This season of SYFY’s The Magicians has been a wild ride and is showing no signs of slowing down! In this week’s episode we see Quentin and Alice working together, Julia learns more about what she is, and we see what Eliot has been up to inside his head. ‘Escape from the Happy Place’ was written by Mike Moore and directed by Meera Menon, and here is what happened!
Remembrances | Eliot (Hale Appleman) thinks he’s living his normal life at Brakebills with all of his friends, but someone keeps knocking on the door and he won’t answer it. Eventually Margo (Summer Bishil) answers and gets grabbed. E goes after her and finds the guy the Monster had been in before him fighting, and losing to, Margo. His name is Charleton (Spencer Daniels) and he is here to help Eliot. He explains to E that a monster has taken over his body and shoved his consciousness to a corner, living in what are called remembrances. He must go through old unpleasant memories to find a door that may lead him back to the real world for a few moments. Eliot, Charleton, and E’s remembrances of his friends set off through old memories in search of the door, but they have to avoid the other creatures looking for them to kill. After learning a lot about Eliot’s past, he eventually finds the door in a remembrance of him and Quentin (Jason Ralph). It was after they lived a whole lifetime together then went back to Fillory, it turns out Q wanted a relationship with E but E was scared and shot him down. This was his biggest regret and the location of the door.
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More Than a Human, Less Than a God | Shoshana (Jolene Purdy) shoo’s Penny23 (Arjun Gupta) away and works with Julia (Stella Maeve) to run some magic diagnostics. Shoshana accidentally removes a ward she has up shielding her location, and Iris () immediately appears. She tells Julia that she is helpless like a human but immortal like a God. She tasks Julia with killing the Monster and gives her a blood stone to bleed to help with it. If Julia doesn’t succeed, Iris will kill her, because she can die at the hands of a God.
Breaking Out | Alice (Olivia Taylor Dudley) knows Q is going to die in a few days and wants to stop it from happening, but she has to ditch Plover (Charles Shaughnessy) first. So she tricks him into checking out a poison world then ditches him there, which is totally what he deserves. Then she tracks Quentin down. She knows what he’s doing with the blood stone and his plan to try to kill the Monster, but tells him what will happen if he tries. He decides that he just needs to bleed the stone faster than his book said he did it in so they can try to kill the Monster two days sooner than originally planned. When they get to the park and are about to enact the plan, the real Eliot breaks through for a few moments and stumbles to Quentin mentioning peaches and plums and telling him he’s still alive inside his body. Q knows Eliot is alive and blocks the Monster when Alice tries throwing the blood on it. Iris shows up and isn’t happy with Julia and tries to kill her, but Shoshana jumps in the way and dies instead. Then the Monster appears behind Iris and kills her, removing the piece he needs from her body. He’s about to freak out on Q, but they spin it saying this was their true plan all along, they wanted to bring him Iris. Julia also gives him a page out of a book they found, explaining that all those pieces inside gods make a body, most likely belonging to the Monster.
Mute Animals | In Fillory, Margo has the unpleasant duty of telling Fen (Brittany Curran) and everyone else the Eliot is dead (at least that’s what she thinks). She really wants to open her birthright box, and when she does she sees a lizard inside. The lizard is supposed to speak, put something has recently happened that is preventing all the animals from talking. I guess Margo will have to figure out another way to find out what her birthright box contains.
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