I wished I was with him then.

(VILLAGERS SCREAMING)

And what was my family doing

while Floki terrorized the world?

- (ARROW WHIZZES) - Killing each other.

That bitch Lagertha killed my mother.

He was so far away.

I wanted to ask him what to do.

- Allahu Akbar. - I hate that noise.

(BLOOD SPLATTERING)

No, stop!

Stop.

No.

No more killing.

- Allahu Akbar. - Not in this place.

I forbid it.

Helga.

- Floki. - (TANARUZ WHIMPERING)

Who's she?

- She's an orphan. - So?

What do you want to do with her, Helga?

I want to take her with us.

- Floki, she is coming. - No.

No, she's not. No, she's staying, Helga.

I am taking her with me!

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

[IVAR] But I knew we must avenge my mother.

(DOORS SLAM OPEN)

If you kill her, my brothers,

you'll have to kill me, too.

(IVAR GROWLS)

[IVAR] And soon, my father, too.

[ODO] Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies!

(HINGES SQUEAKING)

(DRUM BEATS)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

- (RAGNAR GROANING) - (SNAKES HISSING)

[IVAR] Vengeance filled me like wine fills a horn.

And Floki gave me wings.

- (IVAR LAUGHING) - (FLOKI GIGGLING)

(IVAR SHOUTING)

[HELGA] Are you going with the army?

Of course.

I have to avenge Ragnar.

He loved me.

We are coming with you.

- No. - Yes, we are family now.

Whatever happens, we must be together.

(EXCITING MUSIC)

- (SOLDIERS SHOUTING) - God help us.

I don't think he can.

- (SOLDIERS SHOUTING) - (FOOTFALLS THUNDERING)

[IVAR] Vengeance.

- (AELLE WHIMPERING) - Blood.

(HOT BLADE HISSES)

So much blood.

[HELGA] Don't be afraid.

(TANARUZ SCREAMS)

(SOBBING) Helga.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

[FLOKI] What I am now is nothing.

And all this nothing, I give to the gods

to do with as they please.

And I shall be an empty ship with no rudder

set upon their endless sea.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

And then I killed my own brother.

(IVAR CHUCKLES)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

This is the biggest season of Vikings to date.

You see the brothers being reunited.

- You see death. You see new life. - (BABY CRYING)

You will see battles bigger than ever before.

For Ubbe, it's always been about his brother-in-law

and his family

'cause he's thinking about himself

and what he needs to do with his life.

I want to go to Iceland.

It is my destiny.

Torvi is Ubbe's rock.

She fully believes in their destiny

and wants to achieve it together.

He needs to become Ubbe Lothbrok.

Not just one of the sons of Ragnar.

He needs to become his own thing.

He wants something bigger, something better,

and this is the start of the journey to achieving that.

♪

Knife.

Have you ever killed a man?

Huh?

A man you loved.

I think you understand more than you say.

It was not my fault.

Sigurd goaded me.

Forced me.

Some might even say that he deserved it.

- (DRUM BEATS) - Everyone else can follow me.

I do not want to follow you, Ivar.

You are crazy.

Ivar, no!

(ONLOOKERS GASPING)

[IVAR] Anger overcame me.

I am truly sorry.

But I fear I drove my dear friend away.

And where do you think you're going to sail it to?

To where the gods decide.

I don't want you to go.

I will be too lonely.

I have to leave, Ivar.

With Helga gone, there's nothing left for me here.

That's why I will submit myself to the tides

and the winds and the will of the gods.

Come with me.

Thank you, Ivar.

(WATER SPLASHES)

[IVAR] No matter.

I had worlds to conquer, too.

Our father's dream

was that we wouldn't be just raiders.

That we would behave in a different way.

You're not listening, Ubbe.

We have to have a stronghold.

If we go north, we are closer to our own lands

and shipping routes.

We can build an impregnable fortress.

Where?

- (OMINOUS MUSIC) - [Ivar] I've heard of a town

called York.

(TOWNSFOLK SHOUTING)

- (SWORDS CLANKING) - (MAN GROANS)

(VIKINGS CHEERING)

Yaaa, ya ya!

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

- (MAN GROANS) - [Ivar] Shh, shh, shh.

(IVAR LAUGHING)

[IVAR] I was becoming a god.

A god.

- (MEN SHOUTING) - (WEAPONS CLANGING)

Hold the wall!

Spears!

(LAUGHING)

(HEAHMUND SCREAMING)

Heathen!

Christian.

Only Floki could have understood me.

(WAVES SPLASHING)

(FLOKI PANTING)

(WATERFALL ROARING)

(SHOUTING IN OLD NORSE) _

_

(LAUGHING)

You cannot continue to fight in England

without Hvitserk and me.

(IVAR CHUCKLES)

Mm, I think that you will find

that more of our warriors and shield-maidens

want to fight with me than go farm with you two.

(ONLOOKERS MURMURING)

- Look at you! - (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

Trying to sneak away to avoid your shame.

Surely, you must be embarrassed

that nobody else is with you.

Hvitserk.

(WAVES CRASHING)

(FLOKI SPEAKING OLD NORSE) _

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- (VILLAGERS CHATTERING) - (ANIMAL CHITTERING)

[WOMAN] Why are they following him?

[MAN] I don't know.

- (ONLOOKERS GASP) - (VILLAGERS CHATTERING)

[WOMAN] Floki!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

6A is gonna be pretty epic.

For Torvi, particularly,

relationships have come and gone.

We really see the deterioration

in Torvi's emotional well-being.

There's nothing left for Torvi in Kattegat anymore

and that's why it would make sense to travel with Ubbe.

I will not be left behind.

Wherever you go, I will go, too.

The thing I love about playing Torvi

is I haven't made her into some superhero.

She's very human.

There's an immense sense of girl power and strength.

It's gonna be a mixed bag of emotions.

Some juicy stuff we've got coming up, for sure.

- (OMINOUS MUSIC) - (LEAVES RUSTLING)

They say Floki had seen a new world

where our gods still lived.

(INSPIRING MUSIC)

[FLOKI] This land has no wars, no diseases, no suffering.

Blessed by the gods in every way.

And the climate is good, the earth rich?

Yes, my friend.

How come we have never found this place before?

Because the gods were waiting

for the right people to find it.

Can you imagine how perfect life will be?

I must warn you, my friend.

This is my kingdom.

The last thing I need is for someone

to take away my best warriors, my best hopes.

Our best hopes.

I shall go back to my boatyard and prepare the boats.

You will all meet me there in nine days' time.

Travel separately.

And don't give any indication that you're leaving.

Do you really believe you have found the land of the gods?

Why would I lie to you, Ubbe?

Because you're insane?

(GIGGLES)

I warned you.

I have been betrayed very often in my life

but I've never got used to it.

But I will allow you to go.

What point is served by keeping you all here

against your will?

(SHEEP BLEATS)

This is a new place, a new land,

and we must try to be better people,

different people than we were.

That is all good and well, Floki.

But who will rule us?

Nobody.

- We will rule ourselves. - (EYVIND CHUCKLES)

[IVAR] I wish I could've been there.

But my family was at war.

Ivar will be like the wolf Fenrir.

And flames will dance in his eyes.

And he will try to tear the sky apart.

(BOTH CHUCKLING)

You wouldn't want to miss that now, would you?

No, it's true.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

And I wouldn't want to miss that.

For the sake of our father,

a civil war can only bring tragedy.

Is that really what you all want?

You have so much to lose, Ivar.

If you want war...

- then let's have war. - (EXCITING MUSIC)

Attack!

(MEN SHOUTING)

(WEAPONS CLANGING)

- Retreat! - Retreat!

[HARALD] Retreat!

- Run! - Fall back!

[MAN] Run!

Who is this?

He's a Saxon priest.

- (LAGERTHA GRUNTS) - (HEAHMUND COUGHS)

He's alive.

- (UBBE GROWLS) - Don't! Save him.

If it's possible.

Why?

I don't know why.

- (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC) - [Ivar] How different

it must've been in Floki's beautiful world.

We all have reason to be satisfied

with what we have achieved so far.

But what we also need to build is a temple.

A temple to the gods who have been so good to us.

There will be no crops this year.

Many of us will starve to death.

Why should we build a temple before our own houses?

He's trying to provoke a reaction.

He wants us all to fall into violence and chaos

from which he can rise to power.

And we mustn't give him that satisfaction.

[IVAR] Beautiful.

(BLOOD TRICKLING)

(THORGRIM GRUNTS)

(ONLOOKERS MURMURING)

[MAN] Stop it!

Return the bowl.

This is sacred.

All right.

Have it.

No!

(FLOKI SHOUTING)

- (ONLOOKERS GASP) - Floki!

Floki, no!

(FLOKI BREATHING HEAVILY)

(AX THUDS)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

[MAN] The temple is on fire!

- (FIRE CRACKLING) - Thor is burning!

(FIRE ROARING)

[IVAR] But I had to stay and fight.

Fight for what was mine.

Lagertha murdered our mother and usurped her kingdom.

(SIGHS)

All that is in the past now, Ivar.

I must avenge my mother's murder.

And I think you would do the same if it was you.

For the sake of our father's legacy

and everything he believed in,

I'm asking you, Ivar, do not put our people's lives at risk.

If you still that you could win,

you would not be here, Bjorn.

The fact is you're afraid.

I'm not afraid.

We are to fight.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

If Ivar wins, Ragnar's dreams are lost.

- (ARROWS CLATTERING) - (IVAR SCREAMING)

Kill them!

- (FIGHTERS SHOUTING) - Retreat!

We must leave Kattegat.

Ivar will be here shortly enjoying his triumph.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

They ran like children.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Season 6A is gonna be pretty amazing

because the audience is gonna see a new world

and that introduction is gonna blow people's minds.

This, my friend, is the end of Paganism.

Harald is in a bit of a predicament.

Harald's ambition is very deep in him.

He's a tough guy and believes in his own gods.

The fans can, of course, expect the usual blood and gore,

but it's gonna be visually richer.

The drama is stronger than ever.

(LIQUID TRICKLING)

(EXHALES LOUDLY)

Quite right.

Never trust a Viking.

(EXHALES LOUDLY)

I only wish my kingdom could've been

what Floki's must've been.

Free from dissent.

Free from deception.

(IVAR BREATHING HEAVILY)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[FLOKI] We must stop this vicious cycle

of revenge and killing now!

To regain the favor of the gods,

I am willing to sacrifice my body and my blood.

I won't accept Floki's sacrifice.

Floki is closer to the gods than any of us.

Why would they seek his punishment?

[UBBE] There must be something we can do,

somewhere we can go.

Where? Where, Ubbe?

What can we do, where can we go?

Ivar will surely chase us to the ends of the earth.

We could go to England.

Hmm, where they will kill us.

Possibly.

Not necessarily.

I will intercede on your behalf with King Aethelwulf.

He will almost certainly welcome you.

You are an incredible woman, Lagertha.

But God must've meant for us to meet.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[LAGERTHA] Let's do it.

Let's go to England.

(GUARD GRUNTS)

(THROWN AX WHIRRING)

[IVAR] So, I took my father's kingdom

and the gods smiled.

Or so I thought.

You are a god.

- By your blood, - (IVAR HISSES)

I will bear you a child.

A son.

And he, too, will be a god.

Like you.

- But I would never - (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

- have peace. - (WATER SLOSHING)

A large Viking army is sailing into Wessex.

From reports I've heard, the leader of the army

is King Harald Finehair who, as you well know,

has visited us before.

I agreed to give you refuge here so long as, in return,

you agreed to fight against your countrymen.

And now, the time has come.

If, with your help, we manage to defeat our enemies,

then I swear to you that I will freely grant you

the lands of East Anglia promised you by my grandfather.

(FLAMES ROARING)

(HORSE NEIGHING)

To battle!

For Christ, for Wessex, and for England!

(ALL SHOUTING)

(SHOUTING IN OLD NORSE)

(EXCITING MUSIC)

(HORSE NEIGHING)

(WEAPONS CLANGING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

- (BJORN GRUNTS) - (MEN SHOUTING)

- (WEAPON CLANGS) - (EXCITING MUSIC)

(SHOUTING IN OLD NORSE) _

[IVAR] I sometimes wondered if perhaps there was no war

in Floki's new world.

But then I asked myself, "How would he get to Valhalla?"

You are a witch and a murderess

and you deserve to die!

What are you doing?

[ASBJORN] Mother!

No!

Ketill!

This is madness!

I should have known you were more ambitious than me!

My only ambition is revenge.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

Lower your head, old man.

The ax is coming.

(BODY THUDS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

I needed Floki.

But he was over the sea.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Season 6A is gonna be amazing.

It's gonna change Vikings, for sure.

In this world, you have to be so careful.

(WOMAN SCREAMS)

Hvitserk starts off quite angry in the beginning

and then end up turning that anger towards himself

instead of outwards.

Hvitserk hits rock bottom a few times (CHUCKLES)

- during this whole season. - (WAILING)

He's on a path to discover his real faith,

which is being a Viking.

This is his fate and my fate!

It's incredible.

Everything is so big and it's so emotional,

it's rough, it's Viking.

That's what it is. It's Vikings.

How could Floki be happy

when I still had to suffer so much?

[AUD] Tell me what happened.

They killed them all.

All of them.

Your father and your brother.

They killed them all.

- They wanted revenge. - No.

And they had planned it a long time.

(WHIMPERING) No.

I couldn't stop them.

I should never have brought you all to this place.

- (WATERFALL ROARING) - Aud!

No!

(SOBBING) No!

(WATER SLOSHING SOFTLY)

I still boiled with revenge.

People of Kattegat!

We have a great sacrifice!

This is Lagertha!

- (WOMAN WHIMPERS) - (CROWD GASPS)

That's not Lagertha!

This is the witch who murdered my mother in cold blood!

- No! - I sacrifice her

in the name of Odin and in the name of my fellow gods!

Please, no!

(FLAMES ROARING)

Bjorn Ironside.

How happy I am to see you.

It seems the fate has after all

brought us back together again.

I had an arrangement with Ivar

that, after his death, I would be King of Kattegat.

Well, then we will make the same arrangement.

- (DRUM BEATS) - [Ivar] Floki,

where were you when I needed you?

The man I once was would have dug this spade

just deep enough into your skull to make you unconscious.

But you see, I won't do any of that.

I have changed myself.

And I intend to stay this way.

All these years, I've questioned the gods.

But now I know the reason.

My fate is to kill Ivar.

(CUPS CLACK)

- Move! - (DRAMATIC MUSIC)

- (MEN YELLING) - (HINGES SQUEAKING)

[IVAR] Welcome home, Bjorn!

Move!

Welcome home!

Loose!

(MEN SCREAMING)

[FREYDIS] He is a monster.

- You have to stop him. - How?

There is a secret way into the town.

[IVAR] And even my queen betrayed me.

(BJORN GRUNTING)

There's no other way they could have gotten

inside the walls.

Someone betrayed me.

Are you going to deny it?

No.

I let them in.

You are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.

And there's a part of me

that will always love you.

(FREYDIS YELPS)

(DOORS SLAM)

[HVITSERK] Ivar!

Ivar, where are you?

(DRUM BEATS)

Here is the Sword of Kings.

Hail, King Bjorn.

King of Kattegat.

(PEOPLE CHEERING) Hail, King Bjorn!

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

[IVAR] Where were you, Floki?

Where were you?

(SPEAKING OLD NORSE) _

_

(GIGGLES)

(SHOUTING)

- (ROCKS RUMBLING) - (ROCKS CLATTERING)

(SOGDIAN GRUNTS)

(SOGDIAN GRUNTING)

On your way, merchant.

I have no gripe with you.

(SOGDIAN PANTING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Perhaps they're all dead.

Lagertha.

My brothers.

Even Floki.

(DISTANT THUNDER RUMBLING)

Perhaps it's worse.

Perhaps they're happy.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[MICHAEL] So this is a new world,

new characters, new challenges.

It's hugely emotional.

Our country's in grave danger.

It goes in unexpected directions

ends up in unexpected places.

It's time for us to look west.

Kattegat.

It's shot in totally different ways.

You could sense the new excitement.

Light the fire!

[MICHAEL] All that emotion channeled

into drama in the best season

that we've ever done on Vikings.