1 00:00:12,833 --> 00:00:15,333 ♪ There once was a lord ♪ 2 00:00:15,416 --> 00:00:17,291 ♪ In dark woods ♪ 3 00:00:17,375 --> 00:00:24,250 ♪ Wearing a strange silver band ♪ 4 00:00:24,916 --> 00:00:29,416 ♪ Around his hand ♪ 5 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:42,125 ♪ The band was charmed With ore from stars ♪ 6 00:00:42,208 --> 00:00:49,208 ♪ Bidding all monsters away ♪ 7 00:00:50,083 --> 00:00:53,958 ♪ Away ♪ 8 00:00:54,958 --> 00:00:59,000 ♪ On that quiet eve ♪ 9 00:00:59,583 --> 00:01:03,291 ♪ Among these trees ♪ 10 00:01:03,375 --> 00:01:08,208 ♪ A bandit slew the good lord ♪ 11 00:01:08,291 --> 00:01:11,250 ♪ Stealing that band ♪ 12 00:01:11,333 --> 00:01:15,833 ♪ Off a dead man's hand ♪ 13 00:01:17,250 --> 00:01:23,291 ♪ For the bandit also feared ♪ 14 00:01:23,875 --> 00:01:29,083 ♪ Monsters ♪ 15 00:01:29,166 --> 00:01:32,541 Sugo, keep your eyes and ears open! 16 00:01:33,208 --> 00:01:34,875 It's frightening the girls. 17 00:01:35,791 --> 00:01:37,791 They wouldn't even be scared... 18 00:01:37,875 --> 00:01:39,875 ...if you hadn't gotten lost. 19 00:01:39,958 --> 00:01:42,625 Really, Papa, you grew up in Kaedwen. 20 00:01:42,708 --> 00:01:45,583 King clearly dug new trails. 21 00:01:46,666 --> 00:01:48,250 Is it true, Papa? 22 00:01:48,333 --> 00:01:50,583 Are bandits killing innocents along these trails? 23 00:01:50,666 --> 00:01:52,333 Oh, pumpkin. 24 00:01:53,541 --> 00:01:55,875 There are no bandits. 25 00:02:11,083 --> 00:02:12,083 No! 26 00:02:16,708 --> 00:02:18,958 Sister! 27 00:02:47,750 --> 00:02:49,041 A witcher. 28 00:02:58,125 --> 00:03:00,458 Fancy look. 29 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:05,666 You must make a killing at druid festivals. 30 00:03:06,208 --> 00:03:08,541 Don't usually see your sorts around these parts. 31 00:03:14,083 --> 00:03:15,625 Ha! I see. 32 00:03:16,458 --> 00:03:19,416 You're a trailblazer, flaunting the new fad. 33 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:20,708 Trendsetter, you. 34 00:03:20,791 --> 00:03:22,833 Very bold! 35 00:03:23,583 --> 00:03:26,333 Whoa, there. People should get acquainted more, really. 36 00:03:26,416 --> 00:03:29,000 Converse, a little foreplay. 37 00:03:29,708 --> 00:03:31,508 Especially when one's about to kill the other. 38 00:03:32,583 --> 00:03:35,750 Though you leshens don't speak, so there's the rub. 39 00:04:06,833 --> 00:04:10,333 Forest hobo or deadly, flapping swarm. 40 00:04:12,750 --> 00:04:14,333 Let's pick a look... 41 00:04:15,041 --> 00:04:16,125 ...and stick with it. 42 00:04:20,291 --> 00:04:22,125 Deadly, flapping swarm it is. 43 00:04:37,208 --> 00:04:39,041 Away. It's not dead. 44 00:04:39,125 --> 00:04:41,500 So kill it. You're a witcher. 45 00:04:41,583 --> 00:04:43,750 There are several ways to kill a leshen. 46 00:04:43,833 --> 00:04:46,041 Behead it, sacrifice a few of its furry pets, 47 00:04:46,750 --> 00:04:48,875 even a few old dryad spells will do. 48 00:04:49,750 --> 00:04:51,166 Which will you... 49 00:05:07,208 --> 00:05:11,708 Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath. 50 00:05:12,916 --> 00:05:17,958 Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath. 51 00:05:20,333 --> 00:05:22,708 Thought you said they don't speak? 52 00:05:23,750 --> 00:05:27,416 Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath. 53 00:05:28,916 --> 00:05:29,958 They don't. 54 00:05:49,166 --> 00:05:50,000 Wait! 55 00:05:50,083 --> 00:05:52,083 Wait. I'm noble blood. 56 00:05:52,166 --> 00:05:53,583 You can't leave me here. 57 00:05:54,166 --> 00:05:55,208 What am I to do? 58 00:05:59,791 --> 00:06:02,375 He said, "Practice your sad face, 59 00:06:02,458 --> 00:06:05,375 and maybe a passerby will offer you a ride." 60 00:06:06,208 --> 00:06:07,875 And what of your sisters? 61 00:06:09,208 --> 00:06:12,583 The witcher said to use my sad face on the alderman too. 62 00:06:13,208 --> 00:06:14,916 So he'd spare some men to... 63 00:06:15,625 --> 00:06:16,916 gather the bodies. 64 00:06:24,375 --> 00:06:25,541 Dry eyes, child. 65 00:06:26,791 --> 00:06:31,083 I'll see that your father and sisters are returned to you and laid to rest properly. 66 00:06:33,208 --> 00:06:35,833 Sugo's father was a treasured member of the Assembly 67 00:06:35,916 --> 00:06:37,708 and a loyal subject to our king. 68 00:06:37,791 --> 00:06:40,750 My students and I resubmit our petition. 69 00:06:41,333 --> 00:06:43,708 Seize the witcher home of Kaer Morhen 70 00:06:43,791 --> 00:06:47,291 and exile its occupants for crimes against Kaedwen's people. 71 00:06:47,791 --> 00:06:50,666 From what the boy told us, Your Highness, 72 00:06:50,750 --> 00:06:54,791 the witcher slew the leshen that was terrorizing our forests. 73 00:06:54,875 --> 00:06:58,666 Lady Zerbst, since when have leshens prowled about Kaedwen, 74 00:06:58,750 --> 00:07:00,666 never mind with such hostility? 75 00:07:01,333 --> 00:07:02,458 Eh? 76 00:07:02,541 --> 00:07:07,083 Oh, you're suggesting the witchers have been staging these forest attacks. 77 00:07:07,166 --> 00:07:10,458 So scandalous, Madam Gilcrest. 78 00:07:10,541 --> 00:07:13,666 Monster species have dwindled under their swords. 79 00:07:13,750 --> 00:07:15,708 They need coin. 80 00:07:15,791 --> 00:07:18,750 Some have turned to mercenary work, others criminality. 81 00:07:18,833 --> 00:07:21,916 One even took a bounty on a cheating husband's head. 82 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,583 And you have evidence to prove your conspiracy? 83 00:07:24,666 --> 00:07:29,041 Or are we to merely bank on your magical intuition? 84 00:07:29,125 --> 00:07:31,083 It's their natures, my lady. 85 00:07:32,583 --> 00:07:35,375 Witchers are the offspring of foul sorcery. 86 00:07:35,875 --> 00:07:37,125 Roaming our lands, 87 00:07:37,208 --> 00:07:39,583 voting themselves the stalkers of evil, 88 00:07:39,666 --> 00:07:41,625 extorting coin from the gullible. 89 00:07:42,125 --> 00:07:46,791 Honest, simple peasants who ascribe all misfortune to spells and monsters. 90 00:07:46,875 --> 00:07:48,833 Mages create the witcher. 91 00:07:48,916 --> 00:07:52,583 Then presume it's our duty to hold the bucket and mop up their brown mess. 92 00:07:57,333 --> 00:07:59,458 I'm with Lady Zerbst on this one. 93 00:07:59,958 --> 00:08:02,041 The witchers remain at Kaer Morhen. 94 00:08:02,125 --> 00:08:04,958 At least until such time as evidence is provided 95 00:08:06,250 --> 00:08:08,000 that supports your theory. 96 00:08:26,875 --> 00:08:29,625 When a witcher inflicts pain, 97 00:08:29,708 --> 00:08:32,458 he experiences ecstasy. 98 00:08:33,250 --> 00:08:35,625 The creature's words are Ellyon. 99 00:08:35,708 --> 00:08:38,916 A dead elven dialect linked to darker times. 100 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,416 Few remember the ancient tongue. Fewer dare speak it. 101 00:08:42,333 --> 00:08:44,583 But how a leshen would know it 102 00:08:44,666 --> 00:08:47,000 or be afraid of some den... 103 00:08:47,083 --> 00:08:48,583 Never said it was afraid. 104 00:08:49,333 --> 00:08:51,625 You speak Ellyon, don't you, Filavandrel? 105 00:08:52,375 --> 00:08:54,625 You witchers are desperate for coin. 106 00:08:55,208 --> 00:08:57,666 Turning to elves for leads on work. 107 00:08:58,833 --> 00:09:03,041 These pleasures do not pay for themselves. What did the leshen say? 108 00:09:03,708 --> 00:09:05,541 "Beware the den of my dead." 109 00:09:05,625 --> 00:09:08,500 Hmm. Things you don't wish to hear in a bath. 110 00:09:09,875 --> 00:09:12,750 Did you notice anything else unusual? 111 00:09:13,250 --> 00:09:15,000 There was an energy in the woods. 112 00:09:15,750 --> 00:09:17,375 Some sort of magic, maybe. 113 00:09:17,458 --> 00:09:19,416 Controlling the leshen, bewitching it. 114 00:09:20,166 --> 00:09:21,208 What's your face? 115 00:09:22,416 --> 00:09:24,041 Over the last four summers, 116 00:09:24,833 --> 00:09:26,916 girls have been disappearing from our ranks. 117 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,041 Oh, God, no elf drama. 118 00:09:29,625 --> 00:09:33,250 The first we feared were deserting us after the last cleansing. 119 00:09:33,750 --> 00:09:38,250 - But the disappearances haven't stopped. - Tragic, really. Very terrible. 120 00:09:38,333 --> 00:09:41,583 One of the first to vanish was a young mage, Kitsu. 121 00:09:42,750 --> 00:09:45,875 She spoke Ellyon. We should return to these forests. 122 00:09:46,708 --> 00:09:48,541 See, I'm a monster hunter, Fil, 123 00:09:48,625 --> 00:09:51,958 not an elf wrangler, not even the murderous ones, but good luck. 124 00:09:52,041 --> 00:09:54,083 A favor to a friend, then? 125 00:09:54,750 --> 00:09:57,375 Favors and friends don't pay bills. 126 00:09:57,458 --> 00:09:58,666 Quite the opposite. 127 00:09:59,166 --> 00:10:01,041 You've really no shame. 128 00:10:01,125 --> 00:10:04,916 I have a reputation and a healthy estimation of my talent's worth. 129 00:10:05,875 --> 00:10:10,166 My apologies for trying to save you from a wasted winter at Kaer Morhen. 130 00:10:10,250 --> 00:10:12,541 Wasted? 131 00:10:13,041 --> 00:10:15,791 Well, there's drinking, eating, sleeping. 132 00:10:16,291 --> 00:10:17,166 All free. 133 00:10:17,250 --> 00:10:21,291 And the training of another greedy gang of young witchers. 134 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,500 I leave that to my peers. 135 00:10:25,083 --> 00:10:30,708 Imagine if you witchers labored for more than just thrill and coin. 136 00:10:31,458 --> 00:10:33,958 Imagine if you elves wielded your swords 137 00:10:34,041 --> 00:10:36,166 as well as you do guilt. 138 00:10:46,166 --> 00:10:47,416 Please! Get them! 139 00:10:48,416 --> 00:10:50,291 Vesemir, get over here! 140 00:10:50,375 --> 00:10:53,291 Where do... Hey! They must go! 141 00:10:56,166 --> 00:10:57,916 Now they're nibbling. No! 142 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,791 Licking. Ooh! They're licking. 143 00:11:00,416 --> 00:11:02,500 Oh! Tongues! 144 00:11:04,125 --> 00:11:06,291 - No! Aah! - Vesemir! 145 00:11:06,375 --> 00:11:08,416 I told you, double knots! 146 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:10,625 I did, Father. Just as you showed. 147 00:11:10,708 --> 00:11:13,166 Let's see if the boy can handle fetching a wet cloth. 148 00:11:16,041 --> 00:11:18,750 A lesser man would sell your boy to another family. 149 00:11:18,833 --> 00:11:19,833 Yes, sir. 150 00:11:19,916 --> 00:11:24,000 At least my son proves a measure of your generous character. 151 00:11:24,083 --> 00:11:27,458 Head to the market. We will need blue gum to sedate our lady. 152 00:11:27,541 --> 00:11:29,416 - No! - Try not to cock it up. 153 00:11:31,541 --> 00:11:33,583 Please stop! Please make it stop! 154 00:11:33,666 --> 00:11:34,666 - No. - No! 155 00:11:43,625 --> 00:11:45,666 Stop fidgeting! 156 00:11:55,791 --> 00:11:57,458 Aah! Oh! 157 00:12:01,166 --> 00:12:02,166 Oh! 158 00:12:05,583 --> 00:12:08,708 Poor Illyana. I didn't even have to take a shot. 159 00:12:08,791 --> 00:12:11,625 Moron! You could've killed me. 160 00:12:12,541 --> 00:12:13,625 Here to bother me? 161 00:12:13,708 --> 00:12:16,250 The Lord insisted I look after you in the market. 162 00:12:16,333 --> 00:12:18,291 Seemed rather pissed. 163 00:12:19,875 --> 00:12:22,583 We slave away all day long, getting shout at, 164 00:12:22,666 --> 00:12:26,291 and the only coin we get is when we're sent to fetch them goods. 165 00:12:26,375 --> 00:12:29,958 Just be happy you have a roof over your head and your belly's not empty. 166 00:12:30,041 --> 00:12:34,541 Barely a roof, barely not empty. Just enough to keep us here breathing. 167 00:12:35,708 --> 00:12:37,250 Fine. 168 00:12:37,333 --> 00:12:38,625 There's the world. 169 00:12:38,708 --> 00:12:41,083 What would you buy if you had all its coin? 170 00:12:41,166 --> 00:12:44,125 I would get the hell out of this village and travel the continent. 171 00:12:44,208 --> 00:12:45,958 - Adventure? - Of course. 172 00:12:46,041 --> 00:12:47,791 - Glory? - Oh, yes! 173 00:12:47,875 --> 00:12:48,875 Girls? 174 00:12:51,500 --> 00:12:53,833 I'd buy a gorgeous lake house. 175 00:12:54,333 --> 00:12:58,916 My handsome husband and I would picnic and drink wine by the water 176 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,333 as our children played jacks nearby. 177 00:13:01,416 --> 00:13:03,500 You know what we should do? 178 00:13:04,166 --> 00:13:06,500 We should take this coin and buy honey cake. 179 00:13:06,583 --> 00:13:08,750 And how will our lady get her herbs? 180 00:13:10,416 --> 00:13:12,809 - Yes, three more of those. - Fresh mixed grills! 181 00:13:12,833 --> 00:13:14,333 There you are, sir. 182 00:13:14,416 --> 00:13:16,166 Stop! Thief! 183 00:13:17,208 --> 00:13:18,791 Hey! 184 00:13:19,291 --> 00:13:20,333 This way! 185 00:13:24,375 --> 00:13:25,666 - Oh! - Stop him! 186 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:39,833 Nutcase. 187 00:13:53,041 --> 00:13:54,125 Mmm! 188 00:13:55,166 --> 00:13:56,750 Save some for me! 189 00:13:58,041 --> 00:14:00,666 See, it worked. 190 00:14:00,750 --> 00:14:01,916 I knew it would. 191 00:14:08,708 --> 00:14:10,166 In Nilfgaard, 192 00:14:10,250 --> 00:14:12,958 they'd cut your thieving hands right off. 193 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,625 Make you wear 'em round your neck for weeks. 194 00:14:17,958 --> 00:14:19,333 Smart trick. 195 00:14:20,166 --> 00:14:21,583 Odd loot. 196 00:14:21,666 --> 00:14:22,833 Who you got who's sick? 197 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:26,833 Where... 198 00:14:26,916 --> 00:14:31,333 Where'd a girl find balls like that in an alley wi' a man like me? 199 00:14:31,416 --> 00:14:35,500 I steal them from smelly cowards who try to bully young ladies. 200 00:14:39,333 --> 00:14:40,333 Who are you? 201 00:14:40,416 --> 00:14:45,333 A humanitarian, whose well-meaning ears have heard of a local lady 202 00:14:45,416 --> 00:14:48,291 lost to madness and fever... 203 00:14:48,375 --> 00:14:50,708 ...seeing horrors that aren't really there. 204 00:14:51,208 --> 00:14:55,166 That blue gum will certainly ease the affliction, but, uh... 205 00:14:55,791 --> 00:14:57,250 a sword would kill it. 206 00:14:57,333 --> 00:14:58,375 Name's Deglan. 207 00:14:59,083 --> 00:15:01,333 And you're gonna take me to your noblewoman. 208 00:15:01,833 --> 00:15:04,958 Or I'm taking you two pests back to the market. 209 00:15:11,916 --> 00:15:14,000 A demon plagues this woman. 210 00:15:14,083 --> 00:15:15,083 A mahr. 211 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:19,208 Puts you down with horrid delusions and feeds off your madness. 212 00:15:19,291 --> 00:15:21,750 Meteorite ore disrupts the demon's magic, 213 00:15:21,833 --> 00:15:23,833 so it can be... removed. 214 00:15:24,333 --> 00:15:25,958 Out. Now. All of you. 215 00:15:28,250 --> 00:15:29,416 I'd like to remain. 216 00:15:30,625 --> 00:15:34,041 Your boy's likely seen a monster or two in his time, no? 217 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:39,583 - Oof! - I'll be casting the spell. 218 00:15:39,666 --> 00:15:41,958 It's on you to catch the critter. 219 00:15:43,166 --> 00:15:46,583 But I thought a witcher slays monsters? 220 00:15:46,666 --> 00:15:48,375 To slay a beast, 221 00:15:48,458 --> 00:15:50,416 you've first got to understand it. 222 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:51,958 Study it. 223 00:15:52,458 --> 00:15:53,958 Find its weakness. 224 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:56,750 I want this sucker alive and kicking. 225 00:15:57,875 --> 00:15:58,875 If possible. 226 00:16:09,708 --> 00:16:10,791 Steady, young fella. 227 00:16:10,875 --> 00:16:11,958 Uh... 228 00:16:35,083 --> 00:16:36,708 And he asked to stay. 229 00:16:58,833 --> 00:17:01,083 Never let 'em get in your head. 230 00:17:01,666 --> 00:17:03,125 Better dead than fled. 231 00:17:06,875 --> 00:17:09,041 There'll always be another monster. 232 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Vesemir. 233 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:17,000 Fetch warm water. 234 00:17:17,708 --> 00:17:18,791 My head... 235 00:17:18,875 --> 00:17:21,291 Oh, my head hurts wildly. 236 00:17:34,541 --> 00:17:36,000 Nice weight, isn't it? 237 00:17:36,083 --> 00:17:39,291 How much you suppose the job cost that prick master of yours? 238 00:17:40,875 --> 00:17:43,083 Fear and ignorance are good business. 239 00:17:44,416 --> 00:17:46,000 For your service, young fella. 240 00:17:54,416 --> 00:17:55,500 Take me with you. 241 00:17:56,666 --> 00:17:58,666 Not many boys seek to be witchers. 242 00:17:58,750 --> 00:18:02,083 Even fewer seek a life of fetching bedpans and water. 243 00:18:02,166 --> 00:18:03,166 And the girl? 244 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,291 Your blue-eyed lass? 245 00:18:06,583 --> 00:18:09,333 You hesitated back with the mahr too. 246 00:18:09,416 --> 00:18:13,000 Witchers do not hesitate. 247 00:18:40,916 --> 00:18:43,250 - Stop! - Are you going to enjoy the day? 248 00:18:43,333 --> 00:18:47,083 Or are you still too shook from your daring night of monster-slaying? 249 00:18:47,166 --> 00:18:49,166 It was your first time, Vesemir. 250 00:18:49,750 --> 00:18:53,208 Excuse me for wanting to be good at something other than serving. 251 00:18:53,291 --> 00:18:55,541 Oh, I can see it now. 252 00:18:55,625 --> 00:18:57,875 You, adorned in battle armor, 253 00:18:57,958 --> 00:18:59,583 steel and silver swords, 254 00:18:59,666 --> 00:19:03,541 saving the continent from kikamores, ghouls, and mad sorcerers. 255 00:19:03,625 --> 00:19:05,291 Evil would tremble. 256 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:09,916 - Stylish armor, by the way. - Imagine it however you like. 257 00:19:10,666 --> 00:19:14,416 Only way people like us survive is to dream of ourselves as something else. 258 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,291 Who knows? Perhaps someday I'll be a princess who commands the snow. 259 00:19:22,333 --> 00:19:23,333 Uh! 260 00:19:25,708 --> 00:19:27,875 Vesemir, I was only jesting. 261 00:19:27,958 --> 00:19:29,458 You find our fates funny? 262 00:19:30,083 --> 00:19:34,250 Why should I be meek and penniless like my father? Or you like your mother? 263 00:19:34,875 --> 00:19:37,750 - What's got you so silly? - You wouldn't understand. 264 00:19:37,833 --> 00:19:40,125 Vesemir, out there, we're nothing. 265 00:19:40,791 --> 00:19:41,916 Less than nothing. 266 00:19:42,458 --> 00:19:45,000 At least here, at the estate, we have station. 267 00:19:45,083 --> 00:19:46,750 And if I could take care of you? 268 00:19:47,333 --> 00:19:49,791 The coin that witcher made last night, 269 00:19:49,875 --> 00:19:51,416 you should've saw it. 270 00:19:51,916 --> 00:19:54,791 I'd get you your lake house, all your wine. 271 00:19:54,875 --> 00:19:57,416 Anything and everything. 272 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:58,500 Yours. 273 00:19:59,416 --> 00:20:01,583 So trade my debt to a master I hate 274 00:20:02,166 --> 00:20:04,083 with a debt to one that I love? 275 00:20:06,666 --> 00:20:08,708 Wait, Illyana! Stay! 276 00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:10,333 You stay. 277 00:21:42,291 --> 00:21:43,916 Lord Vesemir, 278 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,291 my new best friend. 279 00:21:45,375 --> 00:21:47,416 Crossed a leshen on my way here. 280 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:48,500 So we've heard. 281 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,250 Meanwhile, I barely made enough this year 282 00:21:51,333 --> 00:21:53,791 to score a night with a limp-pricked man-whore. 283 00:21:53,875 --> 00:21:55,541 Your woes break me, Luka. 284 00:21:56,041 --> 00:21:59,041 Then we've got Sven here bringing back new recruits. 285 00:21:59,125 --> 00:22:01,541 Bad enough we're putting ourselves out of business 286 00:22:01,625 --> 00:22:03,416 with every monster we kill. 287 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:05,708 Now there'll be even more of us. 288 00:22:05,791 --> 00:22:09,750 Not my fault people make more kids than coin. 289 00:22:09,833 --> 00:22:12,166 Also, short a man-whore? 290 00:22:12,708 --> 00:22:14,125 Go fuck yourself. 291 00:22:14,208 --> 00:22:15,916 Aren't you "short" everything? 292 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,291 Boys, monsters will fuck through the winter, 293 00:22:19,375 --> 00:22:22,208 then come spring, there'll be jobs from here to Nazair. 294 00:22:22,291 --> 00:22:24,666 Until then, I say we perk up, 295 00:22:24,750 --> 00:22:25,750 drink up, 296 00:22:26,166 --> 00:22:30,041 and you two focus on breaking these brats into the world of witchering. 297 00:22:33,875 --> 00:22:36,500 "Witchers are rogues without virtue." 298 00:22:36,583 --> 00:22:39,666 "True diabolical creatures, fit only for killing." 299 00:22:41,416 --> 00:22:44,250 "There is no place amidst honest men for them." 300 00:22:45,250 --> 00:22:47,750 My, my. How do you find this rubbish? 301 00:22:47,833 --> 00:22:51,583 A few of the boys spotted 'em posted about towns on their way back. 302 00:22:51,666 --> 00:22:54,500 "Tetra Gilcrest." Sounds like a botanist. 303 00:22:55,208 --> 00:22:56,208 A purist. 304 00:22:56,666 --> 00:23:00,583 Rambles about being a descendant of the first human mage. 305 00:23:00,666 --> 00:23:03,166 Would it have vexed you to bury that lad's sisters? 306 00:23:04,208 --> 00:23:06,833 You're feeding fodder to arses like Gilcrest. 307 00:23:08,125 --> 00:23:10,166 That's a wyvern tooth, not a basilisk. 308 00:23:10,250 --> 00:23:11,958 I'll mix and match as I please. 309 00:23:12,583 --> 00:23:13,583 Look. 310 00:23:14,125 --> 00:23:17,125 - You know me and children. - Get over it, young fella. 311 00:23:17,208 --> 00:23:19,583 'Cause you're teaching fencing to the recruits. 312 00:23:19,666 --> 00:23:23,333 - Am I being punished? - I'm down two dozen witchers this winter. 313 00:23:23,958 --> 00:23:28,083 Wimps found employ in other more lucrative nonsense. 314 00:23:28,583 --> 00:23:30,791 So we'll all be slogging more weight. 315 00:23:30,875 --> 00:23:34,125 A wonderful winter of abandoned little tragedies. 316 00:23:34,208 --> 00:23:35,041 Lovely. 317 00:23:35,125 --> 00:23:37,416 Now, this leshen. 318 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:40,875 Tell me you've considered the thing was bewitched. 319 00:23:40,958 --> 00:23:42,916 I'm not a dullard. 320 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,333 A croon could pull that feat. 321 00:23:45,416 --> 00:23:47,416 A higher vampire, definitely. 322 00:23:48,208 --> 00:23:51,083 Or it could be a new breed of leshen. 323 00:23:51,166 --> 00:23:54,875 Actually, just elves airing their usual dirty trousers of victimhood. 324 00:23:55,375 --> 00:23:56,958 Shame. 325 00:23:58,166 --> 00:24:01,250 A few new beasts would be... good for business. 326 00:24:06,083 --> 00:24:08,208 Why'd the witcher not handle this? 327 00:24:08,291 --> 00:24:11,416 - Lies and conspiracy. - Look away from the faces. 328 00:24:12,416 --> 00:24:14,791 I'd heard the leshen'd been killed. 329 00:24:18,291 --> 00:24:22,208 A whiff of basilisk breath could snuff out ten strong men. 330 00:24:23,625 --> 00:24:26,041 Did you find the creature's body? 331 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:30,291 A witcher would need proof to collect his coin. 332 00:24:30,958 --> 00:24:32,458 And yet... 333 00:24:32,541 --> 00:24:34,166 At least help me persuade the king 334 00:24:34,250 --> 00:24:36,958 to send an envoy to Kaer Morhen to investigate, please. 335 00:24:37,791 --> 00:24:41,458 Your acolytes have played to people's fears well enough. 336 00:24:41,541 --> 00:24:44,250 The mere act of sending an envoy would indict the witchers, 337 00:24:44,333 --> 00:24:45,916 whatever the truth. 338 00:24:46,708 --> 00:24:48,875 Do you know what's involved in making a witcher? 339 00:24:50,041 --> 00:24:52,125 The horrors done to their recruits? 340 00:24:52,208 --> 00:24:54,958 Boys no older than your orphans here. 341 00:24:55,916 --> 00:24:58,416 Your late husband would've understood this. 342 00:24:58,916 --> 00:25:01,250 I was an ardent admirer of Lord Zerbst. 343 00:25:02,666 --> 00:25:04,000 He was open-minded. 344 00:25:04,791 --> 00:25:05,791 Forward-thinking. 345 00:25:06,541 --> 00:25:08,291 Married you, after all. 346 00:25:08,375 --> 00:25:10,541 Careful, Tetra. 347 00:25:11,041 --> 00:25:12,291 Or be quiet. 348 00:25:12,875 --> 00:25:16,083 Kaedwen's laws grant a widow her husband's seat at court. 349 00:25:16,166 --> 00:25:18,791 The laws say nothing about erasing what she once was. 350 00:25:19,791 --> 00:25:21,750 Well, how fortunate, my lady, 351 00:25:21,833 --> 00:25:24,208 that few have wished to press the issue. 352 00:25:42,791 --> 00:25:44,458 You ain't fed us in days! 353 00:25:44,541 --> 00:25:47,208 We ain't given sleep, can barely stand up. 354 00:25:47,708 --> 00:25:49,833 Now you got us playing with swords? 355 00:25:51,041 --> 00:25:53,958 I don't wish to be here any more than you do. 356 00:25:54,833 --> 00:25:56,041 I'll hazard a guess. 357 00:25:56,125 --> 00:25:59,583 You all imagine there are better fates for you out there in the world. 358 00:26:00,541 --> 00:26:02,666 But out there, you have nothing. 359 00:26:03,875 --> 00:26:05,916 But here, we offer strength. 360 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,750 Purpose. 361 00:26:09,750 --> 00:26:10,750 Respect. 362 00:26:11,125 --> 00:26:13,958 A chance at surviving the very horrors waiting out there. 363 00:26:14,458 --> 00:26:17,041 If you don't want that, then this... 364 00:26:20,375 --> 00:26:21,541 is wasted on you. 365 00:26:25,166 --> 00:26:27,083 "And if you don't want that, 366 00:26:27,166 --> 00:26:29,000 then this is wasted on ya." 367 00:26:29,083 --> 00:26:31,666 Ugh. That dorbel's full of shit. 368 00:26:31,750 --> 00:26:34,000 Master Deglan's preparing us for the Path. 369 00:26:34,083 --> 00:26:36,208 Better hardship here than out there. 370 00:26:37,625 --> 00:26:39,416 Oh, there's a freeze tonight. 371 00:26:42,333 --> 00:26:44,291 Shut up and steal what sleep you can. 372 00:26:46,291 --> 00:26:48,583 Ah, don't mind Tomas. 373 00:26:48,666 --> 00:26:49,958 Law of Surprise. 374 00:26:50,041 --> 00:26:52,875 Didn't know he belonged to the witchers till one came knocking. 375 00:26:52,958 --> 00:26:54,125 Law of Surprise? 376 00:26:54,208 --> 00:26:57,750 Fancy name for when you can't pay a witcher. Give 'em your kid. 377 00:26:59,166 --> 00:27:01,291 Were you sold, or did you volunteer? 378 00:27:01,375 --> 00:27:04,000 Uh, my folks dumped me here. Like most. 379 00:27:04,083 --> 00:27:06,416 Who chooses to be in this pigsty? 380 00:27:09,833 --> 00:27:11,791 - Don't be so scared. - They're... 381 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:15,000 - They're going to poison us. - Who? 382 00:27:15,083 --> 00:27:17,250 There are mages here. 383 00:27:17,333 --> 00:27:18,333 Old ones. 384 00:27:18,833 --> 00:27:20,416 Making witchers, they... 385 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:22,875 They'll kill us. Then bring us back, but... 386 00:27:23,458 --> 00:27:24,750 we won't be normal. 387 00:27:26,041 --> 00:27:29,000 - They call it... - The Trial of the Grasses. I know. 388 00:27:29,083 --> 00:27:30,416 I get scared too. 389 00:27:31,291 --> 00:27:33,708 Then I think, "Soon, I'll be out on the Path, 390 00:27:33,791 --> 00:27:36,666 stronger than most anyone, wanting for nothing." 391 00:27:37,208 --> 00:27:38,541 I'll never be scared again. 392 00:27:40,958 --> 00:27:43,833 You'll come out the Trials better than normal, Tomas. 393 00:27:44,708 --> 00:27:45,708 On my word. 394 00:28:04,125 --> 00:28:05,916 - What the... - It's Vesemir! 395 00:28:08,791 --> 00:28:11,000 What's happened? Where are we? 396 00:28:11,083 --> 00:28:14,041 Quiet. My pa used to talk about this place. 397 00:28:14,833 --> 00:28:16,333 It's the Red Swamp. 398 00:28:16,416 --> 00:28:17,625 It's cursed. 399 00:28:17,708 --> 00:28:20,666 It's crawling with evil spirits and beasts. 400 00:28:21,250 --> 00:28:22,333 Griffins. 401 00:28:22,416 --> 00:28:23,875 This is a test. 402 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:25,708 Like all the others. 403 00:28:25,791 --> 00:28:29,500 On the Path, a witcher's first instinct is to survive. 404 00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:32,083 It's about wits, not swords. 405 00:28:32,166 --> 00:28:34,458 We follow the moon until we're clear. 406 00:28:34,541 --> 00:28:36,583 If there's a monster close, your medallion will... 407 00:28:48,583 --> 00:28:50,541 - Wraiths! - Keep calm! 408 00:28:51,708 --> 00:28:52,708 Stay together! 409 00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:13,208 Huh? 410 00:29:34,750 --> 00:29:35,750 This way. 411 00:30:06,291 --> 00:30:07,291 Uh... 412 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Oh... 413 00:31:04,208 --> 00:31:05,958 Oh! 414 00:31:41,125 --> 00:31:43,916 The medallions sometimes sense the bestiary. 415 00:31:44,750 --> 00:31:47,666 - Especially when it's full. - You're one of them. 416 00:31:48,250 --> 00:31:50,625 The mages Tomas mentioned who make witchers. 417 00:31:51,666 --> 00:31:53,041 You don't look ancient. 418 00:31:53,625 --> 00:31:55,708 Well, mages age quite slowly. 419 00:31:55,791 --> 00:31:56,916 Witchers do too. 420 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,541 Gives us both decades to hone our respective skills. 421 00:32:00,625 --> 00:32:01,916 The Trials are only part 422 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,791 of my duty, though. 423 00:32:03,875 --> 00:32:05,500 Don't fear. 424 00:32:05,583 --> 00:32:08,916 It's merely a side effect of its hybrid genes. 425 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,750 Krallachs. 426 00:32:10,833 --> 00:32:14,208 I've identified three different species in this specimen's makeup. 427 00:32:14,291 --> 00:32:16,625 It's a nasty little crossbreed. 428 00:32:16,708 --> 00:32:20,458 Master Deglan said monsters can't mate with other species. 429 00:32:20,958 --> 00:32:24,291 True. Though they can be engineered. 430 00:32:24,916 --> 00:32:27,708 Imagine an army of beasts 431 00:32:27,791 --> 00:32:30,916 designed to wipe out the elves and the Old Races 432 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,125 to secure land and food. 433 00:32:33,708 --> 00:32:35,208 The alchemy was... 434 00:32:35,291 --> 00:32:36,583 inelegant, though. 435 00:32:37,250 --> 00:32:39,708 Most crossbreeds died instantly. 436 00:32:40,666 --> 00:32:42,458 Mages made monsters, 437 00:32:42,541 --> 00:32:44,666 then made witchers to kill them? 438 00:32:45,458 --> 00:32:48,458 Today, my mages and I guard the secrets 439 00:32:48,541 --> 00:32:50,833 to such mutagenic alchemy, 440 00:32:50,916 --> 00:32:53,166 preventing further abuse. 441 00:32:53,833 --> 00:32:55,375 I'm Reidrich, by the way. 442 00:32:55,458 --> 00:32:57,208 Are you daft, Reidrich? 443 00:32:57,750 --> 00:33:01,541 A witcher deserves to understand its place in history. 444 00:33:02,291 --> 00:33:04,500 A rider came while you were licking your wounds. 445 00:33:04,583 --> 00:33:05,833 Left a letter for ya. 446 00:33:05,916 --> 00:33:09,125 Did you know that Tomas and the others would die in the swamp? 447 00:33:09,208 --> 00:33:11,375 It's a numbers game, young fella. 448 00:33:11,458 --> 00:33:14,375 How many survive these Trials? 449 00:33:14,458 --> 00:33:17,041 Depends. How many are witchers? 450 00:33:18,750 --> 00:33:21,750 Letter's by your cot. Read it now, before I burn it. 451 00:33:29,208 --> 00:33:30,458 "Vesemir." 452 00:33:31,083 --> 00:33:34,166 "Your thoughts are likely far from here, so I will be brief." 453 00:33:35,083 --> 00:33:36,416 "Your father is dead." 454 00:33:37,125 --> 00:33:38,750 "Kaedwen took our village 455 00:33:38,833 --> 00:33:41,166 and he was killed while helping the lord and lady escape, 456 00:33:41,250 --> 00:33:43,333 both of whom were also slain." 457 00:33:43,833 --> 00:33:46,000 "Do not return home, Vesemir, 458 00:33:46,083 --> 00:33:48,416 if this were ever that to you." 459 00:33:49,458 --> 00:33:52,625 "I hope you have found warmth and comfort in this brittle world 460 00:33:53,125 --> 00:33:56,958 and that the world is being kind to you, and most of all, fair." 461 00:33:57,875 --> 00:34:02,041 "For me, a noble family from Kaedwen has claimed me theirs." 462 00:34:03,125 --> 00:34:04,791 "They are kinder masters." 463 00:34:05,291 --> 00:34:09,000 "They let me paint and show me how to read words, as well as write a few." 464 00:34:10,041 --> 00:34:12,000 "I am well-fed and at peace." 465 00:34:14,375 --> 00:34:16,875 "There was little to miss in our burnt-out town, 466 00:34:16,958 --> 00:34:20,000 and our snowball fights and alleyway desserts 467 00:34:20,083 --> 00:34:23,500 are heavy memories I now happily lay to rest." 468 00:34:24,541 --> 00:34:26,541 "Find your rebirth, Vesemir, 469 00:34:27,291 --> 00:34:29,375 free of past burdens and hurts." 470 00:34:30,208 --> 00:34:31,333 "And yes, 471 00:34:32,291 --> 00:34:33,500 free of me." 472 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:35,833 "It is best that way." 473 00:34:37,333 --> 00:34:38,583 "Live and love well." 474 00:34:39,541 --> 00:34:40,541 "Illyana." 475 00:35:53,791 --> 00:35:57,916 Right. So, who wishes to ride and get blitzed somewhere nice and quiet? 476 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,500 We stay and see who survives. 477 00:36:01,583 --> 00:36:03,250 That could take days. 478 00:36:03,750 --> 00:36:05,250 It'll be Eskel, Lambert, 479 00:36:05,791 --> 00:36:06,833 maybe Remus. 480 00:36:07,416 --> 00:36:10,708 Now, can we please go get right properly drunk? 481 00:36:10,791 --> 00:36:12,291 Oh, let them sulk. 482 00:36:12,916 --> 00:36:13,916 We'll drink. 483 00:36:18,166 --> 00:36:21,458 The midwife almost fainted when I came for my payment. 484 00:36:21,541 --> 00:36:24,958 I looked an awful terror, red and sticky, 485 00:36:25,041 --> 00:36:27,708 but, you know, that's the job. 486 00:36:27,791 --> 00:36:30,041 And the striga? Was she cured? 487 00:36:30,125 --> 00:36:31,666 Yes. Yes, of course. 488 00:36:32,666 --> 00:36:35,041 We need more before the next tale. 489 00:36:36,625 --> 00:36:39,833 You know, that midwife should've hired a better savior. 490 00:36:39,916 --> 00:36:41,458 A man of virtue and honor. 491 00:36:42,041 --> 00:36:43,125 A real man. 492 00:36:43,208 --> 00:36:44,833 Not a mutant. 493 00:36:44,916 --> 00:36:47,583 Are knights being schooled in striga curses now? 494 00:36:48,208 --> 00:36:51,500 Where'd that lesson fit? Between learning curtsy and joust? 495 00:36:51,583 --> 00:36:55,041 We're all here for a little drink and non-violent fun. 496 00:36:56,833 --> 00:36:57,958 Ugh. 497 00:36:58,041 --> 00:37:00,916 Is this the "your kind" bit? 498 00:37:01,958 --> 00:37:03,583 You frighten these people. 499 00:37:04,083 --> 00:37:06,625 As you frightened that midwife you swindled. 500 00:37:07,208 --> 00:37:08,666 Best you leave. 501 00:37:08,750 --> 00:37:11,083 Right now. 502 00:37:11,166 --> 00:37:13,541 I've seen knights try to do our job. 503 00:37:14,125 --> 00:37:15,833 Tidy up monsters. 504 00:37:15,916 --> 00:37:18,083 Cautionary tales, all of you. 505 00:37:19,208 --> 00:37:20,708 Especially the cute ones. 506 00:37:23,833 --> 00:37:28,000 The two witchers should be tried and executed. No questions asked. 507 00:37:28,083 --> 00:37:29,625 Silly me. 508 00:37:29,708 --> 00:37:33,791 Here I thought trials were all about questions. 509 00:37:33,875 --> 00:37:37,333 These two killed two of your guard, Your Highness. You'd let that stand? 510 00:37:37,416 --> 00:37:41,250 Sire, the barkeep claims your knights instigated the altercation. 511 00:37:41,833 --> 00:37:44,583 These witchers were defending themselves. 512 00:37:45,291 --> 00:37:49,375 The people's faith in the monarchy already wavers due to the forest attacks. 513 00:37:49,458 --> 00:37:53,083 Now they'll hear the crown waxed idly as two monsters shed knighted blood. 514 00:37:53,166 --> 00:37:55,083 So we should go to war with the witchers? 515 00:37:55,166 --> 00:37:57,833 If only so you can make them what you fear? 516 00:37:58,750 --> 00:38:01,250 They are deadly. On that, we agree, Tetra. 517 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:04,750 And such a battle would flood Kaedwen red. 518 00:38:05,291 --> 00:38:08,375 The Assembly should remember the lady's seat here is honorary. 519 00:38:08,458 --> 00:38:11,666 Yet it is still my chair. 520 00:38:11,750 --> 00:38:15,083 Earned by her body. Not by blood or title. 521 00:38:15,166 --> 00:38:17,625 Gods, quiet! 522 00:38:18,375 --> 00:38:21,500 I'll have my knights kill you both for the sake of my ears. 523 00:38:21,583 --> 00:38:24,166 Tetra's right, actually, sire. 524 00:38:24,916 --> 00:38:27,375 Your subjects expect action. 525 00:38:27,458 --> 00:38:30,583 What if you act on two fronts with one move? 526 00:38:30,666 --> 00:38:34,625 Clear out our forests while also avoiding war with the witchers? 527 00:38:42,333 --> 00:38:43,958 Guard? 528 00:38:44,041 --> 00:38:45,250 Aye? 529 00:38:46,166 --> 00:38:47,333 Do you hear that? 530 00:38:47,416 --> 00:38:49,666 - It's like this pinging noise. - Hey! 531 00:38:50,416 --> 00:38:53,333 Are you eager for a beating, mutant? 532 00:38:53,416 --> 00:38:56,875 I'd settle for a pot to piss in and some halfway decent bread, please. 533 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:00,000 Oof! 534 00:39:01,958 --> 00:39:04,333 Ah. A bit generous, but... 535 00:39:11,250 --> 00:39:13,166 No need to split this one. 536 00:39:13,666 --> 00:39:15,375 Not like when we were younger. 537 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:21,041 I knew witchers aged differently, but, well, look at you! 538 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:23,541 Illyana! 539 00:39:23,625 --> 00:39:27,333 No doubt you imagined me an old spinster by now, slaving away. 540 00:39:28,083 --> 00:39:30,333 That is if you ever imagine me at all. 541 00:39:30,416 --> 00:39:31,625 Uh... your letter. 542 00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:35,125 - You'd been sold to a new estate. - Yes. 543 00:39:35,791 --> 00:39:37,333 The Zerbsts of Kaedwen. 544 00:39:37,416 --> 00:39:39,333 They were kind enough, but it... 545 00:39:39,416 --> 00:39:43,000 it was their son who was truly fond of me, despite my station. 546 00:39:44,333 --> 00:39:47,083 It's been an age. Did you ever get that lake house? 547 00:39:47,166 --> 00:39:50,583 Lake house? Oh, my, the lake house! 548 00:39:50,666 --> 00:39:52,375 No lake, no. 549 00:39:53,166 --> 00:39:54,250 But a nice home. 550 00:39:54,833 --> 00:39:57,750 Turned it into an orphanage after my husband passed. 551 00:39:57,833 --> 00:40:00,208 We had children too. Girls. 552 00:40:00,291 --> 00:40:02,500 Horrors, all three of them. 553 00:40:02,583 --> 00:40:05,041 One just made me a grandmother. I begged her not to. 554 00:40:05,125 --> 00:40:07,500 But they're stubborn little needlers. 555 00:40:07,583 --> 00:40:09,458 They often remind me of you... 556 00:40:10,041 --> 00:40:11,375 Oh, gods. 557 00:40:11,875 --> 00:40:13,750 I'm... rambling. 558 00:40:14,250 --> 00:40:15,166 You're bored. 559 00:40:15,250 --> 00:40:16,958 No, no, no. You're fine. 560 00:40:17,041 --> 00:40:20,291 You're good. Uh... this is unexpected, yes. 561 00:40:20,791 --> 00:40:23,708 Little fresh. But, uh... also lovely. 562 00:40:24,208 --> 00:40:25,625 You've had such a full... 563 00:40:25,708 --> 00:40:30,208 You wish to kill my already-dead husband and burn the orphanage to the ground. 564 00:40:31,166 --> 00:40:33,333 Not the precise words I'd use. 565 00:40:36,583 --> 00:40:38,750 Lord Zerbst was kind to me. 566 00:40:39,708 --> 00:40:41,416 By no means perfect, but... 567 00:40:42,083 --> 00:40:46,125 he's someone you miss very much when they depart. 568 00:40:48,416 --> 00:40:50,750 The tales I've heard of you, though. 569 00:40:51,250 --> 00:40:54,166 The swashbuckling witcher for hire. 570 00:40:54,250 --> 00:40:56,250 "The slayer Vesemir, 571 00:40:56,333 --> 00:40:59,333 priced only for the foulest of creatures." 572 00:40:59,416 --> 00:41:03,375 Well, not too long ago, you were stuffing my head full of those very notions. 573 00:41:04,291 --> 00:41:06,750 Years do work differently for you. 574 00:41:06,833 --> 00:41:08,666 What's time, anyway? 575 00:41:09,833 --> 00:41:11,750 Everything. 576 00:41:12,750 --> 00:41:16,791 The king is willing to grant you and your friend amnesty for your crimes. 577 00:41:16,875 --> 00:41:19,375 Then you are reminded that I carry the duties 578 00:41:19,458 --> 00:41:23,666 of my late husband, the noble Lord Zerbst, adviser to the throne. 579 00:41:23,750 --> 00:41:26,000 Every deal has a price. 580 00:41:26,083 --> 00:41:29,833 Kill whatever is murdering our people in the woods outside Ard Carraigh. 581 00:41:29,916 --> 00:41:31,333 And my colleague, Luka? 582 00:41:31,416 --> 00:41:33,958 - He'll have my care. - Reasonable terms. 583 00:41:34,541 --> 00:41:36,333 You'll take a chaperone too. 584 00:41:36,416 --> 00:41:38,125 That, there, well... 585 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,000 that's a problem. 586 00:41:40,541 --> 00:41:42,250 The Path's quite perilous, 587 00:41:42,333 --> 00:41:45,500 and you are a lady, my lady. 588 00:41:46,333 --> 00:41:48,958 Also, can't have a noble such as you 589 00:41:49,041 --> 00:41:51,833 seen slumming about with the mutant likes of me. 590 00:41:52,416 --> 00:41:56,000 Then you'll no doubt be pleased to hear that I am not your chaperone. 591 00:42:02,166 --> 00:42:05,291 I have no intention of playing guide or nurse to you, witch. 592 00:42:05,375 --> 00:42:07,416 I don't care who your great-great-whoever was. 593 00:42:12,791 --> 00:42:13,791 On my word, 594 00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:16,083 I will slay this beast. 595 00:42:16,166 --> 00:42:17,416 For you, Illyana. 596 00:42:30,583 --> 00:42:32,463 Might not be a monster at all, either. 597 00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:35,625 The leshen that killed your man Carlisle was bewitched. 598 00:42:35,708 --> 00:42:36,958 By an elf. 599 00:42:37,041 --> 00:42:39,500 "Why an elf?" Ah! Glad you asked. 600 00:42:39,583 --> 00:42:42,375 See, another very old but very young-looking elf 601 00:42:42,458 --> 00:42:46,041 asked me to help him to find a group of misplaced girls. 602 00:42:47,208 --> 00:42:50,166 Point is, witchering is a business. 603 00:42:50,250 --> 00:42:51,583 You have to keep a brand. 604 00:42:51,666 --> 00:42:56,166 Can't score the big jobs if you're known for swatting nymphs and helping out elves. 605 00:42:58,250 --> 00:43:00,708 Isn't fire magic forbidden by upstanding mages? 606 00:43:01,750 --> 00:43:04,125 Only insofar as there are very few mages blessed 607 00:43:04,208 --> 00:43:06,208 with the skill to control the flames. 608 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,333 Huh. You're very special, clearly. 609 00:43:13,125 --> 00:43:14,625 I must seem silly to you. 610 00:43:15,416 --> 00:43:16,791 But Chaos, it's... 611 00:43:17,708 --> 00:43:20,208 Well, words fail description. 612 00:43:21,833 --> 00:43:24,125 Witchers are connected to Chaos too. 613 00:43:24,208 --> 00:43:27,208 Only your connection is corrupted and corrosive. 614 00:43:27,291 --> 00:43:28,416 And far less condemning. 615 00:43:32,291 --> 00:43:36,166 There's a story about a witcher who helped an ailing priest. 616 00:43:36,708 --> 00:43:40,000 The monster-slayer believed the sickness was, in fact, a curse, 617 00:43:41,416 --> 00:43:43,833 and could be lifted by killing whoever placed it. 618 00:43:44,333 --> 00:43:47,041 The priest quickly fingered a local sorceress, 619 00:43:47,125 --> 00:43:49,375 a stupid girl who always caused him trouble. 620 00:43:50,291 --> 00:43:54,166 The witcher killed her, and was rightly paid in gems and jewels. 621 00:43:55,958 --> 00:43:58,833 - The priest obviously got better. - He did. 622 00:43:59,416 --> 00:44:01,166 And then a few days later, 623 00:44:01,250 --> 00:44:04,958 he found a beautiful gem amid his cook's belongings, 624 00:44:05,041 --> 00:44:08,166 identical to the one he'd given the clever witcher. 625 00:44:08,250 --> 00:44:10,666 Ah. He had the cook poison the priest's meals. 626 00:44:10,750 --> 00:44:12,333 Cut him in on the take. 627 00:44:12,416 --> 00:44:15,166 Smart con. Wish I'd thought of it. 628 00:44:15,875 --> 00:44:16,916 As I said... 629 00:44:17,666 --> 00:44:18,666 corrupted. 630 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,000 Ah, lovely. 631 00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:33,166 - You've led us in a circle. - No. 632 00:44:33,750 --> 00:44:35,416 I know these forests. 633 00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:37,458 Hmm. So did Lord Carlisle. 634 00:44:37,541 --> 00:44:41,958 At Aretuza, we used magic to cast pleasant illusions around unpleasant foods. 635 00:44:42,041 --> 00:44:43,791 Made food tastier, 636 00:44:43,875 --> 00:44:46,041 yet the aftertaste of the illusion? 637 00:44:48,208 --> 00:44:49,208 Bitter. 638 00:44:51,333 --> 00:44:56,458 Chaos clear our hearts and minds. Let our eyes see right and true. 639 00:44:57,125 --> 00:44:59,166 Lift the shroud that cloaks our mind. 640 00:45:00,166 --> 00:45:02,750 Lift the shroud that cloaks our mind! 641 00:45:16,125 --> 00:45:18,458 That illusion was flawless. 642 00:45:19,166 --> 00:45:21,791 The power needed to maintain such art... 643 00:45:22,458 --> 00:45:24,458 Could also bewitch a leshen. 644 00:45:34,083 --> 00:45:37,500 Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath. 645 00:45:37,583 --> 00:45:39,625 - Kitsu? - Friend of yours? 646 00:45:39,708 --> 00:45:40,958 Friend of a friend. 647 00:45:41,041 --> 00:45:44,000 Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath! 648 00:45:44,083 --> 00:45:48,375 Yes. I'll need to know what and where your den is if I'm to avoid it, 649 00:45:48,458 --> 00:45:50,375 especially since you're, you know, 650 00:45:50,458 --> 00:45:52,166 - slaughtering people over it. - Witcher. 651 00:45:56,708 --> 00:45:58,916 I've never seen such a species of basilisk. 652 00:45:59,416 --> 00:46:01,875 - Another illusion? - We'll no doubt find out shortly. 653 00:46:34,958 --> 00:46:37,750 I know. She has that effect on everyone. 654 00:46:37,833 --> 00:46:39,541 But still, manners. 655 00:47:50,750 --> 00:47:52,000 No! 656 00:47:52,083 --> 00:47:54,416 No! 657 00:47:55,083 --> 00:47:57,791 - It was real. - Might have slightly underestimated you. 658 00:47:58,291 --> 00:47:59,416 Slightly. 659 00:48:00,416 --> 00:48:01,916 Ah. 660 00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:04,708 Kitsu, this needn't escalate. 661 00:48:11,791 --> 00:48:12,958 Uh... 662 00:48:18,958 --> 00:48:19,958 Oh! 663 00:48:34,375 --> 00:48:35,541 Witcher! 664 00:48:59,583 --> 00:49:02,291 Her powers of illusion are unnatural. 665 00:49:02,375 --> 00:49:04,750 First monster I ever encountered was a mahr. 666 00:49:04,833 --> 00:49:08,458 Made a woman see nightmares that weren't really there. Illusions. 667 00:49:08,541 --> 00:49:11,875 - Kitsu's an elf. - Then why does she smell like a mahr? 668 00:49:19,708 --> 00:49:20,916 An elven school. 669 00:49:21,625 --> 00:49:24,291 They used to send their young here during high summer. 670 00:49:24,958 --> 00:49:29,041 Before repurposing it as a garrison during your last cleansing spree. 671 00:49:31,666 --> 00:49:32,916 No signs of blood. 672 00:49:34,625 --> 00:49:36,375 I can still smell her, though. 673 00:49:37,041 --> 00:49:38,041 Yes. 674 00:49:38,375 --> 00:49:39,375 She was here. 675 00:49:40,250 --> 00:49:41,583 Just before our fight. 676 00:50:19,541 --> 00:50:20,541 Witcher! 677 00:50:21,166 --> 00:50:22,666 I do have a name, you know. 678 00:50:22,750 --> 00:50:24,500 Ugh! 679 00:50:28,416 --> 00:50:29,875 What was done to them? 680 00:50:31,833 --> 00:50:33,250 They're all elves. 681 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,000 Girls. 682 00:50:35,083 --> 00:50:36,500 Over here. 683 00:50:36,583 --> 00:50:37,583 Help. 684 00:50:48,458 --> 00:50:50,500 Gods, not another favor. 685 00:50:52,333 --> 00:50:53,333 Who's this one? 686 00:50:54,458 --> 00:50:57,875 My aforementioned friend. He was searching for those girls. 687 00:50:58,875 --> 00:51:03,041 And I could've saved some, had you set aside your love of coin and helped. 688 00:51:03,541 --> 00:51:08,083 - Kitsu's been kidnapping them. - Yes. Experimenting on the girls. 689 00:51:08,166 --> 00:51:10,916 She's using some strange alchemy to try to change them. 690 00:51:11,916 --> 00:51:13,750 Change them to what? 691 00:51:13,833 --> 00:51:15,458 Into whatever she's become. 692 00:51:16,333 --> 00:51:20,083 I tracked her here, tried stopping her, but... Kitsu's power... 693 00:51:20,166 --> 00:51:21,750 And she just let you live? 694 00:51:21,833 --> 00:51:25,541 I understand if that's a concept unfamiliar to your kind. 695 00:51:25,625 --> 00:51:28,541 If Kitsu was using sorcery to try and mutate those girls, 696 00:51:28,625 --> 00:51:29,791 who mutated her? 697 00:51:33,541 --> 00:51:36,458 Her genes were spliced with those of a mahr. 698 00:51:37,125 --> 00:51:39,041 It explains her unnatural power. 699 00:51:39,666 --> 00:51:40,916 She's a crossbreed. 700 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,708 How is such a thing possible? 701 00:51:42,791 --> 00:51:44,375 The same way he was made. 702 00:51:45,166 --> 00:51:46,583 Mutagenic alchemy. 703 00:51:46,666 --> 00:51:49,500 Its secrets known only to mages at Kaer Morhen. 704 00:51:49,583 --> 00:51:51,208 You're behind all this. 705 00:51:51,291 --> 00:51:52,375 That's ridiculous. 706 00:51:53,833 --> 00:51:56,875 Hunting monsters for coin wasn't enough? 707 00:51:57,541 --> 00:51:59,041 Now you make them? 708 00:51:59,125 --> 00:52:00,875 Witchers are struggling, yes, but... 709 00:52:02,083 --> 00:52:06,458 Shame. A few new beasts would be... good for business. 710 00:52:07,666 --> 00:52:10,250 More monsters, more jobs, more coin. 711 00:52:10,333 --> 00:52:11,708 Another sharp con. 712 00:52:11,791 --> 00:52:13,708 I swear, Fil, I didn't... 713 00:52:21,291 --> 00:52:22,666 Another monstrosity. 714 00:52:27,625 --> 00:52:28,791 She's still an elf. 715 00:52:33,375 --> 00:52:35,166 You saw what these creatures can do. 716 00:52:35,750 --> 00:52:38,375 Fil, if the girl has even half Kitsu's power, 717 00:52:38,958 --> 00:52:40,250 she's dangerous. 718 00:52:40,333 --> 00:52:42,625 Doesn't this witch say similar of you? 719 00:52:43,750 --> 00:52:47,416 I will take her back to my people. She will be raised as an elf. 720 00:52:47,500 --> 00:52:48,333 Charitable. 721 00:52:48,416 --> 00:52:52,083 Though I imagine it won't be too long before you sic her on us. 722 00:52:52,166 --> 00:52:53,375 You won. 723 00:52:54,583 --> 00:52:56,083 You beat us. 724 00:52:56,166 --> 00:52:57,833 At least allow us the indignity 725 00:52:57,916 --> 00:53:01,250 of scavenging whatever's left of our kind, mutant or otherwise. 726 00:53:02,541 --> 00:53:04,541 As a favor to a friend. 727 00:53:07,041 --> 00:53:09,166 Take the child and go. Now. 728 00:53:10,708 --> 00:53:13,083 You have made a serious error. 729 00:53:13,875 --> 00:53:16,291 Should that girl ever harm a single soul, Fil... 730 00:53:16,375 --> 00:53:17,750 Then I will slay her. 731 00:53:18,375 --> 00:53:21,333 Quietly welcome you and your sword. 732 00:53:24,208 --> 00:53:27,416 I should've offered up some coin. Then you would've handled matters. 733 00:53:27,500 --> 00:53:29,375 It was not a question of price. 734 00:53:30,666 --> 00:53:32,875 Oh, the witcher's found his morals? 735 00:53:32,958 --> 00:53:36,000 You think you're so pure, Tetra? Not a blemish? 736 00:53:36,083 --> 00:53:38,625 Look outside. There's your morality. 737 00:53:39,291 --> 00:53:41,625 Rot and ruin all reeking of hate. 738 00:53:42,125 --> 00:53:44,250 Tend to that filth, and I'll tend to mine. 739 00:54:48,666 --> 00:54:50,833 Nothing good can come of this. 740 00:54:51,458 --> 00:54:53,375 Fear and ignorance are good business. 741 00:54:53,458 --> 00:54:55,625 That's what Deglan said the first time we met. 742 00:54:56,166 --> 00:54:57,166 Now look. 743 00:54:58,041 --> 00:54:59,458 I need to know for certain. 744 00:55:00,666 --> 00:55:03,041 I'd ask you to flee with me. 745 00:55:07,166 --> 00:55:08,791 I know what you have to do. 746 00:55:09,458 --> 00:55:13,750 And I won't have you feeling as though you've abandoned me again. 747 00:55:39,833 --> 00:55:42,458 I tried to stop him. 748 00:55:42,541 --> 00:55:45,750 But witchers, they never hesitate. 749 00:55:49,833 --> 00:55:52,375 Madam Gilcrest has given proof. 750 00:55:52,458 --> 00:55:54,625 This one breeds monstrosities, 751 00:55:54,708 --> 00:55:56,500 terrorizes my kingdom, 752 00:55:57,083 --> 00:55:59,375 and swindles the people. 753 00:56:01,708 --> 00:56:03,833 What the hell are you talking about? 754 00:56:04,416 --> 00:56:07,791 Sire, not all witchers were aware of these crossbreeds. 755 00:56:07,875 --> 00:56:10,833 Lady Zerbst, you are testament to the perils 756 00:56:10,916 --> 00:56:13,958 of trusting a servant. 757 00:56:15,208 --> 00:56:16,208 Your Highness... 758 00:56:19,416 --> 00:56:21,458 If it pleases, sire, 759 00:56:21,541 --> 00:56:24,916 might I ask where Madam Gilcrest is now? 760 00:57:22,083 --> 00:57:24,333 Monsters were going extinct. 761 00:57:24,416 --> 00:57:26,083 I had to protect our way of life. 762 00:57:27,208 --> 00:57:29,666 Think of all the coin you stand to make, young fella. 763 00:57:29,750 --> 00:57:32,791 - Do not call me that. - Check your gratitude, boy. 764 00:57:32,875 --> 00:57:34,000 You came to me. 765 00:57:34,083 --> 00:57:36,916 I could've shipped you right back to those bedpans. 766 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,333 Don't pretend you didn't know exactly what you were doing 767 00:57:39,416 --> 00:57:40,916 when you threw me those coins. 768 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,291 You knew I would come. 769 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,041 We were created to kill creatures like these, 770 00:57:45,125 --> 00:57:46,375 not to make them. 771 00:57:46,458 --> 00:57:48,708 I won't weep for doing what needed doing. 772 00:57:49,333 --> 00:57:50,875 I told you. 773 00:57:50,958 --> 00:57:52,791 A witcher never hesitates. 774 00:57:52,875 --> 00:57:53,958 Oh, I know. 775 00:57:54,041 --> 00:57:57,958 What about with the elf? Did you give Kitsu a choice before you mutated her? 776 00:57:58,625 --> 00:58:00,333 No, I thought we'd killed her. 777 00:58:00,416 --> 00:58:03,375 That mutation was unstable. Too much power. 778 00:58:04,041 --> 00:58:07,500 Clearly, her death was one of her clever little illusions. 779 00:58:07,583 --> 00:58:09,500 All of this to line our pockets. 780 00:58:11,125 --> 00:58:14,041 You were always too focused on the gold in your hand. 781 00:58:14,708 --> 00:58:17,833 You never looked up to see who's paying you. See their eyes. 782 00:58:18,416 --> 00:58:19,416 We terrify 'em. 783 00:58:19,916 --> 00:58:23,000 The only thing keeping men from hunting us 784 00:58:23,583 --> 00:58:25,666 are the scarier beasts we keep away. 785 00:58:26,333 --> 00:58:31,416 Humans die quick, so they spend their lives fearing and hating. 786 00:58:31,500 --> 00:58:33,916 Ask the dwarves or your elf friend. 787 00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,375 Men will always need monsters. 788 00:58:37,083 --> 00:58:39,625 - Now, so do we. - We're all orphans. 789 00:58:39,708 --> 00:58:42,166 We've always looked to you to protect us. 790 00:58:42,250 --> 00:58:45,791 You have to burn it to the ground... or I will. 791 00:58:52,833 --> 00:58:54,333 I don't want to fight you. 792 00:58:54,416 --> 00:58:56,375 We've got to protect ourselves, Vesemir. 793 00:59:00,541 --> 00:59:01,791 Got to protect you! 794 00:59:08,666 --> 00:59:13,041 If you two would like to stop trying to kill each other, 795 00:59:13,750 --> 00:59:15,208 we have a visitor. 796 00:59:17,750 --> 00:59:19,166 She's coming. 797 00:59:28,333 --> 00:59:31,250 Away with all witchers! 798 00:59:31,833 --> 00:59:34,625 Tetra wasted no time. Word spread quickly. 799 00:59:35,291 --> 00:59:38,583 Not only of the crossbreeds, but of witchers protecting elves. 800 00:59:39,083 --> 00:59:40,125 And Luka? 801 00:59:42,125 --> 00:59:43,500 This is your two's doing. 802 00:59:43,583 --> 00:59:46,250 They were always gonna come, sooner or later. 803 00:59:46,333 --> 00:59:49,791 Well, maybe there was a way for us to die the better men. 804 00:59:49,875 --> 00:59:54,333 My mages and I are the ones who know the secrets to mutagenic alchemy. 805 00:59:54,416 --> 00:59:56,916 Tetra will want our heads most. 806 00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:58,583 If we die, 807 00:59:59,208 --> 01:00:02,291 there can be no more witchers. 808 01:00:03,333 --> 01:00:05,291 Seal yourselves in your labs. 809 01:00:05,375 --> 01:00:07,875 The rest of us will rally and end her little cult. 810 01:00:08,458 --> 01:00:09,708 Bitch won't see dawn. 811 01:00:11,750 --> 01:00:15,625 Underestimate Tetra and you'll be the one who's seen their last sunrise. 812 01:00:20,458 --> 01:00:22,583 Perhaps she'll listen to reason. 813 01:00:22,666 --> 01:00:26,291 He may be a bastard... but Deglan is right. 814 01:00:27,166 --> 01:00:28,458 This was inevitable. 815 01:00:28,541 --> 01:00:29,583 Why? 816 01:00:29,666 --> 01:00:31,666 Because you're different. 817 01:00:31,750 --> 01:00:34,125 And killing is easier than tolerating. 818 01:00:36,416 --> 01:00:38,500 I want you as far away from this place as possible. 819 01:00:38,583 --> 01:00:40,166 There are children here. 820 01:00:40,250 --> 01:00:43,416 - They've been trained. - Children, Vesemir. 821 01:00:43,500 --> 01:00:45,416 As you were when he took you. 822 01:00:45,500 --> 01:00:48,583 I'll guide them to the cellar until the battle's won. 823 01:00:49,166 --> 01:00:52,875 For once, I will decide my place. 824 01:00:53,708 --> 01:00:55,333 You've always had too much fire. 825 01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:57,166 And beauty. 826 01:00:57,250 --> 01:01:00,333 Please... I'm nearly 70. 827 01:01:05,041 --> 01:01:06,041 So am I. 828 01:01:31,833 --> 01:01:34,916 Beautiful peaks. Too pure for war. 829 01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:39,958 Scurry off and return with the body of the man you murdered, witch. 830 01:01:40,041 --> 01:01:44,000 He was executed in the name of those your homemade beasts butchered. 831 01:01:44,500 --> 01:01:46,666 There'll be no more of them, Tetra. 832 01:01:46,750 --> 01:01:47,750 Upon my word. 833 01:01:49,125 --> 01:01:51,541 Well, witchers are experts in price. 834 01:01:51,625 --> 01:01:54,166 What is the worth of your word, Vesemir? 835 01:01:54,250 --> 01:01:55,250 Some things... 836 01:01:56,083 --> 01:01:57,291 are beyond cost. 837 01:01:59,333 --> 01:02:00,333 And you? 838 01:02:01,083 --> 01:02:02,583 Do you give me your word? 839 01:02:03,125 --> 01:02:04,625 I give you nothing. 840 01:02:04,708 --> 01:02:09,500 Save the chance to fill the valleys of our pretty peaks with your corpses. 841 01:02:10,291 --> 01:02:12,250 We are an army of witchers. 842 01:02:12,333 --> 01:02:13,541 You are human. 843 01:03:02,250 --> 01:03:03,250 Kitsu. 844 01:03:03,291 --> 01:03:05,958 She was gutted to hear how you sacked her den, 845 01:03:06,041 --> 01:03:09,791 destroyed her work, and murdered the girl, her only child. 846 01:03:11,125 --> 01:03:12,791 Monsters to fight monsters. 847 01:03:13,416 --> 01:03:14,875 How unlike your predecessors. 848 01:03:24,916 --> 01:03:27,083 Rally! Rally! 849 01:03:27,166 --> 01:03:29,666 Steel your nerves, lads. We charge! 850 01:03:29,750 --> 01:03:32,875 - Swords away. Swords away! - We haven't time to hesitate. 851 01:03:32,958 --> 01:03:34,500 Just bloody trust me for once! 852 01:03:37,833 --> 01:03:38,833 Please! 853 01:03:43,166 --> 01:03:44,958 Witchers, on me! 854 01:03:54,125 --> 01:03:56,041 Now! 855 01:04:04,166 --> 01:04:06,958 Be calm. Be calm. 856 01:04:07,041 --> 01:04:08,041 You're safe. 857 01:05:05,750 --> 01:05:08,583 Witchers must be wiped from the surface of this Earth, 858 01:05:08,666 --> 01:05:11,833 and all traces strewn with salt and saltpeter. 859 01:05:38,125 --> 01:05:39,500 She's going for Reidrich! 860 01:05:40,583 --> 01:05:44,458 Me and the others will hold the bridge. Use the drop to halve their numbers. 861 01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,083 You two, stop her! 862 01:05:49,291 --> 01:05:51,458 Can you forgive me long enough, young fella? 863 01:08:03,625 --> 01:08:06,041 If she gets Reidrich, it's the end of us. 864 01:08:08,625 --> 01:08:09,875 Find her! 865 01:08:11,583 --> 01:08:13,833 Stop her! 866 01:08:24,875 --> 01:08:26,875 There's a hatch in the grain hold. 867 01:08:26,958 --> 01:08:29,041 It lets out on the back pathway. 868 01:08:29,125 --> 01:08:30,375 How do you know this? 869 01:08:30,458 --> 01:08:32,000 He was trying to run away! 870 01:08:34,750 --> 01:08:36,666 Run as far away as possible. 871 01:08:36,750 --> 01:08:37,583 All of you. 872 01:08:37,666 --> 01:08:40,458 Rub the heel raw, to the bone, if you have to. 873 01:08:40,541 --> 01:08:41,583 Don't stop. 874 01:08:55,625 --> 01:08:57,291 Lower your swords. 875 01:08:59,541 --> 01:09:01,333 This is genocide, Tetra. 876 01:09:01,916 --> 01:09:06,125 They bred those monsters because of you. There is no purity here. 877 01:09:06,208 --> 01:09:08,000 Just fear and hatred. 878 01:09:08,083 --> 01:09:10,541 Enough, please! 879 01:09:11,375 --> 01:09:14,041 This servant betrays Kaedwen to the witchers. 880 01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,166 Let her join them. 881 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,000 Tetra! 882 01:09:25,083 --> 01:09:27,458 I can drop your men before their blades drop an inch. 883 01:09:27,541 --> 01:09:29,791 Wishful thinking. 884 01:09:39,541 --> 01:09:42,916 Are you going to enjoy the day, or are you still too shook 885 01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:45,208 from another daring night of monster-slaying? 886 01:09:45,708 --> 01:09:49,666 Pardon me for wanting to be something other than a churlish knave. 887 01:09:50,166 --> 01:09:51,416 Look at you, though. 888 01:09:52,708 --> 01:09:54,041 You're a witcher. 889 01:09:54,791 --> 01:09:56,041 You're rich! 890 01:09:57,291 --> 01:09:59,000 We'll lack for nothing, 891 01:09:59,541 --> 01:10:02,000 and you'll take care of me, Vesemir. 892 01:10:02,083 --> 01:10:04,875 Much like you said. True to your word. 893 01:10:08,875 --> 01:10:11,083 - Look at me. - A lake house. 894 01:10:11,875 --> 01:10:14,208 Wine. Food. 895 01:10:14,291 --> 01:10:18,083 Imagine the seas of coin we'd wade in. 896 01:10:19,625 --> 01:10:22,416 You never wanted that! You were always content. 897 01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:24,000 No, no, no! 898 01:10:26,125 --> 01:10:28,416 Forty tons of sheep's blood? 899 01:10:29,166 --> 01:10:30,833 That poor midwife! 900 01:10:30,916 --> 01:10:34,875 Oh, oh, tell 'em about the time you swindled the Redanian priest. 901 01:10:34,958 --> 01:10:37,208 Had him thinking he was cursed! 902 01:10:37,791 --> 01:10:41,875 - How much did you take that fool for? - You can't be here. We lost you. 903 01:10:45,125 --> 01:10:46,833 What are you prattling about? 904 01:10:48,041 --> 01:10:52,750 Wake the barkeep, drain the barrels. Everyone drink! 905 01:10:53,583 --> 01:10:55,583 Not a coin spared. 906 01:10:55,666 --> 01:10:58,000 Yeah! 907 01:11:02,291 --> 01:11:04,458 Enough! All of you! 908 01:11:04,541 --> 01:11:06,166 Stop... stop cackling! 909 01:11:06,250 --> 01:11:08,000 Vesemir, come look. 910 01:11:10,125 --> 01:11:11,166 Be honest, now. 911 01:11:11,250 --> 01:11:14,333 Well, don't just stand there. Say it. 912 01:11:16,583 --> 01:11:18,750 You hate it, don't you? 913 01:11:18,833 --> 01:11:19,833 I... 914 01:11:21,166 --> 01:11:24,333 I was just weighing whether you'd done my dashing looks justice. 915 01:11:24,416 --> 01:11:27,666 Oh, gods. You frightened me. 916 01:11:27,750 --> 01:11:30,583 Such a look in your eyes. So crestfallen and... 917 01:11:31,166 --> 01:11:32,375 It's perfect, Illyana. 918 01:11:33,458 --> 01:11:34,500 Flawless. 919 01:11:45,750 --> 01:11:47,666 Don't dally. I'm thirsty. 920 01:11:49,666 --> 01:11:51,250 Mama! Make Bojan stop! 921 01:11:51,333 --> 01:11:53,250 He's run away with my jacks! 922 01:11:54,791 --> 01:11:57,708 What's wrong, Papa? You're making the sad face. 923 01:11:58,291 --> 01:11:59,541 No, no... 924 01:12:00,250 --> 01:12:01,250 This is wrong. 925 01:12:01,291 --> 01:12:03,833 Enough mind games, Kitsu. No more fantasies. 926 01:12:06,541 --> 01:12:09,333 But you swore you'd care for me, didn't you? 927 01:12:10,333 --> 01:12:11,500 That you'd protect me. 928 01:12:12,541 --> 01:12:13,916 You're not real. 929 01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:17,208 Truth is no illusion. There's no escaping it. 930 01:12:17,750 --> 01:12:19,458 Get away from me! 931 01:12:20,041 --> 01:12:22,125 You left me here, darling. 932 01:12:22,208 --> 01:12:25,041 Stranded in hopes and dreams abandoned. 933 01:12:25,125 --> 01:12:27,833 And now you're trying to leave me again. 934 01:12:27,916 --> 01:12:30,708 Only this time, I won't be buried 935 01:12:30,791 --> 01:12:33,083 in dresses and courts and titles. 936 01:12:33,166 --> 01:12:36,666 I'll be as you are. Lost and alone. 937 01:12:36,750 --> 01:12:38,791 Unloved! 938 01:12:38,875 --> 01:12:40,958 No, Illyana. I love you. 939 01:12:41,041 --> 01:12:42,458 Coin's your real lover. 940 01:12:43,416 --> 01:12:46,250 More of her to pluck out there, isn't there? 941 01:12:46,750 --> 01:12:47,750 Stop it. 942 01:12:47,791 --> 01:12:50,375 We can be whatever we imagine here, Vesemir. 943 01:12:50,458 --> 01:12:51,750 We can be rich. 944 01:12:51,833 --> 01:12:57,541 Together. Here, time is nothing. 945 01:12:58,708 --> 01:13:00,541 Out there, I can save her. 946 01:13:01,458 --> 01:13:02,791 That's worth more. 947 01:13:02,875 --> 01:13:04,208 Now, out of my head. 948 01:13:39,291 --> 01:13:41,541 I know you never asked for this. 949 01:13:42,708 --> 01:13:44,041 You were only a child. 950 01:13:44,541 --> 01:13:46,083 How were you to know? 951 01:13:59,500 --> 01:14:00,791 Vesemir! 952 01:14:01,541 --> 01:14:02,625 Stay back! 953 01:14:37,333 --> 01:14:39,291 You come at me with magic tricks? 954 01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:19,666 Oh, no... 955 01:15:21,208 --> 01:15:22,958 No! No! 956 01:15:23,625 --> 01:15:24,958 No, no, no, no! 957 01:15:27,250 --> 01:15:28,375 Vesemir. 958 01:15:30,583 --> 01:15:31,583 Oh. 959 01:15:33,500 --> 01:15:34,500 This... 960 01:15:35,291 --> 01:15:36,416 this isn't real. 961 01:15:39,666 --> 01:15:42,500 I didn't know much about witchers when I was young. 962 01:15:42,583 --> 01:15:45,625 I didn't know you could smell better, hear better. 963 01:15:46,333 --> 01:15:49,083 I didn't know that the witcher sensed me in the cupboard, 964 01:15:49,166 --> 01:15:51,166 trembling, barely breathing, 965 01:15:51,250 --> 01:15:54,083 watching as he drove his sword through my mother. 966 01:15:54,583 --> 01:15:58,250 The silly sorceress who'd crossed a gullible priest. 967 01:15:59,250 --> 01:16:01,250 Monsters to kill monsters. 968 01:16:06,375 --> 01:16:07,375 Aye... 969 01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:14,000 So... 970 01:16:22,375 --> 01:16:23,791 Take her and go. 971 01:16:25,625 --> 01:16:27,916 Sven? The others? 972 01:16:29,500 --> 01:16:30,500 Dead. 973 01:16:31,583 --> 01:16:33,000 All my boys. 974 01:16:33,791 --> 01:16:35,833 - Save you. - The young ones... 975 01:16:36,708 --> 01:16:38,541 escaped. 976 01:16:39,166 --> 01:16:40,291 Keep your strength. 977 01:16:42,541 --> 01:16:44,625 They're your boys now, young fella. 978 01:16:45,208 --> 01:16:46,375 Make 'em witchers. 979 01:16:46,875 --> 01:16:47,958 Make 'em... 980 01:16:48,541 --> 01:16:49,791 somethin' more. 981 01:16:52,375 --> 01:16:54,125 To better men. 982 01:17:12,375 --> 01:17:15,333 She didn't ask for this. 983 01:18:05,875 --> 01:18:07,666 Where are we? 984 01:18:26,166 --> 01:18:27,666 Beautiful. 985 01:18:29,083 --> 01:18:31,666 It doesn't seem... real. 986 01:19:02,166 --> 01:19:03,250 Huh? 987 01:19:05,458 --> 01:19:07,875 Do we even know where we're going? 988 01:19:18,791 --> 01:19:21,666 This is the last time I allow any of you to ever hesitate. 989 01:19:22,333 --> 01:19:23,416 Decide. 990 01:19:24,916 --> 01:19:26,291 But they hate us. 991 01:19:27,625 --> 01:19:29,250 There'll always be another monster... 992 01:19:29,333 --> 01:19:30,333 Geralt. 993 01:20:45,083 --> 01:20:48,541 ♪ There once was a lord ♪ 994 01:20:49,208 --> 01:20:53,458 ♪ In dark woods ♪ 995 01:20:53,958 --> 01:20:57,875 ♪ Wearing a strange ♪ 996 01:20:57,958 --> 01:21:03,041 ♪ Silver band ♪ 997 01:21:03,791 --> 01:21:07,833 ♪ Around ♪ 998 01:21:07,916 --> 01:21:11,666 ♪ His hand ♪ 999 01:21:13,166 --> 01:21:17,625 ♪ For the bandit also ♪ 1000 01:21:17,708 --> 01:21:24,708 ♪ Feared ♪ 1001 01:21:25,791 --> 01:21:32,416 ♪ Monsters ♪ 1002 01:21:33,541 --> 01:21:40,416 ♪ Monsters ♪