That Night

Still recovering from her attack by Zachary Larson, Cassie researches more about Heather Barnes. She can't find a phone number, but learns she has a brother in Finn Creek and asks Diana to go with her. She can't and who does she ask to escort Cassie? Why, Adam of course. After a brief awkward moment in front of Diana, Adam says, "I'll pick you up after school?" "Okay," replies Cassie.

Adam and Cassie enter upon an old fishing village, now mostly abandoned. They knock on the door of Wade Barnes (Heather's brother) and he answers the door. Cassie asks if she can ask Heather few questions and Wade says no. "Maybe that's something Heather should decide," states Adam. Wade agrees and leads them inside, insisting they can ask whatever they want. Unfortunately, Heather hasn't physically moved in sixteen years. Not until Cassie approaches her and says, "I'm sorry," referring to what her mother did. Heather spazzes out and clutches Cassie arm. After Adam and Wade pull Heather off Cassie, she reverts back to her catatonic state and that's when Cassie and Adam notice what Adam refers to as a sigil on her wrist.

Adam and Cassie return to Cassie's house, namely her bedroom (cough). Cassie can't believe her mother would do anything that horrible to a person. "We don't know your mother did this," Adam urges. "No. I do know." Cassie goes over to her fireplace and shows Adam her book of shadows. She flips through the book looking for answers and it is important to notice the little things she and Adam do when they are around each other. Adam simply stares at her rifling through the book. This is how they expresses their feelings when they can't be together. Just a side note. They find the symbol from Heather's arm in Cassie's book. "Does is say how to undo it?" she asks. There's a little spell that Adam believes is the counter, but is unsure.

The spell requires what Adam calls a poltis, or a magic potion. It needs to contain Cassie's blood. Alone in the abandoned house she says, "Can you do it cause I'm like petrified of needles." He pricks, squeezes, and holds her hand with a tissue. Enter Diana. She quickly denies permission for Cassie to perform the spell, telling her they don't know enough about it to use it. "Let me talk to her," says Adam. Well, Diana may not be on board, but Faye sure is. "I've never understood why were not better friends." Really, you didn't understand Faye?? Together, she and Cassie go back to Heather's house.

A quick side tidbit. Melissa and Nick's relationship is on thin ice. Mel is paranoid Nick is going to or is cheating on her and it bothers her. She freaks out on him and says they are over. Later in the episode, the two reunite and it is important to remember that because it will come in handy at the end of this post.

Anyway, back at Heather's place, Cassie smears the poltis on the sigil and says the spell aloud with Faye. Nothing happens. The girls leave and Wade returns. You see a small snake like movement up Heather's arm and she wakes up. In an instant she goes from smiling to psychotic and maniacal and throws Wade against the wall and escapes into the night. I wonder where she is headed...

In the meantime, Diana has consulted her own book of shadows and tells Adam why she did not want Cassie to perform the spell. The sigil on Heather's wrist, is a suppression spell, designed for keeping something in. More specifically, demons. Insects and snakes were used to insert the entity into the body and the sigil keeps it there. Adam is terrified. "I've gotta call her," he says. "Why?" begins Diana. "She didn't do the spell." "She still needs to know."

Faye and Cassie have already returned to Cassie's house, Faye forcing Cassie to let her look through her book. Someone knocks on the front door and Cassie goes down to answer it. The door is flung wide open and swaying in the wind, but no one is there. After closing the door she runs into Heather. "Where is Amelia?" she begs. Cassie tells her that Amelia passed a few months ago. Cassie urges her to tell her what happened that night, the night of the fire. According to Heather, Amelia was trying to protect the circle from "them", but she couldn't stop all of them and one of them "went inside me." "Wherever there are witches, they will always follow," says Heather. "They" wanted Amelia's power. Cassie presses for who. "Demons." Amelia couldn't remove the one from Heather, so she placed the sigil on her to take away the pain, and Cassie removed it. Heather suddenly contorts and turns on Cassie. She shoves her and knocks her out.

Faye, upstairs, answers Adam's phone call to Cassie. Faye goes down to find Cassie passed out on the floor and as she approaches her, Heather steps out with a poker from the fire place. Faye screams on the phone and panics Adam. Heather chases Faye around the house and, fortunately Melissa (in Nick's bedroom next door) looks through the window and sees Faye struggling. Cassie runs upstairs and helps Faye back downstairs where they are once again trapped by Heather, who has been jumping stories at a time. Nick and Mel come in and help with the defense until Heather runs out into the night and gets hit by a car.

At the end of the episode, we see the snake (demon) crawl out of a wound on Heather's body and slither over onto Nick's jacket. Adam takes Diana home and then goes back to Cassie's to check on her and help clean up. "Does Diana know you're here?" she asks. "No," he replies. It is a very cute, romantic scene. Cut to Nick and Mel asleep in Nick's bed. It's a shame they got back together. The snake crawls off Nick's jacket and up and into Mel's ear...Thoughts, comments, questions?????