SYFY’s The Magicians is off to an amazing start of their fifth season. Episode three confronts Alice and Eliot’s feelings about Quentin, has Margo and Fen fighting each other with sharp objects, and Penny and Julia looking for a way to predict the big magical surge. ‘The Mountain of Ghosts’ was written by Sera Gamble and directed by John Scott.
The Big One | Julia (Stella Maeve) and Penny (Arjun Gupta) are determined to figure out when the big magic surge is going to hit, but to do so they need help. They look for the author of the circumstances book, Daniella Marcus (Sola Bamis), and find her office. But they don’t find Daniella, instead they find her sister Zoe (Yetide Badaki) inside a room that looks just like the Physical Kids cottage at Brakebills. Zoe refuses to help Julia and Penny, but as they leave we see Daniella appear behind them. She seemed to be listening in on their conversation.
At Brakebills, Professor Lipson (Keegan Connor Tracy) remembers Zoe, Daniella, and their other sister Beth. Apparently they averted some sort of apocalypse their senior year.
Julia and Penny decide to try again and do speak with Daniella, but Zoe finds them and is furious. She warns her sister about how obsessive she can get and what happened to Beth, then kicks Julia and Penny out.
Later, Penny is expressing to Julia his desire for them to have a future together when they are interrupted by Daniella. She’s been working and has created a statistical model that can predict the time frame in which the big surge will hit. She says it will be in about 2 weeks, when something called the Harmonic Convergence will also be taking place. This could result in the deaths of millions. Both Daniella and Zoe will help to prevent this from happening.
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Wolf PMS | Margo (Summer Bishil), Fen (Brittany Curran), Eliot (Hale Appleman), and Josh (Trevor Einhorn) make their way back to Earth for a brief moment before returning to Fillory for a tournament. Margo needs to lift her banishment, and if she wins and becomes a member of the Centurion then her banishment will be lifted. They all head back to Fillory [though Eliot goes on a different adventure with Alice] and Margo and Fen enter the tournament. Fen probably got excited when she realized she could use her knives and that’s why she decided to enter.
Margo and Fen kick ass under their alias’s Janet and Fencicle. Part of the reason Margo is doing so well, other than being a magician, is because they are a day away from a double full moon on Fillory and her wolf PMS is raging.
Fen and Margo both do extremely well, but there is one problem; there can only be one female member of the Centurion. They must fight the next night at sundown, only problem is that that is when Margo will go full wolf. And as a matter of fact, it’s revealed Fen will also go full wolf. She slept with Josh when they thought they would never see their friends again.
When Margo and Fen face-off for the spot on the Centurion it’s obvious Margo is in rage mode. Once the fight begins Margo cuts Fen’s braid and eventually disarms her, grabs her knife and stabs her hard in the chest. Margo wins, but she’s killed her friend i the process. Or did she? Fen sits up and pulls the knife out, congratulating Margo on grabbing her Child’s Play knife so as not to actually hurt her. They begin their wolfy changes, so they’re taken to their cages.
The next morning lots of truths come out. Fen and Josh apologize to Margo for sleeping together. Margo admits she didn’t know it was a child’s knife she stabbed Fen with, and also admits that she didn’t write the letter that saved them. When Fen realizes Margo was just going to let them die she goes off on her.
Rest | Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley) realizes she still has Quentin’s essence and needs to return it. Eliot decides he wants to join her, and together they head to The Mountain of Ghosts in Fillory. They hire a man named Yan (Mark Gibbon) to safely get them up the mountain, but Yan ends up getting taken by a Taker. Later, the taker steals Q’s essence so Eliot goes after him, but almost gets himself killed. He’s saved by a man who does magic to kill the Taker. The man offers him and Alice a drink and company, and they accept. They get very drunk with this man and he reveals why he’s there; to mourn the love of his life, a man whom he lost any years ago and he returns yearly to remember him. Alice and Eliot talk about Q.
Alice goes to bed leaving Eliot and the man alone. They stargaze and talk about love. Eliot opens up about his feelings for Q, and the man encourages him to be honest about his feelings with Alice.
The next day they make it to the top of the mountain. Alice is able to drop Q’s essence into the top, and Eliot pulls out the magical letter he wrote to Q but never sent. He opens up to Alice about him and Q, and she surprises him by telling him she already knew, and tells him that Quentin was “pretty in love with you.” Eliot finally breaks down about Q, and they drop the letter into the mountain together.
At the bottom of the mountain they are saying goodbye to their new friend when the King’s Carriage approaches. It turns out their new buddy is the Dark King (Sean Maguire). Uh-oh.
The Magicians airs Wednesdays at 10pm on SYFY!