Legend of the Weeker: Dark

Plot Synopsis: In this episode we find Richard and Sister Verna approaching the Palace of the Prophets. Richard is still having headaches which will apparently be healed by the palace. Inside the sisters are singing hymns. Fun. Richard meets the Prelate who is the leader of the Sisters. One of the sisters dies by bleeding out the eyes. Annalina the Prelate covers it up by telling everyone she had a heart attack. When Richard discovers that she has been killed by poison, the Prelate tells him that she took her own life.

Some annoying sister runs into them, and as Sister Verna is distracted another sister, Sister Nicci, runs up and tells him to trust noone. He later meets her after hours where she tells him that time passes slower in the palace. For every day that goes by in the palace, ten days pass outside. Apparently the Prelate ordered the Sisters not to tell anyone of this. She then senses the Han inside Richard. Apparently Richard is the most powerful wizard ever. Nice. Nicci tells him that she believes the Prelate wants to train Richard for personal gains. Richard accosts Verna with this information. Sister Verna shows him the prophecy that he will obtain the Stone of Tears and then give it over to his enemies.

Meanwhile, Kahlan is upset over Richard's Sword, missing him. Cara tells him not to worry. Zedd visits a creek to ask Shota who he should name as the new Seeker. After a month of searching for him they find this guy:

Zedd names him as the new Seeker. Awesome. The compass begins to work once again and they head off to search for the Stone of Tears. He also tries to hit on Cara. Just then they are attacked by banelings. They defeat them with ease. The new Seeker kind of freaks out.

Meanwhile Richard is learning elementary wizarding lessons. Sister Nicci sneaks him a Radahan that he can use to contain his headaches. Richard attempts to escape but is stopped by Sister Verna. (Who stabs him?) He awakes to the Prelate and a few Sisters. The Prelate then shows Richard that half the sisters are actually Sisters of the Dark. She also mentions that he is needed to fight an enemy after the Keeper is defeated. Sister Nicci tries to convince Richard that she is actually not evil. He gullibly accepts this as truth. Of course Sister Nicci is evil. She plans to absorb his Han. To gain power she absorbs the Han of another Sister of the Dark that she kills.

Cara and Leo the new Seeker have a weird awkward conversation. He apparently is fantastic with the ladies. He asks he if she can train a chipmunk. She laughs. It's awkward. Later she walks up on him training and goes to spar with him, but ends up saving his life from a Sister of the Dark. Before Kahlan can confess her, she kills herself. The gang splits up with Kahlan and Cara going to help Richard and Zedd and Leo going to find the Stone of Tears.

Richard tells Sister Verna that he has agreed to give his Han to a Sister of the Dark and escape. He's a smart guy. He also steals Verna's knife. Richard also busts out the Wizard's Second Rule to convince Sister Verna to help him. He goes to give his Han over to Nicci. Just as he does so, Sister Verna places a Radahan on Nicci. Richard escapes the gang of Sisters with Nicci remaining a prisoner. As he walks out, a new prophecy replaces the one about him being doomed to fail. It tells that as long as the Mother Confessor is alive, the Keeper cannot win. Leo's compass yields him and Zedd to Kahlan and Cara. They head off to find Richard.

Commentary: Well it didn't take too long to train Richard to be a wizard. He solved that problem by giving away all his Han. This seems kind of sketchy. I mean how can he just give away all of his powers. Though I am sure that this is not the last time that we have heard from Sister Nicci. She was definitely an interesting character but she could not have been more obvious when trying to convince Richard about her true intentions. It did however look like he was buying it for a while. Of course in the end Richard shows off why he is the Seeker of Truth. Though I guess without wizard powers now.

We added a significant plotline with the Sisters of the Light and Dark. It would have been nice to get some exposition as to how this whole deal occurred. A little bit of explanation would have gone a long way. Though I suppose that would require Richard to be separated from the gang for a little too long. In any case it seems that the Sisters will be a pretty important group of characters. I'm not sure how I feel about the whole spirituality thing of the Sisters. They seem to have a deep spiritual connection with the creator. It isn't clear if this Creator is tangible like the Keeper is. Will he (or she?) be able to help Richard in his time of need?

Back in the Midlands, the gang took a month to find the new Seeker. He wears leather and immediately struck up the fancy of Cara. They took some time to spar. The chipmunk conversation was incredibly wince-inducing. However it was great to see Cara open up a bit. Kahlan's tongue-in-cheek comment about how she has never heard Cara laugh was pretty funny. Meanwhile Zedd was hanging around to provide strange references and name Leo the new Seeker. Does anyone seriously see any way out for Leo except death? Is he just going to give back the Sword of Truth to Richard? And what is going to happen with Cara's feelings towards him?

On a closing note it was interesting to see the prophecy work itself out. Which kind of begs the question of what was the point of the prophecy. If the future is predetermined, how can Richard do anything to change it? For that matter what exactly did Richard do to change the prophecy. Just ignore the Sisters and give his Han away. It may be that him giving away the power of the wizard will be what changes the prophecy. In any case it seems that protecting Kahlan will now be at the top of Richard's to-do list. I am sure he doesn't have a problem with that. Lastly there was a throwaway line that Richard will have to fight a war with an even more powerful enemy after the Keeper is defeated.

Richard and Kahlan Romance Index: 2 out of 10.

The only thing that occurred between them was Kahlan crying over the Sword of Truth and Richard looking wistfully at her dagger. Hopefully he will be able to get back to her soon.

Zedd's Creepiness Factor: 5 out of 10.

He had a creepy reunion with Shota. Their relationship is pretty incredibly weird. He also kind of gives Leo some pointers on being a new Seeker and also how to hit on Cara. Lesson: Don't try. I like how he just uses whatever power he feels like. When fighting banelings, wouldn't it make sense to use wizard's fire and not the weird air push thing he does.

Notable Quotes:

Kahlan: "Don't you feel anything?"
Cara: "The Mord Sith believe emotions must be governed. Sadness, remorse, love.. these feelings make you weak."

Zedd: "Though the forces of evil are sworn to bring about your death, still will you go on?"
Leo: "I will."

Zedd: "Trying to show chivalry to a Mord Sith is like dancing with a bear. It doesn't work and someone is likely to have their head bitten off."

Richard: "Either way I'm getting free. In one instance the Sisters will be safe. ND in the other they will probably be slaughtered."

Sister Verna: "As long as the Mother Confessor's pure heart beats... the Keeper is doomed to fail."

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