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Premise Edit After 50 years in the future, Jack has lost hope and is tormented by hallucinations of his parents, his kingdom, and a mysterious figure on horseback.

Meanwhile, seven young girls are raised and trained from birth to become the Daughters of Aku, a team of elite assassins with the sole purpose of killing Jack.

Plot Edit The episode begins as an army of Beetle Drones chasing down a family as they try to flee, eventually encircling the mother, daughter and baby. Just when all seems lost, a lone, heavily armored figure arrives on a weaponized motorbike. The young girl barely recognizes the figure to be none other than Samurai Jack himself, who dispatches the army of robots with his motorcycle weapons and handgun, saving the family before departing.

The scene then cuts to Jack's monologue. 50 years have passed since Episode LII, with Aku thwarting Jack at each and every attempt to return to the past. Meanwhile, Aku's tyranny and influence has ruined the past, present and future. Although Jack has not aged, having apparently become immune to the flow of time, he has begun to lose hope after years of fighting a futile battle. The only thing that keeps him going is a constant reminder to return to the past.

The scene cuts to a shrine, where a group of women wearing robes stylized with the crest of Aku bow before a statue of the demon. A series of cuts is shown of a woman giving birth to seven daughters (with the gong being sounded after each was born), who are presented to the statue as the chosen ones who would kill Jack.

Having spotted a rising plume of smoke in the distance, Jack continues riding through the desert, eventually entering a forest. Stopping to drink from a river, Jack spots some falling leaves and begins seeing hallucinations of his father and mother, who bemoan that Jack has betrayed them due to his failure to return to the past and defeat Aku, leaving them to die. Jack desperately denies this, but becomes overwhelmed by more hallucinations of tormented souls in the form of skin and bones people, tormenting him over and over of his failure. Then, a shadowy figure of an armored samurai surrounded with green mist on horseback with antlered helmet wielding a very long spear and a katana sheathed on its back appears, staring at him. Horrified, Jack flees on his motorbike.

Meanwhile, the seven "daughters of Aku" undergo cruel, harsh training as children, including fighting a heavyweight bruiser acolyte and grueling obstacle courses. One of the daughters, Ashi, is briefly distracted by a vision of the beautiful outside world. At this, her mother, the High Priestess, indoctrinates her by telling Ashi that Jack will seek to destroy all the "good" Aku has created, unless she and her sisters kill him.

As he camps for the night, Jack cooks a rat by the campfire for a meal. Through the fire, he suffers another hallucination of his father, chained and in flames, who once again accuses him of abandoning his purpose and forsaking his people. The image of the dark rider then appears on a boulder. Frightened, Jack is forced to flee as the forest burns.

Samurai Jack season 5 episode XCII - How Samurai Jack Loses his sword Samurai Jack season 5 episode XCII - How Samurai Jack Loses his sword By the time Jack reaches the plume of smoke, he arrives at a ruined city, filled with rubble and the corpses of its dead citizens. Jack meets the robot assassin Scaramouche, who claims himself to be Aku's most favored assassin and remarks on Jack's nigh-unrecognizable appearance, including the loss of Jack's sword. In a flashback, Jack recalls his signature weapon falling down an abyss as he looks in horror. Laughing, Scaramouche declares that Jack is no threat without his sword, and calls Aku on his mobile phone to make a report, but Jack destroys the phone with a thrown kunai.

Satisfied with this turn of events, Scaramouche begins to fight Jack, first by playing a magical flute that forms a golem out of the city's rubble. Jack quickly discovers that Scaramouche can rebuild the golem easily by reanimating more rocks to replace any part he breaks off. Landing among a pile of rocks after incapacitating the golem, Jack is once again swept up in another hallucination, this time seeing the rocks around him as the children of the city, begging him for help, with the dark rider looking down on the scene. Jack pleads for their understanding, which made Scaramouche remark Jack has gone "beaucoup cuckoo". Eventually Jack destroys the flute, but Scaramouche reveals that his voice was the true source of his magic, and the robot proves his point by scatting. This impromptu singing animates Scaramouche's sword to fight Jack with.

While Jack barely dodges the sword's attacks, Scaramouche brings out another blade which opens up like a tuning fork, demonstrating its ability to vibrate at a frequency powerful enough to shatter Jack's own swords. As Scaramouche fights Jack to a standstill, he gloats over his victory, but Jack throws his remaining sword at Scaramouche, still vibrating from clashing with the tuning fork sword. The sword explodes at the last second, severely damaging Scaramouche's vocal chord equivalent, leaving him unable to fight. Scaramouche admits defeat as Jack cleaves him in two with Scaramouche's first blade, after which Jack keeps the tuning fork sword for himself as he leaves.

At the same time, the daughters of Aku have aged to adulthood and finished their final test. With their training complete, the High Priestess gives them masks of Aku, and orders them to seek out Jack and kill him.