The Magicians

- Previously on "the magicians"...

This was fillory, a land of magic.

But the chatwins, they mostly get chased around

by this time witch, the watcherwoman.

She plants clocks in trees.

- This is where fillory was born,

where plover told tales to Jane and Martin.

- I saw something in here. Poor kid.

He was just trying to get a button to fillory,

you know, so he could escape this monster.

- We live in a world that is one world among many.

The beast you saw was from one such place.

- What does Jane have to do with the beast?

- Still the same determined, little Jane chatwin.

- Ember gave her the ability to fu*ã¡with time,

and Jane used it to create a time loop.

When she'd fail to stop the beast,

she'd restart the loop.

What's different this time?

- I was at brakebills? - You were supposed to be.

I can't sit here now

and think it was anything but fate.

We summoned a goddess.

She touched all of us. She granted every petition.

- There was one time we didn't all die...

When we went to fillory.

I'll go to fillory

on one condition.

- The girl you saw in the dungeon?

We'll get her out.

We need some serious battle magic.

- Spells only work if you channel 100% clean.

- Bottling our emotions literally.

Shall we go fu*ã¡some shit up?

- You slept with two other people.

We broke up. - I was out of my mind.

I made a mistake.

My friends, I just...

I can't let them fight the beast on their own.

- You want me to come to fillory with you?

Yeah.

- Kind of been planning this trip since we were nine.

"Fillory and further.

Book seven."

I will think of a great title later.

I knew it started as a blob of crazy magic energy

floating in space that gave birth

to the gods, Ember and umber,

that gave birth to this amazing place: Fillory.

And I even knew that that place was real.

What I didn't know was one day,

I would actually go there

and seek out the gods themselves.

Ember?

We need to talk to you.

- Go on. Put a little conviction in it.

Ember!

- Okay. Um, how did Martin summon him?

- I don't know. The books are all poetry.

It's like, "Martin's blood sang to the gods."

Em.

Q.

What if it was literal?

That's worth a shot.

Damn it.

You okay?

- No, I just stabbed my own hand.

Ah!

We were expecting something amazing,

and it... it was amazing.

Just more the shitty kind.

Smells like an outhouse in here.

Jeez, look at all this trash.

Someone's been holed up here a while.

It is customary to bow,

children of earth.

Have you brought me little cakes?

- You're probably a little confused,

so now I'm gonna do that thing I kinda hate

where the book rewinds to fill in all the blanks.

Sorry. Let's do it.

- -

Holy shit.

Our route to Ember started

when we traveled back in time to 1942

to follow Jane chatwin through

a vaguely tardis-looking portal to fillory.

Here she comes!

We figured once we were actually there,

we could get to the present and back to my friends somehow,

'cause that's fillory.

There's always a way.

There's Jane, and there's us,

and someone mysterious watching us, by the way,

to follow us through.

Standing in fillory was the greatest moment of my life,

and not just because, as I later found out,

the air is .02% opium,

which is a pretty unfair trick to get you to love a place,

but, whatever, we loved it.

- Oh, uh, oh, so... If you're a real fan,

you totally recognize this from the books...

This iconic scene, right?

Jane falls into a trap and is saved by passing magicians,

but you didn't know is i am in that scene, bitches.

- Struggle, struggle. Tighter, tighter.

Okay, do you see them yet?

- Nope, but they can't be too hard to miss.

The witch and the fool. Iconic.

- How are the witch and the fool supposed to see her...

Together: Oh!

- Ooh, which one do you think I am?

- You don't look like any witches or fools I've seen here.

- Oh, wait. Don't.

It's... it's enchanted.

It'll only make it worse.

- What's the point of these anyway?

They're everywhere.

Well, some animals can talk,

so hunters have sort of an ethical dilemma.

You know, you don't want to eat something as smart as you,

so anything that can answer the riddle

is set free.

So, uh, "what is no sooner broken than spoken?"

I have no idea.

Silence.

Silence.

How'd you know the answer?

I, uh... read it.

Brilliant. Thank you, witch and fool.

Ta-ta!

- Okay... Go.

Geek out. We're in the books.

We are in the books.

- So remember how someone followed us into fillory?

Hey, are you following us?

It's totally cool if you are.

Martin?

He's not even in this part of the book.

- Still not sure i quite understand

why you were following my sister.

- Well, why are you following your sister?

- 'Cause fillory stopped taking you?

Martin, I know you probably think it's your fault,

but it's not.

You want to be here because you don't feel safe at home.

And we want to help.

What do you mean?

- Christopher plover is a very powerful magician now.

Maybe the most.

- We think we can stop him if we find something.

Um, it's a fillorian knife,

called the Leo blade.

Have you heard of it?

- No, but I know someone who might've.

Nope, never heard of it.

- But it's something you're more than capable of making,

given your reputation.

Though if you think it may be too difficult...

- What in Hades is difficult about a blade?

- Well, this one... - Has to kill a master magician.

- And he's not even human anymore.

Six fingers, dark spells you've never seen before.

Lad, fetch the moonstones.

Thing like that

can only be killed with a blade of moonstones.

I have the only two in fillory.

- You couldn't even make a needle with that.

- These aren't just rocks. They're alive.

I can mate them and breed more.

Then why haven't you?

- Expensive. Takes time.

Care, feeding. Years.

And it's not often I'm called upon

to forge a master magician murder weapon.

But you are from a place that likes murder: Earth.

Am I right? - Yes, we're from earth.

- Good. Then you know what I want.

We do, and we agree.

- So what exactly did we promise the knifemaker last night?

- Well, he knew we were from earth.

- And the rulers of fillory can only be from earth.

So he thinks we're...

- Kings and queen. He wants a seat at court.

- But years, it'll take him years.

How...

Holy shit.

Oh, my god.

Jules, it's Ember's temple.

It was as beautiful as it was in the books,

and standing there, you could just feel

that the gods were real.

But in fillory, with magic comes danger.

- She's coming! The watcherwoman!

- Martin. Wait.

Martin!