Motherland: Fort Salem just delivered another solid episode! We got to meet the Council of the Great River, see more Khalida and Alder, and find out the fate of Sterling and Anacostia. Not to mention all the crazy things that our squad encounters! ‘Cession in Session’ was written by Will J. Watkins and directed by Jacquie Gould. Let’s dive into what went down!
The Council | The group is trying to figure out what they want to tell the Council of the Great River when they meet with them, but Nicte (Kandyse McClure) refuses to see the council and declares that she’s leaving. She tries to get Scylla (Amalia Holm) to leave with her, but Scylla turns her down. Tally (Jessica Sutton) tells Abigail (Ashley Nicole Williams) about what she saw on Yule, and Abigail encourages her to try to prevent something that she sees with her Sight. Tally quickly uses her Sight and sees a glass falling off of a nearby table and breaking. She keeps an eye on it and when the table is bumped she catches the glass and prevents is from breaking. You can tell she’s relieved to know there may be a way to stop what she saw on Yule.
The group meets with the Council, and it’s kicked off with Adil (Tony Giroux) greeting each Council member in the Mother Tongue of their people, 7 different versions of the language in all. The group asks the Council if they can be sheltered on Cession land, but the Council has already made their decision. They’re going to send them back to D.C. The group panics, but they ask the Council to reconsider as they tell them about the Camarilla and the danger that they pose to them all. The Council changes their decision and decides they are going to help the group leave Cession land, but they must never return to it, and that includes Raelle (Taylor Hickson).
Thelma (Olivia Lucas) is the Council member assigned to escorting the squad out of the Cession, and she insists on them wearing collars so her people will feel safe. While this is happening, the table with the glass on it gets bumped again, only this time Tally isn’t there to catch it and it shatters on the ground. Tally didn’t prevent what she saw with her Sight. Oh no.
Hearst (Bob Frazer) and a group of Camarilla sneak into La Chassuer and attack the squad. Thelma takes their collars off so they can help fight him, his new implant is really making him difficult. Adil uses the mushroom Khalida gave him, and it works. A few moments later the fight moves outside and just before Hearst has Edwin Collar (Hrothgar Mathews) killed, his Camarilla cronies are killed by Alder (Lyne Renée) and the Mycelium.
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Alder stay, and is clearly not doing well. While talking to Tally she passes out, terrifying her (and us!). Themla agrees that the group needs to stay in the Cession, and she wants to find out how the Camarilla knew the group was staying there.
Canceled | Thanks to Colonel Jarrett (Aaron Douglas), Mothertongue classes have been canceled at Fort Salem indefinitely. This guy really sucks.
We find out that Sterling (Luc Roderique) is alive! Bad news, him and Anacostia (Demetria McKinney) are strapped to operating tables about to have their throats cut open and their vocal cords removed. But Anacostia isn’t going to go down like that, she uses off-canon Work to control one Camarilla and had him attack the other. Once freed, they used another Camarilla to get them out of the building. But instead of leaving and getting to safety, the pair decides they need more intel and sneak back inside. And what do they find? A Camarilla army of THOUSANDS.
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Motherland: Fort Salem airs Tuesday nights at 10pm on Freeform!