"The Intruder" is the fourth episode of the first season of The Owl House, and the fourth episode overall.
It premiered on January 31, 2020.
Synopsis
Luz and King must defend the Owl House from a mysterious intruder.
Plot
King is trying to teach Luz about demons, but she doesn't pay him any attention. Suddenly, storm clouds begin to brew over the Boiling Isles. As Luz loves the rain, she goes outside to feel the first few drops, only to discover that the rain is boiling hot. Eda casts a magic force field to protect the Owl House from the rain, which exhausts her. She changes into her bedclothes and lies on the couch to sleep, but Luz nags her to teach her some spells. Eda refuses at first, but because of her uncontrollable infatuation for shiny objects as mentioned by King, she gives in after Luz tempts her with a sparkly pen.
Eda starts with the lesson by explaining that before a witch can earn a staff they must learn to cast spells on their own. She shows Luz how to create a light spell by casting a spell circle. Luz also learns that magic comes from a sac of magic bile attached to a witch's heart. Since she does not have one, this begs the question of how she is supposed to do magic herself. According to Eda, witches used to practice magic differently in the past, but she never bothered to figure out how. With that, she ends the lesson and heads back to sleep. However, Luz asks her to perform the light spell again so she can record it on her phone. Eda does so, but passes out from exhaustion in the process. Luz and King drag Eda to her room and put her in her nest to sleep.
King again tries to teach Luz about demons, but she is busy trying to figure out how to cast the light spell, which seems to be effortless. King is upset that she is not paying attention to his lessons and asks why she wants to be a witch. Luz tells King about her life back home, where she was a nobody, and sees becoming a witch as her chance of being somebody. Understanding what it's like for no one to take you seriously, King agrees to help her learn the light spell on the condition that she will pay attention to his demon lessons.
King comes up with a theory that Eda gets her magic from an elixir that she takes every day. So, if Luz takes the elixir, she will be given magic powers. King sneaks into Eda's room and finds a bottle of Eda's elixir which has half a tag missing. Luz prepares to drink it but drops and breaks the bottle when she gets startled by the storm. Suddenly, the lights go out and they hear Hooty in panic. They find him being attacked by some kind of vicious creature which runs away and heads into Eda's room. King thinks it's a Snaggleback, a creature with a protective shell that feasts during the rains. Though terrified, Luz reluctantly agrees to help King hunt the creature down since they'd be leaving Eda defenseless if they didn't.
After suiting up to defend themselves, Luz and King start their search for the monster in Eda's room. They find the place ransacked and Eda missing. King leaves Luz by herself for a moment to get his books on demons, but when he comes back, she has vanished too, and all that's left is one of her shoes. King catches sight of the monster and chases it into a closet. There he discovers a Snaggleback, which is just a weak, tiny pink ape in a turtle shell. Suddenly, the actual creature shows up, eats the Snaggleback, and chases King. Luz appears from nowhere and pulls King back into Eda's room to hide, explaining she went to check on Eda and lost her shoe when she tripped. She takes said shoe back, but King uncovers a torn piece of the tag stuck to Luz's left foot, which matches the other half from the bottle. It reads "An elixir a day keeps the curse at bay". This makes King realize that the creature is in fact Eda herself, and the elixir he found was the medication she needed to keep her transformation at bay.
King feels ashamed of what he has done. In his efforts to get Luz interested in demons, he stole Eda's elixir which is vital to keep her from turning into that monster. He admits to Luz that he has no friends, and that no one pays attention to him. He thought that by getting her into demons, he would finally have someone who cared about creatures like him. Luz shows sympathy to King and encourages him to help her save Eda.
They saw that Eda's monster form had black eyes, and according to King, demons with black eyes are sensitive to light. He believes that they could use that to their advantage. Since the camera on Luz's phone is busted, King suggests she uses the light spell. However, she still does not know how to do it. She's watched the video again and again to no avail. But then she notices something when the video on her phone glitches. A pattern appears in the circle for a brief moment, and when Luz traces it she finally casts the light spell.
Working together, King lures Eda to Luz where she is drawing a much bigger version of the pattern on the walls. It casts an even bigger spell which blinds Eda and knocks her out. When she regains consciousness, she is back to normal and coughs up the Snaggleback from earlier. Luz and King give Eda her elixir. She learns from King what had happened, and sees that Luz has figured out how to do magic a different way. By drawing a specific pattern inside the spell circle, she can cast spells. Realizing her secret is out, Eda explains to them that she was cursed when she was young, and the elixir she drinks helps to curb it. The curse is also the reason why people call her the Owl Lady.
After making peace with each other, Luz and King leave Eda to rest and get Hooty back on his hinges. When she falls asleep, she has a brief nightmare of the shadowy figure who cursed her, only to wake up before she can get answers.
Cast
- Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda
- Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
- Alex Hirsch as King and Hooty
- Tati Gabrielle as Willow Park (expressions)
Additional voices
- Dee Bradley Baker as Eda's cursed form
- Arin Hanson as Snaggleback and Trap
- Dana Terrace as Tinella Nosa
Title in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
|
La Intrusa | The Intruder | |
 Portuguese (Brazil)
|
A Intrusa | The Intruder | |
 Mandarin
|
惡魔入侵 | The Demon Intrudes | |
 Czech
|
Vetřelec | The Intruder | |
 German
|
Das Elixier | The Elixir | |
 Danish
|
Den ubudne gæst | The Uninvited Guest | |
 Arabic
|
الدخيل | The Intruder | |
 Spanish
|
El intruso | The Intruder | |
 Finnish
|
Tunkeilija | Intruder | |
 French
|
L'Intrus | The Intruder | |
 Indonesian
|
Penyusup | Intruder | |
 Hebrew
|
הפולש | The intruder | |
 Italian
|
L'intruso | The Intruder | |
 Japanese
|
侵入者は誰だ | Who is the Intruder | |
 Korean
|
침입자 | Intruder | |
 Malay
|
Penceroboh | Intruder | |
 Dutch
|
De indringer | The Intruder | |
 Norwegian
|
Inntrengeren | The Intruder | |
 Portuguese
|
O Intruso | The Intruder | |
 Polish
|
Intruz | The Intruder | |
 Romanian
|
Intrusul | The Intruder | |
 Russian
|
Незваный Гость | Uninvited Guest | |
 Swedish
|
Inkräktaren | The Intruder |
Transcript
| For a full transcript of "The Intruder", click here. |
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Trivia
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 0.51 viewers on its premiere.[4]
- On some airings, the theme song on this episode is shortened.
- Willow's uniform in the intro changes starting with this episode due to her switching tracks in the previous episode.
- During King's lesson to Luz, the following books can be seen:
- Infernal Medicine
- Atlas of the Pit
- The Big Book of Misery
- So You Sold Your Soul
- The Horror of Cooking
- Just the Pacts
- Torture Vol XXIV.
- The fourth rune code is visible on the book that Eda sniffs before chasing King:
, which translates to "apart". - The episode completed production on August 23, 2019.[5]
- The carving picture of the Snaggleback in King's book bears a resemblance to the style of Monster Hunters' Monster Icons.
- Willow is seen in her casual attire for the first time.
- King comments "that voice, that horrific voice" about Hooty, which is an ironic fourth-wall break, since King and Hooty are both voiced by Alex Hirsch.
Revelations and significant events
- This episode reveals that Eda was cursed when she was young and if she does not take a special elixir daily, she transforms into a vicious owl-demon, which is why people call her The Owl Lady.
- Luz discovers that she can't cast magic the normal way, but she can cast it by drawing a spell's respective spell glyph.
- Due to finding such a glyph, Luz performs magic, more specifically light magic, for the first time.
- Luz is revealed to be ambidextrous as she was able to draw the light glyph with both her right hand when she traces it and with her left hand when she draws the larger one to stop Eda.
- Eda is revealed to sleep in a nest.
Continuity
- This episode occurs during the week following the events of "A Lying Witch and a Warden", revealing that Luz has been in the Demon Realm for roughly a week.
Allusions
- The Joy of Cooking - One of the books lying around the house is labeled The Horror of Cooking.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away - The "An elixir a day keeps the curse at bay" tag is a play on this English-language proverb.
- Gravity Falls - The demon Bill Cipher can be spotted on the Demon 101 board.
- The Lesser Key of Solomon - King's Demon board includes an illustration of Buer, a Goetic demon that is depicted as a multiple-goat-legged lion.
- Dungeons and Dragons - The Demon 101 board also includes an illustration of a Beholder.
- Vitruvian Man - The book cursed Eda sniffed that contained the episode's code word references Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing.
- David Attenborough - Luz's commentary on King's battle with the ducky sock using an affected British accent references this narrator of numerous BBC nature documentaries.
Errors
This is the first episode with hidden errors that have been forgotten to be fixed:
- Some versions of the episode's closed captions contain typos, such as changing "No Way!" to "Now Way!" and "you" to "yo".
- When Eda is showing Luz the picture of the heart, it is a layer above her hands.
- When Luz exits the house, there is no flower, but when the POV changes and she looks down, a flower is there.
- Before King says "I think it's because she gets distracted from shiny objects", the door behind him is dark gray, then when the POV changes, the door is shown to be some shade of brown and light gray.
- Right after Eda changes, the couch behind her is green, but when she lays down the color changes to red.
- When Eda shows off some light magic, Luz is sitting on the carpet, but when she says "what?" to Eda, she is shifted over to the wooden floor.
- When King says "yeah" to his drawing, the green colored pencil and the book are on the couch. However, when Luz said "Ugh this is all she does", the green colored pencil and the book moved to the floor.
- When the camera pans out to Eda looking at Luz, the paper scroll is layered on top of Eda's hands.
Edits
- In the Southeast Asia broadcast, "stupid" was cut from the English audio track.
Video
Memorable Quotes
References
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Disney+ Channel UK [@DCUK_NEWS] (August 9, 2020). "Don't miss out BRAND NEW Show The Owl House starts tomorrow at 9:30pm! Monday to Fridays at 9:30pm" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ "Disney Channel UK HD, Monday, Aug 13, 2020". TV24.co.uk. Retrieved on January 8, 2023.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Metcalf, Mitch (February 3, 2020). SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.31.2020. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on July 26, 2020.
- ↑ "The Intruder (2020)". IMDb.