Wicked City

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

Tabitha says she'll be here soon to give us an update.

God dang it! None of this is working!

They're completely cloaked! Okay, you know what?

You know, there's gotta be something in one of these books.

Yes, yes.

Still going poorly.

If she doesn't stop soon, she's gonna crack.

That girl cannot handle pressure.

What? I spoke no lies.

Jordan, come on. We've checked every book.

Okay, then, um, then you know what?

I-I can channel both of you.

Both of you are, like, close to Angela, right?

Oh, girl, we tried that already.

It's not working. Okay...

Caden: And he's not detectable.

Ugh! Then what the fuck do we do, huh?!

Sit around and wait for the world to end?

For our friend to fucking die, huh?!

Told you she'd crack.

Ah! Jordan, girl, you gotta take a break.

I can't, Sherise! it's been 30 hours

since they've taken Angela.

That leaves 18 hours for the planetary alignment

and the rising of a goddess who can kill us all!

Do you understand that?! Huh?!

Claudette: We all know what's at stake,

Do you, Miss I-Brought-This-On-Us-All?

None of you -- no, none of you fucking get it!

Jordan, you're not the only one who wants Angela back!

She was all I had!

You betrayed us, Sherise.

You helped kill Tabitha,

and you fucking killedTabitha.

She's not dead.

She was dead to me!

For months.

And you know what fucking else?

Mona just moved right out of the fucking state.

And you left us, too, Caden.

I was trapped. No!

You left us at that clearing

for The Handler to abduct Sherise!

Through all of that,

Angela was the only one that was there for me.

Every one of you left, died, or betrayed me except her!

She got taken because I was stupid enough

to love someone that lied to me from the start.

So I have to get her back!

I have to get it back.

I-I have to get her back.

I-I have to -- I have to get her b...

Jordan.

Tabitha!

Oh, I'm so sorry.

I didn't know that she would try to kill you.

Child, no.

When they told me that you were alive,

I didn't believe them.

I'm so sorry, Tabitha.

I know, I know.

Believe me, I know Claudette.

She was gonna kill me regardless.

But now we are all here.

Always stand by your girls.

We're stronger together.

Sherise.

Come sit with her.

It must be tough

knowing you'll never belong.

Neither will you.

Now get the fuck out of my face.

Let's go.

You coming?

Tabitha, did you find The Council?

They're all in hiding, afraid of what Julius is gonna do.

But I connected with an old friend.

They're meeting tomorrow to formulate an attack.

Our only chance of killing Julius

is before he raises Oya.

Once he has a goddess, we're done.

The Council and all guardians won't be enough to stop Julius.

And Angela will be gone, too.

That's why I have to go.

They need to know everything that we know.

Yeah.

While she does that,

let's go pay Queen Savage a visit.

Well, well, isn't this cozy?

Taking over already.

No slaves this time.

Just a regular magick supper club.

You always do seem to come out on top, Queen Savage.

I like that.

-This it? -Yeah.

He's gotten hundreds of witches

to connect their power to the crystal.

He was gonna draw on all of them to kill Julius.

That's not possible.

That kind of power would have killed him.

Not with the Goddess Stone in his body.

It would have strengthened him enough to survive the surge.

Hmm.

If we use this,

we need someone powerful enough

to survive all that magick.

Darletra can do it.

One problem with this, though.

Wake.

Come.

A test.

Destroy.

Remake.

You are brimming with god-power.

And soon

we will welcome the goddess herself.

Whoa.

This will give us a lot of power.

Enough to kill him.

One problem.

Since this crystal draws power from other witches,

there will be some collateral damage.

How bad?

Queen estimates 25%.

But it could kill a lot more.

-There's hundreds of people. -Yes.

You don't have a lot of options.

Hundreds or potentially billions.

No! We have to find another way.

Damn!

Shit. I did this.

Sherise, what do you mean?

The Handler -- he made --

He made you use your power

to get people to connect theirs.

I didn't know what it was for, I swear.

It doesn't matter. Even if you did,

when he wants something from you, he gets it.

Okay, well, look, if this is the only way of stopping him,

can we make it safe?

I don't know.

We all knew Julius was conspiring.

I warned you this would happen.

We must hear everything from Tabitha.

We had no way of knowing

that he would do something this reckless, Leya.

We should have been prepared, Jabari!

We're the most powerful group of magickal beings in the world.

And he has us quaking in fear, hiding like children?

Julius: You arechildren.

You dare bring an outsider into our hall?

Sit down.

Yes, I dare.

I dare come here and demand change

after hundreds of years of complacency.

You sit here on your thrones,

self-righteous, coveting power.

You have left our people to the whims of a mundane world

that we should rule.

It was not so long ago that you sat among us, Julius.

And I have learned that change

will not come from inside The Council.

You are all too weak, too fearful

of losing your position.

It is time to take responsibility

for your failures.

Our failures?

We have kept everyone safe.

Magick and mundanes alike.

If knowledge of our world were widespread,

they would hunt us down or use us for their own means.

And if we were the ruling class,

we could stop that.

They would have to follow us.

We're outnumbered 10 to 1.

Their fear and hatred would spread like wildfire.

As would ours.

Our people are not so different from mundanes.

Our secrecy protects all sides.

As does our presence.