Episode Three “Bounty” - Synopsis

At the start of the episode Richard, Kahlan and Zedd, find out that Darken Rahl has put a substantial bounty on Richard’s head after a mercenary named Denfir attacks them. Meanwhile we also find out that a mapmaker Sebastian is selling magical maps with which it is possible to track the seeker. The mapmaker has made and sold three such maps by using a pendant of Richard’s, stolen during the first attack.

As the three heroes are ambushed for the second time, a woman named Lilly helps them escape and later asks the Seeker to help her save her little brother Liam from the clutches of an evil creature Shadrin. Kahaln is against Richard helping Lily, but he is determined to do so and won’t heed her advice. While Zedd tries to find out how many maps, and to whom, were sold, Richard and Kahlan accompany Lilly to the caves where Liam is apparently being help hostage. There it turns out that Kahlan’s warnings and apprehensions were well founded, as Lily lied about the monster to lure Richard into a trap set by Rahl's D'Haran soldiers. Richard is captured and Kahlan gets trapped in the caves with Shadrin.

Liam was, in truth, captured and imprisoned by the soldiers for stealing food. As he was to be executed for his plan, Lily devised a plan to exchange the Seeker for her brother. But before she can deliver Richard to the soldiers Kahlan and Zedd catch up to them and free Richard who, despite her deception, agrees to help Lily in trying to free Liam. Together they devise another plan in which Lilly gives the soldiers one of the magic maps, which doesn’t lead to Richard, but instead point the soldiers to directly to the defeated mercenaries tied up in Shadrin’s caves, left in the deadly lair of the Shadrin. Zedd had forced Sebastian to make a new map to track the bounty hunters instead of Richard. He also manages to get all the original maps tracking the seeker, and is able to magically extract Richrad’s pendant from them.

By helping Lily and her brother the word starts to spread across the Midlands that the Seeker has returned to save them all from the evil tyranny of Rahl.