Until I Met You

**"Until I Met You"** is the seventh episode of the first season of *The New Legends of Monkey* and the seventh episode overall. This episode aired on 1 February and became available on Netflix on April 28, 2018.

## Plot synopsis

The shaman hires nightmarish forest dwellers to hunt the group down. A foe from Monkey's past sows seeds of doubt in Tripitaka's mind.

## Summary

Monkey, Tripitaka, Sandy, and Pigsy flee from the Shaman and Raxion. They enter Kin territory. Shaman and Raxion are reluctant to continue to track them. Shaman instructs Raxion to speak to the Kin alone. Raxion fears that they will kill him the moment they lay eyes on him, but Shaman retorts that the Kin already know that they’re there.

Raxion goes to speak with the Kin. Spider Kin asks what he wants. Raxion is prepared to make them an offer — he’s willing to pay them for the safe return of the monk. They’re free to do with the gods as they see fit.

While escaping persecution, Tripitaka is separated from the group; taken by one of the Kin. Pigsy stabs his rake into the ground, splitting it down the middle and forcing the Kin to come out of hiding with Tripitaka. He sets a trap for Monkey, Sandy, and Pigsy, lying in wait with an arrow for them to come by. However, he is killed with that very same arrow by Gwen. Monkey and Tripitaka recognize her from his trial. She realizes that she was wrong for sending Monkey away, and she’s spent the last 500 years trying to right that wrong. She then offers to lead them out of the forest.

Spider Kin mourns a fallen comrade, though Raxion isn’t concerned and tells him that they need to catch the monk.

Gwen reveals that the demons tracking them are the Forest Kin and former bodyguards of the White Bone Demon Queen. The Kin stole a sacred treasure from their former mistress. And in return, she cast a spell that stole their faces. She also gave each of them a new face. Some say they possess the face of animals, others say insects or rodents. But the truth is that no one has ever seen the face of a Kin and lived. They’ve exiled themselves from the world and lived in the forest ever since. Long enough to develop a taste for people. The Kin also draw their strength from the forest. Where the forest ends, so does their power. They won’t track beyond it.

Monkey, Tripitaka, Sandy, Pigsy, and Gwen find themselves surrounded by the Kin, forced into combat. Pigsy gets lured into a spider web while Sandy is knocked to the ground. Gwen warns them that their adversaries are trying to divide them. The Kin shoot a dart into Tripitaka’s leg and retreat.

Spider Kin intentionally poisoned Tripitaka in order to charge Raxion for the antidote. Raxion pulls his mask off and demands that Spider Kin look at him when he's talking to him. Under his mask is a face so frightening that Raxion falls back.

Tripitaka collapses to the ground. Gwen discovers that she’s been poisoned. She rips Tripitaka's shirt open and discovers that he is actually a she. Gwen keeps this secret from the others and tells Monkey, Sandy, and Pigsy to stay back and stand guard. She’s been waiting in the forest for a long time, waiting for the Monkey King to arrive with a warrior monk. However, Tripitaka is neither a warrior nor a monk. Gwen asks Tripitaka who she truly is. Just before passing out, she hands Gwen the letter she had from her mother.

Pigsy remarks that Tripitaka was freezing cold. Sandy is certain that she will be fine. By tomorrow, they’ll be out of the forest and searching for the other scrolls. Pigsy wonders if the resistance will welcome them after finding out that Monkey was responsible for the demons destroying the world. Gwen claims that the resistance already knows and they simply want a way to stop the demons. Sandy then asks about Tripitaka. Gwen assures her that Tripitaka will live.

Gwen asks Monkey what did the scholar tell him about Tripitaka, however, Monkey never got to meet him as it was Tripitaka who released him. He adds that Tripitaka also rescued them from the Shaman.

Tripitaka awakens to find Gwen hovering over her. Tripitaka reveals how she was raised by the scholar, and he taught her the ways. When he died, it was as if the world ended. She had to become Tripitaka to release Monkey and save the world. Gwen holds her hand over Tripitaka’s chest and tells her to breathe, seemingly healing her.

Tripitaka awakens the following morning perfectly healthy. She is greeted by Monkey, Sandy, and Pigsy. Gwen then tells Tripitaka that the girl in the letter can’t be the one to journey West.

Monkey, Tripitaka, Sandy, Pigsy, and Gwen near the edge of the forest. They can hear the Kin approaching. Gwen takes cover with Tripitaka while Monkey, Sandy, and Pigsy each take on a Kin. Sandy kills a Kin after launching her double-bladed axe into its chest. Pigsy does the same by stabbing a Kin with his rake.

Gwen is growing weak. She reveals that she couldn't simply take away the poison that was killing Tripitaka, so she transferred it to herself. Gwen is then knocked to the ground by Raxion. With no means to defend herself, Tripitaka calls out to Monkey.

Monkey hears Tripitaka shout his name. He kills Spider Kin with his staff and rushes to Tripitaka. By the time he arrives, Tripitaka has kicked Raxion off a cliff.

Monkey, Tripitaka, Sandy, and Pigsy convene to find Gwen dying from poison. She tells Monkey to protect Tripitaka at all costs. In her final moment, Gwen tells Tripitaka to never deny her true self. Tripitaka then realizes that during her fight with Raxion, he stole her necklace from around her neck, containing the letter written by her mother.

Raxion survived the fall from the cliff. In his hand, he holds Tripitaka’s necklace and the letter written inside.

## Cast

### Main

* Chai Hansen as Monkey
* Luciane Buchanan as Tripitaka
* Josh Thomson as Pigsy
* Emilie Cocquerel as Sandy

### Co-Starring

* Cameron Brown as Camo Kin
* Shaughan Campbell as Earth Kin
* Kawhia Chambers as One Jobber
* Ashlee Fidow as Shuriken Kin
* Stephen Grey as One Jobber
* Jordan Mooney as Raxion
* Lachlan Parkinson as Spider Kin
* Chelsie Preston Crayford as Gwen
* Doug Viney as One Jobber
* Daniel Watterson as Shaman