Merlin: The Tears of Uther Pendragon [Part1] (S3E1)

It's been a year since Morgana went missing after trying to enchant and destroy Camelot. After an extensive search led by Arthur (Because King Uther is old) and many senseless killings later (woe is the small people), she is found in the woods and brought back to Camelot, much to Uther's rejoice.

She pretends to befriend Merlin again, something about wanting to start over and make peace but Merlin is apprehensive about it. After all, he tried to poison her...surely she won't forgive him that easily, right? His suspicions proved true later on.

Getting bullied by Prince Arthur is daily breakfast for Merlin.

Between getting bullied by Prince Arthur and running chores for Gaius, Merlin manages to find out that Morgana sneaks out of the castle every night to meet her white-trash-looking (I'm NOT kidding) half-sister and enchantress Morgeause to get a mandrake voodoo piece to cripple King Uther's control of the kingdom. The idea is to crush him mentally so the rest of his subjects would panic and terror would spread across the kingdom. It is so easy to incite terror in those days, it seems. Ever since magic is banned, any incidents involving some sort of enchantment will get the king soooooooo worked up to send the entire army to find and uproot the cause of the enchantment. Lather, rinse, repeat.

One night, the king starts to see illusions, faces of the people he has killed and most importantly, face of the dead queen. He breaks down and can't function so Prince Arthur has to take reign...which means more duties and bullying for Merlin (sucks to be him).

So, this mandrake voodoo thing takes a few days for the full effects to show. Merlin tails Morgana into the woods and is seized by Morgeause and bound by some enchanted chains so he can't move. Then the two women leave and let GIANT scorpions get a taste of Merlin. Since Merlin isn't a full-fledged powerful wizard yet, his feeble attempts to break the chains fail and he even get stung by one of the scorpions. ACK!! Poor boy. He does his best for Prince Arthur and Camelot and this has to be the end of his life story? Surely heavens have planned something else to save him.

Poisoned and slowly losing consciousness, what's a wizard boy got to do? Call on THE dragon, of course. In my opinion, that Dragon is the true hero in Merlin series. He tells Merlin what to do, every single time (because he's wise and ancient like that) but Merlin wouldn't listen and problems would arise. Repeat this for every single episode of Season 1 & 2. The Dragon is like, the God of all gossips and news in those seasons. I love it very much.

Anyway, back to the story. The Dragon swoops down from somewhere and barbeques all the scorpions to cinders. But there lies Merlin, all lifeless and chained up on the forest floor.

What will happen next?
Will he survive the poisonous venom?

Answers will be in Part 2/episode 2!