The Amber Spycast #16: An Unofficial His Dark Materials Podcast - The Subtle Knife (Chptrs 7-9)
Channel: The Amber Spycast
Date: 12/11/2019

His Dark Materialists:
Alaric Hahn
Travis Johnson
JoAnna Martinez

In the world of Cittagazze, Lyra awakens before Will and plans to visit Mary Malone without him. As she makes her way to the window, she encounters three younger children playing in the water. They talk to her about cats, Specters, the Guild, and a place called the Tower of Angels or Torre degli Angeli. She leaves the children and crosses over into Will’s Oxford, making her way to the physics building to see Mary. Dr. Malone tells Lyra that some officials from Will’s world are already there and asking about her. They begin questioning Lyra and she accidentally reveals that she knows Will. Realizing her mistake, Lyra flees from the building and is picked up later by the man she met in the museum the day before, Sir Charles Latrom. He takes Lyra to the window that leads to Ci’gazze but before he drops her off, Sir Charles steals the alethiometer. Lyra returns to Ci’gazze and tells Will what happened. Together Lyra and Will go to Sir Charles’s house to confront him. He tells them that he will give back the alethiometer if they get him a knife that is being held by a man in Ci’gazze, in the Tower of Angels. Will is shocked when he sees the head of a serpent peeking out the sleeve of Sir Charles’ linen coat but Lyra does not see it. She and Will agree to retrieve the knife. They go to the Torre and see a man, Angelica’s older brother Tullio, trying to use the knife. Tullio has ambushed and beaten an old man named Giacomo Paradisi and stolen the knife from him. Will and Tullio fight for the knife and Tullio cuts off two of Will’s fingers. Will wins the fight and keeps the knife but Tulio escapes. The old man explains that a knife bearer is known by his absence of two fingers. Giacomo teaches Will both how to cut through to other worlds and how to close up the holes again. Later that night, Lyra and Will return to Will’s world, planning to use the knife to steal the alethiometer. While they are at Sir Charles house, Mrs. Coulter arrives and Lyra realizes that Sir Charles Latrom is actually Lord Boreal, who wants the knife so he can travel between worlds without fearing the Specters. Lyra causes a diversion so Will can take the alethiometer. Mrs. Coulter’s monkey daemon chases them, almost catching them, but Will and Lyra escape through a window to the world of Ci’gazze and close it up again.