The Base Violence Necessary for Change is the third episode of the first season, and the third episode overall.
Official Synopsis[]
An epic showdown between old rivals results in a fateful moment for 
Zaun. 
Jayce and 
Viktor risk it all for their research.[1]
Plot[]
Silco recalls a story of when 
Vander tried to kill him via drowning: the incident which led to his deformed eye. He reflects on how it changed his perspective, and contemplates his gratitude towards Vander for doing it.
Vander and 
Benzo arrive at the pawn shop to find 
Vi sitting alone and waiting for the enforcers to take her. Vander shoves her into the back room and locks the door, where she begins banging and screaming to be let out. 
Grayson and 
Marcus arrive moments later, waiting for Vander's response. In Vi's place, Vander offers himself up to be arrested. Grayson argues that she needs Vander to remain and keep the peace, or else "it all falls apart." He retorts that Benzo will handle things, saying that "it's the only way." Marcus handcuffs Vander while Vi continues her protests.
Vi hears undue commotion and tries to look out a small window. Marcus shouts for someone to stop, and a sudden splatter of blood obscures Vi's vision. Grayson and several other enforcers lie dead on the ground, killed by a shimmer-crazed 
Deckard. The monster disappears as quickly as it had arrived, leaving Marcus, Vander, and Benzo confused and on high alert. Finally, Silco reveals himself and Benzo steps forward to attack him, but Deckard emerges once again to kill Benzo with inhuman strength and speed. Marcus is stunned, shouting that "this wasn't the deal." Silco dismissively replies that the deal has changed and tosses Marcus a sack of coins. Deckard knocks Vander unconscious with a punch to the face and drags him away, following Silco, leaving both Marcus and Vi to stew in distress alone.
Jayce and Viktor are deep in study and arrive at a calculation that could stabilize the hex crystals. Jayce laments that they could test it if only they had access to his equipment, which is currently locked away in 
Heimerdinger's lab and is set to be destroyed the following day. Viktor brandishes Heimerdinger's keys, but Jayce fervently disapproves of stealing back his equipment, as he knows it would put both of them at risk of banishment from Piltover. Viktor provides encouragement, stating that "this hextech dream of yours" has the potential to make the world a better place. Inspired, Jayce corrects him: "our hextech dream."
Ekko arrives to free Vi from the pawn shop, declaring that he saw everything. Both in tears, they embrace, and Vi asks where they took Vander.
The effects of shimmer wear off on Deckard, returning him to a normal yet nauseous state. Vander begins to wake up as a thug drags him across a catwalk overlooking a workshop where Silco's workers are forging metal weapons and mass-producing shimmer. Silco and Vander vehemently argue the merits of a violent revolution. Silco explains that violence is a crude but necessary tool to liberate Zaun, regarding Vander as a traitor to the cause; Vander retorts that the sacrifices of war aren't worth the reward. The pair also reflect on Vander's betrayal of Silco, with Vander claiming that he's never forgiven himself for what he did. In the end, Silco's thug takes Vander to be locked away, but before he goes, Vander sees that 
Sevika is here under Silco's employ.
In the black of night, Viktor and Jayce arrive at Heimerdinger's lab. Viktor begins unlocking the door when a flashlight ignites on them, wielded by 
Mel, who seems impressed at the mens' "conviction." They scramble to convince Mel of hextech's potential while a security guard is heard approaching. Mel relents, telling them that they have one night to impress her or to expect exile. She then moves to engage the guard in conversation and steer him away from Heimerdinger's lab. Finally, Viktor unlocks the door.
At The Last Drop, 
Mylo and 
Claggor are ready to fight the enforcers while 
Powder is on her bed with the stuffed rabbit, depressed. Vi then returns and explains to her siblings that Benzo is dead and Vander has been kidnapped, describing the horror of the monster she saw. She resolves to help Vander, revealing that Ekko followed Silco to his workshop. As the kids get ready to join her in saving Vander, Vi tells Powder that she can't come along because it's too dangerous. Powder argues, but Vi is adamant, telling her she isn't ready. She gives Powder a flare, instructing her to run if someone comes for her, and wherever she lights it, Vi will find her. Then, she departs along with Mylo and Claggor.
Jayce prepares the machine that will activate the hex crystal. As it whirs to life, he expresses doubts that it will hold, but Viktor assures him that it will stabilize. The crystal emanates a blue glow, bright enough to become visible to the enforcers on the streets below.
Powder suffers a mental breakdown, screaming and sobbing in pain and rage, and throwing a cymbal-banging monkey toy at the wall and breaking it. She throws a bag to the ground, and several hex crystals roll out. Gradually, she begins to calm down as she realizes that one of them was responsible for the explosion at Jayce's apartment and comes up with a plan to help her family.
Vi, Mylo, and Claggor stealthily scale the side of Silco's workshop and drop inside through a broken ceiling window.
Back in Heimerdinger's lab, The crystal stabilizes and begins to levitate a small distance from its casing, which Jayce remarks it's never done before. He turns a dial, causing several metal panels inscribed with runes to begin rotating on the machine. The crystal levitates higher and higher until suddenly, it releases a pulse of force powerful enough to make Jayce and Viktor put their arms up to shield themselves. The outward force continues, and Viktor shouts for Jayce to disengage, but Jayce struggles to reach for the switch under the intensity of the magical aura. Another pulse shatters the laboratory's windows, glass exploding outward, but then pulls the glass back in. Shards fly towards the two men, one cutting Jayce's cheek as he finally deactivates the machine.
Vi, Mylo, and Claggor sneak across the catwalk and come to a small room where Vander is locked to a chair via padlocks and metal restraints on all four limbs. Mylo begins picking the locks and Vander asks how they managed to get in with so many guards everywhere. Vi explains how easy it was, and they both realize that they've walked into a trap. Silco appears, welcoming them from the other side of the catwalk with a large group of henchmen at his back. Vi instructs Claggor to find another way out as she straps on Vander's metal gauntlets. Against Vander's wishes, she intends to fight Silco's henchmen.
Powder arrives outside the workshop. Peering through a crevice, she sees Vi hold up her fists as the first of Silco's henchmen approaches her. Powder continues to climb up on an outside wall. The man strikes out at Vi with a knife, but she blocks and retaliates with an uppercut to the jaw that puts him on his back. The other henchmen begin to swarm towards Vi, but she deftly defeats several of them in succession. Mylo cracks the first lock, freeing Vander's leg. Claggor discovers that one of the walls leading outside is structurally weak.
Powder stops at a ledge where she's level with the catwalk and can see into the workshop through a hole in the wall. After seeing Vi knock out numerous henchmen, Sevika moves to join the fray, but Silco stops her. He retrieves a vial of shimmer and gives it to Deckard who drinks it down greedily. Once again, he transforms into a hulking monstrosity. Barely able to control himself, he throws another henchman off the catwalk with impossible ease. Vander urges Mylo to hurry.
For a moment, Deckard looks dazed. Vi takes the opportunity to go in for a forceful blow with both gauntlets, but Deckard grabs her by the neck with superhuman speed. Vander pleads with Silco to spare Vi but Silco rebuffs. Deckard throws Vi to the ground, knocking off one of the gauntlets. She crawls back to the room with Vander, slides the metal door shut, and locks it in place.
Two enforcers, backed by Heimerdinger, attempt to force open the doors to the professor's lab, but Viktor has barred them together with his cane. With no time left to spare, Jayce closes his eyes and recalls the motions of the mage who saved his mother, dialing the switch accordingly. Several runes lock in place as one final, massive pulse of energy lifts Viktor and Jayce from the floor.
Viktor's cane snaps in two as the enforcers bash the doors open. Heimerdinger and the officers enter the lab to see a dazzling display of soft blue light filling the space. Jayce, Viktor, and numerous objects are suspended in midair as if floating in water. Heimerdinger can hardly believe his eyes: they've succeeded in creating magic, but he asserts that this is not what Piltover's future looks like. Mel appears in the doorway and retorts that it is for the Council to decide, and that perhaps it's time for the era of magic. Jayce corrects her: "the era of hextech."
Powder shovels multiple hex crystals into the body of the cymbal-banging monkey toy, while Deckard is beginning to make dents in the door to Vander's prison. Claggor is slowly dismantling the weak wall with a metal pipe, and looses a single brick, giving him a tiny window outside. Powder winds up the monkey toy, reaches through a hole in the wall to set it in place. It walks toward Deckard, steadily clapping a crystal between its cymbals. Deckard notices the toy and pauses to examine it, befuddled. Mylo cracks the final lock to release Vander, and Claggor pushes away bricks until there's a human-sized hole in the wall.
One final time, the monkey claps, and the gem explodes.
Powder is knocked from her ledge. Sevika rushes to push Silco out of the way and gets caught in the explosion, losing her left arm. A flammable trail of shimmer residue ignites all the way back to 
Singed's lab, consuming him in flames. One of the crystals ricochets into the ceiling of the Vander's cell, propelling metal shrapnel into Mylo and Claggor's bodies and burying them under debris as the roof collapses on top of them. As Powder is falling, she is in awe of the explosion. Marcus sees the explosion in the distance.
Vander is trapped under debris, but alive. Deckard gets back on his feet, merely stunned, and Silco orders his remaining henchmen to kill Vi and Vander. Vi is sobbing, crushed beneath the collapsed metal door. Vander summons all of his strength and pushes the debris off of himself, quickly knocking a henchman senseless as he approaches. He retrieves two metal hooks and dons them as improvised brass knuckles, dispatching a second henchman easily and makes his way to Deckard. Vi continues to sob upon seeing Mylo and Claggor dead. The head of the monkey toy lays at their feet. While Deckard's strength is immense, Vander holds his own until Silco stabs him with a dagger from behind. Vander whips around and takes Silco by the neck, but Silco stabs him again and his strength fails him. He goes limp, and Silco gently pushes him off the catwalk. Vander crashes on top of a crate full of shimmer vials, barely able to move. Silco orders Deckard to find Vi as Vander weakly reaches for a vial of shimmer.
Deckard easily lifts the metal door off of Vi and tosses it aside. However, Vander reappears, now transformed by shimmer and much larger than Deckard. He grabs the boy and pins him to the wall by the throat, squeezing until his body goes limp, and discarding him to the side. He then screams out Silco's name, but the flames engulfing the building are reaching dangerously close to Vi. Rather than pursue Silco, he swiftly grapples Vi and crashes through the wall with her, plummeting to the ground below.
Vi holds Vander's head in her hands. He tells her to take care of Powder before his eyes loll back, presumably dead. Vi shrieks in anguish.
Moments later, Powder appears, excitedly proclaiming that her monkey bomb finally worked. However, she sees Vander's body and Claggor's bloodstained goggles on the ground, and slowly realizes what happened. She begins crying, pleading that she only wanted to help. Vi is furious, reminding Powder that she told her to stay away. She slaps Powder across the face. Powder screams, asking why Vi left her. Vi tells her she's a "jinx" and that Mylo was right. Powder merely unravels into tears and fragmented begging. Realizing that she's gone too far with Powder, Vi walks away to burn off her anger, Powder calling her name all the while. After a few moments, Vi collapses against a wall in exhaustion.
Believing Vi abandoned her, Powder goes into another mental breakdown, sobbing. Silco turns a corner and finds Powder. When Vi sees Silco standing over her sister, she attempts to rush back to the girl's side, but Marcus catches her from behind. He holds a drugged cloth over her nose and mouth, lulling her unconscious and dragging her away as he assures her that Silco will kill her if he sees her.
Silco's remaining henchmen meet up with him. One of them is carrying an unconscious Sevika. Silco asks Powder where her sister is while hiding a knife behind his back. Powder responds by leaping into Silco's arms so forcefully that it knocks him to the ground and makes him drop the knife. Still crying, she says that Vi left her and that she's not her sister anymore. After a moment of hesitation, Silco seems to sympathize with Powder's plight. He wraps his arms around her and comforts her, saying, "It's okay. We'll show them. We will show them all."
Contributions[]
- Based on the game
- Look Development
Jerome Combe
- Head of Production, Riot
Melinda Wunsch Dilger
- Head of Production, Fortiche
Herve Dupont
- Cast
- Shohren Aghdashloo as
Grayson - Kevin Alejandro as Jayce
- JB Blanc as Vander
- Miles Brown as Young Ekko
- Faustino Duran as young Jayce
- Remy Hill as Marcus
- Mia Sinclair Jenness as Powder
- Josh Keaton as Deckard
- Harry Lloyd as Viktor
- Yuri Lowenthal as Mylo
- Dave B. Mitchell as Harold & Enforcer #1
- Toks Olagundoye as Mel Medarda
- Roger Craig Smith as Claggor
- Jason Spisak as Silco
- Hailee Steinfeld as Vi
- Fred Tatasciore as Benzo
- Mick Wingert as Heimerdinger
- VO Director
David Lyerly
- VO Manager
Kathy Cavaiola
- Additional Casting by
Meredith Layne, CSA
- Production Managers
- Isabelle Boningre
- Rafael Curulla
- Matt Salkin
- Dave "DUBZ" Wong
- Production Supervisors
- Oliver Espallargas
- Diane Moscet
- Jeremie Winslow
- Nicolas Nepveu
- David Portner
- Alyssa Roberts
- Post Production Supervisor
Eric Bergman
- Post Production Supervisor (Tencent Edit)
David Lyerly
- CG Supervisor
Sebastien Rossi
- Production Finance
Rob Hollocks
- Production Consultant
Mark Taylor
- Production Coordinators
- Romane Belaisch
- Eloide Capo-ChiChi
- Prescillia Catel
- Alice Champut
- Margaux Courtois
- Lola Delmas
- Cassie Jo Dull
- Pauline Dupuy
- Caesar Feliz
- Pauline Fleury
- Marie-Lou Gely
- Michael Harding
- Ethan Hubbert
- Mattheu Leenhardt
- Celine Le Therisien
- Bleuenn Mallat
- Kiahna Manker
- Elodie Moncelet
- Cecile Rastoul
- Marlene Torest
- Production Assistants
- Messaline Agarico
- Antoine Deprez
- Clementine Drouineau
- Lucile Gely
- Tom Kurcz
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Kathy Cavaiola
- Executive Story Editor
Amanda Overton
- Writers Assistant
Andrew Zuber
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- Morgane Dupre
- Mathieu Roumegoux
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- Melissa Idri
- Zoe Nerot
- Art Directon
Julien Georgel
- Desing Technical Supervisor
Matthieu Gouget de Landres
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- Arnaud-Loris Baudry
- Aymeric Kevin
- Senior Concept Artist
Charles Lee
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- Nick Carver
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Alexandre Mahboubi
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- Mariana Galiano
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- Julie Marguerie
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- Bruno Couchinho
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- Julien Georgel
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Simon Andriveau
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Romain Barriaux
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Edouard Cellura
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- Thomas Vuillier
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Christophe Gigot
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Michel Pecqueur
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- Reynald Bayeux
- Williuam Bobant
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Christophe Gigot
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Herni Morain
- 3D Effects Artists
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- Agathe Trebosc
- Final Compositing Artists
- Julien Baret
- Damien Gaillardon
- Sound Supervision & Design
- Brad Beaumont, MPSE
- Eliot Connors, MPSE
- Foley Artists
- Dan O'Connell
- John Cucci
- Foley Mixers
- Jack Cucci
- Richard Duarte
- Tavish Grade
- Dialogue / ADR Editors
- Brad Beaumont, MPSE
- Borja Sau Razquin
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- Sound Editors
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Matthew Wilson
- 1st Assistant Sound Editor
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- Assistant Dialogue Editor
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- ADR Voice Casting
Terri Douglas
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- Additional Voices
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- Lead Composer
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- Composer
Alex Seaver of Mako
- Music Consultant
Ray Chen
- Orchestrators
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- Conductors
- Daniel Behrens
- Anthony Parnther
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- Recording Facility
Teldex Studio Berlin
- Main Title Theme - "Enemy"
- Enemy (from Arcane: Season 1 Original Soundtrack) - Imagine Dragons ft. JID, Arcane
- Written by: Dan Reynolds, Wayne Sermon, Ben Mckee, Daniel Platzman, Robin Fredriksson, Mattias Larsson, Justin Tranter, Dustin Route p/k/a J.I.D
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- Original Soung - "Goodbye"
- Goodbye (from Arcane: Season 1 Original Soundtrack) - Ramsey, Arcane
- Written by: Alexander Seaver
- Published by: Mako Music Publishing (ASCAP)
- Music Supervisor
Andre Marsh
- A&R
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- A&R Coordinator
Daniel Gerber
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- Ash Brannon
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Trivia[]
- When discussing how to stabilize the Hex crystal, Jayce suggest to Viktor "to crank it", which he approves of. This choice of words is a possible foreshadowing for the name of Viktor's future invention, Blitzcrank.
- During Powder's meltdown, she throws a bag on the floor. In it there are several things:
- A plush toy named "Bunny" with Vi's name of "Violet" on it.
- A drawing of Vander and the kids with hearts around them.
- A drawing of Fishbones.
- A drawing of wings that reference the Star Guardian Jinx skin.
- Three Hex crystals which Powder later on puts inside and on a wind up monkey toy during the rescue.
- A plush toy named "Bunny" with
- As Vander is dragged into the torture room at the hands of one of Silco's henchmen, a fast-paced version of Warwick Base Skin Blood Hunt is played to sound.
- During Vander's Shimmer transformation he growls and howls in a similar fashion to Warwick.
- During Vander's Shimmer transformation he growls and howls in a similar fashion to
- As Vi faces off with Silco's thugs, one of them, Lock, makes a reference to the Warriors cinematic when Urgot is knocked down by Vi's uppercut.
- The scene where Vander chokes Silco parallels a later scene where Vi grabs and holds Powder's face.
- During the lab experiment, similar runes and geometric patterns like those performed by the hooded mage appear around the hex crystal.
- With the successful experiment Jayce proclaims the beginning of the era of Hextech. In the original lore, Piltover has made and used hextech devices in the past (though in small amounts and by the select few). Camille of the Ferros Clan even used a hex crystal to augment her body, decades before Jayce's inventions.
- With the successful experiment
- The ending shot of Powder is a direct reference to the second Arcane poster, but in that one Vi was holding her instead of Silco and Powder appears wide-eyed instead of angry.
- It may also be a reference to the 'Fallen Angel' by Alexandre Cabanel.
- In that shot Powder's eyes appear purple instead of blue due to the surrounding flames. This represents her eventual full transformation into Jinx.
Media[]
Goodbye
I can hear the sound of a heartbeat before it goes out
Won’t ever leave my memory of bloodshed all around
I can see a tear on my father’s face before it falls out
Oh my enemy, how could I have ever let you down, oh
When all these trees saw us grow, cut our teeth, and make our bones right here
We’d play with shields made of stone, share our dreams and sit our thrones
Be still, ’cause I see smoke up ahead and I got steel in my hands
We will return like warriors I swear that we’ll find glory up ahead
Tell me, where is my home? I don’t recognize the faces anymore, no
Where is my friend? The one I’ve known since I was only just a kid
I think it's time to say goodbye
Goodbye, Goodbye
Goodbye, Goodbye, woh
It's time to say Goodbye
Goodbye, Goodbye
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It's time to say goodbye
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It's time to say Goodbye
Goodbye, Goodbye
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Is it time to say goodbye?
Goodbye, Goodbye
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It's time to say Goodbye
Goodbye, Goodbye
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It's time to say goodbye
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It's time to say Goodbye
Goodbye, Goodbye
Goodbye, Goodbye, woh
