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Vilandra
10-06-2005, 02:05 AM
Source: Yahoo TV (http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/tvpdb?d=tvp&id=169580766&cf=0&lineup=uk&channels=europe_sk1&chspid=166005006&chname=Sky+One&title=Hex&normalized=Hex&progutn=1129521600&.intl=uk)

Summary:

Roxanne's getting suspicious of Ella, so starts spying on her. Thelma works out how Azazeal is torturing Ella and goes after him. Big mistake.


Source: SkyOne (http://www.skyone.co.uk/programme/pgeepisodes.aspx?pid=5&eid=343)

Recap:

Ella is playing squash when suddenly she is gripped by terrible pain in her head. It's unbearable. In her agony, she telekinetically smashes the glass back wall of the court.

When Ella comes into class she looks a pale shadow of her former self. Jez is talking about witches and looks right at her as he does so. He says there was once a witch trial right there at Medenham...

Roxanne has texted everyone a photo of Leon tied to the tree in episode three. He's not speaking to Ella.

Thelma realises that there's something up with Ella and thinks it's connected to whatJez was saying about the witch. Ella's clearly in a foul mood and tells Thelma to leave her alone. Meanwhile David Tyrel has found the smashed wall in the squash court and that Ella was the last to use it.

Jez and Roxanne are now in a relationship and Jez asks her to spy on Ella for him. He claims he's worried about her...

When Ella drops her lunch tray in the canteen, clearly in agonising pain again, Roxanne follows her outside, where Thelma asks Ella if she's the Medenham witch. Ella tells her to she's a leech and a parasite. Thelma is upset. Roxanne has watched the entire exchange and to her it looks like Ella's been having a conversation with thin air.

Thelma heads to the Corn Exchange, where Jez said the witch was tried. She tags on to a tour party and hears how suspected witches were tortured and tried before being burnt at the stake. No wonder Ella's a bit uptight!

Jez and David discuss Ella's recent behaviour. David's worried, and asks Jez what they should do. Jez says he'll help and we flashback to Ella, in the past, being tortured by a Witchfinder – Azazeal.

Ella flashes back to the present. Azazeal. She rushes to the fireplace in her room. When she gets there she realises that the precious Stone of Belial is gone. Azazeal holds the stone as he talks to Jez. This time there will be no escape for Ella.

Jez attempts to get Ella to take some pills for her headache. She become suspicious when she later finds him in her room. She throws the pills he gave her away. She's now in agony and tells Thelma that she knows Azazeal has the stone – and he's killing her with it. Thelma feels terrible, she's desperate to help. She gives Ella painkillers, but they are pills which has Jez planted there...

Meanhile Roxanne tries to persuade Leon that he should spy on Ella too. Leon refuses. He obviously still has feelings for Ella.

Thelma sees Azazeal standing outside Ella's window. He heads off into the woods. She follows him, trying to get the stone back. But he leads her to Medenham Corn Exchange and traps her there, in the chair used to torture Ella back in 1666.

Meanwhile Ella has become delirious and wanders into Leon's room, where the gang are amazed by her apparent insanity. She is screaming and agitated. David is called. He takes her to the library where Jez is burning "soothing candles". Ella claims they're St John’s Wort, poison to her. She screams at Jez about his master, as Azazeal sits in the corner. David clearly thinks she's insane and goes to call a doctor, as he does, Azazeal tells Ella that he'll almost miss her.

We flashback to 1666 where Ella is being tortured. In the present Thelma feels it too, thanks to the Stone of Belial which Azazeal is using to give her a front row seat of Ella's suffering.

David calls a GP, who in turn calls a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist talks to Roxanne. Leon is also forced to incriminate Ella.

In 1666 Azazeal questions Leon and Roxanne at Ella’s witch trial and urges Ella to confess. She says she will not.

In the present, Ella tells Dr Wilkinson that Thelma is a ghost. Dr Wilkinson recommends that she should be sectioned, for her own good. She's clearly mentally ill.

In the past, Ella is sentenced to death by burning at the stake.

In the present Ella is dragged to an ambulance.

In the past Ella stirs as she smells flames lit around her.

Thelma has escaped from the torture chair in the present.

In the past, Thelma appears, and rescues Ella from the stake, to the shock of the watching court.

Thelma returns to the present. She rushes to Medenham. But as she gets there she sees the ambulance driving off with Ella. Jez tells her that she wasn't so lucky this time – it's clear that he can see her.

Ella lies in a hospital bed, dead to the world and so very vulnerable...

Black Eye Guy
10-20-2005, 04:13 PM
Ok wow this ep was very cool I thought, I only saw it 2night and I was very impressed, it was very different to what we have seen so far. I really like Ella she has totaly grown on me. And the next ep looks deadly.

Allycat
10-25-2005, 05:08 PM
This episode was really disturbing and makes one wonder where they hell they're taking this story. Didn't Azazeal say Malakai was near maturity last episode? Man, I'm anxious to see him! It's very twisted to experience how Azazeal and Jes can be both so human and so incredibly inhuman at the same time.

Mr Pointy
10-25-2005, 06:16 PM
I saw an interview with the cast in last month's Dreamwatch which featured the actor playing the older Malachi so I guess he will be a central character...wish I could remember what exactly was said. I hate the "British Buffy" comparisons (nothing like it IMO) but it seems like the Hex team are the same as Joss in not being afraid to kill central characters...although I suspect we may see Cassie again.

Vilandra
10-25-2005, 06:17 PM
It's only like Buffy in the fact that it's a kick ass show with a supernatural theme and a strong female lead. I think it has the potential to reach the popularity level of Buffy, but yes, as you say, they aren't the same. :)

prydain
10-25-2005, 06:21 PM
THANK YOU!!! I have been saying this since forever! The show bears no resemblence to Buffy except for supernatural lesbians, pretty much. Buffy isn't about fallen angels, its about...well, a vampire slayer. Hex is more comparable to Point Pleasant.

Black Eye Guy
10-26-2005, 07:59 AM
I agree it is more like point Pleasant, but if you had a choice to advertise it as the British Point Pleasant, or the British Buffy which would you choose, I think they say that to draw in the Buffy fan base knowing that they tend to watch the same type of shows.

Allycat
10-26-2005, 02:03 PM
Well, I can't blame 'em... it DID work after all. If it hadn't been promoted as the British Buffy, I would've never out of sheer curiosity watched it.

Vilandra
11-04-2005, 02:13 PM
Nor me.

This episode was weird...I have to say I didn't really like it that much. Too much Ella lol. And she was such a freak show, which I know was the point but still. I'm wondering what the implications are though that in the "past" Thelma saved Ella...does that mean that Thelma had lived before as well?

prydain
12-11-2005, 08:51 PM
Wow, another great episode. It sucks that I'm so far behind all of you. Only on episode 2x04 now...lol. I'm fighting to not read the spoilers because I'm enjoying this show. BTW, Vilandra - if you live in New York, how are *YOU* watching the episodes? Is someone sending them to you or are you getting them like I am? ;) And I'm sure you know how I'm getting them.

Why doesn't BBC-America show this show? I think it could get a little fan base over here if they would...

Allycat
12-12-2005, 02:15 AM
Because it's a SkyOne production and Sky is the competitor of BBC, lol. I wish it aired on BBC, then I could just watch it on the telly instead of doing it the same way you do prydain17.

prydain
12-12-2005, 07:40 AM
Oh, lol, well I don't know the relationship of all these British channels. They should have a SkyOne-America, haha.

Black Eye Guy
12-12-2005, 10:44 AM
I remember reading somewhere that SkyOne have ties with Fox, is that right? And I don’t think it would last that long in America, With how fast the shows get cancelled, it probably would not have made it through the first 5 episodes!

prydain
12-12-2005, 01:19 PM
I remember reading somewhere that SkyOne have ties with Fox, is that right? And I don’t think it would last that long in America, With how fast the shows get cancelled, it probably would not have made it through the first 5 episodes!

I was saying that if there were a cable station like BBC-A that just showed UK shows ratings wouldn't be a factor. I doubt BBC-A gets good ratings anyway.

Vilandra
12-12-2005, 10:05 PM
I remember reading somewhere that SkyOne have ties with Fox, is that right? And I don’t think it would last that long in America, With how fast the shows get cancelled, it probably would not have made it through the first 5 episodes!
Yes I believe Rupert Murdoch owns both. Fox Soccer Channel shows Sky Sports News and Dream Team, so it would be nice if one of the other Fox channels would air Hex.

And no, no one's sending them to me ;)