Episode Two

Episode Two: Jack of all Trades
Episode Two is the second chapter of the first Winter's War trilogy, and serves as a prequel to Episode One. It depicts the tenuous relationship between Jack and his delusional partner Shaun.

Synopsis:
The episode opens with Jack and Shaun outrunning a mercenary outfit, after a caravan ambush went sour. The chase is halted at an abandoned school building, where a settler named Austin Leur demands the combatants to back off. Shaun attempts to threaten Austin, claiming that there's four-to-one odds, but the two mercenaries, uninterested in being involved in a full-on shootout which could possibly attract more attention, flee the scene. Jack is more thankful than Shaun is, and attempts to ease the tensions. Shaun, however, doesn't look highly on taking orders from a lone settler, and instead kills Austin. Jack watches in horror as Austin's body falls to the ground, and angrily demands Shaun explains himself. Shaun states that now is not the time for Jack to be sentimental, and that the world has come to the point where compassion is a weakness. The pair then overhead a walkie-talkie call coming from Austin's pocket, where his wife Amelia is urgently asking for a situation report. Shaun answers the call claiming that Austin died at the hands of the invading raiders. After manipulating Amelia's emotional distress, Shaun is able to extort supplies for he and Jack. Jack, outraged, violently pins Shaun. A heated exchange takes place, which leads Jack to deserting Shaun in favor of wandering solo without his conscious burdened by the blood that Shaun spills. Before leaving, Jack leaves Shaun a gruesome facial scar. Although Shaun is too shocked to respond immediately, he makes it his mandate to track Shaun down and make him pay for his insolence.