Hunter

Cassie awakes to the crackling of a fire one night in Chance Harbor. She looks across to Nick's yard and sees a boy burning the ground. She spots him and he disappears, leaving nothing behind but a moon shaped burn in the ground. Turns out the boy is Nick's older brother, Jake. According to Cassie's grandmother, he is, by blood, part of the circle. Binding the circle doesn't just bind the people, but the entire bloodline. Cassie's bloodline also happens to be the only one out of the group that has the longest lineage and therefore born to be the leader of her circle. Good luck telling Faye that. Adam certainly as a bad taste in his mouth for Jake, who robbed him and his dad blind when he used to work at the boathouse. In a rather tension interlude when he walks in on Diana, Cassie, and Adam at the boathouse, he leaves. Later that night, the same symbol appears at the abandoned house where the reaming five members of the circle find it.

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The symbol means conquest; someone is threatening the circle. Dawn pretends to ally herself with Cassie's grandmother and promises to protect the circle. She tells Charles they need a new crystal to get their plans for the children back on track. When Cassie's get home that night, a girl attacks her. Hearing her cream, Jake rushes in and says, "Burning star, blood red eye." Turns out he knew he was a witch. It's cool, he's totally hot so it's all good. Unless he turns out be a bad guy...that could be bad or good, depending on your preference ;)

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Diana and Adam rush over when Cassie calls them about what happened. Adam starts off by attacking Jake. Cassie pleads with him to realize that he saved her life. "So he keeps saying," Adam growls and after a few more words gets back in the jeep, followed by Diana. "You're acting like a jealous boyfriend, and not mine." Well, yeah, he's in love with Cassie, Diana. Didn't you know? Nope, guess not. Anyway. Cassie's grandmother gives Cassie a crystal to use her power without another member of the circle. Just hold on to that for now.The girl that attacked Cassie is named Simone. Jake finds her at a hotel outside of town and from how it appears, she is a witch hunter and Jake has dealt with her in the past. She comes off as the bad guy, but it looks like Jake is more involved than he's letting on.

At Nick's wake, Adam's father mentions someone named Blackwell. Not much more is said and it's drown out by the fight that breaks out between Adam and Jake. Jake is talking to Cassie and Adam rushes over in a macho man bravado. Jake makes a remark about Adam's father and Adam takes a swing. Cassie and Diana break it up and Adam tries to cover it up by saying it was due to Jake's comment. "That's not what started this," says Diana. Cassie takes Jake outside and has a very flirty conversation. As she walks back inside, Simone is seen under the pier watching her.

Diana brings Adam's dad coffee to sober him up, but she doesn't leave unscathed. "It's Adam's destiny to be with Cassie Blake," he tells her. As Diana leaves he says, "Trust me bad things happen when you mess with fate." Talking with Adam, Cassie sees Jake walk outside with a girl and she goes to investigate. When the girl, Simone, pulls a knife on him, Cassie uses a crystal and helps him kill her. It's then that she realizes who the girl is. What Cassie doesn't know, is that Jake was working with Simone, to kill her.

Diana reveals to Adam about what his dad told her and breaks up with him. She runs to Cassie's house and seeks solitude. At the end of the episode, we see Jake at the harbor talking to the leader of a group of witch hunters. The leader, for any of you who watch Teen Wolf, is Alison's dad. He's enlisted the aid of Jake, a witch, to kill other witches. Kind of ironic huh? "I came to rid Chance Harbor of witches, and that's what i intend to do." I can't wait to see how this plays out.