The final episode of The Witcher season one packs quite a bit in and naturally, leaves a cliffhanger for the already confirmed second season.
Geralt
Geralt (Henry Cavill) leaves the castle and comes across a man named Yurga amongst the Cintran refugees (which we saw in episode four) trying to wrap the deceased. He warns Yurga, but he ignores it, and so Geralt returns to save Yurga when he is attacked. After this, he orders Yurga to go home, while Geralt remains to fight the creatures. Although he kills them all, he ends up getting bitten and falls.
Geralt wakes up in a delirious state on Yurga’s cart and he dreams of when he was a boy and his mother, where he also sees a small dragon-Borch, who says “It’s magic. It’s not real.”
Geralt takes out a vial from his bag and he drinks half and pours the rest on his leg. Before he passes out, he asks Yurga to take him to the Blue Mountains as he can be saved by ‘him’ and that he needs to go home.
Again, he dreams of his mother, Visenna, who has magic and she abandons him one day when a man named Vesemir (Theo James) approaches.
Ciri
Ciri wakes to find Zola (Anna-Louise Plowman) whom she stole the horse from standing over and sees that the horse and the men are all dead. She takes Ciri to her home and later on, Zola comforts Ciri and says perhaps she was meant to find her as she has everything except for a daughter.
The Battle Begins
There are 60 mages on their way by boat and Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu) says they must get to the Elven keep that guard the Yaruga River to stop the Nilfgaard going north. They will hopefully have assistance from Temeria and Kaedwen if they arrive in time. After walking for hours, the mages arrive at the keep and begin preparing weaponry and spells. Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) asks Triss (Anna Shaffer) if she thinks Foltest will bring his army and she learns Triss knew Geralt.
Fringilla (Mimi Ndiweni) informs Cahir (Eamon Farren) about the mages fortifying the keep and she pushes Cahir for them to go to the keep. Nilfgaard begin attacking and Yennefer wakes just in time to stop their magical fireball, which was created by the death of a mage. After a second death, Fringilla casts a spell to draw the mages out, which she gives to another mage.
With only 22 mages left, a mage casts a smoke through the forest and Tissaia (MyAnna Buring) directs the mages to their places with Yennefer to look after the tower. Yennefer watches from the tower and she speaks to Tissaia with her thought transference, while Triss places her hands to the ground and causes toxic mushrooms to grow and kill some of the soldiers.
Next up is Coral (Rhianna McGreevy), who takes a group of soldiers with a flick of her wrist Sabrina (Therica Wilson-Read) then readies their arrows and the bottles are thrown into the and shattered. The embers hit the men and burn them.
Things Go South
Cahir orders his other men to move to the other front, while some men go with Fringilla. Vilgefortz portals in to attack the men near Cahir and the pair then face off, while Yennefer tells him to slow down, he doesn’t listen. His blade doesn’t reappear again and Vilgefortz is kicked in the chest and suffers a blow to the head.
Fringilla breaks the gates and creates a portal that the men fire arrows into and the smoke mage walks through shortly after and dies, but drops the box Fringilla gave to him. Tissaia approaches Fringilla to try to appeal to her, but Fringilla throws dimeritium on her and then speaks Elder to open the box the mage dropped at the gates, which releases a group of silver worm-like creatures. Triss then tries covering the gate with her vines, but she is soon set on fire.
Sabrina’s facials change and she gives two boys the magical bombs and then stabs Yennefer, as they are all afflicted by Fringilla’s creatures. Yennefer stops Sabrina and searches for Tissaia, and calls to any other mages. Fringilla answers and tells Yennefer she doesn’t need to fight anymore and she’ll find what she’s searching for with Nilfgaard. However, Vilgefortz is still alive, along with Yennefer and Tissaia.
A Reunion
Geralt wakes and first sees Renfri (Emma Appleton), followed by Yennefer, and then by a red-haired sorceress as Geralt realises she is in his head. Upon realising it’s his mother (Frida Gustavsson), he asks if she likes his eyes and asks why as only three out of ten boys survive the trial. She tells him to not ask more questions as the answers will only hurt them both. She tells him to find her and that it was only a dream. When he wakes, the man offers Geralt the Law of Surprise for saving his life, which he naturally denies.
Tissaia tells Yennefer to let her chaos explode and she begins recalling all of the things people said to her and draws the fire to her and burns all of the soldiers. King Foltest (Shaun Dooley) and his army then arrive.
Tissaia calls out to Yennefer along with Geralt, which sees Ciri wake as she hears Calanthe telling her to go to Geralt. Ciri leaves, when Yurga returns with Geralt. Zola tells her husband of the girl and Geralt overhears and immediately goes to the woods, just as Renfri said. He then sees Ciri running towards him and she embraces him and asks him who Yennefer is.
