Ingrid, with all kinds of revelations dumped on her,
hurriedly pulls out her mother’s hidden bag o’ magic tricks. Which she then has
to open by saying “open” causing it to both magically open and continue the
glorious theme of skewering silly tropes that seems to be such an excellent
part of Ingrid’s character. Inside is all kinds of shinies, including
photographs of her and Freya in different fashions through the ages, and a
great big Grimoire. She looks for a spell to free Freya and finds a
resurrection spell – perfect for her recently stabbed Aunt Wendy
Freya is still trapped in the painting, the guests to the
1920s party completely ignoring her as she moves through the room pursued
by her murderous ex from a different life. She tries to chant the spell
that trapped them to get rid of him but it’s not so simple to escape – as murderous
ex says since he was captured in a painting for decades. He tells her his knife
is the only escape from the painting
He manhandles Freya, ties her to the bar and kisses her
(she bites him). He pours alcohol on the bar and sets it on fire before going
to chip his way out with his knife. In terror at the approaching fire, Freya’s
magic kicks in, smashing glasses and unravelling her bonds, giving Freya chance
to smack the murderous ex on the back of the head with a big heavy statue and
take his place chipping at the wall with the magic knife.
At the police station, Adam questions Joanna about the murder of her neighbour and shows her a picture of the symbol the survivor, Maura, said Joanna had drawn in the ground. Joanna denies everything and asks for a cigarette, chanting over the lit match while Adam is distracted by a phone call. The spell confirms for Joanna, by witchy smoke ring, that “she” is alive (Freya or Wendy I don’t know).
Joanna calls for her lawyer – Harrison. Apparently
another immortal who she hasn’t seen for 50 years. She fills him in on the
situation and he promises to get her free – which he comes through on, getting
her bail on a murder charge by calling on one of his shady clients (he doesn’t
have magic himself but he knows people who do); but Joanna is convinced that,
as an innocent woman, she doesn’t need shady dealings just a good lawyer. And,
apparently, $1,000,000 bail. It also seems that Harrison and Joanna’s long
history isn’t exactly all rosy when she gives him a code to pass on to Ingrid
without telling him what it means.
Ingrid’s spell seems to work and Aunt Wendy is restored
to life – and sickness and she runs to the bathroom to be sick and naked,
shifting back from cat form. Freya isn’t pleased about being resurrected since
she would have been resorted anyway – hut being quickly filled in on Joanna’s
arrest and Freya still in the painting she leaps to action. And resurrection is
bad because it comes with a price –if you resurrect someone you love, someone you
love has to die (though she blames Joanna for keeping Ingrid ignorant). While
driving to Freya’s rescue, Wendy quickly
gives Ingrid a brief idea of all the women in the family being cursed, of
Ingrid and Freya having lived many lives and how the women in the family have
really bad luck with men (not a curse, they’re “just really stupid that way.”)
At Freya’s bar, Killian and Dash snark back and forth
revealing lots of bad blood between the brothers.
The smoke alarm goes off and the 1920s painting is on
fire, setting fire to the wall around it, Freya is unconscious in front of it. Killian
picks her up, lays her on the pool table and kisses her (hey, I hate to break
up the romance love triangle, but the wall is actually on fire, you might want
to do something about that). Then the scene shifts and it’s not Killian, it’s
Dash, she only imagined it was Killian. Freya is confused about what caused her
to pass out and puts the whole picture scene down to being a dream. They kiss
again. As far as I know, the bathroom is still on fire. No-one seems to care.
Ingrid and Wendy arrive and don’t see Freya is out and
safe, and run to the smoke filled bathroom (some passing good Samaritan put out
the fire). Unfortunately resurrection spells make Wendy ill and she turns into
a cat against her will – and stuck in that form, leaving Ingrid to handle the
spell alone. She starts chanting in front of the picture which begins to move
(I think she may have just let the guy out again) and Freya comes in, confused
how Ingrid knows about her dream. Ingrid grabs her and Wendy and they leave –just
missing the Murderous Ex escaping the picture (told you).
In the car, Freya is shocked that Ingrid of all people is
telling her they’re witches (poor Ingrid), Wendy and Ingrid work together to
uber-info-dump all over poor Freya. Add in a voice mail from Harrison and the
code, interpreted by Wendy, seems to be that she has a load of money buried in
a grave. Nice.
Murderous-ex did get out the painting, now badly burned
and murders a random woman to steal her car and phone can tell his boss,
whoever they are, that he’s still going to kill Freya.
To the grave and shovels – and everyone marvelling at
crafty Joanna inventing an aunt, bringing the girls there as children so they’d
remember her and using it as a place to stash money in case of emergencies.
Wendy also reveals magic doesn’t create something out of nothing so you can’t
just conjure money –if you made money appear, it would have come from somewhere
and would have been stolen. Wendy also fills them in on their personalities in
the past – both are very similar but Ingrid wasn’t so scared and timid as she
is now. Ingrid still isn’t happy being a witch and Freya isn’t happy Joanna
kept the truth from them.
The coffin is full of money – a whole lot of money.
Watching in a scrying pond, the shifter fake!Joanna snarls
Dash and Killian have another brotherly-not-quite love
moment at Killian’s boat. They don’t like each other, in case you missed it.
Back to the house with all four witches reunited and
Joanna and Wendy (mainly Wendy) let slip that there are a few magical immortal
beings out there and that Joanna is ancient and powerful and made enemies - downplayed
by Joanna who is more concerned with Freya and Ingrid keeping their magical
status hidden. But Freya is furious – she’d always sensed the truth and Joanna
had made her think she was mentally ill, even sending her to therapy over her
accurate feelings. She is not happy and she kinda has a point.
Freya, angry, goes to Killian’s boat to see Killian for more
sexual tension and insistence of platonicness.
At home, Ingrid and Wendy discuss Ingrid’s resurrection
spell and her horror over one of her loved ones dying – because she loves so
many people. Wendy calls her Ingrid, but she cries because she doesn’t want to
be, she doesn’t want magic, she doesn’t want any of it. Looking at the pic
where Murderous Ex (Doug) was imprisoned, they realise they don’t know what
happened to the painting in the bar – and quickly hurry to be extra, specially
sure. They go to the bar
And Freya returns home to an empty house and an
overflowing bath tub. Doug forces her into the tub and uses magic to turn the
water into ice. Joanna, Wendy and Ingrid arrive and knock away his candle,
unfreezing Freya – Ingrid goes to help her while Joanna wrestles with Doug –
and beats him handily. Go Joanna! Wendy gets the candle, Joanna grabs a
painting and Doug becomes artwork again
They bury the painting in their fictional Aunt’s grave
(they could burn it but they don’t kill people. Any more. I note the “any more”)
They go home and Dash is waiting for them, giving Freya
chance to reaffirm their love and how he’ll stay with her even if she’s a mess.
Joanna keeps dealing her tarot spread, getting the same
answers, desperate for a way. Freya and Ingrid have never lived this long
before and she can’t lose them again. And Wendy promises to stay
Fake!Joanna, outside, paints the symbol she used at the murder
scene on a tree in her blood – it turns black and the tree dies. I think she
did it for foreshadowing
Another episode and I don’t really have much to say. It’s
fun, it’s quirky, it’s funny and it has some awesome characters with some
excellent connections. I am intrigued.
