Loveday Writing

When Maggie, Mel and Harry get to SafeSpace to find Jordan, they find a karaoke night taking place. When Jordan is randomly called on stage to sing, Maggie suggests a duet and gets on stage with him. While she manages to get a premonition, it’s not clear enough for them to go on.

Meanwhile, Macy quickly manages to figure out that something is not quite right and when she breaks a bedroom window to try and escape, she discovers that she in a magical simulation. When the darklighter sees her and realises she’s figured this out, he informs her that he neutralised her powers using a power dampening device. He gives her a phone to call her sisters, but she realises that he’s only doing this to lure her sisters out. He then uncloaks them and she realises they are in New York.

Meanwhile, Harry suggests that Maggie somehow get Jordan into the elevator and they trap him in there, to give her the opportunity to touch him again. Mel uses a disruptor potion to cut the power in SafeSpace, however this means that they temporarily don’t have access to the Command Centre. Maggie eventually manages to conjure the premonition again, eventually seeing the Schnitty’s Bar and Harry keeping someone in a head lock.

Whilst Maggie is in the lift with Jordan, Harry and Mel orb to Schnitty’s Bar. When they get there, Harry is mistaken for his darklighter, who goes by his mortal name, by a demon. The demon tells Harry that he (the darklighter) owes him money. Harry tries to act like him to keep up appearances and succeeds, until he is forced to play a poker game to pay off his debt and Mel is locked in another room.

Mel takes what is left of her cloaking potion and sneaks out of the room to assist Harry. Just as Harry wins and pays off the darklighter’s debt, Mel’s cloaking potion wears off and the demon attacks Harry, with another one holding Mel up by the neck. Harry puts the demon in the head lock (as seen in Maggie’s premonition) and Mel manages to fight the demon holding her off. Mel threatens to throw ‘Hellflame’, the demon Harry was battling with gives him the darklighter’s address, and Harry and Mel orb out.

Meanwhile, with her hands magically bound, Macy notices that the darklighter has a briefcase full of magical devices (including the poison she was darted with) and points out that if he needs those devices, he himself can’t be that powerful and someone else is pulling his strings. The darklighter then tells Macy about his ‘birth’ and being placed in the bottle, like leftover garbage, and being released by his master, but he doesn’t identify who the master is. He also tells Macy that the master wants power delivered to him. Macy bonds with the darklighter further by asking him to dance and suggesting that they deliver Abigael Caine to the master, however this is just a ruse to get his power dampening device. Macy barely manages to get the device and fight the darklighter off, when Harry and Mel show up. Due to being held captive, Macy grabs Harry and throws him against the wall before he gives her their safe word to prove it’s really him. The darklighter starts attacking them and Harry orbs them out of the apartment. Harry then goes back as he says the fight is between him and the darklighter.

While he and the darklighter have a rough scuffle, Harry ultimately gets the upper hand, smashing the vial of poison against his face. The darklighter tries to orb away, only to find he can’t due to the poison’s side effects. Harry then kills the darklighter with the same blade that the darklighter killed him with in the premiere.

Meanwhile, as Maggie and Jordan wait for the power to come back on, Maggie figures out that Jordan’s ring triggers her premonitions. Jordan tells her that the ring is a family heirloom and is said to have magical properties. When Maggie asks to try the ring on, she has another premonition of him being thrown magically against the wall.

When Harry and the sisters return to the Manor, Mel apologises to Maggie for making fun of her premonitions. Maggie tells her about the premonition she had about Jordan, and that it means he’s either in danger or he is a danger to them. Harry goes to see Macy in her bedroom and asks her what the darklighter was like. She tells him he was bold, charming, twisted, and tortured by what happened to him. Harry looks at himself in the mirror and questions what he would have been like if he and his darklighter had never been split.

The episode ends with the reveal that the darklighter has been revived in Harry’s grave, much like Harry himself was when the darklighter killed him in the premiere.

Overall, this was mostly a solid episode, but it did have its weak points. With playing the dual roles of Harry and the darklighter, and having to essentially fight with himself, I felt that this was Evans’ best performance of the series. I felt that the karaoke scene was unnecessary, the elevator scene was sufficient. I also felt that the poker game scenes and it being used as a way for Harry to pay the darklighter’s debt to be a little out of place with the rest of the episode, as it seemed like a very mortal way for a demon to solve its problem.

It will be interesting to see where we are taken next, with another twist thrown into the darklighter story arc, with the darklighter being revived in Harry’s grave and the reveal that he has a master. It will be interesting to find out whether Jordan is a magical friend or foe in the upcoming episodes.

Stray Observations:

-The ring Jordan wears originally belonged to his great-great-great grandfather, Lawrence Mortimer Chase.

-Jordan was four years old when his father died.

Best one liners and interactions:

• “There’s our target.” “And there’s Mrs. Target.” (Maggie-Harry when Maggie finds Jordan and Harry sees Lola with him)
• “Then you need to get him alone and touch him everywhere.” “Harry!” “We don’t have any time to waste.” “How is she supposed to do that and not get arrested?” “Any trapped-in-an-elevator spell in that fanny pack of yours?” (Harry-Mel going back and forth on Maggie finding another way to get a premonition from Jordan)