S02 · E14

Inheritance

Mordred can't sleep. He moves through his compound alone at 3am as he moves through his centuries in fragments: a village in 14th century France, the first body swap made purely to survive, the specific vertigo of waking in someone else's eyes. A brief window of community in the Weimar Republic, ended by 1933. A flashback to when a junior weaver suffers a panic attack during a war. Mordred notices, and stops fighting to comfort him. Not for ideology or gain - but because he understands what it feels like not to belong. The particular accumulation of grief that only exists past a certain number of years - not loneliness, not loss, but something that has no name because nobody else has lived long enough to need one. The pattern that repeated every century: find community, lose it, survive in the wrong skin. In the present, as dawn comes up, Juno appears in his office doorway and asks if he's alright. He looks at her for a moment. "I've been worse" - which for him is almost an admission.