By Jeff Long
Cassie's still reading the letter her mother left for her, as well has thumbing through her family's book of spells. Everybody's hair has grown longer since the pilot was filmed. Like, say, Melissa, who wakes up in bed at Nick's house. Cassie has been playing around with her powers and the results have been surprising. She asks for a candle to light and the sun gets brighter. She tries to close shirtless Nick's curtains and ends up slamming shut his window and breaking it. She's still not talking to Grandma about any of it. Faye's granddad, Dawn's father-in-law, drops by for a visit and it feels like there's unfinished business.
Mortal girls try to make friends with Cassie at school and Faye tries to tell her that all of the non-magic people are boring, but Cassie doesn't want to be friends with anyone in the Circle. Most of these bitches are in Chemistry class together, which is terrifying. Faye makes the beaker at Cassie's work station explode and she does the same right back, but bigger. Awesome. She meets Adam at the creepy old house later and reminds her that no one can know that they're witches. He tells her they found out they were witches because Diana had access to her family's book. A whole bunch of the old Circle died when they were trying to have their Binding Ceremony, which will apparently diminish individual powers but make them stronger as a whole.
Ethan meets with Henry, Faye's granddad, and tells him that Charlie almost drowned him on dry land. Henry reminds him that his Circle was stripped of their powers. Charlie didn't get the memo! Diana tried to talk Faye into the idea of the Binding Circle, but she doesn't want to harness her power. Cassie and Adam power a light bulb together, but she can also do it by herself. Then, she gets hot and bothered with Adam and his eyes that are CONSTANTLY trying to do bad things to her and the light bulb explodes.
At the local fair, Cassie helps sell tickets and becomes friends with normal Sally. Faye and Melissa compete at some ring-tossing game and it looks like Henry catches them doing magic. Diana catches up with Cassie and tells her that, if they bind the Circle, she'll be able to stop making things explode.
Henry tells Dawn that the new Circle is practicing and she later yells at Charlie that they have to be careful. A crystal holds all the power that that Circle has and he returns it to her. Diana is starting to get a little concerned about the amount of time that Adam and Cassie spend together. Likewise, Melissa's feeling jealous about Faye and Nick flirting with each other, then embarrassed with Faye tells her that she wouldn't touch Nick with a 10-foot magic wand.
At a dance on the water, Faye and Cassie get into an argument and Sally, the girl with no magic, comes Cassie's defense and Faye (accidentally, girl doesn't know WHAT she can do) pushes poor Sally through a guardrail and onto rocks. Dawn sees the accident and runs to the girl and puts the crystal on her skin, which makes her alive again. Faye feels horrible about it. Cassie agrees to bind the Circle, so that they won't hurt anyone else. Henry is onto Dawn and confronts her about having a crystal. He demands the crystal from her, but instead she makes him have a heart attack. Presumably dead grandpa.
Diana asks Adam if she should worry about him and Cassie. He kisses her and is all, NO! Then, he drives beside Cassie as she walks and commends her decision help with the binding. Then, he drives her to the beach. Unfortunately, their magic teenage heat makes the overhead streetlight burst. They all meet at the beach and try to bind this shiz. Each family represents one of the four elements, including blood and metal. Metal is interesting. Diana leads a spell as they all stand in a circle. They begin around a campfire and start to get nervous when the fire leaps as Diana reads the binding literature. Spooky teenagers!