S2E3 The Nightcomers

Air Date: May 17, 2015

Written by: John Logan

Directed by: Brian Kirk

Synopsis: In a flashback, Vanessa meets The Cut-Wife, who teaches her how to harness her powers. Isolated at her lonely cottage on the moors, The Cut-Wife quickly realizes the extent of Vanessa’s powers and warns her of the danger that lies ahead – and the evil that pursues her.

The episode begins with Vanessa walking into her room to discover Ethan crouched by her blood scorpion. He asks her what it is, but she says its no concern of his. They sit on her bed together, and Ethan asks her to allow him to help her. She tells him she has never told anyone this story. She says it all began several years ago and far from here, on the Moors of the West Country. She says she went in search of answers to who she was. She begins to tell the story of the Cut-Wife of Ballentree Moor, the first witch Vanessa ever met.

4:20 Vanessa stands outside of a small cabin over the course of several days and nights. At one point the Cut-Wife opens the door, and Vanessa tries to cross the stones in order to enter the cabin. She cannot get past the stones, however, and she looks down on them to see they are warded with an odd symbol. The Cut-Wife laughs and closes the door. After several days, Vanessa falls to her knees from exhaustion, but stands back up again, determined.

6:01 The Cut-Wife finally goes outside to talk to Vanessa. She walks up to her and shoves her hand up her dress. She then bites her thumb and draws a cross on Vanessa’s head with the blood, and speaks the Verbis Diablo. She says: Etsoo Sataan sha’am tu pemoder mendafa’. Etsoon moqaf yerkhomi lakwe em heraa zahomblar. Which translates to: Keep Satan away from this house. Let in only those who walk by day.

The Cut-Wife tells her that she can move now. The Cut-Wife asks what she wants, does she want her to kill Vanessa’s baby? Does she want a love potion? Does she want a poultice for her aching joints?  Vanessa says no to all of this. The Cut-Wife says that she is like no others. Vanessa agrees with this, and tells the Cut-Wife that it is because she is like no others that she is there. The Cut-Wife demands that she tell her how she got the scar on her back. She tells Vanessa, “You’re strong-willed and agile, like the scorpion”. Vanessa feels the branding that the Cut-Wife endured, and because of this she allows Vanessa inside the cabin. Before she does though, she tells Vanessa, “Leave everything you were outside this door. Everything you are bring with you”.

9:23 Vanessa walks into the cabin, and the Cut-Wife tells her to wipe the blood off of her head, because it makes her look like an animal. The Cut-Wife tells Vanessa that she is closer to the beasts than the Gods, because she has been with a man. Vanessa tells the Cut-Wife that she believes she is cursed to see things not of this world. She tells the Cut-Wife about seeing Mina on the beach. The Cut-Wife tells her she can only give her knowledge she doesn’t want. Vanessa tells the Cut-Wife that she knows the person who branded her was someone she trusted and loved, a sister. If she is right, Vanessa says, then the Cut-Wife should let her stay. The Cut-Wife walks over to a table and gets tarot cards. She demands that Vanessa feel Mina’s lips and put her hand over the cards. Vanessa does this and selects a card. She asks if she should turn it over. “There is no need”, the Cut-Wife responds. She tells Vanessa that she can sleep on the sofa and have the stew in the pot. When the Cut-Wife has walked away, Vanessa turns the tarot card over. It is the Devil card.

15:29 Vanessa and the Cut-Wife walk through the woods. The Cut-Wife tells her that casting the tarot is a gift. The Cut-Wife says, “When you know the Arcana, you can hear the echoes of time in your ear. They are never always as they seem”. Vanessa asks about the Devil card, and the Cut-Wife tells her that it doesn’t always mean the demon from Hell, or the throat slit at midnight, but other things as well. The Cut-Wife demands that Vanessa tell her what other things the card could mean. Vanessa says tentatively, “Evil”, and the Cut-Wife snaps at her to do better. Vanessa replies, “A dark lover approaching, bringing terror, irresistible, part of you but not, the whisper of something ghastly and beautiful”. The Cut-Wife approves, and shows Vanessa Mandragora and Nightshade Botanical. Vanessa asks the Cut-Wife if she was born with the gift, and she replies that she learned it, but Vanessa was born with it. Vanessa asks her how she could know that, and the Cut-Wife replies that she sees Vanessa’s pain, that she knows that she has always been the way she is. They come across a hare in a trap, and the Cut-Wife picks it up and hands it to Vanessa. She tells Vanessa to snap its neck, and after a moments pause, Vanessa does so.

17:54 The Cut-Wife skins the hare and prepares it for supper, and asks Vanessa about her mother. Before Vanessa can answer, the Cut-Wife describes Vanessa’s mother for her. She says that Vanessa’s mother is dead now, but she was strong-willed and imperious. The Cut-Wife says that Vanessa’s mother fucked other men than her father, and that Vanessa saw her mother engaged in these acts. The Cut-Wife asks Vanessa if she enjoyed watching her mother fuck other men, and Vanessa says no. The Cut-Wife laughs, and says, “You did. Your little secret gave you power”. The Cut-Wife tells Vanessa that she is in danger, and she must learn to protect herself. Vanessa wants to know what she is protecting herself from, and the Cut-Wife says, “Legion”. The Cut-Wife tells her that she felt her all the way across the moor, and that she wanted to curl up in her little bed and sleep and sleep, but Vanessa still came closer. “The others felt you too, they will be here soon”, she says, and then she quotes Macbeth‘s something wicked this way comes.

20:03 Vanessa and the Cut-Wife sit and eat dinner. They talk of Mina, when the Cut-Wife feels something. She tells Vanessa to stay where she is, and goes outside. Madame Kali and 2 other witches are there. Kali asks the Cut-Wife about the brand on her back, and she replies, “Old wounds don’t hurt”. They begin to speak in the Verbis Diablo. Kali says: Ye moruwaakh eedh ye krederuu an Nebratron beselrayeb dünasse, shadesenori. Which translates into: You are foolish to think you can defy the Master, my sister. The Cut-Wife replies: Etsi Nebratronak, non eni, shadesenor. Etsi an oge heraa yak Nom Reshtoeth, Yesun Khriiston, shempsomai. This translates to: .He is your Master, not mine, Sister. I follow the day and the One God, Jesus Christ.

Kali remarks that she is glad that the Cut-Wife still remembers the old tongue, and demands that the Cut-Wife give them Vanessa. When the Cut-Wife refuses, Kali entrances her in an attempt to get her to cross the stones. The Cut-Wife is almost outside the safety of the stones when Vanessa, who had been watching from the door, comes outside, and yells stop. Kali’s spell on the Cut-Wife breaks, and Kali remarks on how powerful Vanessa feels. Kali tells the Cut-Wife that she cannot protect Vanessa forever, and asks if the Cut-Wife really wants this to be her last battle. The Cut-replies, “It is the only battle”. Vanessa walks out to the Cut-Wife, and the witches leave.

24:34 Vanessa helps the Cut-Wife back into the cabin, and up into her bed. Vanessa sees all the totems that the Cut-Wife has placed around her bed upstairs, and asks if they truly work. The Cut-Wife responds that they do, but she cannot remember which ones, so she hangs them all. Vanessa helps the Cut-wife get undressed for bed, and sees the brand on her back for the first time, a pentagram. The Cut-Wife tells Vanessa “We must prepare for battle. When it comes, it comes fully, and to the end”.

25:55 Madame Kali walks through a grazing field with cattle. She kills some of the cattle with her razor ring as she walks by.

26:24 Vanessa and the Cut-Wife sit by the fire, and Vanessa asks about Madame Kali and the other women. The Cut-Wife tells her they are Nightcomers, witches. The Cut-Wife says that those Nightcomers in particular were from her coven of yore. She tells Vanessa that away from the city, they learn such things as we used to know when the Old Gods walked. They were all Daywalkers then, “harmless dabblers in herbs and healing”. Madame Kali and the rest of her coven followed a different path, but the Cut-Wife did not. Because of this, she was branded a traitor, and cast out. “They became Nightcomers, following the Devil for what he promised them. Vanessa asks about what the Devil promises them, and the Cut-Wife replies, “What does everyone seek? Power, youth, beauty, love, to walk alongside, such as now, the great midnight arts.” There is a knock at the door, and Vanessa startles. The Cut-Wife calms her, telling her only those that are fully human can pass the stones.

28:16 A young girl stands at the door. The Cut-Wife asks if she is in need of an abortion. The girl nods her head, and hands the Cut-Wife a locket. The Cut-Wife asks what else the girl has, and she hands her 2 bird eggs. The Cut-Wife allows the girl to enter. She tells Vanessa to go upstairs, but Vanessa says she wants to help. The Cut-Wife is rough and unkind to the girl during the procedure, and the girl is scared and crying. Vanessa touches the girls face, and tells her, “God forgives all”.

29:51 Madame Kali and Sir Geoffrey talk within their estate. She pressures him to get the Cut-Wife off of the land. Sir Geoffrey says it is not so simple, because of the Cromwell Deed, which gives the land to the Cut-Wife indefinitely. Madame Kali is not satisifed with this answer, but tells Sir Geoffrey that it doesn’t matter. Sir Geoffrey mentions the blight on cattle.

31:34 Madame Kali and her husband ride their horses across their land, and into the grazing fields. They come across several dead cattle.

31:59 The Cut-Wife and Vanessa walk through the woods, and the Cut-Wife teaches Vanessa some of the Verbis Diablo. She warns Vanessa that she must not speak the Devil’s Tongue idly, or her mouth will become his, and she will tell only lies. Only if all else fails is she to speak the Verbis Diablo. The Cut-Wife tells Vanessa that the language is a seduction, and if spoken too idly, it will become all she can speak, and that is when a Daywalker becomes a Nightcomer. She points out Comfrey, and directs Vanessa to tell her what she knows about it. A carriage passes and a man spits on the Cut-Wife. She says, “They send me their daughters, but for this service they despise me. So it is for all those who do for women”. The Cut-Wife speaks about not understanding why people hate what they cannot understand, why they hate themselves most of all, for being old and not God-like. “Monsters all”, she says, and Vanessa replies, “Some more than others”. The Cut-Wife asks Vanessa if she is truly how she feels, and Vanessa says yes. The Cut-Wife replies, “Then it shall be, as long as you feel it”.

34:36 Madame Kali and Sir Geoffrey engage in BDSM. Kali taunts Sir Geoffrey with the fact that he cannot even remove one old woman from a small plot of land.

36:39 As Vanessa prepares for dinner, the Cut-Wife falls in pain. Vanessa gets her into her bed, and begs her to see a doctor. The Cut-Wife says there is no cure for what ails her, she is simply old and ready to die. Vanessa protests, but ultimately knows that it is true, for she has seen it in the tarot cards. The Cut-Wife asks Vanessa to stay and live in the cabin after she is dead, and help all of the poor, forgotten girls that will need a Cut-Wife. She tells Vanessa that she has never seen a Daywalker with such power, and she should use it for more than helping one girl, Mina.

38:24 Sir Geoffrey talks with the pastor of Ballentree Moor, and threatens that he will take away his job, and the entire town’s employment if the pastor does not get the smallfolk to turn against the Cut-Wife. The pastor reluctantly agrees.

39:13 Vanessa walks through the woods alone, when Sir Geoffrey comes across her. He grabs her, and threatens to brand her as a poacher as he tries to put his hand up her dress. He tells her to scream for him Vanessa bites his hand, and pulls out a knife and puts it to his throat. She tells him to scream for her, and he goes so. She then tells him not to come near “me or mine” again.

41:02 The Cut-Wife lays in bed and talks with Vanessa. She tells Vanessa about the deed from Cromwell, which he wrote for her because she gave him succor after the second battle of Newbury, about 1644. The Cut-Wife asks Vanessa if she has thought about her offer to stay in the cabin after her death. Vanessa says she doesn’t know if she will be going back to London to help Mina, but if she does, she will wait until after the Cut-Wife passes away. The Cut-Wife is disappointed in this answer, and tells Vanessa that she honestly does not know if her heart is good or bad, but she must show her something. She asks Vanessa to get a book off of a shelf for her. She tells Vanessa that the book is The Poetry of Death, and that it is the most cursed of all the spells and texts. The Cut-Wife warns Vanessa that she should only use the The Poetry of Death if she has been crushed and beaten, and if she has no other recourse. She tells Vanessa that once she uses the book, she will have gone away from God forever.Vanessa and the Cut-Wife hear a horse stuck in the mire, dying. “One wrong step is all it takes”, the Cut-Wife says. Vanessa replies, “For us all”.

44:28 The pastor talks with the townspeople in a pub. In order to incite them against the Cut-Wife, he quotes Leviticus 20:27. Sir Geoffrey tells the townsfolk that the Cut-Wife, if left unchecked will lead to his ruination, because he will have to close the manor, and find better grazing ground elsewhere. If she leaves, then the entire town will go under, he says. Sir Geoffrey gives them free drinks. He inspires them to fight for their homeland. It transitions to the Cut-Wife telling Vanessa that there will be something for her left in a box once she is gone. Back in the pub, Madame Kali stands next to the girl that came to the Cut-Wife and Vanessa for an abortion. The girl yells, “Burn the witch!”, and begins a chant.

46:39 Vanessa and the Cut-Wife are still talking in the cabin. Vanessa tells the Cut-Wife that she is going to London after the Cut-Wife passes away. The Cut-Wife is angered by this, and calls Vanessa selfish. She says “You think you are going to be hero, you’re not. None of us are”. Vanessa replies that she is simply trying to do what is right, to which the Cut-Wife responds, “So you can sleep at night. Fuck your sleep, you selfish bitch, may you never pass a happy night”. Vanessa, unfazed by this, takes hold of the Cut-Wife’s hand. She then hears the townspeople coming up to the cabin. the Cut-Wife tells Vanessa to help her to feet, and that Vanessa should stay inside once she is out the door. Vanessa refuses to do this, saying she will walk with the Cut-Wife. The Cut-Wife tells her to watch herself closely, and to remember these words:

“When Lucifer fell, he did not fall alone. They will hunt you until the end of days. Be true.”

The Cut-Wife then tells Vanessa that her name is Joan Clayton.

48:30 Vanessa and Joan Clayton walk outside to meet Sir Geoffrey and the townsfolk. Sir Geoffrey tells Joan that he and the townspeople have resolved her to be guilty of necromancy, and of being in league with the Devil. A little boy then picks up a rock and throws it at Joan, hitting her in the head. Men run up to Joan and rip her and Vanessa apart while Vanessa screams. The men bring Joan to Sir Geoffrey, and he hits her. Vanessa is being held back by two men, while Joan Clayton is dragged to the tree, where she is shackled. The men holding Vanessa pull her head up by her hair, and force her to watch as the townspeople pour hot tar onto Joan and over her head. The girl who came to Vanessa and Joan for an abortion walks up to Joan now, with a lit torch, and lights her on fire. Joan Clayton does not scream as she burns. Madame Kali watches from afar. The pastor is then handed a cross-shaped brand, which he heats in the fire. He walks over to Vanessa, and the two men holding her rip her dress open. Sir Geoffrey grabs her head, and says, “Now child, scream for me”. The pastor brands Vanessa’s back, but she does not scream.

53:03 Vanessa, now inside the cabin, lays in front of the fire, her dress ripped and the branded skin on her back bloody and peeling. He struggles to get to her feet, and walks over to the door. She peers out of the door’s window to see the 3 witches standing outside.

54:05 After what must have been a few days for Vanessa to heal, she opens the box left to her by Joan, and sees the Cromwell Deed, with Joan’s name crossed out her own name replacing it. She looks over to the Poetry of Death, but does not take it. Instead, she takes the tarot cards, and puts them in her carpet bag. She then takes one final look at the cabin, and leaves. She cuts open her thumb and paints an blood scorpion on the stones outside in order to ward the cabin against evil. In voiceover, we hear Joan Clayton’s final words to Vanessa again.

S2E2 The Verbis Diablo

Air Date: May 10, 2015

Written by: John Logan

Directed by: James Hawes

Synopsis: The group makes progress in understanding the Verbis Diablo, while Victor teaches Lily the about the world. Dorian meets Angelique, and Madame Kali begins her enchantment of Sir Malcolm.

OPENING CREDITS

3:08 The episode begins with Vanessa sitting in the corner of her room, looking frightened but determined. She leaves and goes to Sir Malcolm’s room. She tells him that “they” came to her last night. She asks if this is what it is like to go mad, and laments that not even her prayers are safe. Vanessa asks Sir Malcolm to tell her she deserves peace. He says he cannot tell her that, because his life has never known peace, but he tells her that he will not leave her side, “where we walk, we walk together”. They hug, and Sir Malcolm asks Vanessa to accompany him to a place where he finds a kind of peace.

5:28 Victor and Clare sit with Brona. Clare tries to talk to Brona, but she does not respond. Victor tells Clare to go slow with her, and her learning will be a process. Clare wants to fill her heart with poetry, but Victor wants to fill her head with language, and her belly with food. Victor tells Clare to leave her with him for teaching, and says she might regain her memories, but he is not sure, because Clare killed Proteus before he fully regained his memories. Clare tells Victor he need not remind him of his sins, but only remember his own. Victor asks if Brona counts as one of his sins. Clare replies that she atones for his first sin, “She is our future Creator. Tread carefully”. Clare leaves. Victor approaches Brona, who is hiding behind a shelf. Victor slightly opens the robe she is wearing and traces her Y-incision. He then closes her robe, and tightens the belt. He tells her his name is Victor Frankenstein. “Victor” she says. It is her first word since being resurrected.

9:15 Sir Malcolm takes Vanessa to an underground homeless shelter and soup kitchen of sorts. He tells her that his wife is involved in the work there, and it might help her find the peace she is looking for. They enter, and Vanessa sees all of the sick and suffering people living inside the shelter. Malcolm directs her to the food line, where they help to give out soup. Malcolm says that he works there when he can, and provides them with funds, because it makes him feel like a better man.

11:48 Rusks visits the Mariner’s Inn Massacre survivor, Mr. Roper, in the hospital. It is revealed that Mr. Roper cannot speak yet, due to extensive damage to his face. Rusk tells him to get better, because he wants to know who did this to him.

12:55 Brona walks around Victor’s lab, taking everything in, and speaking fluently and with ease, without her Irish accent. Victor tells her she has memory loss due to her “accident”, and comments that her voice is not what he expected. Brona replies that she sounds like him, because they are cousins. She asks what her name is, and Victor tells her it is Lily, the flower of resurrection and rebirth. She says that makes her sad, but she cannot figure out why. she begins to cry and Victor hugs her, telling her he will “Show her what life is”. She says “Teach me cousin, I am at your mercy”.

14:54 In the homeless shelter, Malcolm tells Vanessa he has an appointment with Sir Lyle. Vanessa stays to help in the homeless shelter for a while longer. She brings some soup to John Clare, and the two strike up a conversation. They speak of nuns and religion, and belief in Heaven. John Clare says he does not believe in Heaven, because this world and its creatures have always been enough for him. He recites the beginning of a Worthsworth poem. Vanessa says she sees no wildflowers, only suffering, and John Clare tells her to look closer. Vanessa is called away by a nun, and as she leaves she tells Clare that he has beautiful eyes.

20:00 Dorian sits at an outside restaurant table, staring at a picture of Vanessa. A woman sits down at his table and introduces herself as Angelique, no last name. She propositions Dorian, and he politely turns her down. Angelique asks if he turned her down, because of the woman in the photo, “did she break your heart?”. Dorian replies, “Such as it is, she broke it”. Angelique says she had her heart broken once, and vowed that it would never happen again. She has kept her promise, but her life is sadder for it. She gives Dorian her card, and leaves.

23:00 Sir Malcolm goes into a shop to pick a gift for Vanessa. He spots Madame Kali, and greets her under her other name, Evelyn Poole. She asks him to help her pick a new scent. When he leans down to sniff her neck, she speaks the Verbis Diablo into his ear. She says:

Odnauk een euk-zaabu fre’aazh Urshtoeth Shenesh zahomblar… Odnauk een amad en Nebratron sproshkata ratsni wosser khur terei ointso. Etsoo latwen ibibgordak en bezhdirfi yak esee roidakh euk-erahu mebaaken. Etsi hunak non kareenkhe dünasse. Ye eni. Ye enis.

Which translates to: “When jackals howled and the Old Gods walked… When men bowed down to the Master like the servants they were destined to be. Open your heart to my caress and you will know love and passion. You cannot resist. You are mine. You are His”.

25:45 Ethan is writing a letter in his room when Vanessa tells him their guest has arrived. Sir Lyle flirtatiously greets Ethan and then Victor arrives. They all sit to hear what Sir Lyle has to say about the Verbis Diablo, and he tells them the story of Brother Gregory. Vanessa asks what happened to Brother Gregory, and Sir Lyle tells her that eventually the other monks burned him at the stake for being possessed by the Devil. Sir Malcolm asks Sir Lyle if he could bring the artifacts to Grandage Place, and Sir Lyle says it should be a simple matter, and that he would like Ethan to accompany him to the museum.

29:52 Dorian Grey visits Angelique at her place of business, a brothel. She reveals that she has a penis, and Dorian seems even more intrigued by her.

31:12 Sir Malcolm and Madame Kali are at a gun range. They speak of his wife, and Malcolm tells Kali that while he and his wife are estranged and share no love between them, he is bound to her. Kali says she respects his honesty, and it is always good to have something to aim at.

33:39 Victor washes Lily’s hair, and she asks about their childhood. He tells her they were very close and would go on great adventures together as small children. He tells her that she would come to his bed when there were thunderstorms, and they never slept but clung to one another until the storm passed. He dyes her hair blond, and Lily asks if she admired fair-haired women. Victor says that he did, because they seemed kinder, like angels. “You’re making me into an angel, or maybe just the cousin you always wanted” Lily replies. Lily asks about John Clare, and Victor tells her he was her intended, to marry. She asks if she loved him, and Victor says he does not know, and it is up to her if she wants to love him now. Lily talks of not knowing how to act, and tells Victor not to let her be hurt, and he says he won’t.

36:05 Ethan and Sir Lyle sneak into the archives of the British Museum. While Sir Lyle searches for where the relics would be stored, Ethan spies a herald, and reads out the Latin inscribed on it, “So the hounds will protect”. Lyle is impressed that Ethan knows Latin, but corrects him, saying the word is “wolves” not hounds. Ethan speaks of timber wolves he saw in the New Mexico territory where he grew up. He says the wolves hunted in packs, and would tear out the wind pipe of their prey first, so all you heard was the splashing of blood on the ground, “They didn’t protect anything, they just fed”, he says. Lyle says he found where the boxes would be kept, and as they walk he tells Ethan of researching his own family crest, only to be disappointed to learn it was 2 interlocking fish on a field of lavender.

40:23 At night, Hecate follows a couple with a baby into a subway station. The couple boards a train, but soon the train comes to a stop and the lights flicker. Hecate quickly dispatches with the parents, in her Nightcomer form, and then stands over the baby as it cries.

43:19 Vanessa, Ethan, Lyle, and Malcolm lay out the relics on a table in the drawing room, and point out the many different languages present on them. Latin and Arabic are mentioned.

44:20 John Clare visits Victor and Lily. Clare is shocked by Lily’s transformation. She greets him, and tells him that she does not remember him, but knows they were friends. He introduces himself as John Clare.

46:00 At Kali’s mansion, it is revealed that Lyle is being blackmailed by Kali for information on Vanessa and the others. Hecate walks in and hands Kali a travel bag with the baby inside. Kali takes it to her enchantment room. As she speaks the Verbis Diablo, she cuts out its heart and places it inside a doll that looks like Vanessa.

Madame Kali says:

Ratsni een em heraa sheneshu, heraa en Sataan hun nesewis, etsi latwen ibibgordak khuris… Etsi hunak non wesrati kareenkhe dünasse, khur hemitus enis. Etsi an tu formago ekse enak, mastigahra libaarkeesk, kosta atsüü, yak ye sie wesrat tahis… Etsi Sataan wesrat neppaas. Etsi sha’amis an muuth zahomblar. Etsi sha’amis an suspaal sromanaht. Itsi dewaaudres.

This translates to: “As it was in the Ancient Days, the days of Satan and his brethren, your heart lies open before Him… You cannot resist my power, in service of His. This figure stands for you, cursed witch, wicked woman, and you are powerless before it… Satan’s power is all. He makes the Dead walk. He makes the Living die. Praise Him”.

51:33 Vanessa feels the doll’s creation.

END CREDITS

S2E1 Fresh Hell

Air Date: May 3, 2015

Written By: John Logan

Directed by: James Hawes

Short Synopsis:  Vanessa and the group meet their newest foes, Nightcomers, in the season premiere of season 2, and learn of the existence of the Verbis Diablo.

In the cold open, Vanessa walks through a snow-covered park. From afar, Madame Kali watches her, and begins to chant in a demonic language, which we learn later is the Verbis Diablo. In the Verbis Diablo, Madame Kali is saying: Kharadi… Hamatani… Esmi oksusen sepaatak, which means, “My child… My bride… Let me kiss your lips”. Vanessa feels this and begins to have flashbacks of her time with the Cut-Wife, and her witchcraft teachings. She drops to her knees. A man walking in the park with a woman goes to help Vanessa, but she stops him by putting up her hand. Vanessa looks up, frightened, but ready for battle.

OPENING CREDITS

Ethan wakes up in the Mariner’s Inn to see the carnage he wrecked at the end of last season.

7:19 Later that day (for its dark outside) Vanessa is returning to Grandage Place when Ethan stops her and says he needs to talk to her, but not in the house. Vanessa and Ethan get into the carriage, and Vanessa tells the driver to take them on the tour of the city.

7:43 Ethan tells Vanessa he is leaving London, and Vanessa is shocked and saddened by this news. She asks him where he intends on going, and he responds with Spain, or Russia. He wants to go somewhere and join a war, and “do what he is good at”. Vanessa wants to know why the war against the darkness isn’t sufficient for Ethan. He responds that the war is over, as both the creature and Mina are dead. Vanessa replies that Ethan is not foolish enough to think that the war is actually over, and he must know that was only a battle. Ethan asks about the other demons, those that live inside of us. “Inside of me, you mean?” Vanessa asks, confused. “No, thats not what I mean” Ethan answers. He then proceeds to tell Vanessa about experiencing something akin to blackouts. When she asks him what happens during these blackouts, he responds that he does not know, but “there is usually blood”. Vanessa, unfazed by this, asks how she can help him. Ethan responds, “You can’t change who you are. No matter who you save, or who you love”.

It is at this point that the carriage is attacked by what we learn later are witches, Nightcomers. The Nightcomers push the carriage over, and one comes through one of the openings, speaking the Verbis Diablo. The Nightcomer says: Etsi an Nebratron hamatas kwairegem. Etsi hunak non innisumi leu wesratis kareenkhe dünasse. Itsi traissalaam, mastigahra, koimmunda, akhita libaarkeesk. Itsi nat yenvagre en Nebratronak, Sataan. This means: “The Master seeks his bride. You cannot resist my summons or His power. Surrender, witch, unclean one, cursed spirit. Give yourself to your Master, Satan”. Vanessa responds in the Verbis Diablo, surprising and scaring the Nightcomer. Vanessa says: Itsi sist. Eksleebire. Ye non hun wesrat horri. Emi non khur uu reshtoeth muirepmi terprai Yesun Khriiston. This means: “Stop. Go away. You have no power over me. I serve no god just Jesus Christ”. The Nightcomers are defeated, and retreat. Ethan looks at Vanessa, terrified. Vanessa and Ethan climb out of the carriage and look at the dead horses and driver, while the Nightcomers shape-shift into their human form and watch from afar.

13:01 We see Frankenstein lowering Brona’s body into a tub of water with the help of Caliban. Caliban asks Victor if Brona will remember her old life. Victor responds that he does not know, but that he hopes not, for her life was benighted. Caliban looks at Brona, and says that they will seek the shadows together. Caliban begins to leave, saying he must look for work, but warns Victor that he will never be far. Victor asks Caliban if he will finally leave him in peace if he gives him Brona. Caliban responds, “You would do better to ask your soul to leave you. We are bound on a wheel of pain, thee and me. I ask you, what is Frankenstein without his creature?”.

15:45 We return to Vanessa and Ethan, now inside Grandage place. Vanessa is visibly shaken, and Ethan is drinking in order to keep calm. Ethan speaks with Sembene, who has asked what the creatures were. Ethan says he doesn’t know, but they were not the same women that were with the creature they killed in an effort to save Mina. Ethan sits down to talk to Vanessa, and asks her if she knows what the creatures were. Vanessa tells him that she does know what they are, but does not elaborate. Frustrated, Ethan asks how can he help her if she won’t let him? Vanessa snaps that he cannot help, and that Ethan was going to leave, so he should go. She adds that if the creatures were going to kill her, they would have. Ethan, exasperated, says he will come back tomorrow, once Sir Malcolm has returned home, and leaves. Sembene gives Vanessa a shaw, and she asks him if he believes the past can return. “More than that”, he replies, “It never leaves us. It is who we are”. “God help us then” Vanessa replies.

18:31 Ethan walks to one of the porches at Grandage Place to stand guard. We see a Nightcomer, who we learn later is Hecate, watching from a roof.

19:08 Sir Malcolm and his wife stand over Mina’s and Peter’s graves. Gladys remarks on how “hollow” it felt to put an empty coffin in Peter’s grave. She doesn’t know what made her sadder, Mina’s full coffin, or Peter’s empty one. Malcolm says he feels he should return home, and implies he will sell Grandage Place. He says they were happy once. Gladys refutes that they were happy, replying that Malcolm was happy once, but everything between them is now buried. Gladys insists that they remain married, but wants Malcolm to return to London and stay there. Malcolm protests, “If you only knew how hard I tried to save her”. Gladys replies, “We have no more children for you to save. Or to kill”.

22:22 After wondering the London streets in search of work, Caliban finds Putney’s Family Waxworks, with a sign outside looking for employees. Caliban goes inside, and walks down a hallway called the “The Chamber of Grotesqueries and Gore”, and finds Mr. Putney. The man greets Caliban, and Caliban asks about the notice. The man says people find working there unnerving, and they are constantly in need of people, but they cannot pay much. Caliban says he finds the place familiar. The man shows him the new attraction, The Chambers of Crime, and tells Caliban that he will need help with it. Caliban replies that he wants the job, and Mr. Putney says he must first introduce him to the rest of the Putney clan. The man then shows Caliban his wax rendition of the Mariner’s Inn Massacre.

26:51 The scene transitions to Rusk inspecting the Mariner’s Inn. Rusk comments on all the brick buildings that are being built, and how wood has character, and holds its history. Rusk and Junior Inspector discuss if this could have been the Ripper’s doing as well. Rusk says that this case is different, because there was a survivor.

28:24 Vanessa paces in her room as Ethan and Sembene talk downstairs. Sembene tells Ethan that Vanessa has not left her room all day. Ethan comments that he has never seen Vanessa so frightened.

29:40 Victor sits at his desk. The metal tub holding Brona’s body clanks. Victor is distracted from his work and walks over to the tub. He looks in at Brona’s naked body, submerged in water. “What will you make of this life, I wonder?”, he asks, “Who will you be”? Victor says he misses talking to her, which possibly references his mother. He then fondles Brona’s breast and touches her body, but is startled by a knock on the door. It is Sembene, he tells Victor that he is required, and that he will need courage.

32:54 Caliban meets with Mrs. Putney. He gives his name as John Clare. Clare meets Lavinia, the blind daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Putney. Lavinia asks to touch John Clare’s face, which makes him uncomfortable, but he allows it. Lavinia shows John Clare out, and it is revealed that the Putneys want to make money off of John Clare somehow.

35:47 Vanessa runs down the stairs and hugs Sir Malcolm as he returns home. The group sits in the drawing room, and Victor takes Vanessa’s pulse and asks about these creatures that attacked them. Ethan again states that the women were not the same ones with the creature. He says that they were “branded and deeply scarred”. Vanessa says that those scars are the Devil’s Mark. “Those in the service of the demon are irrevocably marked. He rakes his claws across them to seal their obedience” she says. Malcolm asks Vanessa if she knows the language that they spoke. Ethan answers that it was Latin. Vanessa refutes this, saying that it was the Verbis Diablo. Victor says that is impossible, because the Verbis Diablo is a mythical language, an inverted version of angelic speech, spoken in the Garden of Eden before Lucifer appeared. Ethan says that it is a dead language, not mythical, and quotes John 8:44. Malcolm asks Vanessa if she knows the words spoken by the Nightcomers. She says she does remember much, and her own words came to her blindly, like an animal instinct. She does not know what she said. Malcolm wants to begin to help and protect Vanessa by learning to understand the language. Again Vanessa snaps that they cannot help her, “This is a battle I must fight on my own”. Ethan says he refuses to leave her, and Malcolm says he will not lose another daughter. Sembene presses Vanessa to tell them what the creatures were. She says they were Nightcomers, witches.

39:30 We see Madame Kali’s castle, and hear her singing as she bathes in blood. The scene then transitions to Kali meeting with the other witches in their own drawing room. Madame Kali is obviously the leader of the group. She kisses Hecate, and expresses disappointment in the defeat of the other witches during the carriage attack. Hecate says she should have gone, but Kali says it was her own fault for underestimating the situation. Kali says she is concerned about “the man”, referring to Ethan. Hecate calls him “Lupus dei”. Kali tasks Hecate with dealing with Ethan, and says she will deal with Vanessa herself. One of the other witches asks for another chance, telling her that Vanessa spoke the Verbis Diablo. This prompts Kali to tell the story of the Roman General who began the tradition of Memento Mori. She then slits the witch’s throat with a razor ring.

44:47 Ethan and Malcolm watch Vanessa ascend the stairs to her room. Ethan says that he has seen that look in her eyes before, after a battle. Malcolm says Vanessa will talk to them in her own time, and Ethan informs Malcolm that he will be staying with them in the guest room.

45:38 Victor races home to catch the brewing storm to bring Brona back to life. In a dramatic scene, John Clare helps Victor to bring Brona back to life. She raises out of the tub and stares at the two men. They stare back.

49:43 Vanessa and Ethan share a small moment in the hallways before each retreat to their respective rooms. In her room, Vanessa gets two candles and a knife from her dresser. She then sits on the floor, and cuts her thumb, using the blood to draw a scorpion on the floor. She begins to prey in Latin. The scene transition to Madame Kali putting a cross of blood on her forehead and praying to Lucifer. Kali begins to speak the Verbis Diablo, and the praying of the two women begins to overlap. It is then revealed that Vanessa is surrounded by 3 witches.

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