TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Hathorne: From first wife of Salem to painted whore! I hereby strip you of all your ill-gotten gains. Isaac: Hypocrite! You're all fornicators. Screwing each other every day of the week. Hathorne: This is vile blasphemy, and you will hang for it. The Countess Marburg has put up a bond of surety. Mary: You were to be the offering the last time the comet appeared. If my role requires that I destroy my son, then I choose not to. Cotton: Our battle is not with your son but what is within him. John: No. I'm your father. Can't you hear me? Petrus: A witch dagger to kill, and a medicine bag to be unseen. Boy: Then run and hide, father. She is coming for me. Anne: Give the boy to me. I will take and hide him. Boy: There's something inside of me. Countess Marburg: He is not far. Sebastian: I will remember your eyes at the moment this entered you. John: [Grunts, groans] Sebastian: A fair woman bled dry is the most aesthetically pleasing sight of all. But I... I get no pleasure from watching a man bleed out. A coup de grâce for Captain Alden. John: [Grunts] [Breathing heavily] [Groans] ["Cupid Carries a Gun" plays] <unk> Pound me the witch drums <unk> <unk> witch drums <unk> <unk> pound me the witch drums <unk> <unk> pound me the witch drums <unk> <unk> the witch drums <unk> <unk> better pray for hell <unk> <unk> not hallelujah <unk> Cotton: No. John? John: [Grunting, coughs] My son? Cotton: Have no fear. He is safe. Let's worry about you now. John: [Groans] [Birds chirping] Countess Marburg: Oh, well done, little owl. You have him. [Indistinct conversations] Anne: It's
SUMMARY:
With the Starry Messenger comet drawing ever closer, John Alden fights for his very life, while Anne Hale works to comfort and protect Little John whose death brings with it great consequences for Witch and mortal alike. She soon learns from Count Marburg that she is Marburg's daughter and Sebastian's sister, and is faced with a terrifying decision that could greatly impact the Countess's plans. Mary, palpably affected by recent events, finds herself in a wholly unfamiliar situation, leading her to try a risky gambit. Meanwhile, when John tells Cotton that Anna too is a witch, it leads the younger Mather to seek out answers on his own, but he is trapped and imprisoned; Mercy pursues Sebastian in her foolish and hopeless dreams of becoming a ruler and royalty, but finds Mary's advice to be fatefully and disappointingly accurate; and Isaac finds himself in a position among his fellow citizens of Salem.