Tommy Kinkle is back, but not in the way Sabrina intended, and there are also problems with Agatha after her revival in the Cain Pit.
Sabrina arrives at Harvey's place and is happy to learn Tommy returned, only to grow concerned when Harvey says his brother is "in shock," not eating or talking.
She sees Tommy just as Mr. Kinkle closes a door, and after saying the doctor told Tommy to rest, Harvey shared his excitement about Tommy's return. Ambrose happily shows Hilda his outfit for his trip to the Academy, and explains that while Sabrina went to Harvey's, Zelda's been gone for a long time. ​She, in fact, has just finished a "penance" session with Blackwood, who agrees it is an excellent method, but must be kept secret. He laments that witches no longer enter polyamorous relationships, and Zelda says monogamy has its advantages. He admits to feeling like his wife won't be the best mother for his twin sons, and asks Zelda to be their unholy godmother. When she accepts, he then asks that she take over Lady Blackwood's Academy classes, as she now tires easily, and Zelda happily agrees. Back at the Spellmans,' Sabrina tells Ambrose about Tommy, and though she's trying to stay positive, he suggests continuing to watch the young man and scolds her. He insists they tell their aunts when he learns Tommy isn't eating, saying the whole town will know a dead man returned. She wants to wait until Tommy is normal again. At the Academy, the Weird sisters discovery a problem with their actions last episode when Agatha struggles during a prayer and vomits dirt. Nick astral projects to Sabrina's room to tell her, but she seems to think it doesn't concern her and claims Tommy is fine, but he doesn't believe her. He says she must really love Harvey and hopes her boyfriend appreciates it. Realizing Harvey doesn't know, he says this could be dangerous if things go badly with Tommy. Sabrina claims everything will turn out okay, but Nick says she just hopes it's so. Noticing the gathering Psychopomps, he leaves, and Sabrina has Salem go to Harvey. Harvey enters Tommy's room, only to find his brother scratching at a mirror, so he has his him look at family photos to try to help. After detailing a past experience, Harvey pauses at some football photos, and Tommy silently scratches at one before noticing Salem.
Susie is chattering away with Dorothea when her dad knocks on her door. He asks who she was talking to, but she claims there's no one.
Hilda gets a call that most of the miners' bodies were found, which Zelda feels will be good, since the families can get closure, happy to learn Harvey is "hanging in there." Since Hilda will be at the bookstore, Zelda decides to take in the bodies, so Ambrose hurriedly suggests he examine them once he's back from the Academy. She reveals her new duty to the group, remaining unclear on how she got it and declaring she, Sabrina, and Ambrose will restore their family's good name. Wardwell surprises Sabrina as the girl is returning her book at school, asking if she felt the "Santa Diabla," an ill wind from the night before. Sabrina stays quiet as her description of the event matches the resurrection ceremony. Sabrina is shocked when Wardwell says she could ask for the book, telling her to take it. She claims she got the wrong book while searching for the Occultist's Almanac. Roz comes to Sabrina with news that everyone knows about Tommy, and worries his return might be the opposite of a miracle, as she had a dream the night before in which vicious dogs tore him apart as it snowed. Realizing Roz had another vision, Sabrina admits she's worried and suggests they learn how to use the cunning to their advantage by getting close to Tommy. At the Academy, Ambrose tells Blackwood how happy he is at the school, and Blackwood presents him with a gift familiar: a mouse named Leviathan. Blackwood says he feels something big coming and that Lucas has been helping him plan to reform the coven from the ground up. Ambrose agrees to do whatever Blackwood needs, and the priest asks him to help Lucas translate a nine-volume set of the Apostate Gospels. He leaves after welcoming Ambrose "home," and Lucas and Ambrose begin making out, with the former saying Blackwood sees something in the latter. Prudence, Dorcas, and Nick interrupt looking for Blackwood, settling for asking Ambrose why Agatha spitting up dirt and turnips while Tommy is fine. He is surprised, but Prudence interjects that she doesn't care about Harvey, only Agatha, and Ambrose determines Hilda will be their best bet. At the bookstore, Susie tries to steal a book but runs into her bullies, whom Hilda stops and shocks by revealing she knows Billy is a bully because some boys did something to him at a summer camp when he was 11. They are left stunned as Hilda demands that he, and his friend who clearly likes him, leave, and Susie runs off as Hilda, turning kind, offers to treat her to the book. Hilda finds it's a book from Virginia Woolf and goes to answer a call from Ambrose. She goes to the Academy and explains the pit is a miracle, but if you come back too fast, you get a sort of decompression sickness. Believing Agatha has too much Earth at the moment, she suggests balancing her elements with fizzy water for water cayenne pepper three times a day for a week. Outside, Hilda admits to Ambrose that this will just keep them busy, as she realized Agatha shouldn't have come back as she was basically spitting up gravel. Saying the Earth is owed a soul, she asks why Agatha was even in the pit.
Sabrina and Roz go to Harvey's, where he horrifies them by hurling a football at Tommy, who easily stops it. He says Tommy only reacts to things, like a robot.
Inside, they learn Mr. Kinkle is already trying to get the mine open again, and Sabrina suggests Harvey get some soup, as Tommy has thus far only drank water. Once he leaves, Roz takes Tommy's hands and finds herself in a foggy wooded area where she can see him and hears a baby crying. Sabrina touches her, and suddenly a grotesque version of the half-witch appears with a noose around her neck, jolting Roz out of the cunning as someone calls Sabrina. She tells Sabrina what she saw, but leaves out how her friend appeared, and Mr. Kinkle returns as they wonder about the baby. They leave as Harvey defending them means nothing to Mr. Kinkle, and Roz claims she's not hiding anything from the vision. Susie tells Dorothea about her experience at the bookstore, and the spirit asks if the Spellmans are still witches, surprising the girl. Sabrina discovers they brought back Tommy's body, but not his soul, a situation called "Soul Separation," but realizes she's telling Hilda, not Ambrose. Upset that her niece lied, Hilda refuses to listen to her ideas, saying it's too late to help Tommy. Sabrina claims it's not, as she's learned the woods and the sounds Roz heard mean Tommy's in limbo, where un-baptized babies and those who die too early go. Flabbergasted that Sabrina wants to go there, Hilda says witches can't go to the mortal limbo, but Sabrina counters that she's half-mortal. Hilda snaps this is an assumption and Agatha is getting sicker as the reaper awaits a body, stating there's no fixing this as Ambrose calls them to the embalming room. Zelda's choir class is horrified as the earthen Agatha totters in calling for help, and Blackwood demands to know how she became a "living cadaver." The group cracks and spills everything, and the enraged Blackwood says Zelda has proven again she can't control or punish Sabrina. He orders the kids to take Agatha to the Infernal Infirmary while he handles Tommy, but Zelda begs him to let her deal with the girl's mistake, and he agrees. Back at the Spellman house, Ambrose reveals bite marks on the miners' bodies, and says Tommy isn't eating because he's not hungry, yet.
Mr. Kinkle demands to know who Tommy is, and though Harvey begs him to calm down since they have Tommy back, his father calls the man a vegetable and a zombie.
Tommy stares at a zombie movie as his father says he's not his son, and should've stayed in the mines if he is. Harvey shoves his father, resulting in the man punching him, but Tommy stops the abusive man by grabbing him by the throat. Sabrina arrives as Mr. Kinkle runs out of the house, telling her Tommy is an animal. Harvey explains the situation, and she gives him a liquid for Tommy to drink. Harvey bemoans that his brother only seems normal while asleep, and admits that while he's grateful, he knows something is wrong. Bringing up the bloody hat, he questions how Tommy lived and escaped unharmed. She promises everything will be okay, but says to run if Tommy wakes and attacks. She goes home and gets a fierce scolding from Zelda, who demands to know why she performed necromancy and dragged others into it. Sabrina admits the spell she used came from Wardwell's book, and Zelda calls her a thief and murderer who upset the balance. Sabrina retorts that she was fixing what witches did, but Zelda snaps that she made things worse. Incredulous as Sabrina details her limbo plan, Zelda says she is digging their grave with the coven, but Sabrina snarls that she only cares about what's right. Zelda says she's not capable of the magic required to cross over, being such a young witch, and Sabrina snaps that Zelda isn't her mother and shouldn't act like it. A tearful Hilda orders her not to speak to Zelda that way, but Zelda quietly says Sabrina has stated her position, and as an adult witch, it's time for her to learn that everything has a price, like she and Edward did. She shrugs and tells Sabrina to go ahead with her plan, but not to come crying to her when it all goes awry. She and Hilda leave silently, and though Ambrose tells Sabrina no one will help, she says there's one person who will. She goes to Wardwell, and though apologizing for lying, she doesn't regret her actions; Wardwell says we all do such things for those we love. Despite this, she claims the souls in both limbos are lost in non-understandable ways, with a Soul-Eater chasing them. Sabrina feels Harvey would risk this for her. Wardwell admits she knows of a threshold to enter limbo deep in the woods, but warns that even a tiny mistake could be disastrous for Sabrina and Tommy. Hilda enters Zelda's room and finds her whipping herself. The tearful Zelda says they should've let Diana's family take Sabrina in, but she was thought she could guide her. Bringing up Sabrina's resemblance to Edward, she admits she could never say no to her, but Hilda says Sabrina just doesn't listen. At the Academy, Nick overheras Blackwood tell the sisters that the Spellmans obviously can't do what they need to, ordering them to kill the soulless Tommy. The sisters think up dark ways to kill Tommy, but scream as they find themselves stuck, a foot each bleeding. Nick steps out and explains he hammered nails into their footprints to trap them, and says they're not leaving until the Spellmans are done. With a method of getting to limbo, Sabrina finally sees a way to undo her damage, but like Aunt Zelda told her, everything has a price, and not everything can be fixed.
Now this was definitely an emotional episode, especially when Sabrina goes about her plan to rescue Tommy at the end.
There is so much riding on this for her, as she's promised Harvey she's going to help him, she wants to fix her mistake regarding Tommy, and of course now there is her family and Blackwood on her heels. Sabrina has always pulled off miracle saved in her risky endeavors, but this time she doesn't even have anyone on her side. The coven obviously wouldn't be behind her given the magnitude of what she's done, and even her family is appalled when they find out what she's done. Zelda mentions her own arrogance when explaining why they shouldn't have taken Sabrina in, and Sabrina's arrogance is a cause for problems so far. Believing herself to be more capable than should be expected at her age, Sabrina is constantly trying to push the boundaries, both in what she can do within the coven's laws and what she can get away with to change the coven. Just like her past experiences, Sabrina's plans involve breaking even more laws, but this time it's on the grander scale of life and death itself. Just like in The Monkey's Paw the show referenced in the previous episode, Tommy has returned a shell of his true self. Along with lacking seemingly any emotion, he doesn't eat, hardly drinks, and acts like a robot with incredible strength. The only sign of the true Tommy left in the body Sabrina revived is when Mr. Kinkle attacks Harvey and Tommy steps in, choking his father. It could be said that Tommy's body was just "hungry" like the Spellmans expected him to get, but it's possible a more coldhearted version of Tommy's love for his brother still existed, causing his body to instinctively react more violently than he would have. Much like Sabrina facing a whirlwind of emotion in this episode, Harvey has to come to a sad conclusion after his initial joy at Tommy being back. At first, it seems he has his best friend in the whole world again, but he quickly sees the signs that something's wrong. To have the person you're closest to die is hard enough, but Harvey was given the hope that he'd returned, only to have it soon snatched away. Roz and Susie got a lot more interesting this episode as they explored their peculiar situations, and I've got to wonder if they're being influenced. Roz does have to happen to touch certain things most of the time to receive visions, but it's quite a big one that she saw Sabrina's horrific form around the time Wardwell is trying to drive a wedge between Sabrina and her friends. Likewise, Susie is suddenly able to see the ghost of her ancestor, who I'd assumed had been in contact with some at least important witches, and this ghost directly tells her that the Spellmans are witches. During her time with Dorothea, Susie is getting bolder, in this episode trying to steal a book, making it appear like the specter isn't as nice as she seems. Like I figured, Ambrose is finding himself in a dangerous situation without realizing it, as he's so happy Blackwood is helping him he fails to see he's being manipulated. Much like the man Ambrose described, Blackwood is charming and eloquent, and he's doing such favors for the man that Ambrose is willing to do whatever he says. For now, this is limited to translating some books, but this is because a manipulative character like Blackwood needs to be slow and methodical in his actions. Blackwood could be seen similar to Petyr Baelish of Game of Thrones, or Viren from The Dragon Prince, and like them has to be cautious in dealing with Ambrose. He's already got his claws in Zelda, already aware of her attraction to him, which allows him to manipulate her and drive a wedge between the Spellmans. Zelda is convinced she has a chance of becoming Blackwood's #1, but considering what Lady Blackwood said, he has had numerous affairs. Whatever he has planned for the coven, it's clear Ambrose will be in over his head, likely used as a scapegoat, and even Zelda might be part of it. In his actions this episode, Blackwood is demonstrating his arrogance without the others really noticing it, as he believes he can manipulate those around him well enough to shake up the witch world. Wardwell is able to be more subtle this episode than she was previously; whereas before she clearly acted like she wanted Sabrina to take the book while telling her not to, this time around she says the girl could've just asked for it. She does have a strange moment with Stolas where she strangely talks a bit about the Dark Lord's plan, but aside from that she often hides things well from Sabrina. Adeline Rudolph and Justin Dobies do fantastic unnerving work as Agatha and Tommy this episode, with each seeming like a different kind of zombie. Like the characters mention, Agatha seems to continually get weaker while Tommy gets stronger, with the former being described as a living cadaver and the latter having the reflexes to catch a football one-handed and the strength to choke his dad. The makeup work done on Rudolph is impressive as it progresses through the episode, making her appear sickly over time and ending up a horrid green/brown. Though Rudolph hasn't had to do much throughout the season, she does seem different than she's been before and grows weaker over time. On the opposite end, it's easier to see a difference with Dobies since we've seen him more; he completely lacks the warmth and brotherly love he had before. Along with Blackwood's plans moving forward, Wardwell seems happy with the steps taken with Sabrina as her friends learn about her, Sabrina begins to feel isolation set in as her plans crumble around her.
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