Murph: You see a giant figure attempting to push open a door. Before anything else, you recognize the giant greatsword on his back. Howl. Your mother's sword.
Calder: Need a little help?
Murph: Gowan turns around.
Gowan: What are you doing here, Calder?
Calder: Looks like you're struggling with that door. Just wanna make sure you know you can always ask for help.
Calder: What can we do for you? Command us.
Gowan: With all due respect, Calder. I always thought you would've made a great ranger, but… you are not a ranger. You left. So, the most I can ask of you is to please look out for mom and dad. But, I'll talk to my rangers and I'll figure out a way to take care of this. Thank you all for everything.
Murph: He… looks away from you.
Gowan: I already have help. There's nothing you can do for me.
Calder: I-- no. No. I don't wanna be protected anymore. I wanna help.
Calder: Well. You're my brother. The least you can do is let me try.
Gowan: Calder. I'm proud of you. You've gone out on your own, and you've met people who seem like great friends. And you braved the tundra, you came out, you warned us, and we appreciate that. But again. You chose not to be a ranger.
Murph: Gowan starts to walk towards you.
Gowan: Alright. Can you make a hard choice here?
Calder: We can make a choice together, that's what we can do. You don't have to do it yourself.
Gowan: I made a deal with Alexandrite, Calder.
Calder: What are you worried about?
Gowan: I'm just-- I'm worried about everyone. I don't know how Mom did it. It feels like everyone who died, died on my watch.
Gowan: She told me that she'd already snuck replicants into the village, and that she'd take out everyone one by one until I gave her the Ice Knife. She can't get in here. Havoc won't let her. And to prove it she killed my best friend, and told me if I told anyone, Mom and Dad would be next. She replaced our neighbors. Have ya talked to any of our neighbors? Because they're watching the house. They absorbed Ingrid. And then you told me she's bringing in more from the lake. She knows everything, Calder. She's everywhere.
Calder: Yeah. Yeah, we might be fucked. But we can be fucked together. We can-- we can go down fighting, or you can-- or you can sacrifice yourself like some martyr. But that's not gonna help us.
Gowan: If it was just sacrificing myself, I would gladly do it, Calder. But what would you do in my situation?
Murph: Calder, as you are battling with Ultrus here, it feels like the world is being pulled apart as Glen is trying to remove this helm from your head. You see like, cracks. As you look up into the sky, you see the battlefield projected. You see that Callie is missing, you have no idea where she is, and you see that Sol is bleeding out on the ground.
Gowan: Knife to Mom's throat, what would you do?
Murph: And he pushes you.
Calder: Ultrus! Make a deal with me! I will let you go. I’ll let you choose your side in this war. Just… don’t let Glen hurt my friends.
Ultrus: You would give up yourself?
Calder: If that’s the choice you ask me to make.
Calder: I might've done the same thing. I might've done the same thing. But you have to understand that somebody coming in this thing with fresh eyes, somebody who's seen her up close, you don't know the duplicity that she's capable of. You're acting on intel that you got from Alexandrite!
Gowan: The intel that I got from you was that Gregor was compromised! And that just meant I stayed around until she killed Ingrid!
Calder: So she wants us not to trust each other. She wants us not to work together. She wants us fractured and weak, like this.
Gowan: We are fractured and weak, Calder! She's here already!
Calder: So circle up with us!
Gowan: Well, if there's one good thing about being a leader in a time like this, it's-- it's that I'm really glad I got to make you a ranger.
Calder: Yeah. And… and Gowan I think we're gonna have… we're gonna have a long time together, fighting side by side.
Gowan: I hope that we could be so lucky.
Calder: You are my brother, aren't you?
Murph: You see the bloodlust kind of leaves Gowan's eyes, and he looks down, and he goes
Gowan: Yeah. Yeah I am. Okay.
Calder: Ultrus! Make a deal with me!
[Mee Maw's Burden starts playing in the background.]
Calder: I will let you go. I'll let you choose your side in this war. Just… don't let Glen hurt my friends.
Ultrus: You would give up yourself?
Caldwell, softy: No.
Calder: If that's the choice you ask me to make.
Ultrus: Perhaps you have a giant's heart after all, Calder Kildé. I have no wish to walk around as an elf. If you would be my vessel, I would take it.
Calder: And if I'm your vessel… you can never use me to lay a hand on Callie or Sol.
Ultrus: Mm. I do not see a reason to kill them.
Calder: I never cared about being a giant. And I never cared about greatness. I just cared about making myself useful one day. And maybe… maybe it's now. Maybe that day has finally come. Do it.
Ultrus: You have been useful, Calder Kildé.
Murph: Uh, you see he um, reaches out his hand to shake yours.
Jake: I give him that icy, iron grip. I shake his hand.
Murph: (inhales sharply) You see the [whoosh] magical barrier goes up. You and Ultrus [whoosh] switch places. And Ultrus disappears, and you are left alone on this frozen plain.
Jake: Calder… sits down, crosses his legs, and uh, starts to whistle an old familiar tune.
Murph: As Calder whistles in the wind, you can just make out on the projection-- Ultrus entering the battlefield.
ERIKA’S FERAL LAUGHTER AS SHE CLIMBED ON THE TABLE AT THE END OF c3e29!!!!
THE FACT THAT TRAVIS GUESSED THAT FUCKING COLD AND NO ONE ELSE CLOCKED THAT HE WAS RIGHT (maybe Laura, since she had done the mind-reading, and being married to Travis she would be like “he wouldn’t do this for no reason, and also Imogen would be hella suspicious/jealous about Laudna and Dusk”)