Merlin's falcon reveals to him that the key Arthur alone can use to free King Arthur from the Cave of Glass has been found. Merlin creates an impenetrable tunnel to send Arthur, Gallup, and Phil most of the way to retrieve it, but Morgana is aware of the extreme use of magic so reasons whom has used it and why. She sends Lord Viper and the Warlords to Crownhorn, the village it's ended up near, just after the knights stand up for Orin, a villager in a misunderstanding with an army of gnomes then are offered hospitality by him and his wife Kate. Suspecting the knights are in the home of Orin or a neighbor, they kidnap Kate with orders for Orin to bring a knight to him to ransom her.