Oil and Water is the eighth episode of the first season, and the eighth episode overall.
Official Synopsis[]
Disowned heir Mel and her visiting mother trade combat tactics. 
Caitlyn and 
Vi forge an unlikely alliance. 
Jinx undergoes a startling change.[1]
Plot[]
We flash back to a scene from 
Mel's childhood. She stands amidst the wreckage of a crumbling throne room. Her mother, 
Ambessa, joins Mel in the room and begins lecturing her, extolling the virtues of war. Moments later, two 
Noxian guards enter, escorting a young woman as their prisoner, apparently a member of the newly dismantled royalty. Mel encourages her mother to show mercy, but Ambessa beheads the prisoner with one swipe of her blade.
Back in the present day, Mel awakes from the apparent dream, startled by the painful memory. Above her bed is a large painting of the prisoner's necklace on the ground and covered in blood. She sees 
Jayce next to her, still asleep.
Caitlyn and Vi make their way back into 
Piltover, evading squads of enforcers as the police rush to the Bridge of Progress. Caitlyn opens the canister and realizes that the hex crystal is missing.
Silco arrives at the bridge sees Jinx's body lying amongst the wreckage. He rushes to her side, finding the hex crystal in her limp hand. He carries her back to 
Zaun.
That morning, Jayce and Mel arrive at the Bridge of Progress. Upon seeing the enforcers' many corpses, Jayce vomits into the water below. While bent down, he sees the remnants of one of the mechanical firelights.
Vi and Caitlyn sneak into the latter's bedroom through the window. 
Mrs. Kiramman kicks the door down, pointing a rifle at the pair as if she were expecting intruders, but is surprised to find Caitlyn instead. 
Mr. Kiramman embraces his daughter, relieved to see her safe. Mrs. Kiramman asks to speak to Caitlyn in private.
Mr. Kiramman begins to remove the shrapnel from Caitlyn's leg. Mrs. Kiramman reprimands Caitlyn for her recklessness, but Caitlyn admonishes her mother, a councilor, for her role in creating the squalid conditions she witnessed in Zaun. After some convincing, Mrs. Kiramman agrees to allow Caitlyn and Vi to make their case before the Council.
Silco bursts into 
Singed's lab carrying Jinx, still unconscious, and they strap her down to an operating table. Singed claims that he can save her, but that the process will be "demanding." Silco assures him that Jinx can handle it, and implores him not to let her die. Singed surprises Silco with a syringe to the neck, anesthetizing Silco for the sake of his "sanity." As Silco fades, Singed claims that he too once had a daughter.
Sevika is sitting alone in The Last Drop, drinking and repairing her prosthetic arm. 
Finn sits across from her and strikes up a conversation. He expresses disappointment in Silco's performance and asks her to consider turning against him. Sevika is resistant to the idea, but Finn leaves her to think about it.
Ambessa arrives in Piltover on a Noxian ship, accompanied by a host of soldiers. Mel and 
Elora meet her as she deboards. Ambessa attempts to frame her arrival as an innocent family visit, but Mel is suspicious of her mother and still harbors anger since Ambessa banished her over a decade prior. Ambessa informs her that Mel's brother, Kino, is dead, having "crossed the wrong man." She reveals her ulterior motive: she wants her hands on hextech weaponry, but Mel refuses to oblige. A 
young male escort arrives, and Ambessa departs at his side.
Caitlyn returns to her bedroom, where Vi had been waiting, and informs her that they'll present their case to Council that night. Vi laments on how badly she misses her younger sister and expresses regret for failing her, while Caitlyn simply listens intently.
Jinx wakes up in Singed's lab, wracked by incredible pain. Singed injects her with shimmer, and Jinx begins to see vivid hallucinations of Vi, herself, and Caitlyn. In the visions, Vi betrays Jinx and replaces her with Caitlyn. Singed remarks that the pain will only get worse, and Jinx conflates him with the image of Caitlyn. She screams in agony.
Later, Silco, comes to his senses. He groggily examines Jinx's operation table: the girl is gone, but the table is still covered in dirt and blood. He holds a scalpel to Singed's neck, asking what he did to her. Singed replies that he saved her life.
A cloaked 
Heimerdinger walks through the streets of Zaun, taking in the depth of the city's poverty and violence. A young child approaches and gives him a handful of nuts and bolts as a gift. Hoping to impress her, Heimerdinger performs a sleight-of-hand trick to "magically" replace the scrap metal with a spinning top. However, the girl's mother angrily takes her away from the stranger.
He returns to the Bridge of Progress and discovers 
Ekko's hoverboard on the ground, remarking on its "ingenious" design. Ekko is sitting against the bridge's supports, clutching an injured leg. He recognizes Heimerdinger, asking what he's doing on this side of the bridge. Heimerdinger bemoans that after losing his councilorship, he wanted to offer Zaun his assistance, but that he's "not welcome." Ekko laughs, saying that he's having the exact same day. Heimerdinger tells Ekko that his wounds look serious and that he requires medical attention. Ekko replies that the professor is holding his ride.
Jayce meets Ambessa, who is enjoying a hot bath at a bathhouse. She strongly encourages him to build hextech weaponry. Though he is initially dismissive of her advice, she seems to convince him of the real dangers posed by the undercity, and implores him to listen to the experience she has gained through age.
The Council convenes, processing the revelation that 
Marcus had been secretly working against them. Caitlyn and Vi arrive, informing the Council that Silco is behind everything and is working to achieve Zaun's independence. Jayce presents Jinx's grenade, asking who created it. Caitlyn hesitates, but Vi admits it was made by Jinx. Jayce proposes the use of force, but the other councilors are unwilling to start a war until all diplomatic avenues have been exhausted. Vi angrily asserts that there can be no diplomacy with Silco, but the Council is unwilling to listen, prompting Vi to storm out of the room. She walks out into the rain, but Caitlyn tries to stop her. Vi insists that their efforts to reach the Council have failed and that she was naive to think things could change, but Caitlyn believes there must be another way. Vi compares Piltover and Zaun to "oil and water," saying her relationship with Caitlyn is the same. She tells Caitlyn to forget about her, and walks away.
Viktor stands at the docks and lets his crutch clatter to the ground. His bad leg has been completely transmuted into a purple metal. He begins to walk, and though he nearly stumbles, he breaks into a run, something he'd never been able to do before.
Back at his lab, Viktor prepares to continue transmuting himself into metal, carving runes all across his body. Meanwhile, Sky is approaching, nervously rehearsing ways to ask Viktor to take a look at a project she'd been working on. Once again, Viktor attempts to inject himself with shimmer but after examining the vial, he realizes he's run out of shimmer. Viktor slices his hand open, feeding his blood to the hex core, and attempts to go through with the procedure anyways. 
Sky walks in on him shrieking in pain as the hex core violently transforms his flesh. She rushes to his side, attempting to pull him away, but the magic of the hex core disintegrates her into ash. Viktor faints.
He wakes up a short time later, only his hand having been transmuted. He sees that Sky has become a pile of dust on the ground, and is heartbroken. In addition, the hex core has taken on a fleshier, more organic appearance.
Jayce begins forging a hextech weapon: what will eventually become the 
Mercury Hammer. Vi appears unannounced, and Jayce threatens to have her arrested. She berates him for his readiness to throw strangers into a criminal justice system whose consequences he doesn't fully understand. However, they agree that they both want to make Silco pay. Vi dons one of the 
Atlas gauntlets; despite being designed for mining, she seems to reckon that they would make decent weapons, likening them to 
Vander's gauntlets. She suggests that they go against the Council's wishes and attack Silco's shimmer manufacturing facilities.
Later, a squad of enforcers helmed by Jayce (now wielding the finished Mercury Hammer) board a train carrying numerous barrels of shimmer and force it back to its station. The enforcers quickly take control of the production facility and begin arresting workers, many of whom are children. One red-haired boy escapes an enforcer and presses a button triggering the alarm, waking up a squad of chemtanks: people in full-body mech-suits enhanced by shimmer. The chemtanks begin killing enforcers with superhuman speed and strength, eventually surrounding Jayce. Vi appears, wearing Atlas gauntlets on both hands, and destroys a chemtank with one massive punch. Together, they begin dispatching the remaining chemtanks. Jayce switches into 
cannon stance and fires furiously, but in his fervor, he mistakenly strikes the red-haired boy. The child falls over a railing and plummets to the ground. A short time later, Jayce and Vi find the boy just in time to watch him die.
Caitlyn takes a shower, seemingly unable to take her thoughts away from Vi. Eventually, she emerges into the bathroom. Looking into the large, foggy mirror, she slowly realizes that someone has scribbled Jinx's trademark monkey symbol into the condensation. In the reflection, she sees that 
Jinx—eyes now pink from the effects of shimmer— is standing behind her.
Contributions[]
- Based on the game
- Look Development
Jerome Combe
- Head of Production, Riot
Melinda Wunsch Dilger
- Head of Production, Fortiche
Herve Dupont
- Cast
- Kevin Alejandro as
Jayce - JB Blanc as Bolbok
- Kimberly D.Brooks as Sky
- Imogen Faires as young Mel
- Remy Hill as Mr. Kiramman
- Josh Keaton as Salo, Gorgeous Man
- Katie Leung as Caitlyn
- Erica Lindbeck as Elora
- Harry Lloyd as Viktor
- Abigail Marlowe as Mrs. Kiramman
- Dave B. Mitchell as Hoskel
- Miyavi as Finn
- Toks Olagundoye as Mel Medarda
- Ella Purnell as Jinx
- Jason Spisak as Silco
- Reed Shannon as Ekko
- Hailee Steinfeld as Vi
- Ellen Thomas as Ambessa Medarda
- Brett Tucker as Singed, Sergeant Billingsworth
- Amirah Vann as Sevika
- Mick Wingert as Heimerdinger
- VO Director
David Lyerly
- VO Manager
Kathy Cavaiola
- Additional Casting by
Meredith Layne, CSA
- Production Managers
- Isabelle Boningre
- 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
- Marlene Torest
- Michael Harding
- Ethan Hubbert
- Mattheu Leenhardt
- Bleuenn Mallat
- Kiahna Manker
- Elodie Moncelet
- Cecile Rastoul
- Ugo Segui-Serera
- Production Assistants
- Messaline Agarico
- Antoine Deprez
- Clementine Drouineau
- Lucile Gely
- Tom Kurcz
- Theo Lemonnier
- Yvann Makele
- Alice Sammut
- Nicolas Yoeurp
- Script Manager
Kathy Cavaiola
- Executive Story Editor
Amanda Overton
- Writing Consultants
- Terry Rossio
- Jocelyn Stamat
- Writers Assistant
Andrew Zuber
- First Assistant Directors
- Morgane Dupre
- Mathieu Roumegoux
- Second Assistant Directors
- Melissa Idri
- Zoe Nerot
- Art Directon
Julien Georgel
- Art Supervisors
- Kevin Lemoigne
- Annie-Laure To
- Desing Technical Supervisor
Matthieu Gouget de Landres
- Production Designer
Arnaud-Loris Baudry
- Senior Concept Artist
Charles Lee
- Concept Artist
Mads Ahm
- Senior Character Designers
- Alexandre Mahboubi
- Victor Maury
- Evan Monteiro
- John Polidora
- Character Designer
Thibaub B'Orlandi
- Prop Designers
- Mariana Galiano
- Fanny Marguerie
- Julie Marguerie
- Background Designers
- Bruno Couchinho
- Christophe Oliver
- Guitty Mojabi
- Color Script Arists
- Julien Georgel
- Kevin Le Moigne
- Anne-Laure To
- Storyboard Supervisor
Simon Andriveau
- Lead Storyboard Artist
Philippe Guyenne
- Storyboard Artists
- Thomas Fourniret
- Arina Korczynski
- Chloe Nicolay
- Julien Perron
- Pre-Visual Layout Supervisors
Pauline Motard
- Editor
Gilad Carmel
- Assistant Editors
- Jean Barrucand
- Noemie Esteller
- Melanie Moulin
- Pipeline Supervisor
Charles Bouet
- Lead Pipeline Developer
Melissa Goudjil
- Pipeline Developers
- Maxime Binetruy
- Cyrill Calbac
- Sebastien Courtois
- Marion Debrick
- Florent Godin
- William Loew
- Alexy Long
- Bettina Migot
- Lead Technical Director
Benoit Delaunay
- Technical Directors
- Julien Chastaing
- Oceane Froment
- Remi Viette
- Manon Goliot
- Arthur Marx
- Assets Supervisor
Michel Pecqueur
- Modeling Supervisor
Edouard Cellura
- Character Modeling Artists
- Ladislas Gueros
- Thomas Vuillier
- Thibaut Granet
- Prop Modeling Artists
- Delphine Jobin
- Alexis Dumortier
- Tony Lebrun
- Lea Rocton
- Crowd Assests Artists
Reynald Bayeux
- Grooming Supervisors
Christophe Gigot
- Grooming Artist
- Flora Andrivon
- Camille Canonne
- Juliete Dominguez
- Thi Nguyen
- Texturing Supervisor
Candice Theuillon
- Texturing Lead
Benedicte Battesti
- Texturing Artists
- Johan Berges
- Solene Chan-Lam
- Simon Goeneutte-Lefevre
- Thibaut Granet
- Julie Marguerie
- Romain Mazevet
- Maena Paillet
- Gilles Roman
- Ambre Sedogbo
- Magali Vidal
- Loïc Zemmour
- Rigging Supervisor
Michel Pecqueur
- Lead Rigger
Pascal Burtin
- Riggers
- Edgard Cros
- Olmo Riedinger
- Blendshapes Supervisor
Alexandre Bourlet
- Blendshapes Artists
- Benoit Bernos
- Solena Frehel
- Layout Supervisor
Pauline Motard
- Layout Artists
- Antoine Collet
- Theo Coriton
- Vicent Leprat
- Jonathan Meret
- Benjamin Prive
- Quentin Sur
- Benjamin Tussiot
- Eline Zhang
- CG Environment Supervisor
Claude Chabot
- CG Environment Leads
- Jennifer Archen
- Simon Magnan
- CG Environment Artists
- Maxime Blin
- Florence Charbonnel
- Chams Chitou
- Pierre Debras
- Nazli Doale
- Alexia Perry
- Magali Vidal
- Jessica Ferry
- Pulkita Mathur
- Florian Pasquier
- William Rima
- Maud Rolland
- Aymeric Rondol
- Florian Vernet
- Matte Painting Supervisor
Julien Georgel
- Matte Painting Leads
- Martin Bailly
- Aloïs Desoubries-Binet
- Faustine Dumontier
- Celine Lorthiois
- Matte Painters
- Joy Afaryan
- Stephane Baton
- Fanny Branet
- Romain Couderette
- Guilhem Deckers
- Willis Francois
- Fanny Marguerie
- Oliver Mootoo
- Tomas Muir
- Charlotte O'Neill
- Charles Ouvrard
- Ivan Pozdnyakov
- Annie Raffin
- Oliver Ryan
- Geoffroy Thoorens
- Bastien Thuillot
- Animation Director
Barthelemy Maunoury
- Lead Animators
- Martial Andre
- Sebastein Asensio
- Daniel Callaby
- Jean-Charles Gonin
- Alexandre Henri
- Stephane Mangin
- Caroline Renault
- Claude Ricros
- Animators
- Pierre Bottai
- Claire Broodelle
- Fanny Brotot
- Agathe Bulik
- Lorenzo Buzzi
- Boris Cailly
- Carlos Carvajal
- Yann Caussat
- Erh Lei Chan
- Lea Chervet
- Remi Comtois
- Claudia Coviello
- Jean-Baptiste Cumont
- Nicolas Debon
- Leo Dediot
- Eric de Fromont
- Juliana de Lucca
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- Vincent Donaz
- Thaïs Dubois
- Moïse Essame
- Alexis Fernandez
- Jeremy Fromentin
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- Tom Gouill
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- Michael Hu
- Julien Jamme
- Cedric Jault
- Louisa Kerrache
- Olga Kolomitskaya
- Oliver Lafay
- Quentin Laville
- Vincent Le Ster
- Nicolas Lorente
- Alexis Macia Ortuzar
- Ugo Masutti
- Sara Matta
- Matheo Mercier
- David Mourato
- David Nasser
- Jonathan Perez
- Clement Pierre
- Kevin Phou
- Vincent Plagniol
- Jean-Michael Ponthieux
- Daniel Quintero
- Matthieu Razungles
- Come Roy-Girard
- Natacha Rollin-Abastado
- Clarisse Rubini
- Jean-Vincent Sales
- Emilie Scaps
- Jeremy Taburet
- Yohan Thireau
- David Thomas
- Florian Titone
- Maxime Voidey
- Yu-Ting Zhou
- Sophie Zourane
- Fix Animation Supervisor
Maximilein Ly
- Fix Animation Lead
Amelie Gavard
- Fix Animations
- Alexis Bedue
- Ka-Leung Chan
- Severine Cordier
- Hugo Durand
- Dimitri James
- Morgane Lau
- Estelle Parein
- Leo Pieri
- Crowd Simulation Artists
- Reynald Bayeux
- Marion Demaret
- Michael Etienne
- Fortiche Animation Montpellier
- Animation Supervisor
Alexis Wanneroy
- Production Coordinator
Romain Recher
- Lead Animators
- Callum La Prairie
- Steven Meyer
- Caroline Renault
- Animators
- Steve Alves
- Lucas Ancel
- Francesca Casareggio
- Raphaël de Paris
- Andres Derakhshani
- Quentin Dubois
- Quentin Garaud
- Ludmila Khuda
- Arnaud Kupke
- Ugo Masutti
- Giacomo Mora
- Fortiche España Las Palmas
- Animation Supervisor
Remy Terreaux
- Production Coordinator
Amelie Houpline
- Lead Animators
Victor Pesquera Muro
- Animators
- Loïc Baton
- Agathe Bulik
- Rodrigo Caetano da Costa
- Jean-Christophe Craps
- Thaïs Dubois
- Alexandra Guglieri
- Helene Papet
- Emir Paynter Obejero
- Juba Polati
- Sara Riobó Rúa
- Paloma Vela Oromendía
- CFX Supervisor
Julien Lefebvre
- CFX Leads
- Sebastein Caenen
- Loïc Peze
- Guillaume Poignant
- CFX Artists
- Antoine Beaumier
- Clotilde Bonnotte
- Camille Canonne
- Sergio Cayuela
- Juliette Dominguez
- Lea Gagnoud
- Heloise Gaimard
- Laura Gimenez
- Marion Jabinet
- Nicolas Lipari
- Jan Panther
- Leire Perez
- Camille Poulain
- Kevin Vernet
- 3D Effects Supervisor
Herni Morain
- 3D Effects Artists
- Bertrand Piot
- Laszlo Trachsel
- 2D Effects Supervisor
Guillaume Degroote
- 2D Effects Lead Animator
Aurelien Rassencourt
- 2D Effects Animators
- Stephane Chung
- Jerome Dupre
- Tom de Vis
- Martin Touze
- Jerome Dupre
- Frederic Mace
- Ines Scheiber
- Lighting & Rendering Supervisor
Nicolas Millecamps
- Lighting & Rendering Artists
- Thomas Cailliez
- Julia Dech
- Antoine Laroye
- Philippe Lucini
- David Musique
- William Rima
- Confo Rendering Lead
Guillaume Letourneur
- Confo Rendering Artists
- Julien Bouvier
- Martin Burnod
- Aurelien Thuillier
- Chloe Gomez
- Aurelie Sagot
- Compositing Supervisors
Yann Leroy
- Compositing Leads
- Alexis Charles
- Thibault Lebret
- Maxime Temple
- Eva Virlouvet
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- Francois Barbut
- Lea Biscarat
- Maimiti Chave
- Quientin Collet
- Rudyard Cretenet
- Mathilde Dourdy
- Mickael Forrett
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- Mathilde Girard
- Marie-Alix Hoffmann
- Benjamin Jean
- Marc Konings
- Pulkita Mathur
- Samuel MClean
- Milena Mouries
- Florian Odeja Diop
- Quentin Primault
- Nolwenn Raffin
- Dorian Robert
- Andrea Roncancio
- Marine Sailland
- Clementine Sergeant
- Elise Simoulin
- Charlotte Stadnicki
- Renaud Tissandie
- Agathe Trebosc
- Leo Vedel
- Final Compositing Artists
- Julien Baret
- Damien Gaillardon
- Benoit Hasboun
- David Says
- 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
Shannon Beaumont
- Sound Editors
- Eliot Connors, MPSE
- Brad Beaumont, MPSE
- Foley Editor
Alexander Ephraim, MPSE
- 1st Assistant Sound Editor
Pernell Salinas
- Assistant Dialogue Editors
- Matthew Kulewicz
- Jeff Picarello
- ADR Voice Casting
Terri Douglas
- ADR Mixer
Michael Miller
- Additional Voices
- Kimberly Bailey
- Terri Douglas
- Robin Atkin Downes
- Abigail Ludorf
- Scott Menville
- Fred Tatasciore
- Matt Yang King
- Shelby Young
- Pre-Recording Mixers
- Penny Harold
- Andrew Garrett Lange
- Pre-Recording Mix Tech
Nick Jimenez
- Dialogue / ADR Recording Services
Formosa Group
- Sound Re-Recording Services Provided by
Formosa Broadcast
- Dialogue / ADR Recording Services
Liquid Violet
- Lead Composer
Alexander Temple
- Composer
Alex Seaver of Mako
- Composer - Additional Music
Andrew Kierszenbaum
- Music Consultant
Ray Chen
- Orchestrator
Michael Barry
- Conductors
Bernhard Wünsch
- Vocalists
Kelci Hahn
- Featured Soloist
Ray Chen
- Cellist
Cameron Stone
- Copyist
Thanh Tran
- Music Assistant
Andrew Kierszenbaum
- Flutist
Gina Luciani
- Musician Contractor
Hollywood Scoring - Los Angeles
- Orchestra Contractor
Scoring Berlin
- Score Performed by
Scoring Berlin - The Berlin Orchestra
- Music Scoring Mixer
- Recording Engineers
- Pro Tools Editors
Adam Michalak
- Tobias Lehmann
- Tso Hsing
- Tom Russbueldt
- Shao-Ting Sun
Milton Gutierrez
- Assistant Engineers
- Cornelius Dürst
- Sergej Marx
- System Engineers
- Andy Baker (In-House)
- Jimmy Lu
- Wei-Kang Wang
- 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
- Published by; Imagine Dragons Publishing (BMI) / Universal/KIDinaKORNER, Wolf Cousins (STIM) / Warner Chappelli, Music SCAND (STIM), Justin's School for Girls (BMI) WARNER-TAMERLANE PUBLISHING CORP, Route Way LLC/Reservoir Media (BMI)
- Imagine Dragons appears Courtesy of KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records.
- JID Appears Courtesy of Dreamville/Interscope Records
- Original Song - "Snakes"
- Snakes (from Arcane: Season 1 Original Soundtrack) - PVRIS, MIYAVI, Arcane
- Written by: Lyndsey Gerd Gunnulfsen
- Published by: Lyndsey Gunnulfsen Publishing (BMI) % Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing
- PVRIS appears courtesy of Warner Records
- MIYAVI appears courtesy of Virgin Records
- Music Supervisor
Andre Marsh
- A&R
- Andre Marsh
- Bob Debelina
- Soundtrack Project Manager
Kerianne Pinkstaff
- A&R Coordinator
Daniel Gerber
- Main Title Concept by
Elastic
- Main Title Animation by
Fortiche Production
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Bond Creative Inc.
- Supervising Producer
Chris Neuhahn
- Co-Producers
- Ash Brannon
- David Dunne
- Molly St. John
- Ben St. John
- Nick Luddington
- Amanda Overton
- Showrunner Consultant
- Monica Macer
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- Fortiche Studio Team
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- Copyright 2021 Riot Games, Inc.
Trivia[]
- At the beginning of the episode, Mel's flashback shows her wearing attire with patterns and designs similar to the ones used by the Solari.
- It is unclear when or where the flashback takes place, as Noxus is known for being an expansionist empire and having different war fronts across the Runeterra Prime in Arcane's timeline. Fans have speculated it occured in Ionia, Shurima, Targon, or some other currently unknown front.
- One of the artists working for the series, through her archives of her work, confirms that the place where it happened is in Ionia. This event occurs during the time of the Noxian Invasion of Ionia.[2]
- It is unclear when or where the flashback takes place, as Noxus is known for being an expansionist empire and having different war fronts across the
- In Singed's lab, he is seen removing bandages due to a recent incident with his test subject's as told in the Engineering the Nightmare short story.
- When Ambessa arrives in Piltover, she tells Mel that her brother, Kino, was killed trying to deceive the wrong person, she is referring to the supposed future coup d'etat against the Noxian empire.
- The Pretty Boy who came for Ambessa was directly inspired by Howl from the animated movie Howl's Moving Castle.
- The
- The area where Heimerdinger notices a little girl is the same area shown in the Enemy music video, specifically the scene where Violet practices her street combat with her peers and the boys from another gang observing her.
- When Heimerdinger was offered several gears and bolts by the girl, he uses yordle magic to instantly merge them into a spinning top. This is the first time he is shown using yordle magic in the show.
- When Heimerdinger is walking next to the bridge, the scenery resembles the one used for the Piltovan fighting arena teaser for the 2XKO.
- During the meeting, the name Zaun was referenced for the second time in the show.
- When Vi visits Jayce's Talis workshop, he is seen assembling the handle of the Mercury Hammer.
- When she picks up the Atlas gauntlets, for the first time her eyes reflect blue.
- In the original lore, Vi put the gauntlet on when she joined the Piltover Wardens.
- When she picks up the
- In Caitlyn's Council Archive, it was revealed this facility was used to test chemtech on kids, pumping them with chemtech green liquids to see if they can adapt to the Turbo Chemtank suits.
- The walkway inside the shimmer factory resembles the three lanes of the Summoner's Rift map.
- During the battle against the squad of chemtanks, Vi and Jayce showcase several of their League of Legends in-game abilities:
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Snakes
Know you got my blood running
Turn the heat to 600
Wish I could knock your skull in
But I’m rising above it
Know you’ll crash it and burn it
God knows you didn’t earn it
My friend karma’s a bitch
She’s got some lessons you’ll learn ‘em
NOW WE'RE ENEMIES
You’re a snake, you’re a snake
I can see it in your face
Do you feel no shame?
Can’t you see my rage?
You’re a snake, you’re a snake
Just like a spitting image
Fate, how’s it taste?
It’s your own medicine
Make no mistakes
Got 20/20 vision
If I see your face
Don't think I’m forgiving
It’s time we had a discussion
‘Bout your sorry production
Mask your shade and corruption
Grinning teeth lack seduction
Know the crime you committed
I forget not forgive it
Don’t you dare get it twisted
I’m nice but I can get wicked
NOW WE'RE ENEMIES
Do you feel no shame?
Can’t you see my rage?
You’re a snake, you’re a snake
Just like a spitting image
Fate, how’s it taste?
It’s your own medicine
Make no mistakes
Got 20/20 vision
If I see your face
Don't think I’m forgiving
You’re a snake, you’re a snake
I can see it in your face
You’re a snake you’re a snake
I can see it in your face
YOU'RE A SNAKE, YOU'RE A SNAKE
I CAN SEE IT IN YOUR FACE
YOU'RE A SNAKE, YOU'RE A SNAKE
I CAN SEE IT IN YOUR FACE
