It’s time for round 2 of retrieving the Unholy Regalia and Sabrina and Caliban must find Pontius Pilate’s bowl. Unfortunately the young witch has other issues to deal with including the coven’s waning powers and Nick needing help to recover after holding Lucifer.
In the previous episode, the coven celebrated the Hare Moon, however, they ran into the pagans in the forest, which caused some grief as they took away the moon to prevent the coven from restoring their powers. Meanwhile, Nick is having a difficult time coping after all he has been through and Dorcas and Agatha were on the receiving end of Carcosa and Nagaina’s anger.
The Second Challenge
Nick (Gavin Leatherwood) wakes chained at the Spellmans where Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) and Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) tell him he got high and freed Lucifer. They plan to do a cleansing ritual on him, but it takes 30 days and they only have three with the pagans after them. Ambrose will use the egg’s time warping powers to compress the 30 days into one day.
Sabrina then pays a visit to Roz (Jaz Sinclair) and tells Harvey (Ross Lynch) and Theo (Lachlan Watson) of the pagans, while Ambrose is researching how he can help Dorcas and Agatha too. Lilith (Michelle Gomez) says Sabrina is required in Hell as it’s time for the second challenge of the Unholy Regalia and she has informed all the coven that Sabrina is Queen.
Caliban and Sabrina must obtain Pontius Pilate’s bowl, but Sabrina declines. Lilith then steps in to say everything that has happened, including the coven’s failing powers, is because of Sabrina’s refusal to directly claim the throne. Sabrina must go to Golgotha in Jerusalem, which is locked in an eternal time loop and mastering time magick is a must to escape. Sabrina will travel through one of Dorian’s paintings and then use the egg’s time properties to aid her.
Ambrose is overseeing Prudence (Tati Gabrielle) connect with Agatha (Adeline Rudolph), which is dangerous while Agatha is manic. Agatha’s thoughts are all over the place, but Prudence sees the faun and they realise Carcosa is the great god Pan, which means they are in more trouble than they realised.
He later studies stone-Dorcas (Abigail Cowen) and he hopes they can amplify their power using a circle of stones and there’s one beneath the ground where Sabrina was almost baptised. He suggests they use the last of their magic to bring them to the surface.
Stuck Within Time
Lilith and Sabrina travel to Golgotha and the slightest misstep could have Sabrina stuck in a time loop. Sabrina is approached by Pontius Pilate (Daniel Nemes) and seized. Sabrina is then locked in a cage next to Caliban (Sam Corlett) and Barabbas (Oliver Rice), who is forced to relive the same day.
Pilate approaches them and says the punishment is 100 lashes, so Caliban steps up to receive them in place of Sabrina, while she tries to learn what happens to Barabbas when he is pardoned.
Meanwhile, Elsepth (Em Haine) speaks to Melvin (Tyler Cotton) and she wants to give Sabrina to the pagans when Blackwood-Lucifer (Richard Coyle) appears, and tells them to join the pagans. Elspeth and Melvin give themselves to the pagans and Carcosa (Will Swenson) stabs Elspeth in the throat, while Melvin runs free and Lucifer-Blackwood watches on angered by how he has been treated.
Zelda (Miranda Otto) is trying to figure out what to do and Hilda (Lucy Davis) suggests they call on other hedge witches, such as Dezmelda. Right then, Ambrose and Prudence walk in and tell them of their plan with the stones. As for Hilda, she recalls Circe chanting and realises something is happening to her and later on, Hilda has a large bump on her cheek and when she squeezes it, several spiders escape.
At Cerberus Books, Robin (Jonathan Whitesell) is approached by Billy (Ty Wood) and Colin and he chants something when they threaten him, but Theo swings in to call them off.
Trick After Trick
During the trial, Barrabas is pardoned and Sabrina and Caliban are sentenced to death. However, Sabrina uses a glamour to be Barrabas and takes off with Pilate’s bowl and escapes. Sabrina feels guilty for leaving Caliban there and decides she will see to Nick and the coven before going to Hell.
Meanwhile, Blackwood-Lucifer taunts Harvey and suggests Harvey and others wreak havoc on the carnival so he doesn’t feel so useless. Robin and Theo are making out, but Theo stops as he doesn’t know anything about Robin, who then speaks of his adoptive parents in the military and he doesn’t believe in what they do. Theo receives a call from Harvey explaining what he wants to do, so Theo and Robin go after him.
Ambrose has brought the stones into the Academy and Sabrina participates in calling to the other witches. Lucifer approaches Agatha and suggests she seeks her revenge, so she comes running in and smashes one of the stones and almost smashes Dorcas. Unfortunately, their message didn’t get out and Melvin tells them that the pagans killed Elspeth.
Harvey and the jocks trash the carnival when Circe (Lucie Guest) approaches and turns the four jocks into pigs. Theo and Robin arrive to find Harvey with the pigs and Robin recommends they leave. Theo and Harvey go to tell Robin about Greendale, but he tells them about himself instead.
Help Arrives?
Ambrose and Sabrina see Nick, who seems worse and filled with Lucifer’s residue, which is infernal and corrupting. Ambrose they lure out the residue into someone who has the same blood: Sabrina. She drips her blood on to Nick and the residue begins pouring out of his nose and pooling into a mass. It jumps onto Sabrina’s hands and she douses them into Pilate’s bowl, which is filled with holy water.
Meanwhile, Hilda tell Zelda something has happened to her, but Zelda isn’t listening when Ambrose shows the essence of Lucifer to his aunties. Feeling hurt, Hilda pays a visit to Dr. Cee (Alessandro Juliani) and she hides her changed state from him with a glamour.
Sabrina visits Nick, who is now better, but he doesn’t think he can be with Sabrina as he’s not sure if it was something within that made him say what he said. He wants her to focus on being Queen and he leaves. Lilith take Sabrina to Hell with the bowl when a naked Caliban reappears claiming Sabrina cheated and he doesn’t plan to lose. Sabrina informs Lilith that Lucifer escaped and she’s concerned as Lilith will be killed by him.
Ambrose mixes the residue with other substances in hopes to keep the pagans at bay when Gryla (Heather Doerksen), Pesta, Sycorax (Kaylah Zander), and Mambo Marie (Skye P. Marshall) appear with Gryla saying they will kill them for summoning the witches.
Overall Thoughts?
There comes a time in a season when it hits a little lull, and that would be this episode. While Sabrina retrieved the second item, it was unfortunately less interesting than King Herod’s crown, along with some strange things occurring like Harvey asking the jocks for their help? Regardless, bringing the hedge witches into the fold will be interesting, especially since they’ve already announced they wish to kill the coven… Will they be a third big bad the coven must face?
