Season 1, Episode 13
Have You Brought Me Little Cakes
After travelling to Fillory, Julia and Quentin discover they've been followed by Martin Chatwin, who they promise to help find Jane. They commission a blade to help them kill the Beast, and meet the Watcherwoman, a future Jane Chatwin. She says her farewells and helps them go back to their present. As they arrive in the present, Quentin and Julia receive the enchanted letter and map leading to Penny, Eliot and Margo. They get the blade, but Eliot has to marry the blade maker's daughter, as he was revealed via a second magic blade to be the future High King.
Quentin and Julia look for Ember, who can give them enough power to hold the blade. Ember unlocks Julia's memories, revealing that she and her friends had been tricked into summoning Reynard the Fox. He raped Julia and killed her friends. After, she asked Marina to alter her memories of the incident.
Penny, Alice, Eliot and Margo rescue the Beast's prisoners, Victoria and Christopher Plover, who reveal that the Beast is Martin Chatwin. Josh and Victoria leave the group and return to Earth, while the rest travel to the source of Fillory's magic to ambush the Beast. There, the Beast overpowers them. Julia gets the blade from Alice and holds the empowered knife to the Beast's throat. Julia makes a deal with the Beast to kill Reynard, and they leave, with Quentin the only one left standing.
Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
- Adaptation Expansion:
- In the books, Alice is able to kill the Beast, but it is at the cost of her life. In the episode, she is unable to kill him because of Julia's intervention and he is allowed to live on and return for the second season.
- In the books, Julia was not in Fillory during the confrontation, as she was not invited.
- Adaptational Villainy: While Julia was raped by Reynard in the books, she never betrayed her friends because of it.
- …And That Little Girl Was Me: Eliza, who turned out to be Jane Chatwin, also turns out to be the Watcherwoman. Lampshaded.Quentin: [narrating] Chapter 3: The Watcherwoman or The Other, Other Identity.
- Arranged Marriage: Eliot is forced to marry the blade maker's daughter as part of a deal to get the knife that can kill the Beast.
- Downer Ending: The episode ends with the plan to kill the Beast failing because Julia stole the knife from Alice. This results in the Beast apparently killing Alice, Eliot, Margo, and Penny. Before he can attack Quentin, Julia threatens him with the knife and proposes a deal. They teleport away, leaving Quentin to wonder what to do next.
- Harmful Healing: Ember notices that Julia has had her memories altered and "fixes" them, causing her to relive the traumatic experience of summoning Reynard.
- Lemony Narrator: Quentin narrates the events of the first half of this episode with a lot of sarcasm and lampshade hanging.
- Mundane Utility: The invisibility spell cast on The Castle That Isn't There was for budgetary reasons.
- Only Smart People May Pass: Fillorian animal traps have riddles on them, to make sure the trappers don't end up eating any intelligent animals.
- Rape as Drama: It is revealed that Julia was raped by Reynard The Fox, who was disguising himself as the goddess her group was summoning. She had the memory of the incident erased; it returns when Ember removes the Fake Memories that were hiding it. The trauma of the memory results in her making the decision to form an alliance with the Beast in order to find a way to kill Reynard.
- The Reveal: The Beast's true identity is revealed to be Martin Chatwin, despite the group originally assuming it to be Christopher Plover.
- Revenge Before Reason: Julia ruins the only chance to kill the Beast because she needs his help to get revenge on Reynard.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor: Julia betrays the group when she steals the knife and strikes a deal with the Beast.
- Stable Time Loop: Quentin knows the answer to the riddle Jane needs to escape from the trap because he remembers reading about how she escaped from the trap in one of the Fillory books.
- Sugar Bowl: Fillory in 1942. By the present day, it's gone downhill a bit.
- Super Serum: Ember gives Quentin and Julia some of his, uh, "essence" in order to boost the magic of The Chosen One.
- Sympathy for the Devil: When Quentin finds out that the Beast isn't Plover but is instead Martin Chatwin, he feels bad for Martin because of what events all led to him becoming the Beast in the first place. Averted with Plover himself, for obvious reasons. Quentin actually threatens to feed Plover to Martin.
- You Will Be Beethoven: Quentin and Julia end up being "the witch and the fool", two minor characters from the Fillory books.Quentin: Wait, which one do you think I am?
