Sinbad Ep 9

The one with future seeing stone . . .

After Kuji last week I loved this ep. It kicks off with a bloke in robes meditating with a stone and he sees a vision of Sinbad with a knife dripping with blood and him lying on the floor.

Cut to the providence and Sinbad is frustratedly interrogating Anwar on what Kuji said last week. He wants to know what he is facing in the future.

Anwar does an Anwar - Not supposed to say a word Anwar. The annoying goddess last week said that but as usual our lovely doc can't keep his mouth shut!

Cook lets slip about this order of the stone who can see the future. Queue the scooby gang sailing  to where these stone bods live. Sinbad and Rina enter a tavern and pretend to be pilgrims where they meet Griff - the frustrated son of the order of the stone leader (his father is the bloke who had the vision at the beginning). He dashes Sinbads hopes telling him he would have to join the order and pounder about things for 30 odd years.

We pan back to the everyone in the bar and Sinbad pretty much sulking as he didn't get the answer he wants. A pretty barmaid brings them some drinks and flirts with him. This ups our hero's spirits again and much to Gunnar and Anwars amusement he decides the trip might be worthwhile after all and goes and follows her.

Rina made a point that between Gunnars muscles, Anwars brains and her light fingers there is not a vault in the land that they couldn't crack. They are overheard by Griff who tells them the stones in a labyrinth not a vault. Good job Anwars really a boffin and can crack labyrinths - having solved a really big one at 9 years old.

Anwar goes and fetches Sinbad who's quite annoyed at being pulled away from the pretty barmaid who was looking like a sure thing. Griff says that he will let them in to the labyrinth with the only key he has amazingly in his possession if they help him navigate it. Agreement made, they leave the tavern and there's a really funny scene.

Gunnar is epic - he scared Griff within an inch of his life, flinging him up against the wall to check he's telling the truth. Rina states that walking into traps is their specialty and she notes that Gunnar enjoyed that. It was brilliantly played by Elliot Cowan as usual.

They enter the labyrinth and are followed by a dark and creepy looking figure. Anwar starts working on things but Griff is too inpatient and yells at him that they are lost.

Rina and Anwar - not much this week but her sticking up for Anwar and telling Griff that yelling at him was useless, was just adorable. Look how far they have come! Ep 2 she trys to kill him and now she's defending him. Bless.

Gunnar is epic 2 - Our norseman has to protect Griff from poison darts. Queue some awesome sword action

They get caught by the master of the order.  Griff runs off and meets the creepy person following them. Sinbad is to be killed so he can then not kill the master. Griff comes back and his father isn't thick. He works out his son let them in and back hands him ordering him to go somewhere else in the order to learn properly. Griff offers to kill Sinbad instead of his father. Which he does by poison - which is apparently the best method.

Anwar and co watch on in horror and then they are thrown out of a moving cart tied up and blindfolded. But our hero is not dead!!!!! Shady creepy person who has been following them turns out to be a bounty hunter called tiger brought in by Taryn to bring our hero to her. They have a bit of a charged fight and she puts a magnetic collar on him so that if he strays from her poisoned needles will impale his neck.  Sinbad cleverly turns this round to actually she needs to stay with him and runs off to make another attempt on the Labyrinth.

Griff meanwhile has convinced his father he will protect him and they go to the stone.

Meanwhile Anwar and co decide they have to give Sinbad a proper burial and go to the morgue only to discover no body! And a message ARGO carved into a table. Now between you and me I have no clue in the scene where Sinbad woke up and was fighting tiger where he found the time to do that but lets go with it .......

The scoobies knock out some of the order, steal their robes and have another crack at the labyrinth. Tiger meanwhile steps on one of the traps and Sinbad epically saves her by pushing her and landing on top of her. Queue more sexual tension. Anwar and co catch up with him and they all find the stone.

In a nice twist it seems that the stone does show the future but its flashes. It doesn't always fill in all the gaps. Griff ends up accidentally stabbing his dad. Sinbad wrestles the knife off him and that's what was seen. Sinbad realizes the stone is a bad thing and smashes it. It was a really good piece of tv I though - time seemed to slow down and all these parts of the stone were floating showing tiny glimpses of the future.

The episode finishes with Cook questioning Sinbad and him telling him about all the futures he saw including being in love and heart broken from Tiger. So Nala is gone and replaced!