04x12 - The Witching Hour Part 1

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You're sure your parents don't mind?
There's just me and my dad.

Hover! Mildred...
Hover!

If you can't reboot your magic,
you'll never get back into Cackle's.

You need your grounding stone.

Where did you get this?
A girlfriend, in Morocco.

What was her name, this girlfriend?
Hubble. Julie Hubble.

This is my grounding stone.

My magic's back!

Woohoo!

BIRDS CAW

And as head girl, I would like to
thank you all for making this

so much more
than I have ever dreamed of.

ALL: I swear to do my witching duty,

By witches' code, I shall abide.

Respect our magic's power
and beauty.

Serve the great and good with pride.

The Witch's Promise.

Those special words remind us to be
the very best witches we can be.

It's been a long, hard battle,

but today, we find a new head girl.

THEY MURMUR

There are always other schools,
for me, I suppose.

Just none of them will be
the esteemed Cackle's Academy.

Poor Mr Daisy.

I wish we could do something
to cheer him up.

Uh, guys, am I really hearing this?

We are witches, aren't we?

Are we not standing next to
a potion engine?

What are you suggesting?
Come on! A happiness potion.

MACHINE HISSES AND WHIRS

Which brings us to our
final challenge - spell design.

Without further ado...

..Ethel.

APPLAUSE

HE SNIFFS

HE SIGHS HAPPILY

Colours that hide in sunlight clear

Across this room,
they will now appear.

ETHEREAL MUSIC

Truly ingenious.

And now, Mildred.

Ooh! This is going to be good.

Oh, Miss Cackle,
could I borrow your glasses, please?

I suppose so, Mildred.

Thank you.

Why do I need a pair of glasses,
you may ask? Um...

Well, I was trying to think of
a useful spell, and...

GLASSES CRUNCH, THEY GASP

Perfectly good spectacles will now
be thrown into Vanishment!

Ooh!

Can't we just magically repair them,
Miss Hardbroom?

It is notoriously difficult
to create a spell

with the requisite precision
to mend broken things.

Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No.

What if we never had to throw
anything away again? Mildred Hu...

POTION HISSES AND BUBBLES

Like cinders changed back into coal

Like ancient horse once more a foal

Like barley stalk returned to grain

Make this object whole again!

WINDS HOWL

APPLAUSE

We've seen two wonderful spells.

Both were worthy,

but the winner,
and our new head girl,...

..is...

..Mildred Hubble.

Wahey! Woo! Yay!

Oh, my glasses.
Oh, sorry!

MISS CACKLE CHUCKLES

SHE SIGHS

WIND BLOWS

GIRLS SCREAM
Miss Cackle!

The spell! Say your spell!

Like barley stalk returned to grain

Make this object whole again!

Make this object whole again!

Out. Everybody out!

Move aside!

Hear this now, as I implore

Our beloved mistress
to form restore.

SPELL FADES OUT

I can't believe it.
Oh, cheer up, chuckle chops!

Hey, who's for a game of witchball?!

Er, let's go, Mr Daisy.

Uh, it's the... It's the shock!

HE CHUCKLES

Feel the power of my command

Ada Cackle, before me, stand

With... With... With all
the master of my craft, I...

PIECES CRASH

I... I don't understand.

I... I...

See what you've done,
Mildred Hubble?

See what you've done?

Come on, Felicity.

I changed the future.
Millie?

I caused the disaster
instead of Ethel. Maud, it was me!

Mildred Hubble, causing irreversible
harm to another witch

carries the strongest penalty.

Miss Hardbroom, I'll fix it.

I will hear nothing more from you.

I should've stopped you long ago.

The only place for you now
is the correctional school

for undesirable witches...

..Wormwood.

You can't. Not Wormwood. Please!

I'll call your mum...my mum,
the Great Wizard. They'll stop this.

Maud, stop.

Miss Cackle is in a million pieces.

This is what I deserve.

Tabby! Star-Star!

DISTORTED LAUGHTER

Um... That's my spell book.
I need that.

But my broom...

What is that badge?

Oh... Nothing.

Hey, we've got us a head girl here.

I'm not a head girl.

We don't like head girls.

We don't like them at all.

That cactus is over-watered.

I can tell from...

I can tell from the soil.
It's going to rot from the roots up.

Rot?

Well...a girl in my year's
a green witch.

I've learned quite a lot from her,
actually.

You're k*lling it with kindness.
Honestly.

Lose the badge.

FROM TABLET: Like cinders changed
back into coal...

Is it true?
Mildred's been sent to Wormwood?

Not for long. Not if I can help it.

Look - the magic begins a moment
before Mildred completes the spell.

She thinks faster than she talks?

No. Another spell cast
at the same time.

No wonder Mil couldn't reverse it.

You mean someone else turned
Miss Cackle into glass?

But not Ethel.

Then who? And why?

We'll worry about that later.

First we tell HB.
Mildred's innocent.

But Miss Hardbroom, we have proof.

It can't have been Mildred.
You have to bring her back.

Mildred Hubble is the perpetrator.

Mildred Hubble is ALWAYS
the perpetrator.

Now leave.

I said...

..leave.

Did I tell you to come over,
head girl?

Shouldn't we be learning magic?

What you learn here is
how to make potion bottles,

pick ingredients and clean cauldrons
all for other witches to use.

But we're witches.

I thought I could do anything
with my magic, me.

If I wanted to borrow
my sister's party cape,

I'd just transport it
out of her wardrobe.

Our Miranda got so mad, she ripped
it up rather than let me wear it.

That's when I transformed her.

Transformed her? Into what?

Oh!

And you couldn't reverse it?

I only get one sh*t.

If I get it wrong,
she sticks this way forever.

And you never even tried?

You've not met Miss Splinter yet,
have you?

She's in charge.

I only ever learned one thing
from her. You will too.

We're the worst witches there are.

Miss Hardbroom, you must listen.
Mildred was framed.

This subject is closed.
The subject is not closed!

You stubborn, narrow-minded,
bad-tempered...

Maud Spellbody,
go to your hutch now.

Mildred was framed.

I said now.

Do you want to join your friend
in Wormwood?

CAT MEOWS

Tabby, you naughty cat!

Were you hiding in my backpack?

You'd better not let Splinter see.

Familiars aren't allowed.

I'm not letting anyone take Tabby.

Stand by your beds!

I'm telling you, for you own good,
don't cross Splinter.

Year 4. My least favourite year.

Bed unmade, Lyla Grew -
two demerits.

Sloppy shoe-polishing,
Maya Langhar - one demerit.

Non-regulation hairstyle...

Ah, yes, the new girl.

Three demerits for each pigtail.

I do hope you've settled in.

Any questions?

Actually... Well, the answer's no!

MOCKING TONE: "Can I perform magic?"

No!

"Can I call my mummy?"

No!

"If I behave,
can I go back to my old school?"

No!

And why is that, Year 4?

MEEKLY: We're the worst witches.
I can't hear you!

LOUDER: We're the worst witches.

Correct.

And don't forget it!

SHE SNIFFS

Do I smell a living creature?

I've told you time and again,
Camilla Clove.

If you won't keep it
in the greenhouse,

it stays in my office.

No, you can't...
Are you arguing with me?

You know what happens to girls
who argue with me.

They go to the Room Of Itches
That Cannot Be Scratched.

No, not again!

In!

Or do you want double time?

GHOULISH ROARS

SHE YELLS

For the benefit of the new girl,

in the Room Of Itches That
Cannot Be Scratched,

one second feels like an hour,

one minute feels like a day,

one hour, a whole week.

If you want to avoid it,

you'll be a good bad witch.

I wanna par-tay!

No! Mr Daisy!

If HB sees you like this,
you really will be finished.

HE CHUCKLES

Er... A little help!

MACHINE SPUTTERS

Oh, no!

What have you done?!

Just tried to programme
a reversal potion.

I thought it would be easy!

You could offer a hand, Mr...!

Er... Where did he go?

You shouldn't be here.
TABBY MEOWS

It's my fault.

Trying to be
the best witch at Cackle's,

and this is where it got me.

Bottom of the heap.

DOOR THUDS

Camilla, are you all right?

Maud?

Shh! You're innocent, Mil.

I'm going to get you out of here.

Miss Cackle was the best teacher
I've ever known.

She inspired me to be my best self.

I could've never
become Ethel's deputy otherwise.

It's going to be a long...

HE PLAYS JOLLY TUNE ON KAZOO

Who's up for a singalong?

Mr Daisy...

Oh, are those turnips? I'm starving!
Oi!

Uh... The... The shock!

HE CONTINUES PLAYING KAZOO

Felicity's Ethel's deputy, right?
Right.

So Maud was right up there
at the front of the hall

for the final challenge.

Where was Felicity?

It really wasn't me? I saw it
with my own eyes. You didn't do it.

We're going to get you out of here
and clear your name.

There is no way out.

Potions aren't allowed
and broomsticks are locked up.

Millie, would I really
have got myself thrown in here

without a plan?

Witches have written books
about their time in Wormwood.

There's stuff I couldn't find out,
though.

Will there be wardens on duty?
Where? What time?

For that, we need someone
who really knows the place.

You're on my bed.

A month.

Splinter gave me a month.

Let thunder roar,
let lightning flash

Let mighty waves on shorelines crash

Take all my power

But hear my plea

Ada, now, return to me.

SHE CLEARS THROAT

You need to speak to Mr Daisy

He's... He's taken this very badly.

We'd get caught. I'd be
in the itching room two months.

This isn't just about Mildred.

We're going to tell the Great Wizard

what's going on here,
get Wormwood shut down.

All I ever did with my magic was
get things wrong. I'm a bad witch.

This is where I belong.
You're not a bad witch.

You've just been told that you're
bad - there's a difference!

Look...

..I was told that I was bad
for years.

And not just bad - the worst.

And when you hear that stuff enough,
you start believing it.

You know, that little voice
in your head, "You can't,

"you'll get it wrong,
don't even try".

And so you don't try.

But then the people who said you
were bad can say it all over again!

What if...?

What if people just say that
you're bad

because they see something strong
and powerful inside of you,

and they don't like it?

What if they just call you the worst

because they're afraid that
you might just be the best?

THEY MURMUR INDISTINCTLY

So...what's the plan?

Mr Daisy, a word in private.

Not...a...good idea, Miss Hardbroom.

Cauldron curd, Fenella!

Miss Hardbroom!

If I could have this dance?

Hm...

Uh...

TANGO MUSIC PLAYS

SHE YELPS

Mr Daisy!

Sometimes dancing is
the only thing that makes sense.

Oh, he is toast!

HE GASPS

Oh!

I don't know what came over me,
Miss Hardbroom! I'm so sorry!

Mr Daisy!

I shall write to the Great Wizard
to recommend that you never

work in a school of magic
ever again!

I...

I... I...

Oh...

I'm not happy.

I'm really not happy about this.

Hurry!
Enough here to make 100 potions.

We've got five minutes
before she comes back.

Four minutes till
they know we're gone.

DOOR THUDS

BELL RINGS

My sister first.

Help me look.

Here!

I hate her!

OK. Miranda, you're OK.

Let's get out of...

DISTANT MUTTERING AND FOOTSTEPS

Demerits folder...

Demerits folder...

Strange.

SPLINTER SNIFFS

Do I smell a living creature here?

TABBY MEOWS

Familiar! FAMILIAR!

Tabby!

Three minutes - we have to go.

I can't leave Tabby!
This might be our last chance.

You stick to the plan.
I'll meet you at take-off point.

Millie!

DOG BARKS

Can't a witch get a moment
to herself around here?

Is that what you were doing during
the final challenge? I'm sorry?

We just wondered
why you weren't in the hall.

I was on the magic mirror
to Ethel's mother.

She was more anxious than Ethel.

Yarrow, cedar, old oak tree

May this door now open be!

Tabby!

Tabby!

ALARM BLARES

What's that?
They know we're missing from class.

TABBY MEOWS
Tabby, come here!

Ah! I suppose you are
the reason for that.

I've seen your sort before.

Think you're too good
for this place.

Well, you're not.

You're just like all the rest -

worthless, talentless,

useless failures.

The worst witches.

Shall we say...

..three months?

TABBY MEOWS

No!

MILDRED GROANS

100 demerits!

Argh!

THEY CHEER

Those two first years,
Jones and Moon, they're onto me.

Well, you obviously did the spell
spectacularly wrong.

Oh, no, do not
make this something that I did.

You told me to do it!

I never would've agreed if I'd known
what it would do to Miss Cackle.

It was only meant to spoil
Mildred Hubble's spell.

Whatever. I'm telling HB, before
she hears it from someone else.

You can't.

I mean, it should come from me.

I'll go to HB.

ALARM BLARES

We can't wait any longer.
She'll make it.

I know she'll...

DOOR OPENS
Too late.

Millie! What we waiting for?

Camilla! Camilla, come on!

Someone's going to have to hold them
off, or they'll catch you.

What? No!

Go. Tell the Great Wizard,
get this place closed down.

I'm not leaving you here
on your own.

I won't be on my own.

I'm done listening to
the little voice in my head.

Cassia bark and costmary root

Mix them up with an old frog fruit

From her prickly prison, I plead

Let my sister now be freed!

Miranda!

I did it!

Go!

Go!

HARDBROOM: Forgive me, Ada.

I didn't mean for this to happen.

I only wanted to be head girl.

DISEMBODIED VOICE:
Don't worry, Ethel.

It's all part of the plan!

You said Mildred Hubble would lose.

You didn't say how.

I shall fix everything.

Miss Cackle will return, and you
will be head girl, as I promised.

I don't know any more.

Say the words.

May north be south

May west be east

May Agatha Cackle now be released.

SHE CACKLES

You could bring someone back after
being shattered into pieces?

With the help of my engine, yes!

We don't want that at all!

This is what I saw
in the future water.

We've sent ourselves to Vanishment.

We all know what happens
to Vanishment at midnight

on the last day of term.

What happens?