Lovecraft Country

What if you could go anywhere in the world?

What if... magic were real?

I went to the future. What we went through...

- (YELLING) - Monsters...

spells, Uncle George's death.

It's our family story.

You might be George's son.

I'm a kumiho, a nine-tailed fox spirit.

Our shit wasn't real.

I'm not dyin'.

What if Ji-ah's right? You can't trust Christina!

- She made you invulnerable. - (WINCES)

- What is that? - Protection symbol.

To cast a spell, you need energy,

intention, and a body.

But he's planning on killing Atticus.

His blood is a component of my spell to become immortal

and I need all of it.

We need to rewind to this Earth's Tulsa, 1921.

You're a mysterious stranger.

The Book of Names, it's our only chance to save D.

- (EXPLOSION) - (DISTANT SHRIEKS)

The book is found. I was told to protect it

but never to open it. Now go, before you can't.

- Did we get it? - We got it. We fucking got it.

Hurry, she's burning up.

Watch your step, come on.

It's okay, pumpkin. It's okay.

Oh, shit!

That's your birthmark.

Atticu...

- Leti! - Tic. Leti.

- Oh, Leti. - Atticus.

Atticus!

The answer is in your blood.

Oh, no. Oh, no.

No. No, why am I back here?

It's okay.

We're safe.

The one you carry brought you here.

Where are we?

Atticus unbound the book,

and now you both must learn what was lost.

I ran from Master's house until I couldn't run no more,

but I knew there was nowhere I could go where we'd be safe.

My child would have Master's blood

and would always be seen as a source of power

to those in the Order.

So I used a spell Master worked on himself,

keep our bloodline hidden from all who know magic.

Hanna unknowingly birthed this ancestral space

the night she first opened the Book of Names.

There was so much she didn't understand about magic then.

She believed that this was hell;

she was being punished for using the devil's tools.

Every night, when I closed my eyes,

I found myself back here,

burning over and over again.

The pain was unbearable.

I had to make it stop,

but the flames I ran through to escape

followed me, even in death.

Before Hanna took her own life,

she dared to open the book once more...

To find the spell that would bind it shut forever

so that the suffering it caused

would not be visited on those who came after.

Took a long time to understand

the fire was my rage made manifest,

that it could be tamed.

Once I did,

once I made this a safe place for our ancestors...

I realized this magic was not something to be feared...

but a gift to pass on.

Our family has protected the book for generations.

Now that falls to you.

- No. - There's no one else.

- Atticus... - Has his own burden to bear.

Do not do what Hanna did when she bound the book out of fear.

Do not cripple your son with your doubts.

You will need to be strong to fix her mistake.

I need your help. My cousin's been cursed.

I unbound the book to save her.

You gonna save 'em all.

[BILLIE HOLIDAY'S "EASY LIVING" PLAYING]

Mama?

Come over here and sit with me.

Let me look at you some more.

You know what Hanna asked me to do?

Yes.

I don't wanna die, Mama.

I know, baby.

But if we ain't walking toward an altar

to sacrifice ourself for something important...

what is our purpose?

There's gotta be another way to stop Christina.

If my life taught me one thing,

it's that we tell ourselves we have a choice, but we don't.

With George and Montrose, I never had one.

They both were a part of my soul,

and I never should have been scared of that.

I can see now all of our love made you.

You've got the best parts of both of 'em:

Montrose's fierce heart and George's integrity.

You're a hero,

just like in those stories you used to cherish.

And Hanna's spell,

it's gonna change everything, baby.

This is a beginning, not an end.

Come on, now.

There's work to do.

Baby...

Everyone concentrate on Diana.

- Leti. - Atticus!

Leti. Come on, we need you now.

Wake up. Atticus!

Leti, wake up.

- Come on, come on! - Wake up!

Atticus! Atticus, wake up!

Come on, Leti. Come on.

Atticus! Come on!

Come on! Come on, please don't!

- Montrose... - Come on, wake up!

Wake up. No. Atticus!

Montrose.

Montrose. Montrose!

Baby, I'm here.

Baby. Can you hear me?

- -

What the hell happened?

I need a pen and paper.

I saw Mama.

No, it's okay. Mama's got you.

It's all right. Just relax.

Everything's fine.

We don't have time to keep debating this.

We have to do Hanna's spell,

and the blood tie's the most important part.

We need a physical connection

between me, Titus, and Christina.

Mm-mm. It's too damn risky.