Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 9 Review (Spoilers)

Samurai Jack Season 5 Episode 9 Review (Spoilers)

Robert Knuckles

“The End is Near”

Samurai Jack series is coming to an end pretty soon and I’m actually quite sad. Seeing how this episode ended we better prepare ourselves.

We start off where last week’s episode ended with Jack and Ashi kissing following their battle with the blue leech. As they wash up Jack sees his reflection that turned out to be the bearded Jack and tell’s him to be careful and Jack said this has never happen to me before. Fans basically know that Jack has never fallen for a girl before and doesn’t want Ashi to get hurt.

Jack and Ashi sit by a fire. Ashi asked Jack if he ever thinks about home and he tells her about his past before Aku came into the picture. He only see’s it as a memory. The two fall asleep and Ashi wakes up to see Jack gone off without her.

The next scene we see Scaramouch finally finding Aku. Scaramouch tells Aku about Jack losing his sword and for the first time we see Aku smiling when he actually means it. But little do they know Jack has found his sword.

Jack is then traveling and see’s a familiar location. It’s the place where Jack fought the Guardian in season 3 and it's destroyed including the portal. Jack steps on the Guardian's shades and we can only guess what happened to him. Ashi finds Jack and asked why did he leave her. Jack tells Ashi that Aku took everything that he loved and doesn’t want Ashi to become a memory.

Aku finds Jack and Ashi believing that Jack doesn’t have his sword but comes to find out that Jack does have his sword and Aku immediately destroys Scaramouch. Aku tries to leave but then he smells himself inside Ashi. We then see a flashback of the women worshipping Aku and summons him. Aku gives his blood or whatever it was in a chalice. She drinks the blood and gives birth to the seven girls and calls Ashi daughter of Aku.

As Jack charges against Aku Ashi stops Jack. Ashi is attacking Jack while being controlled. Aku then transforms Ashi into nothing but darkness resembling him. Jack hits Ashi and we see her face and tells Jack to kill her but Jack couldn’t do it. Jack falls on his knees to surrender and drops his sword. Aku then picks up Jack’s sword thus ending the episode.

Another great episode. A lot of people were expecting a sad fate for Ashi and this might be it but she’s still alive and Jack might be able to save her. It was good to see a flashback of how Aku and his worshippers met and using his blood to control Ashi was great. This is also one of the few times we see Jack helpless. Jack didn’t want to kill Ashi because he cares so much about her and doing that got Aku this victory for now anyway. Next episode is the series finale and honestly I don’t know what’s going to happen. Hopefully it's something we’ll remember for a long time.