The Witcher season 3: The final 3 episodes reviewed and explained

The Witcher season 3, Episode 7 recap: “Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan”

The Witcher Episode 307 follows the best episode of the series so far, and it’s kind of clunky. I understand why it needs to happen, but there’s just so much filler. After an epic episode, we want to shift into overdrive, and this episode slams on the brakes.

I understand the change of pace, but the season was so good until this point. If the season finale was another banger of an episode, I wouldn’t mind the seventh episode being so slow, but the finale never reaches the level of Episodes 5 and 6.

Anyway, let’s get into what happens.

As Tor Lara collapsed, Ciri was transported via portal to vast desert. There’s nothing for miles around her. She remains alone for most of the episode, although she does have run-ins with a unicorn who helps her, a giant scorpion monster who tries to kill her, and visions of Falka, a former Redanian Princess who led a bloody rebellion and killed her whole family.

Back up north, Radovid reveals to Jaskier that the Second War has begun, but Jaskier must find Geralt and Ciri. Radovid thinks Ciri died in the tower explosion. Jaskier finds Yennefer, who can’t find Ciri, but at least Geralt is healing, thanks to Triss. He’s currently recuperating in Brokilon Forest being looked after by dryads.

Then we’re back with Ciri, who is injured in the sand. She’s in Korath, but she has a dislocated shoulder. She eats some salve, leaving the tin it was in. She starts walking. She starts to fade, and she’s walking in circles somehow. There’s a person with a cloak behind her. She doesn’t know who they are. She tries to drink water but is attacked by a sand monster and saved by a unicorn. She follows the unicorn through the desert but it disappears. Then there’s a giant sandstorm, but she survives.

Over the course of the episode, Ciri has visions. There’s still someone following her. She sees Pavetta, her mother, who says she’s been abandoned again. She says Ciri is too heavy a burden. Then Ciri gets mad and eats a lizard.

Lizard was a bad choice! She’s having visions of Geralt and Yennefer. Then she gets sick from eating the lizard and is approached by a vision of the future, but Ciri doesn’t know who or what is happening.

Finally the unicorn comes back, but Ciri doesn’t have the strength to continue on. She tries to pet the unicorn but it won’t let her. She follows the unicorn through the desert to palm trees. It’s showing her where there is water. She’s eating bugs now, too, to get her strength back.

Ciri is approached by her a vision of her grandmother Calanthe, who tells her to stand up to the enemy. She accidentally punches the rocks. Ciri realizes that the visions she’s seeing are all manifestations of her ancestor Falka. Falka tells her to use her powers to burn the system to the ground.

Ciri fights a giant sand scorpion who nearly kills the unicorn, and she bludgeons it to death with a rock. Ciri then saves the unicorn by healing its wound. Falka asks Ciri to embrace the fire magic, which is easy for her to use. She embraces the fire. She steps into the fire and becomes the fire. Now, she’s ready to take back what’s hers, and it’s time to make them pay. Falka tells her that she will be betrayed by Jaskier, Geralt, and Yennefer. She freaks out, and then she says, “I relinquish my powers.”

Then she’s found by someone in the desert.

At the end of the episode, we catch up with Jaskier, who is walking around the forest looking for Geralt. He finds the dryads, or rather they find him. He begs the dryads to help him and to let him come to help Geralt. The dryads allow Jaskier to visit Geralt, who is not doing well. He tells Geralt that Ciri is missing. Actually, it’s worse: she’s on her way to Nilfgaard.