At the end of last episode the Hidden One decided he was
officially done with everyone and he was going to take matters into his own
hands – but killing the Witnesses himself.
So he attacks Ichabod – and Ichabod is completely
helpless in the face of him. Y’know this would have been a much shorter season
if the Hidden One had done this around episode 3.
However, it turns out the nifty little symbol Abbie has
been loving is called the Emblem of Thura and it has the shiny ability to
absorb evil god powers and create a prison to lock them up
That sounds good to be but there’s two down sides. 1)
Crane is locked up with the Hidden One (where they then talk about Ichabod’s
feelings, art, theology, Ichabod’s insecurities and the fact that being a
Witness is hereditary. This is news to Ichabod. This is news to Ichabod despite
him having found a Witness artefact in his family crypt. I mean, Witness paraphernalia
being family heirlooms suggests a level of inheritance to me). And 2) The
Hidden One is officially Not Pleased about being locked up and may nuke all the
things to try and get free. Since no-one wants to be nuked this means we’re
going to have an… unlikely alliance between Abbie and Pandora.
It’s tense to say the least, but the plan is to get
Pandora to use magic from a dark monster of some kind and then direct it at the
prison and open it up. The one snag is that when Sophie, Joe and Jenny go to
capture a passing banshee, they end up having to kill it. Oopsie
Luckily they do have a second option – Joe has been
having Wendigo issues. He’s very worried about becoming all monstery and hurting
Jenny (not entirely unreasonable, though I think it’s equally likely he will go
monstery and Jenny will have to kill him). This means he’s willing to volunteer
to be the monster battery for Pandora – even if it means he may die. (Who here
actually thought he might die? Nah, the plot armour is strong with this one).
There’s another snag as well, according to Pandora – she needs
the bits of her box that Team Witness has in order to direct the Wendigo power.
While absolutely no-one trusts her and they all call shenanigans, they don’t
really have much choice since Ichabod and Joe will both die without her help. With their arms behind their backs they hand
over the box and Pandora completes the spell to free them.
They are freed and Joe is now Wendigo-free so that is
kind of a win for Team Witness. We also see more of Abbie and Ichabod together
which is great – and Joe and Jenny are going ever closer together which is also
awesome because I really like them. We also have Sophie working with Abbie and
Jenny and respecting each other, working together well and generally being
awesome. How sad is it of my expectations that having three women on the same
team not hating each other is something I feel the need to praise?
But, ultimately, this seems like a win for Team Hidden
One. Sure, he didn’t kill Ichabod, but Pandora got a bit of her box back and
Ichabod and Abbie lost the emblem of Thura and the tablet Ichabod inherited.
They spin it as a victory, but I don’t see it – they’ve lost this one
During the whole battle, Pandora did appeal desperately
to Abbie revealing how guilty she feels about failing her master (and, yes, I
will mention yet again how much we loathe the dynamic between these two):
revealing she told humanity about the Emblem of Thura (which allowed the Hidden
One to be imprisoned in the first place) AND didn’t tell the Hidden One that
Ichabod had it despite the fact she knew about it. And now he knows… so lots of
tension incoming.
