This week’s episode, which aired just in the nick of time for Halloween, “Witch Hunt” may have been set during the Salem witch trials, but it really and truly belonged to a one fairy godmother, shenanigans at the Time Bureau, and a pair of pigs. In short, welcome to another fairly normal and pretty standard fare episode of Legends of Tomorrow.
Constantine ’s finally come around on the idea of joining the Legends’ quest for nowHe’s arrived at just the right time: Ray has built a Time Seismograph that can track magical fugitives, and they’ve located their next target: Salem in 1692.
Gather ’round and let us discuss what went down during the episode!
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Right off the bat, the team quickly discovers that while the humans accusing women of being witches are monstrous enough, there is something supernatural lurking about. Sara, Ray, and Zari observe a woman named Jane Hawthorne being dragged away for her “witchcraft” and her daughter Prudence begging for mercy, before a murder of crows arrive, pecking at those hurting Jane. When the team regroups on board the Waverider, Constantine helps them deduce that it’s Prudence who’s hosting a demon and using it to protect her mother. If only they had an exorcist on hand….(jk, jk).
Bippity Boppity Boo: The team then decides to return to Salem and prepare themselves for a fight. They get caught offguard though as they find that Prudence’s demon is a Fairy Godmother straight out of “Disney hell.” The Fairy Godmother explains, in a song no less, that she’s there to make Prudence’s dreams come true. Constantine doesn’t buy and remains suspicious, however.
Total Nightmare Dressed Like A Daydream: As it turns out, Constantine was right about her: she’s a demon who can’t be sent to Hell because Prudence would be, too, and she needs Prudence as a host to survive. She manages to convince Prudence to wish for the team to go away but thankfully, Zari promises Prudence they’re there to help Jane, and Prudence stops her demonic godmother. Soon enough, the Legends bring Prudence to safety aboard the Waverider and even give her a Beebo-related game to play while she waits.
The Truth Comes Out: While on the Waverider, the reason the demonic godmother is evil comes out: she was locked away for a thousand years by humans and wants revenge on them for shunning her. She disappears to carry out her plan and tricks Prudence into distrusting her new time-traveling friends by showing her a video of Sara telling Zari earlier about how Jane has to die during the witch trials to ensure history goes smoothly. She also turns Ray and Mick into pigs and casts a spell on Constantine so he’s unable to speak.
Where’s Nate?: Meanwhile, back in 2018, Nate is having Daddy issues as Hank wants to know how Nate is able to take care of himself financially. Nate has nowhere to live, so he’s been crashing at Time Bureau HQ. He runs into Ava, who is prepping to talk to the Dept. of Defense for funding for the Time Bureau. Nate offers to help her but that backfires as the representative for the DoD is Hank. He forces Gary to attend the meeting instead, which ends with Hank refusing to give them the money.
Losing Control: Back in Salem, the Legends need to find a way to convince Prudence her mother’s okay. Zari’s already tried to take care of that: She left the ship on her own after Sara told her they can’t change history to protect one woman and tried to talk Jane, which fails. Jane goes to to trial where Zari’s the one who can’t stand it in the end and uses her totem to blow the Reverend away and threaten the men in the room. She becomes violent, which ends with the Reverend accusing her of being a witch, too, and order her and Jane burned at the stake.
Undoing The Pain: Sara tries to fix the situation but as it turns out, Zari finally gets through to Prudence and Prudence listens and finally releases the Fairy Godmother, whose spells reverse. After seeing this, Hank immediately approves $4.2 billion for the Time Bureau a year to “ensure this never happens again” — before praising his son for becoming a superhero and putting his history degree to good use. Elsewhere, Constantine captures the demonic Godmother and tries to strike a deal with her but she says no. She knows who he is, and she knows he’s on the run for something she’d rather go to Hell than face. Constantine sends her back into the depths of Hell, as she wishes.
There was a lot going on during the episode as Legends cut a major corner this week to make the plot work, which is pretty weird for the show to do so. Zari’s decision to disobey Sara’s orders seemed almost in character, but her subsequent outburst at Jane’s trial was so uncharacteristic, even she paused to ask herself what the hell she was doing. Sincerely hope that this isn’t something we’ll continue to see throughout the season.
Check out the promo for next week’s episode below!
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