Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
Tabitha says she'll be here soon to give us an update.
God dang it! None of this is working!
They're completely cloaked! Okay, you know what?
You know, there's gotta be something in one of these books.
Yes, yes.
Still going poorly.
If she doesn't stop soon, she's gonna crack.
That girl cannot handle pressure.
[Pages flipping]
What? I spoke no lies.
Jordan, come on. We've checked every book.
Okay, then, um, then you know what?
I-I can channel both of you.
Both of you are, like, close to Angela, right?
Oh, girl, we tried that already.
It's not working. Okay...
Caden: And he's not detectable.
Ugh! Then what the fuck do we do, huh?!
Sit around and wait for the world to end?
For our friend to fucking die, huh?!
Told you she'd crack.
Ah! Jordan, girl, you gotta take a break.
I can't, Sherise! it's been 30 hours
since they've taken Angela.
That leaves 18 hours for the planetary alignment
and the rising of a goddess who can kill us all!
Do you understand that?! Huh?!
Claudette: We all know what's at stake,
Do you, Miss I-Brought-This-On-Us-All?
None of you -- no, none of you fucking get it!
Jordan, you're not the only one who wants Angela back!
She was all I had!
You betrayed us, Sherise.
You helped kill Tabitha,
and you fucking killedTabitha.
She's not dead.
She was dead to me!
For months.
And you know what fucking else?
Mona just moved right out of the fucking state.
[Panting]
And you left us, too, Caden.
I was trapped. No!
You left us at that clearing
for The Handler to abduct Sherise!
Through all of that,
Angela was the only one that was there for me.
Every one of you left, died, or betrayed me except her!
[Crying]
She got taken because I was stupid enough
to love someone that lied to me from the start.
So I have to get her back!
I have to get it back.
I-I have to get her back.
I-I have to -- I have to get her b...
[Sobbing]
Jordan.
♪♪
♪ Wicked, wicked ♪
♪ Are we wicked? ♪
♪ Wicked, wicked ♪
♪ Are we on our witch now? ♪
Tabitha! [Crying]
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I didn't know that she would try to kill you.
Child, no.
When they told me that you were alive,
I didn't believe them.
I'm so sorry, Tabitha.
I know, I know.
Believe me, I know Claudette.
She was gonna kill me regardless.
But now we are all here.
Always stand by your girls.
We're stronger together.
Sherise.
Come sit with her.
[Sighs]
It must be tough
knowing you'll never belong.
Neither will you.
Now get the fuck out of my face.
Let's go.
You coming?
Tabitha, did you find The Council?
They're all in hiding, afraid of what Julius is gonna do.
But I connected with an old friend.
They're meeting tomorrow to formulate an attack.
Our only chance of killing Julius
is before he raises Oya.
Once he has a goddess, we're done.
The Council and all guardians won't be enough to stop Julius.
And Angela will be gone, too.
That's why I have to go.
They need to know everything that we know.
Yeah.
While she does that,
let's go pay Queen Savage a visit.
♪♪
Well, well, isn't this cozy?
♪♪
Taking over already.
No slaves this time.
Just a regular magick supper club.
You always do seem to come out on top, Queen Savage.
I like that.
♪♪
-This it? -Yeah.
He's gotten hundreds of witches
to connect their power to the crystal.
He was gonna draw on all of them to kill Julius.
That's not possible.
That kind of power would have killed him.
Not with the Goddess Stone in his body.
It would have strengthened him enough to survive the surge.
Hmm.
If we use this,
we need someone powerful enough
to survive all that magick.
Darletra can do it.
One problem with this, though.
♪♪
[Choir vocalizing]
♪♪
[Doors clanging]
♪♪
Wake.
♪♪
Come.
♪♪
A test.
Destroy.
♪♪
Remake.
♪♪
You are brimming with god-power.
And soon
we will welcome the goddess herself.
♪♪
Whoa.
This will give us a lot of power.
Enough to kill him.
One problem.
Since this crystal draws power from other witches,
there will be some collateral damage.
How bad?
Queen estimates 25%.
But it could kill a lot more.
-There's hundreds of people. -Yes.
You don't have a lot of options.
Hundreds or potentially billions.
No! We have to find another way.
Damn!
[Sighs]
Shit. I did this.
Sherise, what do you mean?
The Handler -- he made --
He made you use your power
to get people to connect theirs.
I didn't know what it was for, I swear.
It doesn't matter. Even if you did,
when he wants something from you, he gets it.
Okay, well, look, if this is the only way of stopping him,
can we make it safe?
I don't know.
♪♪
We all knew Julius was conspiring.
I warned you this would happen.
We must hear everything from Tabitha.
We had no way of knowing
that he would do something this reckless, Leya.
We should have been prepared, Jabari!
We're the most powerful group of magickal beings in the world.
And he has us quaking in fear, hiding like children?
[Door opens]Julius: You arechildren.
You dare bring an outsider into our hall?
Sit down.
Yes, I dare.
I dare come here and demand change
after hundreds of years of complacency.
You sit here on your thrones,
self-righteous, coveting power.
You have left our people to the whims of a mundane world
that we should rule.
It was not so long ago that you sat among us, Julius.
And I have learned that change
will not come from inside The Council.
You are all too weak, too fearful
of losing your position.
It is time to take responsibility
for your failures.
Our failures?
We have kept everyone safe.
Magick and mundanes alike.
By hiding.By keeping order.
If knowledge of our world were widespread,
they would hunt us down or use us for their own means.
And if we were the ruling class,
we could stop that.
They would have to follow us.
We're outnumbered 10 to 1.
Their fear and hatred would spread like wildfire.
As would ours.
Our people are not so different from mundanes.
Our secrecy protects all sides.
As does our presence.
You know what ancient evil we keep at bay.
It lies beneath our very feet for a millennia.
When I raise Oya, that will be of no concern.
♪♪
Without The Council, there would be chaos.
You know this, Julius.
You have served on The Council longer than anyone.
And what I have seen disgusts me.
Cowardice, greed,
taking advantage of our own people.
That is why we hide in the shadows --
to abuse our own.
Tell them, Leya.
Tell them how you have abused your power.
What is this?
Tell them how you've been in league
with The Handler for years,
trading in magick people for your own gain,
misleading The Council to protect a slaver.
Or Adrik, please share
how every few years you go to South America
and kill one of their healers
to steal his power to bolster your own.
Is this true?
Both of you answer.
Do not believe his lies.
It makes no difference if you believe.
None of you are fit to rule.
And all of you will die.
Today.
♪♪
[Chuckles]
♪♪
You, the remaining eight members of the High Council of Witches,
stand accused of crimes against the magickal world.
Slavery. Genocide.
Theft of power.
Exploitation of the innocent.
And the punishment for these crimes
is death.
Now!
♪♪
[Chuckles]
♪♪
[Glass shattering]
♪♪
Remake.
♪♪
No more hiding.
No more fear.
No more abiding by the strength of the few.
It is time for us to rule.
♪♪
If you can drain his life force enough,
it might not take as much power from the crystal to kill him.
He has creation magick, Caden.
It'll take everyone's power, plus mine, to stop him.
No, trust me,
I'd love to say I'm strong enough
to slow him down.
But I'm not.
I mean, the fact that I went to head to head with him already,
I rather think he did it just to show me
that I'm no match.
Maybe you aren't.
But what does your magick have access to
that Julius can't touch?
Spirits.
Do to him what Camille did to you.
You're back.
That was fast.
What did they say? Did they have a plan?
They --
[Sighs]
They're all dead.
What?
That's not good for us, but...
I'm not shedding any tears.
Wow. My whole life I've followed them.
I've been of service to them.
And now they're gone? How?
He used Angela.
He had her in some type of trance.
She took them all out with one blow.
Oh, my God.
I've never seen anything like it.
But that's why I don't want the girls to know about this yet.
Mm.
Come on, let's go.
♪♪
Come on.
♪♪
The Council is dead.
Tabitha, are you sure?
I saw it.
It's Julius' doing.
With The Council dead,
the magickal world is in complete upheaval.
Will it?
Look, it's terrible that a bunch of people have died,
but is the end of The Council really a bad thing?
I mean, didn't you say that The Council is dangerous?
That's an understatement. However --
There are other dangerous magickal beings out there.
I mean, look at The Handler. As bad as he was,
it was his fear of Julius that kept him moving in secret.
Some are even worse. Some are monstrous in nature.
There are some that are ancient and unkillable.
Oh, God.
The Council had certain protections in place,
but now those protections are vulnerable.
Caden: With The Council dead, the worst of the worst
can be unleashed and wreak havoc on everyone.
Yeah, our world would be exposed,
and the non-magick community
will rise up and take action against us.
This will be devastating on both sides,
whether Julius realizes it or not.
What about Angela? Will she be okay?
Julius had her in some entranced state,
but she didn't appear to be hurt.
Oh.
He imbued her with god-power.
The fuck does that even mean?
So, in The Handler's memory,
Julius said he would imbue the vessel with god-power
in preparation for the actual goddess.
So it's like she's awake, but not really there, you know?
Yeah, that's exactly how she looked.
And without the backup of The Council,
the amethyst is our only hope.
Well, look, it's 8:47 in the morning.
We have only 14 hours until the planetary alignment.
Look, you three, you just keep trying, okay?
Do everything you can think of --
potions, charms, protection magick,
anything that can hold Julius,
anything that will give us enough power to stop him.
Okay? All right.
Come on, let's go.
♪♪
So, with Angela and that god-power on Julius' side,
even that crystal and all the witches --
that might not be enough to stop him.
I never meant for Angela to go through this.
But she did, so you are gonna go with me
to try to bring her back.
What?
You want us to go against him alone?
And he just killed the entire Council?
I want you to occupy him so we can get Angela away from there.
This is all your fault. You did this to her.
You put that power in her, and then you locked me
in a nightmare realm where I couldn't protect her.
So you are gonna go with me to help bring her back.
Fine.
♪♪
Now, I was just thinking --
using the amethyst is a high risk
because the pull of power of witches is too fast.
But what if we make it a slow draw?
What do you mean?
Okay, um, Camille said that you can
hold a lot of power, right?
Yeah, I could hold all your magick
and those three, and I still wouldn't flinch.
Well, we have 14 hours until the alignment.
What if we draw on everyone's power now?
Hmm. You could stockpile for the next 10 hours or so.
Then we could attack.
And I wouldn't have to pull as much power in the moment.
This could work.
♪♪
Okay, so when we get in, our goal is to get Angela out.
I'll try to get through to her. You occupy Julius.
And no revenge scheme.
I understand.
And if I can't get through to her, that leaves you.
Mm-hmm.
Stunning powder?Extra strong.
It might be just enough to knock her out so we can get her away.
Got it.
Okay.
After you dispose of the bodies,
I want everything ready for the ritual tonight.
We move in soon.
Ladies!
Have you come to see the new Council?
It's me.
We're here for Angela.
Angela is...asleep,
in a manner of speaking, within herself.
This is the vessel.
Angela! Angela!
I know you're in there!
Baby, you gotta fight this.
[Laughs] I knew you would come.
That is why I waited.
I wanted you to see just how futile your efforts are.
You cannot stop us.
But you can join us.
[Laughs] Join you?
A new world order is inevitable.
You are three powerful witches.
Stand at my side when Oya rises,
and we can lead our people together.
Julius, this is crazy!
[Laughs] Far from it.
This plan is centuries in the making.
[Whispering] I call on the spirits of the dead.
Angela. Angela. It's me, Tabitha.[Claudette continues whispering]
Angela, you -- you have to listen to me.
Angela!
The moment I knew I could succeed
is when I met you.
What are you talking about?
I failed over and over again to raise Oya
until I figured out the key.
Only through death and resurrection does the magick
that stabilizes the vessel take hold.
But we killed all the witches with death magick.
Until we found you.
I made sure to bring you in.
Honed your powers since childhood, raised you.
And eventually Camille was born...
after she died.
S--
So you made sure she was stillborn?
And you made sure she came back.
Camille was always supposed to die,
just as she was meant to live again,
to become Oya.
You killed her, you son of a bitch!
No, no, no! Focus, focus, focus!
Angela, snap out of it!
You're too strong to let him control you!
Thank you, Claudette,
for moving the magick from Camille to Angela
before you put our daughter into hiding.
I have no use for Camille now.
But you've ensured that my plan can go on still
with Angela.
Angela!
It's no use.
She will only answer to me.
♪♪
Angela! No! No, Angela, no!
[Laughs]
♪♪
[Julius laughs]
Save us! You're better than this!
♪♪
[Rumbling]
♪♪
[Gasps] It's not working!
We have to go!
You killed my daughter, you son of a bitch!
[Laughing]
Julius, stop this!
[Continues laughing]
[Screaming]
Tabitha! Tabitha!
[Continues laughing]
[Groaning]
Tabitha! Tabitha!
[Choir vocalizing]
No!
Claudette!
[Rumbling]
She's got broken ribs.
[Screaming]
Come on. Heal. Come on.
Angela muted my magick. I can't heal her!
Okay. Okay.
[Continues screaming]
Mine isn't working, too.
[Continues screaming]
[Screams echoing]
♪♪
[Thunder crashes]
[Choir vocalizing]
♪♪
Another one of my disappointments!
Daughter.
No! Please!
[Screams]
♪♪
[Thunder crashes]
♪♪
[Chuckles]
[Panting]
Gosh, the planetary alignment is in one hour.
What if they don't make it in time?!
Just one hex.
Sherise: Y'all! Y'all! Something's wrong!
We -- We -- We -- We went with Tabitha
to try to get Angela back, but made her attack.
Jordan: Put her down. Put her down.
There it is.
[Tabitha gasping]
What's wrong with her?!
We think it's organ damage.
Well, can't you heal her?
I tried! I tried!
Angela -- she muted our magick in there.
That's what took us so long to get here.
What?! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Look, Darletra's been absorbing magick for 14 hours.
Caden, can give you a boost.
No, Jordan, we can't.
Of course you would say that!
No, no, no!
I know -- I know you can do it, okay?
Like, you -- you can do it, right?
Please just -- can you please help her?
Please? Just please. Please.
Jordan, I'm sorry.
I can't.
If I do this now, I risk having to kill
hundreds of people later.
I don't fucking care!
We already lost her. We can't let her die.
Claudette: Jordan.
Jordan.
[Sobbing]
[Groans and gasps]
[Crying] Oh, Tabitha, please!
Uh, I, uh...
I'll do my best.
Hopefully.
[All sobbing]
♪♪
Tabitha.
♪♪
Tabitha!
♪♪
[Chanting indistinctly]
♪♪
[All humming]
♪♪
[Chanting indistinctly]
[Choir vocalizing]
♪♪
[Screams]
♪♪