Hell Week, Part One

**"Hell Week, Part One"** is the first episode of the first season of Netflix's *The Order* and the first episode overall.

## Synopsis

At Belgrave University, Jack pledges a secret society steeped in mystery and magic. Soon, a series of strange murders sets the campus on edge.

## Plot

**SPOILERS AHEAD**

Jack Morton stands at his mother's grave with a letter from Belgrave University in his hand. At the same time, Vera Stone and Margaret Crain debate on Jack's worthiness to be not only enrolled at Belgrave, but also his candidacy in the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose. Crain thinks he is not due to his impoverished state and has gone as far as sending Jack the letter as a rejection. Stone has other ideas, though, and argues in favor of Jack. Once Crain leaves, Stone, using her position of being in charge of both the university and the Blue Rose temple, magically changes the letter of rejection to one of acceptance with the promise of a full scholarship and living expenses. He moves out of his grandfather's house, but not before both realize that this is just step one in a revenge plan concocted over the years against the Order of the Blue Rose and, more specifically, Edward Coventry, Jack's father, who unknowingly impregnated Jack's mother and then forgot about her. She pined so much for Coventry that she ended up killing herself in grief, thus causing her father and son to plot revenge on Coventry and the Order for having been behind it.
Jack's grandfather drops him off at college and Jack is soon abducted by unknown people. We find out that it is a Greek fraternity who has done this in hopes that Jack will join them. Jack begs off saying he is holding out for another organization. He leaves and meets his RA, Randall, who seems like a laid back guy, and his new roommate, Clayton Turner, known by the shortened name Clay, who seems a little weird. After Randall and Clay leave, Jack spots a guy across the hall receiving an invitation and a Blue Rose. Before he can question him, however, the guy disappears into his room and locks the door.

Jack wanders campus and tracks the guy down, who turns out to be Weston Miller. He questions Miller about receiving the invitation which causes Miller to become belligerent at the questioning and attack Jack. Jack easily dodges Miller's attempts and subdues him until Alyssa Drake, who is trying to give a campus tour to the new students, breaks it up. Jack joins the tour and immediately takes over and shows off his knowledge of Belgrave's history and layout, much to Alyssa's shock and somewhat rueful admiration. Randall shows up and quashes Jack's flirting with Alyssa after the tour to offer to take Jack out for a beer. Jack questions Randall about the Order, but Randall claims it is just an urban legend. Jack admits that he wants in the Order and confides that he wants the power that comes with it. He leaves Randall who looks on with a thoughtful gaze.

Miller is attacked and killed by an unknown something while doing his daily run and Stone brings Detective Hayashi to Jack's room for some questions because of Jack's confrontation with Miller earlier. When Jack mentions Alyssa as a possible alibi, Stone cuts off the interrogation and leaves Jack with a warning that further violence between students won't be tolerated. When Jack turns back from closing the door once Stone leaves, he spots an invitation and Blue Rose on his previously empty bed telling him to go to Kneebend Trail at dusk.

Jack arrives at the appointed time to see six other students also waiting. Most of them look upon Jack with disdain, but Amir approaches and tries to smooth things over with Jack. Suddenly two robed and masked figures appear to task them to find three coins because even though there are seven candidates, only three will be selected as Neophytes of the Order. They are told to find the coins, but to take only one and forbidden to reveal the location of any other to the other candidates. They are charged to find it by "night 5 in 24 hours." Jack thinks he recognizes Alyssa's voice as one of the two masked figures. Later, at the bar, the candidates who were snobbish towards Jack all puzzle out what they are supposed to do and all agree to do anything in their power to make sure Jack doesn't get in to the Order.

Jack goes to his Ethics class, taught by professor Eric Clarke. A girl in class thinks that they shouldn't be talking about the tragic death of Miller and the professor recognizes it as her trying to be the center of attention. Jack expresses feelings of guilt about Miller's death because it created an opportunity [to join the Order] for him. The professor turns this into a discussion about honesty being the cornerstone of ethics and Jack realizes that "night five" might actually be "Knight Five," referring to the giant chessboard on campus. After class, Jack goes to the chessboard and starts prying up the stones, but he is interrupted by Alyssa. She begins a game with the oversized figures and soundly trounces Jack while simultaneously flirting with him and denying his suspicions that she is in the Order. She tells him that the aggressive moves are not always the best moves after checkmating him. Kyle interrupts them and takes Alyssa away, but not before she gives Jack a clue about the campus map being what will lead him to his objective in his coin quest. Jack checks his map and realizes that it wasn't the chessboard Knight but N-5 on his campus map. He heads off to the area as Kyle scoffs at him from a distance because he thinks Jack was asking Alyssa about the English department building and is headed the wrong way.

Jack heads into the woods and comes to the location where he sees a dilapidated abandoned building. Sitting outside and not far from the building is Todd Shutner, one of Jack's fellow quest participants. Todd is injured and complaining that he doesn't need help, he simply wants the coin that is inside. Jack enters the building and soon Todd joins him as they see a locked wooden box with something alive inside that prevents them from reaching in to grab the coin that is in sight. Jack realizes that the creature inside the box responds to sound, so he quietly puts his arm through the opening and grabs the coin just as the thing makes a grab for him. Todd sees that Jack has the coin and demands it because he saw it first. Just then, the creature starts going into a frenzy, so Jack runs and drags Todd with him. Outside the shack, two hooded figures await and Todd complains that he saw the coin first. "Yes, but you couldn't claim it," one figure says and sprays a powder into Todd's face. Todd goes unconscious and is dragged back by two more hooded figures. Jack asks what will happen to him and one of the hooded figures says, "Who?" Jack turns around and Todd and the other figures are gone. When he turns back, the other two are gone as well. Jack runs back to campus.

Back at campus, Amir meets with Jack and is excited that Jack found a coin. Suddenly they hear a scream and run to see what might be happening. They come across Drea, another of the Blue Rose candidates, who is mortally wounded and dying. Jack tells Amir to call 9-1-1, but Amir delays when he keeps hearing noises around them. Drea doesn't make it and Detective Hayashi again questions Jack as to what happened, but leaves soon. Jack then shows up to provide a "Safe Walk" to someone and runs into Alyssa, who is also there for the same reason. They find out that it is Todd, arm fresh in a cast from his misadventure with the creature in the locked box, who requested the "Safe Walk." He only has a vague altered memory of his arm being hurt in a bike accident. Alyssa shuts Jack down when he tries to question her about what was done to Todd and suddenly Jack finds another invitation in his jacket pocket from the Order and wonders how they keep doing that.

Jack asks his ethics professor, whom he has come to like, whether or not he should do something evil knowing that good would eventually come from this act. The Professor Clarke gives him an ethical puzzle to consider and then tells him that if Jack is looking for someone to validate his decision to do an evil act, then Clarke is not the guy to do that. Jack and Amir meet at the bar to mull over the scavenger hunt assignment they have been given by the Order. Kyle deliberately causes Jack to spill his beer and then sits down with Gregory Crain, who has been passed over for selection because Jack was chosen instead. He complains about this and Kyle tells him to keep quiet and that he'd take care of it. Kyle then leaves after getting a text. Jack follows Kyle and discovers the hidden temple of the Order. He spies on the Order as they perform a necromancy spell to see what the now dead Drea saw in her last moments. He gets out of there quickly and goes to his grandfather and tells him that the Order uses real magic. "Makes sense," Pete says, but it scares Jack. Suddenly an amulet appears in his pocket with instructions to wear it for protection. Pete is disappointed that there wasn't more of a production to the magic.

Jack runs into Alyssa at the chessboard and asks her if this final test is worth it, knowing she probably won't answer. She finally drops her innocent act to confirm that, yes, eventually it will be worth it. Jack goes to the graveyard to complete his task by getting something from his mother's grave. Kyle appears and snaps Jack's picture in mid-graverobbing and uses it to blackmail Jack to quit the Order. A, what we assume to be a werewolf, appears behind Kyle and both end up trying to run, but Jack trips and the werewolf stands over him a moment before running off into the surrounding woods. Fade to black as Jack runs off in fright at his close call.

*To be added*

## Cast

* Sarah Grey as Alyssa Drake
* Matt Frewer as Pete Morton
* Sam Trammell as Eric Clarke
* Katharine Isabelle as Vera Stone
* Louriza Tronco as Gabrielle Dupres
* Aaron Hale as Brandon
* Jedidiah Goodacre as Kyle
* Dylan Playfair as Clayton Turner
* Hiro Kanagawa as Detective Hayashi
* Ty Wood as Gregory Crain
* Ajay Friese as Amir
* Matt Visser as Weston Miller
* Drew Ray Tanner as Todd Shutner
* Favour Onwuka as Drea Antonucci
* Tim Donadt as Fraternity President
* Emily Holmes as Margaret Crain
* Mizinga Mwinga as Narc

## Episode Deaths

* Weston Miller
* Drea Antonucci

## References

1. ↑ Episode Information (Season 1: Ep.1) - Netflix