Episode 3

**“Episode #1.3”** is the third episode of Season 1, as well as the third episode of the series. It was released on Netflix on October 28, 2022.

## Synopsis

Soul and a team of Hunter cadets look to escort Nathan to London, but they run into trouble along the way. Annalise grapples with her newfound power.

## Plot

Gran is approached by Soul, who looks worried.

Kieran feels bad sleeping next to Jessica, who shapeshifts into a big man while she sleeps. He hears his phone ring and Soul tells him that his father is dead.

Nathan tells Ceelia that he knows that he should work on his left hand, but Ceelia tells him that his grandmother had killed herself with a potion. Nathan cries as he thinks about it, and remembers his grandmother's support.

Nathan keeps training with Ceelia, getting stronger and more resistant. One day, many vans show up. Soul and Jessica show up, telling him that many people were dead and his father was responsible. Soul tells him that Reutger wanted to train him to kill his father, but things had changed and he would be going with them now. Nathan proves that he can now put up a fight against Fairborns, but they start using magic to subdue him. Ceelia tells Soul to stop, but he does not listen and they take Nathan.

Seated next to Jessica, he asks her if he had gone to Gran's funeral, but she does not respond. He mocks her for being part of the Fairborn cadets, and she tells him to shut up. In front of them, the van filled with Fairborns is attacked and everyone realises it is Marcus. The car crashes and Jessica and Nathan's car moves ahead. They drive into a storm created by magic, so Jessica gets Nathan out of the car as the Fairborns are attacked by Marcus.

Soul, Nathan and Jessica exit the storm and start walking away. Nathan is confused by what happened until they drive away in a stolen car. Nathan takes Jessica's hairclip without her noticing in order to pick at his handcuffs and remove them. In the Council building, Nathan realizes nobody knew what Soul was doing. He tries to resist, but is sedated.

When Nathan wakes up, he finds himself tied and shirtless. He tells Soul he is not his father, but Soul does not listen, since he believes powers define who you are. He cuts Nathan open by his wrists and takes some of the blood, starting with the dark magic. He knows terrible things must be done to cast it, but he goes through with it anyway as he pokes holes in Nathan's skin.

Nathan is able to escape once he leaves and runs through the Council building, followed by a security guard, who suddenly starts to explode in slow motion. All his insides fall to the ground as Nathan realizes it was Annalise who had done that.

In the months while Nathan was gone, at school, when Nathan was beating Niall, Annalise walks and finds him doing so. When she goes home, she asks Soul about Nathan, but her parents tell her to forget about him. Once Nathan's grandmother tells her to leave and not come back, she flirts with David. They end up having sex in his car, and when they finally crash in the future, she is brought back home and told that Reutger had died. Annalise's mother, asks if she had felt her power, but she says she had not. Walking downstairs, she finds her father with a gun in his office, so she leaves.

The next day, Annalise tries to grow a plant to no avail. When her pet mouse bites her, she makes it explode and realizes that was her power. That night, she tries making a watch explode, but is not able to. Once she realizes she had hurt David and becomes agitated, her watch explodes. Soul finds the bloodstain of Annalise's mouse on the carpet while David describes the pain he felt when he started touching Annalise. That night while reading through one of her father's books, Annalise finds her power, which is called Decimation, or "The Undoing".

That night, while going to the Council, Annalise goes to the library after greeting the security guard Steve, who she knew. An alarm starts to sound, and as she sees Steve pointing a gun at Nathan, she stops him from shooting by tearing him apart. Nathan is in shock as they both try to leave. Jessica points a gun at them, telling them to stop, so they run away and make it outside, where they are still chased by her.

Once they are in a safe place, Annalise throws up before joining Nathan at a table for food. Annalise can not believe she killed someone, and refuses to let Nathan touch her because she does not want to hurt him, but he says she would not do that. She kills herself a monster, but he tells her that she did not mean to do it. Nathan explains why he had been training, which she calls stupid, but he tells her it had been going quite well. Nathan tells her about the forbidden spell her father wanted, and she wonders what they were going to do, as they were 10 days away from his 17th birthday and he would die if he did not get his blood. Nathan considers talking to Mercury and they try figuring out the map on the palm of his hand. Yelling at it to help, it starts guiding them and telling them where to go.

At an apartment, Annalise and Nathan reach the destination the map pointed them to. Annalise is nervous because she had never met a Blood Witch and wonders if they are bad. Nathan tells her they are bad as they open the door to the apartment they were led to. Inside, they find a man who Nathan tells he had found his location with a map carved into his hand. The man, Gabriel, recognizes it and says he was expecting Nathan because he works for Mercury. Gabriel tells Annalise that Mercury has blood samples from all the witch families because she is a witch who can get them anything. Annalise asks if she can change her power, and Gabriel says that anything is possible, but first, they needed to get to Paris.

Annalise asks when they would leave, but Gabriel clarifies that he was only told to bring one witch, but Annalise tells him she would go as well. Nathan tells her she does not need to help him, but she tells him she would. As they go into the bathroom, Gabriel rushes them to take their clothes off, so they undress in front of one another. However, Nathan turns when Annalise is fully nude and she jumps into the shower first. Once she gets out of the shower, they begin kissing passionately. They are interrupted by Gabriel, who asks them not to have sex in his bathroom.

Gabriel tells them that his powers are complex as they hear a knock at the door. However, Gabriel lets them know that he was not expecting guests. He asks who they are running from and Nathan responds that the Fairborn Council, which makes Gabriel realize it was serious. The Fairborn Council blows up Gabriel's front door and he shoots at them. Nathan manages to knock the witches out on his own, which makes Annalise realize his training had been going well. Gabriel gives them orbs in order to escape from Soul, who mentions Annalise is his daughter. Gabriel tells her to give him his orb back, but she swallows it. Gabriel and Nathan escape as Annalise is approached by her father. However, she jumps from the window as well.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Jay Lycurgo as Nathan Byrne
* Nadia Parkes as Annalise O'Brien
* Emilien Vekemans as Gabriel Boutin
* Paul Ready as Soul O'Brien
* Isobel Jesper Jones as Jessica Byrne
* Karen Connell as Ceelia
* Franc Ashman as Reutger
* Kerry Fox as Esmie Byrne
* Liz White as Penelope O'Brien
* Misia Butler as Niall O'Brien
* Hector Hewer as Kieran O'Brien

### Additional Cast

* Kitty Anderson as Young Jessica
* Jake Dunn as David
* Andrew Greenough as Alfie
* Emiko Ishii as Alex
* Laura Lake as Mya
* Shereen Martin as Aoife
* Theo Mason as Young Nathan
* Jeska Pike as Gill
* Tim Plester as Rowan O'Brien
* Nina Sia as Blood Witch
* Dylan Devonald Smith as Blood Witch
* Deka Walmsley as Steve
* David Webber as Geoff
* Jermaine Young as Lennox
* Kaine Zajaz as Taylor