Season 1
Samurai Jack Episode 1 The Premiere Movie: The Beginning Part 1
Aku, an evil shape-shifting demon, devastates a young prince's land in Medieval Japan, and his parents send him into exile. After years of intensive training, the prince receives a mystical sword imbued with his father's righteous spirit as well as a samurai kimono, and frees his people from Aku's minions. He then defeats Aku in battle, but before striking the final blow the latter casts a spell to send him into the future.
24 min
Samurai Jack Episode 2 The Premiere Movie: The Samurai Called Jack Part 2
The samurai is plunged into a dystopian world ruled by Aku, adopting the name "Jack". After getting in a fight at a nightclub, he is hired by a group of canine miners to protect them from Aku's forces.
23 min
Samurai Jack Episode 3 The Premiere Movie: The First Fight Part 3
Armed with various weapons and traps, Jack single-handledly defeats Aku's "beetle-bots". He subsequently vows to fight the demon's oppression until he can return to the past.
24 min
Samurai Jack Episode 4 Jack, The Woolies, And The Chritchellites
Jack helps free the Woolies from the tyrannical Chritchellites. In return, the leader of the Woolies bestows his wisdom upon Jack.
23 min
Samurai Jack Episode 5 Jack In Space
After accidentally exposing a colony of scientists seeking to escape Earth, Jack trains as an astronaut to protect them from Aku's robots.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 6 Jack And The Warrior Woman
A talented warrior named Ikra joins Jack as he seeks a magical jewel that could send him back to his own time. However, Ikra's true motives threaten to derail his quest.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 7 Jack And The Three Blind Archers
Jack learns of a powerful wishing well that can return him to the past, but must find a way past the three deadly archers who protect it.
23 min
Samurai Jack Episode 8 Jack vs. Mad Jack
Angered by the failure of his bounty hunters and mercenaries to defeat Jack, Aku uses the samurai's inner darkness to create an evil clone whose sole purpose is to destroy him.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 9 Jack Under The Sea
When Jack hears rumors of a time portal being found in the underwater city of Oceanus, Jack sets out to the city and is welcomed by its Triceraquins, but is unprepared for a terrible surprise.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 10 Jack And The Lava Monster
Jack survives a series of traps and encounters a Viking king transformed into a giant rock figure by Aku, who insists that Jack slay him in battle so that he can reach Valhalla.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 11 Jack And The Scotsman
While crossing a seemingly endless bridge, Jack runs into the Scotsman: a robust, if impulsive, stereotypical Scottish warrior who also wields an enchanted sword and would rather duel with Jack than peacefully negotiate a way for both of them to safely cross. After realizing that Aku has placed bounties on both of them, however, they join forces to escape and form a new friendship.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 12 Jack And The Gangsters
Jack teams up with some gangsters to try to get close to Aku. The only way to do it is to get a mystical jewel guarded by three elementals.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 13 Aku’s Fairy Tales
Seeking to weaken Jack's popularity among his subjects, Aku gathers the children of the world in his palace and tells them a series of "fairy tales", all of which portray himself as a hero and Jack as the villain.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 14 Jack Learns To Jump Good
After his lack of jumping skills cause him to lose a chance to return home, Jack helps a peaceful tribe of apelike creatures and their human leader defend themselves against the attacks of a larger rival tribe in return for lessons on how to "jump good".
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 15 Story 1: Jack vs. the Worm. Story 2: The Metal-Eaters. Story 3: Jack, the Gargoyle, and the Fairy
Three short stories about some of Jack's confrontations. He confronts a two-headed riddling worm, a family that feeds on metal, and a gargoyle who is imprisoning a fairy.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 16 Jack And The Smackback
Jack is captured and taken to the "Dome of Doom", where he forced to fight as a gladiator against the Dome's champions.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 17 Jack And The Scotsman
The Scotsman needs Jack's help in rescuing his kidnapped wife from Celtic demons in the castle of Boon.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 18 Jack And The Ultra-robots
While investigating the destruction of several scattered villages, Jack learns that Aku's new "ultra-bots" are responsible. Unable to destroy them, he receives assistance from an unexpected source: their creator.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 19 Jack Remembers The Past
Upon stumbling onto the ruins of his family's estate, Jack recalls some of his childhood memories.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 20 Jack And The Monks
Jack searches for truth by climbing the "Mountain of Fatoom" with three monks.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 21 Jack and the Dragon
A village is overpowered by a stench coming from "The Spire". Jack investigates and finds a dragon with severe indigestion.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 22 Jack vs. the Five Hunters
Aku challenges the Imakandi, regarded as the greatest hunters in the universe, to capture the ultimate prey: Jack.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 23 Jack vs. Demongo, the Soul Collector
Aku sends his servant Demongo, a demon who captures and enslaves the souls of warriors to serve him, to destroy Jack.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 24 Jack Is Naked
Jack must chase a mysterious thief who stole his clothing while he was bathing, but things get complicated when his pursuit leads him into another world, whose denizens could gaze on his nudity.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 25 Jack And The Spartans
While ascending a mountain, Jack encounters a hidden society of warriors who have fought a nearly 500-year war against an army of robots and offers to help them put an end to it.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 26 Jack’s Shoes
When a gang of robot bikers destroy his sandals, Jack seeks revenge, but realizes that he can't do so without footwear, something he has difficulty choosing.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 27 Chicken Jack
Jack is transformed into a chicken after bumping into a cranky wizard and winds up being captured by a greedy man (Luther Creek) who seeks to turn him into a prizefighter.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 28 Jack And The Rave
Jack infiltrates a rave party after witnessing the participants stage a riot in a nearby town. It turns out that the DJ is one of Aku's servants, and has been using his music to hypnotize the local children into becoming his master's slaves.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 29 The Good, The Bad, And The Beautiful
While taking a trip on a Old West-style train, Jack is stalked by a bounty hunter, Ezekial Clench. He manages to defeat him but unwittingly falls prey to Ezekial's ex-wife Josephine. The two of them gang up on Jack and ends up captured, but manages to chain them together so that when Josephine betrays her husband and tosses her ex-husband overboard she goes with him.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 30 Jack And The Zombies
Aku leads Jack into a cursed graveyard, where he is attacked by an army of undead warriors. Jack defeats them, but then discovers Aku's true plan: kill Jack with his own sword.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 31 Jack and the Scarab
Recognized as a mighty warrior, Jack is guided to a mysterious portal capable of returning him to the past. However, he learns that only one man can use the portal: the man who defeats its unbeatable legendary Guardian. The Guardian defeats Jack but spares him, prophesying that Jack is not yet ready.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 32 Jack and the Traveling Creatures
Recognized as a mighty warrior, Jack is guided to a mysterious portal capable of returning him to the past. However, he learns that only one man can use the portal: the man who defeats its unbeatable legendary Guardian. The Guardian defeats Jack but spares him, prophesying that Jack is not yet ready.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 33 Jack and the Annoying Creature
While continuing on his mission, Jack is followed by an overly friendly creature who accidentally thwarts his every move. To make matters worse, he's attacked by robotic bounty hunters.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 34 Jack and the Swamp Wizard
Jack meets a swamp hermit who guides him to the three gems of Cronus which can take him home, but the hermit is Aku in disguise.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 35 Jack And The Haunted House
Jack encounters a haunted house in his travels and must free the family trapped inside from the evil spirit haunting them.
21 min
Samurai Jack Episode 36 Jack, The Monks, And The Ancient Master’s Son
Jack is attacked by two monks, who he realizes are members of the order he once trained with. Their master informs Jack of an ancient temple that can send him home, but which is protected by an army of stone warriors.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 37-38 The Birth Of Evil (Part 1-2)
Centuries ago, the demon Aku is accidentally released by Jack's father, who receives a magic sword from the gods. Eventually, he uses the same sword to imprison Aku beneath the earth.
45 min
Samurai Jack Episode 39 Jack And The Labyrinth
Jack finds a booby-trapped labyrinth, in the center of which is a diamond which could send him back to his own time. But a mysterious stranger, who has also entered the maze, could put Jack's plans in jeopardy.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 40 Jack vs. the Ninja
Aku sends the Shinobi, a deadly assassin, to kill Jack, who must use his own martial arts to survive.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 41 Robo-Samurai vs. Mondo-bot
Jack uses a stone giant to defeat Mondo-Bot to defend a city of robots.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 42 Samurai vs. Samurai
Jack is goaded into a duel by an arrogant, bullying "samurai", and is given the chance to demonstrate the true ways of the warrior.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 43 The Aku Infection
When Aku catches a cold and spreads it to Jack, Jack is accidentally infected with Aku's evil. Jack desperately seeks out a cure before Aku's essence transforms him into the monstrosity himself.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 44 The Princess And The Bounty Hunters
Five of the world's greatest bounty hunters gather to compete for the chance to kill Jack. A sixth hunter, revealed to be the princess of a fallen kingdom, persuades the group to work together instead.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 45-46 Scotsman Saves Jack (Part 1-2)
Part I – The Scotsman suddenly discovers Jack aboard a ship with his memory completely blanked out. Refusing to let Jack think he's an ordinary commoner, the Scotsman sets out to discover what caused the samurai to suffer his amnesia – and stave off bounty hunters after a now defenseless Jack, having forgotten how to wield his sword. Part II – The source of Jack's amnesia is discovered in three beautiful sirens, whose bewitching song can hypnotize the strongest warrior.
44 min
Samurai Jack Episode 47 Jack And The Flying Prince And Princess
The prince and princess of an alien planet are imprisoned by Aku when they come to Earth seeking his assistance and only Jack can rescue them.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 48 Jack vs. Aku
Seeking to end their struggle, Aku proposes a one-on-one duel between him and Jack, with neither combatant using their magic abilities. Jack agrees, but Aku's honesty is unclear.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 49 The Four Seasons of Death
As he experiences summer, autumn, winter, and spring, Jack must overcome the dangerous foes he encounters during each season.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 50 Tale of X49
X-49, a retired robot hitman, is blackmailed by Aku into coming out of retirement to hunt down Jack.
21 min
Samurai Jack Episode 51 Young Jack in Africa
While training in Africa as a child, Jack must save his master and his people from a rival tribe serving Aku.
22 min
Samurai Jack Episode 52 Jack and the Baby
Jack rescues a baby from hungry ogres, but then trying to find the child's mother while caring for it and protecting it may be his greatest challenge. During the episode, Jack retells the story of Momotarō[citation needed] to the baby.
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 53 – XCII
Fifty years have passed since Jack arrived in the future, but he has not aged as a side effect of time travel. His sword is lost, he has given up hope of returning to his time, and he is tormented by hallucinations of his deceased parents, his kingdom, and a mysterious armored figure on horseback. Jack, now using futuristic weapons and armor, rescues a mother and her two children from several beetle drones, and wanders the land on a motorcycle. Scaramouche—a fast-talking musical assassin robot styled after Sammy Davis Jr.[14]—has destroyed a village and killed all of its people to get Jack's attention. Jack delays in arriving to the village, but eventually defeats Scaramouche. Meanwhile, seven young girls are raised and trained from birth by an Aku-worshiping cult led by an unnamed High Priestess to become the Daughters of Aku, a team of assassins with the sole purpose of killing Jack.
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 54 – XCIII
Unaware that Jack has lost his sword, Aku has grown tired of pursuing him and is starting to give up hope of ever defeating Jack, especially since he has stopped aging. Elsewhere, the Daughters of Aku overwhelm and disarm Jack; while hiding from them, he hallucinates an argument with his younger self about the point of keeping on living and fighting. He flees to a nearby temple ruin, pursued by the Daughters. One of them stabs him in the side as he kills her, and he discovers the Daughters are human, not robots as he assumed. Jack uses Scaramouche's tuning fork-like dagger to make the temple walls explode, and escapes into a river flowing past it. The episode's climax is an homage to the musical composition "The Ecstasy of Gold."[21]
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 55 – XCIV
Jack floats downriver and takes shelter in a cave, while the six surviving Daughters of Aku track him. He hallucinates an argument with himself over whether he can bring himself to kill all the Daughters if necessary as he had never before killed a human. A wounded wolf joins Jack in the cave, and they both recuperate from their injuries. Jack recalls an incident from his childhood when his family was accosted by assassins, where his father gave the assassins a choice: leave, or "face your destiny." They attacked, and were killed by Jack's father. As the Daughters of Aku close in on Jack, he gives them the same choice, echoing his father's words. When they stay, he quickly kills three and lures the others onto a branch hanging over an abyss. One by one Jack drops them into the abyss, but before he can return to solid ground, the branch breaks and he too falls into the abyss.
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 56 – XCV
Jack awakens and finds one of the Daughters of Aku lying bloodied in the snow. He is attacked by the Daughter, Ashi, but he quickly subdues her and binds her with the chain from her own chain-sickle. They are both suddenly swallowed by an enormous creature. As they fall, Ashi again attacks Jack, but he saves her from the deadly fall into the creature. Jack hallucinates an argument with himself over saving Ashi or leaving her to die. He protects her and carries her with him as he makes his way out, despite her barrage of threats and ongoing attempts to kill him. They eventually make it out of the creature and into a body of water, where Jack saves Ashi from drowning and carries her to a small island. She prepares to attack him again, but relents and drops her sickle upon seeing, in contrast to the High Priestess, who had crushed a ladybug for not being "a part of Aku's order," Jack gently release a ladybug that landed on his hand.
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 57 – XCVI
Jack's longtime friend the Scotsman, now elderly and wheelchair-bound, leads an attack on Aku's tower. Aku easily obliterates two of the three assembled armies. The Scotsman stalls Aku to allow his army of daughters to retreat. Aku kills him, but the Celtic magic-imbued necromancy runes on his claymore allow him to return as a specter in his youthful prime. He then instructs his daughters to regroup, find Jack, and destroy Aku. Elsewhere, Ashi has a troubling vision of the High Priestess, who is disgusted and disappointed at Ashi's insubordination. Ashi asks Jack to prove his claims of Aku's evil nature. They journey to several places destroyed by Aku, and eventually come upon a razed village whose children are forced to attack them through a mind-control device. As Ashi destroys the mind-control device, Jack is horrified to see the children collapse, believing them to be dead. The mysterious figure on horseback appears, and Jack willingly follows the figure into the fog. Ashi arrives as the children start coming to, and finds that Jack is gone.
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 58 – XCVII
As Ashi searches for Jack, she comes across many grateful people that Jack had helped in the past. Ashi finds Jack in a graveyard surrounded by the spirits of great warriors. The horseman that has been haunting Jack, the Omen, announces that Jack must face the consequences of his failure or be dishonored. Jack prepares to commit seppuku, while the Omen attacks Ashi to keep her from interfering. She pleads to Jack not to lose hope and tells him of all the lives he saved, including her own and even the children from the previous episode. Jack confronts and defeats the specter, then tells Ashi it's time to find his sword. Meanwhile, Scaramouche, who was reduced to a talking head after his defeat by Jack, sets out to inform Aku that Jack lost his sword.
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 59 – XCVIII
Jack recounts to Ashi the circumstances surrounding the loss of his sword. He fought Aku atop a mountain at the last time portal in existence when Aku destroyed the portal. Angrily, Jack fought and killed three innocent goats transformed into monsters by Aku. Traumatized after killing living creatures, Jack dropped his mystical sword which fell into a deep pit. In the present, Jack and Ashi return to the mountain, but they cannot find the sword. Jack realizes that the sword abandoned him because of his consuming anger. As Jack meditates to determine its whereabouts, Ashi keeps watch over him. She slaughters an army of soldiers trying to kill him, and foils a sneak attack by the High Priestess, killing her with an arrow. Jack's meditations take him on an astral journey to an old monk, who tells him after a tea ceremony that he has lost his sense of spiritual balance. Relinquishing his anger, which takes the form of Mad Jack, Jack regains that balance and is transported to a heavenly realm where the gods Ra, Rama and Odin[30] give him his sword and samurai kimono and he shaves his beard, restoring his appearance from the last four seasons. After Jack returns to the material world, he and Ashi set out to confront Aku.
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 60 – XCIX
A spaceship is knocked off course by an asteroid and crashes on Earth. Elsewhere, Jack and Ashi travel together and board a giant beast that carries passengers across the desert. The other passengers attack them, so the two escape and continue traveling on foot. They get caught in a sandstorm and find shelter in the crashed spaceship. They encounter thousands of leech-like creatures that band together as a creature named Lazarus and attack them. They escape, and come upon a weapon designed specifically to counter the creature, however they do not know how to operate it. Jack and Ashi fight the creatures and try to activate the weapon, without success; as they are almost completely engulfed by the creatures, Jack manages to activate the device and it electrocutes the creatures. After Jack and Ashi recuperate, there is a smash cut of the two passionately kissing as Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" starts playing. The song continues to play over the end credits.
21 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 61 – C
Ashi bonds with Jack as he tells her of his life before Aku. During the night, Jack ventures off alone, and by day happens upon the location where he unsuccessfully fought the Guardian of a time portal Jack was prophesied to use.[33] He finds the portal destroyed, as well as the Guardian's broken red glasses. Ashi catches up to Jack, who explains he left her behind out of fear of losing her to Aku as he did many others of his loved ones. Ashi reassures Jack that together, they will defeat Aku. At that moment Aku appears with Scaramouche, who has finally informed Aku about Jack losing his sword. Upon seeing Jack does have his sword, Aku swiftly destroys Scaramouche. As Aku starts to leave, he senses his own self inside of Ashi. Aku recalls visiting the Daughters of Aku and leaving part of him in a goblet for them, and assumes the High Priestess must have drank it and given birth to her seven children, making Ashi "a true daughter of Aku." Aku possesses and transforms Ashi, and forces her to fight Jack. Jack tells her to resist, but she is unable to do so. When Jack wounds Ashi, she briefly comes back to her senses and desperately begs Jack to kill her. Unwilling to do so, Jack drops to his knees and lays down his sword in defeat, which Aku then holds up triumphantly.
22 min
Samurai Jack 2017 Episode 62 – CI
This episode starts with everyone in the world gathering around their TVs for a live broadcast from Aku’s fortress. Aku announces to the world that he has captured Jack and isolated his sword, and decides that Ashi should kill him. As Ashi is about to stab the Samurai, many of Jack’s allies rally to Jack's defense, assaulting Aku and his fortress. After they free Jack, Aku overpowers them and Ashi prevents him from recovering his sword. While dodging Ashi's attacks, Jack frees her from Aku's possession by telling her that he loves her. Ashi then discovers that she possesses Aku's powers, and uses them to send herself and Jack back to his home time, specifically the moment when Aku first flung Jack into the future. Jack finally kills Aku, freeing his family and creating a brighter future. Jack and Ashi prepare to get married, but as Ashi walks the aisle, she suddenly collapses and disappears, informing Jack with her last breath that Aku's demise invalidates her existence. Jack temporarily grieves, but finds closure as he watches a ladybug flying free in a sunlit grove with cherry blossom trees in bloom.
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