Happy Progress Day! is the fourth episode of the first season, and the fourth episode overall.
Official Synopsis[]
With Piltover prospering from their tech, 
Jayce and 
Viktor weigh their next move. A 
familiar face re-emerges from 
Zaun to wreak havoc. [1]
Plot[]
Several years after the events of the previous episode, Jayce enters 
Heimerdinger's office. They speak of the upcoming Progress Day, a holiday marking the anniversary of Piltover's founding. The city is about to turn 200 years old. Jayce inquires about a statue of a man named Stanwick Pididly, to which Heimerdinger explains that Stanwick is remembered not for his own work, but for the contributions of his students.
Heimerdinger informs Jayce that while typically, he is the one to give the Progress Day speech, he and the Council want Jayce to deliver it this year, opining on how Jayce's hexgates (devices that allow airships to travel at speeds previously thought impossible) have revolutionized the city. He wonders if Jayce has anything he could reveal at the ceremony, and Jayce invites Heimerdinger to his lab later that afternoon to see what he calls "the next chapter of hextech."
At the Progress Day festival, 
Mrs. Kiramman introduces Jayce, her "famous protégé," to a group of attendees. He excuses himself to banter with 
Caitlyn, now an enforcer, who is guarding her family's tent which she hated it because it was her mother's idea.
On a nearby airship dock, 
Silco's henchmen (led by 
Sevika) prepare a large shipment of shimmer. They are attacked from above by 
Firelights, a gang of masked vigilantes known for their flying hoverboards. The Firelights subdue the henchmen using grenades that imprison their target within a shell of amber-colored crystals. The Firelight leader starts a stopwatch, saying that the crystals will only hold for five minutes. Poring over the vast quantities of shimmer, the leader remarks that Silco's operations are expanding. He orders the Firelights to check for more shimmer below deck, and to "burn it all."
Two Firelights descend below deck and trigger a tripwire that locks the door shut behind them. Seeing a crude drawing of a monkey on the door, they realize that this is the work of a teenage Powder, now known as Jinx. Another device activates, dangling a doll in front of the Firelights which attaches several grenades to each of their bodies. They explode, killing the pair.
Jinx emerges onto the top deck and begins dispatching the remaining Firelights. One of them moves to set the shimmer ablaze with a flare, but Jinx grabs her arm and pistol-whips her, dislodging her mask. Revealed to be a human girl with pink hair, the Firelight bears a resemblance to 
Vi, causing Jinx to become frozen stiff by a sudden surge of traumatic memories. In Jinx's stupor, the Firelight drops the flare, igniting the shimmer, and breaks free of Jinx's grasp. Jinx responds by firing her shock pistol, killing the girl. The Firelight leader cries out and rushes to shake the girl awake, but she doesn't move. He checks his stopwatch, realizing that his five minutes are almost up. Enraged, he makes a wild attack against Jinx, but is quickly grabbed and carried away by another Firelight on a hoverboard. Jinx erratically fires her minigun, Pow-Pow, at the fleeing Firelights, pincushioning the ship's hull with bullet holes and wounding one of her allies, but the Firelights escape unscathed. Sevika finally breaks free from the crystals and angrily confronts Jinx for failing to guard the cargo.
Heimerdinger arrives at Jayce's lab, where Jayce and Viktor display several new inventions. First is a newly fortified hex crystal: unlike normal crystals which are extremely volatile and dangerous, these smooth, marble-like crystals can withstand great force and are completely safe. This allows them to design portable devices, such as the Atlas gauntlets, a pair of robotic hands created to assist miners, granting the wielder strength enough to crush boulders. In addition, Viktor demonstrates the hex claw, a mechanical arm equipped with a powerful laser, designed to assist artificers. Heimerdinger is impressed, but estimates that these devices will need a "decade" of additional research before they can be released to the public, since putting that type of power in everyone's hands would be dangerous without safeguards. Viktor is disheartened, eager to start improving lives immediately.
Caitlyn sneaks aboard the nearly-destroyed airship where the Firelights attacked, now an active crime scene. She takes photographs and examines the wreckage carefully. Following a trail of blood below deck, she discovers the henchman Jinx mistakenly shot, collapsed on the ground. She uses a cloth to stem his still-open wound as she begins questioning him. 
Marcus arrives, now the sheriff, and reprimands Caitlyn for interfering in this investigation while she's supposed to be guarding her family's tent. He punishes her with a graveyard shift and orders his officers to take the wounded henchman to Stillwater Prison.
Sevika returns to The Last Drop, transformed by Silco into a raucous nightclub. In Silco's office, she blames Jinx for the lost shimmer, but Silco defends Jinx, saying it was Sevika who failed in her responsibility. Sevika storms out in frustration. Silco asks Jinx, who had been listening from the rafters, for her side of the story. Jinx explains her trauma response to the pink-haired girl, and Silco stresses that she needs to move on from the past. He says that Sevika will "clean up today's mess" and instructs Jinx to take some time off and focus on her gadgetry. Just as Sevika did, Jinx storms off in a huff.
At a lavish cocktail party, 
Mel is standing alone on a tall balcony. 
Elora approaches, asking if she's tired of mingling. Mel bemoans that the only person worth her time is Jayce. As if on cue, Jayce arrives, asking to speak to Mel in private. After retreating to Mel's study, he explains that Heimerdinger thinks Jayce's inventions need more time and asks for her advice. Mel urges him to "give people a glimpse of the future," saying that investors and representatives from all over the world will be present at Jayce's speech and that Progress Day is the perfect time to reveal new creations.
Jinx returns to her lair, fashioned from the remnants of a massive engine hanging over a cavernous fissure. She vents her frustrations to crude effigies of Mylo and Claggor, complaining that Silco now thinks she's weak. However, her mood gradually improves as she starts to come up with a plan to prove herself.
Jayce prepares to deliver his Progress Day speech. He invites Viktor onstage with him, but Viktor declines due to the large crowd. After Mrs. Kiramman introduces him, he walks onstage to rambunctious applause. He compares his humble origins as a stonemason's scion to his current status as the creator of the hexgates, which have brought incredible prosperity to Piltover. Viktor prepares to unveil their latest inventions, but Jayce doubts himself and says that he'll be ready to reveal them at a later date, to which the crowd seems disappointed. However, he finishes by claiming that his creations will bring an end to the people's hardships, and that Piltover's future is bright. The crowd applauds once again, but Jayce sees that Mel and Elora have gotten up to leave.
Afterwards, Caitlyn and a group of enforcers relax on the steps of the capitol building as they guard the now-empty festival setup late at night. The others are teasing her for her background of wealth and refinement when a fire breaks out in a nearby building. They rush to the scene and hear the voice of a young girl crying for help from within. Some enforcers leave to notify the fire brigade, others start deploying extinguishers, and yet others begin searching for the child. However, they find that the child's voice is coming from a portable speaker hanging from the ceiling alongside numerous explosives. The artificial voice sours, becoming Jinx's voice, and Caitlyn sees a drawing of a monkey, nearly identical to the one she saw on the destroyed airship. She realizes that it's a trap, but it's too late, and the bombs detonate, collapsing the building. Six enforcers die in the blast, while others, including Caitlyn, are injured. Caitlyn sees Jinx leaving the scene before she loses consciousness.
The following morning, Jayce and Viktor inform Marcus and the Council that the perpetrator of this crime also stole one of the fortified hex crystals and some of their research papers. When asked if the undercity could create a weapon with the stolen crystal, Jayce admits that it's possible. He recommends suspending all hextech operations, including the hexgates, until the situation is resolved, but the Council is reluctant to halt foreign commerce. Mel proposes that Jayce be given a seat on the Council so that he'll have the resources to assist in this investigation as he chooses. Heimerdinger seconds the motion, prompting Mel to call a vote.
Back in her lair, Jinx is hard at work on new gadgets. Silco arrives, furiously reprimanding her for destroying a building and killing enforcers. However, she gives him the fortified hex crystal she stole, setting off a fireworks display and hugging Silco to earn his approval. Finally, he seems pleased.
In her bedroom, Caitlyn is attempting to make sense of recent events via a sprawling, interconnected display of evidence and photographs pinned to a map of Piltover and Zaun. Jayce arrives with flowers, but Caitlyn is uninterested, tossing them in with the many other flowers she's received during her recovery. She explains her findings: she believes that the perpetrators of the failed smuggling operation were also responsible for the recent attack. Nearly all of the undercity's ongoing violence, she reasons, can be traced back to a single source. Jayce is unsure if any of her theories can be proven. He reveals that he's been made a councilor and asks her to join his security team, since her parents have now had her discharged from the enforcers. She rejects his "charity" and tells him to leave.
Caitlyn takes a ferry to Stillwater Prison and asks to speak with the henchman she found aboard the airship, inmate 2135. The warden reveals that the inmate was assaulted and is unable to speak due to his injuries. Instead, Caitlyn goes to talk with the prisoner who attacked him. Alone in a cell on the fortieth basement level, she finds this prisoner: Vi.
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
- Robin Atkin Downes as Burly Henchman
- Remy Hill as Marcus
- Mia Sinclair Jenness as Powder
- Mara Junot as Shoola, Female Enforcers
- Katie Leung as Caitlyn
- Erica Lindbeck as Elora
- Harry Lloyd as Viktor
- Josh Keaton as Salo, Customs Agent
- Abigail Marlowe as Mrs. Kiramman, Lieutenant Eve
- Dave B. Mitchell as Hoskel, Enforcer #1, Enforcer #2, Warden
- Toks Olagundoye as Mel Medarda
- Ella Purnell as Jinx
- Reed Shannon as Firelight Leader
- Jason Spisak as Silco
- Hailee Steinfeld as Vi
- Amirah Vann as Sevika
- Mick Wingert as Heimerdinger, duty Captain
- Joe Zieja as Punk
- 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
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- David Portner
- Alyssa Roberts
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Eric Bergman
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David Lyerly
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Sebastien Rossi
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Rob Hollocks
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Mark Taylor
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- Romane Belaisch
- Eloide Capo-ChiChi
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- Pauline Dupuy
- Caesar Feliz
- Pauline Fleury
- Marie-Lou Gely
- Michael Harding
- Ethan Hubbert
- Mattheu Leenhardt
- Celine Le Therisien
- Bleuenn Mallat
- Kiahna Manker
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- Marlene Torest
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Kathy Cavaiola
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Amanda Overton
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Andrew Zuber
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Charles Lee
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Thibaub B'Orlandi
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- Main Title Theme - "Enemy"
- Enemy (from Arcane: Season 1 Original Soundtrack) - Imagine Dragons ft. JID, Arcane
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Trivia[]
- Heimerdinger mentions that Piltover will celebrate 200 years of its foundation.
- Even though the completion of the Sun Gates occurred in 772 AN, due to the unforeseen destruction caused by the creation of the canal, it would take several years for the Sun Gates to officially open. The anniversary of the opening of the Sun Gates as well as the renaming of the topside settlement of Zaun into Piltover is named 8 Progress Day, an event celebrated each year afterwards.
- Heimerdinger mentions to Jayce that the statue to the right of the balcony door was to his friend and co-founder of Piltover, Stanwick Pididly. This character is a reference to Viktor's old original lore. In it, Stanwick Pididly was a contemporary professor who stole the credit for Viktor's creation of Blitzcrank.
- Even though the completion of the Sun Gates occurred in 772 AN, due to the unforeseen destruction caused by the creation of the canal, it would take several years for the Sun Gates to officially open. The anniversary of the opening of the Sun Gates as well as the renaming of the topside settlement of Zaun into Piltover is named
- When the massive Hexgates were about to transport an airship, the location marked on the map was Basilich in Noxus.
- It is unclear if the map is the complete charted globe of Runeterra, as such some locations may not be present.
- It is unclear if the map is the complete charted globe of
- At the Progress Day fair, several things can be seen:
- Children playing around with miniature airships which Jinx would later obtain and swap the Hexite gem with.
- A more automaton robot similar to the one Orianna would stumble upon in the short story, Fieram.
- A prototype steam car that would later be perfected and used by 2 Reggie Ferros.
- Mechanized butterflies based on the clockwork mechanism that Jinx used to create detonator-driven fake Firelight.
- Several Vastaya of different appearances are present during the Kiramman Clan exhibition (some are even part of the Kiramman Clan).
- The horned Vastaya bare some similarities to the Vastaya described in Syndra's, The Dreaming Pool.
- The horned Vastaya bare some similarities to the Vastaya described in
- In a later scene the items such as the diving helmet might be a reference to Jayce's and Viktor's old lore where they constructed diving suits for underwater workers.
- There is a stand with a poster image of something that resembles Vel'Koz. However this might be a reference to the creatures of the deep and the diver getting snatched by them.
- Children playing around with miniature airships which
- Caitlyn's Warden uniform is a reference to her pre-ASU appearance, donning a short dress and large hat.
- The drunk man with the glasses or punk that appeared at the brothel in the first episode of the show also appears on a passing airship.
- Fans have speculated that the three characters on that airship are a reference to the founders of Fortiche Productions, the animation studio responsible for creating the Arcane show.
- During the airship cargo transport scene, the barrels used to transport Shimmer had the image of Gragas on them. This is likely a reference to Gragas' famous brew from lore, Graggy Ice.
- The devices Jayce and Viktor showcase to Heimerdinger are the Atlas Gauntlets (later used by Vi) and the Hexclaw (later used by augmented Viktor).
- While the original lore, inventor of the Atlas gauntlets is Vaido Violante, Jayce stabilized them with hexite gems in Arcane.
- Heimerdinger's Poro debuted in the RiotX Arcane online visual novel before appearing in the show.
- The first instance of Heimerdinger wearing his iconic goggles happens during this scene.
- While the original lore, inventor of the Atlas gauntlets is Vaido Violante, Jayce stabilized them with hexite gems in
- Zaun's transformation during the time skip is apparent in several ways:
- An increase of Zaun gray that would facilitate the creation of Cultivairs (greenhouses where clean air is made), some of which are used specifically by the wealthy as a showcase of status (cultivair with cherry blossom pureair).
- Increase of neon lights and other artificial lighting.
- Larger and more wilder cityscape with more emphasized art nouveau aesthetic.
- Larger wealth and class divide.
- The birth of a new religion called the Church of the Gloriously Evolved.
- Rich people with several animals, a Poro, a Shuriman sauren, and a Crow.
- This is the first instance of a Crow appearing in both Act 2 and Act 3. In folklore, the crow symbolizes transformation/change, a theme constantly present throughout the series.
- Heralds Palace is a possible reference to the Rift Herald.
- The tattoo artist is the same one that would later tattoo Urgot as it appears in his League of Legends splash art.
- The specific image he is tattooing in the scene is the Pentakill Mordekaiser logo (non-canonical easter egg).
- The specific image he is tattooing in the scene is the
- The music that plays in The Last Drop bar, "Bones UK - Dirty Little Animals", was the music used for the teaser trailer for Arcane.
- During the initial scene with Silco, Sevika and Jinx, the first appearance of a Piltover map in lore appears on Silco's desk (later in Caitlyn's bedroom).
- Aside from Caitlyn's room, she's investigating unsolved cases during his early years as Piltover Wardens officer. More details in its Council Archive.
- Aside from
- Mel's fundraiser party has several Noxian decorations, such as the fire pit at the center of the room, war drum music, as well as several guests wearing red and black clothing.
- In Jinx's lair, she still has all her childhood toys, including a doll of Claggor and a mannequin of Mylo.
- In a later scene with Silco, the music played in the background record player is the same one from the music video Get Jinxed. Followed by a dismantled dangling missile that also has the same design as her music video.
- During the Arcane event, the Council Archives showcased Vi's arrest warrant as well as some information during her time in prison.
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Dirty Little Animals
Taste what fell from grace
Wanna taste what fell from grace
Run away from the faith
Let's race if you wanna taste
You wanna mess around
They gonna take you down down down
Wanna slide and turn
Such a lovely way to burn burn burn
I never felt like this before
I think I might just want some more
I never felt like this before
I think I might just
SLIDE - shake your bones out if you wanna
RIDE - throw your head back make you feel
ALIVE - the kind of bad that make you feel good, good, good
GOD - the kinda wrong that make you feel
RIGHT - the little death that makes you feel
ALIVE - the kinda shouldn’t that mean that you should, should, should
DIRTY LITTLE ANIMALS
I don't want to talk about the things that make you never
know you never get until you get go
It makes your blood run hot
It makes your spit taste sweet
It makes you feel more alive
Than you have ever been
Throw it into your mouth
Gets stuck between your teeth
Why would you die up there
When you can live underneath
DIRTY LITTLE ANIMALS
BEAUTIFUL CANNIBALS
SLIDE - shake your bones out if you wanna
RIDE - throw your head back make you feel
ALIVE - the kind of bad that make you feel good, good, good
GOD - the kinda wrong that make you feel
RIGHT - the little death that makes you feel
ALIVE - the kinda shouldn’t that mean that you should, should, should
DIRTY LITTLE ANIMALS
The kind of bad that make you feel good, good, good
DIRTY LITTLE ANIMALS
the kinda shouldn’t that mean that you should, should, should
Novicane
Never same
Giving local luck
But when you go under you will never go back up
Novicane
Never same
Never going up
Cos when you go under you will never go back up, up
Novicane
Never same
Never going up
Cos when you go under you will never go back up
HEY. What you say
Wanna find a place to play?
HEY. Hey what you say
Wanna find a place to play?
SLIDE - shake your bones out if you wanna
RIDE - throw your head back make you feel
ALIVE - the kind of bad that make you feel good, good, good
GOD - the kinda wrong that make you feel
RIGHT - the little death that makes you feel
ALIVE - the kinda shouldn’t that mean that you should, should, should
SLIDE - shake your bones out if you wanna
RIDE - throw your head back make you feel
ALIVE - the kind of bad that make you feel good, good, good
GOD - the kinda wrong that make you feel
RIGHT - the little death that makes you feel
ALIVE - the kinda shouldn’t that mean that you should, should, should
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