Wow! What an action packed episode this was! This week gave us an old pal, a steamy dance from the 70s, a craving mad beast, and so much more!
First, Frederick tells Joanna and Wendy that his grandfather must have sent the Mandragora through the portal after him and even if they go after the Mandragora, there’s no one who has ever went against it and lived to tell about it.
Joanna goes to Alex (Michelle Hurd, The Glades), a seer, for help defeating the Mandragora who has already killed two people. Alex informs them that the Mandragora is connected with its mate that it feeds off of by having sex, so if they kill the Mandragora, they kill their mate. It is later revealed that due to the process of the Mandrgora’s feeding, the mate is under psychosis which eventually leads to death. Yikes! This doesn’t look good for Ingrid at all! Thankfully, when Alex and Joanna track the Mandragora, Joanna discovers in time that Ingrid is its mate. But where does this leave Ingrid who by the end of the episode isn’t herself.
Before Ingrid goes wild, at work, Dash brings a patient back to life with his powers and when a clueless Ingrid goes to get checked out by him after another blackout, she notices the side effects of him casting a spell. It turns out Sam’s death is inside Dash’s body and in order to survive, Dash and Ingrid must figure out a way to get it out. It turns out, the only way is to restore the natural order by returning Sam’s death back to him.
So when a thief comes into the hospital with horrible injuries but injuries that will allow him to live, Dash decides to send Sam’s death to him! And he lies to Ingrid about it! Bold move! Such a grey area here. Do you think Dash did the right thing? He can watch over Ingrid all he wants and help her figure out what’s happening to her, another magical being but when it comes to healing and harming mortals, innocents and guilty ones alike, where do you stand?
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Finally, there’s Freya. With a tweak of Ingrid’s past life brown recipe, Freya has been reliving her past lives in her dreams. She’s visited the 20s, 50s, and we are lucky enough to see her relive her 70s. And she dances. Yes. We finally get to see Jenna Dewan-Tatum dance! What a treat that was!
So anyway, sometimes Dash is there in Freya’s past life and sometimes in those past lives Dash and Killian are brothers. All of the time though, Killian and Freya are together. No matter, Ingrid urges Freya to stop using the recipe for fear of stumbling upon something she doesn’t want to see, like Ingrid once did. Freya agrees. Of course though, she doesn’t listen. She goes back to the 70s and discovers that not only were Freya and this past life version of Killian together but Freya working with Dash with their magic to create quite the drug ring and when she wanted out, Dash threatened to kill her. But who does he end up shooting and killing? This past life version of Killian. And that, my friends is when Freya accepts what she learned in yet another past life dream.
Another past life showed Alex giving Freya a reading, telling her that the man she is about to marry she’s known in many lives before. They’re star crossed and it doesn’t end well. What do you think? Will Freya and Killian ever end up together, happily?
Killian has confronted Freya about being a witch and all is well in their world now that everyone is on the same page at least in this sense. Frederick has a magical seizure near the end of the episode but will it matter after being caught in between Ingrid and the Mandragora? Alex and Joanna used to be romantically involved but something tells me these memories are best left as memories. Joanna clearly wants nothing to do with Alex’s magical abilities. All or nothing. And I didn’t miss Eva putting a little something, something in Killian’s drink when Killian and Freya were talking about their witchy lives. So what do you think she is up to? Witches of East End has given us plenty to think about until next week! What will become of Ingrid? Of Dash? Of Killian and Eva?
Witches of East End airs Sundays at 9/8c on Lifetime.