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Not
this again — Roxanne continues to try to
trap Jez, but I can't be bothered to recap it. Well, it
is sort of funny when she makes up a story about staying
with a family who wanted to shag her — including
the mother, who was "surprisingly supple for a woman
of her age."
Nearly
there — Ella wakes Cassie, who's been sleeping
in the hexagram. That sounds nice — I think I'll
chalk up one of my own. Anyway, Ella says the ritual must
take place at midnight, on consecrated ground (thus Jez's
church), and that Ella herself will do the deed. Good,
because the demon-kid is still playing golden child with
Cassie, and doing a very convincing job of it. Thelma
(who's gone out to get milk) comes back, and Malachi promptly
levitates the milk carton. Cassie begins to wonder whether
she can go through with it, but Ella says she must —
she's Azazeal's whore.
Thelma:
"Don't worry. It's, like, affectionate?"
Ella
storms off somewhere. Cassie tells Thelma that she slept
with Azazeal. "What, today?!" says Thelma (along
with "I knew you would, you slag! Sorry, that was
affectionate.") Cassie says a part of her still loves
him, and another part still wants him.
Cassie:
"I don't expect you to understand: you have
to have been there."
Thelma: "Oh, I've been there."
Yeah.
In fact, she's still there.
And there's Azazeal: outside, that is; but by the time
Thelma calls Cassie to the window to see, Azazeal has
gone. Cassie's looking very stressed, so Thelma offers
to curl up with her in the hexagram, even though they
can't touch. Awww.
The
church — Ella's lighting candles and looking
stern. She hears noises, and tells whatever it is not
to fuck with her.
Oops
— Thelma wakes up to the sound of footsteps.
She assumes it's Azazeal, but it's Ella, who's not too
happy to see that Malachi is no longer in the hexagram.
They
conclude that Malachi must have just wandered off, since
Azazeal couldn't enter the hexagram. Thelma and Ella set
out to find the demon spawn. They hear a noise and hide
in a broom closet; Thelma assumes that the noises were
only George the porter. But as they wait, George the porter
falls between them, dead. This show is developing a sort
of redshirt
pattern: first Felix, now George. Only instead of a red
shirt, the sign of doom is a polite, trusting manner.
So
close — The door to Cassie's room creaks
open: it's Malachi. But he's having too much fun exploring,
so he closes the doors again and toddles off. Cassie thinks
for a bit, and then steps out of the hexagram and follows
him.
Malachi
stops at the top of a staircase; there on the landing
is Azazeal. Cassie snatches Malachi up and, seeing Azazeal,
runs back to her room. She runs awfully slowly, but I
ought to know better than to expect realism at this point.
Azazeal
doesn't even run; he just saunters. He sees a pile of
blankets and pillows on the floor and assumes Cassie's
in there somewhere, but in clearing it all away, he puts
himself smack in the middle of the hexagram.
Ella
comes back (what timing) and sends Cassie out of the room
so she can laugh at poor trapped Azazeal. He rambles on
about how he and Cassie are destined to be together. Or
he might be reciting his shopping list: I seem to lose
my hearing when he speaks.
Ella's
room — Cassie's still oohing and ahhing
over her golden child and saying he deserves a chance;
he might invent penicillin one day. Thelma notes that
that's been done. Ella comes back and tells them to hurry
up, but Cassie's resisting. Ella insists that the thoughts
going through Cassie's mind are not her own; they've been
put there, and you can guess by whom. (Well, she says
"by who," but I can't tolerate that.)
I
want to break free — Azazeal does some sort
of stern-faced thing that helps him dissolve the hexagram
and step out into the sun. Well, except it's nighttime.
Anyway.
The
church — Ella is ready to kebab the baby.
Cassie's still ready to raise him up to be Alexander Fleming.
Azazeal joins the party and sweet-talks Cassie as Ella
mumbles some arcana. At the last moment, Cassie falls
forward, shielding her son, and meets the dagger.
As
Cassie dies, Thelma reaches for her, but Cassie is already
off in a shimmer of CGI dust. Thelma mouths "I love
you" as Cassie goes.
Azazeal
takes his son and marches off.
NEXT WEEK ON HEX: Ella and Thelma
set a trap; Ella and Leon get kinky; Cassie and Thelma
appear to be dangerously close to kissing.
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