02x05 - Blisters and Bedrock

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[CROWD CHEERING]

[GROWLS]

[ANNOUNCER] Well, folks there he is,

the butterflyweight champion
of the Piltover Boxing League,

Gustove "The Scowler" Jowler!

[LAUGHS]

[YELLING]

[DINGS]

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ I'm at the bottom ♪
♪ It's a long way down ♪

♪ I'm on the bend ♪
♪ And it's a long way round ♪

♪ There's no way out ♪
♪ Of what I'm talking about

♪ 'Cause I'm down and out ♪
♪ I'm down and I'm out! ♪

♪ I'm in the grave... ♪

[YELLING]

♪ For all these reasons ♪
♪ That I'm talking about ♪

♪ Your money face can't save me now ♪

♪ I'm in the grave ♪
♪ I'm in the underground ♪

♪ You can't redeem us ♪
♪ I'm the only child ♪

♪ For all the reasons ♪
♪ That I'm talking about ♪

♪ I'm down and out ♪
♪ I'm down and I'm out! ♪

♪ Lock me up I cannot take it ♪

♪ Lock me up I've already lost ♪

♪ Lock me up I'm gonna chance it ♪

♪ Throw my c*ck Molotov ♪

♪ Lock me up I cannot take it! ♪

♪ Lock me up I've already lost! ♪

♪ Lock me up I'm gonna chance it! ♪

♪ Throw my c*ck Molotov! ♪

[SCREAMS]

♪ Lock me up I cannot take it! ♪

[SCREAMS]

♪ Lock me up I'm gonna chance it! ♪

♪ Throw my c*ck Molotov ♪

[MUSIC STOPS]

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

[WINCE ECHOES]

[BREATH WHISTLES]

[GROANING]

Looking good, sis.

[VI GRUNTING]

Wait, just...

I don't wanna hear another
word out of your mouth.

[GASPING]

It's Vander.

I'm not falling for
another one of your tricks.

He's...

alive.

We both know that's bullshit.

[GASPING]

[JINX COUGHING]

He needs our help.

I can prove it.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ I wake up to the sounds ♪
♪ Of the silence that allows ♪

♪ For my mind to run around ♪
♪ With my ear up to the ground ♪

♪ I'm searching to behold ♪
♪ The stories that are told ♪

♪ When my back is to the world ♪
♪ That was smiling when I turned ♪

♪ Tell you you're the greatest ♪

♪ But once you turn, they hate us ♪

♪ Oh, the misery ♪

♪ Everybody wants to be my enemy ♪

♪ Oh, spare the sympathy ♪

♪ Everybody wants to be my enemy ♪

♪ Pray it away, I swear ♪
♪ I'll never be a saint, no way ♪

♪ My enemy ♪

♪ Pray it away, I swear ♪
♪ I'll never be a saint ♪

♪ Look out for yourself ♪

[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]

[YELLS]

[CAITLYN] Months of
peacekeeping occupation.

Countless operations.

Oceans of sweat and tears.

I'd begun to think we might finally see

an end to Zaun's perverse abominations.

How foolish was I?

The beast came for you.

It was summoned by you.

[AMBESSA] In my experience,

only guilty men answer
accusations with silence.

[SINGED] In my experience,

no one in power is innocent.

There are cells buried
deep within this prison

so devoid of light

and fresh air and all
basic human considerations

that up till now, I
have forbidden their use.

If you do not want to waste away

the remainder of your days in one
of these, you have one recourse.

[LULLABY PLAYING ON COMPACT]

Tell us everything we need to
know to hunt down this beast.

[SINGED] Your youth betrays you.

Patience is a product of age.

Both of which I possess in abundance.

This is your final chance.

Tell me what you were planning.

How was Jinx involved?

[SCOFFS]

You will rot in here.

[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

[GASPS]

[COUGHING]

Elora?

[WHIMPERING]

Black Rose.

[GASPING]

[SCREAMING]

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[MAN] Hope you find these
quarters to your liking.

They still haven't replied to my
requests for a transfer. [CHUCKLES]

Who's there?

[MAN] Not sure I know anymore.

Our hosts have a way of
scrambling your omelet.

They k*lled my friend.

Elora was there.

And then...

Elora!

[MAN] Ah. The stewards of the old world

are always keen to give you
a glimpse of their might.

What is this place?

[MAN] Near as I can tell,

an Oculorum.

According to legend,

the ancients built specialized
chambers to seal away false prophets.

[LAUGHS]

But if you ask me,
they're just the fancy pits

peacock princes like to
toss their friends into.

Peacock princes?

Sorry, just an old family joke.

You know, the kind of rulers
with an artistic flair.

Step into the light.

Kino?

It's me, brother.

Mel.

Mel.

You've grown up.

I'd hoped they'd never come for you.

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

[JINX] This is where I lost him.

Cool, huh?

Not even toxic.

- Pretty sure.
- [GROANS]

Why would Vander be
all the way down here?

Beats me.

Ask him yourself.

[SIGHS]

When will you admit that this
is just one of your fantasies?

Or do you not want the kid to
know how delusional you are?

She wasn't always like this.

She actually used to be pretty
cool, before I kicked her butt.

See what I mean?

Delusional.

Wish I was just seeing
things when you decided

to throw in with the Piltie
g*ons who m*rder*d Mom and Dad.

At least they never had to see the
psycho their daughter turned into.

Which one?

Wake up, sis.

I'm a hero.

I busted half of Zaun out of Stillwater

while you were passed out
in the bottom of a mug.

Now can it and keep walking,
before I kick your a*s again.

You wouldn't last one second

without all your ugly gadgets
and chickenshit tricks.

Ha! What about those
overdesigned b*tch-mittens

you didn't even build yourself?

You think I need these to... ?

There. One second.

Last chance to surrender.

Go right ahead, fat hands.

Hey, kid.

Still got all your insides?

Mm.

But don't ditch us.

Why'd you come get me?

You don't actually need my help.

You haven't for a long time.

Last time Vander needed
us, we tried it alone,

and nothing was ever the same.

So...

maybe this is like a do-over.

Besides,

he's your father too.

[SINGED] I've been expecting you.

[AMBESSA] Confident, aren't you?

It's always the same look

when one covets a weapon.

I've fought battles from the
Bloodcliffs to the Dalamor Plain.

I've never seen a
beast of such savagery.

[SINGED] No beast is
more savage than man.

I trust you have terms.

[AMBESSA] You will serve me.

My enemies will be yours.

Your weapons will be mine.

In return, I will supply all your needs.

You will be treated
as an esteemed adviser.

But I demand absolute loyalty.

Do not test this,

or you will yearn for
Caitlyn's dungeons.

You already know what I want.

He isn't a monster.

He was once a man.

Well respected, at that.

Victim of great tragedy.

[LULLABY PLAYING ON COMPACT]

[SINGED] He had a
ferocious will to live.

An incredible tolerance for pain.

With him,

I was able to make strides
impossible with any other specimen.

But the mind...

The mind I could not recover.

The man forever lost in
the bowels of the beast,

compelled only by the scent of blood.

Or so I thought.

It now seems I had yet to
uncover the right catalyst.

[DISTORTED MUSIC PLAYING ON JUKEBOX]

Blisters and bedrock.

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

[MEL] There was a
funeral for you in Noxus.

[KINO] Oh. Did Mother
commission a statue?

I held rites in Piltover.

She believes you're dead.

I do like to disappoint her.

How did you know to do that?

I don't know.

I just felt...

It's like some sort of puzzle.

Kino, what happened to you?

How did you wind up here?

She didn't tell you.

After a few rounds with some
dubious noblefolk in Basilich,

I started hearing strange
rumors about Mother.

Different than the usual kind.

They said, many years ago,

she passed through their hometown and...

fell in love.

[SCOFFS] That's not our mother.

Indeed.

But the more I inquired, the
more I started believing it.

The old travel logs.

The local accounts.

I should have left it alone, but...

The affair led to a child.

That's impossible.

It is the reason we are here.

Simply put,

whatever that child inherited is
of terrible interest to our captors.

This will allow you
to locate your beast?

[SINGED] Not precisely.

[CAITLYN] My family
archives have shed light

on many of this city's mysteries.

Commander.

General.

One such mystery caught my attention.

The curious dismissal of a
revered academy alchemist.

Unparalleled, by all accounts.

And no mention of his crime.

[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]

This led to one other
missing puzzle piece

whose absence has
always gnawed at my mind.

Who invented Shimmer?

We have our answer now,
don't we, Dr. Reveck?

You're a monster.

Why?

Why do all this?

[SINGED] Why does anyone commit
acts others deem unspeakable?

For love.

Perhaps,

in another life...

you would have been friends.

Everything I've done is to cure her.

I believe the beast
may hold the final key.

Precisely what are you trying to cure?

That affliction we all suffer.

Death.

Imagine a world that
no longer need fear it.

- [KINO] Mel?
- I'm getting us out of here.

[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]

Hmm.

Say this is some sort
of sordid labyrinth.

Usually there are consequences
for someone who fails these tests.

Deadly consequences.

I deserve to know the truth.

Of course.

Makes you wonder why she kept
this from you, doesn't it?

For all these years?

I'm missing something.

[VOICE DISTORTING] A healthy sense
of self-preservation, I'd say.

You aren't my brother.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Who are you? What have
you done with Kino?

[SCREAMS]

[WOMAN] We had such high hopes for him.

At first, it seemed plausible
that he could have been the child.

But then your mother...

led us to you.

Sister.

[WHIMPERING]

[SCREAMS]

- [GROWLING]
- [HEART THUMPING]

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

What is it?

A message from Vander.

To Silco.

- "Silco, I've looked everywhere, but... "
- [VANDER] I've looked everywhere, but...

it's clear you don't wanna be found.

[SIGHS] God, I'm sh*t at this.

I'm sorry.

When she died, I lost my head.

I told myself what I did to
you was for the greater good,

that you deserved it.

But the dirt was on both our hands.

Anyway, you know where to find me.

Blisters and bedrock.

V.

If he found this,

everything might have been different.

[MUSIC TURNS DRAMATIC, SWELLS]

[MUSIC FADES]

[DULL ROAR IN DISTANCE]

We have to get out of here.

It's him. It's Vander.

- That's not Vander.
- [JINX] It is.

Something's got him riled up.

No, Vander, no.

It's me.

[GROWLING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[ROARS]

- [ROARS]
- He's gonna k*ll you.

- Don't hurt him.
- [YELLS]

Hark!

Vi, it's him.

You have to believe me.

[GROWLS]

Vander!

[MELLOW PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
MUSIC PLAYING ON JUKEBOX]

What's the occasion?

[FELICIA] Hmm. Can't a lady just
be in the mood for a familiar song?

[CHUCKLES] Not this
lady, and not this song.

Tonight a harebrained scheme
these two bozos cooked up

to turn a dank crack in the earth
into a thriving, healthy community

became a reality.

[VANDER] Tonight, eh?

You hear that, Bozo 2?

We made it. We're done.

Oh, you're sadly mistaken.

I'm Bozo 1.

- [FELICIA CHUCKLES]
- A night of revelations.

[COUGHS]

I'm knocked up.

- A girl.
- How do you know?

Mm. Wasn't really part of my plan,

but guess that's everything
when you're living week to week.

What did Connol say?

I haven't told him.

Working up the nerve.

I don't know anything about kids.

I get sweaty being alone with one.

Hey, you're gonna be a great mother.

Shut up.

I'm not ready for that.

I started trying to come up with a name,

and it hits me that this one word

is a decision she's gonna
live with her whole life.

I can't protect her from
all the sh*t down here

and work out how to be a
parent at the same time.

Then I realized,

I don't have to.

Hmm? Why's that?

Because the second I told you,
I put you on the hook. [CHUCKLES]

You two are gonna figure
this Zaun thing out.

I don't care if you have to
carve it out of the bedrock,

covered in blisters.

You're not allowed to fail anymore.

For her.

For me.

What's the point if we can't
raise an ankle biter or two?

[CHUCKLES]

- To Zaun, then.
- [SONG ENDS]

Blisters and bedrock. [CHUCKLES]

I've always liked the name Violet.

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ First you'll wake up in a cold sweat ♪

[LIGHTER CLINKS]

♪ Come closer, will you, babe? ♪

♪ All this hatred in your heart again ♪

♪ I'm the one who hopes ♪
♪ For all these things that I miss ♪

♪ Told me feelings like this again ♪

♪ Though I'm bitter, I can't pretend ♪

♪ This story is over ♪
♪ I predict the end... ♪

What are you waiting for?

He's your dad too.

[SOBBING]

♪ What have you done to us? ♪

♪ What have you done to us? ♪

♪ What have you done to us? ♪

[MUSIC FADING]

[FOOTSTEPS CLINKING SLOWLY]

[GROANS]

[GASPS]

Salo?

What are you doing here?

Jayce.

One could ask the same question.

[GROANS]

How are you walking?

Who do you think could
mend such a broken creature?

Would you want to speak with him?

[IN VIKTOR'S VOICE] Jayce.

I'd feared I wouldn't have the
chance to speak with you again.

Viktor?

I would prefer to converse in person.

But there's so much work to be done.

How are you doing this?

I suppose this is somewhat
beyond where we left off.

Is Salo still in there?

[IN NORMAL VOICE] Where else would I be?

You have my solemn vow

that anything you discuss will be
kept in the strictest confidence.

I owe Viktor...

everything.

[IN VIKTOR'S VOICE] Very kind, Salo.

I have so many breakthroughs
to share with you, Jayce.

I thought you were done with Hextech.

And me.

I was clouded by emotions.

Come. Visit me.

See what I've accomplished.

I've helped so many.

[JAYCE] You've given
Hextech to the people?

As we always promised we would.

[IN NORMAL VOICE] Viktor
has truly worked wonders.

Hextech isn't a miracle.

It's a curse.

We have to end it, Viktor.

We have to.

[IN VIKTOR'S VOICE] You seem different.

Something happened.

Now I see it.

You, too, have touched the Arcane.

Your mind suffered.

[IN NORMAL VOICE] If you'll excuse me,

I must return to him.

I can't let you leave.

I'm sorry you feel that way.

I'm sorry too.

[DARK, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[PANTING]