Loveday Writing

When an alert to a witch in trouble in Sacred Grove comes up on the map, the sisters and Harry go there, where they find the grove destroyed and the Dryads who protect the grove massacred. Harry tells them that the fruit on the grove provides temporary immunity to magic and that if someone stole the fruit, they’d be unstoppable. They eventually find an injured witch with telepathic powers laying in front of the tree. When Harry heals her, the witch reveals that when she got to the grove, she found dozens of demons – Carnals and Malignants – working together to steal the fruit. When they decide that Abigael is responsible for the massacre due to being the Overlord, Harry orbs them to her apartment.

When they get to Abigael’s apartment, she tells them that Parker is now the Overlord as her containment at their hands led to her comrades getting restless and deciding that her family name carries weight. Maggie asks Abigael to take her to Parker, taking a truth serum, and threatening to out her to the demons as half-witch.

When they get to Parker’s mansion in Zurich, Abigael buzzes the gate, letting the demons know that Maggie is there to see the Overlord. The demons put magical cuffs on their wrists and take them to Parker. Parker immediately holds Abigael in the air by the neck, telling Maggie that she tried to kill him. Maggie convinces him to put Abigael down, and he sends her and the other demons out, once they’re gone, Parker tells her that he thought she was dead and hugs her.

Maggie explains the darklighter situation to Parker, and he explains that Godric found him and convinced him to be the Overlord, but his goal is to end the demonic war without bloodshed. They then go to a chamber where Godric has rounded up some demons, including Abigael, to torture them for information on who killed the Dryads. Abigael admits she killed them.

Abigael is locked up in a cell, and Maggie and Parker dose her with the truth serum she brought with her. Under the serum, she admits that she will never stop trying to kill Parker. Later she is sent to be executed in front of the demons, but Parker ends up stripping her powers and immortality, before deciding to imprison her.

Maggie thanks Parker for saving Abigael and they hook up. When Maggie goes to leave, Parker asks her to stay, pointing out that they managed to work together to a solution that didn’t involve bloodshed, he then proposes to her.

The episode ends with the reveal that Godric killed the Dryads, stole the fruit, and gave a piece of the fruit to Abigael – which gave her immunity from the truth serum and the power stripping spell. They decide that Parker is too soft to be the Overlord and they have to overthrow him.

Mel – Mel spends the episode helping Kat. The start of episode has Mel go to Kat’s shop to see that it is still closed. Mel asks Swan whether Kat is coming back, and Swan tells her that it’s believed that Kat had a breakdown and is not coming back.

When Mel goes back to the shop later, she finds Kat’s mother cleaning it out. Kat walks in moments later, and asks her mother to give them five minutes to talk. When they talk, Kat tells Mel that she is going to be hospitalised to deal with stress induced hallucinations, and that she is constantly seeing worms. Mel tells her that she has a way to prove to her that she’s not crazy.

Mel takes Kat back to the Manor and shows her a home video of Maggie’s high school graduation, featuring Marisol. Kat immediately recognises Marisol’s voice and Mel tells her that she is a medium, not crazy. Despite this, Kat decides to leave town away, as she needs time away to figure out her life, but she is not going into a hospital. She gives Mel the keys to the shop and subtly hires her.

Harry and Macy – Harry and Macy spend most of the episode finding out why Jordan is cursed and how his family got their hands on a magical ring.

Macy tries to get the ring off Jordan by having a boxing match with him to distract him long enough for Harry to get it out of his gym bag. While it looks like he has been caught, Jordan finds the rings in his gym bag, however Harry used a cloning serum he found earlier in the episode to create a clone of the ring. When Macy tries on the ring though, it doesn’t replenish her powers. Harry suggests that the ring’s power was drained when it enabled Maggie to have the two premonitions she had in the previous episode.

Harry and Macy cast a spell on the ring to see its history and see Jordan’s great-great-great grandfather, Lawrence Mortimer Chase, steal the ring and send a witch off to be burnt at the stake. The witch cursed him as she was being dragged away. When they conduct further research online, they discover that Lawrence was the Witchfinder General and he died when he was 25 years old. Realising that the curse contained a line ‘wither five by five’, they check the rest of the Chase family tree and find that Lawrence’s male descendants also died when they were 25 years old. When Harry asks Macy how old Jordan is, Macy replies that he is also twenty-five.

Overall I felt that this was a mostly solid episode, but it did have some weak points. The Maggie subplot was compelling and I honestly wasn’t surprised with Parker’s reappearance – he was bound to return at some point, and his return was predicted with the familial connection between him and Abigael, their current foe. I enjoyed not knowing who to trust throughout this subplot, but I ultimately wasn’t surprised by the outcome, if everything’s neatly tied up quickly, or simply if it’s too easy, it generally is. It will be interesting to see where we go from here with this subplot.

I felt that the Mel subplot was the weakest one. While it’s good that Kat’s side effects from being an anchor to the astral plane was finally addressed, as Kat only appeared briefly in the series and barely interacted with Mel, I found it difficult to be invested in her both as an individual character and as Mel’s love interest. I also found it far fetched that Kat would trust Mel to run her shop, even though they had chemistry and a connection, it doesn’t change the fact that they barely knew each other.

The Harry-Macy-Jordan subplot was solid, we found out about the ring’s origins and why Jordan was cursed, however the question of whether he is a threat or not still hasn’t been answered. Like with the Maggie subplot, it will be interesting to see where we go from here.