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Cursed — Malachi and Leon are playing football, and a few random girls (including Ella) are watching. Ella and Malachi flirt some more, in a way that begins to make me feel ill, but then Ella begins to break out in boils. Yes, boils: great scary ones on her forehead.

Ella takes to her bed. Her mobile rings (see, I'm getting smarter: it's a mobile, not a cell); it's Malachi, asking if she'll join him for a drink in the deer park. She agrees, but as soon as she gets there, she turns and runs off, because the boils have multiplied. Well, what did you expect? As I once learned from a crappy little movie called Bar Girls, it's not wise to fuck your enemies. Bad things happen.

Malachi knocks on Ella's door, but she's too busy scratching and falling apart. Oh my, the boils are on her hands now too. Apparently you really do get cooties when you kiss a boy.

Somewhere in the night — Ella stomps along, holding a veil to her face. Raphael the taxi driver/archangel/guy with extreme accent shows up to state the obvious:

Raphael: "Malachi."
Ella: "Now why would Malachi do this to me?"
Raphael: "He's not doing it to you. You're doing it to yourself."

Raphael says this is the price Ella has to pay for straying from her path, and that it really is "some sort of biblical plague." Well, duh!

"Control this shameful lust!" says Raphael. Yes, and also? Save the world like you were meant to. Thanks.

Something you'd never see on American TV — We're in the dining hall. Thelma's on a table, on her back, giving directions like "just a little to the left," and if you're me, you'll assume the camera's going to pan up to reveal something that's not actually sex, but you'd be wrong! There's Maya, wiping her mouth and saying "It's addictive, this." Yes, isn't it just? Oh, but she means the exhibitionism.

Maya: "Imagine if they could see us."
Thelma: "They'd all need bibs if they could."

But then Thelma notices that some sort of Malachi-like tattoo has sprung up on Maya's neck. She pretends it's just a love bite, but uh oh.

Malachi's room — Ella watches and listens from one of the secret corridors as Mephistopheles tells Malachi that their desires are "an abomination." Yeah yeah, we've all heard that before. But this time it seems to actually be true.

Leon's room — Raphael is there to give advice, but Leon isn't receptive. But Raphael promises Ella will "come home" if Leon plays along. Never mind that Raphael doesn't even know where Ella is.

The curse continues — As Malachi shaves, his vision goes a bit blurry, and then suddenly Thelma is there. She wants to know what the mark on Maya's neck means. He says it means Malachi. For a moment it's like that Malkovich Malkovich scene, as Malachi keeps repeating his own name, but then he explains that the mark means Maya is "property of Malachi." Well, that sucks.

Malachi says he doesn't make the rules; the universe does. Yeah, but who's exploiting those rules, hmm?

Thelma goes downstairs (in her fab Converse), and hears Ella calling to her. She finally makes her way to the secret corridor/cellar/whatever, and is of course appalled by what she sees.

Thelma: "What happened??"
Ella: "It's complicated."
Thelma: "Well, there's a surprise."

Poor Ella. Well, no: she's brought it on herself. Meanwhile, outside, Malachi's still going blind. That's what happens to self-abusers, buddy.

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