Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood

What was that?

- Oh just the morning mail. - Oh.

Let me get it for you, my love.

Thank you, my love.

Thank you.

Oh, my little sister's play.

She's gonna be one of the witches in Macbeth.

What's this?

Everything okay?

- Yeah, she just wants to borrow one

of grandma's old dresses.

I think I've got it in my hope chest.

You gonna run it up to her?

Yeah, I guess so.

Hey, you've never met my little sister, have you?

No.

Well why don't you come along?

I mean, you know, if you don't have anything

to do, Mr. Lawyer.

- Well I got a couple of clients to deal with this morning

but I can meet you here at noon.

- Okay, sounds good. - Okay.

- Marie. - Hey Colleen.

Fancy meeting you here.

- Ah, I see you're heading the same way.

I could be.

- Double, double, toil and trouble.

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

- Filet of a fenny snake.

In the cauldron, boil and bake.

Eye of newt and toe of frog.

Stop, stop.

I can't take it any longer.

What is this, a high school Halloween skit?

What do you mean?

- In the cauldron, boil and bake, I mean I expected

you to say and your little dog two at any second.

- Oh, Mr. Ramsden I'm so sure. (chuckles)

- I sense nothing internal, nothing real

from either of you two.

Now Keri has grace, passion and power

and she makes me believe in the magic.

But you two, I...

You need to work much harder.

- I've always been interested in the black arts.

I've studied it all my life, that's the difference.

- Yes, now how can the senses remember

what you don't experience, that is impossible.

- Well we could go to the library or something.

- I said experience, not research.

- Well how are we supposed to get that?

We go up in like two weeks?

- I have an idea, there's this ritual

I was gonna perform tonight, maybe you two

could help me out with it.

What kind of ritual?

- A ritual to raise the Sinobia sisters from the dead.

The who sisters?

- Crazy old Sister Seraphina is always muttering

about the three sisters, right?

That's the Sinobia sisters.

The way she tells it, they were witches

who lived 300 years ago, devout Satanists.

They supposedly built this gateway to hell,

a portal through which the demon Abaddon

could enter the world.

Who is this Abaddon?

- He's Satan's most trusted soldier.

- More precisely, he's Satan's general.

- I got this crap beat into me all my life.

My parents even believed that the Apocalypse

was around the corner.

It is.

- Oh please, I came here to get away from all that stuff.

- Anyhow, according to the story,

Abaddon would come first, as the vanguard

to Satan's army.

Once he crossed through the gateway,

Abaddon would go about creating a piece of hell

right here on Earth.

An unholy estate, a place for Satan to command from

during the coming Apocalypse.

But before the sisters could open the gate,

the church elders hunted them down and killed them all.

- So the good guys won, so what's the problem?

Maybe they didn't.

Before they died, the sisters vowed to come back

from the dead and finish opening the gate.

Ooh, I'm scared.

- You know, there's one thing I don't get.

What's the ritual?

- I have an old spell in one of my books

to resurrect dark spirits.

I thought we might try it out

over the three sisters' graves, just for fun.

Fun?

- Yeah, they're buried right outside

the church yard grounds, in unsanctified soil.

- You mean that the gateway to hell is right here?

On the grounds someplace, yes.

- (laughs) I think that's marvelous.

Unhallowed grounds, unhallowed graves,

cemetery yet night raising the spirits,

dire consequences if you succeed, but you do it anyway.

It's perfect.

I, I don't know, Mr. Ramsden.

It does sound kind of creepy.

- Come on, nothing's gonna happen, it's a fairy tale

of course, but you're gonna come away with a real

taste of the atmosphere and the aura of black magic.

- What do you think, ladies, midnight, the graveyard?

I will if you will.

- It's nothing to me, I don't even believe in God,

let alone Abaddon.

- It's agreed then, marvelous,

it's gonna be exciting.

Come in.

Right on time. - Mm-hm.

You're my best student.

Let me show you how good.

Ready to bond with me?

Enter the hidden circle?

Yes, yes.

- Do you throw off all your other beliefs

and promise to bow to Satan as your Lord and Master?

I do, I do.

I am your slave, Lord Satan, let me know your dark powers.

How's the play going?

I don't know.

The director's very demanding.

He's brilliant and all but I just don't think

I meet his standards.

- I know you'll do great.

Yeah, you're sweet.

- Whatever it takes, you're gonna make it.

In two years you'll graduate, get out of that school,

move in here, I make enough for both of us

and you can go on auditions day and night if you want.

As long as it takes to get your break.

I couldn't let you do that.

I have to chip in too.

- No, I make enough for both of us, seriously.

Let me take care of you.

My ex-wife refused to let me take care of her.

It drove us apart, I have things to give.

She never understood that.

- If I ever wake up from this dream,

would you hit the snooze button please?

This is cheery.

- Come on, Marie, take this seriously.

I'm serious.

- The edge of the cemetery, right over here.

This is where the sisters are.

Their grave is only marked by one black stone, no epitaph.

How do you know all of this?

- Pre-college records in the archives.

Talking to the right people, checking around.

- You're really serious about this stuff.

Yes, Colleen, I am, now focus.

We're sorry.

Hey, I'm older than this guy.

I'm older than you, punk ass (shouts).

- Dude, you are fucking odd.

Yeah, so?

Shh, shh, look, look!

- This is too fucking awesome.

- No way! - Shh!

(women chanting in foreign language)

Arise!

You will all be damned!

- No! - What the?

Go, get her, go get her.

Marie! Fuckers!

- What a vision, beautiful nymphs all dancing

among the graves.

- Getting rigor mortis in my pants just thinking about it.

- Look, I didn't mean to, hey, are you okay?

She's still breathing.

- Ow, would you fucking slow it down!

- Hey, now is that a way for a lady to talk?

Fucking eh, now slow it down.

Okay, okay.

Nice wet spot you got in your skirt there, Lutz.

- Just keep your eyes on the road.

- You know you take all the fun out of being a cop,

you know that?

Detective Lutz.

Yeah?

Got it. - What's that?

- It's a dead body found at the graveyard.

At St. Sebastian.

On it.

Ow, would you slow it down!

Boys.

- I'm Detective Gardner, this is Detective Lutz.

- Hi. - Hey.

- I understand you boys found the body.

Yeah, I mean, yes ma'am.

We were out here last night, the three of us.