It seems like the Nightshades have been secretly thriving with the permission of the principal. They are now in a dilemma about what to do with Wednesday who stumbled upon their secret society. Xavier wants her to take the pledge and join them while Bianca thinks that is a horrible idea. On the other hand, Wednesday cares less about joining their secret society. She frees herself and walks out after calling them amateurs who give kidnapping a bad name. Gotta love her sense of humor!
The next morning, the principal announces that students will be expected to do voluntary jobs that day and then have a community lunch. They will also have a dedication of a memorial statue in the town square and are expected to behave accordingly.
Wednesday is assigned to work at Uriah’s heap, an antique store. The principal also informs her that she has signed up for a performance. She wants Wednesday to play her cello and accompany the neighboring school band at the ceremony.
Wednesday tells Xavier that she still thinks Rowan is dead. Xavier doesn’t believe her but is willing to answer her questions about the picture in the book. He tells her the man in the picture is Jericho Crackstone, the town’s founding father.
Sheriff: The recent attacks in the woods are linked to Nevermore. However, the mayor doesn’t share his thoughts and asks him to find the bear and take care of it. He reminds him that Nevermore is the town’s biggest source of income so they can’t go around pointing fingers at them. ..
Wednesday asks Enid to switch their volunteer jobs so she can have access to Pilgrim world and learn more about Crackstone. As expected, the day doesn’t go smoothly; the three troublemakers start harassing Eugene but he is saved by Wednesday. Enid and her crush Ajax have a moderately scary experience in the antique store. This, however, does not stop Enid from shooting her shot and flirting with Ajax who is as clueless as can be.
Wednesday asks Eugene to be her lookout as she breaks into Crackstone’s old meeting house. Whilst there, she sees a portrait and recognizes the girl from her previous vision. She also recognizes the book the girl is carrying in the portrait. Unfortunately, the original book is not in the meeting house. Wednesday asks Eugene to help her find the original book, and he agrees.
Wednesday’s little snooping rendezvous is cut short by Arlene, a teacher. Arlene reassigns them to a new job but Wednesday is intent on finding the real meeting house.
Wednesday visits Tyler and runs into Xavier as well, who is volunteering at the café. He cautions her to stay away from Tyler but Wednesday reminds him that she can make her own decisions on who to associate with. Wednesday asks Tyler if he knows the location of the actual house. Tyler is willing to take her and asks her to wait for him but she refuses. The house is located in the middle of the woods so she decides to take Thing with her.
At the house, she tries to touch things hoping to get a vision. After a few minutes of trying, she gets a vision. In the vision, she sees the girl again, her name is Goody. She is being persecuted by a group of pilgrims led by Crackstone. He accuses her of being a witch and Lucifer’s mistress. He incites the crowd to throw her and her community of outcasts into a house and set it ablaze. Goody’s mother asks her to escape and save herself so she can avenge them. She manages to escape from the house but Crackstone ends up chasing her. ..
Wednesday wakes up Wednesday morning to find a monster lurking nearby. She chases it into the woods and discovers that the monster can transform into a human. As she processes this new information, Xavier shows up out of the blue and she tries showing him the monster’s footprints but sadly they have been washed away by the rain. Wednesday is also concerned about how Xavier just happened to be there at that precise moment. He tells her that he overheard her conversation with Tyler and came to make sure she is safe.
Wednesday asks Xavier if he has been talking to Rowan, to which he responds that he has not. Wednesday then asks Xavier if he thinks something bad happened to Rowan, to which Xavier responds that he is starting to believe that something bad may have happened. ..
Xavier is not happy with Wednesday’s vision of the future. He believes that it has nothing to do with the future and everything to do with Rowan’s predictions about the impending doom. Wednesday tells Xavier that she won’t sit back and whitewash the history of what happened to the witches, but she will also not give up on finding the monster.
Wednesday arrives in town just in time for the band performance, starting off the unveiling of the statue celebration. She employs the help of Thing to set the statue on fire during the performance. As everyone runs away, she calmly sits amid the chaos and intensely plays her cello.
The principal is angry after the ceremony and believes that Wednesday is the culprit, but has no evidence. Wednesday swears her hands are clean and questions the principal on her decision to hide the truth. The principal tells her that she can’t risk having Nevermore ruined on her watch. She wants to start over and make nice with the people of the town. Wednesday tells her that will never work because most townspeople still hate them.
That night, the monster attacks someone else and the attack is captured on the victim’s camera.
Elsewhere, Enid is excited about her first date with Ajax but he has a mirror accident and is unable to make it. Enid thinks he stood her up and is disappointed and angry.
As the episode ends, we see several characters hiding secrets and the sheriff developing the film from the crime scene.
The Episode Review
It seems like there are a few people in Jericho who are close to the school. We can’t help but suspect each one of them is either the monster or associated with it. ..
Xavier is now more suspicious. There is also the question of how Ms. Thornhill figured out how to get to the secret Nightshade room. Hopefully we get some answers soon across this first season! ..
