Season 2 - Episode 42: Spellbound

## Synopsis

Sammie is able to stop Gideon from attacking her and then contain him in Miguel's closet. She removes any items in the closet she think might hurt Gideon - Jadis' spellbook and an ornate, red-bladed sword. When Sammie tries to drop the sword, she can't. She comes back to the surface and updates Bjorn and Henry, but keeps the spellbook a secret. Miguel and Stanley come to help perform a cleansing ritual on Sammie to get rid of her gills, also telling Sammie the only way to be able to drop the sword is by not being angry for 24 hours. Once they're gone, Bjorn and Henry confront Sammie about the spellbook they saw her hiding in the sand. In the argument, Sammie stabs Henry through the stomach.

## Episode Description

Sammie is in trouble, soon to be for more reasons than one.

## Key Events

* Sammie contains Gideon in Miguel's closet and removes anything dangerous she thinks might hurt Gideon. She takes out Jadis' spellbook and the demonblade.
* Miguel tells Sammie the only way for her to let go of the demonblade is to not get angry for 24 hours.
* Sammie tells Bjorn and Henry about the spellbook. Bjorn and Henry don't think she should have it and Henry tries to forcibly take it from her. Sammie stabs him through the stomach.

## Summary

Sammie realizes she's in danger. She connects with Gideon to try and find his location, then lies in wait for him to approach. When he does, she attempts to use magic to trap him in place so that he can't attack her. The strain of holding the spell causes her spell allowing her to breathe underwater to run out and she quickly tries to redo it. The magic goes wrong and instead causes her to form gills on her sides again like she had when being turned by the sirens.

Sammie swims forward and puts her hand on Gideon's forehead to use a mind wipe spell to knock him out. Gideon goes limp and Sammie starts to swim, pulling him along, back to his cell. She finds his cell only to find that the room is destroyed - the walls are crumbling, the door is ripped open, and the runes are broken. Sammie swims back toward the ladder with Gideon in tow and tries to telepathically connect with Bjorn. Sammie sends him a message to call Stanley and Miguel to find a different secure room to store Gideon in.

Above ground, Bjorn asks Henry if he just heard Sammie's voice and Henry says he didn't. Bjorn passes along what he heard Sammie say and Henry calls Stanley, putting it on speaker. They ask where to take Gideon and Stanley tells them Miguel said to try his closet - he's stored other magical objects there and it should keep him contained. Bjorn isn't sure how to communicate with Sammie but just asks if she can hear him and then tells her what Stanley told them.

Under the water, Sammie begins to pull Gideon to Miguel's room. She finds that Miguel has two closets - one that she's been in before when Miguel gave her some of Lucy's clothes to wear - and one that is bolted shut with a black lock. Sammie searches around and finds the key. She opens the door and sees a large book floating in the water. The book snaps open and the words begin to float off the page toward her. Sammie realizes this isn't anything good and protects her mind with magic. The words float back to the book and it snaps shut again. Sammie suddenly realizes the book is full of black, corrupting magic. She feels Jadis stirring at the back of her mind. She feels a sense of belonging to the book and suddenly realizes that this book is Jadis' personal spellbook.

Sammie tries to ignore the book for now and puts Gideon in the closet. She looks around for any weapons he might injure himself with or use against them and spots an ornate, red-bladed sword. Sammie grabs the sword and the book on her way out, deeming them too dangerous to leave inside with Gideon. She locks the door again and tries to drop the sword outside of it, but finds she can't release it from her grasp. Sammie puts the key to the closet in her pocket and then finds a way to swim out into the ocean and back toward the beach. Once she gets near the shore, she calls out for Bjorn and Henry.

Just as they spot her, Bjorn's phone rings. It's Miguel. He tells Bjorn to tell Sammie to be careful in his closet and not touch anything. Bjorn tells Miguel to hang on a moment and puts him on speaker as he and Henry get as close as they can to Sammie. He relays this to Sammie and Sammie tells them its too late. She's in the water up to her chest, but keeps the objects in her arms hidden under the waves. Miguel asks what she touched and Sammie slowly holds up the sword stuck in her hand and says she can't let go of it. Miguel tells them it's a demonblade and she won't be able to let go of it. Sammie also tells them that her gills grew back, that something went wrong with the magic she used and that's why she has to stay in the water. Miguel says Stanley is going to bring him over so they can do the same purification ritual they did before.

Miguel asks one more time if Sammie touched anything else and Sammie says no, not revealing that she has the spellbook. She is able to keep it hidden beneath her in the water. Miguel says they'll be there in 20 minutes. As Sammie is floating in the water, she tries to talk to Jadis. Surprisingly, she answers. Sammie asks her about the spellbook and Jadis says that any charm, spell, incantation, anything she's ever created is in that book. Sammie asks how Jadis lost the book and Jadis explains it was stolen from her about 20 or 30 years ago. Jadis says that she could sense the book was here but she was unable to find it and that Sammie won't be able to do anything to stop her from killing whoever stole it. Sammie tells Jadis that the person who did is likely dead. She asks Jadis if Gideon looked like a product of one of her spells and Jadis confirms he does, though the magic was done poorly. Sammie asks if the curse can be reversed and Jadis says only if Sammie could figure out the spell.

Sammie gets frustrated and stops asking questions about the book. Jadis begins to prompt her about the sword in her hands, asking her if she wants to know what it is, then she changes her mind and tells Sammie she'll let her find out what it does herself. While Sammie has this conversation with Jadis, Bjorn and Henry pace along the beach and think about what the next part of the plan is.

Stanley and Miguel arrive at the island and Stanley carries Miguel over to the rocks near Sammie. Miguel apologizes that he should have warned them sooner, but that what she's holding is a demonblade - it feeds off anger and the only way for her to let go of it is to not be angry for 24 hours. Sammie feels anger bubble through her and the sword swings itself out of the water and comes to rest below Miguel's chin at his throat. Miguel clears his throat and leans back, clarifying the time starts now. Sammie takes a deep breath and asks if Miguel can at least get rid of her gills. Miguel agrees, saying they can do the ritual in the ocean.

Sammie tries to hide the spellbook in the sand beneath her. She does so, but both Bjorn and Henry notice her doing something under the water with her feet. They exchange a glance, both silently communicating that they've noticed and will address it later. They all carefully make their way into the water to perform the cleansing ritual on Sammie to get rid of her gills. The ritual takes place but the transition for Sammie is slower. Miguel tells her to stay in the water for another hour or two until the gills are gone and then he and Stanley leave to go back to the hotel.

Once they're gone, Bjorn confronts Sammie about what she's hiding. Sammie says she wanted to show them, she just didn't want Miguel to see. She pulls the spellbook out of the sand and explains what it is. Bjorn and Henry are shocked and Henry immediately approaches her to take the book from her, saying she shouldn't be the one holding it. Sammie disagrees and pulls back, saying she's the only one magically equipped enough to defend herself from the book. Bjorn and Henry both push back, telling her she shouldn't be handling the book with Jadis inside of her. Henry starts to move down the rocks toward her in an attempt to jump off the rocks and into the water beside her.

Sammie feels anger bubble up inside of her and the sword begins to act of its own accord. It swings toward Henry but Sammie is able to pull it back at the last second, stabbing herself in the leg. Sammie cries out in pain and tells Henry to get away from her. Henry does the opposite and dives toward Sammie for the book. Sammie plunges the demonblade through Henry's gut.

## List of Appearances

* Sammie Overbrook
* Gideon Marlowe
* Bjorn Olafson
* Henry Marlowe
* Stanley Marlowe
* Miguel Rodriguez
* Jadis