WEBVTT 00:00:00.009 --> 00:00:11.009 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. .:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:00:12.833 --> 00:00:15.333 BOY: ♪ There once was a lord ♪ 00:00:15.416 --> 00:00:17.291 ♪ In dark woods ♪ 00:00:17.375 --> 00:00:24.250 ♪ Wearing a strange silver band ♪ 00:00:24.916 --> 00:00:29.416 ♪ Around his hand ♪ 00:00:35.708 --> 00:00:37.416 - (WHEELS RUMBLE) - (HORSE NEIGHS) 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:42.125 ♪ The band was charmed With ore from stars ♪ 00:00:42.208 --> 00:00:49.208 ♪ Bidding all monsters away ♪ 00:00:50.083 --> 00:00:53.958 ♪ Away ♪ 00:00:54.958 --> 00:00:59.000 ♪ On that quiet eve ♪ 00:00:59.583 --> 00:01:03.291 ♪ Among these trees ♪ 00:01:03.375 --> 00:01:08.208 ♪ A bandit slew the good lord ♪ 00:01:08.291 --> 00:01:11.250 ♪ Stealing that band ♪ 00:01:11.333 --> 00:01:15.833 ♪ Off a dead man's hand ♪ 00:01:17.250 --> 00:01:23.291 ♪ For the bandit also feared ♪ 00:01:23.875 --> 00:01:29.083 ♪ Monsters ♪ 00:01:29.166 --> 00:01:32.541 Sugo, keep your eyes and ears open! 00:01:33.208 --> 00:01:34.875 It's frightening the girls. 00:01:35.791 --> 00:01:37.791 - SUGO: They wouldn't even be scared... - (GRUNTS) 00:01:37.875 --> 00:01:39.875 ...if you hadn't gotten lost. 00:01:39.958 --> 00:01:42.625 Really, Papa, you grew up in Kaedwen. 00:01:42.708 --> 00:01:45.583 King clearly dug new trails. (GRUNTS) 00:01:46.666 --> 00:01:48.250 GIRL: Is it true, Papa? 00:01:48.333 --> 00:01:50.583 Are bandits killing innocents along these trails? 00:01:50.666 --> 00:01:52.333 MAN: Oh, pumpkin. 00:01:53.541 --> 00:01:55.875 There are no bandits. (GRUNTS) 00:01:59.208 --> 00:02:01.208 (GIRLS SCREAMING) 00:02:03.208 --> 00:02:05.916 (NEIGHING FRANTICALLY) 00:02:11.083 --> 00:02:12.083 No! 00:02:13.125 --> 00:02:15.125 (ALL SCREAMING) 00:02:16.708 --> 00:02:18.958 - Sister! - (LIMBS SQUELCHING) 00:02:23.458 --> 00:02:25.250 (PANTING) 00:02:28.666 --> 00:02:30.250 (SOBBING) 00:02:30.791 --> 00:02:31.791 (GASPING) 00:02:34.041 --> 00:02:35.541 (INDISTINCT FLUTTERING) 00:02:35.625 --> 00:02:36.791 (SUGO YELPS) 00:02:47.750 --> 00:02:49.041 SUGO: A witcher. 00:02:55.708 --> 00:02:58.041 - (RINGING SOUND) - (CREAKING) 00:02:58.125 --> 00:03:00.458 (WITCHER CHUCKLES) Fancy look. 00:03:01.625 --> 00:03:03.416 (SNARLING) 00:03:03.500 --> 00:03:05.666 You must make a killing at druid festivals. 00:03:06.208 --> 00:03:08.541 Don't usually see your sorts around these parts. 00:03:08.625 --> 00:03:10.208 (SCREECHES) 00:03:14.083 --> 00:03:15.625 - Ha! I see. - (CREATURE SNARLING) 00:03:16.458 --> 00:03:19.416 You're a trailblazer, flaunting the new fad. 00:03:19.500 --> 00:03:20.708 Trendsetter, you. 00:03:20.791 --> 00:03:22.833 - (SCREECHES) - Very bold! (GRUNTS) 00:03:23.583 --> 00:03:26.333 Whoa, there. People should get acquainted more, really. 00:03:26.416 --> 00:03:29.000 (GRUNTS) Converse, a little foreplay. 00:03:29.708 --> 00:03:31.508 Especially when one's about to kill the other. 00:03:32.583 --> 00:03:35.750 Though you leshens don't speak, so there's the rub. 00:03:38.625 --> 00:03:39.625 (SCREECHES) 00:04:01.416 --> 00:04:03.000 (GRUNTING) 00:04:06.833 --> 00:04:10.333 (GRUNTS) Forest hobo or deadly, flapping swarm. 00:04:12.750 --> 00:04:14.333 Let's pick a look... (GRUNTS) 00:04:15.041 --> 00:04:16.125 ...and stick with it. 00:04:20.291 --> 00:04:22.125 Deadly, flapping swarm it is. 00:04:25.375 --> 00:04:26.375 (GRUNTS) 00:04:37.208 --> 00:04:39.041 Away. It's not dead. 00:04:39.125 --> 00:04:41.500 So kill it. You're a witcher. 00:04:41.583 --> 00:04:43.750 There are several ways to kill a leshen. 00:04:43.833 --> 00:04:46.041 Behead it, sacrifice a few of its furry pets, 00:04:46.750 --> 00:04:48.875 even a few old dryad spells will do. 00:04:49.750 --> 00:04:51.166 Which will you... 00:04:53.291 --> 00:04:54.875 (GROWLS) 00:04:54.958 --> 00:04:55.958 (SCREECHES) 00:05:07.208 --> 00:05:11.708 LESHEN: Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath. 00:05:12.916 --> 00:05:17.958 Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath. 00:05:20.333 --> 00:05:22.708 Thought you said they don't speak? 00:05:23.750 --> 00:05:27.416 (HISSING WHISPER) Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath. 00:05:28.916 --> 00:05:29.958 They don't. 00:05:31.958 --> 00:05:33.958 (DRAMATIC THEME MUSIC PLAYING) 00:05:39.416 --> 00:05:41.000 (TRINKETS RUSTLING) 00:05:49.166 --> 00:05:50.000 Wait! 00:05:50.083 --> 00:05:52.083 Wait. I'm noble blood. 00:05:52.166 --> 00:05:53.583 You can't leave me here. 00:05:54.166 --> 00:05:55.208 What am I to do? 00:05:59.791 --> 00:06:02.375 He said, "Practice your sad face, 00:06:02.458 --> 00:06:05.375 and maybe a passerby will offer you a ride." 00:06:06.208 --> 00:06:07.875 WOMAN: And what of your sisters? 00:06:09.208 --> 00:06:12.583 The witcher said to use my sad face on the alderman too. 00:06:13.208 --> 00:06:14.916 So he'd spare some men to... 00:06:15.625 --> 00:06:16.916 gather the bodies. 00:06:24.375 --> 00:06:25.541 Dry eyes, child. 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. 00:06:33.208 --> 00:06:35.833 WOMAN: Sugo's father was a treasured member of the Assembly 00:06:35.916 --> 00:06:37.708 and a loyal subject to our king. 00:06:37.791 --> 00:06:40.750 My students and I resubmit our petition. 00:06:41.333 --> 00:06:43.708 Seize the witcher home of Kaer Morhen 00:06:43.791 --> 00:06:47.291 and exile its occupants for crimes against Kaedwen's people. 00:06:47.791 --> 00:06:50.666 From what the boy told us, Your Highness, 00:06:50.750 --> 00:06:54.791 the witcher slew the leshen that was terrorizing our forests. 00:06:54.875 --> 00:06:58.666 Lady Zerbst, since when have leshens prowled about Kaedwen, 00:06:58.750 --> 00:07:00.666 never mind with such hostility? 00:07:01.333 --> 00:07:02.458 Eh? 00:07:02.541 --> 00:07:07.083 Oh, you're suggesting the witchers have been staging these forest attacks. 00:07:07.166 --> 00:07:10.458 So scandalous, Madam Gilcrest. 00:07:10.541 --> 00:07:13.666 Monster species have dwindled under their swords. 00:07:13.750 --> 00:07:15.708 - (MURMURING) - They need coin. 00:07:15.791 --> 00:07:18.750 Some have turned to mercenary work, others criminality. 00:07:18.833 --> 00:07:21.916 One even took a bounty on a cheating husband's head. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.583 And you have evidence to prove your conspiracy? 00:07:24.666 --> 00:07:29.041 Or are we to merely bank on your magical intuition? 00:07:29.125 --> 00:07:31.083 It's their natures, my lady. 00:07:32.583 --> 00:07:35.375 Witchers are the offspring of foul sorcery. 00:07:35.875 --> 00:07:37.125 Roaming our lands, 00:07:37.208 --> 00:07:39.583 voting themselves the stalkers of evil, 00:07:39.666 --> 00:07:41.625 extorting coin from the gullible. 00:07:42.125 --> 00:07:46.791 Honest, simple peasants who ascribe all misfortune to spells and monsters. 00:07:46.875 --> 00:07:48.833 Mages create the witcher. 00:07:48.916 --> 00:07:52.583 Then presume it's our duty to hold the bucket and mop up their brown mess. 00:07:52.666 --> 00:07:54.208 (ATTENDANTS LAUGHING) 00:07:55.416 --> 00:07:56.583 (KING CHUCKLES) 00:07:57.333 --> 00:07:59.458 I'm with Lady Zerbst on this one. 00:07:59.958 --> 00:08:02.041 The witchers remain at Kaer Morhen. 00:08:02.125 --> 00:08:04.958 At least until such time as evidence is provided 00:08:06.250 --> 00:08:08.000 that supports your theory. 00:08:09.875 --> 00:08:11.875 (ATTENDANTS MURMURING) 00:08:23.333 --> 00:08:25.333 (UPBEAT FOLK MUSIC PLAYING) 00:08:26.875 --> 00:08:29.625 When a witcher inflicts pain, 00:08:29.708 --> 00:08:32.458 he experiences ecstasy. 00:08:33.250 --> 00:08:35.625 HOODED FIGURE: The creature's words are Ellyon. 00:08:35.708 --> 00:08:38.916 A dead elven dialect linked to darker times. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.416 Few remember the ancient tongue. Fewer dare speak it. 00:08:42.333 --> 00:08:44.583 But how a leshen would know it 00:08:44.666 --> 00:08:47.000 or be afraid of some den... 00:08:47.083 --> 00:08:48.583 Never said it was afraid. 00:08:49.333 --> 00:08:51.625 You speak Ellyon, don't you, Filavandrel? 00:08:52.375 --> 00:08:54.625 You witchers are desperate for coin. 00:08:55.208 --> 00:08:57.666 Turning to elves for leads on work. 00:08:58.833 --> 00:09:03.041 These pleasures do not pay for themselves. What did the leshen say? 00:09:03.708 --> 00:09:05.541 "Beware the den of my dead." 00:09:05.625 --> 00:09:08.500 Hmm. Things you don't wish to hear in a bath. 00:09:09.875 --> 00:09:12.750 Did you notice anything else unusual? 00:09:13.250 --> 00:09:15.000 There was an energy in the woods. 00:09:15.750 --> 00:09:17.375 Some sort of magic, maybe. 00:09:17.458 --> 00:09:19.416 Controlling the leshen, bewitching it. 00:09:20.166 --> 00:09:21.208 What's your face? 00:09:22.416 --> 00:09:24.041 Over the last four summers, 00:09:24.833 --> 00:09:26.916 girls have been disappearing from our ranks. 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:29.041 Oh, God, no elf drama. 00:09:29.625 --> 00:09:33.250 FILAVANDREL: The first we feared were deserting us after the last cleansing. 00:09:33.750 --> 00:09:38.250 - But the disappearances haven't stopped. - Tragic, really. Very terrible. 00:09:38.333 --> 00:09:41.583 One of the first to vanish was a young mage, Kitsu. 00:09:42.750 --> 00:09:45.875 She spoke Ellyon. We should return to these forests. 00:09:46.708 --> 00:09:48.541 See, I'm a monster hunter, Fil, 00:09:48.625 --> 00:09:51.958 not an elf wrangler, not even the murderous ones, but good luck. 00:09:52.041 --> 00:09:54.083 FILAVANDREL: A favor to a friend, then? 00:09:54.750 --> 00:09:57.375 WITCHER: Favors and friends don't pay bills. 00:09:57.458 --> 00:09:58.666 Quite the opposite. 00:09:59.166 --> 00:10:01.041 FILAVANDREL: You've really no shame. 00:10:01.125 --> 00:10:04.916 I have a reputation and a healthy estimation of my talent's worth. 00:10:05.875 --> 00:10:10.166 My apologies for trying to save you from a wasted winter at Kaer Morhen. 00:10:10.250 --> 00:10:12.541 (LAUGHS) Wasted? 00:10:13.041 --> 00:10:15.791 Well, there's drinking, eating, sleeping. 00:10:16.291 --> 00:10:17.166 All free. 00:10:17.250 --> 00:10:21.291 FILAVANDREL: And the training of another greedy gang of young witchers. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:23.500 I leave that to my peers. 00:10:24.041 --> 00:10:25.041 (FILAVANDREL SIGHS) 00:10:25.083 --> 00:10:30.708 Imagine if you witchers labored for more than just thrill and coin. 00:10:31.458 --> 00:10:33.958 Imagine if you elves wielded your swords 00:10:34.041 --> 00:10:36.166 - as well as you do guilt. - (CLOAK RUSTLING) 00:10:46.166 --> 00:10:47.416 WOMAN: Please! Get them! 00:10:47.500 --> 00:10:48.333 (DOG BARKING) 00:10:48.416 --> 00:10:50.291 MAN: Vesemir, get over here! 00:10:50.375 --> 00:10:53.291 (WOMAN MUTTERING INCOHERENTLY) Where do... Hey! They must go! 00:10:53.375 --> 00:10:55.041 (WAILING AND GIGGLING) 00:10:56.166 --> 00:10:57.916 Now they're nibbling. No! (GIGGLES) 00:10:58.000 --> 00:10:59.791 Licking. Ooh! They're licking. 00:11:00.416 --> 00:11:02.500 - (LAUGHING) Oh! Tongues! - (MEN GRUNTING) 00:11:04.125 --> 00:11:06.291 - WOMAN: No! Aah! - Vesemir! 00:11:06.375 --> 00:11:08.416 I told you, double knots! 00:11:08.500 --> 00:11:10.625 - I did, Father. Just as you showed. - (WOMAN WAILING) 00:11:10.708 --> 00:11:13.166 Let's see if the boy can handle fetching a wet cloth. 00:11:13.750 --> 00:11:15.250 (WOMAN SCREAMS) 00:11:16.041 --> 00:11:18.750 A lesser man would sell your boy to another family. 00:11:18.833 --> 00:11:19.833 MAN: Yes, sir. 00:11:19.916 --> 00:11:24.000 At least my son proves a measure of your generous character. 00:11:24.083 --> 00:11:27.458 Head to the market. We will need blue gum to sedate our lady. 00:11:27.541 --> 00:11:29.416 - WOMAN: No! - Try not to cock it up. 00:11:29.500 --> 00:11:31.458 (WOMAN CACKLING MADLY) 00:11:31.541 --> 00:11:33.583 Please stop! Please make it stop! 00:11:33.666 --> 00:11:34.666 - MAN: No. - WOMAN: No! 00:11:35.666 --> 00:11:38.416 - (BIRDS CHIRPING) - (HORSE NEIGHING) 00:11:43.625 --> 00:11:45.666 Stop fidgeting! 00:11:52.166 --> 00:11:54.291 - (GIGGLES) - (SLAP) 00:11:54.375 --> 00:11:55.708 (NEIGHS) 00:11:55.791 --> 00:11:57.458 (GRUNTS) Aah! Oh! 00:12:01.166 --> 00:12:02.166 Oh! 00:12:03.333 --> 00:12:04.875 (LAUGHING) 00:12:05.583 --> 00:12:08.708 Poor Illyana. I didn't even have to take a shot. 00:12:08.791 --> 00:12:11.625 Moron! You could've killed me. 00:12:12.541 --> 00:12:13.625 Here to bother me? 00:12:13.708 --> 00:12:16.250 The Lord insisted I look after you in the market. 00:12:16.333 --> 00:12:18.291 Seemed rather pissed. 00:12:18.375 --> 00:12:19.791 (VESEMIR SIGHS) 00:12:19.875 --> 00:12:22.583 We slave away all day long, getting shout at, 00:12:22.666 --> 00:12:26.291 and the only coin we get is when we're sent to fetch them goods. 00:12:26.375 --> 00:12:29.958 Just be happy you have a roof over your head and your belly's not empty. 00:12:30.041 --> 00:12:34.541 Barely a roof, barely not empty. Just enough to keep us here breathing. 00:12:35.708 --> 00:12:37.250 - (HORSE WHINES) - ILLYANA: Fine. 00:12:37.333 --> 00:12:38.625 There's the world. 00:12:38.708 --> 00:12:41.083 What would you buy if you had all its coin? 00:12:41.166 --> 00:12:44.125 I would get the hell out of this village and travel the continent. 00:12:44.208 --> 00:12:45.958 - Adventure? - Of course. 00:12:46.041 --> 00:12:47.791 - Glory? - Oh, yes! 00:12:47.875 --> 00:12:48.875 Girls? 00:12:49.875 --> 00:12:51.000 (GIGGLES) 00:12:51.500 --> 00:12:53.833 I'd buy a gorgeous lake house. 00:12:54.333 --> 00:12:58.916 My handsome husband and I would picnic and drink wine by the water 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.333 as our children played jacks nearby. 00:13:01.416 --> 00:13:03.500 You know what we should do? 00:13:04.166 --> 00:13:06.500 We should take this coin and buy honey cake. 00:13:06.583 --> 00:13:08.750 And how will our lady get her herbs? 00:13:10.416 --> 00:13:12.809 - MAN: Yes, three more of those. - WOMAN: Fresh mixed grills! 00:13:12.833 --> 00:13:14.333 MAN: There you are, sir. 00:13:14.416 --> 00:13:16.166 Stop! Thief! 00:13:17.208 --> 00:13:18.791 - Hey! - (CHILD LAUGHS) 00:13:19.291 --> 00:13:20.333 This way! 00:13:21.458 --> 00:13:22.958 (PANTING) 00:13:24.375 --> 00:13:25.666 - Oh! - WOMAN: Stop him! 00:13:28.208 --> 00:13:29.625 (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) 00:13:38.500 --> 00:13:39.833 (GROWLS) Nutcase. 00:13:53.041 --> 00:13:54.125 Mmm! 00:13:55.166 --> 00:13:56.750 Save some for me! 00:13:58.041 --> 00:14:00.666 See, it worked. (CHUCKLES) 00:14:00.750 --> 00:14:01.916 I knew it would. 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.250 (ILLYANA LAUGHS) 00:14:08.708 --> 00:14:10.166 MAN: In Nilfgaard, 00:14:10.250 --> 00:14:12.958 they'd cut your thieving hands right off. 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.625 Make you wear 'em round your neck for weeks. 00:14:17.958 --> 00:14:19.333 Smart trick. 00:14:20.166 --> 00:14:21.583 Odd loot. 00:14:21.666 --> 00:14:22.833 Who you got who's sick? 00:14:24.333 --> 00:14:25.916 (CHUCKLES) 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:26.833 Where... 00:14:26.916 --> 00:14:31.333 Where'd a girl find balls like that in an alley wi' a man like me? 00:14:31.416 --> 00:14:35.500 I steal them from smelly cowards who try to bully young ladies. 00:14:36.333 --> 00:14:37.541 (BELCHES) 00:14:39.333 --> 00:14:40.333 Who are you? 00:14:40.416 --> 00:14:45.333 A humanitarian, whose well-meaning ears have heard of a local lady 00:14:45.416 --> 00:14:48.291 - lost to madness and fever... - (GAGS) 00:14:48.375 --> 00:14:50.708 ...seeing horrors that aren't really there. 00:14:51.208 --> 00:14:55.166 That blue gum will certainly ease the affliction, but, uh... 00:14:55.791 --> 00:14:57.250 a sword would kill it. 00:14:57.333 --> 00:14:58.375 Name's Deglan. 00:14:59.083 --> 00:15:01.333 And you're gonna take me to your noblewoman. 00:15:01.833 --> 00:15:04.958 Or I'm taking you two pests back to the market. 00:15:07.958 --> 00:15:09.458 (WOMAN GROANING) 00:15:11.916 --> 00:15:14.000 DEGLAN: A demon plagues this woman. 00:15:14.083 --> 00:15:15.083 A mahr. 00:15:15.500 --> 00:15:19.208 Puts you down with horrid delusions and feeds off your madness. 00:15:19.291 --> 00:15:21.750 Meteorite ore disrupts the demon's magic, 00:15:21.833 --> 00:15:23.833 so it can be... removed. 00:15:24.333 --> 00:15:25.958 Out. Now. All of you. 00:15:28.250 --> 00:15:29.416 I'd like to remain. 00:15:30.625 --> 00:15:34.041 Your boy's likely seen a monster or two in his time, no? 00:15:34.541 --> 00:15:36.208 (WOMAN MOANING) 00:15:37.500 --> 00:15:39.583 - Oof! - DEGLAN: I'll be casting the spell. 00:15:39.666 --> 00:15:41.958 - (GRUNTS) - It's on you to catch the critter. 00:15:43.166 --> 00:15:46.583 But I thought a witcher slays monsters? 00:15:46.666 --> 00:15:48.375 DEGLAN: To slay a beast, 00:15:48.458 --> 00:15:50.416 you've first got to understand it. 00:15:50.500 --> 00:15:51.958 - (WOMAN GROANING) - Study it. 00:15:52.458 --> 00:15:53.958 Find its weakness. 00:15:54.500 --> 00:15:56.750 I want this sucker alive and kicking. 00:15:57.875 --> 00:15:58.875 If possible. 00:15:59.333 --> 00:16:01.166 (WHISPERING IN ELDER TONGUE) 00:16:04.875 --> 00:16:07.375 (GROANS AND SCREAMS) 00:16:09.708 --> 00:16:10.791 Steady, young fella. 00:16:10.875 --> 00:16:11.958 Uh... 00:16:13.208 --> 00:16:14.875 (SCREECHES) 00:16:22.541 --> 00:16:23.708 (SQUEALS) 00:16:25.541 --> 00:16:26.541 (GROANS) 00:16:30.833 --> 00:16:32.541 - (GROANS) - (CREATURE HISSES) 00:16:32.625 --> 00:16:34.500 - (GRUNTS) - (DEGLAN CHUCKLES) 00:16:35.083 --> 00:16:36.708 And he asked to stay. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:39.291 (CREATURE SCREECHING) 00:16:42.666 --> 00:16:44.375 - (SCREECHES) - (YELLS) 00:16:58.833 --> 00:17:01.083 DEGLAN: Never let 'em get in your head. 00:17:01.666 --> 00:17:03.125 Better dead than fled. 00:17:06.875 --> 00:17:09.041 There'll always be another monster. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.000 WOMAN: Vesemir. 00:17:15.500 --> 00:17:17.000 Fetch warm water. 00:17:17.708 --> 00:17:18.791 My head... 00:17:18.875 --> 00:17:21.291 Oh, my head hurts wildly. 00:17:33.041 --> 00:17:34.458 (COINS JINGLING) 00:17:34.541 --> 00:17:36.000 Nice weight, isn't it? 00:17:36.083 --> 00:17:39.291 How much you suppose the job cost that prick master of yours? 00:17:40.875 --> 00:17:43.083 Fear and ignorance are good business. 00:17:44.416 --> 00:17:46.000 For your service, young fella. 00:17:54.416 --> 00:17:55.500 Take me with you. 00:17:56.666 --> 00:17:58.666 Not many boys seek to be witchers. 00:17:58.750 --> 00:18:02.083 Even fewer seek a life of fetching bedpans and water. 00:18:02.166 --> 00:18:03.166 And the girl? 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.291 Your blue-eyed lass? 00:18:06.583 --> 00:18:09.333 You hesitated back with the mahr too. 00:18:09.416 --> 00:18:13.000 Witchers do not hesitate. 00:18:22.666 --> 00:18:24.666 (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC PLAYING) 00:18:40.916 --> 00:18:43.250 - Stop! - Are you going to enjoy the day? 00:18:43.333 --> 00:18:47.083 Or are you still too shook from your daring night of monster-slaying? 00:18:47.166 --> 00:18:49.166 It was your first time, Vesemir. 00:18:49.750 --> 00:18:53.208 Excuse me for wanting to be good at something other than serving. 00:18:53.291 --> 00:18:55.541 Oh, I can see it now. 00:18:55.625 --> 00:18:57.875 You, adorned in battle armor, 00:18:57.958 --> 00:18:59.583 steel and silver swords, 00:18:59.666 --> 00:19:03.541 saving the continent from kikamores, ghouls, and mad sorcerers. 00:19:03.625 --> 00:19:05.291 Evil would tremble. 00:19:06.500 --> 00:19:09.916 - Stylish armor, by the way. - Imagine it however you like. 00:19:10.666 --> 00:19:14.416 Only way people like us survive is to dream of ourselves as something else. 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:19.291 Who knows? Perhaps someday I'll be a princess who commands the snow. 00:19:22.333 --> 00:19:23.333 Uh! 00:19:24.166 --> 00:19:25.166 (ILLYANA GIGGLES) 00:19:25.708 --> 00:19:27.875 Vesemir, I was only jesting. 00:19:27.958 --> 00:19:29.458 You find our fates funny? 00:19:30.083 --> 00:19:34.250 Why should I be meek and penniless like my father? Or you like your mother? 00:19:34.875 --> 00:19:37.750 - What's got you so silly? - You wouldn't understand. 00:19:37.833 --> 00:19:40.125 Vesemir, out there, we're nothing. 00:19:40.791 --> 00:19:41.916 Less than nothing. 00:19:42.458 --> 00:19:45.000 At least here, at the estate, we have station. 00:19:45.083 --> 00:19:46.750 And if I could take care of you? 00:19:47.333 --> 00:19:49.791 The coin that witcher made last night, 00:19:49.875 --> 00:19:51.416 you should've saw it. 00:19:51.916 --> 00:19:54.791 I'd get you your lake house, all your wine. 00:19:54.875 --> 00:19:57.416 Anything and everything. 00:19:57.500 --> 00:19:58.500 Yours. 00:19:59.416 --> 00:20:01.583 So trade my debt to a master I hate 00:20:02.166 --> 00:20:04.083 with a debt to one that I love? 00:20:06.666 --> 00:20:08.708 Wait, Illyana! Stay! 00:20:09.208 --> 00:20:10.333 You stay. 00:20:22.083 --> 00:20:23.375 (DOOR OPENS) 00:20:26.958 --> 00:20:28.500 (MAN GROANING) 00:20:30.041 --> 00:20:31.041 (SIGHS) 00:20:41.666 --> 00:20:43.916 (MUTTERS) 00:20:48.041 --> 00:20:49.500 - (SIGHS) - (RECEDING FOOTSTEPS) 00:21:04.708 --> 00:21:06.708 (CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC CONTINUES) 00:21:18.708 --> 00:21:20.708 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 00:21:42.291 --> 00:21:43.916 Lord Vesemir, 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:45.291 my new best friend. 00:21:45.375 --> 00:21:47.416 Crossed a leshen on my way here. 00:21:47.500 --> 00:21:48.500 So we've heard. 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:51.250 Meanwhile, I barely made enough this year 00:21:51.333 --> 00:21:53.791 to score a night with a limp-pricked man-whore. 00:21:53.875 --> 00:21:55.541 Your woes break me, Luka. 00:21:56.041 --> 00:21:59.041 LUKA: Then we've got Sven here bringing back new recruits. 00:21:59.125 --> 00:22:01.541 Bad enough we're putting ourselves out of business 00:22:01.625 --> 00:22:03.416 with every monster we kill. 00:22:03.500 --> 00:22:05.708 Now there'll be even more of us. 00:22:05.791 --> 00:22:09.750 (GRUNTS) Not my fault people make more kids than coin. 00:22:09.833 --> 00:22:12.166 Also, short a man-whore? 00:22:12.708 --> 00:22:14.125 Go fuck yourself. 00:22:14.208 --> 00:22:15.916 Aren't you "short" everything? 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:19.291 Boys, monsters will fuck through the winter, 00:22:19.375 --> 00:22:22.208 then come spring, there'll be jobs from here to Nazair. 00:22:22.291 --> 00:22:24.666 Until then, I say we perk up, 00:22:24.750 --> 00:22:25.750 drink up, 00:22:26.166 --> 00:22:30.041 and you two focus on breaking these brats into the world of witchering. 00:22:33.875 --> 00:22:36.500 VESEMIR: "Witchers are rogues without virtue." 00:22:36.583 --> 00:22:39.666 "True diabolical creatures, fit only for killing." 00:22:41.416 --> 00:22:44.250 "There is no place amidst honest men for them." 00:22:45.250 --> 00:22:47.750 My, my. How do you find this rubbish? 00:22:47.833 --> 00:22:51.583 A few of the boys spotted 'em posted about towns on their way back. 00:22:51.666 --> 00:22:54.500 "Tetra Gilcrest." Sounds like a botanist. 00:22:55.208 --> 00:22:56.208 DEGLAN: A purist. 00:22:56.666 --> 00:23:00.583 Rambles about being a descendant of the first human mage. 00:23:00.666 --> 00:23:03.166 Would it have vexed you to bury that lad's sisters? 00:23:04.208 --> 00:23:06.833 You're feeding fodder to arses like Gilcrest. 00:23:08.125 --> 00:23:10.166 That's a wyvern tooth, not a basilisk. 00:23:10.250 --> 00:23:11.958 I'll mix and match as I please. 00:23:12.583 --> 00:23:13.583 VESEMIR: Look. 00:23:14.125 --> 00:23:17.125 - You know me and children. - Get over it, young fella. 00:23:17.208 --> 00:23:19.583 'Cause you're teaching fencing to the recruits. 00:23:19.666 --> 00:23:23.333 - VESEMIR: Am I being punished? - I'm down two dozen witchers this winter. 00:23:23.958 --> 00:23:28.083 Wimps found employ in other more lucrative nonsense. 00:23:28.583 --> 00:23:30.791 So we'll all be slogging more weight. 00:23:30.875 --> 00:23:34.125 A wonderful winter of abandoned little tragedies. 00:23:34.208 --> 00:23:35.041 Lovely. 00:23:35.125 --> 00:23:37.416 DEGLAN: Now, this leshen. 00:23:38.500 --> 00:23:40.875 Tell me you've considered the thing was bewitched. 00:23:40.958 --> 00:23:42.916 (SCOFFS) I'm not a dullard. 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:45.333 A croon could pull that feat. 00:23:45.416 --> 00:23:47.416 A higher vampire, definitely. 00:23:48.208 --> 00:23:51.083 Or it could be a new breed of leshen. 00:23:51.166 --> 00:23:54.875 Actually, just elves airing their usual dirty trousers of victimhood. 00:23:55.375 --> 00:23:56.958 (DEGLAN SCOFFS) Shame. 00:23:58.166 --> 00:24:01.250 A few new beasts would be... good for business. 00:24:06.083 --> 00:24:08.208 MAN 1: Why'd the witcher not handle this? 00:24:08.291 --> 00:24:11.416 - MAN 2: Lies and conspiracy. - WOMAN 1: Look away from the faces. 00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:12.333 (FLIES BUZZING) 00:24:12.416 --> 00:24:14.791 WOMAN 2: I'd heard the leshen'd been killed. 00:24:18.291 --> 00:24:22.208 TETRA: A whiff of basilisk breath could snuff out ten strong men. 00:24:23.625 --> 00:24:26.041 LADY ZERBST: Did you find the creature's body? 00:24:27.500 --> 00:24:30.291 A witcher would need proof to collect his coin. 00:24:30.958 --> 00:24:32.458 And yet... 00:24:32.541 --> 00:24:34.166 At least help me persuade the king 00:24:34.250 --> 00:24:36.958 to send an envoy to Kaer Morhen to investigate, please. 00:24:37.791 --> 00:24:41.458 Your acolytes have played to people's fears well enough. 00:24:41.541 --> 00:24:44.250 The mere act of sending an envoy would indict the witchers, 00:24:44.333 --> 00:24:45.916 whatever the truth. 00:24:46.708 --> 00:24:48.875 Do you know what's involved in making a witcher? 00:24:50.041 --> 00:24:52.125 The horrors done to their recruits? 00:24:52.208 --> 00:24:54.958 - Boys no older than your orphans here. - (CHILDREN LAUGHING) 00:24:55.916 --> 00:24:58.416 Your late husband would've understood this. 00:24:58.916 --> 00:25:01.250 I was an ardent admirer of Lord Zerbst. 00:25:02.666 --> 00:25:04.000 He was open-minded. 00:25:04.791 --> 00:25:05.791 Forward-thinking. 00:25:06.541 --> 00:25:08.291 Married you, after all. 00:25:08.375 --> 00:25:10.541 Careful, Tetra. 00:25:11.041 --> 00:25:12.291 Or be quiet. 00:25:12.875 --> 00:25:16.083 Kaedwen's laws grant a widow her husband's seat at court. 00:25:16.166 --> 00:25:18.791 The laws say nothing about erasing what she once was. 00:25:19.791 --> 00:25:21.750 Well, how fortunate, my lady, 00:25:21.833 --> 00:25:24.208 that few have wished to press the issue. 00:25:25.291 --> 00:25:27.291 (CHILDREN GRUNTING) 00:25:42.791 --> 00:25:44.458 You ain't fed us in days! 00:25:44.541 --> 00:25:47.208 We ain't given sleep, can barely stand up. 00:25:47.708 --> 00:25:49.833 Now you got us playing with swords? 00:25:51.041 --> 00:25:53.958 I don't wish to be here any more than you do. 00:25:54.833 --> 00:25:56.041 I'll hazard a guess. 00:25:56.125 --> 00:25:59.583 You all imagine there are better fates for you out there in the world. 00:26:00.541 --> 00:26:02.666 But out there, you have nothing. 00:26:03.875 --> 00:26:05.916 But here, we offer strength. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.750 - (BOY GRUNTS) - Purpose. 00:26:07.833 --> 00:26:08.875 (YELLS) 00:26:09.750 --> 00:26:10.750 Respect. 00:26:11.125 --> 00:26:13.958 A chance at surviving the very horrors waiting out there. 00:26:14.458 --> 00:26:17.041 If you don't want that, then this... 00:26:20.375 --> 00:26:21.541 is wasted on you. 00:26:25.166 --> 00:26:27.083 BOY: "And if you don't want that, 00:26:27.166 --> 00:26:29.000 then this is wasted on ya." 00:26:29.083 --> 00:26:31.666 Ugh. That dorbel's full of shit. 00:26:31.750 --> 00:26:34.000 Master Deglan's preparing us for the Path. 00:26:34.083 --> 00:26:36.208 - Better hardship here than out there. - (DOOR OPENS) 00:26:36.291 --> 00:26:37.541 (GRUNTS) 00:26:37.625 --> 00:26:39.416 Oh, there's a freeze tonight. 00:26:39.500 --> 00:26:41.208 - (HORSES SNORTING) - (BOY SOBBING) 00:26:42.333 --> 00:26:44.291 Shut up and steal what sleep you can. 00:26:46.291 --> 00:26:48.583 Ah, don't mind Tomas. 00:26:48.666 --> 00:26:49.958 Law of Surprise. 00:26:50.041 --> 00:26:52.875 Didn't know he belonged to the witchers till one came knocking. 00:26:52.958 --> 00:26:54.125 Law of Surprise? 00:26:54.208 --> 00:26:57.750 BOY: Fancy name for when you can't pay a witcher. Give 'em your kid. 00:26:59.166 --> 00:27:01.291 VESEMIR: Were you sold, or did you volunteer? 00:27:01.375 --> 00:27:04.000 BOY: Uh, my folks dumped me here. Like most. 00:27:04.083 --> 00:27:06.416 Who chooses to be in this pigsty? 00:27:09.833 --> 00:27:11.791 - Don't be so scared. - They're... 00:27:12.500 --> 00:27:15.000 - They're going to poison us. - Who? 00:27:15.083 --> 00:27:17.250 (GASPS) There are mages here. 00:27:17.333 --> 00:27:18.333 Old ones. 00:27:18.833 --> 00:27:20.416 Making witchers, they... 00:27:20.500 --> 00:27:22.875 They'll kill us. Then bring us back, but... 00:27:23.458 --> 00:27:24.750 we won't be normal. 00:27:26.041 --> 00:27:29.000 - They call it... - The Trial of the Grasses. I know. 00:27:29.083 --> 00:27:30.416 I get scared too. 00:27:31.291 --> 00:27:33.708 Then I think, "Soon, I'll be out on the Path, 00:27:33.791 --> 00:27:36.666 stronger than most anyone, wanting for nothing." 00:27:37.208 --> 00:27:38.541 I'll never be scared again. 00:27:39.208 --> 00:27:40.875 (CHUCKLES) 00:27:40.958 --> 00:27:43.833 You'll come out the Trials better than normal, Tomas. 00:27:44.708 --> 00:27:45.708 On my word. 00:27:57.083 --> 00:27:58.291 (GASPS) 00:27:58.375 --> 00:27:59.625 (COUGHING) 00:28:04.125 --> 00:28:05.916 - What the... - BOY: It's Vesemir! 00:28:08.791 --> 00:28:11.000 (VESEMIR GROANS) What's happened? Where are we? 00:28:11.083 --> 00:28:14.041 Quiet. My pa used to talk about this place. 00:28:14.833 --> 00:28:16.333 It's the Red Swamp. 00:28:16.416 --> 00:28:17.625 It's cursed. 00:28:17.708 --> 00:28:20.666 It's crawling with evil spirits and beasts. 00:28:21.250 --> 00:28:22.333 Griffins. 00:28:22.416 --> 00:28:23.875 This is a test. 00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:25.708 Like all the others. 00:28:25.791 --> 00:28:29.500 On the Path, a witcher's first instinct is to survive. 00:28:30.083 --> 00:28:32.083 It's about wits, not swords. 00:28:32.166 --> 00:28:34.458 We follow the moon until we're clear. 00:28:34.541 --> 00:28:36.583 If there's a monster close, your medallion will... 00:28:36.666 --> 00:28:38.125 (RINGING) 00:28:48.583 --> 00:28:50.541 - Wraiths! - VESEMIR: Keep calm! 00:28:51.708 --> 00:28:52.708 Stay together! 00:28:52.791 --> 00:28:54.166 (SCREECHING) 00:28:55.208 --> 00:28:56.625 (YELPS) 00:28:56.708 --> 00:28:58.458 (WRAITHS SCREECHING) 00:29:11.166 --> 00:29:13.208 - (RINGING) - Huh? 00:29:19.625 --> 00:29:20.708 (YELLS) 00:29:21.541 --> 00:29:22.708 (ROARS) 00:29:22.791 --> 00:29:24.416 - (YELPS) - (CREATURE SNARLING) 00:29:29.083 --> 00:29:30.333 (BOY GROANS) 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:32.000 (SIGHS) 00:29:34.750 --> 00:29:35.750 This way. 00:29:40.416 --> 00:29:42.541 (CREATURE SNARLING) 00:29:47.625 --> 00:29:49.583 (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING) 00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:52.166 (BOYS SCREAMING) 00:30:06.291 --> 00:30:07.291 Uh... 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:12.500 (VESEMIR SCREAMING) 00:30:15.083 --> 00:30:16.166 (GASPS) 00:30:16.833 --> 00:30:17.833 (GROANS) 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:20.000 Oh... 00:30:20.958 --> 00:30:22.000 (SIGHS) 00:30:31.666 --> 00:30:32.666 (GASPS) 00:30:34.083 --> 00:30:35.416 (SHUDDERS) 00:30:36.666 --> 00:30:38.666 (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 00:30:53.500 --> 00:30:54.583 (SOBBING) 00:30:57.208 --> 00:30:58.791 (WEEPING) 00:31:04.208 --> 00:31:05.958 - (RINGING) - Oh! 00:31:10.750 --> 00:31:12.750 (MEDALLION PULSING) 00:31:22.125 --> 00:31:23.291 (GRUNTS) 00:31:23.375 --> 00:31:25.000 (LOW DRONING) 00:31:41.125 --> 00:31:43.916 The medallions sometimes sense the bestiary. 00:31:44.750 --> 00:31:47.666 - Especially when it's full. - VESEMIR: You're one of them. 00:31:48.250 --> 00:31:50.625 The mages Tomas mentioned who make witchers. 00:31:51.666 --> 00:31:53.041 You don't look ancient. 00:31:53.625 --> 00:31:55.708 Well, mages age quite slowly. 00:31:55.791 --> 00:31:56.916 Witchers do too. 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.541 Gives us both decades to hone our respective skills. 00:32:00.625 --> 00:32:01.916 The Trials are only part 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:03.791 - of my duty, though. - (SNARLING) 00:32:03.875 --> 00:32:05.500 Don't fear. 00:32:05.583 --> 00:32:08.916 It's merely a side effect of its hybrid genes. 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:10.750 Krallachs. (CHUCKLES) 00:32:10.833 --> 00:32:14.208 I've identified three different species in this specimen's makeup. 00:32:14.291 --> 00:32:16.625 - (GASPS) - It's a nasty little crossbreed. 00:32:16.708 --> 00:32:20.458 Master Deglan said monsters can't mate with other species. 00:32:20.958 --> 00:32:24.291 True. Though they can be engineered. 00:32:24.916 --> 00:32:27.708 Imagine an army of beasts 00:32:27.791 --> 00:32:30.916 designed to wipe out the elves and the Old Races 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:33.125 to secure land and food. 00:32:33.708 --> 00:32:35.208 The alchemy was... 00:32:35.291 --> 00:32:36.583 inelegant, though. 00:32:37.250 --> 00:32:39.708 Most crossbreeds died instantly. 00:32:40.666 --> 00:32:42.458 VESEMIR: Mages made monsters, 00:32:42.541 --> 00:32:44.666 then made witchers to kill them? 00:32:45.458 --> 00:32:48.458 MAGE: Today, my mages and I guard the secrets 00:32:48.541 --> 00:32:50.833 to such mutagenic alchemy, 00:32:50.916 --> 00:32:53.166 preventing further abuse. 00:32:53.833 --> 00:32:55.375 I'm Reidrich, by the way. 00:32:55.458 --> 00:32:57.208 DEGLAN: Are you daft, Reidrich? 00:32:57.750 --> 00:33:01.541 A witcher deserves to understand its place in history. 00:33:02.291 --> 00:33:04.500 A rider came while you were licking your wounds. 00:33:04.583 --> 00:33:05.833 Left a letter for ya. 00:33:05.916 --> 00:33:09.125 Did you know that Tomas and the others would die in the swamp? 00:33:09.208 --> 00:33:11.375 It's a numbers game, young fella. 00:33:11.458 --> 00:33:14.375 - (FAINT GROWLING) - VESEMIR: How many survive these Trials? 00:33:14.458 --> 00:33:17.041 Depends. How many are witchers? 00:33:18.750 --> 00:33:21.750 Letter's by your cot. Read it now, before I burn it. 00:33:29.208 --> 00:33:30.458 ILLYANA: "Vesemir." 00:33:31.083 --> 00:33:34.166 "Your thoughts are likely far from here, so I will be brief." 00:33:35.083 --> 00:33:36.416 "Your father is dead." 00:33:37.125 --> 00:33:38.750 "Kaedwen took our village 00:33:38.833 --> 00:33:41.166 and he was killed while helping the lord and lady escape, 00:33:41.250 --> 00:33:43.333 - both of whom were also slain." - (CHILD YELLING) 00:33:43.833 --> 00:33:46.000 - (WAILING) - "Do not return home, Vesemir, 00:33:46.083 --> 00:33:48.416 if this were ever that to you." 00:33:49.458 --> 00:33:52.625 "I hope you have found warmth and comfort in this brittle world 00:33:53.125 --> 00:33:56.958 and that the world is being kind to you, and most of all, fair." 00:33:57.875 --> 00:34:02.041 "For me, a noble family from Kaedwen has claimed me theirs." 00:34:03.125 --> 00:34:04.791 "They are kinder masters." 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." 00:34:10.041 --> 00:34:12.000 "I am well-fed and at peace." 00:34:14.375 --> 00:34:16.875 "There was little to miss in our burnt-out town, 00:34:16.958 --> 00:34:20.000 and our snowball fights and alleyway desserts 00:34:20.083 --> 00:34:23.500 are heavy memories I now happily lay to rest." 00:34:24.541 --> 00:34:26.541 (ECHOING) "Find your rebirth, Vesemir, 00:34:27.291 --> 00:34:29.375 free of past burdens and hurts." 00:34:30.208 --> 00:34:31.333 "And yes, 00:34:32.291 --> 00:34:33.500 free of me." 00:34:34.500 --> 00:34:35.833 "It is best that way." 00:34:37.333 --> 00:34:38.583 "Live and love well." 00:34:39.541 --> 00:34:40.541 "Illyana." 00:34:49.166 --> 00:34:51.083 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 00:34:59.625 --> 00:35:02.125 - (HOWLS) - (DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES) 00:35:17.500 --> 00:35:19.500 (DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES) 00:35:46.416 --> 00:35:48.541 (INDISTINCT SCREAMING) 00:35:53.791 --> 00:35:57.916 Right. So, who wishes to ride and get blitzed somewhere nice and quiet? 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:01.500 (SIGHS) We stay and see who survives. 00:36:01.583 --> 00:36:03.250 (SCOFFS) That could take days. 00:36:03.750 --> 00:36:05.250 It'll be Eskel, Lambert, 00:36:05.791 --> 00:36:06.833 maybe Remus. 00:36:07.416 --> 00:36:10.708 Now, can we please go get right properly drunk? 00:36:10.791 --> 00:36:12.291 LUKA: Oh, let them sulk. 00:36:12.916 --> 00:36:13.916 We'll drink. 00:36:16.583 --> 00:36:18.083 (VESEMIR LAUGHING) 00:36:18.166 --> 00:36:21.458 The midwife almost fainted when I came for my payment. 00:36:21.541 --> 00:36:24.958 - (WOMAN GIGGLING) - I looked an awful terror, red and sticky, 00:36:25.041 --> 00:36:27.708 but, you know, that's the job. 00:36:27.791 --> 00:36:30.041 WOMAN: And the striga? Was she cured? 00:36:30.125 --> 00:36:31.666 VESEMIR: Yes. Yes, of course. 00:36:32.666 --> 00:36:35.041 We need more before the next tale. 00:36:36.625 --> 00:36:39.833 You know, that midwife should've hired a better savior. 00:36:39.916 --> 00:36:41.458 A man of virtue and honor. 00:36:42.041 --> 00:36:43.125 A real man. 00:36:43.208 --> 00:36:44.833 Not a mutant. 00:36:44.916 --> 00:36:47.583 Are knights being schooled in striga curses now? 00:36:48.208 --> 00:36:51.500 Where'd that lesson fit? Between learning curtsy and joust? 00:36:51.583 --> 00:36:55.041 We're all here for a little drink and non-violent fun. 00:36:56.833 --> 00:36:57.958 Ugh. 00:36:58.041 --> 00:37:00.916 Is this the "your kind" bit? 00:37:01.958 --> 00:37:03.583 You frighten these people. 00:37:04.083 --> 00:37:06.625 As you frightened that midwife you swindled. 00:37:07.208 --> 00:37:08.666 Best you leave. 00:37:08.750 --> 00:37:11.083 Right now. 00:37:11.166 --> 00:37:13.541 I've seen knights try to do our job. 00:37:14.125 --> 00:37:15.833 Tidy up monsters. 00:37:15.916 --> 00:37:18.083 Cautionary tales, all of you. 00:37:18.166 --> 00:37:19.166 (SNORTS) 00:37:19.208 --> 00:37:20.708 Especially the cute ones. 00:37:20.791 --> 00:37:21.833 (GROWLS) 00:37:23.833 --> 00:37:28.000 The two witchers should be tried and executed. No questions asked. 00:37:28.083 --> 00:37:29.625 LADY ZERBST: Silly me. 00:37:29.708 --> 00:37:33.791 Here I thought trials were all about questions. 00:37:33.875 --> 00:37:37.333 These two killed two of your guard, Your Highness. You'd let that stand? 00:37:37.416 --> 00:37:41.250 LADY ZERBST: Sire, the barkeep claims your knights instigated the altercation. 00:37:41.833 --> 00:37:44.583 These witchers were defending themselves. 00:37:45.291 --> 00:37:49.375 The people's faith in the monarchy already wavers due to the forest attacks. 00:37:49.458 --> 00:37:53.083 Now they'll hear the crown waxed idly as two monsters shed knighted blood. 00:37:53.166 --> 00:37:55.083 So we should go to war with the witchers? 00:37:55.166 --> 00:37:57.833 If only so you can make them what you fear? 00:37:58.750 --> 00:38:01.250 They are deadly. On that, we agree, Tetra. 00:38:01.875 --> 00:38:04.750 And such a battle would flood Kaedwen red. 00:38:05.291 --> 00:38:08.375 TETRA: The Assembly should remember the lady's seat here is honorary. 00:38:08.458 --> 00:38:11.666 - (ATTENDANTS MURMURING) - Yet it is still my chair. 00:38:11.750 --> 00:38:15.083 Earned by her body. Not by blood or title. 00:38:15.166 --> 00:38:17.625 (GROANS) Gods, quiet! 00:38:18.375 --> 00:38:21.500 I'll have my knights kill you both for the sake of my ears. 00:38:21.583 --> 00:38:24.166 Tetra's right, actually, sire. 00:38:24.916 --> 00:38:27.375 Your subjects expect action. 00:38:27.458 --> 00:38:30.583 What if you act on two fronts with one move? 00:38:30.666 --> 00:38:34.625 Clear out our forests while also avoiding war with the witchers? 00:38:36.041 --> 00:38:38.000 (STONE CLINKS) 00:38:38.875 --> 00:38:39.875 (MAN GROANS) 00:38:42.333 --> 00:38:43.958 - Guard? - (GUARD GRUNTS) 00:38:44.041 --> 00:38:45.250 Aye? 00:38:46.166 --> 00:38:47.333 Do you hear that? 00:38:47.416 --> 00:38:49.666 - It's like this pinging noise. - Hey! 00:38:50.416 --> 00:38:53.333 Are you eager for a beating, mutant? 00:38:53.416 --> 00:38:56.875 I'd settle for a pot to piss in and some halfway decent bread, please. 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:00.000 Oof! 00:39:00.541 --> 00:39:01.541 (DOOR CLOSES) 00:39:01.958 --> 00:39:04.333 Ah. A bit generous, but... 00:39:11.250 --> 00:39:13.166 LADY ZERBST: No need to split this one. 00:39:13.666 --> 00:39:15.375 Not like when we were younger. 00:39:15.458 --> 00:39:16.458 (LAUGHS) 00:39:16.500 --> 00:39:21.041 I knew witchers aged differently, but, well, look at you! 00:39:22.500 --> 00:39:23.541 Illyana! 00:39:23.625 --> 00:39:27.333 No doubt you imagined me an old spinster by now, slaving away. 00:39:28.083 --> 00:39:30.333 That is if you ever imagine me at all. 00:39:30.416 --> 00:39:31.625 Uh... your letter. 00:39:32.750 --> 00:39:35.125 - You'd been sold to a new estate. - Yes. 00:39:35.791 --> 00:39:37.333 The Zerbsts of Kaedwen. 00:39:37.416 --> 00:39:39.333 They were kind enough, but it... 00:39:39.416 --> 00:39:43.000 it was their son who was truly fond of me, despite my station. 00:39:44.333 --> 00:39:47.083 (SIGHS) It's been an age. Did you ever get that lake house? 00:39:47.166 --> 00:39:50.583 Lake house? Oh, my, the lake house! 00:39:50.666 --> 00:39:52.375 No lake, no. 00:39:53.166 --> 00:39:54.250 But a nice home. 00:39:54.833 --> 00:39:57.750 Turned it into an orphanage after my husband passed. 00:39:57.833 --> 00:40:00.208 We had children too. Girls. 00:40:00.291 --> 00:40:02.500 Horrors, all three of them. 00:40:02.583 --> 00:40:05.041 One just made me a grandmother. I begged her not to. 00:40:05.125 --> 00:40:07.500 (CHUCKLES) But they're stubborn little needlers. 00:40:07.583 --> 00:40:09.458 They often remind me of you... 00:40:10.041 --> 00:40:11.375 Oh, gods. 00:40:11.875 --> 00:40:13.750 I'm... rambling. 00:40:14.250 --> 00:40:15.166 You're bored. 00:40:15.250 --> 00:40:16.958 No, no, no. You're fine. 00:40:17.041 --> 00:40:20.291 You're good. Uh... this is unexpected, yes. 00:40:20.791 --> 00:40:23.708 Little fresh. But, uh... also lovely. 00:40:24.208 --> 00:40:25.625 You've had such a full... 00:40:25.708 --> 00:40:30.208 You wish to kill my already-dead husband and burn the orphanage to the ground. 00:40:31.166 --> 00:40:33.333 Not the precise words I'd use. 00:40:33.875 --> 00:40:35.125 (LAUGHS) 00:40:36.583 --> 00:40:38.750 Lord Zerbst was kind to me. 00:40:39.708 --> 00:40:41.416 By no means perfect, but... 00:40:42.083 --> 00:40:46.125 he's someone you miss very much when they depart. 00:40:48.416 --> 00:40:50.750 The tales I've heard of you, though. 00:40:51.250 --> 00:40:54.166 The swashbuckling witcher for hire. 00:40:54.250 --> 00:40:56.250 "The slayer Vesemir, 00:40:56.333 --> 00:40:59.333 priced only for the foulest of creatures." 00:40:59.416 --> 00:41:03.375 Well, not too long ago, you were stuffing my head full of those very notions. 00:41:04.291 --> 00:41:06.750 Years do work differently for you. 00:41:06.833 --> 00:41:08.666 (SCOFFS) What's time, anyway? 00:41:09.833 --> 00:41:11.750 - Everything. - (DOOR OPENS) 00:41:12.750 --> 00:41:16.791 The king is willing to grant you and your friend amnesty for your crimes. 00:41:16.875 --> 00:41:19.375 Then you are reminded that I carry the duties 00:41:19.458 --> 00:41:23.666 of my late husband, the noble Lord Zerbst, adviser to the throne. 00:41:23.750 --> 00:41:26.000 Every deal has a price. 00:41:26.083 --> 00:41:29.833 Kill whatever is murdering our people in the woods outside Ard Carraigh. 00:41:29.916 --> 00:41:31.333 And my colleague, Luka? 00:41:31.416 --> 00:41:33.958 - He'll have my care. - Reasonable terms. 00:41:34.541 --> 00:41:36.333 You'll take a chaperone too. 00:41:36.416 --> 00:41:38.125 That, there, well... 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:40.000 that's a problem. 00:41:40.541 --> 00:41:42.250 The Path's quite perilous, 00:41:42.333 --> 00:41:45.500 and you are a lady, my lady. 00:41:46.333 --> 00:41:48.958 Also, can't have a noble such as you 00:41:49.041 --> 00:41:51.833 seen slumming about with the mutant likes of me. 00:41:52.416 --> 00:41:56.000 Then you'll no doubt be pleased to hear that I am not your chaperone. 00:42:02.166 --> 00:42:05.291 I have no intention of playing guide or nurse to you, witch. 00:42:05.375 --> 00:42:07.416 I don't care who your great-great-whoever was. 00:42:12.791 --> 00:42:13.791 On my word, 00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:16.083 I will slay this beast. 00:42:16.166 --> 00:42:17.416 For you, Illyana. 00:42:30.583 --> 00:42:32.463 VESEMIR: Might not be a monster at all, either. 00:42:32.500 --> 00:42:35.625 The leshen that killed your man Carlisle was bewitched. 00:42:35.708 --> 00:42:36.958 By an elf. 00:42:37.041 --> 00:42:39.500 - (TETRA GROANS) - "Why an elf?" Ah! Glad you asked. 00:42:39.583 --> 00:42:42.375 See, another very old but very young-looking elf 00:42:42.458 --> 00:42:46.041 asked me to help him to find a group of misplaced girls. 00:42:47.208 --> 00:42:50.166 Point is, witchering is a business. 00:42:50.250 --> 00:42:51.583 You have to keep a brand. 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. 00:42:58.250 --> 00:43:00.708 Isn't fire magic forbidden by upstanding mages? 00:43:01.750 --> 00:43:04.125 Only insofar as there are very few mages blessed 00:43:04.208 --> 00:43:06.208 with the skill to control the flames. 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.333 (CHEWING) Huh. You're very special, clearly. 00:43:11.125 --> 00:43:12.541 (BURPS AND GRUNTS) 00:43:13.125 --> 00:43:14.625 I must seem silly to you. 00:43:15.416 --> 00:43:16.791 But Chaos, it's... 00:43:17.708 --> 00:43:20.208 Well, words fail description. 00:43:21.833 --> 00:43:24.125 Witchers are connected to Chaos too. 00:43:24.208 --> 00:43:27.208 Only your connection is corrupted and corrosive. 00:43:27.291 --> 00:43:28.416 And far less condemning. 00:43:32.291 --> 00:43:36.166 There's a story about a witcher who helped an ailing priest. 00:43:36.708 --> 00:43:40.000 The monster-slayer believed the sickness was, in fact, a curse, 00:43:41.416 --> 00:43:43.833 and could be lifted by killing whoever placed it. 00:43:44.333 --> 00:43:47.041 The priest quickly fingered a local sorceress, 00:43:47.125 --> 00:43:49.375 a stupid girl who always caused him trouble. 00:43:50.291 --> 00:43:54.166 The witcher killed her, and was rightly paid in gems and jewels. 00:43:55.958 --> 00:43:58.833 - The priest obviously got better. - He did. 00:43:59.416 --> 00:44:01.166 And then a few days later, 00:44:01.250 --> 00:44:04.958 he found a beautiful gem amid his cook's belongings, 00:44:05.041 --> 00:44:08.166 identical to the one he'd given the clever witcher. 00:44:08.250 --> 00:44:10.666 Ah. He had the cook poison the priest's meals. 00:44:10.750 --> 00:44:12.333 Cut him in on the take. 00:44:12.416 --> 00:44:15.166 (EXCLAIMS) Smart con. Wish I'd thought of it. 00:44:15.875 --> 00:44:16.916 As I said... 00:44:17.666 --> 00:44:18.666 corrupted. 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.000 Ah, lovely. 00:44:31.500 --> 00:44:33.166 - You've led us in a circle. - No. 00:44:33.750 --> 00:44:35.416 I know these forests. 00:44:35.500 --> 00:44:37.458 Hmm. So did Lord Carlisle. 00:44:37.541 --> 00:44:41.958 At Aretuza, we used magic to cast pleasant illusions around unpleasant foods. 00:44:42.041 --> 00:44:43.791 Made food tastier, 00:44:43.875 --> 00:44:46.041 yet the aftertaste of the illusion? 00:44:48.208 --> 00:44:49.208 Bitter. 00:44:51.333 --> 00:44:56.458 Chaos clear our hearts and minds. Let our eyes see right and true. 00:44:57.125 --> 00:44:59.166 Lift the shroud that cloaks our mind. 00:44:59.250 --> 00:45:00.083 (HORSE NEIGHING) 00:45:00.166 --> 00:45:02.750 - Lift the shroud that cloaks our mind! - (BOOMING) 00:45:16.125 --> 00:45:18.458 That illusion was flawless. 00:45:19.166 --> 00:45:21.791 The power needed to maintain such art... 00:45:22.458 --> 00:45:24.458 VESEMIR: Could also bewitch a leshen. 00:45:26.250 --> 00:45:28.250 (RINGING) 00:45:34.083 --> 00:45:37.500 Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath. 00:45:37.583 --> 00:45:39.625 - Kitsu? - Friend of yours? 00:45:39.708 --> 00:45:40.958 Friend of a friend. 00:45:41.041 --> 00:45:44.000 Garean bhaedh aip me vhoelynath! 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, 00:45:48.458 --> 00:45:50.375 especially since you're, you know, 00:45:50.458 --> 00:45:52.166 - slaughtering people over it. - Witcher. 00:45:54.791 --> 00:45:56.625 (ROARS) 00:45:56.708 --> 00:45:58.916 I've never seen such a species of basilisk. 00:45:59.416 --> 00:46:01.875 - Another illusion? - We'll no doubt find out shortly. 00:46:02.833 --> 00:46:04.833 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 00:46:06.083 --> 00:46:08.083 (SCREECHING) 00:46:13.666 --> 00:46:15.166 - (GRUNTS) - (SCREECHES) 00:46:17.250 --> 00:46:18.250 (BEAST GRUNTS) 00:46:30.250 --> 00:46:31.750 (ROARING) 00:46:34.958 --> 00:46:37.750 I know. She has that effect on everyone. 00:46:37.833 --> 00:46:39.541 But still, manners. 00:46:49.791 --> 00:46:50.791 (GROANS) 00:47:06.416 --> 00:47:07.708 (SCREECHES) 00:47:09.750 --> 00:47:10.916 (CREATURE TRILLING) 00:47:13.500 --> 00:47:14.750 (COUGHS) 00:47:17.375 --> 00:47:18.375 (GROWLING) 00:47:21.958 --> 00:47:24.041 (DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES) 00:47:30.333 --> 00:47:31.416 (VESEMIR GRUNTS) 00:47:33.083 --> 00:47:34.333 (SCREECHING) 00:47:34.416 --> 00:47:35.875 (HISSING) 00:47:46.333 --> 00:47:47.333 (SIGHS) 00:47:50.750 --> 00:47:52.000 KITSU: No! 00:47:52.083 --> 00:47:54.416 No! (SOBS) 00:47:55.083 --> 00:47:57.791 - It was real. - Might have slightly underestimated you. 00:47:58.291 --> 00:47:59.416 Slightly. 00:48:00.416 --> 00:48:01.916 - Ah. - (KITSU CRYING) 00:48:02.500 --> 00:48:04.708 Kitsu, this needn't escalate. 00:48:04.791 --> 00:48:06.125 (KITSU SOBBING) 00:48:10.083 --> 00:48:11.708 (RUMBLING) 00:48:11.791 --> 00:48:12.958 Uh... 00:48:15.291 --> 00:48:16.458 (EXCLAIMS) 00:48:18.958 --> 00:48:19.958 Oh! 00:48:27.333 --> 00:48:28.583 (GASPS) 00:48:34.375 --> 00:48:35.541 Witcher! 00:48:39.166 --> 00:48:40.166 (KNIFE WHISTLING) 00:48:50.291 --> 00:48:51.416 (SIGHS) 00:48:59.583 --> 00:49:02.291 Her powers of illusion are unnatural. 00:49:02.375 --> 00:49:04.750 First monster I ever encountered was a mahr. 00:49:04.833 --> 00:49:08.458 Made a woman see nightmares that weren't really there. Illusions. 00:49:08.541 --> 00:49:11.875 - Kitsu's an elf. - Then why does she smell like a mahr? 00:49:13.333 --> 00:49:15.333 (VESEMIR AND TETRA PANTING) 00:49:19.708 --> 00:49:20.916 TETRA: An elven school. 00:49:21.625 --> 00:49:24.291 They used to send their young here during high summer. 00:49:24.958 --> 00:49:29.041 Before repurposing it as a garrison during your last cleansing spree. 00:49:31.666 --> 00:49:32.916 No signs of blood. 00:49:34.625 --> 00:49:36.375 I can still smell her, though. 00:49:37.041 --> 00:49:38.041 Yes. 00:49:38.375 --> 00:49:39.375 She was here. 00:49:40.250 --> 00:49:41.583 Just before our fight. 00:50:19.541 --> 00:50:20.541 Witcher! 00:50:21.166 --> 00:50:22.666 I do have a name, you know. 00:50:22.750 --> 00:50:24.500 (GASPS) Ugh! 00:50:28.416 --> 00:50:29.875 What was done to them? 00:50:31.833 --> 00:50:33.250 VESEMIR: They're all elves. 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:35.000 Girls. 00:50:35.083 --> 00:50:36.500 MAN: Over here. 00:50:36.583 --> 00:50:37.583 Help. 00:50:48.458 --> 00:50:50.500 Gods, not another favor. 00:50:52.333 --> 00:50:53.333 Who's this one? 00:50:54.458 --> 00:50:57.875 VESEMIR: My aforementioned friend. He was searching for those girls. 00:50:58.875 --> 00:51:03.041 And I could've saved some, had you set aside your love of coin and helped. 00:51:03.541 --> 00:51:08.083 - VESEMIR: Kitsu's been kidnapping them. - Yes. Experimenting on the girls. 00:51:08.166 --> 00:51:10.916 She's using some strange alchemy to try to change them. 00:51:11.916 --> 00:51:13.750 Change them to what? 00:51:13.833 --> 00:51:15.458 Into whatever she's become. 00:51:16.333 --> 00:51:20.083 I tracked her here, tried stopping her, but... Kitsu's power... 00:51:20.166 --> 00:51:21.750 And she just let you live? 00:51:21.833 --> 00:51:25.541 I understand if that's a concept unfamiliar to your kind. 00:51:25.625 --> 00:51:28.541 If Kitsu was using sorcery to try and mutate those girls, 00:51:28.625 --> 00:51:29.791 who mutated her? 00:51:33.541 --> 00:51:36.458 Her genes were spliced with those of a mahr. 00:51:37.125 --> 00:51:39.041 It explains her unnatural power. 00:51:39.666 --> 00:51:40.916 She's a crossbreed. 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:42.708 How is such a thing possible? 00:51:42.791 --> 00:51:44.375 The same way he was made. 00:51:45.166 --> 00:51:46.583 Mutagenic alchemy. 00:51:46.666 --> 00:51:49.500 Its secrets known only to mages at Kaer Morhen. 00:51:49.583 --> 00:51:51.208 You're behind all this. 00:51:51.291 --> 00:51:52.375 That's ridiculous. 00:51:53.833 --> 00:51:56.875 - (GRUNTS) - Hunting monsters for coin wasn't enough? 00:51:57.541 --> 00:51:59.041 Now you make them? 00:51:59.125 --> 00:52:00.875 Witchers are struggling, yes, but... 00:52:02.083 --> 00:52:06.458 Shame. A few new beasts would be... good for business. 00:52:07.666 --> 00:52:10.250 TETRA: More monsters, more jobs, more coin. 00:52:10.333 --> 00:52:11.708 Another sharp con. 00:52:11.791 --> 00:52:13.708 - I swear, Fil, I didn't... - (RUSTLING) 00:52:21.291 --> 00:52:22.666 Another monstrosity. 00:52:24.875 --> 00:52:26.041 (GRUNTS) 00:52:26.125 --> 00:52:27.125 (SHUDDERS) 00:52:27.625 --> 00:52:28.791 She's still an elf. 00:52:30.333 --> 00:52:31.333 (SIGHS) 00:52:33.375 --> 00:52:35.166 You saw what these creatures can do. 00:52:35.750 --> 00:52:38.375 Fil, if the girl has even half Kitsu's power, 00:52:38.958 --> 00:52:40.250 she's dangerous. 00:52:40.333 --> 00:52:42.625 Doesn't this witch say similar of you? 00:52:43.750 --> 00:52:47.416 I will take her back to my people. She will be raised as an elf. 00:52:47.500 --> 00:52:48.333 TETRA: Charitable. 00:52:48.416 --> 00:52:52.083 Though I imagine it won't be too long before you sic her on us. 00:52:52.166 --> 00:52:53.375 FILAVANDREL: You won. 00:52:54.583 --> 00:52:56.083 You beat us. 00:52:56.166 --> 00:52:57.833 At least allow us the indignity 00:52:57.916 --> 00:53:01.250 of scavenging whatever's left of our kind, mutant or otherwise. 00:53:02.541 --> 00:53:04.541 As a favor to a friend. 00:53:07.041 --> 00:53:09.166 Take the child and go. Now. 00:53:10.708 --> 00:53:13.083 You have made a serious error. 00:53:13.875 --> 00:53:16.291 Should that girl ever harm a single soul, Fil... 00:53:16.375 --> 00:53:17.750 Then I will slay her. 00:53:18.375 --> 00:53:21.333 Quietly welcome you and your sword. 00:53:24.208 --> 00:53:27.416 I should've offered up some coin. Then you would've handled matters. 00:53:27.500 --> 00:53:29.375 It was not a question of price. 00:53:30.666 --> 00:53:32.875 Oh, the witcher's found his morals? 00:53:32.958 --> 00:53:36.000 You think you're so pure, Tetra? Not a blemish? 00:53:36.083 --> 00:53:38.625 Look outside. There's your morality. 00:53:39.291 --> 00:53:41.625 Rot and ruin all reeking of hate. 00:53:42.125 --> 00:53:44.250 Tend to that filth, and I'll tend to mine. 00:54:05.583 --> 00:54:07.583 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 00:54:41.125 --> 00:54:43.125 (DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES) 00:54:48.666 --> 00:54:50.833 LADY ZERBST: Nothing good can come of this. 00:54:51.458 --> 00:54:53.375 VESEMIR: Fear and ignorance are good business. 00:54:53.458 --> 00:54:55.625 That's what Deglan said the first time we met. 00:54:56.166 --> 00:54:57.166 Now look. 00:54:58.041 --> 00:54:59.458 I need to know for certain. 00:55:00.666 --> 00:55:03.041 LADY ZERBST: I'd ask you to flee with me. 00:55:07.166 --> 00:55:08.791 I know what you have to do. 00:55:09.458 --> 00:55:13.750 And I won't have you feeling as though you've abandoned me again. 00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:20.000 (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 00:55:39.833 --> 00:55:42.458 - (GROWLING) - TETRA: I tried to stop him. 00:55:42.541 --> 00:55:45.750 - (HISSES) - But witchers, they never hesitate. 00:55:49.833 --> 00:55:52.375 KING: Madam Gilcrest has given proof. 00:55:52.458 --> 00:55:54.625 This one breeds monstrosities, 00:55:54.708 --> 00:55:56.500 terrorizes my kingdom, 00:55:57.083 --> 00:55:59.375 and swindles the people. 00:55:59.916 --> 00:56:01.208 (GRUNTING) 00:56:01.708 --> 00:56:03.833 What the hell are you talking about? 00:56:04.416 --> 00:56:07.791 Sire, not all witchers were aware of these crossbreeds. 00:56:07.875 --> 00:56:10.833 Lady Zerbst, you are testament to the perils 00:56:10.916 --> 00:56:13.958 of trusting a servant. 00:56:15.208 --> 00:56:16.208 Your Highness... 00:56:19.416 --> 00:56:21.458 If it pleases, sire, 00:56:21.541 --> 00:56:24.916 might I ask where Madam Gilcrest is now? 00:56:52.125 --> 00:56:54.125 (LIQUID BUBBLING) 00:57:11.375 --> 00:57:12.958 (CREATURE TRILLING) 00:57:22.083 --> 00:57:24.333 DEGLAN: Monsters were going extinct. 00:57:24.416 --> 00:57:26.083 I had to protect our way of life. 00:57:27.208 --> 00:57:29.666 Think of all the coin you stand to make, young fella. 00:57:29.750 --> 00:57:32.791 - Do not call me that. - Check your gratitude, boy. 00:57:32.875 --> 00:57:34.000 You came to me. 00:57:34.083 --> 00:57:36.916 I could've shipped you right back to those bedpans. 00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:39.333 Don't pretend you didn't know exactly what you were doing 00:57:39.416 --> 00:57:40.916 when you threw me those coins. 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:42.291 You knew I would come. 00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.041 We were created to kill creatures like these, 00:57:45.125 --> 00:57:46.375 not to make them. 00:57:46.458 --> 00:57:48.708 I won't weep for doing what needed doing. 00:57:49.333 --> 00:57:50.875 I told you. 00:57:50.958 --> 00:57:52.791 VESEMIR: A witcher never hesitates. 00:57:52.875 --> 00:57:53.958 Oh, I know. 00:57:54.041 --> 00:57:57.958 What about with the elf? Did you give Kitsu a choice before you mutated her? 00:57:58.625 --> 00:58:00.333 No, I thought we'd killed her. 00:58:00.416 --> 00:58:03.375 That mutation was unstable. Too much power. 00:58:04.041 --> 00:58:07.500 Clearly, her death was one of her clever little illusions. 00:58:07.583 --> 00:58:09.500 VESEMIR: All of this to line our pockets. 00:58:09.583 --> 00:58:11.041 (DEGLAN LAUGHS) 00:58:11.125 --> 00:58:14.041 You were always too focused on the gold in your hand. 00:58:14.708 --> 00:58:17.833 You never looked up to see who's paying you. See their eyes. 00:58:18.416 --> 00:58:19.416 We terrify 'em. 00:58:19.916 --> 00:58:23.000 The only thing keeping men from hunting us 00:58:23.583 --> 00:58:25.666 are the scarier beasts we keep away. 00:58:26.333 --> 00:58:31.416 Humans die quick, so they spend their lives fearing and hating. 00:58:31.500 --> 00:58:33.916 Ask the dwarves or your elf friend. 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:36.375 Men will always need monsters. 00:58:37.083 --> 00:58:39.625 - Now, so do we. - We're all orphans. 00:58:39.708 --> 00:58:42.166 We've always looked to you to protect us. 00:58:42.250 --> 00:58:45.791 You have to burn it to the ground... or I will. 00:58:45.875 --> 00:58:46.916 (DEGLAN YELLING) 00:58:52.833 --> 00:58:54.333 I don't want to fight you. 00:58:54.416 --> 00:58:56.375 We've got to protect ourselves, Vesemir. 00:59:00.541 --> 00:59:01.791 Got to protect you! 00:59:08.666 --> 00:59:13.041 If you two would like to stop trying to kill each other, 00:59:13.750 --> 00:59:15.208 we have a visitor. 00:59:17.750 --> 00:59:19.166 LADY ZERBST: She's coming. 00:59:20.416 --> 00:59:22.416 (HOOVES DRUMMING) 00:59:24.041 --> 00:59:25.708 (MOB YELLING) 00:59:28.333 --> 00:59:31.250 - (MOB CLAMORING) - MAN: Away with all witchers! 00:59:31.833 --> 00:59:34.625 Tetra wasted no time. Word spread quickly. 00:59:35.291 --> 00:59:38.583 Not only of the crossbreeds, but of witchers protecting elves. 00:59:39.083 --> 00:59:40.125 And Luka? 00:59:42.125 --> 00:59:43.500 This is your two's doing. 00:59:43.583 --> 00:59:46.250 They were always gonna come, sooner or later. 00:59:46.333 --> 00:59:49.791 VESEMIR: Well, maybe there was a way for us to die the better men. 00:59:49.875 --> 00:59:54.333 My mages and I are the ones who know the secrets to mutagenic alchemy. 00:59:54.416 --> 00:59:56.916 Tetra will want our heads most. 00:59:57.000 --> 00:59:58.583 If we die, 00:59:59.208 --> 01:00:02.291 there can be no more witchers. 01:00:03.333 --> 01:00:05.291 Seal yourselves in your labs. 01:00:05.375 --> 01:00:07.875 The rest of us will rally and end her little cult. 01:00:08.458 --> 01:00:09.708 Bitch won't see dawn. 01:00:11.750 --> 01:00:15.625 Underestimate Tetra and you'll be the one who's seen their last sunrise. 01:00:20.458 --> 01:00:22.583 VESEMIR: Perhaps she'll listen to reason. 01:00:22.666 --> 01:00:26.291 He may be a bastard... but Deglan is right. 01:00:27.166 --> 01:00:28.458 This was inevitable. 01:00:28.541 --> 01:00:29.583 Why? 01:00:29.666 --> 01:00:31.666 - Because you're different. - (MOB YELLING) 01:00:31.750 --> 01:00:34.125 LADY ZERBST: And killing is easier than tolerating. 01:00:36.416 --> 01:00:38.500 I want you as far away from this place as possible. 01:00:38.583 --> 01:00:40.166 There are children here. 01:00:40.250 --> 01:00:43.416 - They've been trained. - Children, Vesemir. 01:00:43.500 --> 01:00:45.416 As you were when he took you. 01:00:45.500 --> 01:00:48.583 I'll guide them to the cellar until the battle's won. 01:00:49.166 --> 01:00:52.875 For once, I will decide my place. 01:00:53.708 --> 01:00:55.333 You've always had too much fire. 01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:57.166 And beauty. 01:00:57.250 --> 01:01:00.333 Please... I'm nearly 70. 01:01:05.041 --> 01:01:06.041 So am I. 01:01:09.416 --> 01:01:11.416 (TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING) 01:01:13.208 --> 01:01:15.208 (WIND WHISTLING) 01:01:19.291 --> 01:01:20.291 (HORSE SNORTS) 01:01:25.250 --> 01:01:27.250 (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) 01:01:31.833 --> 01:01:34.916 Beautiful peaks. Too pure for war. 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:39.958 Scurry off and return with the body of the man you murdered, witch. 01:01:40.041 --> 01:01:44.000 He was executed in the name of those your homemade beasts butchered. 01:01:44.500 --> 01:01:46.666 There'll be no more of them, Tetra. 01:01:46.750 --> 01:01:47.750 Upon my word. 01:01:49.125 --> 01:01:51.541 Well, witchers are experts in price. 01:01:51.625 --> 01:01:54.166 What is the worth of your word, Vesemir? 01:01:54.250 --> 01:01:55.250 Some things... 01:01:56.083 --> 01:01:57.291 are beyond cost. 01:01:59.333 --> 01:02:00.333 And you? 01:02:01.083 --> 01:02:02.583 Do you give me your word? 01:02:03.125 --> 01:02:04.625 I give you nothing. 01:02:04.708 --> 01:02:09.500 Save the chance to fill the valleys of our pretty peaks with your corpses. 01:02:10.291 --> 01:02:12.250 We are an army of witchers. 01:02:12.333 --> 01:02:13.541 You are human. 01:02:19.208 --> 01:02:21.041 (WIND SIGHING) 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:27.416 (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) 01:02:32.416 --> 01:02:33.416 (RINGING) 01:02:42.833 --> 01:02:44.166 (SNARLING) 01:02:44.250 --> 01:02:46.250 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 01:03:02.250 --> 01:03:03.250 VESEMIR: Kitsu. 01:03:03.291 --> 01:03:05.958 TETRA: She was gutted to hear how you sacked her den, 01:03:06.041 --> 01:03:09.791 destroyed her work, and murdered the girl, her only child. 01:03:11.125 --> 01:03:12.791 Monsters to fight monsters. 01:03:13.416 --> 01:03:14.875 How unlike your predecessors. 01:03:24.916 --> 01:03:27.083 DEGLAN: Rally! Rally! 01:03:27.166 --> 01:03:29.666 Steel your nerves, lads. We charge! 01:03:29.750 --> 01:03:32.875 - VESEMIR: Swords away. Swords away! - We haven't time to hesitate. 01:03:32.958 --> 01:03:34.500 Just bloody trust me for once! 01:03:37.833 --> 01:03:38.833 Please! 01:03:43.166 --> 01:03:44.958 Witchers, on me! 01:03:46.875 --> 01:03:48.875 (MONSTERS GROWLING AND CHITTERING) 01:03:54.125 --> 01:03:56.041 - Now! - (LOW BOOMING) 01:04:04.166 --> 01:04:06.958 - LADY ZERBST: Be calm. Be calm. - (LOW RUMBLING) 01:04:07.041 --> 01:04:08.041 You're safe. 01:04:14.375 --> 01:04:16.375 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 01:04:38.583 --> 01:04:39.791 (HISSING) 01:04:41.625 --> 01:04:42.625 (YELLS) 01:04:59.666 --> 01:05:02.500 (MONSTERS GROWLING AND CHITTERING) 01:05:05.750 --> 01:05:08.583 Witchers must be wiped from the surface of this Earth, 01:05:08.666 --> 01:05:11.833 and all traces strewn with salt and saltpeter. 01:05:38.125 --> 01:05:39.500 DEGLAN: She's going for Reidrich! 01:05:40.583 --> 01:05:44.458 Me and the others will hold the bridge. Use the drop to halve their numbers. 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:48.083 You two, stop her! 01:05:49.291 --> 01:05:51.458 Can you forgive me long enough, young fella? 01:05:51.541 --> 01:05:52.541 (SIGHS ANGRILY) 01:06:08.708 --> 01:06:09.958 (ROARING) 01:06:20.625 --> 01:06:23.375 - (MEN SCREAMING) - (MONSTERS CHITTERING) 01:06:23.458 --> 01:06:26.250 (MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING) 01:06:30.750 --> 01:06:32.750 (SCREAMING) 01:06:33.958 --> 01:06:35.958 (YELLING) 01:06:43.750 --> 01:06:44.750 (GRUNTS) 01:06:51.458 --> 01:06:52.458 (YELLING) 01:06:53.541 --> 01:06:55.666 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 01:07:13.541 --> 01:07:14.833 (YELLS) 01:07:35.916 --> 01:07:37.083 (YELLS) 01:07:53.833 --> 01:07:56.458 (DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES) 01:08:03.625 --> 01:08:06.041 If she gets Reidrich, it's the end of us. 01:08:08.625 --> 01:08:09.875 Find her! 01:08:11.583 --> 01:08:13.833 - Stop her! - (SCREAMING) 01:08:22.041 --> 01:08:23.625 (RUMBLING) 01:08:24.875 --> 01:08:26.875 There's a hatch in the grain hold. 01:08:26.958 --> 01:08:29.041 It lets out on the back pathway. 01:08:29.125 --> 01:08:30.375 How do you know this? 01:08:30.458 --> 01:08:32.000 He was trying to run away! 01:08:34.750 --> 01:08:36.666 Run as far away as possible. 01:08:36.750 --> 01:08:37.583 All of you. 01:08:37.666 --> 01:08:40.458 Rub the heel raw, to the bone, if you have to. 01:08:40.541 --> 01:08:41.583 Don't stop. 01:08:50.833 --> 01:08:52.833 (REIDRICH PRAYING IN ELVEN TONGUE) 01:08:55.625 --> 01:08:57.291 LADY ZERBST: Lower your swords. 01:08:59.541 --> 01:09:01.333 This is genocide, Tetra. 01:09:01.916 --> 01:09:06.125 They bred those monsters because of you. There is no purity here. 01:09:06.208 --> 01:09:08.000 Just fear and hatred. 01:09:08.083 --> 01:09:10.541 Enough, please! 01:09:11.375 --> 01:09:14.041 This servant betrays Kaedwen to the witchers. 01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:16.166 Let her join them. 01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:25.000 (VESEMIR YELLING) Tetra! 01:09:25.083 --> 01:09:27.458 I can drop your men before their blades drop an inch. 01:09:27.541 --> 01:09:29.791 (SCOFFS) Wishful thinking. 01:09:32.916 --> 01:09:33.916 (WHOOSHING) 01:09:39.541 --> 01:09:42.916 Are you going to enjoy the day, or are you still too shook 01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:45.208 from another daring night of monster-slaying? 01:09:45.708 --> 01:09:49.666 (CHUCKLES) Pardon me for wanting to be something other than a churlish knave. 01:09:50.166 --> 01:09:51.416 Look at you, though. 01:09:52.708 --> 01:09:54.041 You're a witcher. 01:09:54.791 --> 01:09:56.041 You're rich! 01:09:56.125 --> 01:09:57.208 (COINS CLINKING) 01:09:57.291 --> 01:09:59.000 We'll lack for nothing, 01:09:59.541 --> 01:10:02.000 and you'll take care of me, Vesemir. 01:10:02.083 --> 01:10:04.875 Much like you said. True to your word. 01:10:08.875 --> 01:10:11.083 - Look at me. - A lake house. 01:10:11.875 --> 01:10:14.208 Wine. Food. 01:10:14.291 --> 01:10:18.083 Imagine the seas of coin we'd wade in. 01:10:19.625 --> 01:10:22.416 You never wanted that! You were always content. 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:24.000 No, no, no! 01:10:26.125 --> 01:10:28.416 MAN: Forty tons of sheep's blood? 01:10:29.166 --> 01:10:30.833 That poor midwife! 01:10:30.916 --> 01:10:34.875 Oh, oh, tell 'em about the time you swindled the Redanian priest. 01:10:34.958 --> 01:10:37.208 Had him thinking he was cursed! 01:10:37.791 --> 01:10:41.875 - How much did you take that fool for? - You can't be here. We lost you. 01:10:45.125 --> 01:10:46.833 What are you prattling about? 01:10:48.041 --> 01:10:52.750 (CACKLES) Wake the barkeep, drain the barrels. Everyone drink! 01:10:53.583 --> 01:10:55.583 Not a coin spared. 01:10:55.666 --> 01:10:58.000 - MAN: Yeah! - (MEN CACKLING AND CHEERING) 01:11:02.291 --> 01:11:04.458 Enough! All of you! 01:11:04.541 --> 01:11:06.166 Stop... stop cackling! 01:11:06.250 --> 01:11:08.000 LADY ZERBST: Vesemir, come look. 01:11:10.125 --> 01:11:11.166 Be honest, now. 01:11:11.250 --> 01:11:14.333 Well, don't just stand there. Say it. 01:11:16.583 --> 01:11:18.750 You hate it, don't you? 01:11:18.833 --> 01:11:19.833 VESEMIR: I... 01:11:21.166 --> 01:11:24.333 I was just weighing whether you'd done my dashing looks justice. 01:11:24.416 --> 01:11:27.666 (LAUGHS) Oh, gods. You frightened me. 01:11:27.750 --> 01:11:30.583 Such a look in your eyes. So crestfallen and... 01:11:31.166 --> 01:11:32.375 It's perfect, Illyana. 01:11:33.458 --> 01:11:34.500 Flawless. 01:11:45.750 --> 01:11:47.666 Don't dally. I'm thirsty. 01:11:49.666 --> 01:11:51.250 Mama! Make Bojan stop! 01:11:51.333 --> 01:11:53.250 He's run away with my jacks! 01:11:54.791 --> 01:11:57.708 What's wrong, Papa? You're making the sad face. 01:11:58.291 --> 01:11:59.541 No, no... 01:12:00.250 --> 01:12:01.250 This is wrong. 01:12:01.291 --> 01:12:03.833 Enough mind games, Kitsu. No more fantasies. 01:12:03.916 --> 01:12:05.916 (WIND GUSTING) 01:12:06.541 --> 01:12:09.333 But you swore you'd care for me, didn't you? 01:12:10.333 --> 01:12:11.500 That you'd protect me. 01:12:12.541 --> 01:12:13.916 You're not real. 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:17.208 Truth is no illusion. There's no escaping it. 01:12:17.750 --> 01:12:19.458 (GASPS) Get away from me! 01:12:20.041 --> 01:12:22.125 You left me here, darling. 01:12:22.208 --> 01:12:25.041 Stranded in hopes and dreams abandoned. 01:12:25.125 --> 01:12:27.833 And now you're trying to leave me again. 01:12:27.916 --> 01:12:30.708 Only this time, I won't be buried 01:12:30.791 --> 01:12:33.083 - in dresses and courts and titles. - (THUNDER RUMBLING) 01:12:33.166 --> 01:12:36.666 I'll be as you are. Lost and alone. 01:12:36.750 --> 01:12:38.791 Unloved! 01:12:38.875 --> 01:12:40.958 No, Illyana. I love you. 01:12:41.041 --> 01:12:42.458 Coin's your real lover. 01:12:43.416 --> 01:12:46.250 More of her to pluck out there, isn't there? 01:12:46.750 --> 01:12:47.750 Stop it. 01:12:47.791 --> 01:12:50.375 We can be whatever we imagine here, Vesemir. 01:12:50.458 --> 01:12:51.750 We can be rich. 01:12:51.833 --> 01:12:57.541 - Together. Here, time is nothing. - (THUNDER RUMBLING) 01:12:58.708 --> 01:13:00.541 Out there, I can save her. 01:13:01.458 --> 01:13:02.791 That's worth more. 01:13:02.875 --> 01:13:04.208 Now, out of my head. 01:13:11.750 --> 01:13:14.125 (EPIC MUSIC PLAYING) 01:13:20.916 --> 01:13:21.916 (YELLS) 01:13:39.291 --> 01:13:41.541 TETRA: I know you never asked for this. 01:13:42.708 --> 01:13:44.041 You were only a child. 01:13:44.541 --> 01:13:46.083 How were you to know? 01:13:48.375 --> 01:13:49.583 (ROARS) 01:13:56.791 --> 01:13:57.791 (KITSU HISSES) 01:13:59.500 --> 01:14:00.791 LADY ZERBST: Vesemir! 01:14:01.541 --> 01:14:02.625 Stay back! 01:14:24.833 --> 01:14:25.833 (YELLS) 01:14:37.333 --> 01:14:39.291 You come at me with magic tricks? 01:14:49.166 --> 01:14:51.250 (YELLING) 01:14:55.166 --> 01:14:56.666 (MUSIC SLOWS) 01:15:03.500 --> 01:15:04.875 (KITSU GRUNTS) 01:15:12.166 --> 01:15:13.208 (GASPS) 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:19.666 Oh, no... (GASPS) 01:15:21.208 --> 01:15:22.958 No! No! 01:15:23.625 --> 01:15:24.958 No, no, no, no! 01:15:25.625 --> 01:15:26.625 (PANTING) 01:15:27.250 --> 01:15:28.375 LADY ZERBST: Vesemir. 01:15:30.583 --> 01:15:31.583 VESEMIR: Oh. 01:15:33.500 --> 01:15:34.500 This... 01:15:35.291 --> 01:15:36.416 this isn't real. 01:15:39.666 --> 01:15:42.500 I didn't know much about witchers when I was young. 01:15:42.583 --> 01:15:45.625 I didn't know you could smell better, hear better. 01:15:46.333 --> 01:15:49.083 I didn't know that the witcher sensed me in the cupboard, 01:15:49.166 --> 01:15:51.166 trembling, barely breathing, 01:15:51.250 --> 01:15:54.083 watching as he drove his sword through my mother. 01:15:54.583 --> 01:15:58.250 The silly sorceress who'd crossed a gullible priest. 01:15:59.250 --> 01:16:01.250 Monsters to kill monsters. 01:16:02.041 --> 01:16:03.791 (GURGLING) 01:16:06.375 --> 01:16:07.375 Aye... 01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:14.000 So... 01:16:17.666 --> 01:16:18.666 (GRUNTS) 01:16:22.375 --> 01:16:23.791 Take her and go. 01:16:25.625 --> 01:16:27.916 Sven? The others? 01:16:29.500 --> 01:16:30.500 Dead. 01:16:31.583 --> 01:16:33.000 All my boys. 01:16:33.791 --> 01:16:35.833 - Save you. - LADY ZERBST: The young ones... 01:16:36.708 --> 01:16:38.541 - escaped. - (VESEMIR CHUCKLES) 01:16:39.166 --> 01:16:40.291 Keep your strength. 01:16:42.541 --> 01:16:44.625 They're your boys now, young fella. 01:16:45.208 --> 01:16:46.375 Make 'em witchers. 01:16:46.875 --> 01:16:47.958 Make 'em... 01:16:48.541 --> 01:16:49.791 somethin' more. 01:16:52.375 --> 01:16:54.125 To better men. 01:16:58.583 --> 01:17:00.583 (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 01:17:12.375 --> 01:17:15.333 She didn't ask for this. 01:17:39.416 --> 01:17:41.416 (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) 01:18:05.875 --> 01:18:07.666 - (ICE CRACKING) - Where are we? 01:18:26.166 --> 01:18:27.666 Beautiful. (SIGHS) 01:18:29.083 --> 01:18:31.666 It doesn't seem... real. 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:39.000 (CRYING) 01:18:41.250 --> 01:18:42.500 (SOBBING) 01:18:59.291 --> 01:19:00.583 (GRUNTS) 01:19:02.166 --> 01:19:03.250 Huh? 01:19:05.458 --> 01:19:07.875 - Do we even know where we're going? - (HORSE NEIGHS) 01:19:18.791 --> 01:19:21.666 This is the last time I allow any of you to ever hesitate. 01:19:22.333 --> 01:19:23.416 Decide. 01:19:24.916 --> 01:19:26.291 But they hate us. 01:19:27.625 --> 01:19:29.250 There'll always be another monster... 01:19:29.333 --> 01:19:30.333 Geralt. 01:19:37.166 --> 01:19:57.166 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::. 01:20:45.083 --> 01:20:48.541 WOMAN: ♪ There once was a lord ♪ 01:20:49.208 --> 01:20:53.458 ♪ In dark woods ♪ 01:20:53.958 --> 01:20:57.875 ♪ Wearing a strange ♪ 01:20:57.958 --> 01:21:03.041 ♪ Silver band ♪ 01:21:03.791 --> 01:21:07.833 ♪ Around ♪ 01:21:07.916 --> 01:21:11.666 ♪ His hand ♪ 01:21:13.166 --> 01:21:17.625 ♪ For the bandit also ♪ 01:21:17.708 --> 01:21:24.708 ♪ Feared ♪ 01:21:25.791 --> 01:21:32.416 ♪ Monsters ♪ 01:21:33.541 --> 01:21:40.416 ♪ Monsters ♪