"You're a class act, sister... Sister, thought I missed her, bet you wouldn't miss her".
— Jinx
Viktor and Jayce learn that the Hexcore responds to organic matter. Heimerdinger is dismayed at this development and attempts to stop the project, despite their protests that it could help several people, including Viktor himself. Jayce maneuvers Heimerdinger into retirement at the next council meeting, to the latter's heartbreak. Marcus is tasked with preparing Piltover for an eventual conflict, as well as preventing Vi and Caitlyn from returning to Piltover.
Caitlyn and Vi recuperate from their fight with Sevika, with Caitlyn trading her rifle for a healing potion. Silco is quick to find them, but the two manage to escape. Jinx lets out a blue flare, and Vi realizes that she is searching for her. Vi and Jinx reunite, but the moment is spoiled by Jinx's jealousy over Caitlyn and the arrival of the Firelights.
Tropes in this episode include:
- Accidental Misnaming: It's hard to tell if Jinx really doesn't understand that Theiram's name isn't Chuck or if she's just messing with him.
- Addled Addict: In the deepest pit of Zaun, a colony of addicts to Shimmer live in rags and beg for money. The incentive of more Shimmer drives Huck, who otherwise wanted to help Vi to repay Vander, to sell her location out to Silco.
- Aspect Montage: Close-up shots of Mel's equipment precede a wider shot revealing her to be a painter at work.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Jinx and Vi back-to-back fighting the Firelights.
- Big Damn Reunion: After being separated for years Vi and Jinx get a tearful, emotional reunion. That is until first Caitlyn and then the Firelights appear, ruining the emotional moment. Vi and Caitlyn are kidnapped by the Firelights in the ensuing battle, cutting it short.
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Jinx doesn't get the barkeeper's saying "they did a number on Vi" and asks what number.
- Chair Reveal: Sevika enters Silco's office to tell him they lost Vi, but it's Jinx who swivels round in the chair.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- Jinx uses the flare Vi gave her in episode 3 to call her.
- Huck, whom Vander protected from an attempt to strongarm him in the first episode, reappears as a Shimmer addict. Although he tries to help Vi out of gratitude to Vander, his need for Shimmer causes him to sell out her location to Silco.
- Childhood Memory Demolition Team: Vi topples her own childhood home so she and Caitlyn can get away from Silco and his goons.
- Continuity Nod: When Jinx goes to The Last Drop, Thieram makes her the same drink Vander made her in "Some Mysteries Are Better Left Unsolved", even using the same cup.
- Doesn't Trust Those Guys: Vi doesn't trust Caitlyn (yet) because she is one of those topsiders who always find a way to screw the people of Zaun.
- Downer Ending: The Firelights steal the Hextech crystal and abduct Caitlyn and Vi, leaving Jinx all alone once more. Since she gave up on Silco, she really has no one to turn to now.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Jinx says that things changed after Vi was gone, and she herself changed too. Vi immediately reassures her that she just did what she needed to do to survive and doesn't need to be ashamed of that. What Jinx was actually getting at isn't that she's ashamed of bad things she "needed" to do, it's that she wanted and chose to do those bad things, very much enjoyed them, and isn't sure whether Vi will accept her after learning that. This disconnect sets up Vi for a rude awakening when she starts to see hints of what kind of person "Powder" has become since they were separated.
- Dramatic Drop: Jinx drops her stolen hexcore ball when Vi hugs her.
- Epic Hail: Jinx's blue flare rises high over Zaun to hail her sister.
- Exact Words: Singed talks to a young Viktor about the need to heal the dying Rio, stating that Rio's rare mutation must survive. Later, young Viktor discovers that Singed has hooked Rio up to a machine that's causing immense pain. He's shocked and furious that Singed would do this, to which Singed responds: "I thought you understood. The mutation must survive." Regardless of the suffering of the poor animal who holds it.
- Evil Is Petty: Silco knocks over the tower of wooden sheets he built with Marcus' daughter just to reestablish how much power he has over the man.
- Face Doodling: Presumably after knocking her out, Jinx scrawls the word "Liar" in pink and teal paint all over Sevika, as well as drawing a mustache and glasses on her face.
- For the Greater Good: Discussed; Heimerdinger thinks experimental Hextech will inevitably fall into the wrong hands. Jayce argues that there are societal issues the tech can solve now. The question is which is the greater good: Fixing today's problems or averting tomorrow's consequences?
- Healing Potion: Caitlyn trades her rifle for one to heal Vi. It seems activated by a drop of Shimmer and stops the bleeding on Vi and renders her about as fit as she was before being stabbed.
- History Repeats: Vi gets captured by the Firelights, leaving Jinx once again without her sister.
- Hope Spot: Vi and Powder reunite, and it looks like Vi really getting through to her! But then, Caitlyn meets them, unknowingly having Jinx confirm that Sevika wasn't lying about her sister hanging with an Enforcer. Then, those Firelight assholes show up...
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: Lampshaded by Singed in the opening flashback to Viktor's childhood where he asks Viktor why he is not playing with the other kids, and when given no answer notes that loneliness is often a byproduct of a gifted mind. However, it's implied that Viktor's loneliness has less to do with his intelligence and more because his bad leg made him unable to play with other children.
- Internal Reveal:
- Caitlyn learns how Vi's parents died.
- Marcus learns that Caitlyn sprung Vi from jail, as does Jayce, but Marcus believes Jayce was responsible and Jayce lets him continue thinking that rather than admit Caitlyn went behind his back.
- Jinx learns that Vi is back.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While Jayce forcing Heimerdinger to resign can come off as a jerk move, he makes a lot of good points. Heimerdinger is a passive leader who has been around since the city was founded 200 years ago and has not made any progress in dealing with the rise in corruption, social inequality, crime, abuse of power, and other problems the city faces, despite encouraging everyone else to do so. In addition, Heimerdinger's extended Yordle lifespan means he can't see the importance of the shorter-term goals of humans and the like, while the city is in desperate need of changes now and his general modus operandi seems to be 'Work on it for a decade before trying anything'.Jayce: Humans don't live for centuries! We can't wait for progress.
- Locked Up and Left Behind: After presumably torturing Sevika, Jinx ties her to the ceiling of Silco's office for him to find while she goes out to hopefully meet Vi.
- Lonely Together: Seeing that Viktor as a child isn't playing with other kids and is more interested in helping cure Rio, Singed says they can be loners together.
- Made of Iron: Vi parkours her way down the purple eye sign while she's still suffering from Sevika's stab wound at the end of episode 5. At one point, she even slams that area directly onto a beam, falls and hits another beam, and drops at least 15 feet directly to the ground on her side. Despite all this, she doesn't pass out, get any more injuries, or make the existing one worse.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ekko and the Firelights end the episode stealing the Hextech crystal and kidnapping Vi and Caitlyn. Unfortunately, Vi was seemingly about finally get through to Powder and bring her back to sanity, and losing Vi again drove Jinx into a rage. Admittedly, there was a 50/50 chance of Jinx going mental again and pumping Vi and/or Caitlyn full of lead, but it was worth a shot.
- Nonchalant Dodge: One of the Firelights tries to strike Jinx by falling from above. She simply tilts her head to her right to dodge his strike before kicking him in the chest.
- "Oh, Crap!" Fakeout: Jinx pretends that Sevika's information has made her cry before giving an exaggerated sneeze to mess with her.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Vi says "I shouldn't have left you" seemingly to her blood loss-induced memory figment of Powder, but Caitlyn doesn't know that and assures Vi that she can tell Vi has a good heart.
- Pistol-Whipping: Jinx uses her minigun like a club near the end of the fight with the Firelights.
- Precision F-Strike:
- Vi lets one out while talking to Silco.Vi: I'm going to find her and erase whatever fucked up delusions you put in her head. But first, I'm going to bring your bullshit empire down all around you.
- Vi also gets an inaudible one when she runs into someone on the way to Jinx, complete with her Flipping the Bird at them.
- Vi lets one out while talking to Silco.
- Reckless Gun Usage: Defied; as befitting a sensible trained professional like Caitlyn, before surrendering her rifle to the apothecary to pay for the healing potion she needs to save Vi, she pointedly empties out the rounds loaded in it.
- Saved by the Phlebotinum: Vi gets saved by ingesting Shimmer.
- Smoke Out: During the big fight scene, one of the Firelights uses a smoke bomb to escape Jinx.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Jinx is too quick to enter The Last Drop for the barkeeper to notice her before she sits in front of him.
- Tastes Like Friendship: Invoked by Singed in the opening flashback where he hands young Viktor some plant to be fed to Rio as a way for the two to bond.
- That Woman Is Dead: When Vi attempts to talk down Powder, Jinx declares that "Powder fell down a well".
- The Villain Knows Where You Live: Marcus is shocked to come home and see Silco playing with his daughter. Silco then reminds Marcus of taking care of Vi for good. As a final warning he "clumsily" destroys the daughter's house of cards noting that accidents happen.
- Villainous Breakdown: The normally calm and collected Silco is reduced to screaming in impotent rage when Vi and Caitlyn escape his clutches, knowing damn well that Vi's survival means he's lost his hold over Jinx.
- Wham Line: An In-Universe example. After Jayce disappeared from her bed following their lovemaking the previous night, Mel is giving him the cold shoulder while painting, refusing to look at him and dismissing his apology. When Jayce simply says "Viktor's dying" she's visibly shocked, putting down her paints and turning to give him her full attention.
