
While Zedd takes the third Box to an undisclosed location to hide it, Richard and Kahlan meet up with Chase, and learn that his entire family has been kidnapped. Things take a drastic turn when the trio is trapped in the crypt with the spirits of Kieran (Matthew Walker), his Confessor Viviane (Mia Pistorius), and his wizard Amfortas (Michael Hurst), involving Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd in their long-forgotten struggles. Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd take the third Box of Orden to the Crypt of Kieran, where they plan to hide the magical item with the last Seeker's remains. Rahl enters the hallucination as Richard's childhood friend, Anna Brighton ( Jessica Chapnik Kahn), and tries to make him reveal the location of the third Box of Orden. The spell forces Richard to hallucinate that he is back in Hartland, that Kahlan, Zedd, and his entire adventure up until then does not exist and never happened.

Meanwhile, Zedd obtains the key to an ancient crypt from his younger brother, Thaddicus (Jon Brazier).ĭarken Rahl has his wizard, Giller (Phil Peleton), cast a spell on Richard while he sleeps. Richard and Kahlan investigate the death of Conor Greenleaf (Phil Brooks), the leader of the Resistance movement against Darken Rahl, but become caught up in something much bigger than just one murder. When Dennee gives birth to her child, Richard and Kahlan are forced to fight the Mother Confessor herself in order to save the baby. Kahlan disguises herself as a Mord-Sith and rescues her sister, discovering that Dennee is with child. Kahlan realises that her sister, Dennee Amnell ( Tania Nolan), is still alive, but is being held captive in a nearby D'Haran prison. In order to prevent him from obtaining the powerful artifact, Zedd sneaks into the palace as a puppeteer, and enlists the help of a servant girl, Rachel ( Jordana Beatty). Denna begins to torture and "break" him while Kahlan and Zedd try to find a way to save him.ĭarken Rahl purchases the third and last Box of Orden from Queen Melena of Tamarang ( Geraldine Brophy), and begins travelling towards her palace. But without her protection, Richard is captured by one of Rahl's Mord-Sith, Denna ( Jessica Marais). Kahlan leaves Richard's side after she realizes that their love and her power could potentially destroy him. Richard must now marry Bronwyn ( Anna Hutchison), Gryff's fiancée, while Gryff accompanies Kahlan and Zedd on a plot to kill Demmin Nass ( Renato Bartolomei), a D'Haran general on the verge of finding one of the Boxes of Orden. In an attempt to avert a vision she has had of the Seeker's death, the witch woman Shota ( Danielle Cormack) casts a spell on Richard that causes him to switch bodies with a merchant's son, Gryff (Jason Smith). While Richard and Kahlan try to help the townspeople, Zedd faces off with the man behind the new trade: one of his old students. Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd visit a town where peddlers have been selling bottled magic, a thoroughly imprudent practice with far-reaching, dangerous consequences. Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd attempt to rescue a young Listener, a boy who has the power to read peoples' minds, from being captured by D'Harans. Meanwhile, Kahlan helps Zedd find out if a lover's claims that he fathered her child are true. While trying to escape unnoticed, he comes upon a woman who claims to be his mother. Richard returns to his birth town, Brennidon, only to find it under siege by D'Haran soldiers. Several greedy bounty hunters begin to track Richard using magical maps. When Darken Rahl begins offering a substantial reward for the Seeker's head all over the Midlands, Richard is attacked by all kinds of people.

Meanwhile, Fane brings down the magical boundary which separates the Midlands from Westland and kidnaps Chase's daughter, Laura (Catherine Stephen). Richard, Kahlan, Zedd and Dell' Chase Brandstone ( Jay Laga'aia), Richard's best friend in Hartland, concoct a plan to find Ranssyn Fane ( Andrew Robertt), a D'Haran working under Darken Rahl who almost murdered Kahlan, killed Richard's adopted father, and stole the Book of Counted Shadows. Kahlan gives Richard the Book of Counted Shadows and Zedd gives him the Sword of Truth, and together they name him Seeker. Kahlan escapes from the Midlands into Westland, where Zedd brought Richard over twenty years ago in an attempt to protect him from Darken Rahl.

Along with the beautiful and mysterious Kahlan Amnell ( Bridget Regan), a Confessor with the power to enslave people with a single touch, and a wise old wizard named Zeddicus Zu'l "Zedd" Zorander ( Bruce Spence), Richard embarks on quest to fulfill the prophecy.Ī special episode, narrated by Lucy Lawless. When Richard Cypher ( Craig Horner), a young woodsman, discovers that he is the one true Seeker and is prophecised to kill the evil tyrant Darken Rahl ( Craig Parker).
