Malkariss (Redwall Season 2)

Malkariss is the tenth episode of Season 2 and the twenty-third episode overall of the Nelvana Redwall TV Series.

Summary

At Redwall Abbey, Constance, Sister May, John Churchmouse, Cornflower Fieldmouse, Ambrose Spike and Winifred fight with General Ironbeak's flock after being ambushed in Great Hall.

Slagar the Cruel and his captives rest at The Badger and the Bell rocks. Mattimeo promises Tess Churchmouse that he won't let her down.

Matthias, Basil Stag Hare, Jess Squirrel, Cheek Stag Otter, Jabez Stump, Orlando the Axe, and Sir Harry the Muse encounter an Old Rabbit. He issues a warning, gives Matthias a necklace, and departs.

The Redwallers fight back against Ironbeak's birds. At the Badger and the Bell, Slagar tasks Threeclaws with watching over the group as he has to depart for a day.

At Redwall, Constance, Cornflower, Ambrose, Winifred, and Foremole run around behind Ironbeak's flock, surprising them.

Slagar provides Halftail with the same story as Threeclaws, and also tells him that he's in charge.

The Redwallers rejoice in defeating the birds and protect the Tapestry of Martin the Warrior. Ironbeak demands to know why Mangiz continues to be unable to rely on his seer abilities when the Sparra return.

Matthias and his companions hike through the night and see the Badger and the Bell in the distance.

Cornflower and Sister May use one of Foremole's tunnels to transit to the The Gatehouse. They open a trunk with Matthias' store of Martin's armor.

As Slagar's gang sleeps, Slagar informs Vitch that he'll need his assistance soon. He decides to gloat by waking up Mattimeo and Tess, but it backfires, with Mattimeo taking Vitch as his captive. Vitch quickly escapes Mattimeo's custody when Blackrobe Rats start arriving. The Blackrobes drug Mattimeo and Tess.

Cornflower, dressed in the warrior armor, frightens members of Ironbeak's flock standing guard in Great Hall. They rush to tell Ironbeak, who disputes their account of a "ghost." He then attacks Mangiz.

Slagar meets with the Blackrobe leader, Nadaz, who takes the rest of the captives with him. The Blackrobes kill Damper in the process.

Constance and the Redwallers get a good chuckle out of scaring the birds.

Slagar's gang awakens to find Slagar and the captives gone, as well as Damper's dead body. The vermin dispute who's in charge and start fighting one another. Orlando, Matthias, and their friends arrive on the scene and interrogate the slavers. They start looking for the Lord of Mossflower, which was mentioned in Abbess Germaine's riddle, climb to the top of the rocks, and spot a large pine tree.

At the underground Kingdom of Malkariss, slaves endlessly work on construction. Slagar, Vitch, and Nadaz approach Malkariss' statue, where Slagar offers Vitch as a potential Blackrobe member. Malkariss declines, and orders Vitch to join the slave crew. Slagar then asks when he'll receive the territory he was promised in exchange for the slaves, and gets escorted away by the Blackrobes. He vows to rule the entire kingdom himself.

Matthias and his companions stand near the Lord of Mossflower and discuss next steps.

Mattimeo and the captives try to console one another as they learn their fate is to be slaves forever.

Official Synopsis

As the slaves arrive at the ominous Badger Head and Bell rocks, Mattimeo bravely comforts them and promises "I will not fail us." At Redwall, the Redwallers defend the tapestry in a pitched battle and recapture it.

Simultaneously, Matthias arrives at Loamhedge Abbey and meets an Old Rabbit who forecasts doom, but gives him an amulet.

Slagar craftily sets his band against each other and prepares to take all the slave profits himself. While at Redwall, Cornflower and Constance haunt the terrified birds with the 'ghost' of Martin-- in fact, his armour.

Nadaz, henchrat to the king of Malkariss appears silently and orders the slaves anaesthetized. Slagar's band attack each other and in the chaos are captured by Matthias who demands they help him pursue Slagar-- but he already has the slaves deep underground in the evil kingdom. In front of the statue of a polecat he tells them this is where they will live and die.

It is journey's end and down here no hope of rescue.

Differences from Mattimeo

• In the TV series, Nadaz's rats carry the drugged slaves in their arms. In the book, the are tied to large shields.
• In the book, Scringe was a ferret and was the first to be slain in the slavers battle. In the series, he is a weasel and survives to be sent south by Matthias with the other weasels.
• In the TV series, Mattimeo attempts an escape by holding Vitch hostage, but is quickly recaptured by Nadaz's rats. This does not occur in the book.
• In the book, Nadaz wears a purple robe. In the series, he wears a black robe with an orange shirt underneath.

Featurettes

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Segments include:

• "Courage"
• "Character Spotlight: Mattimeo"
• "Who is the most courageous person that you've heard of?"
• "Ask the Author: Brian Jacques - which character do you think is most like yourself?"

• Brian Jacques transcript:

(introduction) Hello, I'm Brian Jacques and welcome to Redwall. In our last episode, Ironbeak had attacked the Tapestry of Martin the Warrior, and Slagar finally had his destination in sight: the realm of Malkariss. Today, an Old Rabbit gives Matthias a new charm; an old hero makes an appearance; and a new kingdom is found. But enough talk, on with the story of Redwall.

(on courage) Courage is the moment when ordinary beings become extraordinary. Courage could be a situation where you have to sum up your bravery to do something. Picture in Redwall, Matthias. I mean at first, he wants to be a warrior. Then when he sees Cluny's hordes, I should imagine it gives him a bit of a start. A little mouse up against all them big vermin: ferrets, rats, weasels, stoats. But, he gets the gift of courage. And that is what makes him extraordinary, and that's what makes him stand out from the crowd. Courage is like greatness, sometimes it's just thrust upon us.

(on Mattimeo) Some are warriors born, others are warriors made. Martin the Warrior was the warrior born. Matthias was the little mouse who had to learn to be a warrior. Now his son, Mattimeo, was the Abbot brat. Yeah, at the beginning of 'Mattimeo', Mattimeo is the naughty little mouse in the Abbey whose dad is the great warrior, and he plays a lot on that and he gets away with a lot.

So, how is Mattimeo going to learn to be a warrior? It's funny, but when you're in a hard place sometimes that's when you start to learn. So when Mattimeo is taken captive, he's taken slave by Slagar and all his little friends and they're being sat there worried and the fighting and everything, he realizes then, he's the warrior's son, he has to help. And that's the way his character as a warrior starts to form. And like his dad, he becomes the warrior, but he has to learn harder lessons.

(on a character like himself) There is actually one. But it's not in Redwall, it's in the book Mossflower. And it's a little mouse called Gonff the Prince of Mousethieves. And that was me when I was a kid around the Liverpool docks I suppose. He's nice, I like him.

Streaming

Malkariss is available for streaming on Nelvana's official Treehouse Direct YouTube channel.

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