TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Mary: Increase Mather, I call you from Hell. The witch you killed walks the streets of Salem. Now help me defeat her for good. Countess Marburg: I want you to steal your father's book of shadows. There are secrets in that book... Secrets you and I both need. Tituba: Witch killer, you will kill no witches tonight. Countess Marburg: I, too, would see Mary Sibley curled into a ball of pain. And I have much use for a beauty such as will be yours. Mr. Hale: This room, whose door only blood can open, is our sanctuary. Wainwright: I've never seen a pox like this. Cotton: But you've never seen a witch pox. Wainwright: It's as though the bile consumes its victim from the inside out. [ Hissing ] Countess Marburg: My dark lord is already inside the boy. And come the comet... We shall let him out. Cotton: You're dead. I killed you. [ Screaming ] Increase: [ Gasps ] Mary: I gave you leave to spy on the Countess, not haunt the streets of Salem like some ghost from a cheap ballad. You said that once you were sure, you would tell me the secret to destroying Countess Marburg. You spoke of an object. Well? Increase: [ Laughs ] Mary: Increase... Tell me or I will hurl your soul back to Hell in an instant! Increase: I can indeed tell you how to destroy her... For a price. Mary: Name it. Increase: I must speak with my son Cotton. Mary: About me? Increase: No. About me and him, parent and child. You wouldn't understand. Mary: You may see your son... Once you have told me everything. Increase: Legends say Countess Ingrid Palatine Von Marburg was already alive when Lucifer fell and she was one of the first to call him lord, to kiss his infernal lips to make herself his bride, and that still she dreams of the return of her
SUMMARY:
When Increase threatens to backfire on her, she strikes a deal in letting Increase see his own son. While she learns a bit of the history which surrounds Countess Marburg, the key to defeating the Countess still remains hidden. Both Anne and Cotton receive unexpected late-night visitors, with Anne being visited by the Devil and Cotton visited by his father. As Mary tries to bond with her son, she and Tituba discover that the seemingly scared and vulnerable little boy is harboring unsettling thoughts and predilections, and perhaps even darker secrets in that he is called "Prince" by Tituba. Meanwhile, with the help of her familiar, Anne Hale begins to discover some of her father's hidden-and unsettling-secrets; Tituba tries to strike a deal with the captured John Alden.