Motherland: Fort Salem

Previously, on Motherland...

Jonas, wait! The Camarilla are picking us off.

I'm not here for the Camarilla. I'm here to change things.

In this twilight of the world,

the evil of witches super abound...

Not our daughters...

So, in tradition, cadets,

tonight, we wake the dead!

Willa Collar.

Why didn't she come?

Why didn't she want to talk to me?

I need to go pack for break.

I need to see my dad.

Charvel Bellweather.

You are Abigail Bellweather.

And you are vengeance.

Charvel set me straight. I need to find the people

who took her voice and get it back.

Time to make them feel hunted.

And we start with the one who killed Charvel.

From our first born breath

to the last song we sing,

we are at war.

There was never a choice.

So, if we must bleed,

let us bleed for freedom.

With this act, -

our war will end.

And your faith in me will be repaid.

Thank you, Jonas.

From our blood,

a new day will rise for all witches!

We are the Spree.

We are the Spree. We are the Spree.

We are the Spree.

We are the Spree. We are the Spree.

We are the Spree!

We are the Spree.

- Wow! - It's beautiful here, right?

Um, hey-hey, Tal?

Maybe, just around my dad...

don't talk about the Witchbomb.

Or deployment. Or the Spree.

And, yeah, definitely not Scylla.

That's a lot not to talk about.

A couple things before we go in...

the house should be empty except for my grandma.

Will she mind what we have to do?

Minerva cannot know.

She's the only woman alive tougher than Alder.

Avoid contact.

Then, as long as we can get to Charvel's remains,

we'll be in and out quickly.

You okay?

We put our dead right in the earth

and plant a tree to grow from their body.

You help them turn to new life.

That's not unlike our tradition.

Yeah, but will that be a problem?

As long as I can get a little bit of Charvel's blood,

everything should be fine.

I thought the house was gonna be empty?

Yeah, people in the Cession

have never really been shy in expressing an opinion.

She causes more problems than she fixes, doesn't she?

Is that what your ghost told you?

More or less.

Esterbrook made me see the truth.

Alder had Nicte Batan kill the Liberian Front

and make it look like a mass suicide.

She could... She could order you

to do something like that with the Witchbomb.

Well, If Esterbrook was telling the truth...

She showed me. I saw it.

Then, Alder made Liberia worse.

And that fight eventually killed my mom.

So, there's not much worse she can do to me, is there?

Rae?

Don't worry, Tal, I'll always have a choice.

Hey, kid.

- How ya doin'? - Good.

- Good to see you. - Good to see you, too.

I'm starving.

Tal.

Hi! I am starving.

Thank you!

- Daughter. - Sweetheart.

Hello, offspring.

What do you think?

Is there a wedding that I don't know about?

Not yet.

They're all here for you.

And this must be Adil.

Your people are quite the topic of conversation in our circle.

And you brought him because...?

Because he has no home to go to for the break.

- Is that an issue? - Of course not.

We'll make room.

Anton, Fermin and I invited all your top ranked suitors

here for Fall break. Seemed like the perfect time

for you to make a choice.

Does my mother know about this?

It was her idea, of course.

Shellbark!

Good to see you again!

Always a pleasure, sir.

Bellweather!

Thanks for the invite, what a pleasant surprise.

A surprise, being the key word.

Right, Claude?

How many fathers does Abigail have?

Just the three. Average for a High Atlantic kid. Why?

I didn't understand the scope of Abigail's family.

My friend, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

All because he was a guy?

Dad, no dudes. Ever.

Ever.

Then my mom comes running up...

"Don't hurt him! Don't hurt him!

He's my lawyer!"

Turns out, the guy was there

to help me get my dispensation.

The only guy to ever set foot

in the Sacramento matrifocal community, and survive.

That reminds me of when Rae was born.

Dad...

Willa gave birth at Fort Senox

and I had to get special access to go on base.

So, as I'm walking up to Willa's room in the infirmary,

this soldier stops me.

Now, she can tell I'm a civilian.

But you were cleared to be there?

But when she found out I was the father,

she went off about how wrong that was, how...

How I'd made my daughter weak.

- That's awful! - Yeah, it was,

until Willa stepped out of her room,

still covered in blood from the birth,

holding our baby girl.

- Aww... - Yeah...

How did Mom tell this part, again?

- Gosh, I don't know. - What she said next?

- I don't remember. - Well, anyway,

Willa Collar looked that soldier in the eye and said,

"Does my daughter look weak to you?!"

- Wow. - I'm gonna get this packed up.

Sure.

Hey, can we get a box?

Thank you.

What are we going to tell her?

Think the truth's a good place to start.

Well, if she's going to disappear,

she might as well know, right?

Disappear?

She's not going on the run with the Spree.

- She can't go to the Army. - It's the Camarilla

she has to worry about, not conscription.

This isn't about you. Or me.

This is about her.

The dodgers can keep her safe just like they did with me,

until she's old enough to make her own choices.

The Fosterling program did pretty right by me.

And where are you now?

Out here with me, a terrorist.

I saw you at that mall during the vigil.

You are not the same person you were a year ago.

Then why did I laugh when I killed Shane?

You murdered Shane?

Tell me he didn't deserve it, for what he did to Tiffany?

And what did you do to Brianna

by taking her father away from her?

She shouldn't hear us fight like this.

Let's go for some hot chocolate.

- Bye, Pops. - Have a good day!

Tal, can we just relax? This is our first break, ever.

And it'll be over in a blink of an eye.

Which is why you should talk to him about your mom.

I just...

I don't wanna upset him.

It isn't him that's getting upset.

Well then, tell me how not to be upset about Samhain.

Your dead was a total stranger and showed up with bells on,

and I waited on my own mother all night, and she didn't show.

He wouldn't want you to go through this alone.

Yeah, sure, I'll just ask him, "Um, hey, Dad,

any idea why my mom would abandon me a second time?"

Hey. Do you recognize that car?

It was outside the diner, too.

Yeah, and on our way into town.

That was a warning.

I know you.

You're military?!

Wait, where's the other two?

We have orders to keep

Miss Special Projects, here, out of trouble.

But I remember you from Basic.

You are the trouble, Cadet.

Yeah, well, don't expect me

to invite you in for coffee and cookies.

Tally!