- The past and the present meet when Century is to be reborn. Tess has to figure out how the future can help save the village after she realizes the villains plan to use her mother and her unborn sister as the vessels.
- The villagers march to their temple ruins. Their subconscious dream - to re-incarnate Century - is supposed to be realised there.
Julia realises why Esme is able to resist her: Esme's mind is protected by Alice Harkness. Julia instructs Richard to deal with the old woman. At their home, Elisabeth remains oblivious to Tess's pleas. Elisabeth joins the rest of the villagers heading for the temple.
At the temple, Julia asks Ben to reshape the past. Ben concentrates and the temple appears, rebuilt. Meanwhile, at the village shop, Richard threatens Alice Harkness. Esme tries to remind Richard of their past together, but she is eventually forced to knock him unconscious in order to protect her mother. Esme teams up with Tess - the only other protected mind in the village.
At the temple, Julia restores Josiah Naismith's voice. Josiah begins to lead the ceremony, whilst Elisabeth stands, compliant, holding the Century mask. In the grounds of the temple, Esme despairs about the past re-occurring. Tess suddenly recalls something Esme told her about acts of faith becoming real. She runs off, instructing Esme to hold up the ceremony.
Esme bursts into the temple. She tells the villagers that the 'psychic mind is running riot, but you have minds of your own'. This time however, Julia's overwhelming power is too strong, and Esme forcibly joins the other villagers. Back in her house, Tess goes to the room that is intended to be her baby sister's nursery. Tess is certain that the future can be seen, as when Esme rolled back the past before, old Esme saw young Esme, but young Esme also saw old Esme - she saw the future and lost faith.
At the temple, the Century mask glows. Ben once more starts to bleed from the effort of using his powers.
In the nursery, Tess is given a glimpse of the future. She sees the walls decorated, and the spectre of the little girl - it is her unborn sister. Tess announces triumphantly to herself that 'the future isn't blind'. The little girl appears at the temple, and touches Ben's head - the ceremony is broken and time starts to slip forward to the time of the fire. Julia rushes out, holds the mask aloft and orders Ben to hold the past back - but Ben doesn't like being told what to do. Fire racks the temple and the villagers run out - once more, Josiah burns. Elisabeth seizes the mask from Julia, and dashes it to the ground.
Tess tells the villagers that they lost faith in the future, so it didn't exist. They must let past wounds heal and start again. Julia runs away, but the villagers pursue her vengefully. Mrs Hunter is anguished that they can seemingly make the future with a killing. Meanwhile, Carey and Ben talk. Ben reveals that the little girl from the future told him he won't necessarily die or decline, if he has his sister with him.
The villagers pursue Julia to the waterfall. They raise stones to drive her out, but Esme and May arrive with Alice Harkness. Alice tells the villagers they should beg Julia's forgiveness as she was not at fault - she is an hollow woman created by the repressed psychic mind of the village. Nonetheless, on top of the waterfall, Julia quietly tells herself that she was lost, always lost. She throws herself into the water.
Time passes, and Tess is seen playing with her baby sister by the falls. She goes over how Ben and Carey still visit, and that Century Falls will now not die with new life in the village - 'one day, it might even be a happy place'. She returns to the temple on that fateful July day every year, wondering if she will see Julia again and wanting to tell her that no matter how things can get broken, they can also mend. Tess wishes she could know that 'good or bad, there is a future. It's always there'.
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