Berserker

**"Berserker"** is the fourth episode of *Spriggan*. It premiered on June 18, 2022 on Netflix.

## Synopsis

*Yu attempts to retrieve an out-of-place artifact when it gets into the wrong hands. However, the enemy gets away, awakening the deadly object.*

## Plot

In the boy's restroom, Yu is on the phone with Mr. Yamamoto telling his boss that he has called on him every week. He rhetorically asks if he is trying to work him to death. The director apologizes, but mentions that he was told by ARCAM that it was an urgent matter, and Yu is all they got. He then cuts their conversation off quickly stating that he has to head to headquarters for other business now. Later, Yu laments that out of all the times it could happen, the Berserker showed up.

Meanwhile, one of the scientists tells the others surrounding him that today, they shall rewrite history. Over someone's comms, it is stated that at present, Unit Bravo is engaging with the enemy at Point 1-4, 600 myers from the airbase. Moreover, the enemy is putting up a strong resistance. Thus, Units Alpha, Bravo and Charlie are all struggling to get any closer to the base. Eventually, Yu manages to get through the enemy's formation.

Later, over the coms it is stated that the enemy is planning to take ancient artifact back to the United Kingdom. Thus, their mission is to prevent the plane from taking off, and retrieving the target. Initially, Yu is knocked off the cliff and is falling down, when suddenly his eyes flash red. He is then able to save himself at the last minute, and then goes onto to kill the people shooting at him, one at time. Despite his best efforts, Yu fails to retrieve the target, and the enemy gets away. He requests a chopper to catch up with them.

Eventually, Professor Mauzer is angry and irritated at having to hand over the artifact over to the military. One of the military scientists then tells Maria Clemente that the casing has at least four times the Vickers hardness of silicon carbide. As a result, they are unable to scan any of the interior because it's a metal they have never seen before. The Berserker is activated and it appears that Clemente is the only one to make it out live. Afterwards, it's just Clemente and Yu, who asks the Spriggan what the berserker even is. To which Yu states that it s a weapon of war from ancient time. He continues by saying that wars fought around the world long ago became stories such as Genesis and the Mahabharata in the end, were passed down as texts. Yu then mentions many weapons appear in these stories, and there are descriptions of devices identical to modern weaponry like missiles and tanks. The Berserker is one of those weapons made during that time period.

Some time later, Maria deduces that someone is helping the Berserker to escape the military base. In the end, it turns out to be Mauzer behind it, as revenge because all his colleagues are dead and wanting credit for his discovery. Through some innovation, Yu manages to stop the berserker, but it activates a self-destruct mode.

Later, Maria wakes up after fainting from the wound she sustained from Mauzer shooting at her. She had a very serious bullet wound in her left side. But fortunately, she received proper first aid, which stopped her from bleeding out. The director of the DIS comes to see Maria and informs her that what went down at the base has been covered up. The public was told that the base was attacked by a far-right extremist terrorist group.