Cassie's grandmother
starts asking suspicious questions of Cassie, suggesting she's
finally got a clue But Chief Scooby Diana tells Cassie that Parent
Circle had its powers stripped by Grandparent Circle as punishment
for the whole burning people to death thing, so it's best to keep it
all a secret (yeah I know there's some logic missing there)
Speaking of the Parent
Circle, Dawn and Charles (Diana, and Faye's parents), the Bad Guys,
are calling on the Blood Moon to find 5 other crystals linked to the
one they have, with the help of the bound circle, to get their powers
back, it fails though, the crystal is out of batteries.
At the end of last
week's episode we saw Melissa, as the most dispensable and characterless witch, have
a demon snake enter her ear – and she wakes grumpy with a headache
(see, we know she's possessed because she is actually defying Nick.
So out of character).
After being fully demonised, she tells Nick she's found her family's Book of Shadows (that would be hidden in her non-existent home, the only home we haven't seen and be from her non-existent parent. The only parent we haven't seen I might add and the parent whose apparently fine with their daughter spending every night at Nick's place) and takes him to the forest to dig up a suitcase.
To the Scooby Hideout,
where Demon!Melissa, Faye and Nick snark around the case while
Melissa plays one against the other and neither of her best friends
notice how completely out of character she's acting. Cassie arrives
and Melissa starts getting the demonic echo voice (oh, it's not a
demon! It's a Goa'uld!), the suitscase starts moving and the demon
worm starts moving across her forehead. At which point the gang
finally realise that something is up (quick aren't they?). You'd
think all the attention being on Melissa for once would have clued
them in that something was off.
Adam and Diana are
having fun sexy times – until the mobile phone interrupts.
Seriously, you stop at that point because the phone goes off? It's
not even a call, it's a text! I'm sure that's up there in the rules
of sex etiquette – no stopping the sexy time to text! And yes, it's
Cassie asking for help and summoning them to Scoobie HQ. Cassie's
completely ruining their relationship
So all the Scoobies to the Scoobie hideout, an restrain Melissa. There's a potentially interesting moment in which the demon pretends to let Melissa back in control and begs to be freed from Nick and he looks in her eyes and clearly sees that's not his lover and refuses. Awww sweet, it must be twy lub. Well, except for the fact that no fool is going to think the demon decided to just leave because its hands were tied – c'mon, Heather was in a coma for years and the demon didn't bail.
Cassie finally clues in
and goes to her grandmother, confesses all and asks for help. This is
me picking myself off the carpet. Could it be... common sense? No,
surely not?!
Meanwhile Demon!Melissa gets free and slams Nick against a wall and holds a blade to his throat. He tires to play “but I love you, fight it” which fails and she starts cutting – hey maybe Melissa did fight it off but wants an excuse to slice Nick up a bit anyway? The Scoobies present tremble a little then open the case for Demon!Melissa
In comes Cavalry
Grandma! She closes the case, knocks the weapon away and uses one of
the crystals (presumably from the Parent Circle) to knock Melissa
back. Go witchy grandma, she knows her stuff! In the struggle, the
demon ends up in Nick (enjoy your screen time while it lasted
Melissa, that's it now, back to playing side-kick) and he runs while
Adam and Cassie have a Demon!Snake bonfire (burning and drowning are
the only things that kill demons).
But the plot thickens –
Nick threatens to burn down the Boathouse (hereby known as the
Scoobie Bar) unless he gets his suitcase full of Demon!wrigglies and
he meets up with Dawn (that's Faye's mother, one of the Evil Parents)
and tells her who he is – the demon, Abaddon (well, makes a change
from Azazel. Azazel gets all the good roles). They agree to swap
bodies – somewhere private to give her chance to oh-so-stealthily,
takes out her phone (which lights up) dials Charles (Evil Parent #2)
so he can listen in on the revelations. Honestly demons must either
be visually impaired or not know what a phone is – there's no other
explanation for this “stealth.”
It works (ugh, proving Abaddon is slightly more foolish than the average resident of this town and that's saying something) and Charles knocks Nick out (I just love TV shows that treat head injuries as a convenient anaesthetic and not potentially severe, cumulative brain trauma). Without their magic, Evil Parents drown Nick – killing the demon. And him.
Even Evil Parents are
torn and haunted over what they just did. There's some powerful
scenes of grief, regret and pain, some of the best scenes in Secret
Circle to date – (Diana, Chief Scooby, making it about her) a
genuinely sad ending... though I suspect either resurrection or long
lost sibling may be on the cards (and what, they kill him off half way through the series but he gets a spot on the promotional picture, but Melissa doesn't?)
