Loveday Writing

Throughout the episode, Macy is in a bad mood with everyone and we are given “cookie crumbs” of what happened to her at the Shea Group meeting. It’s eventually revealed that Macy was subjected to misogynoir at the hands of Lori Brewster, the Head of Communications.

Mel and Harry – At the start of the episode, Mel is seen working with Harry making a potion to find the tablet’s missing half (apparently it was in two pieces but I don’t remember this being mentioned). When she inhales the potion and casts the spell to find it, she is given the clue ‘Okanaga’. Harry believes the clue is hinting at the Okanaga Valley in Canada. They use the portal to go there.

When they get there and try to find the missing half of the tablet, they hear a witch, Kyra, screaming and with puncture wounds. They take her back to the Command Centre and Harry can’t heal her wounds. Kyra tells them that a demon wearing a jacket with a crow on it attacked her. It’s later revealed that the ‘demon’ is in fact a witch, Willow, and that Kyra’s a part of a group of witches who left Willow’s coven to move to the city but the split wasn’t amicable because they each wanted ownership of the coven’s sacred objects.

Kyra reveals that her mother died and she wanted to scatter her ashes on the sacred ground where her ancestors’ ashes were scattered. Willow sympathises and agrees to give her the runes she needs to perform the ritual as part of the scattering of the ashes. When Harry sees that the etchings on the runes match the symbols on the tablet, Willow tells him that the runes came from the Cave of Ancients. Mel and Harry go to the Cave and find the second half of the tablet. The episode ends with the two halves of the tablet magically putting themselves back together in front of them.

Maggie – There wasn’t as much focus on Maggie in this episode, other than her attempts to complete a word association project for her class with Dr. Lawrence. She has Jordan be a test subject as she has to complete the project with a single child who’s an overachiever, but he has to leave to deliver legal documents to be signed for work. She then asks Macy, who reluctantly participates. Maggie eventually figures out what happened to Macy.

Abigael and Jordan – It’s revealed that the legal documents Jordan had to get signed was to hire his firm to handle Abigael’s corporate real estate holdings. Abigael wanted to hire the firm and have Jordan bring her the documents as she wants to perform a demon mind meld on him to find out what happened when he visited her sister. She believes that her sister cursed the totem, which is causing her demon form to attack her, and needs to know the origins of the curse.

When Jordan refuses to let her perform the demon mind meld, Abigael shows Jordan her demon form and starts attacking him. Thinking that she is responsible for Kyra’s attack and that she is not keeping her promise, Mel arrives at the apartment and starts fighting with Abigael. Harry arrives moments later to tell her that a demon didn’t attack Kyra. After witnessing her attack Jordan, Mel tells Abigael that she is irredeemable. Jordan eventually agrees to the demon mind meld, which confirms for her that Jordan was telling the truth, and the totem isn’t cursed.

Jordan tells Abigael that if she doesn’t change her ways that people will always assume the worst about her. Abigael asks him if he thinks Mel is right, that she’s irredeemable. Jordan tells her that redemption can’t be demanded, coerced or extorted, it’s earned, one day at a time, and he leaves.

Overall this was an okay episode. We found out more about the tablet, with the other half being found and the pieces coming together, although I can’t remember any mention of the tablet being in pieces in previous episodes (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong). I appreciated the scenes between Abigael and Jordan, which makes Abigael face her negative qualities and being called out on them. I found the misogynoir scenes involving Macy hard to watch, not because of the performances, they were spectacular, but because it was a horrible thing to happen to Macy, and to anyone else. I was hoping to see Lori experience some repercussions, but perhaps this will be touched upon in other episodes. I also felt that Maggie’s word association game/project didn’t really add anything to the episode.