Épisode Les sept Merveilles S03E13 - American Horror Story Saison 3

Résumé long de l'épisode 313 “The Seven Wonders”

Miss Robichaux's Academy

Stevie Nicks se promène dans l’Académie en chantant "Seven Wonders" pendant que les filles s’entraînent chacune de leur côté pour les Sept Merveilles. Zoe travaille la lévitation sur son lit, Madison allume les bougies qui entourent son bain par magie, Misty fait pousser une plante et Queenie tente un sort vaudou pour entrer en contact avec Nan. Puis elles se rejoignent toutes en bas de l’escalier et Stevie leur souhaite bonne chance avant de s’en aller.

Toutes les membres de l’Académie sont réunies à une grande table pour leur dernier repas avant l’épreuve des Sept Merveilles. Myrtle déclare qu’il est temps pour l’une des sorcières de sortir de l’anonymat pour devenir la Suprême. Cordelia rappelle que Fiona aurait dû l’identifier, mais puisque elle ne l’a pas fait, chacune des quatre filles pourra tenter sa chance.

Le lendemain matin, Myrtle indique que contrairement à la tradition les épreuves ne vont pas se dérouler de la plus simple à la plus difficile mais qu’elles vont commencer par sa préférée : la télékinésie.

Kyle allume une bougie devant chacune des quatre filles. Misty dit qu'elle ne peut pas le faire. Cordelia lui répond alors que cela signifie qu’elle n’est pas la prochaine Suprême. Misty décide d’essayer et après un moment de concentration la bougie glisse vers elle. Queenie parvient à la déplacer sans effort, tout comme Madison et enfin, Zoe.

L’épreuve suivante est le Concilium, c’est-à-dire le contrôle de l'esprit. Misty oblige Queenie à se donner des gifles et Queenie se venge en obligeant Misty à se tirer les cheveux. Madison et Zoe se défient du regard. Madison oblige Kyle à lâcher le plateau qu'il tenait, puis contraint Zoe à se gifler. Madison attire ensuite Kyle vers elle et l'oblige à l’embrasser puis à lui baiser les pieds. Zoe utilise son pouvoir pour faire venir Kyle à elle et ils s’embrassent. Madison force alors Kyle à étrangler Zoe et Cordelia doit intervenir pour écarter Kyle.

C’est ensuite l’épreuve de la descente aux enfers. Les sorcières doivent aller en enfer et si leurs âmes ne sont pas de retour au lever du soleil, elles y resteront. Les quatre filles s’allongent sur le sol et récitent ensemble l’incantation.

Queenie se retrouve de nouveau dans le fastfood où elle a travaillé avant de rejoindre l’Académie, mais se réveille rapidement. Madison revient peu de temps après et explique qu’elle était dans une mauvaise comédie musicale et qu’en plus elle n’avait pas le premier rôle. Zoe est la suivante à revenir, elle a été bloquée dans une boucle où Kyle lui disait qu'il ne l'aimait pas.

Misty ne s’est pas encore réveillée. Elle est coincée dans un lycée pendant un cours de dissection. Elle ranime sa grenouille et est dénoncée par un de ses camarades de sorte que le professeur de sciences lui fait inciser la grenouille vivante. Et cela arrive encore et encore et encore. Dans la matinée, Cordelia veut l'aider, mais Myrtle dit qu'il n'y a rien qu'elles puissent faire. Cordelia la berce et lui dit d'écouter sa voix tandis que le sable s'écoule lentement dans le sablier et s'épuise. Le temps est écoulé et Misty disparaît dans un tas de poussière.

L’exercice suivant est la transmutation. Zoe, Queenie et Madison arrivent facilement à se téléporter et commencent à jouer à chat. C’est la première fois qu’elles s’amusent depuis longtemps. Cordelia les avertit que ce n’est pas un jeu mais elles continuent jusqu’à ce que Zoe finisse par s'empaler sur la grille en fer forgé.

Ils déposent Zoe dans la serre de Cordelia. Queenie tente de ramener Zoe à la vie mais n’y parvient pas. Cordelia dit à Madison de faire ses preuves puisque le Vitalum Vitalis est une des Sept Merveilles, mais Madison ne veut pas sauver Zoe qui demeurerait sa rivale. Au lieu de cela, elle tue une mouche et la ressuscite avant d’exiger d'être déclarée Suprême.

Plus tard, dans la maison, Cordelia pense qu'elle a échoué dans la conduite de l’Académie et déplore que Madison Montgomery soit la nouvelle Suprême. Myrtle pensait que ce serait Misty ou Zoe. Dans la serre, Kyle pleure sur Zoe, demandant pourquoi elle l'a quitté.

A l'intérieur de la maison, Cordelia pense que sa mère avait raison depuis le début à propos de Madison. Mais Myrtle a une prise de conscience. Elle pense que Cordelia a été opprimée par sa mère puis par ses propres illusions, Myrtle insiste pour que Cordelia effectue les Sept Merveilles.

Plus tard, Cordelia défie Madison. Cordelia allume une bougie avec ses pouvoirs, puis le feu dans la cheminée. Ensuite, elle fait danser Queenie et soulève le piano à queue. Elle descend en enfer et prend son temps pour revenir. Elle se voyait essayer d'obtenir l'approbation de Fiona. Cordelia effectue ensuite la transmutation - la cinquième merveille.

Madison est prête à poursuivre la compétition. Elles passent à la divination.

Myrtle cache des objets appartenant aux anciennes Suprêmes dans la maison. Elle répand des cailloux et dit à Cordelia de trouver l'élément appartenant à Mimi DeLongpre. Cordelia annonce un emplacement et Queenie revient avec l’objet. Cordelia sait qu’il s’agit de sa broche. Madison à son tour doit trouver l'élément appartenant à Anna Leigh Leighton. Madison regarde les cailloux puis annonce qu'elle ne le fera pas. Elle veut ranimer Zoe à la place. Myrtle et Cordelia lui donnent une nouvelle chance de deviner l’endroit, mais Madison ne peut pas le faire.

Enfin, Madison renonce, et laisse exploser sa colère. Elle dit qu'elle va retourner à Hollywood où les gens sont normaux et avertir TMZ. Elle monte dans sa chambre pour faire sa valise, mais Kyle la trouve et l'attrape. Il lui demande pourquoi elle a laissé Zoe mourir. Madison lui dit qu'elle a fait ça pour eux, parce qu'elle l'aime.

En bas, dans la serre, Cordelia tente de redonner vie à Zoe. A l'étage, Kyle chuchote à Madison qu’elle n’est pas une bonne actrice et l'étrangle.

Dans la serre, Zoe se réveille et Cordelia s’effondre. Dans la maison Spalding arrive et offre une aide providentielle à Kyle pour se débarrasser du corps de Madison.

Dans la serre, Cordelia a repris connaissance et a retrouvé l’usage de ses yeux. Tout est en pleine floraison. Myrtle la proclame Suprême.

Plus tard, Cordelia s'assoit dans le salon pour une interview télévisée au sujet des sorcières et de l’Académie. Elle invite toutes celles qui pensent être une sorcière à prendre contact avec elle.

Myrtle rend visite à Cordelia pour lui dire qu'elle est fière d’elle. Cordelia veut faire de Queenie et Zoe les nouveaux membres du Conseil et demande son opinion à Myrtle. Mais Myrtle veut aborder un autre sujet. Elle veut que Cordelia commence par la punir pour ce qu’elle a fait à Pembroke et Quentin. Crodelia refuse parce qu’elle a été punie pour une chose qu’elle n’avait pas faite et qu’elle la considère comme sa mère. Myrtle dit que puisque Cordelia a réalisé son potentiel, l'œuvre de sa vie est terminée. Myrtle refuse de lui permettre d'être une hypocrite. Vêtue de sa plus belle robe rouge, Myrtle est une nouvelle fois brûlée vive.

Des dizaines de jeunes filles vêtues de noir font la queue à l'extérieur de l'Académie. Cordelia demande à Zoe et Queenie de la seconder dans sa tâche, ce qu’elles acceptent. Mais avant d'ouvrir les portes de l’Académie, Cordelia est traversée par un frisson. Elle trouve Fiona qui l’attendait et l’exhorte à regarder de plus près sa mort.

Flashback : Fiona explique au Tueur à la hache qu'elle va à Paris pour quelques jours jusqu'à ce que Cordelia et les filles aient réalisé les Sept Merveilles. Elle lui dit qu'ils vont se retrouver mais qu’elle a besoin de lui. Elle doit lui implanter un souvenir dans sa mémoire et elle met en scène sa porpre mort.

Fiona terriblement affaiblie par le cancer est au seuil de la mort. Elle a enfin une conversation à cœur ouvert avec Cordelia à qui elle explique qu’elle était un rappel constant de sa propre mortalité. Fiona peut sentir le pouvoir de Cordelia. Cordelia verse une larme sur son enfance vécue dans l’ombre et la crainte de Fiona. Fiona lui remet un couteau pour que cesse leurs souffrances. Cordelia serre sa mère contre elle et lui dit qu’elle devra faire face à la mort toute seule. Fiona meurt dans ses bras

Fiona se réveille, en bonne santé, dans la chambre d’une maison à la campagne. Le Tueur à la hache est là lui aussi, il lui apporte un poisson qu’il vient de pêcher. Elle se met en colère et le Tueur à la hache lui dit en avoir assez de commencer chaque journée par une dispute. Chaque matin, elle se réveille et agit comme si elle venait d’arriver alors qu’elle est là pour l'éternité.

Fiona pense que Cordelia a fait ça pour la punir. Elle est horrifiée à l’idée d’être piégée dans cette cabane en pleine nature. Le Tueur à la hache la prend dans ses bras pour danser avec elle et Fiona voit Papa Legba, se moquer d'elle.

Cordelia, Queenie et Zoe ouvrent les portes de l’Académie aux jeunes sorcières. Kyle sert de majordome. Cordelia dit un mot de bienvenue aux nouvelles élèves.

[Fin de l'épisode]

Miss Robichaux's Academy

(Stevie Nicks strolls through the Academy singing.)

♪ So long ago

Certain place, certain time

You touched my hand

On the way

On the way down to Emmiline

But if our paths

Never cross

Well, you know I'm sorry but If I live to see the seven wonders ♪

(The girls each practice the magical feats on their own.)

♪ I'll make a path to the rainbow's end

I'll never live to match the beauty again

The rainbow's end

So it's hard to find

Someone with that kind

That kind of intensity

You touched my hand

I played it cool

And you reached out

Your hand to me

But if our paths never cross

Well, you know I'm sorry but

If I live to see the seven wonders

I'll make a path to the rainbow's end

I'll never live to match

The beauty again

The rainbow's end

So long ago

It's a certain time

It's a certain place

You touched my hand

And you smile

All the way back

You held out your hand

If I hope and if I pray

Ooh, well, it might work out someday

If I live to see The seven wonders

I'll make a path to the rainbow's end

I'll never to live to match the beauty ♪

Stevie: Again Good luck, girls

♪ If I live to see

The seven wonders

If I live to see the seven wonders

I'll make a path to the rainbow's end

I'll make a path back I'll never live to match the beauty

I'll never live to see that beauty

That beauty

That same, same beauty again

If I live to see the seven wonders

Oh, if I live to see ♪

-[OPENING CREDITS]-

"Last Supper"

(Gathered at a long table.)

Myrtle: The great Leonardo da Vinci, who I'm certain was a warlock, although it's never been proven, in his masterpiece The Last Supper, depicted grilled eels, bread and wine on the table. I've chosen caviar from the Caspian Sea. Served on billinis. Along with champagne. As fitting stand-ins as we partake of our own last supper. For one of you, a last moment of freedom and anonymity before assuming the Supremacy. For any one of you others, possibly a last meal. Cordelia: Since the beginning of this coven, it has been every outgoing Supreme's duty to identify her successor. Which Fiona not only neglected to do, she actually tried to kill her successor. So we are doing something never done in our history. We are going to give all four of you the chance to prove yourselves. Only one of you will succeed. To quote the Bible loosely "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a woman, I put aside childish things." Childhood is over, my girls. Put aside fears, reservations and petty things. Kick ass tomorrow.

The next morning

Myrtle: The Seven Wonders. Usually we move from easiest to hardest. But since we're breaking with tradition this year, let's begin with my personal favorite. Telekinesis.

(Kyle lights a candle in front of each of the four girls.)

Misty: What if I can't do it?

Cordelia: Then you're not the Supreme.

Madison: And you can go back to your swamp.

Myrtle: Misty, you're first.

Cordelia: Intention.

Misty: (the candle slides toward her) I did it. I did it.

Madison: Almost sounds like you want it.

Cordelia: It's not about want. You either are or you aren't a Supreme.

Misty: Maybe I am.

Myrtle: Queenie?

Queenie: (the candle slides toward her) Yup.

Myrtle: Madison, obviously this is your bailiwick.

Madison: Whatever that means. (the candle slides toward her)

Myrtle: Last but not least, Zoe. (the candle slides toward her)

Myrtle: Concilium. Commonly only known to the public as "mind control." It's a tricky little craft. When properly exercised, can bend the strongest of wills to your desire. Now, let's see which of you fillies has really got the stuff.

Queenie: (to Misty) Stare all you want, flower child. Nobody controls my mind but me. (Misty makes Queenie slap herself silly.) Oh, shit. Knock it off!

Misty: This is fun.

Myrtle: Next.

Misty: (to Queenie)No hard feelings about (Queenie makes Misty pull her own hair.) Ow! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!

Myrtle: Next.

(Madison makes Kyle drop the tray of wine glasses he's holding.)

Zoe: He's not part of this!

Madison: He is now. (She makes Zoe hit herself.)

Myrtle: Well done.

Madison: I'm not done. (She brings Kyle over to her and forces him to kiss her as she stares down Zoe.) Now, lick it.

(Zoe uses her power to drag him over and kisses him.)

(Madison has Kyle start to strangle Zoe.)

Cordelia: That's enough. Let's move on.

Madison: Having fun yet?

Zoe: Yeah, it's a real party.

Myrtle: The descent into the nether world will be your next test. Getting to hell will be simple for girls of your talents. It's the getting back, darlings, that is the challenge. If your soul hasn't returned to your body by sunup, you'll die.

Misty: What do you think it'll be like?

Zoe: I was hoping to never find out.

Myrtle: Girls, you may begin.

Girls: Spiritu duce, in me est. Deduc me in tenebris vita ad extremum, ut salutaret 'nferi. Descensum!

(Queenie finds herself back in the fried chicken shack.)

Myrtle: You're the first to return.

Queenie: Damn. I saw the same people in the same line for the same chicken.

(Madison comes back shortly thereafter.)

Madison: It was horrible. I was stuck on a network musical. It was a live version of The Sound of Music. I wasn't even the lead. I was Liesl.

(Zoe comes back next.)

Queenie: What happened to you?

Zoe: Kyle and I kept breaking up. On a loop. He said he didn't love me. Over and over, over and over.

Kyle: It's okay, it's okay, I'm right here. I'm right here, it's okay.

Zoe: Are we all back?

Madison: Everyone but Misty.

(In high school science class, Misty reanimates her frog.)

Boy: Freak. You're a freak. Mr. Kringley, she did it again.

Teacher: Where's the dissection frog?

Boy: It's right there, she brought it back to life.

Teacher: Shut up, Bobby. She snuck a live one in to trick you, but the trick's on her. Pick up the scalpel.

Misty: No, please don't make me.

Teacher: If you won't dissect a dead frog, then you will dissect a live one.

Misty: No, I don't want to kill a living thing, please, you can't make me.

Teacher: You kill it, or I'll have a talk with your parents.

Misty: (screams) No!

Boy: Mr. Kringley, she did it again.

Teacher: If you won't dissect a dead frog, you'll dissect a live one.

Misty: No, you can't make me kill a living thing. Please, you can't make me!

Boy: Mr. Kringley…

Teacher: If you won't dissect a dead frog, then you'll dissect a live one.

Misty: No, no, no…

Teacher: If you won't dissect a dead frog

Misty: No, no…

Teacher: If you won't dissect a dead frog, then you'll… If you won't dissect a dead frog…. If you won't dissect a dead frog

(It happens over and over and over again, with Misty screaming in terror each time.)

Cordelia: She's stuck. We have to help her.

Myrtle: There's nothing we can do. She has to get back on her own.

Cordelia: Misty Follow my voice. We are all here waiting for you. Sequere lucem.

Venite ad me.

Myrtle: Her time is up.

(Misty disappears in a pile of dust.)

Cordelia: No No, no! No No! No, no…

Cordelia: Before we recommence, I would like to take a moment to remember our fallen sister witch, Misty Day.

Madison: Can we get on with it? I didn't really know her that well.

Queenie: You're a stone cold bitch.

Madison: When you play with fire, you get burned.

Zoe: She's right. Misty's gone. There's nothing we can do about it.

Queenie: All right, then. Let's get on with finding the new Supreme.

Myrtle: The next task before our candidates is transmutation.

Zoe: (to Madison)Tag, you're it. (The girls play a teleporting game of Tag.)

Madison: (to Queenie) Now you're it.

Queenie: (to Zoe) Gotcha. No tag-backs.

Zoe: (to Madison)Tag.

Madison: (to Queenie) Tag, you're it.

Cordelia: Careful, girls! It's not a game!

Madison: It's the best game, and we need a goddamned break!

Cordelia: Careful, girls…

Zoe: Can't we just have a little fun?

Madison: You bitch.

Queenie: Suck it!

(Zoe ends up impaled on the top of the wrought iron fence spikes, skewered up in the air.)

Kyle: Zoe! Oh! Oh!

Myrtle: Dear God.

Kyle: Oh, God!

Cordelia: What is it?

Kyle: Oh, God, Zoe! Zoe!

Myrtle: Our dear Zoe!

Kyle: Help! Somebody help us! Somebody help us, please! Help! Help! Zoe!

(They take her into Cordelia's greenhouse.)

Queenie: Vitalum Vitalis. Vitalum Vitalis.

Kyle: Nothing's happening.

Queenie: Please.

Madison: Guess who isn't Supreme after all?

Queenie: I'm sorry.

Cordelia: Queenie, take Kyle into the house. Madison, the Vitalum Vitalis.

Madison: You want me to bring her back?

Cordelia: Do you think you can?

Madison: Oh, I know I can.

Cordelia: Then do it.

Madison: Would that make me Supreme?

Cordelia: It would mean we could continue with the Seven Wonders.

Madison: Because she'd be back in the game.

Cordelia: Just like you were back in the game after you were brought back. Unless you're afraid you might not really be the Supreme.

(Madison kills a fly and brings it back.)

Madison: She lost, fair and square. It's not my fault.

Myrtle: Madison, if you refuse this, then you don't deserve to be Supreme.

Madison: What's deserve got to do with any of this? You can't disqualify me. Either I'm Supreme or I'm not. And, obviously, I am. You know, I'm starting to think Fiona had the right idea, leaving this shit show behind. I'm thinking very seriously about doing the same thing. So either crown me or kiss my ass.

(She leaves.)

House

Cordelia: I can feel all their eyes on me. I failed. I let this coven fall into ruin.

Myrtle: Don't be so hard on yourself, Delia. You did all you could.

Cordelia: Not enough. If Madison Montgomery really is all that's left to us, maybe it is better this way. Maybe we deserve to die out.

Myrtle: I'll confess, I've had similar dark thoughts. I was so certain about Misty Day. Or even our dear Zoe. She had the makings of a fine leader.

Greenhouse

(Kyle cries over Zoe.)

Kyle: Why'd you leave me? (sniffles) You said you'd never leave me.

House

Cordelia: Oh, I can't believe she was right. It was Madison all this time. My mother was always right.

Myrtle: That's not true. She was never right about you.

Cordelia: Well, I guess it's different when it's your own family.

Myrtle: How true is it that a prophet is never recognized in his own country? Madison was not born to the Supremacy. But you, Cordelia, you have royal blood in your veins.

Cordelia: What are you saying?

Myrtle: I was a fool not to have realized it earlier, seeking all this time in the dust for that which may have been right before us all along.

Cordelia: I-I don't understand.

Myrtle: First, you were suppressed by your mother, then by your own theories. You have great power, my girl, power that has been seeking expression in these young vessels. But it's in you. You must let it out. You must perform the Seven Wonders.

Cordelia: You think I could be the next Supreme?

Myrtle: I'd stake your life on it.

Later

Madison: I know what you guys are doing. You want me to finish the Seven Wonders, so you're trumping up some competition. I'm not stupid.

Queenie: Yes, you are. (to Cordelia) Are you ready?

(Cordelia lights a candle with her powers, then the fire in the fire place.)

(Next, she makes Queenie dance and raises the grand piano off the floor.)

Cordelia: Descensum.

(She heads down into Hell and takes her time coming back.)

Myrtle: What did you see?

Cordelia: Me, trying to get Fiona's approval and getting bitch-slapped for it. (She zaps herself across the room.) Not exactly new.

Myrtle: Transmutation. That's five Wonders accomplished. Let us move to the sixth, divination. Cordelia…

Madison: Fine. Okay, I'm back in. What? It's only fair. This thing started as a competition. I say we end it like one. Divination. Let's rock.

Myrtle: Hidden in this house are items belonging to former Supremes. Cordelia, divine in the pebbles the location of the item which belonged to Mimi DeLongpre. (She spills pebbles.)

Madison: Who knew the test came in Braille?

Madison: Shh.

Cordelia: Southwest corner. Up the stairs. Second door down the hall, beneath the dresser.

(Queenie returns with the item.)

Cordelia: The antique broach presented to Supreme Mimi DeLongpre on the night of the Great Ascension.

Myrtle: Correct.

Queenie: (to Madison)Your turn, hotshot.

Myrtle: Divine for us the location of the object belonging to Supreme Anna Leigh Leighton, Madison.

Madison: This is stupid. I'm not doing it.

Queenie: Because you can't?

Madison: Let me show you some real power. Let's go into the greenhouse right now, and I'll bring Zoe back to life.

Myrtle: Divination first. We're doing this by the book.

Madison: I'm sick of your book. I have so many powers, I could tear this room apart until there's nothing left but your little trinkets but, no, I have to do this bullshit!

Myrtle: Fail.

Madison: Wait. The vase above the fireplace.

Queenie: Wrong.

Madison: The piano. I meant I meant the piano. There's something in the thing.

Queenie: Girl, no.

Madison: This is bullshit.

Queenie: Cordelia did it.

Madison: Because the game is rigged, Queenie. Wake up!

Myrtle: You would accuse us of chicanery?

Madison: You bet your bony ass. I never had a shot at running this shit hole coven. I didn't even want to come here in the first place. It's all just some jacked-up version of Celebrity Rehab. I'm out of here.

Myrtle: Thus endeth your Seven Wonders.

Madison: Oh, no shit, lady! I'm going back to Hollywood where people are normal. And I suggest you change the locks because when I tell TMZ everything, it won't be long before torches, pitchforks and Molotov cocktails become a real big part of your day. Peace out!

(She goes upstairs to pack, but Kyle finds her.)

Madison: What do you want, dumb-ass?

Kyle: You let her die. Why… did you let her die? (He grabs her.)

(Down in the greenhouse, Cordelia attempts to breathe life back into Zoe.)

Kyle: I You know that dark place! We've both been there! We both came back. Why?!

Madison: I did it for us. I love you. I love you. Please. Please.

Kyle: You're not that good an actress.

Madison: Stop! No!

(He chokes her around the neck until she dies.)

(In the greenhouse, Zoe sits bolt upright and takes a deep breath. Cordelia falls over.)

(Kyle stands over Madison's body when Spalding arrives.)

Spalding: She'd already started packing. That's helpful. No one will wonder where the body went once we bury her.

Kyle: Who the hell are you?

Spalding: The help.

In the greenhouse,

(Cordelia is back on her feet, with her eyes back intact. Everything is in full bloom.)

Myrtle: The hallmark of any rising Supreme is glowing, radiant health. glowing, radiant health. Behold. The one, true Supreme.

House

(Cordelia sits down for a TV interview.)

Reporter: Since your extraordinary public statement last month, there has been quite a bit of fanfare. This frank revelation about your cult-- that's sparked quite a brouhaha in the media, and…

Cordelia: Let me clarify that, Bill. We are not a cult. We-we don't proselytize. We have no agenda, we're not recruiting. Women who identify as witches are born as such, and their abilities-- which we call powers-- are part of who they are, part of their DNA, if you will.

Bill: Oh, I see. So, in fact, you're saying that it's not a choice, being a witch.

Cordelia: That's exactly what I'm saying. There are so many young witches who have resisted their calling because they're afraid of how they may be perceived, or what's expected of them.

Bill: But there are still hate crimes.

Cordelia: That is true, but, you know, when you hide in the shadows, you are less visible, you have less protection. We'll always be targets for the ignorant. It is what it is. But we are strong women, Bill.

Bill: So, what would you like to say to all those girls watching and wondering if they might be witches? Hmm?

Cordelia: Call us, e-mail us or just come to New Orleans. There is a home and a family waiting for you.

Cordelia’s office

Myrtle: I'm so proud of you.

Cordelia: We need to discuss the Council. We've never had young witches on the Council, and Queenie and Zoe deserve an elevated role here at the school to set them apart. What do you think?

Myrtle: I would start by telling them that being an authority figure requires you to make hard, unpopular decisions for the greater good.

Cordelia: They've matured so much, I think they can handle it.

Myrtle: I was talking about you.

Cordelia: Me?

Myrtle: You have every chance to be the greatest Supreme this coven has ever seen.

Cordelia: Stop.

Myrtle: Delia, I have something to say, and your tasteful modesty is out of fashion, so knock it off. Thanks to you, we're entering a new era. You've planted the seeds, but in order to reap their harvest, you have to clear the rot of the past.

Cordelia: Myrtle, you know I love your metaphors, but I have no idea what you're talking about.

Myrtle: Me. I'm talking about me. We all know what happens to a witch who grievously harms another witch. (Myrtle reminds her of using a melon baller to take out the former council's eyeballs for Cordelia.)

Cordelia: I hope you're not suggesting

Myrtle: I'm not suggesting. I'm insisting.

Cordelia: You want to be burned at the stake? Again?

Myrtle: Want has nothing to do with it. At the start of your glorious reign, the last thing you need is an ABSCAM or Watergate. I killed, and I must pay for it. Now, before word leaks, and you are tainted by my hubris and actions, however deserved.

Cordelia: Myrtle, stop talking. I didn't hear this. I didn't.

Myrtle: Listen to me, child. Now that you're in charge, my life's work is fulfilled. I've made many painful mistakes in my life. I want my death to have some meaning.

Cordelia: No! No way! You were my mother, my true mother, just as you promised you would be, and I can't do this without you.

Myrtle: Stiff upper lip, my dear. Everything you do or say ripples through the entire coven. You cannot be a hypocrite. I won't stand for it.

Stone-pit

♪ You could be my silver spring Blue-green, colors flashin'

I would be your only dream

Your shinin' autumn ocean crashin'

Don't say that she's pretty

And did you say that she loves you?

Baby, I don't wanna know ♪

(Dressed in her finest red gown, Myrtle wears fashionable shades as she is tied to the stake and doused with gasoline.)

Cordelia: In the absence of the Council, as reigning Supreme of this coven, I hereby decree for the murders of our sister witch Cecily Pembroke and our colleague Quentin Fleming, you Myrtle Snow are hereby sentenced to death by fire.

Myrtle: Delia my sweet daughter I have never been more proud.

Cordelia: Any last words?

Myrtle: Only one. Balenciaga!

(Cordelia ignites her and Myrtle's screams.)

Miss Robichaux's Academy

♪ La, la, la-da, la-da

La, la, la-da, la-da

La-da ♪

(Hordes of goth young girls dressed in black line up outside the Academy.)

Upstairs

Queenie: You got to check this shit out.

Zoe: Line's around the block. Where are we gonna put all these girls?

Cordelia: We'll buy more houses if we have to. Look at you. You two are powerful witches with more skills and confidence at your young age than I had for much of my life. I need both of you to help me fulfill the promise of all this coven can be. A place to protect, develop and celebrate witches. You will not only be my right hands, you will be my Council. What do you say?

Queenie: I got your back.

Cordelia: Good. And you?

Zoe: I'd be honored. Should we open the doors now?

Cordelia: Not yet. Stay here. There's just one more thing I need to deal with.

Downstairs

Cordelia: I saw you die.

Fiona: Look again now that you have real vision.

[Flashback

Axeman’s apartment

Axeman: We had a deal. It wasn't notarized, it wasn't on paper, but we had a deal!

Fiona: You men, with your fragile egos. We still have a deal, babe. I'm going to Paris for just a couple days. Just until Cordelia gets her little dwarves to perform the Seven Wonders and I find out who the next Supreme is.

Axeman: Why? Why would she decide to do that?

Fiona: Because the old Supreme will be dead. Or at least that's what she'll think.Well But I'm gonna need your help. I mean, it won't be pleasant for you. But if you do it right I promise you the world. Hmm. I'm gonna put something inside you.

Axeman: Well, a.. A young gypsy girl tried that on me once, I almost hit the ceiling, I jumped so high.

Fiona: No. In your brain, sweet boy. Oh. A vision. A memory.

Axeman: What happens when I wake up from this vision?

Fiona: You'll figure it out. Now drink.

Axeman: No. If you're gonna offer me your spit, I'll take it straight from the spigot.

(He passes out and she stages the scene with blood, then walks out.)

Flashback ends.]

Fiona: I ruined a perfectly good pair of Jimmy Choos. But I knew you'd get rid of him for me, once he served his purpose.

Cordelia: Whose blood was it?

Fiona: A goat's. I never killed anybody.

Cordelia: Not yet. But that is what you came here to do.

Fiona: That was the plan. Let you do the dirty work. Identify the Supreme and then I come in and take her out.

Cordelia: Makes it a little harder when it turns out to be your own daughter.

Fiona: Not really.

Cordelia: You didn't come here to kill me. You were hoping I'd put you out of your misery, but I don't need to. You're close. I doubt you'll make it through the night.

Fiona: Might make you feel good, though.

Cordelia: Is that why you were always so awful to me? Because you knew I was going to take your power some day?

Fiona: You took my power the minute I gave birth to you. A woman becomes a mother, she can't help but see her mortality in that cherubic little face. Every time I looked at you I saw my own death. You were a constant reminder of my worst fears.

Cordelia: Oh, and all this time, I thought you just didn't like me.

Fiona: It was nothing personal, darling. I loved you plenty, though. Just my own way. Which, I'll admit, had its limitations. Your fault was you were always looking for another version of motherhood. I can feel the power vibrating off of you. It feels good, doesn't it?

Cordelia: Hmm?

Fiona: It's mine, you know? When it came into you, it left me. The law of conservation of energy. I have to die for you to truly live. Crying over me. Isn't that the ultimate twist.

Cordelia: I'm not crying over you. I'm crying for me. You were the monster in every one of my closets. A lifetime spent either trying to prove myself to you, get close to you or get away from you. I'm crying for the girl in me who dies when you die.

Fiona: Then kill them both right now. They both hurt too much. And when we're finally gone you will fulfill your destiny and lead this coven. God knows you'll do a better job of it than I ever did, though you won't look half as good doing it. Come on. For God's sake have mercy on me. Put me out of my misery. I hurt everywhere. (She hands her daughter a knife.)

Cordelia: You're scared, maybe for the first time in your life. (Cordelia hugs her.) No powers, no magic. Just a woman facing the inevitable. A divine being finally having a human experience. No one can help you, Mother. You have to do this alone. And the only way out is through. So, feel the fear and the pain. Let it all in and then let it all go. I don't think we ever hugged.

(Fiona goes slack in her arms.)

Country house

(Fiona wakes up.)

Axeman: Oh.Sweetness. You're up. I hope you're hungry. I brought you some, uh, some catfish, I'll fry it up. Granddaddy's favorite.

Fiona: Oh, get those goddamn things out of my face.

Axeman: Why you always got to be like this?

Fiona: Huh? Always got to be like what? Huh? "Be like"-- what do you mean?

Axeman: Every morning you wake up, and you act like you don't know where you are. And then we fight. I'm.. I'm tired of fighting.

Fiona: Every morning? How long have we been here?

Axeman: Well, now, you can't put a clock on eternity.

Fiona: Oh, no. Jesus Christ.

Axeman: If want a stiff one, come over here.

(She slaps the Axeman)

Fiona: Don't be vulgar.

(He slaps her.)

Axeman: Oh! Maybe you ought to lay off the sauce for a while. Drink in the the fresh air.

Fiona: Delia did this.

Axeman: No, nobody sent you here but you, baby. We had a deal.

Fiona: Oh, God. I can't spend eternity here. This place-- it reeks of fish and cat piss. What is this? Knotty pine?! I want Delia. I want

Axeman: It's too late for that.

Fiona: I want my daughter.

Axeman: No, come on, you're here. You're here. With me. Nobody is going anywhere. I'm in heaven. So just, uh

Fiona: Oh, no.

Axeman: relax.

(Fiona sees Papa Legba, laughing at her.)

Miss Robichaux's Academy

Cordelia: (to Queenie and Zoe)All right let's open the doors.

♪ La, la, la-da, la-da ♪

(Kyle serves as butler.)

Cordelia: Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies was established as a premiere girls' finishing school in 1790. Afterwards, it came under new management. Our management. We survive. Up until now, that's all we've done. But as I look at your faces-- all of them beautiful, all of them perfect-- I know together we can do more than survive. It's our time to thrive.

Girl: What's a Supreme?

Queenie: You're looking at her.

♪ La, la, la-da, la-da ♪

–[End]–