Hammer and Bolter Season 1, Episode 16: Return to Cadia

Death's Hand

Inquisitor Kiamoro’s death has been foretold. It is a certainty. Yet he will do anything to prevent it - even embracing the heretical ways of the alien Aeldari. His endeavours draw the attention of a fellow Inquisitor, who resolves to challenge Kiamo...

20 min

Bound for Greatness

In the great library on the Imperial world of Antioth, Adept Neath has only one job - to count the endless books. He is one of hundreds of adepts who count thousands of books under the ever-watchful eye of the Prefect. In the great processionals and ...

20 min

Old Bale Eye

In an Ork encampment, an old Runtherd called Dursnang puts a couple of young upstarts in their place by reciting the tale of the great Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka and his rivalry with the Imperial hero, Commissar Yarrick. Through the eyes of the young ...

20 min

Fangs

Three famed warriors of the Space Wolves gather for a game in the halls of their fortress, the Fang. But the real game is being played out in the frozen wilds, as three hopeful aspirants battle both the elements and an assortment of terrible beasts t...

20 min

A Question of Faith

Two Battle Sisters, Elena and Agatha, attempt to hold a saint’s shrine against rampaging Chaos Cultists. The Sisters are wearied by the constant onslaught and running low on ammunition, yet while there is still a chance other warriors of the Adepta Sororitas will come to their aid.

20 min

In the Garden of Ghosts

A small party of Aeldari return to the ruins of their ancestral craftworld to seek the spirit stones of the dead, so that those lost in battle might be returned to a semblance of life, and their memories preserved. The Warlock Iocarus has a more specific agenda, one which can only be fulfilled by reliving the agonising events of the day the craftworld fell.

20 min

Kill Protocol

In the aftermath of an all-consuming war, a lone Tech-priest and the Kastelan Robot she commands set out through Ork-infested wastes on a quest to retrieve a sacred piece of technology from the ruins of a distant city.

20 min

Cadia Stands

On a war-torn battlefront, Astra Militarum forces fight for survival against endless waves of Tyranids. Eoin, a messenger, must deliver a crucial communique from the Cadian commander to the central command staff, and Sergeant Harlan is given the task of keeping him alive. Together the two make their way through embattled trench lines and face the horrors of grinding warfare to deliver Eoin's vital message.

20 min

Artefacts

After ransacking a Necron tomb world, a group of Black Legion Terminators led by the veteran warrior Hesiod are ordered to track down a powerful xenos artefact by Abaddon the Despoiler himself. However, their prize lies in the depths of a vast space hulk, and they are not alone in seeking it.

20 min

Plague Song

When the Death Guard champion Morior Dermatis finds his warband's ambitions thwarted, the sorcerer Ephisis takes matters into his own hands and decides on a new approach. Realising that Grandfather Nurgle's gifts are not bound by mortal conceits of space and time, Ephisis plans to unleash a plague unlike any the Imperium has suffered before.

20 min

Double or Nothing

In the wilds of Ghur, a vast tribe of orruks threatens a Sigmarite city. Lord-Celestant Carinus and his Hammers of Sigmar do not have the numbers to stand against them, and it seems the city is doomed. Only Sigmar's greatest champion, Hamilcar Bear-Eater, could find a way out of this fix...

Monsters

High in the peaks of Attramor, a horse-tribe of Darkoath warriors face a daily battle for survival. Jorvak Brand, the tribe's chieftain, has ambitions of a better future for his people, but their doom is only ever one night away...

A New Life

As the Tyranids attack an Imperial colony, can a family get their newborn child off-world and save its life? This episode of Hammer and Bolter offers a terrifying insight into what an invasion looks like through the eyes of lowly hab-workers as they contend with riots, Astra Militarum defence lines, and the oncoming xenos swarm.

Undercity

People are going missing on the streets of Hammerhal Aqsha. Can Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll and his reluctant colleague, the former Freeguild Captain, Armand Callis, work out what’s been going on? And just what will they discover in the sewers...

24 min

Eternal

As a Chaplain and Judicar from the Exorcists Chapter interrogate a warrior from the Emperor’s Children about Lucius the Eternal, they don't realise they are about to learn more about the chosen son of the Dark Prince than they ever thought possible.

21 min