Sabrina is desperate to at least get Ambrose a trial, but the arrival of some missionaries whose mission it is to "convert" witches causes problems.
Two weeks ago, a young man named Jerathmiel (Spencer Treat Clark) tortures Luke for information on the coven, claiming he and his group have been tracking them and want to save their souls.
He knows about Black and forces Luke to tell him about the school. He's pleased, and when Luke says only an initiated coven member's hand can open the door, he pulls out a large blade and approaches the young warlock. In the present, Sabrina burns her hand trying to enter the Academy, and Prudence arrives to mock her attempts and remind her she can't get in. Sabrina demands to see Ambrose and says how it's been days since Blackwood left, but Prudence snarls that Ambrose is a murdering traitor. Switching to begging, Sabrina says he cousin could explain everything if she could talk to him, and says Prudence should do this for a friend. Prudence scoffs, saying Sabrina only comes to her when she wants something, even saving her at the Feast of Feasts, which she did for herself. As they really only tolerate each other, Prudence feels no obligation and shuts the door, assuring Sabrina they're taking "good care" of Ambrose. Quentin the ghost boy appears behind Sabrina and reveals Ambrose is being kept in the witch's cell, and the boy heard the Weird Sisters plotting to torture him. Sabrina takes this info to Hilda, who is stressing as she couldn't get in touch with Zelda. Hilda agrees to call the council and tell them the situation. Back at the Academy, Dorcas finds Ambrose surprisingly working out; he says he wants to look good when he dies and flirts with her. Prudence interrupts and shoves her sister aside, trading quips with Ambrose and saying he's not getting out until she gets a confession. He scoffs that, after serving house arrest for 75 years, their cheap witch's cell tricks aren't enough, so she lets in a tall, pale demonic figure to accompany him. Sabrina and Hilda anger the council by summon them, and the girl appeals on her cousin's behalf to get him a trial. To her shock, the council has allowed Blackwood's decision to proceed without a trial. They declare Ambrose will be executed when Blackwood returns, and warn the Spellmans not to summon them again. Meanwhile, Adam manages to convince Wardwell to take the day off, as she agrees she's been giving her all to her job with little to show for it.
Sabrina says Nick is getting drunk at Dorian's and vents her frustrations about Ambrose, who Hilda says they'll break out if they have to.
Sabrina points out she's been expelled and can't get in, but Hilda reminds her her own excommunication was lifted, and she plans to bribe her way in with food. Sabrina will, in the meantime, return to Baxter to see Wardwell and get help from her friends, with Hilda happy she'll see Harvey again. Sabrina listens to Theo give a speech in class, then approaches him and Harvey, who stiffly says he needs to get to gym and leaves. Sabrina learns about Roz's situation and finds her listening to a tape in the library; her friend coldly says she didn't tell her about her blindness because she wasn't there. Refusing to accept that it's better to have Roz alone in the library, Sabrina ignores her complaints and goes to Wardwell, who is leaving for the day. Wardwell doesn't know of her expulsion and brushes her off, and when the girl brings up Roz, she admits the girl is angry, but the library was her choice. Sabrina wants to help, so Wardwell suggests making a comfort charm and gives her a spell that will restore Roz's sight. Roz bitterly rejects the charm, and Sabrina learns people have been mocking her for spontaneously bursting into tears in class. Harvey is vehemently against the spell, and though Sabrina says it's Roz's choice, she is surprised when Roz agrees with him. She venomously says that while her grandma said not all witches are evil, some cursed her family, and she just happened to go blind after kissing Harvey. Sabrina is horrified to realize Roz thinks she did this to her, and runs off in tears when Harvey asks if she did or not. At the Academy, Prudence refuses to let Hilda in, even when she says the chicken is for her and her sisters, not Ambrose. Hilda relents, suggesting that Prudence eat the chicken in front of Ambrose and throw the bones at him as torture. Back at Baxter, Theo learns what happened with Sabrina, and disgustedly reminds them she's their friend and a good person, even saving the town. They counter it was being saved from witches, but he reveals he saw Sabrina helping him at tryouts and reminds them she got Mr. Kinkle to stop drinking. Surprisingly, Prudence lets Hilda into Blackwood's office to meet with Ambrose, and her joy disappears when he says he's being treated well considering what he did. Down in the witch's cell, the real Ambrose sees a fake Hilda enter, and she takes the coven's side when he says death would be better than this torture. The fake Ambrose tells Hilda he's guilty and will confess when Blackwood returns, and the fake Hilda urges Ambrose to sign the confession. Realizing the trick, Hilda unmasks the fake Ambrose as Agatha by asking about the family mourning someone's death the year before when they died in 1989. Similarly, Ambrose sees through his fake aunt, who is actually Dorcas, by asking what her favorite episode is of a show she hates. Dorcas says she hopes his decision was worth dying in the cell and leaves, but Ambrose is simply determined again to fight.
Sabrina finds Nick deep in a bottle of bourbon at Dorian's, where he says he's drinking alone since being expelled isn't the same for her.
Whereas the Academy was his home and all he had, he knows Sabrina can run back to her mortal friends anytime, and guesses she already tried to even if she can't now. She decides to wait to talk until later after he suggests his mom would've warned him about dating a half-breed. Wardwell is enjoying a stroll with Adam when he suggests she come to Tibet with him, as he's been offered a position and will only take it if she agrees to go. She agrees to give him a decision by that night, and as they giggle about her tossing a rock to make a wish, the unseen Stolas flies away. The Weird Sisters enter the witch's cell with the bones from Hilda's chicken. They take her advice and toss them at Ambrose, but after they lave, he examines the remains. Jerathmiel arrives at the Spellmans' as a missionary, and although she says they already have a faith, she lets him in for a glass of water, not noticing the hissing Salem. She tiptoes around explaining their faith and asks about his; he says his is centered on forgiveness and salvation, which he believes no one is too far gone from. While studying, Roz's hand sweeps over Sabrina's charm, causing her to have a vision of Jerathmiel standing over Sabrina's body, so she tells Harvey to get the phone. Sabrina wonders if a person can be saved if they've spent their whole life doing what others consider wrong, but he says it's as easy as asking for forgiveness. The phone rings, and Roz asks about Jerry, then blurts out he wants to kill her and she needs to run. Sabrina turns as he pulls a knife from his bag, then rushes to the door. She's able to close the door behind her and cast a spell, so by the time Jerry breaks it down, she's already riding away on her bike. At the bookstore, Hilda is discussing the Weird Sisters with Cerberus, revealing the bones were meant for Ambrose to craft a skeleton key. Another missionary, Mehitable (Bayley Corman), enters and identifies Hilda, and Cerberus becomes curious as Hilda interacts with her. Told not to solicit, the girl says the witches can burn in Hell. She brandishes a knife, so Hilda quickly kisses Cerberus and removes his protective bracelet to unleash the incubus inside him. As Nick demands more drinks, a third missionary, Gideon (Graeme McComb), shoots Dorian in the throat with a crossbow. He says Dorian was too powerful to wait for a possible repentance, but gives Nick a chance since he's too drunk to teleport. After dodging another bolt, Nick hides behind a chair, and after reloading and gloating, Gideon is surprised when Dorian, who is famously tough to damage, returns. Dorian stabs him with the bolt he shot before, and Nick congratulates him, then says to keep him alive so they can get answers. With the missionaries on the attack, Sabrina and the others rush to the Academy as it tries to defend, and a dark intervention helps their cause.
Roz certainly was quite a character this episode, wasn't she? First she deludes herself into thinking Sabrina could've blinded her, then Theo easily changes her mind.
Roz was definitely a heroic character in the end for this episode, warning Sabrina about Jerry in time to stop his attack. I did worry initially that she was going to cause it to happen, because in her vision, the phone is next to Sabrina's body, and she immediately decides to call. To me, the phone lying there could mean he kills Sabrina while Roz is warning her, but maybe it was a hint to what Roz needed to do or a sign of her attitude. Perhaps if Roz still believed Sabrina could be responsible for her blindness and didn't react quick enough, the vision would've come true. Despite her heroic actions, I was as appalled as Sabrina and Theo at what Roz and Harvey suggested about someone who used to be so close to them. Roz already had me rolling my eyes like some of her past actions did, because of how icy she was toward the returning Sabrina. She venomously claims the reason Sabrina didn't know about her blindness is because she hasn't been around, but that's a load of crap. Unless Roz or the others forgot how to use a phone, which they obviously didn't, she is fully capable of reaching out to Sabrina. If Sabrina didn't know there was a problem, it wouldn't make sense for her to come checking up on her. Roz is the one with knowledge of her condition, so she should be the one to let Sabrina contact Sabrina about it, not the other way around. Harvey was just as obnoxious after Sabrina asks how they could think she'd intentionally hurt Roz, immediately asking if she did. For one thing, her reaction immediately implies she didn't. Secondly, she has been one of their best friends for years, and was almost going to marry him. I can understand him being wary of magic after what happened with his brother, but he is out of line to assume Sabrina is evil and wants to hurt them. Theo was the only member of Sabrina's mortal friends that I enjoyed for all of this this episode, for taking a stand and pointing out how ridiculous his friends were being. It was interesting to learn he saw Sabrina helping him at tryouts, but it made me dislike the others even more when he had to remind them what else Sabrina did. Sure, her spell for Tommy didn't go as planned, but she saved the whole town, which Harvey's argument being weak as he points out the other witches, and she stopped Mr. Kinkle from drinking. Theo deserves plenty of props for this, and in general becoming a more assertive character and having more confidence, like with the report he gives. At the start of the series, he stood up for himself a lot, but had issues with himself and basically just reacted to things out of anger. Since coming out and becoming more comfortable in his own skin, he seems to be a happier character and talks more openly about issues, which his report in class being about people who were persecuted and being able to stand up to his friends. I also love the direction Wardwell went this episode as she falls for Adam and starts defying the Dark Lord more openly. All this time she's been doing his bidding in trying to make Sabrina into his weapon, but we've seen at times she doesn't care much about this, and didn't even know the extent of his plans. Now, she has Adam, and while he actually loves the real Wardwell, probably in her mind she could easily just slip into the true Mary's life and be the woman he wants. On the one hand you have the Dark Lord, whom she has said is only ever cruel to her, and ont he other there is the ironically named Adam, who provides love. For the first time in a long time, she has someone who truly cares about her, so she takes steps to protect him from Lucifer and really hopes to run away with him. Of course, the flaw in this is how Stolas has been against her actions, and she hasn't noticed him watching her and disappearing. I found it strange when the Dark Lord revived the familiar, but considering the friction between Stolas and Wardwell since this happened, it's easy to guess he's a spy now. It's truly sad to see, considering Wardwell has really eased up since Adam arrived, and has been happy to take time for herself and do normal things with him. I liked getting to see more of Dorian in this episode, especially when facing the missionary, who is probably the dumbest of the group. He states that he didn't give Dorian a chance to repent because he's known as an incredible warlock, yet he doesn't know about his invincibility? The fact that Dorian exists in this world means there isn't a book about him, but it's strange that the missionaries would know about him being incredibly powerful, yet seemingly knowing nothing about his power. They just has me rolling my eyes anyway for this episode, with how over the top they were and how they talked. Nick's reaction to getting expelled was pretty understandable at first, with his belief his mom would've warned him about Sabrina being uncalled for. The Academy has been his home for so long, and now he's out because of his and Sabrina's actions at Blackwood and Zelda's wedding. The thing I don't understand about Nick's reaction is that he should realize the potential consequences of what he's been doing. He tries to blame Sabrina in this episode, but he's always been all gung-ho about helping Sabrina with everything she does that breaks the rules. Since he's been constantly brekaing rules and always knew he was taking risks, he has no right to blame Sabrina when he never protested her ideas. The other couple for the episode was Hilda and Cerberus, who I'm happy to see are going strong, and I loved how Hilda's reaction to the missionary was to let him loose. Hilda in general continues to impress, especially since poisoning Shirley, with how complex her plan to help Ambrose was and how she saw through the Sisters' trick. To be fair, the Weird Sisters don't come off as too bright with their ruse this episode, going way too far to be believable in their disguises. The fake Ambrose is so eager to admit guilt, and the fake Hilda too eager so eager to demand it, that it only makes sense the Spellmans would be suspicious. Both of them handle the situation expertly, luring Agatha and Dorcas with trick questions that show they aren't who they seem. The true genius, I'd say, is how Hilda came with her chicken with multiple explanations of how she could use it to help Ambrose. Prudence's first thought is that it's for him as it is, which she of course doesn't allow, then is the main ruse that it's a bribe to let Hilda see him. The way Hilda suggested they throw the bones at him was a clue to viewers that there was more to her plan, because this was a strange suggestion to make. Prudence saw it as desperation to see Ambrose, thinking Hilda was saying she'd let them do that if it meant she could see him. The only good reason for the suggestion is what endsup being the truth: that Ambrose could use some aspect of the chicken to his advantage. Using the bones to make a skeleton key was quite clever, and it's easy to get them to Ambrose because by themselves they don't seem useful at all. Like Hilda and Theo, Ambrose also impresses this episode, having done a complete 180 from the frantic warlock we previously saw. He has taken strength from his time under house arrest, and the discipline he developed helps him stay strong in the face of his torture. He momentarily cracks when he thinks he's talking to Hilda, but this is to be expected. What's less expected is how we see him working on and behaving confidently before this, and returning to defiance after unmasking Dorcas. We know from how he refused to tell Blackwood who is co-conspirators were that he is stubborn and won't compromise what he believes in. That's exactly the kind of thing we see here, as he knows he is innocent and refuses to give in and confess to a crime he didn't commit. Although Roz and Harvey were disappointing for part of this episode, I love how most of the characters are going, and now Sabrina is a step closer to the Dark Lord's desires after encountering the missionaries.
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