W.I.T.C.H. S2 E13

## Plot

Yan Lin is back at Mount Thanos to deliver flowers to Cassidy's grave. Nerissa arrives after she leaves and raises Cassidy's ghost. It's been forty years. Nerissa apologizes to Cassidy for "her part" in Cassidy's death. She "feels a responsibility to show her all she's missed." Yeah, she has an ulterior motive. But what could it be? Meanwhile, Shagon has been ordered to distract the girls to stop them from interfering. Will gets a part time job at Mr. Olsen's pet store. Since Matt has been Shagon-ified, he hasn't exactly gone home to his family lately. He wrote them a letter, saying he went off to Hollywood. It's in his handwriting. Will starts leaving after her first day, only for Mr. Olsen to apparently be mugged. Except it was Shagon, who also goes after Yan Lin. Nerissa brings Cassidy to Shell Beach. She loved to swim. Nerissa is trying to convince her to live again so she'll be under her control. Cassidy wanted to be a pediatrician and loved kids. Visiting the children's ward in the hospital doesn't convince her though, and she knows there has to be strings attached. Susan plans for Dean, herself, and Will to go out to dinner on the boardwalk, since she and Dean are a couple now and it's time Will got to know him. Shagon has been going after the girls' families. He almost blew up Peter, Taranee's brother, almost ran Irma's mom off the road, and Lillian saw him just staring at her through her window. Luckily she thought he was just a nightmare. Will has to go to dinner with her mom to protect her in case Shagon attacks. What feels like an earthquake hits. It's actually Shagon destroying the support beams to the boardwalk. When she looks for Will, Susan almost falls, but Dean catches her. Will fights Shagon one on one, and loses badly. She also learns that Shagon wrote the letter and faked Matt's handwriting. Shagon has her at his mercy, but he decides not to kill her. He claims it's because he enjoys it too much. Some interpret it as Matt's romantic feelings for Will. Although given how little control we see Matt has in episode 19, I think that's unlikely. Susan starts to slip, but Dean pulls her up. Will is glad to see that she's alright, and vice versa. At the pet shop, "Matt" returns, but he makes it clear to Will that he's simply Shagon glamoured as Matt. That night, the girls ambush him at Matt's house and take him to a train yard. Every time he knocks down one of the girls, the hate from the others increases. He gains immense power from this, able to beat all five of them and be open for the kill. But once again, he lets them live. Will realizes that he doesn't really hate any of them; he hates himself for following Nerissa's orders. Since he's actually Matt, this makes sense. Will realizes that there's good inside him and offers him a chance to reform. He rejects her offer and flies off. Will finally accepts her mom dating her teacher since he saved her life. And then guess who shows up at the door! Will's dad. Well, this is awkward. When Cassidy sees her mother Emily again, she finally wishes that she was alive, and Nerissa is able to control her.

## Review

This was a good episode. Nerissa's plan worked flawlessly. Almost all of them do. It's all about distraction with ultimately disposable minions while slowly gaining more and more power, and she's also able to adapt and change plans on the fly, such as trying to enthrall/control a super powered Cornelia, etc. Aside from the U.S., parts of this episode were actually censored in various countries, due to a large male character attacking female ones mirroring domestic abuse. Okay, but the girls have also been attacked by the Tracker, Cedric, Frost the Hunter, Phobos, Raythor, Sandpit, Gargoyle, and so on, earlier in this season and the previous one, but those scenes weren't censored. I'd argue that episode 8 of this season is worse, since it contains the only real permanent death in the entire series. Although they always say "destroy" instead of "kill" or "die", because censors can be weirdly selective and stupid like that. The reason Emily doesn't notice or question Nerissa's appearance is because she's blind.