History Recap / MerlinS04E13TheSwordInTheStonePartII

* BallroomBlitz: Morgana attacks whilst Camelot is distracted by the Beltane feast.

* ChekhovsGun: Excalibur, first introduced in 1x09, is finally wielded by its rightful owner over three seasons later.

* LeftHanging: So...no one ever found out that Gwen was under an enchantment in ''Lancelot du Lac''?

* SlowMotion: '''So much.'''

* BallroomBlitz: Morgana attacks whilst Camelot is distracted by the Beltane feast.

* MenOfSherwood: The Knights of Camelot, who competently take back Camelot with only a few on-screen casualities.

* ChekhovsGun: Excalibur, first introduced in 1x09, is finally wielded by its rightful owner four seasons later.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Morgana gets from the castle, through the city, passed all the soldiers, and to the forest without any magical powers. Oh, and she did this after having been apparently knocked unconscious.

* BrickJoke: Kind of. In ''[[{{Recap/MerlinS04E08Lamia}} Lamia]]'' Arthur mocked Merlin for getting his life saved by Guinevere, stating that he'd rather die than be saved by a girl. Here, Isolde saves his life at the cost of her own.

** Its clear that Merlin is making up parts of this legend, but even if it is mostly true, it is ''never'' stated that the Pendragons continuously held Camelot. Its entirely possible Uther ''could'' have reconquered it after they had lost the throne.

* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: Debatably, Agravaine. His death and the immediate aftermath of Merlin realising he's killed him is an important, dramatically staged moment, but it occurs seven minutes into the episode and he's only mentioned once in passing in the rest of the episode by a minor character.]]

* OffscreenTeleportation: Morgana gets from the castle, through the city, passed all the soldiers, and to the forest without any magical powers.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Sword in the Stone.

* SlowMotion: '''So much.'''

** Morgana as well. Even without magic, she still has a strong skill with a sword, able to kill two knights while escaping Camelot and able to best Guinevere in a duel.

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield

* SlowMotion: '''So much.'''
* SwordInTheStone: Duh.

* PimpedOutDress: [[spoiler:Gwen's coronation gown]].

* TheSwordInTheStone: Duh.

Helios steps forward and pushes Morgana back, challenging Arthur to a fight. Morgana flees the room in terror, Gwen and Merlin in hot pursuit. Southrons burst through the door behind them; Tristan and Isolde fight them off as Arthur crosses swords with Helios. [[SlowMotion Morgana strides through the halls of Camelot]] with a sword, fighting off knights of Camelot as she goes. One leaps out of an alcove and manages to slide across her belly with his sword before she kills him. Holding her side, Morgana stumbles away.

* The PowerOfLove: Morgana instigated the famous Arthurian LoveTriangle to make Guinevere look like a cheater and prevent her from ever becoming Queen. What she didn't count on was Arthur loving Guinevere so deeply and completely that he would forgive her and marry her anyway.

* TheSwordInTheStone: Duh.

** Some of details of Morgana's original dream about Guinevere's coronation don't match up: Arthur has a different crown, Merlin has a new outfit, and Gwen's necklace is missing.

* ContinuityGlitch: Apparently it's common knowledge that Arthur is the latest in long line of the Pendragon dynasty, starting from an ancient king that founded Camelot and united the Five Kingdoms. Last year Uther proclaimed that he had conquered Camelot.