Chapter Three

PremiseEdit
Samurai Jack is gravely injured, but still decides to face one of the deadliest foes he's ever faced, Assassins from the Cult of Aku.

Plot Edit
Jack, barely alive, continues to float downriver. After Jack manages to grab hold of a floating log, a frog hops on, warning him that the Daughters are not far behind. Eventually, Jack reaches the shore and makes his way to a cave, all the while being stalked by the mysterious samurai. Inside the cave, Jack pulls the knife from his side and passes out. Upon waking up, his hallucination of himself taunts him over his first human kill, coming to the conclusion that Jack wantedthe Daughters to kill him, though Jack himself denies this. The next morning, a blood-soaked Jack prepares to defend himself. Instead, an equally blood-soaked wolf enters the cave (the same wolf from the previous episode) and Jack passes out again. While unconscious, Jack remembers a time when his father defended their family from a band of outlaws who had ambushed their carriage. Waking up again, Jack bonds with the wolf and nurses himself back to health. Remembering his father's lesson, Jack and the wolf part ways and Jack prepares himself for another confrontation with the Daughters of Aku.

Soon enough, the remaining six Daughters break out of the ruined temple and continue their mission, leaving their fallen sister's body behind. Following the river and traces of Jack's blood, the Daughters track him back to his location. In the forest, the daughters spend a moment observing a deer, having never seen one before. A male deer arrives and the Daughters mistake it for another of Aku's minions due to its antlers. Unnerved by their courting ritual, the Daughters frighten the deer off and continue their search. Finally, as the snow begins to fall, Jack reveals himself.

Echoing his father's words, a hidden Jack offers the Daughters an ultimatum: Leave, or face their destiny. The Daughters refuse, claiming their destiny is to destroy him. Jack obliges and emerges from the snow, impaling one of the Daughters with a thrown wooden spear. Using the terrain and weather to his advantage, Jack kills a second Daughter with another spear and steals a kanabo from a third before impaling her against a tree with a thrown butterfly sword. The three remaining Daughters combine into one in an attempt to kill him, but Jack manages to split them up again, luring the three to a fallen tree hanging over a cliff. Discarding the stolen kanabo, Jack sends two of the Daughters falling to their deaths before confronting the last one (revealed to be Ashi). Ignoring her threats of Aku, Jack simply unwraps her chain from his arm to her apparent death. Unfortunately, the tree finally collapses from the struggle, sending Jack falling into the valley below.