TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Isaac: I will not leaving Dollie on this vessel. Tituba: John Alden is alive. Mary: The comet will soon blaze overhead for only three nights. The gate will open, and our dark lord at last incarnates. Countess Marburg: Your son was born precisely that he should be the vessel for the dark lord's return. Mary: We do have a son. Countess Marburg has him, and they mean to kill him. But I know her weakness. Countess Marburg: So good of you to join us. Mary: It is over. I want my son. [ Horse whinnies ] Sebastian: Unh! Countess Marburg: [ Screaming ] Mary: Go, John! Save him! Boy: Who are you? John: Your father. Hathorne: Mary Sibley, you are under arrest on the crimes of adultery and fornication. Countess Marburg: You follow instructions extremely well, Mr. Hathorne. Hathorne: I am your humble servant. Cotton: Some things are better left unawakened. Boy: [ Distorted voice ] It's too late for that. We shall play cat's cradle with your entrails. Hathorne: Pride goeth before a fall! How far indeed this Jezebel has fallen! From first wife of Salem to painted whore! [ Crowd shouting indistinctly ] Woman: Burn her! Woman 2: Burn her! Hathorne: Now, now! Did she kill George Sibley? Man: Yes! Hathorne: No! But as his life force dimmed, she forced our founder to watch as she entertained her lovers in his own marital bed! And when our last founder finally mercifully passed to Heaven, one can only imagine how she and that corpse-botherer, Dr. Wainwright, disposed of the body. Leaving so many questions. Where is Dr. Wainwright? [ Crowd jeering ] Fled in shame? And how many other men did this siren lure into Mr. Sibley's bed? Man: Too many! Hathorn
SUMMARY:
As the Countess and her son move against John Alden's Indian friends, Mary suffers under the yoke of Puritan oppression stemming from an alliance between the Marburgs and another of Mary's powerful enemies in Salem. But even as she seems to be at her most hopeless, Mary tries to take advantage of a widening schism between mother and son. As John and Cotton proceed with their exorcism of Little John, each must process new information and gather strength to aid them in what lies ahead. Meanwhile, wracked with guilt and sorrow over Dollie's death, a mournful Isaac pays a surprise visit to an already somber town gathering, Anne Hale finds the fate of many may rest in her novice-but powerful-Witch's hands, and John and Cotton get the first glimpses of the enemy they are facing within Little John.