Emptied a box of keys
Callum talks Rayla into stopping at their family's winter lodge to pick up a possible magic item, but their Aunt Amaya and her troops have also arrived, looking for them. Meanwhile, Katolis holds a funeral and a coronation on the same day.Tropes:
- Airplane Arms: While making her way to the Banther lodge to take the Cube for Callum, Rayla runs with her arms at her sides.
- Appeal to Tradition: Opeli, head clergy for Katolis, is not happy about Viren breaking tradition, since fallen kings must rest for seven sunsets but Viren has decided to burn Harrow immediately so he can be crowned later that night. She also refuses to light the pyre, making Claudia do it.
- Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: Amaya appears at the lodge with a grim, antagonistic expression on her face. Then she takes off her helmet and starts smiling at the boys.
- Blatant Lies: During King Harrow's funeral, Viren claims that the king's last words to him were calling Viren his brother. From what was shown in their final moments together in the last episode, the audience knows he's lying.
- Blow That Horn: A horn is blown when Amaya and her men arrive at the lodge.
- Breather Episode: After three episodes of non-stop action and exposition, this episode is a bit more lighthearted and self-contained.
- Bring It: Amaya signals this to Raya during their fight at the lodge.
- Call-Back: A couple of Call Backs to episode 1:
- When Rayla shows Callum and Ezran her flask of red liquid, Callum is quick to mistake it for blood before Rayla points out that it's berry juice. Three episodes prior, Rayla had stained her blades with berry juice specifically because it looked so much like blood.
- When discussing what Ezran and Callum can do at the winter lodge in the middle of summer in the first episode, Harrow suggests making a dirtman, as snowmen are not possible. In this episode, when Ezran and Callum are at the lodge with their aunt Amaya, her letter from Harrow ordering her there includes the suggestion the boys would like to build a dirtman.
- Change the Uncomfortable Subject: Rayla asked Callum if he really believed elves are bloodthirsty monsters. He said he doesn't, he's only heard stories about them, and believes they're just "horrible stories". Then immediately he points out that they finally made it to the winter lodge.
- Close-Call Haircut: An arrow shot at Raya fails to hit her but cuts off one of her braids.
- Convenient Escape Boat: The heroes escape Amaya via a boat conveniently waiting for them by the river.
- Didn't Think This Through: Callum's plan to make Amaya let them go...is to make her think that Rayla will kill them both if she follows them. Unsurprisingly, Amaya isn't going to let a supposedly bloodthirsty elf keep her nephews hostage and immediately dispatches a tracker to hunt them down and free them.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: After Rayla is off-put by Callum believing in elf stereotypes, Callum's attempts to defend himself only serve to make Rayla angrier until he changes the subject by pointing out they've reached the winter house.
- Eye Cam: The camera takes Raya's perspective when she wakes up after getting bested by Amaya.
- Fantastic Racism: Humans believe that elves are monsters that are literally bloodthirsty. It's for this reason that Callum thinks Amaya won't believe them about Rayla and later tries using the stereotype to convince Amaya to let them go. Rayla is hurt by it and the gambit doesn't work anyway, with Amaya still attempting to kill her until Rayla comes up with her own bluff.
- Idiot Ball: For one, Amaya is told by the King to head to the Banther Lodge to watch her two nephews, and she brings a platoon of soldiers with her. Now, it wasn't going to be a permanent posting, just for a few days until they had confirmed all the assassins were gone, but it didn't seem to occur to her that it would be a good idea to bring a supply wagon loaded with enough food for everyone and then some, for the journey to the Lodge, enough food for let's say three days while at the Lodge, and then enough food on the return trip back to the Breach. Hence why they found what food was left at the lodge to be as she describes it, "weapons-grade."
- It's Quiet… Too Quiet: Ezran said it's odd there's no one at the winter lodge since King Harrow was sending them there. Amaya and her troops arrive not long after he said that.
- "Open!" Says Me: Amaya doesn't have the key to the winter lodge so she kicks down the door with ease.Gren(interpreting for Amaya): I don't believe in locks.
- Second-Person Attack: We see Rayla getting knocked out from her POV as Amaya's fist lands.
- Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: A coronation variant. Moments before Viren is crowned Amaya arrives to announce that the princes are alive which prevents Viren from becoming king.
- Staring Contest: Raya and Bait have one which gets interrupted when Bait cleans his eyes with his tongue.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Callum claims he's always said "human troops" when Amaya pointed this out.
- That Was Not a Dream: Subverted. Ezran wakes up yawning and tells Callum that he had a weird dream. Callum, assuming him to be talking about the events of the previous night, tells him it was all real.Callum: It wasn't a dream, Ez. All of that was real.
Ezran: Are you sure? There was this giant pink hippopotamus and I pulled its ear off. Because it was made of taffy.
Callum: Uh, no. That— that was a dream. I thought you meant the elves, the smoke wolves, the dragon egg. That was all real. - Too Desperate to Be Picky: Speaking of the food, of course the bread would be so stale a person could chip a tooth for being there for so long.
- Villainous Face Hold: Amaya does this to Raya when interrogating her.
- Was It Really Worth It?: Rayla calls Callum out for putting all their lives in danger (see above) for a "children's toy". Then Callum noticed it was glowing when it got near the Primal Stone.
- The Worf Effect: General Amaya establishes her Badass Normal credentials by beating Rayla in a straight fight.
