Kainan and the Vikings hunt around the woods to find the creature, with some of them making their way inside a cave where a sound of a beast emanates from. As they all go in, a bear manages to kill one of the Vikings with King Rothgar almost falling to the animals will, but prevented by Kainan dealing the death blow with a impaled sword to the animals body.
King Rothgar was impressed with Kainans bravery in the heat of battle (And for saving his life, which definitely helped his situation.) and decides Kainan is no longer a prisoner but rather a welcomed guest of honor.
As the hunting party makes their way back to the village, they entertain a feast for the success of what they perceived as killing the beast that caused the havoc from earlier, and Kainan decides to dress up for the occasion, with the King welcoming him amongst the ranks of legions.
As the festivities go on, the Viking with the animal mead container tells the tale of Kainans bravery and act of saving the King to a Viking wench with Freya overhearing the conversation and having second thoughts about Kainan.
The apex of this scene occurs when the Vikings decide to play a game of shields, which is just what it sounds like. You have the Vikings form a rectangle with their shields raised horizontally on their shoulders and have 2 of them running around them in a race of balance. This event needs to be in the Wackinger Village.
Wulfric and Kainan go about the event with the both of them doing a flip to push the boundary of the game, and Kainan lands on a shield which splits in 2 and sends Kainan on the floor.
With the game officially over and everyone continuing the feast, Kainan decides to head out for some fresh air, and meets again with Freya where they exchange words of being even from the prior series of events involving the both of them. Kainan also tells Freya that the bear was not responsible for the attack earlier.
As they talk with each other, King Gunnar of the earlier destroyed village launches his counterstrike on Heorot. Bear in mind King Gunnar doesn’t realize it was the Moorwen that destroyed his village.
The Vikings of Heorot successfully repel the invading horde and they make it back to the woods to recoup and reorganize for another counterstrike. As they regroup, the Moorwen decides to make short work of them and King Gunnar, who I will give credit as being one of the films awesome characters (he wields 2 hammers and uses them very Thor like) decides to go head first to attack the beast while the Vikings of Heorot look into the woods and try to figure out what is going on.
With King Gunnar and his men making a tactical retreat back to the village they tried to destroy, the archers of Heorot shoot and mow down the retreating berserkers amidst the screams and pleas of not firing unto them. As Kainan watches this situation transpire, he yells to everyone not to shoot and opens the gate to the retreating berserkers.
Once inside, the archers were ready to make them into shish kabob when one of the Heorotian Vikings yells for everyone to look into the woods, and they finally see what has been tormenting them for the last couple of days.
Everybody now starts to talk about what they are going to do, and Kainan suggests to set a trap to capture and kill the Moorwen.
Once the trap has been built, we zoom to a brief moment where the Moorwen bears a baby, it seems the antagonist now has a partner in mayhem and destruction.
Kainan speaks to Freya about his past. Keep in mind, the way he describes it to Freya makes it seem like he is a fellow Viking from a far away tribe, but the reality is he is from outer space and Freya and the other Vikings do not know any better. The best part about this story he tells is the way he draws comparisons from his technologically advanced people to the Vikings he encounters.
Kainan tells Freya how he first encountered the Moorwen when his people wanted to claim some land and the Moorwen were standing in the way of that progress.
What makes this movie so amazing is the antagonist dual role of aggressor and a sympathetic being. The Moorwen species were just minding their own business when Kainans people decided it was better to take the land away from the creatures in a unjustifiable and horrific extermination.
As part of Kainans reward for committing the deed, he was given land from the creatures former planet where he and his family resided. Kainan than departs the recently conquered land with his family left behind and during his absence, one of the Moorwens survived and slaughtered the colony including his wife and child.
Another element of this movie that I found interesting and very good is Kainans guilt of the action he and his people took on the Moorwen. Kainan now has to slay the stowaway Moorwen to spare another group of people the same fate his people went through.
Also, and a bit of a side note, the Moorwen seems to know what it’s doing (as in a villain twiddling his mustache motivation, not a beast acting on animal instinct.).
Nightfall arrives, Kainan and Wulfric go into the woods to lure the Moorwen into the trap.
With the Moorwen locking on and putting its crosshairs to the 2, a Christian Monk who was living with the Vikings confronts the Moorwen and chants a prayer in the hopes that God will scare the Moorwen/change the Moorwens mind/convert the Moorwen from the evil it commits, and instead of getting a holy answer from the beast, it gives the Monk a hellish reply.
Continue to part 3...
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