01x07 - Tessa

[bunniefuu]

I have in my hands the heart of a witch!

[CHEERING]

There's a whole group of
them posting about witches.

ROWAN: Leave me alone.

Tell him what you
want. He's part of you.

- I want him gone.
- CIPRIEN: If I can understand

how the connection between
Lasher and the family began,

then I have a better
chance of ending it.

[CHANTING]

All of this to be rid of me? Yes.

The object of the ceremony
is to transfer the power

to a female next of kin.

Am I a witch?

You're my witch.

[RAIN PATTERING]

Arjuna!

Can you hear me?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Anyone!

♪

Arjuna!

Get me out of here!

[INSECTS CHIRPING]

[GASPS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[GASPS, EXHALES HEAVILY]

[GASPS]

[GASPS]

[LIQUID RIPPLING]

♪

[GASPS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[DOG BARKING]

[PHONE BEEPS]

[TAPPING]

[LINE RINGING]

You've reached Ciprien Grieve.

Please leave a message. [LINE BEEPS]

Hey, Sip, I haven't heard from you.

Can you call me back when you get this?

It's important.

Are you there?

Did you make this happen?

♪

- [GRUNTING]
- Get off me!

Ah! What are you doing?

- Stop, please!
- Shut up!

- [SOBBING] No!
- Shut up, witch!

So what did they use?

- Duct tape?
- No! No!

Yeah, that's right.

♪

And zip ties.

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪

[GRUNTING]

♪

[GRUNTING, MUFFLED SHOUTING]

[RUSTLING]

[GRUNTING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

[EERIE MUSIC]

[VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

♪

[VOCALIZING]

♪

[SCRAPING]

When your coven gets together,

do you, like...

call the corners?

[MUFFLED SPEECH]

Come here.

Your face.

[SIGHS]

[GASPS]

[SIGHS]

W-what do you mean...
c-call the corners?

I saw it in a movie.

Do you like movies?

I'm always looking for
someone to go with me, but...

I can't go to the movies now.

[INHALES SHAKILY]

I could if you would help me.

I wonder if you would help me.

Help me open the cage.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

I'm not gonna do that.

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

[SIGHS HEAVILY]

Is there a problem?

I just... I'm just looking for Tessa.

I need to talk to her.

Aren't you supposed to be on a plane

to San Francisco by now?

I-I need her to ask
Lasher a question for me.

Please? It's important.

Fine. Wait here.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[CREAKING]

[SIGHS]

♪

[JAZZY MUSIC]

♪

You want a plate for that?

No, thank you. I'm fine.

Tessa's not in her room.

Didn't even sleep in her bed.

Are you worried?

Probably went to a
friend's. I texted her.

She'll answer when
she gets around to it.

Maybe we should check
in with her friends.

What is this "we"? There is no we.

Sorry. May I please use the bathroom?

You have no idea. My boss,
she's all over me all the time.

But I've been in the business
a lot longer than her.

But guess who makes twice as much money.

And guess who's always
leaving early for a date.

Don't you go on dates?

Nobody...

wants to swipe right on this face.

What's wrong with your face?

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Show me.

♪

Let me see you.

♪

[VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

[BOTH GASPING]

[WORDS ECHOING] You're handsome.

Anyone can see that.

I can see it.

I can see you holding the key...

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

Reaching out, using the
key to unlock the cage...

So we can be closer together.

[BOTH BREATHING SHAKILY]

[RATTLING]

Keith! Arlo wants you.

[PANTING]

[DARK MUSIC]

[BANGS]

[RATTLING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪

[COUGHING]

[PANTING]

- [SNIFFING]
- [TOILET FLUSHING]

[GROANS]

[PANTING]

[COUGHS]

[SNIFFS]

It's a big day.

Today we have a chance to get
real, solid proof of witchcraft.

An actual witch on video.

Nobody's ever caught that.

And if we get it, no more
hiding in the shadows.

We will take this
movement to the next level.

And that's not just
any tarot-card-reading

little Wiccan down there either.

That is a Mayfair.

That is a legacy witch

that our friend Keith
here introduced us to.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

She's the real deal.

♪

So, uh, how are we gonna...

The old-fashioned way, Keith.

thr*at of death.

The only thing that ever
drew the truth out of a witch.

Fire.

- We don't have the right fuel.
- Excuse me?

Lighter fluid and gasoline
is gonna leave bone behind.

Now, what we need is some thermite.

I know where to get some.

Go get it.

♪

I can do that.

Some kind of industrial building.

She saw Tessa being tied up.

They had buckets of gasoline.

She didn't come home last night.

I tried to track her.

It didn't work.

Now she's not answering her phone.

- Something's definitely wrong.
- We'll get help.

I promise. Take a breath.

- Hey, what's going on?
- We'll figure it out.

Jojo had a premonition about Tessa.

Cortland's coming.
He's picking up Alonso.

Good.

Don't worry. Alonso will find her.

How could Tessa be in trouble?

Lasher's with her.

- [GRUNTS]
- [BARS CLANGING]

[PANTS]

[CRYING]

[BARS CLANGING]

[SNIFFS, EXHALES SHARPLY]

[SNIFFS, PANTING]

♪

[CRYING]

[WHISPERING] Lasher...

Lasher.

Lasher, please...

[SNIFFLES]

Why won't you come to me?

You chose me.

[CRYING]

Wake up.

Wake up.

If you...

sound...

we can help guide you out.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

If you can hear the sound of my voice...

♪

I hear you, Arjuna.

- Please listen.
- I hear you.

We can guide you out.

Ciprien, we can try and help you.

It's Arjuna.

You are trapped in a memory.

The object that you
used to enter the memory

is no longer here with your body.

- The necklace.
- The only way out is the way you came in.

You have to find that necklace.

It is your portal.
There is no other way.

No other way apart from death.

The witch hunter.

She came to me yesterday.

She was very upset about
some guys on the Internet.

She said that they had
stolen Deirdre's heart

and she wanted to confront them.

So maybe that's what she did.

Why'd she come to you?

Because she was the designee then.

Because she had Lasher.

[SIGHS] Oh, Tessa.

This is your fault.

You should have gone to
get your own mother's heart.

I didn't ask her to do anything.

You wouldn't help
her, so she went alone,

thinking he had her back.

But he's not with her.

- He's still with you.
- He's not.

I haven't seen him since the ceremony.

Call him. Let's make sure.

When I try to speak to
him, I-I get nothing.

No response.

Call him.

Use the words.

[TENSE MUSIC]

I think that would be like
inviting him back into me.

And what if he's with
her and she needs him

and-and I call him away?

♪

Okay, forgive me.

Why are you even here?

Didn't we all just go to great lengths

so you can bail on this family?

You wanted to ask him a question, right?

What was so pressing?
What did you need to ask?

That's not important now.

Uh-uh.

She's a g*dd*mn liar.

[DOOR OPENS]

Alonso, let's set you up in the library.

- Alonso's here.
- [SIGHS]

♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

[DOG WHINING]

[SIGHS]

You can see me?

♪

[GROANING]

He's an... a scry.

[BLOOD DRIPPING]

He's found people for
the police, the FBI,

even the Talamasca.

He'll find her.

I hope I'm wrong.

But as visions go, it was very clear.

- [WHIMPERS]
- This may sting.

Could you see what time of
day it was in your vision?

You mean how much time
do we have to get to her?

I couldn't tell.

♪

Um, tell me truly, cher,

between us, um, is he with you?

No.

Ah.

If he's not with her
and he's not with you,

then, um, where is he?

I really don't know.

Was he angry with you?

Can you call him?

[GROANS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

I'm not getting anything.

It's muddy.

This happens when there
are too many blood ties.

The signal is confused.

I always said you had
too many kids, Leesh.

I'm so sorry.

Use my blood.

The way it works is close blood ties.

Use me to find my mother's heart.

I'm her only child.

And wherever that heart is,
that's where Tessa is, right?

Could that work?

Let's find out.

Help! Help!

- Help! Anybody!
- Why isn't she gagged?

Must have gotten it off somehow.

Anyone who can hear
me, please... ow, no!

No! [SCREAMING]

No!

- No, no, no. Leave
it off. Leave it off.

We can get every word on video.

What kind of magic can you do, girl?

I can't do magic. Magic isn't real.

[CHUCKLES] That's funny.

She'll show us soon enough. Come on.

No. Help!

- [GRUNTS]
- Help! Please!

No! No!

Stop! Help! Please!

Help me, Keith. Keith, this isn't you.

Please don't do this.
You don't have to do this!

[SCREAMS] Ow! Ow, ow.

No!

Can anyone hear me?

- [RESTRAINTS CLICK]
- Got her?

Can anyone hear me?

[SCREAMING] Help!

[GRUNTING]

♪

[GASPS]

How far along are you?

[GROANS]

[GROANING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[LIQUID SLOSHING]

♪

It's so clear.

The connection was strong.

She's just across the bridge

in that wild bit of Jean Lafitte.

[WHISPERING] She's pregnant.

Let's split into groups and
we'll each search an area.

Since when are you in charge?

I'm not.

But it's my fault she's out there,

and I wanna make it right.

[CROWS CAWING]

[BLEATING]

[SOFT MUSIC]

♪

[EERIE VOCALIZING]

♪

[FIRE CRACKLING]

♪

Suzanne.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

You have the necklace?

♪

[CHUCKLING]

Keep your phones on, everybody.

And please speed.

They're looking for proof.

If they find it, they
will be coming for us all.

Tessa knows that.

She would never give up the family.

- [SIGHS]
- If you get to her first,

text the thread. Do not go in alone.

We need to go in all
at once, a united front,

so this can be quick and bloodless.

Rowan. A word?

Now, cher, I know you wanna help.

But the best help you can give right now

is to call on him right here, right now,

- and let him guide you.
- I'm not gonna do that.

- I've already explained...
- No, no, no.

Think of your cousin.

I'm thinking of her. That's why...

No, no, no, listen to
me. You must call him.

Take your hands off me.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

[SIGHS] I...

What was that?

Stay with him. He needs you.

[KEYS JINGLING]

[SIGHS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

♪

[LASHER LAUGHING]

There's no way out.

You're not in a human memory.

Is this what happened to you?

Ah, you're the only person here.

This is your memory?

You lured me here, and you trapped me.

No. You did this to yourself.

Let's play a game.

[SIGHS]

Let's see what happens...

[GASPS]

If you die here, will you die there?

If you wanted me dead,

you'd have done it
weeks ago, in the house.

But you didn't.

- You let me go.
- No. She let you go.

You'd served your purpose.

[GASPS]

She's pregnant.

Then let me go to her,

take care of her.

If I've served my
purpose, why keep me here?

I am no thr*at to you, right?

She doesn't want you.

She doesn't wanna be domesticated.

Why would a lion want to be a house cat?

I would never do that to her.

Of course you would. [CHUCKLES]

You already have.

You wanna control that power.

You want to suppress her true desires,

to conform to your basic human morality.

While you force your way into her head,

force her to commit to your will.

No, I enact her wishes,
and she wishes for power.

If you're willing to give her power,

it is only because her
power will strengthen you.

Of course it will.

I am a part of her just
as she's a part of me.

We're bound together.

[SIGHS]

She doesn't see it yet, but she will.

And in her hour of greatest need,

it's me that she will call for.

What have you done?

[GRUNTS]

What do you think will
happen to you when I leave?

[DOOR CREAKING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

Will you still exist?

♪

Will any of this?

Don't let her die.

You should have stayed away.

But even as a little boy,

you couldn't help yourself, could you?

♪

You had to walk by the house.

You had to know what
was happening inside.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

Goodbye, Ciprien.

[SCREAMING]

♪

[SIGHS] Lasher...

♪

[VOICES CHANTING INDISTINCTLY]

Something's changed.

Hey.

Hey. Hey.

M-my family, we're not...

[SIGHS] We're not witches,
but we do have money.

And if you help me, I can help you.

Woman to woman.

You, uh... you know what this place is?

Mayfair Auto Parts.

Glen and me spent years here

putting car parts into cardboard.

Then you shut us down...

outsourced our jobs.

Woke up one morning,
didn't have a paycheck,

didn't have health insurance.

Our daughter Jenny
was at your hospital...

halfway through her chemotherapy.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪

I'm-I'm so sorry, but that wasn't me.

It was your family.

You profited off it, right?

Yeah.

So woman to woman...

[TENSE MUSIC]

You are on your own.

♪

[PANTING]

[GRUNTING]

♪

[JARS CLINKING]

♪

Henbane.

♪

[SIGHS]

[EERIE VOCALIZING]

[SLURPING]

[COUGHING]

♪

[GASPING]

[HIGH-PITCHED WHINING]

♪

Nice and easy. Come back nice and slow.

- [SIGHS]
- You found the necklace.

Henbane. [GASPING]

Henbane!

You d*ed in the memory?

[VOMITING]

[COUGHING]

Aw. [GRUNTS]

I have to get to... [GROANS]

I have to get to her now.

- Ciprien...
- [GROANING]

Stay here.

Thank you.

♪

What the hell came over you?

[TENSE MUSIC]

Jojo, dear, would you
get me a glass of water?

♪

[TAPPING]

[LINE RINGING]

She's pregnant.

As soon as I heard, I tried to get her

to call out to him,

but she insisted on going to the woods

to rescue her foolish cousin.

I need you to handle this.

- Now.
- I'll take care of it.

She's gone out to look for her
somewhere in the Jean Lafitte.

Hmm. I know the area.

We had eyes on an event
that may have precipitated

this unfortunate situation.

Oh, good.

But once you find her,

you do what you Talamasca do best.

I'll take it from here.

Sir...

Rowan Mayfair is in trouble.

Lasher was trying to
keep me away from her.

Um, something is happening right now,

but I don't know where.

Good thing I do. I'll drive.

♪

Turn left at the stop sign.

Turn left.

[CROW CAWING]

Is this you?

♪

[CROW CAWING]

[DISQUIETING MUSIC]

♪

Turn left.

Sir, can you go any faster?

You know, I'm impressed with you, son.

You put yourself on the line
for this case again and again.

I didn't know you possessed

this kind of commitment to the work.

I think you're ready.

- Ready for what?
- Did you know

that when the Talamasca
was a young organization,

several European chapters
had their own agents k*lled

if they failed to keep confidentiality

or demonstrated supernatural
giftedness in any public way?

k*lled.

Can you imagine? Of such priority

was the mission to hide the supernatural

from those who would condemn it...

the Church, of course, at that time,

- the Templars, certainly...
- Sir...

could you please drive a little faster?

Well, there's no need.

We're here.

We're not gonna save your
girlfriend this evening.

She's gonna save herself.

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

What is this?

If we don't get to her now,
she's gonna call down Lasher.

That's right.

- What the...
- The deep truth,

the one I want you to really hear,

is that our highest
purpose is to watch...

to make record of the
supernatural forces

that shape our world,

for such time as
action may be necessary.

Action is necessary right the f*ck now.

Change can be difficult.

You've gotten caught up in this.

You need to step back.

To watch, Ciprien, that's our job.

You're in this with Lasher.

You're a part of this.

If she makes the choice

that we believe she's gonna make,

she's about to fulfill
a very old prophecy.

And a new era will begin.

What prophecy?

What are you talking about?

What's going to happen to her?

♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪

Damn it!

Wait! No, stop.

Please don't do this.

Don't do this. I'm not a witch.

Keith...

Keith, look at me.
I... I-I'm not a witch.

Please, I'm just a girl.

All set?

Don't you see there's no way...

there is no way for me to prove

- I'm not what you think I am.
- Shh, shh.

[LIGHTER CLICKS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

We're gonna give you one
chance to do the right thing.

♪

Show us your magic.

♪

I'm not a witch.

You're making a mistake.

You're lying.

We all heard you call out to
someone out in those woods.

- That was a prayer my mother taught me.
- Oh, a prayer?

Good. Well, if you worship
God, then come clean.

[SIGHS]

♪

No!

It doesn't prove
anything! I'm begging you.

Please.

All right, that's it.

You're giving us no other choice.

♪

All right, do it.

No!

[SOBS]

[GROANING]

- Rodney?
- What the hell?

[GRUNTING]

♪

[GRUNTING]

Ahh, it's her!

She's doing it. She's doing it!

Arlo...

[GROANS]

Help me...

I never wanted any of this.

♪

Ahh! No, please!

[COUGHING] No!

♪

[g*nsh*t]

- [GRUNTS]
- No!

[SOBBING]

- [GASPING]
- Rowan, get up!

I can't breathe! Hurry!

[SOBBING]

No! Get up!

Rowan, please hurry!

Hurry! I can't breathe!

Tessa...

- [GASPING]
- Tessa...

[COUGHING]

- I got you.
- [COUGHING]

Come on.

Thank you. Thank you.

This is... [COUGHS] This is yours.

Take it, please.

f*cking witch!

[g*nsh*t]

- [BOTH GRUNT]
- [g*n CLICKING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Tessa.

♪

- Tessa.
- Don't let him get away.

♪

Tessa. Tessa!

♪

No. Tessa.

[FIRE CRACKLING]

Mi Daemon, ad me veni!

Mi Daemon, mihi labora!

Mi Daemon, me libera!

[GOAT'S "LET IT BURN"]

♪ The sky lights up once again ♪

♪ Like sunrise rode at his fall ♪

♪ You know this ♪

♪

♪ You showed me ♪

♪ It's that time once again ♪

♪

♪ When plants reflect in your eyes ♪

♪ You know it ♪

On the next episode
of "Mayfair Witches"...

♪

Find him!

♪

I'm trying to get in touch
with my brother Ciprien.

There's nobody here by that name.

♪

Rowan.

What's going on?

Come.

[GRUNTS]

♪

♪

CIPRIEN: Arjuna!

Can you hear me?

SPALDING: Cip has no idea
what's happening to him.

He's never touched something
and gone into the memory.

It's really terrifying

to still be here, to
not be able to get out.

He can't get himself back to reality.

Arjuna!

Get me out of here!

And he's seen what Lasher
has done to this village,

the flames that have consumed it.

SPALDING: He knows that in
some way, the state he's in,

and this village, is due to Lasher.

And I think he knows that some
things can interact with him.

You can see me?

Florie and Suzanne are harbingers

of Lasher being in this world.

It's Lasher who's
allowing them to see him.

It's Lasher whose memory he's in,

and it's not operating like

the kind of memory that he's used to.

[LAUGHING]

- [GASPS]
- [CLICKING TONGUE]

You lured me here.

And you trapped me.

No.

You did this to yourself.

Cip really has absolutely
no way to combat Lasher.

Let's see what happens.

[GASPS, SHUDDERS]

If you die here...

will you die there?

[SHAKILY] If you wanted me dead,

you'd have done it
weeks ago, in the house.

But you didn't.

You let me go.

Shelet you go.

You'd served your purpose.

Cip thinks that Lasher
is absolutely evil,

that Lasher is controlling Rowan's mind,

manipulating Rowan.

Forced your way into her head.

Force her to commit to your will.

No, I enact her wishes.

And she wishes for power.

If you're willing to give her power,

it is only because her
power will strengthen you.

Of course it will.

I am a part of her, just
as she's a part of me.

We're bound together.

And in her hour of greatest need,

it's me that she'll call for.

And that infuriates Cip.

He thinks, you know, you're
letting her get in trouble,

you're letting her be in danger

so that she will need you.

I find this scene really interesting.

It's two men talking about
what's best for a woman.

Goodbye, Ciprien.

♪

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

[GASPS]

♪

[INHALES DEEPLY]

SPALDING: When she
finds out she's pregnant,

she calls Cip immediately.

She knows this is Cip's baby.

CIPRIEN: Please leave a message.

[BEEP] Hey. Cip.

I haven't heard from
you. Can you call me back

when you get this? It's important.

SPALDING: If you take the position that

everything happening in the
house was Lasher's doing,

Rowan is getting pregnant in that house

because it was Lasher's will.

ROWAN: Are you there?

♪

Did you make this happen?

So her next move is to try to
see if Tessa can talk to him

and get an answer.

♪

Tessa's not in her room.

Didn't even sleep in her bed.

Are you worried?

She'll answer when
she gets around to it.

Maybe we should check
in with her friends.

Who is this "we"? There is no "we."

She has a little instinct.

"Is it strange that Tessa's not here?

Shouldn't we call her friends?"

She knows that Tessa was
on a crusade the day before

about Deirdre's heart, so
she's worried about Tessa.

She knows that Tessa had that necklace

and might be motivated
to do something foolish.

- [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
- Hey.

What's going on?

Jojo had a premonition about Tessa.

They start to put together

exactly what could've happened to Tessa.

♪

I really wanted to pursue the idea

of what would a witch hunter
look like in our world.

Today we have a chance
to get real, solid proof

of witchcraft.

SPALDING: They feel that
they aren't empowered,

and so they're choosing
witches as the ones to blame.

We will take this
movement to the next level.

That is a Mayfair.

That is a legacy witch
that our friend Keith here

introduced us to.

SPALDING: These people
do feel disenfranchised,

so they have a reason
to be angry at them,

and now they've put on top of that

this whole notion about witchcraft.

♪

[GROANS]

I think Rowan feels very, very guilty

about what's happened to Tessa.

Tessa came to her and said,
"Please use your power,"

and Rowan walked away.

I'm not getting anything.

Rowan has learned that
she cares about this family

and is connected to this family.

Use my blood.

It's really the first
declaration like that

in the show, where she sees herself

and declares herself to
be part of the family.

Could that work?

Let's find out.

TESSA: Please! No!

[CHUCKLES LIGHTLY]

[SOBS]

[GROANING]

Lonnie?

SPALDING: Rowan hears Tessa scream

and knows she has to go
in without the family.

♪

[GROANING]

They've all said, "Wait.
let's make this bloodless.

Let's go together."

She can't wait. She has to go.

She knows she has powers.

She knows she can do what she has to do.

She's gonna k*ll them if she needs to.

She's got to save Tessa.
There's no question.

[GASPING] Take it. Please.

f*cking witch!

[g*nsh*t]

♪

And it's then that Rowan decides
she wants her full witchy power.

[GASPING]

SPALDING: The moment
that Rowan calls to Lasher

is a moment where she decides
that she wants vengeance.

It's a moment of real
fury and destruction.

She is going to pursue
Keith and use Lasher

and she is gonna bring him down.

[SHOUTING IN LATIN]

♪