I'm going to the jailhouse to plead her case. It's too late,
the trial's tomorrow. What's the plan?
I'm going to save my sister. But I'll need your help.
Where would we find money for a witch memorial?
Motion denied.
Miss Murphy is a teacher.
It's not your job to make things OK for her.
But now she's going after Addie.
There's going to be a hearing tomorrow.
Like a witch trial?
What is going on?!
Without a witness, Addie could be expelled.
I won't let you do this again.
Whatever comes, we'll deal with it. Together.
At least I'll have good hair when I get expelled.
Just go to the school meeting and tell the truth. OK?
Emily got hurt because of me. Addie... That's the truth.
We need to get going!
I'm coming with you.
Keeds, you're still not... I'm coming.
All right. Then, I'm coming too.
If that's OK?
I feel like we're going into battle.
That's cos we are.
It's not a battle.
It's a trial.
All of Juniper is here.
I want to make sure I get a good view.
I knew Lady Margaret Fraser would pull a crowd.
I'm going to enjoy this.
DOOR CLOSES The Darrows are outside.
Ready to get started?
Absolutely.
Look, I know it's a tricky situation,
but Adeline will be much happier, and safer elsewhere.
I'll call them in.
Mr and Mrs Darrow, would you like to come through?
Ah, there you are.
Come on in. Take a seat.
How's Adeline been?
Addie, how have you been?
Fine.
I wasn't aware the whole family were coming.
It might help Addie to have her sisters here.
No problem.
Happy to do this the Darrow way.
Addie's already at the school. We don't have much time.
Don't worry, history will save the day. It always does.
OK, Audrey, what's this all about?
I found this in the diary after Mr Allison fixed it.
He fixed it?
There's just one page missing.
Anyway, we think Elinor made this.
Elinor Fraser - EF.
That's my relative. We didn't know what it all meant
but then Frank found a chapter about a vanishing in one of his books.
Maggie went to trial but no-one knows what happened to her.
We think we worked it out.
But what has this got to do with me?
Everything.
Frank, please begin.
This is an eyewitness account from Maggie's trial.
"We had had so many, they all became as one in my head.
"This one started much the same..."
Here comes the witch!
BOOING
Don't look her in the eye, she'll curse the lot of you!
Excuse me! Coming through!
That witch cursed my family, sir.
I want to be right there when they find her guilty.
CROWD SHOUTS AND JEERS Witch! Witch!
Behold, Lady Margaret Fraser.
You know her.
She lives in the woods,
in the big manor house.
Some of you may even have worked for her,
without ever realising that it's here
where she practised her dark arts! GASPING
She thought she was above you all
but she's ended up here,
ready to be judged by Juniper.
CROWD MURMURS ASSENT
Even her own sister believes her to be a witch.
Isn't that right...
..Lady Fraser?
CROWD MURMURS
Yes. Elinor...
..don't.
It is true.
And you're willing to sign the register to that effect?
I am.
How could you?!
The charges are as follows.
Wishing ill on her neighbour and their livestock.
On the first day of term, Adeline attended a school trip.
Staff ratios were normal.
Adeline experienced a period of meltdown and absconded.
She was missing for the best part of an hour,
resulting in the trip ending early.
We were very close to calling the police.
We then have various incidents of poor attention in class,
work that falls below the expected standard...
Addie is very bright.
Her handwriting shows no sign of improvement.
Her focus is patchy.
Which brings me to the attack.
I entered the changing rooms at 16:10 to find Adeline
standing over another student.
This student was injured.
And you hit her, Addie?
Is that what happened?
I'm not sure.
I-I just remember the diary.
Emily ripped up Addie's property.
A really special, really old book that she'd been given.
It meant everything to her.
Nothing excuses violence.
Keedie?
Speaking in the tongue of a goat.
What?! I heard her!
Enchanting her maidservant to do her bidding.
And then trying to enchant the Mayor of Cranley
by means of a cursed letter.
Summoning dark forces against mine own person
by the use of the most powerful act of witchcraft.
BOOMING VOICE: Quinn!
Quinn...
What's this?
I have come to give you my thanks.
'Tis the devil! GASPING
It is not the devil!
Quinn!
You took suspicion and turned it into accusation.
You took dislike and brewed it into hatred.
But most importantly,
you taught this village how to fear
and destroy those who are different.
Someone is doing this. Find them. Find them!
For this, I give you my most sincere thanks.
You have truly done my work on this earth.
And now, I must take my loyal servant Margaret Fraser
to the dark realms with me.
I hope you join us soon, Quinn.
Don't be scared.
We WILL be waiting.
CROWD GASPS
"There was neither hide nor hair of the witch.
"Truly she had vanished."
Maggie didn't vanish.
They made her disappear. They got her out.
Elinor saved her sister and you can save Addie.
In conclusion, our school cannot effectively support
Adeline's special needs
and, in light of her violent conduct,
expulsion is our only option.
KNOCKING
Miss Murphy.
Sorry to interrupt. Can it wait?
Jenna has something she needs to show you.
Emily wanted Addie to have a meltdown.
She wanted to push her to the limit,
see what would happen.
Go on.
That's why she ripped up the diary.
That's why she wrote this.
Well, that is absolutely appalling.
The child in question will be dealt with.
I would never condone such language in school.
Yes, you would.
Because that's what you called me.
I will not let everything I've worked for be derailed
by a conniving, attention-seeking little freak!
You let everyone believe I attacked you.
As if I could.
As if I could even speak after what you did.
We're here today for Addie.
If you want to discuss something that happened
more than two years ago,
I suggest we find some time in my diary... Did you say it?
Miss Murphy?
I may have used that word.
Keedie was in a very heightened state and...
Keedie, why didn't you tell us?
I just...
YOU try teaching a full class with one student having a tantrum
every five seconds about the smallest thing!
A meltdown is not a tantrum.
SHE was impossible.
Good as gold with some, a demon with me!
You know, when I was growing up,
we didn't have all these names for everything.
Children either behaved themselves or they didn't!
Miss Murphy!
And just when I think it's over, another one comes along.
We would like to make a complaint.
Right away.
We're heading back to the city.
The theatres are reopening.
People have found their senses again.
The stage is calling. It is.
Although I don't think I'll ever better my performance today.
Turn around, Quinn, and leave this place!
Where is she?
Hello.
You saved me.
You can't come home.
I know.
If people thought I was a witch before, they definitely do now!
There are Frasers in the north.
They'll take you in.
They're good people. Come with us.
I can't.
Someone's got to be here for when Father comes back.
What about Quinn? He will seek his revenge.
We don't need to worry about him any more.
Elinor Fraser. She did this.
That voice said you were here doing the devil's work!
No, look, I know that, but it was...
No, OK, all right, look, I just sought to help people.
I always said he was a wrong 'un!
I just want to make Juniper a better place.
I think it might be best for you to get off, Quinn,
lest you find yourself on trial for witchcraft.
Yeah! Exactly!
Fine.
Come, Garreth.
We'll take our good work to another village.
I'm staying.
Go on!
CROWD SHOUTS ANGRILY
I can't believe Miss Murphy said all that stuff.
I mean, I can believe it, but...wow.
I have to stay off school for the rest of term
but I can come back after that. Well, that's something.
I'm sorry, Addie.
I should have stopped Emily.
I just couldn't believe someone could be so mean.
A lot of things are hard to understand.
Even for neurotypicals, right?
Well, here's one mystery well and truly solved.
Me and Frank worked out what happened.
What?
You don't mind, do you? Of course not.
We're a team, Audrey.
Elinor made Maggie vanish.
How? She did this whole amazing magic trick.
They fooled everyone. And she got her sister away.
So Elinor didn't betray Maggie?
No way.
She saved her.
I knew it.
Elinor was awkward.
She worried about what people thought about her.
She was short with people but she was good.
A spiral.
She was a bit awkward, wasn't she? Like she didn't quite fit.
Yeah.
Her handwriting was all over the place.
I noticed that. A bit like mine.
I think that...
I think that Elinor might have been like me and Keedie.
I think she was autistic.
She must have felt so alone and confused.
She faced Juniper at its very worst.
But she didn't stand for it.
She stopped it. She won.
You've been through a lot today.
Maybe you should head home, rest.
Addie?
Frank, get your bell.
Oh, and tell everyone to get down here!
Emily.
So you told them, then?
Yeah.
And you call yourself a friend?
Addie doesn't think she's smarter than you.
She's not like that.
Can you just leave me alone?
You thought hurting her would make you feel better, didn't you?
You can make this right, Emily.
But you have to come now.
BELL RINGS
Hear ye! Hear ye!
A daughter of this village, the very revered Addie Darrow,
has something to say.
Addie's up to something.
Is it a riot?
I think it's an assembly.
I'm supposed to be in a meeting.
This is properly weird.
And properly brilliant.
Should we stop her?
I don't think we can. It's starting.
My name is Addie.
I live here in Juniper
and...I'm autistic.
I am not afraid of this,
nor ashamed.
It's just a part of who I am.
I can't be cured.
I don't want to be.
It's just a fact of my life.
When I heard what was done to these women, right here, in Juniper,
it hurt my heart.
That they were killed,
merely for being different or weird.
Different is good.
We need all kinds of difference in the world.
Like, Mr Macintosh absolutely loves rules.
And Mrs Jensen feels better when she has Earnest with her.
And Nina goes a bit funny
if her make-up brushes aren't washed at the end of the day.
My autism can make things difficult.
But on the days where I'm finding electricity in things,
seeing the details that others might not, I like it a lot.
I like myself the way I am.
A lot.
This memorial isn't about history.
It's about now.
It's a way for us to show that we've learnt the lessons of the past
and we're going to make a better future, where everyone has a place.
No matter how different they are.
We should have a vote.
Everyone.
Not just the council.
I'll get my gavel.
Well done.
You were amazing.
CLEARS THROAT
Where's Miss Murphy?
You have no authority here.
Parish Directive 2313 -
in the absence of the chairman,
the previous incumbent may resume duties.
Right, on the matter of a memorial to the women
who were persecuted for witchcraft in Juniper,
all those in favour, raise your hands and say "aye".
ALL: Aye! Aye!
Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye!
Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye! Aye!
Aye.
That's what's known as a landslide.
Motion passed.
CHEERING
Miss Darrow.
Thank you for showing us all the way.
Like hugging a... A tree. I know.
One day there'll be a name for the way you are.
One day people will understand.
It's time.
Let's get going.
"In memory of the many women wrongly accused
"and executed for being witches in Juniper.
"May this plaque honour their lives and promise an end to intolerance."
Hello.
It's beautiful.
Well done, Miss Darrow.
Come on, Earnest. Time for tea.
Looks like it's always been there.
Like Juniper knew how to be good really.
Just needed a bit of help.
And now there's good everywhere.
Nina and Frank have started a history channel together.
So today we're learning all about 17th-century turnip economy.
Make sure you TURNIP the volume!
What is this?
Mr Macintosh has got his job back.
Miss Murphy has left the school...
..and Juniper.
And the museum has an amazing new display,
all about a group of girls who took on the witch hunter and won.
You really made Juniper a better place, Addie.
You did.
You made it all right.
Well, it's a start.
It's a spark.
A spark.
Yeah. I like that.
So, what next?