Primal Season 3 Episodes 8, 9 And 10 Recap & Ending Explained: Was Spear Able To Save His Family?

Even in his zombified state, Spear never forgot about his family, and throughout the third season of “Primal,” his sole motivation to survive was to reunite with them. Previously, despite saving Mira and their unborn child’s life, Spear was driven away from Mira’s village by Fang, who couldn’t trust him in his undead state, and by the rest of the tribesfolk. In a depressed state of mind, Spear experienced vivid hallucinations of the manifestations of his deepest fears. He fell into a waterfall, and the current brought him to an active volcano, and he came across a volcanic ape tribe. On the other hand, assisted by Fang and her two pups, Mira desperately searched for Spear and mistakenly considered him to be dead after learning that he fell into the waterfall. Spear’s life takes a dramatic new turn in the last three episodes of the latest season, and new developments allow him a chance to finally fulfill his heart’s desire—much to the series fans’ delight.

Spoilers Ahead

The eighth episode picks up right from the ending of the last chapter, as Spear faces one of the volcanic ape tribe warriors. Soon, he finds the area surrounded by members of the tribe, eager to watch Spear fight with their strongest warrior, Killax. As it turns out, the tribe shaman conducts a gladiatorial fight to the death as a rite of passage to determine whether the strongest of their clan is fit to be a ruler. Initially unwilling to fight Killax, Spear ends up killing him without breaking a sweat after being forced into the fight, and the tribe shaman crowns him as their leader. Following the practices of the tribe, Spear is brought near a river of the strength-boosting liquid, the exact one that the vicious ape-men Dryopithecins warriors consumed to brutally beat him and Fang up during the fifth episode of the first season. As Spear drinks the liquid offered to him, he enters a manic, feral state, with his strength increasing manifold. Participating in one battle after another, Spear takes down warriors of other tribes—a blockheaded giant and a Celtic swordsman—and vanquishes all of them thanks to his status as an undead, making it impossible for him to be killed in conventional ways. Following each of his fights, Spear continues to get juiced up on the strange liquid, and gradually, the more he enters the berserker mode, the more the clarity of his mind returns. Spear recognizes his identity as a warrior, and his clear eyesight, a healed head wound, conveys that he is slowly returning to his old self. While being revered by the tribesfolk, Spead reminisces about Mira and decides to fly to her village by riding the slain Celtic warrior’s pterodactyl he has kept as his pet. 

In the meantime, considering Spear to have perished all over again, Mira returns to her village with Fang and her pups in a dejected state of mind and leaves the torn piece of zombie Spear’s clothing at his burial mound in remembrance. Not long after, Mira gives birth to her daughter, and Fang is able to sense Spear’s connection with her. One night, Spear sneaks into the village, secretly checks up on Mira, and gets elated upon seeing their daughter. Mira nearly spots him as Spear flees, riding the Pterodactyl back to the volcanic tribe, and Fang too can sense his presence. Mira, who has been seeing visions of Spear’s life in the tribe, starts believing that her partner might be alive after all, and decides to resume her search. She finds a map to the location of the volcanic tribe and ventures out with her daughter, Fang, and her pups. 

Returning to the village, Spear remains totally distracted during his fights and day-to-day life, as he can only think of his daughter all the time. Still, he continues to defeat his opponents and begins to draw an elaborate wall painting of his daughter, imagining a life together with his family. This is another indication that Spear is gradually healing back to his former self, as during his initial days as an undead, he lacked the intelligence to draw a comprehensive wall painting. Willing to invest more and more time to draw his desired family life, Spear begins to speedrun through his fights and remains fixated on his wall painting. He even fashions an adorable toy by attaching mementos taken from his fallen opponents, intending to gift it to his daughter. The tribe shaman gets a whiff of the situation, and needless to say, he is not pleased with the fact that Spear has other priorities. To distract Spear, the shaman tries to seduce him by bringing a female member of the tribe to him, to no avail, as Spear is focused solely on his family. As Spear rides his Pterodactyl to go to Mira’s village to gift the toy to his daughter, the shaman decides to have him followed. 

Meanwhile, while traversing the jungle in search of Spear, Mira is relieved to see her newborn daughter has formed a connection with Fang and her pups already. However, things take a wrong turn when a vicious humanoid black panther attacks the group and almost overwhelms Fang and her pups on its own. Arriving at the village, Spear can’t find any trace of his daughter, Mira, and Fang. Suspecting foul play, he tries to track them down by riding his pterodactyl back to the jungle and reaches the location where Fang and her pups fought with the humanoid panther. 

Spear fears for his family upon witnessing blood splattered everywhere and anxiously tries to locate them by scouring the jungle. Much to his relief, it turns out Fang managed to kill the monstrous panther and protect Mira and her daughter. However, in the process, she got severely injured herself, and Mira is trying to nurse her back to health. Mira is surprised to see Spear has reverted to his human self by now, and Spear finds much relief to see her, along with their daughter, safe and sound. Spear moves to check up on an injured Fang, who is able to finally recognize her old friend. The long-awaited moment arrives, as Spear and Fang finally reconcile. Spear calls his Pterodactyl pet to get ahold of his stashed belongings and gifts the toy he crafted to his daughter. It almost seems he has finally gotten what he always wanted, but danger strikes in the form of the volcanic tribe shaman, who brings his troops to surround the family and knocks them out using sedative-laced darts. 

Upon waking up, Spear finds himself chained in the fighting pit where he has killed numerous warriors through all these days, and much to his horror, he sees Fang, her pups, and Mira held captive in front of him. The shaman is holding Spear and Mira’s child, and he orders his underlings to make Mira, Fang, and her pups consume the strange strength-enhancing liquid. The shaman’s intentions are pretty clear: Spear either needs to choose his daughter and his life with the tribe or die trying to stop the vicious fight between the members of Spear’s family, as in their feral, manic state, they turn on each other. An enraged Spear uses all his strength to free himself and tries his desperate best to stop his family from tearing each other apart—and in the context of the narrative, the situation feels like a divine irony. Spear started his journey following his rebirth as a mindless beast, having lost touch with his humanity, and at present, his family members have turned into mindless ones whom he needs to guide to see reason and bring them back to their senses. Spear reconnects with the memories he’s shared with his family, and right at the moment, the volcano violently erupts, breaking the fighting pit apart. Spear manages to save one of Fang’s pups from falling right into the lava. 

The shaman loses balance amidst the cataclysm as the tribesfolk flee in fear and ends up dropping Spear’s daughter. Fortunately, Spear makes a timely rescue by putting his life on the line. Holding their daughter in his hand, as Spear tries to save Mira from falling into the lava, in her feral state she ends up grazing their daughter’s forehead. Seeing how their daughter’s cry is causing distress to a feral Mira, Spear gets her close to their daughter, and finally the motherly instincts in Mira return her to normalcy. Spear notices one of Fang’s pups has turned back to normal after experiencing pain from the splash of lava and manages to save the other one by following the same pain-inducing method. However, the same trick doesn’t work for Fang, as she chases after Spear in her frenzied state of mind and corners him. As Spear nearly falls to his death, his loud cries bring Fang to her senses, and the emotional bond she shares with her best friend heals her mind. Fang saves Spear from falling to his death, and together the family returns to Mira’s village. At long last, Spear gets his much-deserved happy ending as the one big family huddles together at night to find warmth in each other’s presence—not before Spear gets to update the wall painting Mira had made in their hut. 

The ending to the third season of “Primal” is all about hope, a brighter future, and new beginnings, as years later, Spear and Mira’s daughter is seen riding Fang with her father’s choice of weapon in her hand and going out for an adventure with her family. The scene appears similar to the ending moments of the second season, with a little change, as this time Spear is seen present as well. Coming to the possibility of continuation, there is ample material for several more seasons’ worth of storytelling. The volcanic tribe plotline, along with the feral humanoid-panther and even the 19th-century researcher subplot, has narrative threads to explore the established lore further. It will be great to see how Spear’s family life shapes up to be and how he manages to handle his second chance as a father in the future.