Episode Report Card Jeff Long: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crystal Lite
By Jeff Long | Season 1 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.19.2012
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Now everyone is on a quest to find their family crystals. They set out for their respective grandparents' houses as a first resort. Diana bails so that she can go on a super romantic date with Grant. Callum tries to mack on Melissa but Jake tells him to eff off, thus switching Callum's evil focus from Melissa to Jake. He follows Jake, Cassie and Faye on his evil motorbike to Jake's grandparents' house, where Cassie finds a piece of paper with the names and birthdates of all of the Circle Jerks. Jake's grandpa shows up and is all doom and gloom about how the Circle is going to die. He says that John was interested in having multiple children in the next Circle. Hmm. Then Jake says something about how Isaac mentioned that there was more than one child of John's in the Circle. ALSO, Faye read her mom's diary and found out that she was hooking up with John back in the day. Callum breaks into Grandpa's house when no one is looking and makes off with the map to where the old crazy guy hid his crystal.
John and Charlie have a tense meeting where John tries to get him to join in helping defeat the witch hunters. He refuses and they threaten each other. Then Charlie goes to Jane (who is FINALLY back from the Home for the Neurologically Demised) and they plan to kill John.
Diana has to ditch her date in the middle. Cassie had inadvertently taken a picture of the crystal map, so she sends it to Melissa and Adam and they go to the site, which is an abandoned iron mine but with working electricity. They find the crystal and Adam almost falls into a pit, which provides for a close moment between this new duo. Are the writers finally focusing a little on their Secret Circle secret weapon, Melissa? Let's hope so. But then, Callum finds them and he's got a gun. The rest of the Circle shows up and hear a gunshot that happens when Adam and Callum struggle. Cassie can't enter the mine because Jake's grandfather put a spell on it preventing her dark magic to enter. Callum tries to speed off and Faye attempts to stand in front of the bike and stop it with her own magic (because now she thinks she's a Blackwell). Nothing happens but Cassie shows up and stops the bike. They take Callum out of town and mark him and tell him they'll know if he ever comes back to Chance Harbor.
Wow, so Jane and Charlie paralyze John and are going to kill him with one of those little bottles with personal witch shit in it. Jane asks John if he killed Amelia, which he denies. Her crystal confirms that he's not lying, so she doesn't want to kill him. Charlie grabs the little bottle and puts a lit match in it, but it actually kills Jane. Wow. John had found the bottle earlier and changed the contents. He tells Charlie that the only reason he isn't dead is because he still has use for him. Faye asks John about whether he's her dad or not. He says that Dawn was lying -- they never hooked up.
Diana tells Cassie that she wants to take a break from the Circle. I know, right? Um, and she mentions that she wasn't able to enter the mine. She's Cassie's sister!
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Everybody's real serious to begin and it doesn't even appear to be about some sort of school dance. Could it be? We start with Faye and Melissa rifling through Faye's house. They're looking for Faye's family crystal. Melissa doesn't think they're going to find it because the elders would have been hanging onto them and they're the ones who stripped the powers from the Circle's parents. Faye points out that her grandfather is dead and says that, if he had a crystal, her mother found it. So, they look in the last place Faye would be, the bill chest. We all have wooden pirate chests where we keep our bills, yes? They don't find the crystal, but they do find Dawn's old diary from the '90s. She loved Weezer and John Blackwell.
At 7 Briar Hill, Diana and Cassie walk in on Adam and Jake reading about the Burning Times when a ton of witches were killed. And this was before the witch hunters had demons helping them. Faye and Melissa come in and announce that they had no luck finding the crystal. Cassie's is the only crystal they have so far. She says that her grandma told her that the crystal serves as a lens that amplifies individual power. Geeky! Faye, PER USUAL, decides that she wants to flippantly try out the power. So she grabs the crystal in order to make a vase shatter. Then, more glass starts to shatter and Cassie's screaming at her to stop. John appears and grabs the crystal and tells Faye that it's not a toy and that its power can be drained.
They discuss getting the rest of the crystals and Adam asks why they can't just tell their grandfolk about their predicament (i.e. being hunted down like foxes by witch hunters and demons), but John says that they'll just be stripped of their powers. Really? I'd think Henry being dead would put a real crimp in that generations Circle. Also, are they going to take on the witch hunters? If so, I'd be like, "Later. I'm going to plan a school dance." Jake says that he will drive to his granddad's to find his crystal. Adam's grandparents live on the other side of the country. Deedee from Hunter has been kinda hard to reach ever since she tried to kill Cassie. Melissa says that she could easily be able to search her grandmother's place.
John says that they shouldn't underestimate the elders, and recommends that they travel in groups. Adam suggests to Cassie that they go with Melissa but Cassie says that she was already planning on going with Jake to his granddad's. Faye calls shotgun -- she's going with Jake too. Diana says that she can help Melissa and they all leave. First though, Cassie stops and tells John that Jane called and is coming home. She says that she knows there is beef between them, but she would love to see them getting along. I'd love to see where John Blackwell gets his tailoring done. Daddy is seriously styling, which makes me on his side in this whole thing. John says that there are "a number of people" in town that he needs to reach out to and Jane is definitely one of them. That's sounds promising, like there will be some vague threats thrown around very soon. He gives Cassie back her crystal and she's on her way.