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Not a good day to die — Maya says it's all getting weird; it's as if Thelma's waiting for something. Thelma tells her to go on ahead and she'll catch up later.

Thelma goes to Ella's room to see what's up. Ella returns from her failed mission and tells them the knife broke.

Thelma: "I'm meant to be dead. I'm not dead. I'm going insane."

She accuses Ella of not trying hard enough and stomps away.

Fine, but could you put a shirt on in the meantime? — Malachi struts around and says he's going to kill Ella. Jo tells him he's getting stronger and suggests that instead of killing Ella, he might want to corrupt everything around her. She says "that would be a fate worse than death" just as she unzips Malachi's trousers, and I doubt that's a coincidence.

Now that's evil — In the dining hall, Maya introduces Thelma to a "new ghost" she's found. It's Malachi. Well, crap.

Giles would have worked this out hours ago — Ella finds something in a book that helps her understand why Malachi's so strong now: he's feeding off his succubi. Aren't we all?

Ella: "We can get at Malachi by getting at his succubi."

Stop rhyming, dammit!

All this rhyming makes me hungry — Ella goes to the dining hall, where she sees Maya and Malachi being friends, and sees that the mark on Maya's neck is back. Perfect.

Thelma finds Ella on the big staircase — well, first she overhears Ella telling Leon that Malachi has Thelma over a barrel — and whines that Malachi's being a "real asshole." It's funny; suddenly Thelma seems like a 17-year-old grumbling about someone she goes to school with. And of course that's the point.

Two more victims to add to the list — Alex tells Tom he's got to get in touch with his inner feelings and figure out what his heart's desire is. I begin to suspect that his heart's desire is Leon. Meanwhile, Roxanne (who's suddenly looking like the picture of Christian propriety) offers to meet Malachi in his room later to help him with what ails him. Wake up, fools!

Another bench — I probably haven't really said so, but Thelma's been doing an awful lot of pondering on benches. In fact, she never does anything but ponder when she's on a bench, nor does she ever do any pondering away from a bench. It's nice when you get these helpful little visual cues, isn't it? And it saves the actors a lot of effort.

Malachi shows up and says he can see why Thelma likes Maya -- "or do you love her?" Bastard. He tells Thelma he needs her to find out what Ella's planning. She tells him to go screw himself. Yes, she really does!

Spiritual — Roxanne and Malachi meditate, which kind of makes me giggle.

Roxanne: "You know, I understand you Malachi. I know where you're coming from, because I've been there myself."
Malachi: "From hell?"

And more giggling from me. What? These two are supposed to annoy, not amuse.

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