In this episode, our Big Damn Heroes finally meet our Big Damn Villians, and as one should expect for an encounter this early in the season, things do not go so well for friend Jacob. He gets his pi gu kicked, in point of fact. As well, we get to look a bit deeper into the addled brainpan which is Sylvia, and start to learn a bit about the Reavers from the time she spent with them.

Here marks the return of Monday, as well. I know, this episode does borrow from the Big Damn Movie a bit for the hospital showdown, but it also sets up the unknowns in Anne's past. What did she do to get so damn wanted? Only time will tell.

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A Better World

She opened her eyes and watched them screaming.

"It will learn," the Faceless Man said, his words cold and dark and cruel. Its words in Tobrik, slow to sort out in her ears. "It will learn."

This ship was cavernous, its walls knocked out wherever they could be. Only the back wall, the shielding the Reaver's left on the engine on this one ship, was whole and undisturbed. A ship made special for her. Her own chariot into hell. Cold fingers held the back of her neck, holding her on the paneling, holding her on her belly. She forced her eyes back shut.

She should have been afraid. She wasn't though. She was just cold. Surrounded by Reavers, held down, but unafraid. Insanity.

And that was before she felt her eyes being dragged open by the subtle fingers of gentle, but unshakable force. She watched as the other inhabitants of this horrible cruise suffered, and were tormented by their captors. There were hundreds to a floor, and four floors that she could see. The deepest was the pit. The feeding pit... No, force it out. Hold on, Sylvia, she bade herself. Keep them out.

The cold hands dragged her back up, forcing her ahead of the Faceless Man as she stumbled. She was thirsty. Hungry, but thirsty more. It had been days since the 'lessons' began, and there wasn't so