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Meanwhile, Macy is overworked due to being the only sister with powers, which means she and Harry are constantly having to rescue witches in trouble, and she is also forcing herself to stay awake to keep the assassin from torturing her in her dreams. Her fatigue is causing her demonic powers to come out, to the point that the Book of Elders is rejecting her. As the Book is rejecting her, Harry and Mel try to translate the Book. Although they don’t manage to translate it completely, they manage to figure out that the Elders assigned a Sentinel to guard the Book in the astral plane and can use astral projection via a special tea to get there. As they need an anchor to keep their spirits tied to their body, and as she has the ingredients they need for the tea in her shop, Harry suggests using Kat.

Harry and Mel ask Kat to meditate with them and they drink the special tea to get to the astral plane. The Sentinel gives them a potion to drink so they get their powers back however he warns them that nothing in life or death is without consequence. The potion seems to work; however Kat is immediately tortured. Harry and Mel then question whether this is a test put in place by the Elders – whether they would choose their powers over a mortal’s life. Mel then asks Harry to orb them to the roof, to jump off to see whether they are being tested and sure enough, they were. The Sentinel commends them for figuring it out and gives them a cypher to translate the Book. However unbeknownst to them, Kat is still being tortured in reality.

Meanwhile Macy tries to rescue a witch, Abigael, that was kidnapped by the Overlord, only to be kidnapped herself. Macy and Abigael are placed in a cage that prevents them from using their powers to escape. However Macy comes up with an escape plan that doesn’t need the use of their powers. While they are chased by the demons, Macy manages to save her and Abigael by the skin of their teeth, by conjuring another portal to go back to the Command Centre. Macy asks Abigael what the Overlord looks like and she gives Macy a description of one of the other demons.

When the Book rejects Abigael, Macy holds an athame to her throat and calls her out for being the Overlord, however Abigael tells her that she’s half-witch, half-demon like her. As Macy puts the athame down, she notices that the Overlord has put a tracker in her shoulder, which means he and the other demons can track the sisters. One of the demons, Callum, tracks her down at SafeSpace. Before he can attack anyone, Maggie and Macy see him. They plan to lure him down to the Command Centre and vanquish him. When they bring him down there, Abigael identifies him as the Overlord, he responses by saying, ‘it’s you isn’t it?’, before she and Macy vanquish him.

The episode ends with Macy seeing an alert that the Command Centre has been breached and manages to subdue Abigael when she starts to attack her. Macy concludes that she is the Overlord and wants to kill her, but she is stopped when Abigael reveals that she has also been darted by the assassin.

Overall I felt that this was a solid episode with the exploration of astral projection and the astral plane, the introduction of another magical creature with the Sentinel, and the twist of Abigael most likely (although not confirmed) to be the Overlord. That being said, I did see the twist regarding Abigael coming as I felt the situation in the story and vanquishing Callum came together too neatly and wrapped up too easily. There are still some unanswered questions, such as whether Abigael is the Overlord, and why Kat is being tortured, but hopefully these will be addressed in future episodes.

Stray Observations:

Callbacks to the original series: The astral plane and the use of astral projection. This episode also shares a similar title with the season 2 finale in the original series.

-Jordan was a Big Brother and served in the military.