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  • Story Arc: Avalon Mystic Tour
  • Characters: Goliath, Elisa, Angela, Halcon Renard, Preston Vogel
  • Enemy(ies): Tomas Brode

Finding themselves in Prague, Goliath runs across Halcon Renard. Meanwhile, Elisa stumbles across a priest attempting to re-animate a Golem as a protector for Prague from mercenaries like Tomas Brode. Who himself is already in the process of stealing the Golem... for none other than Renard himself!

Vogel returns in "The Green", Renard in "The Gathering (Part 1)", and Brode in "Turf".


This episode contains the following tropes:

  • Ambiguously Jewish: Even though the episode features an accurate retelling of the story of The Golem of Prague and both written and spoken Hebrew, nobody mentions the words "Jew," "Judaism," or "Jewish" even once. Instead, they refer to "our people" and "our community," never actually identifying their people by name. Also, no one wears a yarmulke or any sort of head covering at any point in the story, even when conducting Jewish rituals
  • Armor-Piercing Question: Goliath unloads one on Halcon, asking if what he's done is truly worth it, particularly given his principles. It proves to be enough to finally break through to him.
  • Bilingual Bonus: This episode actually includes correct Hebrew, both written and spoken. The "spell" in Hebrew, allowing a human to possess a golem, translates as something like "My soul should enter the body of earth". Also interesting to note that writer Gary Sperling's brother, a rabbi, advised him on the spoken Hebrew used in this episode.
  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Halcyon Renard has an experience similar to this in regards to the Golem. Though the Golem isn't a cybernetic body, and if anything, he was simply playing around and causing amusing destruction in the body of the Golem.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Any involving the Golem, whom is an unstoppable juggernaut, immune to both gunfire and gargoyle fist, able to crush any opposition with little trouble.
  • FlashBack: While plenty of these have been shown before, the one in this episode is unique in containing a flashback scene not connected to the series mythology or the lives of its characters. The production team felt the background both necessary and dramatic to an audience that likely would not be familiar enough with the legends pertaining to the Golem.
  • Golem: The very same of myth and legend debuts here, with surprisingly accurate representation.
  • "Hey, You!" Haymaker: Eliza greets a random mook with a fist to the face after tapping his shoulder from behind.
    Eliza: Hi there. (punches mook)
  • Ironic Echo: Halcon himself utters, in a moment of confusion, "It's Not My Fault" something he often chastised others for doing so in the past. It starts the slow realization that he's done something even he finds deplorable.
  • Nigh-Invulnerable: The Golem is immune to any attack, be it from Gargoyle fist or Human gunfire. It makes whoever controls it virtually unstoppable.
  • Resigned to the Call: Goliath had hoped Renard could provide the travelers an easy way home. In the end, Renard offers to do that, but Goliath (having realized he had helped both Prague and his old friend, to say nothing of his previous adventures) politely refuses. He realizes there is a greater purpose to the places Avalon keeps sending him and that he has to see it through to the end.
  • What Have I Become?: Once Goliath takes sense into him, Halcon realizes the power trip he went on and is so ashamed that he willingly leaves the Golem's body. He practically utters the quote verbatim.

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