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Season 03, Episode 09:

Head

Cordelia's attacker is revealed. Fiona looks to form an alliance with Marie Laveau. Nan learns a disturbing truth about Luke's past.

1991

A father and son are hunting and camping in the Chattahoochee National Forest. It is later revealed that the son is actually Hank, and with their silver bullets, they are trying to hunt a witch. They find a witch and Hank's father plans to lure the witch towards Hank, but when she does, Hank hesitates on killing her. The time gives the witch the opportunity to send fire towards Hank, but Hank's father saves him and kills the witch, burning his arm in the process. He reminds Hank not to show mercy and to remember what their prey is.

2013

At Cornrow City, Fiona returns Delphine's head to Marie to discuss a union of their factions. While Delphine's head complains (and her body in the cage swats flies), Marie laughs. Fiona presents the silver bullet as evidence that they will soon have a common enemy. Marie passes the witch hunters off as a non-concern, and derives from Fiona's wig that Fiona is not strong enough to protect the witches as her cancer is sapping her power. Marie calls for Queenie to burn Delphine's head, much to Delphine's relief.

Myrtle watches as Cordelia stumbles blindly around the kitchen. Myrtle recalls Cordelia's first days at Miss Robichaux's after Fiona all but abandoned her there. Cordelia assuages Myrtle's fears that Cordelia believes Myrtle responsible for Madison's murder, telling her that she doesn't need to read a vision off Myrtle to know that Fiona set her up.

At the Delphi Trust in Atlanta (a front for the witch hunters), Hank reports to his father, the head of the corporate organization. Mr. Foxx is unhappy with Hank's current events and his alliance with Marie Laveau. He was intended to be embedded only for reconnaissance. His actual field work, including the Kaylee incident, is resulting in unintended collateral damage, which may draw undue scrutiny from the government. The Corporation (as they call themselves) claims responsibility for the acid attack. When Hank reacts, his father reminds him that their marriage is a sham and to remember that she is prey.

Quentin and Pembroke attend a luncheon, hosted by a fully restored Myrtle. They are incredulous that she is so well restored, and want to know more about Misty Day. Myrtle gushes about Misty, while the monkshood Myrtle laced in the food paralyzes the two council members. Myrtle turns the now one-sided conversation to the council members' attempts to kill her, while she scoops an one eye from each of them with a melon baller. The brown and blue eyes Myrtle implants into Cordelia to restore her eyesight. Myrtle then proceeds to cut up Quentin and Pembroke's bodies up, and gets rid of them.

Fiona arrives, and is overjoyed to see Cordelia's sight restored, uncertain of how Myrtle was able to perform such delicate work. Myrtle responds that her resurrection empowered her, revealing magical secrets. Fiona threatens Myrtle with a visit from the council, unaware of the fact that Myrtle secretly dismembered the members in the greenhouse and disposed of the parts in a vat. Cordelia calls for a truce between the two of them before she leaves to rest. A hug from Myrtle reveals that her visions are gone, now that she can see with her eyes again.

Madison and Zoe track down Nan, who has been waiting overnight to see a comatose Luke, now fiercely guarded by Joan. With her telepathy, Nan relays to Joan a song that he'd like sung. Joan thanks Nan for her miraculous intervention.

Against Marie's orders, Queenie keeps Delphine's head and intends to educate the bigot with a film festival, starting with Alex Haley's Roots (1977). Delphine tries to block it out, while Queenie is out of the room, singing "Dixieland" at the top of her (non-existent) lungs.

Marie employs one of her thugs to visit Hank and demand that the witches be massacred by that night, else he be killed. She uses a voodoo doll to torture him, while talking to him over the phone to emphasize her point.

Later, Cordelia teaches Misty an herbal potion and incantation to restore a dying plant to health and teaches her the berries provided grant protection and that they are needed to protect the Coven. A drunken Hank enters and is amazed that her sight is restored. He hugs her, hoping to reconcile. Unaware of Hank's attempt on her life, Misty greets him, but is cut off by Cordelia, who reveals where his possessions are and her plans to file for divorce. It's also shown Hank was the witch hunter who attempted to kill Misty in the swamp.

While searching for his possessions, he is stopped by the new attack dog, Endora, and Fiona, who verbally spars with him before bidding him to leave. Endora detects Kyle in the next room and Fiona demands that he leave. While Fiona's head is turned, Kyle snaps Endora's neck, his intentions unclear. Fiona is amused.

At the hospital, Joan brings baked goods to Nan, exclaiming that she cannot repay Nan's assistance enough. Joan feels that Nan has restored her faith.

However, Nan tells Joan that Luke, through "God", found out that his father's death was Joan's fault. The act was in response to the indiscretion he had with a friend of Joan's, a woman he hoped to be with after leaving her. Joan planted a honeycomb within Luke's car and when he was being stung, stood in the sidelines, locking the doors every time Mr. Ramsey tried to escape. An enraged and guilty Joan sends Nan away, calling her magic a mere sham.

Fiona has restored Kyle to the point where he can play cards and hold conversation. Fiona insists that, while not fully restored, he's able to act as their body guard.

Queenie returns to a smug Delphine, glad that she was able to elude Queenie's "education". Queenie is not surprised, but still determined. The girl's new video traces the struggle of civil rights' activists, set to a gospel about freedom.

Hank prepares an assault, but his actual intended site is Cornrow City, not the school. While Delphine tearfully watches the inequity of the 1960s unfold, Hank guns down nearly everyone in the salon. He aims a shotgun at Marie at close range, managing to land a shot in her arm while she attempted to teleport. Marie is at Hank's mercy, as he prepares to shoot her dead. Queenie stops him with her power by shooting herself in the head, transferring the wound she received to him. Queenie collapses to the floor, her fate still unclear.

Hank's father mourns over the photos of his fallen son. In the hospital, Joan cuts off Luke's oxygen and then tries to kill him with a pillow. Meanwhile, Marie arrives at the door of the academy to discuss a truce since her tribe was attacked. Triumphant, a smug Fiona allows her inside.

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