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This episode is titled like an episode of Leverage.

Did anyone else think that when they saw it? No? Just me?

Well, it went about as well as a Leverage job as well. Everything fell off the rails starting with the fact that Lord Sharpie is attending the ball, gala thing. Meaning that Jester can’t go and has to swap places with Beau.

Which freaks everyone out.

Because how could Beau pretend to be a rich b*tch?

Well, turns out because she really is one. Something that shocks the crap out of Fjord when he has to announce her to the room. Loved that little moment.

Jester is upset because she really wanted to go.

Fjord comforts her.

Starting the trend in which she calls him the name of the character from Tusk Love because she’s flirting with him and likes to fluster him. Just as Laura enjoys flustering her husband in real life during the campaign. He wasn’t making it out of that campaign without romancing his wife or turning her down. I think everyone knew she was going to get what she wanted.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg though.

Jester almost doesn’t make the jump.

Caleb appears in the room and I’m still not sure that was intentional or not because Beau seemed upset about something Fjord did or did not do.

Astrid figures out Beau was playing her.

Molly gets recognized by Lady Vess and is attacked.

Everything goes horribly wrong with trying to get the Beacon.

Looks like Caleb might turn on them. Nott freaks out. Hates the water.

Nearly get the Beacon and then the world blows up and someone else attempts to heist the same freaking Beacon from the Empire. Which is fair – honestly.

The Empire was basically waving the thing the Dynasty asked to have returned to them or they would bring everything crashing down on their heads. Instead, they murdered a bunch of their people with it. Then held a party to show off the weapon they stole from the Dynasty who was minding their own business at the time.

Can’t really blame the Dynasty for taking a shot.

Everything blows up! Everyone is confused.

We get a super hilarious moment as they regroup together and reveal that no one got the Beacon and they’re not sure what happened. But we get a wonderful moment from the campaign that someone on Tumblr pointed out and I’m glad it remained at least partially.

The Mighty Nein witnessed the Dynasty attack Zadash for the Beacon. They saw wizards flying around assaulting each other from the ground while they were trying to do something else. There was way more politics at play than what they understood at the time.

The gist of that remains here.

They have no real idea the mess they’ve stepped in. Why these crazy wizards are fighting each other in the sky. The gas that has been thrown on the fire. That two of them started.

As Essek and Trent duke it out.

They witness this from the ground, empty handed, and confused by all the events taking place.

They know very little in the grand scheme of things. About the item they were sent to steal. Why everyone wants it. What it can do. Though, Caleb may have some suspicions.

I’m really curious about what was going on in his head in that moment when he was talking to Trent. Did he believe him? Even for a moment? Was he playing him?

I’m honestly unsure.

Trent is a master manipulator, and I’m not even surprised if Caleb was a little tempted. Part of his backstory in the campaign suggested from time to time that he contemplated finding magic to time travel or change the past. Something Trent mentioned in the scene.

I don’t blame him for wishing he could roll back the clock. I wish that too sometimes.

A very real human moment, I understand.

I also understand Nott freaking out, because Trent is clearly no joke, and it would be really bad if Caleb teamed up with him. I know what Caleb can become. Trent knows what Caleb can become. Them together? On the same side?

Run.

All in all, I loved that that moment is captured from the ground with everyone else who is clueless too. Seeing it from the ground, to see how far they still have to go before they fully understand. Before they truly become the people, they’re meant to be. They’re so far from the end.

It’s some top-notch storytelling is what is.

Just like Mollymauk able to talk everyone into their parts. Giving Nott the button. Calmly able to manhandle and command the guards like he’s the one in charge. Except he’s playing them. I love it.

He’s so smooth.

Saying Percy was rough around the edges is being really nice, so having Talieson playing Molly as this loose, suave character is such a fun shift.

He’s so good at reading people and helping guide them in the right direction. Or the direction he needs at the moment. He’s able to predict behavior easily enough. Providing all the right distractions or comments to keep guards moving along or get them to ignore him or run for help.

He sets up the cart to be an extension of himself, easily appearing like a genius idiot as he goes along dropping off his teammates. Offering words and help where he can to get them through the moment.

I love the entire thing.

I love that he gave the button to Nott. His advice to Jester.

Only to have himself chucked into a building by Lady Vess who is so freaked by whoever Molly used to be, she felt the urge to try and kill him on sight again.

Also, I love that despite how crazy it sounds, he tries to explain that he remembers nothing and is essentially an entirely different person than whoever she dealt with before.

In spite of the perfectly logical explanation, Vess declares she’s the ‘sh*t’ now. Or something. I wasn’t really listening because Molly then started to glow and go off like a bomb. So her little eyeballs that match Molly’s are apparently no match for him.

I truly thought for a moment that we did end up with Lucien, but Molly was just in shock.

He followed his friends into the sewer to escape.

From there, their night gets worse because they Kryn soldiers who escaped with the Beacon are there. And they’re pretty upset. They want to leave with their property. But the Might Nein want it because that’s what they were after and they don’t know it actually belongs to these people.

I’m on the other side of the screen, like maybe you ought to let them go.

They don’t.

They don’t know. And we don’t metagame in our favor around here. Only to our detriment. Thank you very much.

With that a fight breaks out. Fjord – upon – hearing Jester screaming, he shoves his orb in his chest. Yes, I really wrote that, and it happened. His power grows and he takes out one of the soldiers. At least, the one who put them in pitch blackness. He nearly loses himself for a moment until he looks at Jester and she seems freaked or scared.

He returns to his senses.

The group reforms together, seeing the other Kryn Soldiers standing and ready to go down fighting for the Beacon. Fully believing their going to die, but might as well go out with a bang, they square up against them.

However, before anyone can move a muscle – all of the Kryn are cut to shreds.

And out of the darkness walks this huge beast of a woman, deadly and precise. Blade dripping of the blood of the fallen soldiers. Eyes cold and sullen as she steps forward menacingly to grab ahold of the Beacon. And like a switch, it shocks her, shorting out the symbol on her neck.

She drops to her knees and pleads with The Mighty Nein to help her.

THEN IT ENDS!

WTF?!

Like that? Really? With Yasha standing before them having cut down the Kryn they were struggling with like they weren’t even there, only to crumple to her knees in tears and plead for help. To be found after being so lost.

The clip we got at the beginning with her and Zuala teasing each other only for it to dissolve into mayhem and then to have her meet them like this?

They’re set on torturing us, aren’t they?

This is just not enough Yasha. We didn’t get the carrying scene between her and Beau, nor the one where they wait each other out in the baths to see the other naked. Come on!

I need them to make it up to me next season. So much Beau and Yasha I get sick of them. (Not possible. But you can try.)

All the Yasha next season please. Also, the next season now please. Because it’s too long to wait until the end of the year or beginning of next year. Just too damn long.

Overall, I did love this episode. It’s a lovely cap to the end of the season. And while I did not enjoy the cliffhanger, I can firmly admit that if I were penning this tale, I would have ended it exactly the same way. Because – damn – it’s good. It’s so good.

There were definitely changes for the show from the campaign. But none of them felt like they were too much or unnecessary or annoying. It fit the story they’re telling with the show and the world we’re in right now with these characters. I really enjoyed the changes because it meant that I got to be surprised too. But I also got to enjoy Caleb stealing the bat poop he uses for one of his favorite spells, because that wasn’t in the campaign.

They did such an amazing job with this series, I think my girlfriend even liked it better than The Legend of Vox Machina. She loved that campaign, watching most of it. Unlike myself who watched the second campaign.

Regardless, I’m so looking forward to the next season of The Mighty Nein! In the meantime, I’ll be returning to watching The Legend of Vox Machina season two! Be sure to catch up on my season one reviews before next week!

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