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    Witches of East End 2.04 “The Brothers Grimoire” Recap

    Shilo AdamsBy Shilo AdamsJul 27, 2014No Comments11 Mins Read
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    witches of east endTommy takes Wendy out for a picnic of beer a bratwurst, only for a rat to climb on top of his shoulder and ruin the mood. Wendy takes the rat, sinks her claws into it, and throws it, sending it running back into the bushes and her mind into overdrive due to the sense that she got that this was no ordinary rat. Meanwhile, Ivar and Isis, the latter of whom transformed into the rat that Wendy saw, hold Victor in their secret lair, with the former texting Joanna as Victor to tell her that he’ll be coming home the following day. Ivar then licks the wound on Isis’ leg shut, just as Ingrid expresses her guilt over keeping Dash and Killian in the dark regarding their power. Dash doesn’t care, though, because she was there for him when he needed her with the dead body.

    The next morning, Joanna uses reverse psychology to urge an apprehensive Wendy to keep pursuing a relationship with Tommy, who wants a do over of their botched date. Over at the Gardiner estate, Dash and Killian have their catch-up chat interrupted by the arrival of Penelope’s lawyer Mr. Shane and his bringing over their inheritance. Rather than a will reading or any straight cash payout, their inheritance comes in the form of an ancient puzzle that lights up when the two put their hands on it. The container opens up after both brothers touch it and reveals a piece of paper with the Latin phrase Seguere Vestigia (or Follow the Trail) written on it. Not knowing what it could mean or what trail they would be following, the two then reveal to the other that Eva, Freya, and Ingrid are all witches, with Dash stumping for the latter after she volunteered to help him learn to control his powers.

    Ivar uses Isis and her love for lingchi (or Death by a Thousand Cuts) to threaten Victor regarding the location of the portal key. All the two want is to be able to go home to Asgard, yet when they learn from Joanna’s text that Frederick is alive, they decide to stay behind and “catch up” with their former friend. At the Bent Elbow, a round of darts forces Wendy to use her magic and inadvertently leads to her throwing a dart into Tommy’s back; she then quietly uses her magic again to heal his wound, though not even a punctured back can force him out of her life just yet. Ivar and Isis make it to the bar and run into Freya, who they claim used to run with them and Frederick, referring to their crew as a “wild bunch.” However, most of the stories they tell have to do with Frederick’s rebelliousness and how dangerous he was back in the day. When Freya sees Ivar and Isis, twin siblings like she and Frederick, make out, she pulls her brother aside and urges him to make them leave. He tells Freya that the clan Ivar and Isis are from is the lowest in all of Asgard before going back to the bar and learning that Ivar has Victor locked away in an undisclosed location.

    Not to be outdone, Isis follows Freya to the back room and uses a puff of smoke to knock her out. Meanwhile, Dash and Killian say the phrase on the paper together and watch as the paper flies to a nearby board that it brands with a particular symbol. When the brothers pry the board from the attic floor, they find their family grimoire, which they use to cast a protection spell over them; the spell involves a drop of blood, wine, candles, and a pentagram and though the two feel no difference at first, Dash puts his arm over a flame and feels no pain. Killian isn’t so lucky, as he burns himself on the flame and coughs up a tooth immediately after. By the side of the road, Wendy watches as Tommy tries to change the flat tire that they got some time after he accidentally bumped into her and caused her to drop her phone into the water. While waiting, Wendy causes a car that was witches of east endbarreling toward them to swerve out of the way, a near death experience that causes Tommy to confess that he’s, in fact, died before. On a medical tour in Fallujah, Iraq, when he was shot and brought back to life by a needle full of adrenaline by a fellow medic. Ever since then, he’s not let simply existing be enough and Wendy kisses him when hearing the passion in which he speaks.

    Back at the bar, Ivar tosses a dart at Frederick and freezes time, taunting the Beauchamp brother with his powers and demanding the key so he and Isis can go back to Asgard. When Frederick nonchalantly mentions that he doesn’t have it and couldn’t open it even if he did, Ivar reveals that they have Freya and there are only two hours left until she dies. Dash calls Ingrid at the library, frantic regarding Killian’s deteriorating condition, and though Ingrid promises to be on her way, she ends up walking out of the library in a hypnotic trance and finding the Sex Monster in the middle of the woods. The two have sex, of course, and she wakes up with deep cuts on her back, as well as many text messages from Dash. While Joanna forces Frederick to confess about Ivar and Isis and attempts to force him to stay home, Freya ends up tied up beside Victor, with Isis all over her and telling her just how violent her brother was back in Asgard.

    Just then, Joanna busts into the lair and uses her magic to knock Isis away from Freya. Isis then starts a nearby hourglass before turning into a rat and leaving; though Freya wants to leave, if she stands up, the explosives she’s sitting on will detonate and kill them all. Ingrid makes it to the Gardiner house and heals Dash’s broken rib, but she doesn’t have the power to fix a spell like this, one that takes power from one entity and gives it to another. However, she can reverse it with some help. At the library, where Frederick and Ivar planned to meet, Frederick arrives with a spell book that he claims will open the portal to Asgard. It turns out, though, that he uses Ivar’s fear of snakes to summon a serpent that attacks his former friend. With the venom coursing through Ivar’s system, Frederick tells him that he and Isis knew what he was capable of before snapping his friend’s neck for coming after his family. As a kiss between Wendy and Tommy nearly turns deadly due to his peanut allergy and her need for a snack, Ingrid has Dash cut himself and chant and Killian place his hand on the blood for the original spell to reverse. It does end up reversing and Killian is as good as new.

    In the lair, Joanna tries six different spells to stop the hourglass, only for the sand to run through it quicker. Freya tries to encourage her mother and Victor to leave without her, as she’ll just be reborn anyway; Victor, however, isn’t having any of that and forces Joanna to do a spell that will switch him and his daughter places. He figures that his wounds wouldn’t heal anyway and Freya needs the chance to live as long as she can, so after some final goodbyes, Joanna ends up doing the spell and getting out of the room before the sand runs out, the explosives go off, and Victor dies. While Tommy promises to call Wendy, as he loves how their connection makes him feel alive, Dash and Killian place the grimoire back in the floorboards, with the latter mentioning that he’s going to talk to Eva about staying in town longer. Once they go to thank Ingrid, Dash notices the bloody marks on her back and when he takes a closer look, she comes clean about not knowing where they came from and the fact that she’s losing chunks of time fairly regularly.

    At the Beauchamp home, Joanna refuses to be with Frederick, citing his indirect role in Victor’s death, while Killian shows up at the Bent Elbow to confront Freya, only to comfort her when he learns about Victor, and Frederick gets bumped into on the street. Rather than look over it, he turns into the Sex Monster and kills the inconsiderate guy responsible.

    Additional thoughts and observations:
    -Shout out to Witches of East End for making me feel things this season. Last season had some powerful moments, but in four episodes, we’ve had Wendy and Joanna’s conversation about the latter being ready to die and Joanna and Freya being forced to say goodbye to Victor after his ultimate sacrifice. I think Victor was a perfect candidate for a Big Death, as we know enough about him for the death to have an impact and his death can do a lot to shake up the Beauchamps without fundamentally changing the identity of the show.
    -So, I kind of thought that Wendy was behind the continual bad luck that she and Tommy faced on their dates. Not the first appearance of Isis, but everything else just seemed like her trying to sabotage things so that her decision to end their fledgling relationship before it got started was more valid. We know that Wendy is hesitant about opening herself up emotionally and even though she and Tommy have a banter between them, she’s got too much on her mind to think about love right now. But maybe this is exactly what she needs, someone to let her live and connect rather than worry about losing her final life. Their subplot in “The Brothers Grimoire” was a cutely comedic alternative to the heavier stuff the other Beauchamps were dealing with, except that I liked the emotional underpinning that held it together. It was fluffy, but it had some heart and said something about the show’s best character, so it was a welcome addition.
    -I really hope that Frederick is, in fact, the Sex Monster and that what we saw in the closing moments isn’t a fake out. I know that the show won’t address the issues of consent that are out there, but I hope that the Twincest in the episode was a primer for the revelation that Frederick is openly and knowingly boning his sister in the woods while looking like something from Avatar. But if Frederick is the Sex Monster, could he not know that he’s turning into that form of himself? Could he be experiencing the same type of blackouts that Ingrid was, since the only time we’ve seen the Sex Monster in captivity is after he got upset?
    -I like it when the show lets Joanna be the Boss Witch that every stranger we encounter claims her to be. She’s often in the caretaker/worried mother role and while that makes sense considering the curse and Wendy’s low amount of lives and all the threats facing the Beauchamps, it’s fun to see the straight-laced one let loose.
    -We never learned where Isis and Ivar were keeping Victor, which I thought was a bit strange. I figured there’d be an expository line, since we’re in season two and the town’s geography is at least somewhat familiar, but the location was kept secret, even from the audience.
    -I really liked everything with Ivar and Isis. Not only did we get a glimpse at the type of people populating Asgard, we were clued in on who Frederick was all those years ago and it’s now set up that Asgard isn’t necessarily out of play, that there can be former residents lurking in East End. I was a little confused as to when Ivar and Isis were banished and how the portal was opened for them without the king or an assassin coming through to go after the Beauchamps, though. The Saved by the Bell parlor trick that Ivar did was a little silly, but silly in a Witches of East End way, which is totally acceptable.
    -What they’re doing with Frederick is also interesting, in that the family has backed away from him due to his betrayal and violent nature and now, they’re got something of an attack dog in him. Will Frederick’s negative qualities look a lot more positive if they’re used to benefit the family? Or will his role in getting Victor killed cancel out any good will that his abilities might rustle up?
    -Dash and Killian hiding the grimoire – definitely a Chekhov’s Grimoire, right? Over/under on how long it takes one of them to reach back for it, possibly to use against the other? I give it three episodes before we’re up in the attic again, especially if Ingrid looks into her sleepwalking and doesn’t find anything in her own grimoire.
    -If Wendy can tell which animals are real and which are magic, can other magical beings tell that Wendy-as-a-cat isn’t a real cat?
    –Witches of East End won’t be airing next week, but on August 10th, Freya relives one of her past lives with Killian, while Dash conducts a spell without realizing its consequences.

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