- With Fiona struggling to cope with the effects of her medication, the rest of the coven undertake a ritual known as the "sacred taking" to prepare for the next supreme. However Fiona must take her own life if the ritual is to be a success.
- Fearing for their lives, Misty and a resurrected Myrtle arrive at the coven. While Fiona's away, the group performs a ritual of protection, led by Cordelia. They all decide that, no matter who is to be the next Supreme, Fiona must die. Madison gives Fiona a choice: death by suicide or be burned at the stake. Feeling more ill, Fiona chooses to take sleeping pills. Before she dies, a ghostly Spalding convinces her that they were both murdered. She vomits out the pills, swearing to avenge them both. After an assassination attempt on the witches, Fiona and Cordelia make peace, but an unmarked package arrives from Marie, containing Delphine's head with its eyes still blinking.—FX
- Queenie walks under a bridge at night in the bad part of town, when a man approaches her, threatening her. She picks up a board with nails in it and drive it into her own hand, making him bleed, then whacks him with it for good measure.
Madison and Zoe find her. Queenie says Marie Laveau set her straight about them not being her true friends and shes doing voodoo now.
Boo friggin hoo. You switched teams because girls were mean to you? Fiona slit my throat, you dont see me bitching out, Madison taunts.
Zoe tells her things are changing and a new supreme is rising. But Queenie is unmoved. She takes out a long dagger and dives it into the chest of the man she just knocked out. Zoe and Madison are horrified, as Queenie digs around in his chest and pulls out the still-beating heart. Queenie explains the man raped at least three school girls and Marie needs a dark heart. Shes doing a spell to make Queenies powers stronger. Shes chosen her side. War is coming, and youre gonna lose, she says.
In her room at the Academy, Fiona writhes in pain from the cancer that has now invaded her spine.
She spends a lazy afternoon in bed with the Axeman, who asks her to run away with him. But she doesnt want him watching her die. She wouldnt consider suicide, though. She wants to stay alive just to spite them. She thinks her cancer is advancing so rapidly because one of the girls is coming into her Supreme powers, she just has to figure out which one it is.
Lukes mother chews him out for going over to the Academy, saying the girls are using devils magic. He insists that they saved him, but she wants him to repent. She says hes unclean from the inside out. She mixes up an enema and forces him to strip.
Across the street at the Academy, Nan can hear that hes in pain, but Cordelia wants her attention. Theyre planning their move, which involves Madison staying hidden from Cordelia.
The doorbell rings insistently. Cordelia wonders where Spaulding and Delphine (Madame LaLaurie) have gone. Zoe answers the insistent knocking, its Misty, freaking out.
She tells Zoe shes been hiding in the woods with her Stevie, but shes been found.
Flash back to Mistys cabin, shes woken in the middle of the night by a re-animated Myrtle, still covered in her healing mud. But thats not what scared her, its the man with a shotgun who blasted through her door right after she hid.
Zoe tells Cordelia that Misty is a fellow witch who needs protection. Cordelia takes her hand and sees her burning at the stake and immediately knows shes Misty Day. Cordelia promises her shes under the protection of the coven now. Misty asks if her friend can stay.
The witches follow her to the greenhouse, where Myrtle is almost back to normal, with some scarring (frizzy wig in place). She points out that resurrection is the most difficult of the Seven Wonders and Misty has already proven capable of it, she believes shes the next Supreme.
Upstairs, Zoe gives Kyle a childrens website to help him learn to talk. Madison joins them and kisses him, theyre sharing him now.
Downstairs, the coven gets ready for a ritual known as The Sacred Taking. They don red robes and black lace veils. Zoe isnt sure Misty is the Supreme, which causes Madison to taunt her for thinking it was her. Madison says shes sure it isnt Nan. Cordelia tells them being a Supreme isnt a gift, its a burden. Misty doesnt want to be the Supreme, but she doesnt get to choose. Whoever it is will be it after Fiona dies.
Cordelia explains the Sacred Taking ritual is invoked to protect the coven, and has been used three times before, once during the Salem witch trials. In it a Supreme takes her own life to ensure the safety of the coven, hurrying the transition to the next supreme. Madison doesnt think Fiona will kill herself. Not without a push, Cordelia says.
Up in her room, Fiona heaves into the toilet. The clock turns to midnight and Season of the Witch starts playing. Fiona comes into her room to see Madison dancing around, claiming the room for herself. She tells Fiona shes the next Supreme and brought herself back. Madison tells Fiona it means theyll burn her at the stake as punishment, or she can swallow the handful of pills Madison gives her.
Madison leaves and Fiona starts packing.
Then Mrytle drops by and tells Fiona that Madison resurrected her. Fiona tells her shes not ready, shes found someone she truly loves who wants to take care of her.
Myrtle tells her shell end up abandoned. Myrtle shows Fiona a scene of her wasting away in hospital bed and the Axeman complaining about the smells and that Fiona is taking too long to die.
Back in the hallway, Madison reports that it went well Fiona thinks Madison is the next Supreme. Nan wants to know why they think it couldnt be her. Because, you have no style and your pits smell like fish sticks, Madison says. Zoe doesnt answer when Nan asks if she thinks it could be her. Nan gets up and storms out.
Waiting in his car outside, Hank sees her go across the street into Lukes house. She hears screams and opens a door. She finds Luke bound and gagged in the closet.
Up in her room, Fiona has her hair wrapped up and is putting on make-up. Myrtle holds a mirror for Fiona as she prepares to die. She asks Myrtle to get her fur from the closet as she reminisces about a great love affair and living her life selfishly. Fiona puts on her coat, talking about not staying too long at the party. She asks Myrtle to look after Cordelia, her most terrible failure. Fiona downs a handful of pills and tells Myrtle to hang her portrait in the spot she chose, not in the basement with the disgraced Russian witch.
Fiona gathers herself and lies down in bed. Myrtle helps herself to Fionas jewelry and walks out.
Fiona wakes up when she hears a voice calling to her. Its Spaulding. He wants to give her something to purge the pills. She notices hes able to speak. He explains that he was murdered. Those idiot girls thought they could silence me, but theyve only given me voice here in the spirit world. Three-hundred years my family has been a clan of watchers and now I see everything, he says. He tries to get her to take the ipecac.
She says shes trying to do something noble and decent for the coven. Horse----. Youre making a martyr of yourself by giving up, he says, saying shes been tricked by lesser witches.
He tells her Madison isnt the next Supreme, she brought back by some dirty little swamp witch.
He feeds her ipecac.
She throws up her pills in the bathroom. Oh, Spaulding. Youve always been my silent sentinel, and I will avenge your murder. Right after I avenge my own, Fiona says.
Back at Marie Leveaus, Queenie brings Delphine La Laurie her favorite fast food. Marie has been bleeding Delphine to make her potions and keeping her locked in a cage. Delphine asks Queenie what she did to deserve her betrayal. She asks Queenie to let her out, but Marie interrupts them.
Marie lords over her captive, but Delphine scoffs at her, pointing out she cant die. With Queenie gone, she turns ugly and laments the darkie in the White House. Marie goes for a large sword and tells Delphine she suffers from lack of imagination.
Delphine sticks her hand out of the cage for a moment and Marie grabs it and hacks it off, warning Delphine shes just getting started.
At the Ramseys, Nan and Luke head for the door. She kisses him on the cheek. Then they run into his mother, calling 911 to report and armed intruder. Luke tells her theyre leaving and she cant stop them. Shes in the middle of threatening him when a rifle sight appears on Mrs. Ramsey and shes hit twice. More bullets come through the windows and Luke dives in front of them to protect Nan and is hit.
Back at the Academy, downstairs they wait for Fiona to die and Misty to feel something. Fiona comes down, definitely not dead. She asks where the swamp witch is.
Misty is across the street as paramedics are taking Luke to the ambulance. Fiona joins her and gets the rundown by spelling a cop. He tells them Luke has a grievous head wound and the mother is dead. Fiona challenges Misty to bring Joan Ramsey back.
Cordelia steps outside and looks around the Ramseys house. She finds a bullet and sees its trajectory and knows it was meant for witches. Inside, Misty brings Joan Ramsey back, and slumps to the ground.
Kyle is playing with his childrens program when Zoe comes upstairs, upset. She tells him theyre under attack and wants to get him out of there. He tells her he loves her. Madison hears them and cries.
In the morning, Cordelia faces Fiona, waiting for her to lash out. Fiona says they demonstrated real grit, and she finally has hope for the future of the coven. She tells Cordelia shes proud of her.
Fiona sees the blessed silver bullet Cordelia found, it means witch hunters. Cordelia tells Fiona they need her now, more than ever.
The doorbell rings and Fiona wonders again where the servants are. She sees a cardboard box on the porch and, after scanning it with magic, takes it inside.
She opens it. Delphine La Lauries head stares back at her and whispers help.
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