SYFY’s The Magicians fourth episode of this season touches on drug use, gods, Takers, and reveals a new Chatwin. ‘Magicians Anonymous’ was written by John McNamara and directed by Geeta Patel.
The Emperor | Kady (Jade Tailor) is at a Magicians Anonymous meeting, confessing that she really wants to get high. She shares about the missing book depository building, and that she knows that it had to have been moved through the Etheric Realm. The problem is, to get to that realm you have to take an acid-like drug called RCH, also known as Archie. After the meeting a girl begins to talk to Kady and ask her about the RCH, and it’s quickly that girl is Dean Fogg (Rick Worthy) who has been sober for just over 1 month. Fogg convinces Kady to show him the drugs [she has 2 of them] and he quickly takes one. Kady desperately wants to find the depository and get high, so why not kill two birds with one stone?
They end up in the Etheric Realm tripping balls. Kady decides to tie their wrists together with Fogg’s tie so they don’t wander away from one another. Though Kady is enjoying her high, she knows she’s here for a reason and tries to ask someone about the depository. The woman instead gives them cotton candy. They spot a life-sized brown bunny wearing sunglasses and decide to follow it to a beach covered in unmatched socks. They soon find the Emperor (Jonathan Goldstein), who tells them as long as they are there the high will remain. Kady wants info about the depository, but the Emperor says there is a price for that information. But first, he wants to search through their thoughts and decide which of the two may stay in the realm and who must leave it.
After a deep dive into their heads the Emperor decides they’re equally messed up and can decide for themselves who gets to stay. They both want to stay, but Kady mentions the depository and fails the Emperor’s secret test, she still has responsible intent. Fogg gets to stay in this realm and Kady realizes what she’s doomed to him to, she apologizes for getting him into this and promises to come back to get him. She’s suddenly returned to Earth with the depository’s location, Hell’s Kitchen.
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Light It Up | Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley) heads to The Library to look for books on the Harmonic Convergence. Once there, she sees people pilfering shelves for books. Zelda (Mageina Tovah) swiftly pulls Alice into another room and tells her those people looting are Visigoths. They want to steal books to rig the future. Alice asks Zelda about books on the Harmonic Convergence, but they’re unfortunately all out with the Visigoths. The door suddenly opens and the Visigoths are before them. The leader, Terrence (David Anders) asks them to surrender and promises their safety. Zelda knows Visigoths never lie, but they never tell the full truth either, so she leads Alice out another door.
Eventually the Visigoths catch up to Alice and Zelda. After a pep-talk from Alice, Zelda sets all the books on fire. This way the ‘goths can’t get anymore books and read about futures. Alice uses her magic to get them out of The Library and back to safety.
Decision Time | Penny (Arjun Gupta) has really been struggling with that strange signal since Merritt (Riann Steele) showed it to him. He discusses this with Merritt as he’s trying on a new patch to try to block the signal. It’s seemed to have worked, then he violently travels away. He returns seconds later in another room bleeding and covered in dirt with no recollection of where he had been. They decide to go to Professor Lipson (Keegan Connor Tracy) for help. Lipson removes the patch and Penny grabs his head and says to get Julia before having weird travel-seizures.
Meanwhile, Julia (Stella Maeve) has been chatting with a god. She summons Clarion (Juliette Goglia), who tells her that the Harmonic Convergence is much worse than they are anticipating. Clarion can stop it, but at a price. She wants to be human and knows Julia was briefly a god before becoming human again.
This leads Julia to bring out the Binder (Matt Frewer) again to see if he would be willing to turn Clarion human, but he refuses. She promises to give him what he finally wants in exchange for helping her with Clarion, burning him. He agrees.
Julia goes to Penny’s side when she learns what happened to him, he’s unconscious. Out of desperation, Julia brings Clarion back to see if she can save him. Clarion can do it, but only in exchange for becoming human. Julia must choose to have Clarion stop the Harmonic Convergence or she can have her save Penny.
Julia picked her boyfriend’s life over the rest of the world, and has the awful task of telling him the only way to save him was to take away his psychic abilities. He’s finally experiencing true quiet in his head fo the first time and thinks it’s weird. Now he won’t be able to travel unless he wants to risk dying. Merritt suddenly blames herself for what happened to Penny, then reveals that her real name is Plum Merritt Chatwin. She tells them being a Chatwin is a curse, removes her patch blocking the signal, and violently travels away.
That night, Alice and Zelda update Julia and Penny on the status of The Library. There are no surviving books on the Harmonic Convergence, luckily Zelda read the books on it and knows how to stop it. They just have to move the moon…
Fairy Finders | Eliot (Hale Appleman) is given a job as a magician by the Dark King (Sean Maguire), who will even train him. The King even gets a little more personal with E and reveals his name is Seb, but that’s only to be used when they are alone. When Margo (Summer Bishil) learns of all this she wants Eliot to use the King’s feelings for him to spy on what the King is doing behind closed doors.
Later at Centurion training Margo and the others get word that they must find and escort a group of mapmakers back from the forest and protect them from Takers. The Dark King is leading this mission. They find the mapmakers in the forest, but they are surrounded by Takers. Margo’s fairy eye comes in handy when it comes to spotting Takers, unfortunately her weapons are far less handy when it comes to killing them. Luckily the Dark King knows how to kill them, and he does so with a spell killing them all.
As the group heads back to the castle, Margo and a few others are called back by a superior officer and asked to search an abandoned house. Margo doesn’t know what they’re looking for, but soon finds out. They find a fairy girl terrified and hiding below them. Margo is forced to shackle her, which must kill her after all she went through with the Fairy Queen.
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