Alina is an army cartographer, and she arrives at a camp at the edge of the Fold.
As in the past, Alina faces discrimination for being half Shu.
At the Fold in the present, Mal and Alina are thrilled to see one another.
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The Grisha’s Fabrikators have created a titanic new skiff known as the Ultralight.
Rumor has it that Dreesen has transported an enigmatic figure back to his garden district residence.
Mal is caught stealing food from the tent of a Squaller named Zoya Nazyalensky (Sujaya Dasgupta).
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She propositions him for sex, but he declines.
He gives the food to Alina and promises, “I’ll find my way back to you.”
Another Black Heretic is in the army now:General Kirigan(Ben Barnes).
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He procures one, Milana (Julia Ubrankovics), from a club called the Orchid.
General Kirigan arrives at the camp to watch the Ultralight set sail.
Mal is not happy about this.
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The creatures kill many, setting accidental fire to the ship.
Alina’s fellow cartographer Alexei (Antonin Masek) flees the ship.
Alina shoots a volcra that has Mal in its clutches.
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Kaz brings Milana to Dreesen, who has her use her magic on his captive: Alexei.
Under her spell, Alexei confesses that he witnessed a Sun Summoner.
Everyone is stunned by this, and Dreesen rewards Alexei for this information by shooting him dead.
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If not, the gig will go to Pekka.
The prize Dreesen seeks, for one million kruge?
When it comes time for those tests to be administered, Alina and Mal flee and hide.
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Alina doesn’t want to know if she’s a Grisha because she fears being separated from Mal.
Back in the present and now out of the Fold, Mal is evacuated to a medical tent.
Alina, who has a broken collarbone, is taken to General Kirigan’s tent.
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They’re subsequently set upon in the woods by the Druskelle, the elite members of the Fjerdan military.
The Druskelle kill many Grisha warriors and aim to execute Alina.
Riding on horseback to the Little Palace, Kirigan tells Alina, “There is matter to everything.
Too small to see.”
Kirigan consoles her by saying that, as a Grisha, she’ll never be alone.
Kaz and Jesper visit Poppy and learn of Arken’s whereabouts.
“), and thus won’t kill him.
Mal plans to desert the First Army and rescue Alina from the Little Palace.
For collateral, he leaves Heleen the deed to the Crow Club.
Once in her Little Palace suite, Alina hides a pair of scissors under her pillow for protection.
She leaves Alina’s left palm scar alone, per Alina’s request.
Arken has a backup plan.
He sends the trio to gather supplies, including a goat and 20 pounds of coal.
The thing Inej wears around her neck is the only item she has from her parents.
In the royal chamber, Kirigan proclaims that Alina “will change the future.
He has her successfully exhibit her power.
In Novokribirsk, Kaz witnesses Zlatan street-preaching sovereignty to the masses and then surreptitiously meeting with Arken.
Then she gets in trouble for using her powers against Alina.
Knocked out, Alina again dreams of the stag and later visits the library to research it.
Baghra is not very friendly, questioning and challenging Alina in her darkly lit cave dwelling.
She sends Alina away until the girl believes she truly is the Sun Summoner.
They take this through the Fold but are attacked by volcra.
Their inability to receive each other’s mail is a constant thread during this fourth episode.
He agrees to this task, and Dubrov and Mikhael opt to join him.
Perturbed about not hearing from Mal, Alina agrees to go riding with Kirigan.
Unfortunately, he failed, creating the Fold instead which killed him and countless others.
Kirigan’s life goal is to undo his predecessor’s sin.
He believes Alina is the key to his salvation.
This is a success.
They both articulate their prejudiced distrust/hatred of each other.
At night, Alina finds a similarly sleepless Kirigan pondering a table map of the ongoing war.
She takes his hand, and a dome of light ignites around them.
The look in Alina’s eyes indicates that her feelings for Kirigan are growing.
Still, before he can kiss her, she retreats to her room.
The next day, when she doesn’t receive mail from Mal, Alina furiously races to Baghra.
Her hurt and anger finally allow her to manifest her powers.
Mal, Dubrov, and Mikhael cross into snowbound Fjerdan territory.
He has a memory of getting himself imprisoned at an army camp to be with Alina.
When he awakens, he kills the remaining soldiers, albeit not in time to save Mikhael and Dubrov.
Somehow, he rises to his feet, at which point the mythic stag appears.
He also flirts with a stableman.
She kisses Kirigan passionately.
Mal and Tofin arrive at the Little Palace.
Mal refuses to divulge that information until he sees Alina.
Mal survives, killing his attacker.
Meanwhile, Arken accesses Alina’s dressing room.
When she arrives, he slashes her throat and shoots Genya.
But the person he assassinated was merely one of Alina’s doubles.
He’s caught in the hallway.
Kaz knew Arken would attempt to assassinate Alina (because of Arken’s prior meeting with Zlatan).
He’s also hunting Morozova’s animals to enhance his evil power.
Baghra knows all of this because she’s Kirigan’s mother.
Baghra sends Alina onwards and instructs her to take a right at the fork.
Instead, like an idiot, Alina goes left and winds up in the stables.
Kirigan isn’t happy about this and threatens her.
Mal overhears this conversation from nearby.
He tries to strike a deal with Kirigan, but instead, winds up choking to death in darkness.
He pledges to be her bodyguard.
That might also help her end the Fold, which would be good.
He lets slip that he’s put the Crow Club on the line in exchange for her freedom.
The trio is then set upon by Kirigan and his cronies.
Kaz uses an explosion to get away.
He reunites with a wounded Inej and Jesper, and they steal David’s carriage.
David tells Kirigan that he can track Alina via a ring Genya gave her.
He now knows she’s with Mal and searching for the stag.
He rides through the night to his home with a Healer named Luda.
Kirigan returns to a Grisha stronghold, where no one can save Luda.
He finds Baghra, who blames Kirigan for the king’s hostility toward Grishas.
Furious, Kirigan disobeys his mother and uses his ancestor Morozova’s merzost (i.e.
magic), creating the Fold and turning enemy soldiers into the volcra.
In the present, Inej stitches up her wound, which makes Jesper queasy.
Later, Kaz admits that Inej was right, and that Alina is the Sun Summoner.
In the snowy forest, Alina and Mal find the stag.
Before she can commune with it, Kirigan and his men attack.
They seriously wound Mal.
Alina uses her powers to protect the stag from Kirigan.
Kirigan takes them both prisoner.
This is clearly a coup orchestrated by Kirigan.
She also never sent Alina’s letters to Mal.
Regardless of her sob story, Alina remains righteously angry at her former attendant.
A healed Mal is visited by Kirigan, who tells him that he read all his letters to Alina.
Later, Mal cannily escapes imprisonment.
Kirigan has another argument with Alina, who’s furious about being exploited and turned into a puppet.
“We could’ve had this.
You could’ve made me your equal.
Instead, you made me this,” she seethes.
Once in the Fold, Kirigan supposedly intends to use Alina’s power to destroy it.
They catch Mal lurking there.
Nina and Matthias hide out in a room above a tavern in Ravka.
To prevent this, Nina sets a group of bounty hunters on Fedyor.
These men take Matthias away since they can label him a slaver and collect a bounty on his head.
Nina goes with them.
Kirigan uses Alina’s powers to create a tunnel of light for the skiff to pass through the Fold.
Zoya tells a shipmate that her family lives in Ravka.
“They are traitors who tried to kill you.
This is retribution,” Kirigan tells Alina.
Mal, Inej, and Jesper go topside to fight, followed by Kaz.
Kirigan kills the dignitaries aboard the skiff.
Alina subsequently uses that blade to slash Kirigan, removing the stag bone that was embedded in his hand.
Mal and Kirigan fight, falling off the skiff.
In the gloom, Kirigan is attacked by a volcra.
Ivan seriously injures Alina and is shot by Jesper.
Mal returns to Alina’s side, and she wakes up.
She then uses her powers to clear a passage for the ship out of the Fold.
Later, at a campfire, Inej pledges her loyalty to Alina.
Zoya bids farewell to Alina, warning her that she’s now in grave danger.
She tells Alina to stay alive because Saints become martyrs before they become heroes.
They all agree to head for a ship that’ll take them to Ketterdam.
On their walk, Kaz and Inej agree to stick together.
In the bowels of a ship, Nina visits a caged Matthias, who slanders her as a devil.
Kaz, Jesper, and Inej board the same ship.
Nina overhears this and strikes up a conversation.
Mal and Alina then board the ship.
“It’s you and me now, like the old times,” Alina says.
“I like those odds,” he replies.
They promise to come back and tear down the Fold.
