It isn’t the biggest, baddest breaking Middle-earth story, and yet the subplot following the Harfoots and their mysterious meteor-man companion has remained charming, alarming, and all-in-all interesting throughout Season 1. During that time, most of what we’ve seen has focused on the details of Harfoot life, but in the finale, the attention fully shifted to the Stranger in a really big way.

When the episode starts, we see the Wizard in Greenwood (future Mirkwood), where he encounters the three Mystics who have been following him for a while now. They assume that he’s Sauron due to the obvious supernatural signs that surround him. Eventually, a posse of Harfoots, including Nori (Markella Kavenagh), Poppy (Megan Richards), Marigold (Sara Zwangobani), and Sadoc (Lenny Henry), arrives and tries to help their Big Folk friend out of his awkward predicament.

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Not surprisingly, things go south quickly, with Sadoc taking a knife to the gut and the others nearly being roasted alive, like the 13 troll-captured Dwarves in “The Hobbit.” At this point, the Stranger steps up, firmly choosing the side of good and destroying the shadowy perils with his fancy new staff. All in all, the event ends well for the good guys, with the exception of poor old Sadoc, who goes wandering off-trail and joins the missus.

By the end of the episode, the Stranger reveals that his brain fog has cleared a bit, and he remembers that he’s an Istar, one of the Wizards. There’s more to find out, though, and he and Nori end the season trekking off eastward, toward the mysterious Mannish kingdom of Rhûn, where the stars are strange and the even stranger identity of the Wizard will doubtless crystalize heading into Season 2.