New Friends and Old Enemies

New Friends and Old Enemies is the fourth episode of Season 3 and the thirtieth episode overall of the Nelvana Redwall TV Series.

Summary

Martin the Warrior, Laterose of Noonvale, and Grumm Trencher float at sea. When they can't seem to find Felldoh and Brome, they head in towards land.

At Fort Marshank, Druwp intends to provide more intelligence on the slaves to Skalrag, but he encounters Hisk instead. He informs him that the trio from the prison pit has escaped.

Felldoh and Brome reach the shore and decide to journey to Noonvale. They encounter the Rambling Rosehip Players, and introduce themselves.

Martin, Rose, and Grumm arrive on land as well, where they begin scaling some cliffs. They're soon ensnared in a net from the Highbeast pygmy shrew tribe and held in captivity, where they meet Dinjer, the son of Queen Amballa, and a fellow prisoner, Pallum.

Hisk informs Badrang the Tyrant about the escape, while Tramun Clogg reveals that he's detained Skalrag and requests a parlay. He releases the fox in a show of good faith ahead of upcoming negotiations.

Queen Amballa arrives, where she announces that Martin, Rose, and Grumm will be caretakers for the tribe's children.

Badrang punishes Skalrag with tickle torture.

Martin, Rose, and Grumm are forced to deal with the poorly behaved Highbeast young ones, and accompany a group of them to the beach.

Badrang invites Clogg into Marshank, where they work out a deal. Badrang will help Clogg repair his ship in exchange for half of any slaves the corsair captures in the future.

Dinjer plays on a cliff near the beach, and a gannet grabs him and takes him to its nest for consumption by baby birds. Martin springs into action, fighting back against the gannet and saving the little shrew.

Felldoh, Brome, and the Rambling Rosehip Players don't see any signs of life on the sea. Celandine, a performer, flirts with Felldoh. Rowanoak and Ballaw De Quincewold suggest rescuing Felldoh's father, Barkjon, with a dramatic show at the fortress.

Martin leaps down from the gannet's nest.

Seemingly happy with their agreement, Badrang walks Clogg out of Marshank as Skalrag is tortured.

In gratitude for saving Dinjer's life, Amballa frees Martin, Rose, Grumm, and Pallum.

Official Synopsis

Martin and friends survive the storm and as the sun begins to shine they paddle towards the shore-- but they have become separated from Brome and Felldoh, who they fear have drowned. Druwp saves his skin by raising the alarm and revealing Martin's escape. Skalrag must admit some prisoners have escaped by sea. Felldoh and Brome are washed ashore-- alive. Seeking shelter, they discover a band of strolling players, the Rambling Rosehip Players, and meet Ballaw De Quincewold their leader and the tough badger Rowanoak. Martin and friends also struggle ashore only to be captured by Queen Amballa and her pygmy shrews. They are prisoners and slaves again!

The friends are forced to look after the pygmy shrew children-- and Martin saves Dinjer from an attack by a gannet. In return, they are awarded their freedom and they set off again for Noonvale. They are unaware that Felldoh, Brome and the Rosehip Players are planning a dramatic rescue attempt to free the remaining slaves by infiltrating Marshank as wandering performers-- or that Clogg and Badrang have decided to join forces to ensure that there will be no escape for the remaining slaves and that those who have already escaped will be recaptured.

Differences from Martin the Warrior

• In the book, Pallum is male, but the character is female in the TV series.
• Skalrag was tickle tortured after he proved himself disloyal to Badrang, which led to his death when dangling above Marshank's gates. In the book, Skalrag was tortured by stretching on a rack and then killed above the gates of Marshank by being used for target practice for poison-tipped arrows.
• In the book, after Martin saved Dinjer's life, by shoving him off a cliff edge where the gannet's nest was located and into a waiting net constructed by Martin's group below, Dinjer attacked Martin with a stick, to which Queen Amballa defended Martin by smacking Dinjer and calling him a stupid little beast.
• During the Rambling Rosehip Players rehearsal sequence, the lyrics are shortened from the book.

Featurettes

• Presenters: Featurette Girl 3, Featurette Boy 3

• Brian Jacques transcript:

And now, let's talk about villains. The villains in Redwall, really are bullies, that's what makes a villain.

I don't like villains, do you?

Segments include:

• "Villains: Clogg & Badrang"
• "Composers Jack Procher and Daniel Fernandez: How Music is Created"
• "Pirate Money"

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Streaming

New Friends and Old Enemies is available for streaming on Nelvana's official Treehouse Direct YouTube channel. They mixed up the episode titles when they uploaded. Despite the video title, this is the correct episode, as evidenced by the title card.

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