{"id":234043,"date":"2021-04-23T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/alina-meets-the-darkling-and-inej-almost-commits-murder-recap\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:00:14","slug":"alina-meets-the-darkling-and-inej-almost-commits-murder-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alina-meets-the-darkling-and-inej-almost-commits-murder-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"#Alina Meets the Darkling \u2014 and Inej (Almost) Commits Murder (RECAP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e73763d160\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e73763d160\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alina-meets-the-darkling-and-inej-almost-commits-murder-recap\/#%E2%80%9CWhat_Are_You%E2%80%9D\" >\u201cWhat Are You?\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alina-meets-the-darkling-and-inej-almost-commits-murder-recap\/#Never_Alone\" >Never Alone<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alina-meets-the-darkling-and-inej-almost-commits-murder-recap\/#Inejs_New_Job\" >Inej\u2019s New Job<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alina-meets-the-darkling-and-inej-almost-commits-murder-recap\/#A_Guide_Through_the_Fold\" >A Guide Through the Fold<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alina-meets-the-darkling-and-inej-almost-commits-murder-recap\/#Other_Observations\" >Other Observations<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Alina Meets the Darkling \u2014 and Inej (Almost) Commits Murder (RECAP)<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><strong>[WARNING: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for <em>Shadow and Bone<\/em> Season 1, Episode 2, \u201cWe\u2019re All Someone\u2019s Monster.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a good reason the bond between Alina (Jessie Mei Li) and the Darkling (Ben Barnes) \u2014 er, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Kirigan \u2014 is a favorite among fans of Leigh Bardugo\u2019s <em>Shadow and Bone<\/em> source material, who were undoubtedly excited to see them meet for the first time in \u201cWe\u2019re All Someone\u2019s Monster.\u201d There\u2019s something rich about their interactions and the unique understanding they share\u2026 and they\u2019ll become <em>incredibly<\/em> influential figures in each other\u2019s lives throughout the rest of the season and the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, should the Netflix fantasy drama get a second season. (Also, they\u2019re literally opposite sides of the same coin: the power of light, the power of darkness. It\u2019s darn poetic.)<\/p>\n<p>After the incident in the Fold in the first episode, it\u2019s clear Alina is not just an orphan trained to be a cartographer. Her \u201csun summoner\u201d powers make her valuable to some and a target for others, and they set her on a course that leads her away from her best friend Mal (Archie Renaux) and toward the mysterious Gen. Kirigan and the lavish lives led by the powerful Grisha. Meanwhile, across the Fold, Kaz (Freddy Carter) and his team of criminals are figuring out how to cross the void of death (aka the Shadow Fold) without, you know, dying.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhat_Are_You%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>\u201cWhat Are You?\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>After she wakes up, Alina is separated from Mal and taken into Kirigan\u2019s tent. With an audience of Second Army soldiers, he performs a test with a claw-shaped ring to tell if Alina is, indeed, Grisha \u2014 and when he drags the ring across her skin, a beam of light erupts from her. So yeah, she\u2019s definitely Grisha\u2026 and she\u2019s very important. From there, she\u2019s quickly whisked away into a carriage. She begs to be able to say goodbye to Mal or at least to tell him she didn\u2019t know she was Grisha (in a flashback we see they avoided the test to determine whether they were Grisha as children, not wanting to be separated if one of them had powers and the other didn\u2019t). Mal tries to catch her as she leaves, but he\u2019s injured from the ordeal in the Fold and can only watch her go.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the journey through the forest does not go smoothly. Two Second Army soldiers gawk at Alina as they ride, asking her how she never knew she was Grisha and marveling at her power. They\u2019re interrupted by a swarm of Druskelle soldiers; the Druskelle come from Fjerda, and their mission, overall, is to kill all the Grisha. That specific group, however, is after Alina \u2014 they, like the rest of the world, saw the eruption of light from the Fold and figured out the connection between it and the company of Second Army soldiers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_995915\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-995915\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-995915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-ben-barnes-darkling-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-ben-barnes-darkling-855x570.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-ben-barnes-darkling-434x289.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-ben-barnes-darkling-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-ben-barnes-darkling-234x155.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-ben-barnes-darkling-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-ben-barnes-darkling.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-995915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Never_Alone\"><\/span>Never Alone<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>They almost succeed. One Druskelle is poised to kill Alina, weapon ready to strike \u2014 but she\u2019s saved by Kirigan, who creates a blade out of shadows and cuts the man in two. He tells Alina she\u2019ll be <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing with him now, and they head for the hills, making their way toward the Little Palace. Seemingly unaccustomed to horseback riding, Alina begs Kirigan to stop (\u201cMy tailbone hurts!\u201d). They take a quick break, where she asks him about his powers (he\u2019s not inclined to share), learns he\u2019s tried to take down the Fold (but he can\u2019t avoid the monsters) and that if she can get rid of the Fold once and for all, they\u2019re hopeful that Grisha might be able to live in peace. Currently, everyone thinks the fear of Grisha is because they created the murderous void in the middle of the country. Alina reprimands him when he expresses amazement that she\u2019d shirk the test that could\u2019ve shown her she had powers. She snaps that she didn\u2019t want to be alone, to which he responds, \u201cYou are Grisha. You are never alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They make it to the palace, where Alina is set up in a luxurious suite but clearly feels more like a prisoner. She cries until she hears footsteps in the hall, then she finds the only thing passable as a weapon in the room \u2014 a letter opener \u2014 and shoves it under her pillow.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the camp, Mal tries to convince his commanding officer to go after Alina, but he\u2019s not having luck; the guy just says that with Kirigan is the safest place for her to be. Mal then starts to take matters into his own hands and saddles up a horse to ride off to the palace, but his friends stop him and talk him out of it. His new plan seems to be doing something heroic to earn an invitation to the palace, rather than having to sneak into a place where someone could, quite literally, kill him with a glance. So, as the episode ends, the two remain separated. But as they lie down to sleep miles from each other, they each reach out to the opposite end of their beds, each thinking about holding the other\u2019s hand. Aw!<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Inejs_New_Job\"><\/span>Inej\u2019s New Job<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In Ketterdam, Kaz and his Crows have six hours to figure out how to cross the Fold, or the job is going to rival leader of the Dime Lions, Pekka Rollins (Dean Lennox Kelly). Kaz won\u2019t allow that, and it turns out that part of the answer to his problem is sitting in his club, cheating at cards. He has the card-counting woman brought to his study, where he interrogates her and learns she\u2019s from Ravka and crossed the fold with the help of a man who calls himself \u201cThe Conductor.\u201d But to get to The Conductor, he needs to speak with someone named Poppy (Micah Holmes) first, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently, there isn\u2019t great history between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Inej (Amita Suman) gets a summons to the Menagerie, Ketterdam\u2019s premiere brothel \u2014 and her former hellacious workplace, until Kaz recognized her talent for sneaking in the shadows and paid to get her out of there. The problem is, Kaz is paying in installments, and technically, the Madam, Tante Heleen (Deirdre Mullins), still owns her. That means, that even if the Crows figure out a way to cross the Fold, Inej won\u2019t be able to go. But that could change, Heleen says, if Inej does one more job for her: she wants Inej to kill a supposed human trafficker.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_995908\" style=\"width: 865px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-995908\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-995908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-kaz-inej-jesper-855x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"855\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-kaz-inej-jesper-855x570.jpg 855w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-kaz-inej-jesper-434x289.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-kaz-inej-jesper-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-kaz-inej-jesper-234x155.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-kaz-inej-jesper-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/shadow-and-bone-kaz-inej-jesper.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-995908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Guide_Through_the_Fold\"><\/span>A Guide Through the Fold<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Inej isn\u2019t thrilled at the idea of killing anyone, so she asks the kind-hearted sharpshooter Jesper (Kit Young) for help. Jesper asks his friend how getting him to kill someone is any different than her doing it herself. He can\u2019t do it, anyway: as it turns out, Kaz needs him to cause a distraction so he can sneak in and talk to Poppy. Jesper performs admirably, shooting the place\u2019s signs down chain by chain, while Kaz creeps in and chats with Poppy. Turns out, Heleen was actively working against them \u2014 she lied about the identity of Inej\u2019s mark. The Conductor (Howard Charles), who is really a smuggler named Arken, is the man she has been sent to kill. He\u2019s not providing for the Menagerie; he\u2019s moving and reuniting families across the Fold.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, Inej doesn\u2019t know that. She\u2019s mere moments away from killing the guy when Kaz bursts in and tells her to stop. He explains the situation and tells The Conductor that they have a job for him. Aghast, Inej asks Kaz if he\u2019s really choosing this job over her freedom. He\u2019s not; he then, unbeknownst to his friends, goes to Heleen and makes a new deal with her; he\u2019ll pay off the rest of what he owes for Inej when he returns from the job, but in the meantime, he\u2019s giving Heleen his beloved Crow Club as collateral.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_Observations\"><\/span>Other Observations<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kaz handing over the Crow Club was a fantastic \u201cshow, don\u2019t tell\u201d moment for his character. He seems cold and calculating, but he\u2019ll do anything for the people who matter to him, and Inej definitely matters to him.<\/li>\n<li>I have to wonder why the show chose to go with General Kirigan instead of The Darkling. In the books, Ben Barnes\u2019 character is just known by the latter name. Maybe Darkling sounded too suspicious?<\/li>\n<li>Just like Kit Young\u2019s perfect casting as Jesper, which I noted last episode, Amita Suman truly shines here as Inej. She is deadly when she needs to be, but Suman makes it clear there\u2019s a heart of gold beyond all those silver knives. Really, fans should be pleased with the casting for all of the Crows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Shadow and Bone<\/em> Season 1, Now Streaming, Netflix<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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