Beastmaster

Episode opens with camouflaged tribesmen hiding in the jungle. They are hunting wild pigs, and corralling them into boxes, where they can kill them. The elder tries to stop them, saying they have enough food, but no one listens.

The scene then switches to the tribe's camp at night, where Curupira watches a young boy, Guariba, and their herding dog. She causes the fire to swell, which chases off the dog. As Guariba tries to find the dog, she makes a smirk at the boy and bends over one of the tribesmen and sucks the life out of him, leaving a shell of skin. She continues with more men, and gives life back to one of the pigs that had been killed.

She approaches Guariba, who tries to run to his father, but sees that he has been killed as well. After the credits, we see that Guariba has climbed a tree, and comes down after he hears his "father's voice."

As he is following the voice, he runs into Dar and Tao and tries to explain what has happened. Dar remembers the attack that Guariba describes and we see a flashback of Dar, running from Terrons, only to be saved by Curupira, who knocks the Terrons over a cliff.

Tao is now talking to Guariba, telling him that perhaps he ate something that is making him think he saw dead bodies, when Tao cannot see any. Dar finds Curupira's tracks and decides to go to Guariba's camp.

Back to Dar's flashback, we see Curupira telling Dar that the Terrons have Kyra. He begs for powers to help rescue her, and to help fight the Terrons, but she refuses, saying he is just a boy.

In the present again, the three have reached the camp. Guariba shows Dar the skin of a man, but Tao can't see it because "he knows too much." Dar explains who Curupira is. Guariba asks if he could ask her to give back his father's life, but Dar says that he's only seen her change her mind once.

This takes us back to Dar's memory again, where he is making a spear to use to fish. As he is fishing, he comes upon a blonde woman bathing in a pond. They exchange words and she offers Dar food in exchange for a kiss. She then says that she will only give Dar food if he shows her what he knows.

The scene skips ahead to Dar getting dressed (innuendo, anyone?) and Curupira confronts Dar about betraying Kyra for food, which the woman never gave him. He again begs for the powers, but she says he could never pass the tests. After some convincing, she lets him try, so we see Dar making a small hut on the edge of a river.

He lies on his back in the center of the hut, and Curupira appears to tell him "every day, when the sun rises, one of these [three feathers] will fall. When the last one falls, you may rise – not until then. You will lie, as if dead, not eating, not drinking, not even listening."
He accepts her challenge and she leaves. We then see Dar being attacked on the first two days by ants, spiders, worms, rats and snakes. On the third day, Curupira makes herself appear as Kyra, and tries to distract Dar so he'll move, but throughout it all, Dar prevails.

When the last feather falls, Dar emerges from the hut, and is visibly weak. Ruh backs him into the water, where he is attacked and drug under the water by a crocodile (or alligator – doesn't matter which) and killed.

Back in the present, our trio is walking through the woods and they hear a shriek from Curupira, who is trying to scare them. The scene fades back to Dar's memory, and we see Curupira taking Dar's body parts out of the water and magically reconnecting them. She vanishes and he awakens, now able to speak to Ruh, who is lying in the hut next to him. He then talks to Sharak and finds he can see through the eyes of the eagle.

Again in the present, our trio are now startled again by Curupira's shrieks and Guariba, who is carrying his father's skin, calls out to her and asks her to give his father back. Dar, following her tracks, calls out to her and she finally appears. He asks her to spare the boy's life, but she insists that he deserves to die because he took part in senseless killing. He finally gets her to say that she'll think about sparing the boy's life, and she leaves.

Dar comes back to Tao and Guariba, and tells him that Curupira will let him life as long as his people never enter the forest again. They must also stop burning so many trees, and they must only take what they need to survive. Dar tells Guariba that he has to go back to his village and make sure everyone believes what has happened.

Once Guariba arrives home, he shows his father's skin to his mother, but she can't see it either. No one believes him – in fact, they think he is possessed by a demon, and a rescue party heads out to search for the others. Guariba is taking away.

Now we see Tao and Dar training at the Sanctuary. Sharak interrupts them, and shows Dar that Guariba has been tied to a crucifix-esque structure from a tree in the village. He leaves Tao and runs off towards the village.

Guariba was only tied up by his hands, so he flips himself upside down and uses his feet to set himself free. He climbs up the tree he was hanging from, and a chase ensues. We find that Guariba means monkey, as he is able to scale the treetops with ease. Dar arrives and knocks out a couple of the chasers, and the rest flee. Guariba goes with Dar to try and beat the search party to their camp. Since they are a lot faster than the elders, they succeed.

Once the search group arrives, they call out to the others, and Curupira talks to them in the voice of Guariba's father. Even though the shells of their dead brethren surround them, they cannot see them, because they don't believe.

Dar finds Curupira and Guariba begs for her to spare the others' lives. Curupira says that Dar acts bravely in trying to help the boy, and that he is brave just like his father. She also says that the only reason she let Dar live before was to fulfill a promise she made to Dar's father, who had helped protect some of her animal friends. Dar convinces Curupira to make the hunters see the shells of flesh, which causes them to freak out and run away, back to the village. They are afraid because Guariba has escaped and they need him to tell "us what to do."

Once everyone is back in the village, Guariba instructs them all on how they have to be friends with nature, and live in harmony with it, while a pleased Curupira looks on.

The episode ends with Tao and Dar training again in the Sanctuary, while they discuss how Dar passed Curupira's tests. Dar says that even if Tao saw it, he wouldn't believe it, and as they watch the sunset, they laugh because Tao agrees that he "knows too much."