To get out of the rain, Spear and Fang enter a cave, where Spear finds traces of another tribe.
This episode features the following tropes:
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Spear is able to put together a reasonable understanding of the missing community and their way of life just from the cave paintings depicting their hunting grounds, the animals in the local area they hunted, as well as the ruins of their settlement, even identifying places where they skinned their kills to make pelts or non-essential activates like woodcarving toys for their children. Despite never having seen one before, he's able to pick up the proper way to hold and use a sword from the Viking's brief attack on him, and recognise it as a superior weapon to his spear, despite his unfamiliarity with it, and even scavenge the Viking's sword and belt into a Badass Bandolier to carry it more comfortably. By the end, he's also able to identify the building in the viking settlement that holds the slaves simply by noting it to be the one place with a locked and fortified door, as opposed to the cloth covering that every other dwelling has.
- Bears Are Bad News: The two Vikings that attack Spear and Fang battle while riding dinosaur-sized bears, which might be cave bears.
- Cornered Rattlesnake: The last Viking runs for the hills when it's just him left and is clearly terrified for his life, but still goes down swinging when he has no chance left to run.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The two raiders don't stand a chance against Spear and Fang and the survivor realises it too late to save himself.
- Didn't See That Coming: Both Vikings were clearly unprepared to have to fight a T. rex in tandem with their caveman quarry, not to mention Spear himself being a far bigger challenge in a fight than they've even had to face before. Likewise, Spear is caught somewhat off-guard by the Horned Viking's Last Villain Stand, due to unfamiliarity with his more advanced weapons. He managed to block the Viking's sword swing with the shield correctly mainly on instinct, but is knocked off-balance by it, never having used a shield before and having mainly brought it along for the Scorpion emblem painted on it as a communication tool. He also has a brief look of shock on his face when one of the Viking's wild swings managed to easily chop his spear in two with ease, and afterwards trades his broken weapon for the Viking's sword, despite not knowing how to use it well, recognising it as the superior weapon to his own, even if he knows how to handle those better.
- Dirty Coward: After his bear is killed, with his partner and own bear taken down, the Viking runs away from Spear and Fang. Of course, given he's without backup and facing down a pissed-off caveman and T. rex working together on foot after they show zero fear at his last-ditch intimidation display, it can be argued that him choosing to turn and flee was simply the only choice he had left to save himself. Indeed, when the duo catch up to him, Spear takes him down with a single well-placed stab to the leg, and Fang kills him with contentious ease when he tries a last-ditch attack on Spear, showing that fighting them really wasn't an option for him by that point.
- Gray Rain of Depression: The episode opens with it raining as Spear tries to comfort a nearly catatonic Fang who is still grieving over the death of Red.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: After Fang kills the Viking, Spear ditches his trademark weapon in favor of using his opponent's sword, apparently recognising it as the superior weapon after the Viking easily slices his weapon in twain with a wild swing, and that the similarly-armed missing community he discovered weren't able to protect themselves with their own weapons regardless.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Spear scavenges the Viking's discarded shield to use the Scorpion emblem on it as a communication method in his attempted interrogation of him. He reflexively blocks the Viking's sword swing with it when he makes his Last Villain Stand, but discards it along with his broken spear in favour of the Viking's sword and scabbard.
- Neck Snap: Spear kills the bear mount of the horned Viking this way, biting into its neck to get a good hold before snapping it in a single jerk, the motion of which knocks the Viking rider to the ground.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Fang is still in a depression from killing Red, so much so that she ignores the deer Spear brought to eat.
- Shout-Out: The design of the viking’s cave-bear mounts resemble the bear in The Fox and the Hound / Mor'du in Brave.
- Shown Their Work: Spear's vision of the missing community is an accurate representation to real-life Stone Age people, particularly sheltering in huts and having their own works of art. The only inaccuracy is that the animals on the cave art include tyrannosaurs and pterosaurs along with the ice age fauna.
- This Is Gonna Suck: The Viking with the horned helmet has this reaction when he realizes that not only is he alone and on foot against Spear and Fang, his attempt to intimidate them only pissed them off. And when when he's fleeing, he hears them crashing through the undergrowth after him...
- Tears from a Stone: Being a T. Rex, Fang is probably biologically incapable of crying, especially in grief. But the way the rain pools around her eyes and trickles down her face sure make it look like she is.
- Tranquil Fury: When Spear recognizes the scorpion symbol on the Viking's shield he starts slowly walking forward while leveling a Death Glare at the man.
- Underestimating Badassery: The Vikings clearly thought Spear was just a lone caveman trapped inside the cave and prepared to ambush him at the cave mouth between them accordingly. They were not prepared for an angry T. rex to be in the cave with him, or for Spear to be much more competent in combat than their usual quarry, disposing of one of them in a single thrust whilst easily dodging his mount's attacks.
- The Voiceless: Both Vikings can clearly talk to each other in their own language, but they're never seen communicating, and only vocalise grunts or yells when fighting Spear and Fang. Spear's attempt to interrogate the survivor for information about Mira is met with silence and a blank stare until the warrior rises to his remaining leg for one last attack on Spear. It's left unclear if he didn't understand that Spear was saying the name of a slave, if he didn't understand the language Spear was using or if he was just refusing to answer.
- Weapon for Intimidation: When he's knocked to the ground, the horned Viking draws his shield to better defend himself as he yells out at Fang and Spear in a desperate attempt to intimidate them off into running away. Unfortunately for him, the shield has the mark of the Scorpion on it, drawing the duo's ire and it's the Viking that has to flee for his life instead.
- Wham Shot:
- What initially seems to be a wild animal intruding on Spear and Fang in the cave is quickly shown to have reigns and a saddle, mounted by a Viking warrior, whose horned helmet silhouetted against the moon gives him the appearance of the Scorpion from Mira's drawings, confirming that Spear and Fang successfully tracked down her kidnappers. Both are understandably surprised by these revelations.
- One of the Vikings brandishes his shield, which has the exact same symbol as the tattoo on Mira's head.
- As Spear comes into the barn where the slaves are held prisoner, one of them turns their head. It's Mira.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The bear ridden by the Viking with the antler helmet disappears after Spear kills its rider. Spear and Fang following a bear paw print mark in the ground afterwards and the growling of such a bear heard in the mist by the ending implies it ran back to the settlement like a trained animal looking for its masters after its rider was killed.
