Witch’s liberation comes to Salem as the clock approaches the midnight hour.

Oh, did I say exit?

I mean falls on the floor in paranoid agony.

You got a new enemy, witch.

Or an old one.

The episode uncorks with the heady aroma of pure undiluted Marburg blood.

Both know what its like to give everything for love only to have love turn on them.

That makes the blood boil hot enough to raise the near-dead.

But it takes a little dolly to raise and army.

Not for nothing Issac, but truth be told, you aint fooling no one.

Being locked in a cage by a witch in a whorehouse?

There are guys whod pay top dollar for that, even if its not their particular flavor of kink.

A witch can make a fetish out of anything.

The new Mrs. Hathorne can even get a rise out of her hubby by pure unmitigated insolence and insubordination.

Mr. Lewis, indeed.

Why, that Mercy is incorrigible.

She will surely get a spanking, or administger one.

They play a game of tick tock toe but it ends in a stalemate.

I knew the clock wouldnt go back to working, its the devils clock and it doesnt disappoint.

But whats this about all the years that Aldens known Dinley?

Judging by his hair in the flashbacks, they only met last week.

Aldens wounds arent the only thing that need leeching.

Hes beating himself up over the beating he took for send Beelzebub back to hell.

He feels like he slaughtered a great beast the likes of which we may never see again.

Youre preaching to the choir here, Alden.

Ive been saying this for years, sometimes in these very reviews.

What gives people the right to kill these monsters?

Whats the first thing a movie hero does when confronted with Dracula?

He tries to put a stake in his heart.

That count has been around for five hundred years.

It is a white lie to keep a desperate woman sane.

He is tender and loving to the love-starved witch he once loathed and feared.

Minutes after whitewashing John Aldens exit plan, Cotton plans his departure from the witch who deceived him.

And then Anne Hale comes back at him.

Cottons whole life was a lie, she says.

He can get away with that because he is a man.

But, as Mercy Lewis already intimated, witchy women have as much power as any man.

After Cotton, Hales arc is the most far reaching.

Its been a long time coming, which is why it doesnt rank as the biggest of the episode.

Hale is the true witchy heroine of the show.

They unleash the cure to the cancer that has plagued mankind and identify the cancerasmankind.

Witches may not get the same pay as wizards but they do the same heavy lifting.

And Tituba created Samaelstein just for the fight.

The only problem is that they are up against the most powerful of the Essex Witches.

Saturday Mourning was written by Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson and directed by Jennifer Lynch.

Rating:

5 out of 5