- Richard's attempts to rescue his friends from a sadistic wizard's deadly experiments send him into his first explosive face-to-face confrontation with the evil Darken Rahl.
- This is the Episode where Richard Cypher prepares to face his darkest advisory, Darken Rahl. Giller attempts to recreate the Confessor's magic for Darken Rahl (Craig Parker) by experimenting with ancient magic on Rahl's prisoners. Dismayed by Giller's slow progress, Rahl decides to pay a visit. Richard, Kahlan, Chase and Devlin, a resistance fighter, rescue the prisoners from Giller's keep. Chase is struck ill when his wife Emma, whom Giller had performed one of his experiments on, unknowingly unleashes a form of Confessor's power on him. After fending off Rahl's soldiers, they discover that Rahl will be arriving at the keep. Richard's plan to kill Rahl and capture Giller fails when Giller proves resistant to Kahlan's Confessor power. Richard readily prepares to sacrifice the entire mission and enters the keep to rescue Kahlan but is confronted by Rahl and is captured. As Giller works to take Kahlan's Confessor power, Rahl reveals his plan to use it on Richard, triggering Kahlan into the "Blood Rage". She kills Giller and confesses Rahl's minions, forcing Rahl to retreat. Upon returning to Chase to give him Giller's potion, which will keep him safe from Emma's power, Richard and Kahlan receive a message from Zedd, who tells them to meet him in D'Hara Town.
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