[vault opening]
[crickets chirping]
[rock music]
- Mm.
Here we go. Here we go.
Whoa!
[tires squealing]
[gasping, panting]
Oh, my God.
Wha-- [gasps]
Are you-- are you okay?
What-- what-- what's your name?
- Amaiah.
- Amaiah?
Amaiah, do you-- do you have any family out here, honey?
Are you lost?
Oh, my God.
Okay. okay.
Okay.
Come on.
Let's get you in the car. Come on.
[mysterious music]
There you go.
[music building]
Don't worry, okay?
- ♪ Wicked, wicked
♪ Are we wicked?
♪ Wicked, wicked
♪ Are we-- are we witches?
[Captain Joz's "Open Mind"]
♪ Opened my mind
♪ To something higher
♪ To something brighter
- Ah.
Okay.
- Um, so that one can go into my bedroom,
and this one could go in the kitchen.
- Is that the last of it?
- Well, there's a few more.
Um, look, thanks so much for letting me stay here, Sherise.
I promise that it won't be for long.
- Shorty, it's okay.
You can stay here as long as you want.
That's why I bought this house.
It's a new start.
- Yeah, I just hate that I had to close the shop.
It feels like I just failed Tabitha.
- You didn't.
It's not your fault that the building
owner sold the property.
- Right. Right, yeah, fuck them.
And, you know, you can leave your raggedy-ass apartment
and take that room upstairs, if you'd like.
- Mm, no, thanks.
Me and Angie are going slow, so no need
to overcomplicate things.
- Yeah, I understand.
- [gasping]
- [sighs]
- [gasps] What?
Okay, okay.
[panting]
- ♪ Go slow, go slow, go slow
♪ I'm just living in the moment ♪
- Okay.
- Um, take it easy with that box.
I'll help with the other boxes.
- Okay.
Oh, whew.
Jesus.
[sighs]
- This is it, huh?
Our new workspace.
- Yep.
- Jordan, come on.
Try not to be so down.
It's not like the shop is gone.
We're gonna keep it going online.
- Thanks, Darletra.
And thanks for joining me at the shop.
- Of course.
It kind of feels like I owe it to her, you know?
- Hey.
She's here.
- You coming?
- Nah, I'm just gonna keep on unpacking.
- All right.
I'll see you later.
- Yeah.
[pensive music]
[sighs]
[exhales]
- Focus your mind.
[mysterious music]
Focus your intention.
Draw on your coven sisters' energy.
And when you're ready,
focus all your energy into the bowl.
[trees rustling, wind blowing]
[wind stops blowing]
- I did it.
[chuckling]
- Good.
Sherise, it's your turn.
Let's have Darletra move into--
- Uh, yeah, no.
I've been on a leash long enough.
I won't be taking any orders.
- It's just a training exercise.
- I don't give a fuck.
- It's fine.
It's fine.
She can use me.
- [sighs] Focus.
[mysterious music]
Draw on the power of Darletra.
Feel the connection.
Then give Angela a command.
- Angela, twirl.
And twirl.
[ethereal music]
And twirl.
Twirl.
[chuckling] Twirl.
Twirl.
Stop.
- Good.
Again.
- Um, no.
That was enough.
- All right.
That's fine.
Let's switch gears.
- How many healing elixir kits?
- Four, and six orders of cleansing kits.
Those are the ones with the sage bundles.
And three rose quartz towers.
- Got those.
- Got it.
Oh, let me, um--
let me help you.
Here you go.
So, one.
Okay, now.
Okay.
Yeah.
- Jordan.
- Hmm?
- It's been a month since everything with Julius.
And you haven't come to any of the trainings with us.
I mean, if I can work with Claudette,
you can, too.
- I've just been kind of busy, you know,
with the shop closing, having to change my entire life around
and being acclimated with Tabitha being gone again.
Oh, let me, um, adjust this.
- Jordan.
- Hmm?
- I don't think this is inventory.
- They're Tabitha's.
[sighs]
[melancholy music]
[distant sirens blaring]
- Caden.
Well, well, what's going on in here?
Dominic.
- Claudette.
I have some important news to share about the council.
- [scoffs] The council?
There is no council.
Julius killed everyone.
- It seems there's been a change.
- The council had a plan in the event of their demise.
There's a new council rising, comprised of the trainees
of the last one.
- Why didn't I know about this?
I was on the council years ago.
- Only the three elders knew about the protocol.
- And no one expected the whole council
to be extinguished at once.
- [sighs] We can't let this happen.
- It already has.
And I'm being called to serve as an elder.
And you, you'll soon be called to serve as one
of the other council members.
- Me?
- Caden?
You were being trained for the council,
and you didn't tell me?
- I didn't think it mattered because they were dead.
- Why would it not matter? It's the council!
That is important, Caden.
- Handle the sibling rivalry later!
I am breaking protocol telling you this!
Caden is not even supposed to know until after
the elder ascension tonight.
Some of the trainees are a concern.
Caden, Jabari believed in you,
that you would be fair and of service to the people.
We can really change things with this new council.
- Do you believe that's possible?
- Yes, if we work together.
- Are you serious?
You both are living in a dream world
if you think propping up the same system
is going to bring anything other than the corrupt,
power-hungry rulers with no accountability.
I would know.
- Well, I hope you're wrong.
Read the file.
Please.
And whatever happens, you didn't get that from me.
- You cannot be considering this, right?
- I'm being called to serve.
Maybe-- maybe, if I'm on the council,
I can affect change from the inside.
- Caden, we have been strategizing for weeks
on what new leadership could be.
And you-- you wanna walk away from that?
Hmm?
And go back to the same shit that tried to execute my child?
The council-- the motherfucking council who gave us Julius,
who killed our families!
That's what you want? - Sis, just hear me out.
- That's what you want? - Sis--
- Is that what you want, Cade? Really?
- Sis-- - No!
- This is a change!
- Not a scam!
Damn!
Man, I've had it!
[tense music]
[dramatic music]
- You think you know what this world needs?
Perhaps, what this world needs
is for everyone to die.
- Ange, no.
You're better than this!
- [groans]
- You have power.
And you used it to raise me into a body you stole?
- [sighs]
[pensive music]
[ominous music]
Orisha Oya.
[zapping]
- This could unravel everything we have been working toward.
- I know.
- Caden can't be trusted.
She was trained by them.
- I was one of them.
How is this any better?
- You have me.
Caden's idealism will get a lot of people killed.
We must push the coven harder.
They need to be ready because I will tear down the council
by any means necessary.
- Orisha Oya.
I ask for your guidance and to protect my friends.
- [humming]
Oh.
[humming]
Look at you.
- Rachel?
- Oh, hey, hon.
I'm in here.
- I heard on the radio more bodies were found
with those freaky black veins.
They don't know what it is or--
- Gerald, honey, not right now.
We have a guest.
- Oh.
Oh, hello.
Who might you be?
- This is Amaiah.
Amaiah, this is my husband, Gerald.
- Hi.
- [whispering] I found her out on Old Hickory Road.
Um, I think I'm gonna take her to the police station
in the morning.
- [whispering] Oh, she was just on the road?
That's all woods out there.
Where did she come from?
- [whispering] I know, I know.
I-- I really don't know.
But can we-- can we talk about it, um, later?
- [whispering] Okay, of course. Yeah, okay.
Of course.
- [whispering] Thank you.
- [whispering] I love how big your heart is.
- [sighs] [whispering] Thank you.
[ominous music]
- Oh, Jesus! - Oh, my God. What?
What is it? - Ew!
Oh, the spiders.
They always freak me out. ugh.
- Babe.
- Ugh.
- You are going to have to get over this phobia.
- Ugh.
Ugh.
Hey.
[suspenseful music]
Ow.
Hey, uh, I'm gonna--
I'm gonna take a shower.
- Okay.
Hmm.
[birds chirping]
- There's spiders!
They're on me! - [gasps]
- They're on me! - What?
- Get them off!
- Gerald, what the fuck?
- [screaming]
- What spiders? - The spiders!
They're on me!
Get them off!
Ahh!
The spiders, they're biting me!
Babe, fast. They're biting me.
Make it stop!
Oh, my God, they're biting me.
[screaming]
- What is that?
Oh, my God. What is this, Gerald?
No, honey.
Oh, my God.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Did you-- Gerald!
No! No!
Gerald!
- Quiet!
- [gasps]
[eerie music]
[crying]
- I like you.
- [crying]
- You could be my mommy now.
- [whimpering]
- Make me food.
[ethereal singing]
- Yes.
[sobs]
[eerie sting]
[upbeat music]
- [sighs] Shit.
[grunting]
- ♪ Why is it that always things go so wrong? ♪
♪ Why, yesterday, you said that maybe ♪
- Jordan.
- ♪ We stayed up all night long ♪
- Wait, Javi?
- Hey.
- What are you doing here?
- I was just, uh, sending a package.
- ♪ Why can't we just get along? ♪
- No.
Like, why are you still in Atlanta?
- I live here.
- Wow, you live here.
He lives here.
Great.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I seen the Mystic Haven closed.
I'm sorry.
- You're stalking me now?
- No.[laughs]
- Okay, can you just do me a favor
and stay away from me, okay?
And I got it.
I got it.
- ♪ Uh-huh, I got it like that ♪
♪ Uh-huh, yeah, I got it like that ♪
♪ Uh-huh, I got it like that
♪ Baby, I'm a big deal
♪ I got it like that
♪ I did it again - Shit.
- ♪ Who told you that I was finished? ♪
♪ Fresh off the plane with the new 90, baby ♪
♪ My hair stay laid, and you know what he say ♪
♪ 100 dollar bills, I got racks on the way ♪
♪ I'm making them big moves
♪ I won't stay quiet
♪ 546, but I feel like a giant ♪
♪ I got the source side and the supplier ♪
[both moaning]
♪ I'm on top, baby
♪ I'm taking it higher
♪ Who's that girl?
♪ That's me
- Oh, dang.
You're wearing me out with this, Rise.
- [laughs]
I would say I'm sorry, but I'm not.
[both chuckling]
- Wanna grab something to eat?
- Nah, shorty. I gotta go to the club.
- You're always running out on me, man.
- [scoffs] Darius, I am not running out on you.
I promise.
Tomorrow, it'll just be me and you.
- You promise?
- I promise.
[Evan and Eris' "You Know"]
- ♪ I ain't trying to put on a mask ♪
♪ And act like these things
- Ah, ladies and gentlemen, witches and warlocks,
I welcome you to Obsidian Dream.
[applause]
- Whoo!
- Now, we are very excited to have you here tonight,
but we are even more excited to entertain you.
So I want you to sit back, relax,
and enjoy the musical stylings of Electric Blue.
[applause, cheers]
["Bigger Person"]
- ♪ You coming home late
♪ You stayed out all day
♪ You playing in my face
♪ Mm, mm, mm
♪ I'm still in a rage
♪ I'm gon' catch a case
♪ Give me just a little bit of space ♪
♪ I don't trust people easily
♪ But if it's good for you to do ♪
♪ Then it must be good for me
♪ So now we gonna see
♪ If you can handle the same energy, baby ♪
♪ I can't be the bigger person no more ♪
♪ You want to go low
- Having fun?
Tip your server right.
- ♪ I don't wanna be the bigger person no more ♪
♪ I can't be the bigger person no more ♪
♪ You wanna go low
♪ I'ma drop it to the floor
- Your eyes don't change?
- [chuckles] Not anymore.
Your girl got stronger.
I don't even have to think about it anymore.
- Are you sure you want to be using your magic on guests?
Girl, the Handler had you on a leash,
and you're still using your powers like this?
- Ange, it's not the same thing.
Trust me.
Just a little nudge, a smaller nudge than what I used
to do at my bachelor parties.
I got it under control.
- All right. - All right.
Come on.
- ♪ You wanna go low
♪ I'ma drop it to the floor
♪ Now it's time to even up the score ♪
♪ I won't wanna be the bigger person no more ♪
- So we have healing potion-- just for minor stuff.
It's not gonna work on Ebola or anything like that.
- All right.
- Protection oil for one's space--
not to be consumed.
- Oh.
- And vanishing herbs
to ward off enemies and curses.
- Aww. Thanks, Ange. - Mm-hmm.
- You know, after all that shit the Handler done did to people,
I just wanted to create a safe haven for magical people
to get help, you know?
- Mm-hmm, and be entertained.
- Talk about it, bitch.
I can make money and help people, too.
- [laughs] I overstand.
Thank you.
- Ange?
- Mm-hmm?
- Is it weird being back here?
- Um, a little.
But I mean, it's not like I remember
what happened with Julius, so.
- Well, you look cute tonight.
Big date tonight?
- Mm-hmm, yes.
Darletra and I are celebrating one month official.
- Oh, I'm surprised you two haven't
moved in with each other.
- [chuckles] There's a lot of things
we haven't done together.
- Ange. - Hmm?
- Ange? - Huh?
- You smashed, right?
- [chuckles]
[mutters]
[stammering] Not exactly.
- How is that even possible? Y'all been--
- The girl's been on a collar half her damn life, okay?
This is all new to her.
And I'm waiting.
I'm waiting.
I'm waiting until she's ready.
- Wait, wait.
So she's-- she's never--
never done anything before?
- Mm-mm.
Mm-mm.
Don't make a big deal out of it, okay?
She's a private person, and I wanna respect where she's at.
- I got it.
I wasn't gonna say nothing, you know?
I'm just like, wow.
[both laugh]
- Yeah. All right.
Look, I gotta run. I'll see you at the house?
- Yep. - Okay.
- All right. Have fun.
- Okay.
[sultry music]
- ♪ Ah
♪ Ah, ah-ah
♪ Eh, ah-ah
♪ Didn't mean to meet you
♪ I was minding my business
♪ When you walked in the door
♪ And got my attention
- Um, so is this your first burlesque show?
- No.
Technically, Obsidian Dream had burlesque dancers.
- Mm.
- But it is my first time going for a date.
- [laughs]
[breathes sharply]
- ♪ Coming off your body
♪ Ooh, let it burn
♪ Ooh
- [laughs] Thank you...
babe.
- What?
What are you looking at?
Turn around.
- All right, easy, Darletra.
It's okay. Don't worry about her.
- Okay.
- Don't worry about her.
[hums] - Ah!
- ♪ Feel it in my soul
- [scoffs]
- See you guys later.
Have a good night.
- Darletra, you cannot go around magically
flicking people in the eye.
- She deserved it, Angela.
- [sighs]
- I'm sorry.
- ♪ Ah, ah-ah
[both giggling]
- [sighs] You're gonna have a good time.
- I hope so.
- We are.
- ♪ I was minding my business
♪ When you walked in the door
♪ And got my attention
[both giggling]
- I told you, you were gonna have fun.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Let's take a picture.
[camera clicks]
Ooh.
[sentimental music]
- [chuckling]
- [laughs] I love you.
- You have never said that before.
- I'm saying it now.
[knocking]
- Ms. Sherise Baker.
- Anthony.
- So nice to see you again, darling.
I brought you something.
- Ooh! [chuckles]
Ooh!
You know a girl loves diamonds.
[chuckles]
- So when can I take you to dinner again?
- Well, if you keep showing up with gifts like this,
sooner than you think.
- [chuckles] How about a trip instead?
You ever had authentic fettuccine in Rome
or sushi in Tokyo?
- Hmm.
Tokyo, I'm intrigued.
But you know I have an establishment to run.
[glass shattering]
[ominous music]
- Chill out!
[grunting] Hey, no, no, man. Chill out!
- Hey! Hey! Enough!
You motherfuckers know I don't allow no fighting in my club.
You two, get the fuck out.
[Frank Bentley & Lalinea, "Make It Look Easy"]
Now!
Ugh!
Ladies and gentlemen, my apologies for the disturbance.
Please, continue to enjoy the festivities.
- ♪ Stand-up guy, yeah, I'm 10 toes ♪
♪ Big body pull up in a Range Rove ♪
- What the fuck you doing in here?
- Private word, if I could.
- ♪ Running this game ain't a thing for me ♪
♪ I never switched up, no changing me ♪
- Come on.
- ♪ The season you go against me ♪
♪ Then you know that you're tweaking, okay ♪
♪ 'Cause, baby, I'm him, I be on 10 ♪
♪ Two stepping in the party
- I'll leave you to your business.
- ♪ Make it look easy, counting up wins ♪
- See you soon.
- ♪ Blackmail taking off, my haters are CC'ed ♪
♪ I can't fail
♪ All my victories are on repeat ♪
♪ I'm knee deep, need a dub
♪ It's best that you seek me, I'm too sick ♪
♪ Yeah, I know I make it look easy ♪
♪ Easy, easy, easy
♪ Yeah, tell them don't try to play ♪
- So, Javi.
Why are you in my club?
- I heard you're changing things up around here.
- I am.
No more slavery and no more Handler bullshit.
Obsidian Dream is now open to anybody who has magic,
as long as they follow my rules.
- And people can get help?
- Yeah. Why?
You need help with something?
- [laughs] No.
I do need a job, though.
You should, uh, let me work here, help you help others.
- And how am I supposed to trust you?
- Well, you're not.
But, uh, I can prove it to you.
Come on, do your little thing.
[mysterious music]
- Why are you here?
- I want a job.
- Why here?
- I've done a lot of bad.
It's my opportunity to do good for some witches
like I always wanted to,
the help my mother needed when her telepathy killed her.
- What about Jordan?
- I love her.
I want to be with her.
But this isn't about her.
Hopefully she can see the good I can do and not hate me.
Mm.
- All right.
I'll give you a few days' trial, have you prove yourself.
- Thank you, Sherise.
- Mm-hmm. You can start now.
Go upstairs to the bar and have Harmony show you around.
- You got it.
Oh, uh, you should know--
that charming guy that kissed you on his way out?
- Mm.
What about him?
- Don't trust him.
I feel his deception.
- Well, that was fun.
Did you enjoy?
- It was okay.
- What?
- I felt like it was kind of expensive.
- Well, you seemed to be enjoying yourself.
Uh, so
do you plan on coming in this time
or you gonna leave me at the door again?
- I'm coming in.
[Splize & Notize's "Bring It Back"]
[keypad beeping]
- After you.
- ♪ Losing control, I gotta know ♪
♪ Who's in control of me, me, me ♪
- I'm really nervous.
- I know.
It's okay.
- ♪ Can you bring it back?
- I'll go slow.
Just feel my touch.
- ♪ Bring it back to me, me, me ♪
♪ Bring it back to me, me, me
♪ Making me feel so incomplete ♪
♪ I'm feeling like a puppet controlled by some strings ♪
♪ It's killing me 'cause I just can't say what I mean ♪
♪ And everywhere I go is the wrong place to be ♪
- [moaning]
- ♪ Bring it back
- Well, let's go through this new council.
[dramatic music]
- Kimo, male, from Samoa.
- What's his specialty?
- Counter magic-- wards, seals, negating magic.
Then we have Michael from the UK with social magic.
- Hmm.
So he can manipulate people's emotions.
- Mm-hmm.
Hannah, from Singapore, she's a muse.
Jiaoxian from China, hydrokinesis.
He can manipulate water.
- Mm.
- Priyali from India,
teleportation.
And me.
- And the three new elders?
- Dominic, Canada, telekinesis.
Isabela, who's Colombian,
she can slow and speed up molecules.
- I am familiar with her.
She's stern, rigid.
She'll govern with an iron fist to uphold
the council's rules, even when it doesn't make sense.
- Hmm.
They're all powerful, far beyond their specific strength.
Our last elder.
- He's going to be a problem.
- [sighs]
- Where are you going?
- Obsidian Dream.
I need to talk to Sherise.
I'll be back.
- Damn.
Sherise.
[crickets chirping]
- [crying]
[tense music]
[sighs]
[line trilling]
[beeps] - We're sorry.
You have reached a number that has been disconnected
or is no longer in service.
- Shit. [sighs]
Jordan Davis.
- [sighs]
[soft music]
[sighs]
Your spellbooks.
You used to hate when I'd go sneaking in your collections.
Now I have them all.
- [whispering] Jordan Davis.
Jordan Davis.
[knocking]
- Caden.
Something tells me you're not here for the entertainment.
- No, a new council has been brought up to replace the last.
- Well, I'm not exactly surprised.
It was bound to happen with nobody in place.
- Some of the replacements are exactly the kind of witches
we do not want on the council.
[ominous music]
- [whispering] Jordan Davis.
Jordan Davis.
[gasps]
Ms. Davis?
Ms. Davis, can you hear me?
- ♪ Yeah, something
- Ms. Davis?
Ms. Davis?
Ms. Davis, please, can you hear me?
- ♪ I can't help dancing to your groove ♪
[music stops]
- Ms. Davis, please hear me.
Help.
Please hear me.
[stammering]
No!
[music resumes]
[woman screaming]
[gasping]
- [screaming]
- The fuck?
[tense music]
- What the hell was that?
What the--
Susan! Claire!
Susan!
Oh!
Oh, my God!
- [screaming] - Su-- Susan!
Oh, my God.
- [screaming] - Oh.
Oh, my goodness.
- [screaming]
- Susan! Susan!
[distant honking, sirens]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Ah! Oh, my God!
- [screaming]
- Susan! Susan! Susan, no!
[thud, splattering]
[gasping]
[sobbing]
[eerie music]
[bones cracking]
- Now that one was fun.
[laughs maniacally]
all: I pledge myself to the High Council of Witches
to rule with honor and dedication
and put nothing above my duties as an elder.
I will live, die, and kill by the ways of the council
from this day forth until my last breath.
[shimmering]
[clinking]
- [sighs]
Anthony DuFort, pyrokinesis.
Well, you know, I'm not exactly surprised.
He's ambitious.
- You've been seeing him, right?
What do you know about him?
- Uh, he's an oil tycoon and a philanthropist.
I've been entertaining him.
You know, nothing serious, but what can I say?
I have expensive taste, and he delivers.
- Then you also know what else he is.
[dramatic music]
- No.
No.
No!
Where is it?
It's supposed to be here!
We can't draw on his power without it.
We have to find it!
Ugh!
- [sobbing] Amaiah.
Why are you doing this?
Why are you killing people?
You have to stop this, please!
- I'm only just beginning.
- Let me go.
- But you're my mommy now.
Besides, what would you do?
There's no one left here.
- What? What?
- [chuckles deviously]
- What?
What?
What do you mean?
Amaiah, what?
Amaiah.
You-- [panting]
You-- you-- you killed them all?
- I did.
Now it's time to go.
I have so much more fear to unleash.
[laughs maniacally]
- [sobbing]
[car alarm blaring]
- [laughing maniacally]
[dramatic music]
♪