[cranking, creaking]
[birds chirping]
[distorted whispers]
[dramatic music]
♪
- Hey.
I, um--I brought you some special tea
with some healing juju.
And I brought some more calming elixirs.
- It's not working, Angela.
I've been in here for 40 hours.
It's getting worse.
- Okay.
We--we're going to keep trying.
♪
Um, have the hallucinations started yet?
- No, no.
I'm fine.
Just keep making your potions.
- Yeah.
- Angela.
I'm gonna be okay.
- Why did you lie to that girl?
Heh.
She too good for you, you know.
You damn sure don't deserve her after all
of the things you've done.
You'll be her downfall, like you were for so many others.
[laughs]
- [sobbing] You're not real.
You're not real.
[theme music]
♪
[sinister music]
♪
[rumbling]
- This is it.
I'm not strong enough yet.
But soon--soon, we will all triumph.
[melancholy music]
♪
- Here.
Take that.
[coughing]
Here. Take that.
[door opens]
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Stay behind the white line.
We'll be with you shortly.
Please.
[quietly] Shit.
♪
[phone ringing]
[ringing stops]
[phone ringing]
- [sighs] What?
- OD is being overrun with fevered.
You need to come in.
And bring more of Angela's elixirs.
- Javi, I told you to handle it.
- Sherise, I know you're hurt right now for losing Darius.
I know.
I lost my mom because the council neglected our people.
You are not the council.
You made a slaver's palace into a safe place for witches.
And they are here, they're alive,
and they need your help--now!
- Fine.
- It says, "Stir counterclockwise."
And-- hey.
How are you doing?
Stupid question.
Stupid.
- Ang, how's Darletra?
- [sighs] She's pretty bad.
None of the healing elixirs seem to be working on anybody,
let alone Darletra.
- She has too much magic.
It's like she's burning through it.
And if we try to suppress it, the fever
would kill her faster.
- Yeah.
The only thing that's been working
are the calming elixirs.
And I had to make them strong enough to sedate.
- Our theory is it suppresses fight-or-flight response,
slowing the progression.
But it doesn't stop it.
- Hmm.
Well, you have any more?
Javi says we need more for OD.
- Oh, um, yes.
I have a few.
And I have a few stewing in the cauldron as well.
And we're working on a powerful healing spell on top of it.
So maybe it'll work.
- Well, I'll be at OD.
- Yeah.
Oh, I--
I've never seen her like this.
- She's never been like this before.
[somber music]
♪
- One dead elder, as promised.
♪
- It took you long enough.
- Hmm.
Oh, Anthony, I don't think you appreciate the lengths it took
to keep us both undetected.
- You clearly managed.
- Clearly.
No thanks to you.
What was that crap you pulled at Ms. Baker's?
Hmm?
Dropping bodies isn't exactly low profile for an elder.
- It was punishment.
She kept something from me, a relic of the councils.
Interestingly enough, it was former counsel
who stole it for him.
- Let me guess.
Leya.
- Bingo.
And now, I have it.
And tomorrow, during the dark moon,
we will finally secure the council's power.
- Hmm.
First, you owe me a debt.
- I'm a man of my word.
It will happen tonight at the council meeting.
- Good.
- [sobbing]
- Do you remember the boy, the seer?
- Don't.
- I always wondered what he saw in his
little six-year-old mind.
You, killing his father before he even witnessed it.
- Stop!
You used me.
I was just a kid.
- Is that what you tell yourself to sleep?
Next to Angela's warm body while the other bodies
are cold in the ground?
[chuckles]
[laughs]
- Stop, stop, stop, stop.
[cries]
[laughter echoes]
- Okay.
No, no.
Nothing so far.
Oh.
My grandmother had a potion that could heal anything.
Didn't work at all.
She and my grandfather died two days ago.
I do.
My cousin, total mundane, sent me
this video of his neighbor losing
his mind on a front lawn.
- Dude, dude, what's that?
You good?
Yo, what--
[shouting]
[lightning cracking]
Yo!
Dude, dude!
Oh, viral movie!
Damn!
Oh, shit!
Dude, you good?
- Did you see the lightning?
- What--what lightning?
- Dude, I just got struck by lighting--
- Hey, hey, hey, hey. Watch your hand.
Don't touch me.
- Oh.
- Whoa, what's happening?
- That's it.
[coughing]
- Shit.
The section over there, they need some more.
I think it's starting to wear off.
- [gasps] Oh, God.
They keep coming in.
Javi, we don't have enough.
- Help!
- Please, don't.
I never meant for her to die.
I swear.
I never--
[gun shot]
- Shit.
- Shorty, you okay?
All right.
You two, get this body out of here.
Javi, lock the door.
Don't let nobody else get in.
- Man, we can't leave them people out there.
- Javi, we don't have enough.
Once we run out, we're going to have
30 fevered witches running around here
losing their goddamn mind.
We can't save everybody.
We got to focus on who's here now.
[coughing]
- The fever almost took my whole family
by the time I died.
- Is there anything you have heard
on the other side about the creature causing this fever?
- Only that she is not of our world.
- Extraterrestrial?
- Interdimensional.
Well, she is from somewhere else.
Now, I don't understand about the barriers between worlds,
and I've only heard whispers.
But the other spirits believe she wants to destroy us all.
[door opens, shuts]
- Calm, my child.
Find peace on the other side.
Sis, what's wrong?
- Have you heard from Dominic?
- Because we're such bosom buddies?
- I haven't heard from him two days.
And I'm worried.
- I'm sure he's off doing some official council whatnot.
- You should be concerned, too.
We have a council meeting today.
And I need Dominic if I'm going to make any meaningful change,
especially since Anthony is running around killing people.
I need backup.
- Is that the only reason you're
worried about your little young friend?
- Sis, stay focused, okay?
We have a murderous elder and a murderous demon to deal with.
If something happens to Dominic,
it won't be good for us, especially now that Anthony
has whatever this relic is.
[sighs]
I got to go.
Pray that Dominic shows up to that meeting today.
- Caden.
- What?
- Be careful.
- Where are you, Dominic?
- [sighs]
This is going to break her heart.
- We've all survived a broken heart.
- This spell borrows from Angela's and my magic
to amplify the healing properties.
- Here.
Drink this.
Allow yourself to be open and receptive to the connection.
- [groans]
[foreboding music]
- You know this isn't going to work, right?
They can try every healing spell in the world,
and they can't save you.
- We call on the healer spirits of earth
and stone, fire and water, to bring peace and healing.
- In friendship and love, we give of ourselves.
- [both] Our power, our spirit, our mind to heal the one.
Our power--
- Is this a joke?
Is this the best they can come up with?
- Shut up.
Shut up!
- Darletra.
- Just keep going.
- But why?
You don't deserve to be saved.
- [both] --our spirit, our mind, to heal the one.
Our power, our spirit, our mind to heal--
- Do you know how many people you killed?
I can tell you--
247.
- No!
It's not gonna work!
Go!
- What is wrong?
- I said go!
Get out before I hurt somebody!
- Surprise.
I'm still here.
- Shut the fuck up!
Shut the fuck up!
You killed those people!
You're a fucking monster!
Shut the fuck up!
- Darletra's losing it.
[Darletra shouting]
[clattering]
- What you looking for?
- This.
[coughing]
All right.
Cheers to--
- Still being alive?
- Fuck it.
- I'm sorry about Darius.
- Not as sorry as I am.
I should have saw it coming, but I didn't.
Now, Darius is dead, and Anthony has his weapon
or whatever the fuck it is.
And I'm--I fucked up, Javi.
- We all fuck up.
At least you ain't kill anybody.
Shit, between you and us, I think you up.
- I never told him how I felt. I never told him
how much I cared about him.
I never told him how much it meant to me
that he gave me a safe place after I
was free from The Handler.
You know, one of the last things he said to me was,
"I love you."
And I didn't even say it back.
- He knew.
Look, you're a hard ass.
You know that.
But you love big.
I feel it in your grief.
I can feel right now how much you love him.
Look, he wouldn't have said it if he
knew you ain't felt the same, even if you ain't tell him.
- Thanks, Javi.
- Pour up.
- Ang, I have an idea.
I need some of your special psychedelic capsules.
- Jordan, I don't really think Darletra needs
a psychedelic trip right now. - No.
No, no, no.
Not for her, for me.
I think it can open up my mind to a stronger receptivity
to see anything about Amaya or a cure.
- Hmm.
Now, that could work.
- [sighs]
- All right.
I will be right here, just in case.
Draw on my power to amplify yours.
- Wait, I don't know how.
Ang, I missed all those training sessions.
- Jordan, it's okay.
You're a receiver.
Feel my energy.
Feel my power.
Draw it to you.
Feel it move through you.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
[dramatic music]
♪
[high-pitched ringing]
[ringing stops]
[distorted voices]
♪
[metallic thud]
[low rumbling]
[whooshing, crackling]
[snarling]
♪
- [breathes deeply]
[distant chatter]
Oh, God.
[low growl]
- Gather around, everyone.
[sinister music]
♪
Go make friends.
Don't worry about these marks.
Touch everyone you can.
- No. No.
No, no, no, no. Wait.
Stop!
Show me your true face.
[growling]
[gasps]
[snarling fades]
[ethereal music]
[insects chirping]
♪
- Cramavach.
Cramavach.
[explosion]
[screaming]
[rumbling]
- [gasps] - Jordan!
Jordan, what happened?
Hey, are you okay?
What did you see?
Anything about a cure?
- No.
Cramavach.
That's what she's called.
And oh, God, she's ugly.
I saw her true form.
[gasps]
- Jordan, wait.
- There is a great deal to be discussed today.
As you all know, the fear fever has reached Atlanta.
- Many witches have already been infected.
And the virus is reaching catastrophic--
[door opens]
- Starting without me?
Starting without Dominic?
Where is our third elder, by the way?
- So good of you to ask.
Unfortunately, his whereabouts, or any other matters
related to the council, are no longer your concern.
- Excuse me?
- [scoffs] Your invitation to the council has been revoked.
- On what ground?
- On the grounds that you've already
broken the council law.
Have you or have you not been carrying
on a romantic relationship with the council member and elder,
Dominic Bennett?
- It is forbidden for council members
to engage in romantic affairs with each other.
Matters of the heart lead to biased leadership.
- Biased leadership?
What leadership would you prefer?
Those of you who only seek to help witches?
Or you, who threatened a young coven just two nights ago
and killed one of our own out of spite?
Is this who you choose to follow?
You pretend that you do not know a wolf in our midst.
But we cannot be sheep.
We cannot follow a power-hungry, murderous elder.
That will be the last of us, just like the last council.
- Do you have an explanation for that, Anthony?
[foreboding music]
♪
- As an elder, I am nothing but dedicated to the survival
of our magical community.
I do not take human life lightly,
but I will do whatever it takes to ensure our protection.
Yes, the gentleman's death was regrettable.
But it was done in pursuit of a relic that was stolen
from this very council, one that
will help stop the fear fever and this creature causing it.
- More lies!
You killed him to punish an innocent young woman
who stood against you!
- How will it help stop the fever?
- It will help us seal away the creature for good,
under our protection, where it can hurt no one else again.
That is the responsibility of the council.
- Stopping this creature is the highest priority.
- Good.
Then we can all be united.
Which, I ask again--
where is Dominic?
- Dominic is also no longer a part of this council.
I regret to inform you all of his passing.
And in his place,
former councilwoman Claudette Lenoir
will be stepping up as the elder.
[sinister music]
♪
- Wasn't she exiled?
- Yes.
That was decades ago, but now I'm back.
New leadership.
Isn't that right, Caden?
- Please remove yourself from the premises
so that we can get back to our council business.
- [sighs]
[grim music]
♪
- I should have known
not to think that any good would come
from the strength of the few.
♪
[door opens, shuts]
- Back to business.
- There's no mention yet of the Cramavach.
- Jordan, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Darletra is going to die if we can't cure her.
- Look, we just got to keep trying.
Look, there's still time, okay?
- No.
This isn't real.
- We're not so different, you and I.
- This isn't real. This isn't--
- We were both slaves.
We both suffered at the whims of another master.
And we both escaped.
- I'm nothing like you.
I'm nothing like you.
I got out.
I made a life for myself.
And I have a family.
I have people who love me.
What do you have, huh?
All you have is your fucking colors.
- All right.
No more tears.
Distract me.
Talk about something.
Say anything.
Just--
- Okay, okay.
I slept with Javi.
Oh. - Wait, what?
- Bad time, right? TMI?
- No, no, no, no.
That--that--that's actually--that's good.
It's working.
Okay, so--so tell me.
- I had someone who loved me once, but you got her killed.
Just like you're going to get Angela killed.
I wonder what her death would do to you.
Would it turn you into a monster like me?
- I am nothing like you.
- Because you're weak.
You're mindless and spineless.
But your power made you my favorite weapon.
You were a sword ready for me to swing.
- [gasps]
- I could wield you again.
- No, no, no.
- Use you to capture, torture, kill.
- No, no, no!
- All it would take is for me to put another leash!
- No!
No, no, no, no, no, no!
- Was it good?
- [groans]
Mind blowing.
- Oh.
[Darletra shouting]
- I'm not afraid of you anymore.
I got your motherfucking--
[chuckling]
[panicked breathing]
- Hey! Darletra!
What's going on?
What are you seeing?
[Darletra groans]
- You could just kill yourself and save your friends the agony
of your inevitable betrayal.
Death or leash.
- I'm not afraid of you anymore.
I'm not gonna be your fucking slave.
- Darletra!
Listen to me!
- I'm not going to be your fucking slave!
- This is not real!
You can fight this!
- Leash it is.
- I'm gonna kill your motherfucking ass right now.
[screaming]
[laughing]
[crackle]
- You okay?
- [gasping] No, don't!
[coughs] Don't.
She--she thought she--
- She thought Angela was The Handler attacking her.
- [groaning]
- It's working.
- What's working?
- Look.
[Angela coughs]
[crackle]
- What happened?
Angela, oh, my God.
I'm so--
- [coughs]
- I'm sorry.
- Don't!
No one touch anyone.
Now, Angela's infected.
[gasping]
- [crying]
- It's okay.
It's okay.
One second.
It's okay.
Relax.
- [gasping]
- Oh, no.
- Wait.
Wait, it's--it's working.
It's working!
- Angela.
I'm so, so sorry.
Please forgive me.
I would--I would never do anything to hurt you.
I love you so much.
- It's okay.
It's okay.
I know.
I love you, too.
[sighs]
[tender music]
♪
- Mona.
Wait.
Thank you.
If you weren't here, I don't know--
- It's good.
It's all good.
At least we know how to fight this thing.
- Wait.
How did you even figure it out?
- It's dark web.
I found one survivor who was cured after being
struck by imaginary lightning.
I correlated that to how I healed myself, so--
- Wait, that's electroshock therapy.
- Yeah.
Fear fever heightens your fear response
until your system overloads.
Or you imagine a horrific death.
Sending electric currents through the brain
is like a reset.
- Wow.
So a cure to a magic virus isn't magical at all.
- That's--um--
- [raspy voice] OD. - Okay.
Look, head to OD.
They're overloaded with fevered.
- Yeah.
I'll head there right now.
And I'll be back in a bit, all right?
You two, get some rest.
- Thank you.
- May be best to sit down, okay?
[rain pattering]
[distant thunder]
- [sighs]
[approaching footsteps]
- I keep trying to figure out what happened,
playing it all in my mind.
The secrets, the lies, the good sister act--
I didn't want to see it.
[chuckles]
[sinister music]
But I think you've been fucking playing
me this whole time, since we brought down Julius, right?
You never wanted new leadership or sisterhood.
You wanted power.
- Caden, no.
- It was you, wasn't it?
You killed Dominic.
Or did you help Anthony do it?
- No, of course not.
- I don't believe you!
- Caden, you have to listen to me.
What I have to tell you is vitally important.
[shaky breathing]
[whoosh]
[blades swish]
[ominous music]
♪
I am Orisha Oya.
Caden, we have a lot to discuss.
- I brought you some--
- [gasps]
- --water.
You're afraid of me now.
- No.
Just--just a little jumpy.
[sniffles]
- The thing that sticks with me is
he said I was just like him.
And I told him to fuck off.
Because I--I don't want to be a monster.
And now, you see me do monstrous things.
And I--I can't--
I can't change it.
I can't--I can't take it back.
- I know you.
You're not a monster.
I don't love monsters.
[tender music]
♪
- Should I stay the night?
- [sighs]
♪
I just--I just need some time.
- Hey, yeah.
Yeah, time to be alone.
I can respect that.
♪
- It's been you all along?
Where is my sister?
- She is here.
We are both present at all times.
However, it has always
been Claudette who speaks to you.
- I don't understand.
How?
Why?
- In leaving Angela's body, I saw an opportunity
through Claudette to instill change and break some
of the systems that is corrupting this world,
destroying it and my children.
I want to bring the world into balance once more.
Caden, I have no interest in ruling.
I infiltrated the council to stop it from within.
- How can I trust you?
You've both been lying to me the whole time.
[melancholy music]
[whoosh]
♪
- It's me now.
I have something to show you, to prove to you.
♪
- I don't see anything.
- Sis, look again.
[whooshing]
- Dominic.
♪
- I knew it.
♪
- I'm so sorry.
We were working together to break the council
from the inside and to get to the power source
before Anthony.
- How could you both not tell me?
Do you know what you put me through?
- Oya insisted.
She insisted you not know.
The betrayal had to look real.
And you sold it.
I'm on your side, Caden.
We're in this together.
Always.
- [groaning sigh]
We'll talk about this later.
Now, you mentioned something about a power source.
What is it?
- That's the terrifying part.
The power source that every council has been connected
to since its inception--
- Is the demon spreading the fear fever.
Anthony wants Amaya.
[suspenseful music]
[theme music]
♪