After some brief exchanges and a few swaggers from the privateer Sturmhond, Alina decides it’s okay to let him in on the Sea Whip thing. Luckily for her, Sturmhond is a good guy. He agrees to make a deal with her and Mal.
The Darkling and Alina once again visit each other in a vision. Their dreams are connected, you see. This time, they discuss his evil deeds because he is eviiiiiiiil, just in case anyone hasn’t gotten that yet.
Alina wastes no time in acting as the moral police and telling the Darkling that his wounds and loneliness cannot justify his action. I’m rather surprised at the writers’ choice to let the Darkling include “loneliness” in his speech. It isn’t his character to complain about being alone or hurt, he actually takes pride in them. Is this scene a response to readers/viewers who choose to sympathize with the Darkling’s character or something? It’s a little blatant.
In the end, Alina declares that she will never wear the Darkling’s color again, which is black. She takes off the black Grisha coat, revealing her dress underneath, which is… black.
Or is it navy? I can’t see anything with this lighting.
The Darkling doesn’t wake up in a healthy state. In fact, he isn’t healthy at all lately, coughing up smoke and having headaches because of the shadow monsters he created and all.
Genya is frequently summoned to tailor his scars, but she can only do so much.
Later, the Darkling goes to pick up his mother, whom he has kept in a secret cave behind a waterfall along with a journal. The Darkling keeps a journal?
Sturmhond introduces Alina and Mal to the crew. Alina makes friends with a pair of half-Shu siblings. She plays cards with them and a bunch of other people and just kind of tells them casually that she wants two more amplifiers. Shouldn’t this kind of thing be discussed in private and with Sturmhond’s agreement? Whatever, I’ll just go with it. It’s Alina we’re dealing with, after all.
Mal tracks down the Sea Whip and Sturmhond leads a small crew into a water cave to find it. It is crucial that the particular Grisha has to kill the target animal in order to own the amplifier made from its bone, or scale in this case, but Alina believes she has a way to do it without killing the Sea Whip. She doesn’t tell the crew how exactly; but the point is she’s a big animal lover, so much that after two men have been killed by the Sea Whip, she still insists on capturing it alive.
But that love ends when the animal touches Mal, though. No no, that’s when she burns its eyes with her light and kills it.
Is this show aware that every time Alina gains the confidence to do something different and revolutionary, they just throw Mal in the way to make her stop?
Sure, if it’s the life of your best friend, then, of course, you have no choice. But it has been repetitive and I don’t know how this would look on Alina’s resume as the Chosen-one Heroine. Just saying.
Kaz and the gang carry out their plan to break into Pekka Rollins’ office to steal some documents which they can use to bring him down once and for all.
Unfortunately, Pekka is smarter, he has laid traps all around to counter Kaz’s traps.
Oops, nope, Kaz is smarter. Cause, you know how? He’s got Wylan’s bombs! When you’re cornered, like Kaz is in Pekka’s office, throw out one of those bombs and you’re good to go.
Jesper and Wylan nearly get caught by Pekka’s men, Nina gets shot in the arm, but they all survive. Inej gets it worst, she has to fight a mad guy in a hideous pig mask, but she too makes it out alive.
Kaz does manage to get the documents; the Crows meet up at a graveyard later to discuss their next steps.
Earlier on, Inej demanded the truth from Kaz about him and Pekka Rollins. But Kaz “I-always-make-the-best-choices-for-us-all” Brekker refused to tell her anything. Well, good luck explaining things to Inej this time, she nearly died executing your plan and doesn’t even know if it was worth it.