Marina has gathered
most of our cloaked magicians together to try and break the spell on them…
which doens’t work, doesn’t work at all
She also gets a magical automated voice mail from Henry Fogg telling her to cease and desist and that trying - or succeeding - in breaking the spell that is shielding them will only cause everyone to die horribly.
Marina being Marina,
is not going to listen to any automated warnings. More, she realises that the
cloaked people must be Henry’s most favoured students, who else would they be?
She begins poking and prodding at Penny until she finds the spell that
suppresses his Travelling ability (we’ve seen previously that his Travelling
ability is non-human magic so isn’t subject to the limitations of magic
rationing) which he uses to buzz around quite merrily.
The rest of the group
are torn - and Kady puts it best: their lives are fake. Even when their fake
lives are awesome (Josh’s biggest conflict is his penis is too big, Penny has
legions of groupies and Kady is like a super-cop bordering on a hero) they’re
blatantly comic book. No-one really has lives like this.
Marina uses Penny’s
travelling ability to nip into Henry’s office, steal his shiny disguise potion
and inject him with it - all witnessed by Todd. Her plan is to convince Henry
to reveal the antidote to save himself. He refuses, protecting these students
is too important to him. He also questions which of the many many many time
lines this Marina is from. Honestly, I’ve lost track. I know one of the
Marina’s was Henry’s lover but I’m pretty sure that isn’t this Marina.
It has gotten rather
confusing.
Instead Henry embalks
on a rather epic goodbye session, having Todd record his memoirs and laying out
his deep, abiding pain in a moment that would be almost funny if it weren’t so
poignant - from his alocholism, his self-loathing, his gambling and his general
self destruction. He finds it cathartic, but it’s super emotional as well. We
also remember that he is one of the few who remembers all 50 of the alternate
time lines - 50 lifetimes all of them ending in absolute horror and awfulness.
With that, even magic is a grand and awful disappointment to him. He almost
welcomes losing his identity. Todd watches all of this casual revelations from
his suicide plans to all his confessions with a growing sense of horror
Until he meets with
Etta, his tailor who seems to know him better than anyone, knowing his clothes
are a shield to keep people at bay and, ultimately what a good man he is before
he breaks down in tears and tells her everything. Including how he tried to
make the best lives he could for his “most annoyingly millennial of students”
but Marina has doubtless planned something far worse
Someone else who
learns the truth is Julia, still stuck in the identity of Kim, who is worried
about him leaving since he’s the only one who believes in her (since she’s so
bad at magic)... but Todd is incapable of keeping a secret and has told her
everything. She realises she is one of the masked people and asks who she
really is.
Of course Henry
doesn’t tell her - but he can actually talk about it, since he cast the curse
he is quite capable of stopping random things killing him from talking about
it. He urges her not to poke this for her own safety. He, again , refuses to
reverse the spell
And he goes to Marina to have his identity erased and replaced with a homeless person - and Marina calls him dad. And it’s possible among the whole time line thing I just missed that?
But Julia isn’t
taking this and she’s been paying attention. She knows magic is rationed now -
she can see it as magic fails because the day’s allotment has run out at
Brakebills. But Henry’s spell keeps working no matter how much magic there is -
and Todd remembers that Henry was working on a massive magical battery. They go
to his office and find it - but when Julia touches it it flings her across the
room. And kills her
Todd checks her pulse
and everything. She’s dead.
And then she comes back to life with a gasp. Well that’s new and presumably part of Henry’s spell? Julia is determined to overload the spell or drain the battery or something. So keeps doing it. And dying. And coming back to life. And dying. And resurrecting
It says everything
about this show that we have Julia repeatedly dying while Todd listens to music
and is bored… until the spell breaks and everyone is restored to their true
selves...
Over in Fillory
Margot is lost and stumbling around until she finds one of the magical
creatures there. Lord Fresh - the Lord of all Fresh Water in the land who
greets her as the High King. He also reveals to a very confused Margot her
Birth Rite box (which contains something she can’t access yet), a prophecy
about her which also talks about her ruling alone which is somewhat worrisome
and vague directions - which she needs because Henry’s spell on her is acting
up at all these revelations of who she is and it’s stressing his wards.
And Margot again
reveals why she’s the star of the show by being lost, confused, yet still
utterly confident and sharp. Even as she’s found by the guards and taken to the
castle to be questioned by Acting Queen Fenn and Pick she continues the
awesome. They realise who she is by the magic acting up every time they try to
say her name and reveal a problem they have: Ember is apparently back but
avoiding Fenn. On his return he has filled the air with opium which is having….
Unfortunate consequences. They need to find him
The Amnesiac Margot
officially states she really doesn’t care but she wants to find Ember anyway
and they follow the trail of his many many many reported parties (much to Fenn
and Pick’s shock and Margot’s blase indifference) and find… Ember… or fake
Ember.
Which is when the
spell breaks and Margot becomes Margot again - there’s an awesome scene of
everyone bowing to Margot the true King and Fenn giving her her rightful crown.
She turns to confront the intruder god who she recognises - Bachus the eternal
partier. Her take down is awesome - but he is a god and promptly teleports her
back to Earth out of the way which is awkward.
Also on earth is
Quentin and Elliot. And Elliot is still ultra ultra creepy but Quentin in his
amnesia has reached his limit - especially when Elliot demands he go grab a
wild pig to sacrifice on an alter to summon a greek god. Quentin refuses - and
Elliot effortlessly breaks his arm.
It’s convincing
Mud, blood and one
little pig later - Quentin summons the Greek god Enyalius, the Greek god of war
(yes, Ares is out there but either this is another name for Ares or we had one
god representing the destruction of war and one representing soldiers). Oh and
Elliot is cute and really cute with the little piggy. He’s good at this.
Elliot promptly guts
the god to search his guts for something, something that was taken from him -
and apparently is embedded in his guts? The brutal torture and death is a bit
much for Quentin and extremely frustrating for Elliot - because this isn’t
Enyalius, it’s a lackey he sent to take the hit for him, he saw monster!Elliot
coming.
Elliot is not amused.
Which is when the spell falls and Quentin returns to himself - he desperately
tries to heal the fake Enyalius… but he’s already dead
That leaves Quentin
with the affectionate and terrifying Elliot!Monster.. Who wants to kill
Enyalius and alll the rest of them for what they took… which is ominous
He also seems very
jealous of Quentin asking for Elliot and his friends back, friends he may like
more than him. A jealous super powered monster is a scary one, especially as he
teleports them all back to Marina’s apartment - to meet the rest whose own
spell disguises have gone down. Elliot has ominous glowy eyes… and remembers
they tried to kill him. This will not end well.
Perhaps ending better
is Alice, in collaboration with Santa (who is not amused by the shenanigans now
done in his name) has found a source of magic (the pneumatic tubes in the
library) and uses it to possess her cockroach for some spying
And Elliot and Margot are effortlessly stealing every scene
