Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 5 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 5 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“The Scotsman is back and Ashi has found her way”

You know what is everyone it’s Sunday and it’s time for another episode review of Samurai Jack Season 5.

The episode starts off with three armies charging at Aku’s fortress. One of the armies is lead by Jack’s friend The Scotsman who unlike Jack has actually aged with a white beard and all. He’s on a wheelchair and his army are filled with beautiful strong women who all happen to be his children. (One of them happened to be named Flora.)

Despite having the numbers the armies were no match for Aku. The Scotsman and his children retreated but he stayed to give his daughters more time to escape. The Scotsman grabbed Aku’s attention by taunting him and we all know that The Scotsman is a big talker but he said interesting words by saying The Samurai is still out there inspiring people and you’re scared of him. Aku got tired tired of his words and killed him with a single laser eye beam. At first Aku was happy but as soon as The Scotsman mentioned the samurai Aku was sad once again.

At first I was like no way there’s no way the episode can start off like this but from the ashes we see The Scotsman ghost in his prime. It was through Celtic Magic that The Scotsman was able to come back. He said to his daughters that we’ll come back with a bigger army and this time we’ll find Jack to help us.

Now the scene goes back to Jack and Ashi. Ashi’s mother tells her to kill the samurai but Ashi refuses because she wants answers. The two warriors were able to get off the island from a dragon creature and after that the two went their separate ways. Jack is sitting by a fire at night and once again he starts having hallucinations. Ashi comes to Jack asking for the truth.

Jack and Ashi walk to a destruction of trees where only one is left alive to show Aku’s power. Then they walk to the city of Aku undercover. They see that Aku’s helpers are sending criminals to peaceful lands to destroy to make them and make their new home. The final stop was a destruction of a village. Ashi had seen enough and finally believes Jack and asked him what can we do? Jack said there’s nothing we can do. Ashi failed to believe Jack that there’s nothing. They hear a hurt innocent blue furry man that’s happy to see Jack and tells them that Aku’s minions took the children to the factory.

The two arrived at the factory to see the children from the destroyed village as monsters being controlled by a weird noise. Ashi goes to find the source of the noise while Jack distracts the children. Jack is fighting the children and Ashi finds the control room only to be captured and tortured by a man in a robot suit that’s behind the whole operation. The evil man shows Ashi a TV screen that shows Jack fighting the children and starts taunting them. He goes back to torturing Ashi but this angers her even more and was able to break free and beat the s*** out of the guy thus breaking the control room and destroying the chip inside the children. Jack believes the children are dead and is devastated. We see The Horseman once again and tells Jack “It is Time” and Jack says yes and walks away. We have no idea where they are walking to. Ashi finds the children and sees them waking up finding out they are okay but can’t see to find Jack yelling for his name thus ending the episode.

In the end another great episode. It was great seeing The Scotsman again and unknown to Jack he’s out there inspiring people although he has lost his way. We finally see a new side of Ashi. Just like the Scotsman said Jack has inspired other people. Ashi has found her way and has a new path. I guess you can say that from her sisters she was the only one that had a heart and we see that from last night’s episode after she sees the villain taunting at Jack and children. I still believe that Ashi is the missing piece for Jack finding his way. But the question is What is the Horseman talking about  when he says “It is Time” and where is Jack walking to? Hopefully we’ll find out on next week’s episode.