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After trying and failing to reclaim the Power of Three, the sisters go to the bar at SafeSpace. The bartender, Ruby, gives Mel her phone number after a bit of flirting but Mel declines Ruby’s date offer, whilst Maggie turns Jordan down as she feels she’s not ready for a relationship with him after everything that happened with Parker. When Mel casually making a remark about the sisters being displaced, Macy concludes that her demon powers are displacing her witch powers, which is preventing the Power of Three from being reclaimed.

Meanwhile, Harry goes to the Tulipe Institute and finds the nurse and an unknown man with the same tattoo as Nadia, dead. Harry discover darklighter Helen’s room is empty and when he turns around, whitelighter Helen tells him that she escaped. When Mel and Maggie return to the Command Centre, they discover that Harry has brought whitelighter Helen back with him. Helen reveals to them that darklighters can’t kill whitelighters and vice versa, which makes them realise that Harry’s darklighter is still alive.

Meanwhile, Macy goes to see Abigael at her apartment to ask for help in stripping her demon powers. Abigael questions why she would do this as her fire power is coveted in the demon world, but quickly realises she’s doing it so she and her sisters can reclaim the Power of Three. Abigael agrees to help and takes Macy down to her subterranean dungeon to Parker as he can help her, as he knows where the ritual dagger that is needed to perform the power stripping, is located. When Macy asks Abigael how it’s possible that Parker is still alive, she reveals that she pierced Parker with a homing device, and Parker in return reveals that Godric is her ‘demonic BFF’. Parker agrees to tell her where the ritual dagger is if Macy gives Maggie a letter he has written to her. Macy agrees, and Abigael uses the ritual dagger to cut her own hand and strip Macy of her powers. After Macy collapses, Abigael helps her up with her uncut hand. Macy checks to see whether it worked and it has, now she is no longer able to conjure fire.

Meanwhile, Maggie has a premonition of darklighter Helen at an intersection, which Mel tracks down to Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mel decides to stay with whitelighter Helen, while Harry and Maggie go to Plymouth to try and find darklighter Helen. When they arrive, Harry questions why darklighter Helen would come here, but it’s revealed later when Mel shows Helen her records that Plymouth was her home.

As Helen is going through her records and shows them to Mel, it’s revealed that Helen was married off when she was a teenager, and she managed to find true love with a man named Daniel Rodway, but she has never been free. Mel relays this to Harry and Maggie, concluding that darklighter Helen would have gone to the cemetery where Daniel was buried. When they find Daniel’s grave, Maggie has a premonition of darklighter Helen attacking Harry, so she tackles him out of the way just in time, but this leads to darklighter Helen holding a knife to her throat.  Maggie tells her that she knows about Daniel and relays her own experiences about not being able to be with someone she loves to earn her trust, which leads to darklighter Helen giving Harry the knife. Harry and Maggie take darklighter Helen back to the Command Centre, where they keep her contained. Both darklighter and whitelighter Helen want to merge, Harry tells her that it would be too dangerous but Helen says she can’t live like this, with Mel adding that Helen’s never had any choice in her life and merging can’t be worse than her current situation.

The sisters lift the containment spell, but when Macy tries to find a way to merge them by looking in the Book of Elders, darklighter Helen attacks her. Whitelighter Helen grabs a knife and stabs herself, and as they are two halves of a whole, this also kills darklighter Helen. Mel asks Harry to heal her but he can’t as it’s a self-inflicted wound, whitelighter Helen tells him she did it as it was her choice, the first one she’s made for herself. Darklighter Helen merges with whitelighter Helen and they fade away together.

Afterwards, the sisters go back to the bar in SafeSpace. After spending time with Helen and finding out she couldn’t be with who she loved, Mel is inspired to go on a date with Ruby and Maggie is ready to move on from Parker, which leads to Macy deciding not to give Maggie the letter Parker wrote to her. Macy goes back to the Command Centre to use the black amber and finds that despite stripping her demon powers, her witch powers still haven’t come back. When Harry hears her yell out in frustration, he comes to see her and tells her that they’ll figure out how to get her powers back. Macy and Harry kiss, however it turns out that Macy was only imagining this.

The episode ends with Abigael revealing to Parker that she now has Macy’s demon powers, with Parker asking Abigael what her end game is as she walks away from him without answering.

Overall I felt that this was a solid episode. The darklighter Helen subplot came to a heartbreaking but satisfying close, but the Harry-darklighter story arc progressed with Harry and the sisters realising through Helen that his darklighter is still alive. The Abigael-Overlord story arc has also progressed with Abigael revealing to Macy that Parker is still alive, and the twist that Abigael stole Macy’s demon powers for herself. This twist wasn’t that surprising as it’s consistent with Abigael’s character and her overall goal.

There were some specific moments in the episode that stood out to me as they provided unexpected insight into some of the characters. When Macy visits Abigael to ask for her help, Abigael is quick to figure out that Macy believes that her demon powers are blocking her witch powers, and in turn Macy easily deduces that her and Harry’s “date” didn’t progress pass the interrupted dinner. These moments between them show that they are very similar and suggests that perhaps Abigael is a person Macy could be if she fully embraced her demonic side. Another moment I felt stood out was when Harry and Maggie were in the cemetery and Maggie discovers Abigael’s lipstick on the back of his neck. Instead of chastising or judging him, Maggie suggests that their shared ability to see the good in people is what made them fall for Parker and Abigael respectively.

It will be interesting to see where we go from here now that Abigael has Macy’s demon powers.