She Returns

**She Returns** is the seventh episode in Season 3 of the Freeform series, *Motherland: Fort Salem*. It aired on August 2, 2022.

## Synopsis

Allies converge to protect the Cession from occupation. The Camarilla march on the Cession, ready to invade under the guise of smoking out our fugitives. Tally and Scylla team up while Abigail, Adil and Anacostia seek out President Wade.

## Plot

Raelle Collar finds herself out in the real world with her mother Willa. She asks if it's really her and she tells her that it is, that she's healed enough for them to be out like this. Raelle asks if this means that she can leave the Mycelium. Willa agrees that it does, if she so desires. She tells her that it's her choice. She can stay and they can be together, or she can leave. She warns her, however, that if she does, the Mother won't be able to bring her back anymore. She warns her that the world above is worse than when she left it, with more hate and more death. Raelle tells her that this is why she has to go back. Willa agrees that she knows, and it's not the only reason why she needs to get back.

Thelma Bearkiller states that it would be foolish to go looking for the Cession Marshal right now, that she has reports of U.S. troops moving fast towards the border of the Chippewa Cession. They discuss the matter, noting that the various Marshals are all connected via a mental link. They decide to try to find the Iroquois Territory Marshal. Meanwhile, Scylla is pulled away from her work to try to find Raelle, Abigail telling her that she's a part of the Unit now and she needs to help them. She promises her that Raelle will find her.

Thelma visits her fellow Council members at the Sioux Community Center. She tells her fellow Council members that she knew this day was going to come, that she knew they were never going to be safe. She explains that the false charges against the Bellweather Unit have given the Army the excuse they need to invade the Cession. She reveals that she over the past year has been building up her own secret militia. The other Council members react with shock, but decide to hear her out. Meanwhile, Tally Craven is taken to an unexpected reunion with Scylla.

At the border of the Cession, Anacostia Quartermain, Abigail and Adil discuss the need to find President Wade. Back at the Community Center, Thelma pleads with the others to support her militia. Abigail, Anacostia and Adil meet with the Iroquois Marshal. He tells them that the Cession Marshal has been very secretive lately but he can locate him so long as he's within the Cession borders. Just then, however, a U.S. Army convoy rolls up to the border of the Cession. They discuss the wards and whether or not they'll hold. Anacostia tells Abigail and Adil to stay calm and let the Iroquois Marshal handle it. The Marshal confronts the Army leader, telling him that bringing a militarized force onto their land is a direct violation of the U.S. Cession Treaty. In response, the Army leader states that the Cession was the one who broke it.

As the Army leader orders the Marshal to stand down, the group discusses that the wards have gone down, and at just the right moment for the Army to invade. Adil notes that only the Council can deactivate them and they realize that somebody must be helping the Army from the inside. Back with the Council, Mathilda "Milly" Long has bound the other Council members. She reveals herself as the one who deactivated the wards. Thelma asks just what she has done, saying she doesn't have to do this. She explains that they came to her and asked if she would help them, that they knew her territory was being kept out of the big mining contracts, that they had no good land on the water, all the issues she had brought to the Council and been ignored on. She tells the Council that they just want the Unit and then they'll be on their way. Milly asks if she's learned nothing from history, that the treaty has been broken and now they're all vulnerable.

Tally and Scylla discuss the situation with President Wade. Tally tells her that she hasn't seen anything in her visions about Wade and that she thinks that the Council is in danger and that they should regroup with Abigail. Elsewhere, Sarah Alder meets with a man named Santos and tells him that she needs his help locating an artifact. Back at the Cession border, the Iroquois Marshal shouts at the Army people to leave. The Army leader, states, however, that he recognizes no authority other than that of President of the United States, Blanton Silver. He steps forward and attacks, using the same technology from the cage that Anacostia was kept in. Anacostia pleads with Abigail and Adil to stand down as the Army leader starts ordering the witch cadets to arrest the Marshal's forces. Abigail pleads with Anacostia to let her do something, but she tells her that if they go out, all that will happen is that more people will die. She says they have to find President Wade and get back to Fort Salem. She pleads with Abigail in her mother's name, but Abigail tells her she has to act.

Tally and Scylla continue to talk, Tally explaining to Scylla her vision of Raelle destroying the world with the Witchbomb. Scylla asks if she could possibly tap into the vision again. Back with Alder, as Santos waffles, Alder tells him to stop pretending. She explains that she knows that for decades he was the Pontifex of the Camarilla, a historian and keeper of secrets descended from a long line of witch hunters. He tells her it was another life, but she says that it's this life and not so long ago. He says he's not on their side and ask him anything. "The First Song," she replies and he comments that she's going straight to the top. He tells her that he was born into the Camarilla but that what he really enjoys is collecting and he just wants to live his last years in peace.

Back the Cession border, Abigail steps forward. The Army commander describes her as being the "Tarim plaything" and orders the cadets to attack. Abigail, however, quickly neutralizes him. One of the cadets then tells her that she thinks that she should run, that there are more troops moving up behind them. Abigail asks if they'll let the guards go and they do. Abigail asks for her name and she introduces herself as Guadalupe "Lupe" Cortez. Abigail tells her to protect the innocent at all costs. She tells the group as a whole that they are Petra Bellweather's soldiers and to make her proud.

Meanwhile, Milly assures the members of the Council that they will be treated well. Just then, however, Tally and Scylla arrive and Bearkiller tells Milly that it looks like she didn't think this one through. Bearkiller explains that Milly put something in the other Council members' food to make them fall asleep and Scylla says she can wake them, but she needs a minute. Back with Alder and Santos, Santos tells Alder that neither of the two lines she's looking for can be traced to a modern living steward. He says there's no way to retrieve it unless she's able to travel back in time.

## Cast

### Main

* Taylor Hickson as Raelle Collar
* Amalia Holm as Scylla Ramshorn
* Demetria McKinney as Anacostia Quartermain
* Jessica Sutton as Tally Craven
* Ashley Nicole Williams as Abigail Bellweather

with

* Lyne Renee as General Sarah Alder

### Recurring

* Tony Giroux as Adil
* Kandyse McClure as Nicte Batan
* Diana Pavlovska as Willa Collar

### Guest

* Olivia Lucas as Thelma Bearkiller
* Michelle Thrush as Pauline Marten
* Paul Moniz de Sa as Santos

**Co-starring**:

* Lina Lecompte as Guadalupe "Lupe" Cortez
* John Stewart as Mac
* Quelmia Sparrow as Mathilda "Milly" Long
* Taylor Kinequon as Finch Charlo
* Nyla Carpenter as Karissa Tihominko
* Kelly William as Toby He-Dow
* Kiri Geen as Lilakai Zah
* Trevor Carroll as Iroquoian Marshal
* Tyler Burrows as Civilian Oversight Sergeant
* Charles Zuckerman as Lieutenant Anderson
* Michelle Bardach as Border Guard #1
* Mark Masterton as Corporal
* Sydney Bell as Unit Leader
* Sarah Kelley as Guard
* Rhinnan Payne as Cadet #1
* Tina Rahami as Cadet #2
* Kaila Kondo as Cadet #3

## Gallery

### Videos

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