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No Better to Be Safe Than Sorry: Season 4, Episode 13
1 of 39WARNING: If you don't want to know what happened in this episode, don't read this photo recap!
Quentin and Alice are powered up with magic from the reservoir in Fillory and headed to the Library to stop Evils Eliot and Julia. Just as Evil Julia is threatening Fogg, Quentin calls out for her. She heads to the hallway where Quentin and Alice have an ice axe and a bottle to hold the possessed spirit.
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2 of 39And as Julia is confronting them, Penny 23 appears behind her and whacks her with the other ice ax. It removes the demon monster spirit from her body, and they use magic to cast an incorporate bond and contain it in a bottle.
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4 of 39Julia is in the hospital and not healing properly. Her body is healing and then reopening the wound from the ice ax. Penny 23 realizes he needs to reach out to The Binder. He advises that he can help Julia -- either become a goddess or become human. And Penny 23 has to choose for her.
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5 of 39Julia tells Quentin what she realized the Monster wanted when she was possessed. She wants to kill the old gods, and is just fine to kill all humans in a nuclear apocalypse scenario if that's what it takes. Luckily the scroll she had recovered from the Library to travel to them is still in Julia's pocket.
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7 of 39Then Penny shows up with the bad news: They helped Julia, but not Eliot. Margo is not surprised, and she is furious. Then Josh realizes he has some residual magical powers and they realize they need to talk to rest of the gang.
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8 of 39Kady finally resolves to get healing from the Library from her Poison Room experience after a talk with Pete. They need her. She sits with Zelda and lets her have it for everything she has done while Everett has gone full evil and she has been blindly obedient to him. Zelda admits she was, and says she has changed.
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9 of 39Julia is furious with Penny 23 for choosing for her. And for making her be human -- she doesn't have magic anymore and she is devastated. Penny apologizes but says he would do it again to save her. When he goes to leave, she asks him to stay. She just wants him to be nearby while she is quietly mad at him for a while.
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10 of 39Back at the Cottage, Margo and Josh discuss what to do next with Quentin. They know Everett wants to kill Evil Eliot in order to get his powers and both Quentin and Margo agree that they can't do anything that endangers Eliot. Suddenly EE appears. Josh reaches for the scroll and a magical portal opens. He and Quentin jump through it before EE can. And, wormhole!
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12 of 39Quentin and Josh land in the office of some mid-level manager to the Old gods who is carrying a putter and talking about his tee-time. The scroll is the prize for a quest they didn't complete, and he isn't inclined to help them talk to the gods. But he does have advice: Throw the Monsters into "the seam." He describes what Quentin realizes is the Mirror World, and tells them that there is a place where the world leaks and if they throw the Monsters in there they will be gone forever. And then they get congrats cake.
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14 of 39Kady suggests reaching out to all of the hedge witches and magicians all around the world to do a cooperative spell and raise ambient magic. If it works, it should be enough to give the team the power they need to cast the incorporate bond to save Eliot and toss the Monsters into the seam. And they can surprise Evil Eliot while he is still confused in Fillory.
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17 of 39Penny, Quentin and Margo sneak up on Evil Eliot and ice ax him. They use ambient magic that everyone is summoning to move the possessed spirits into one of the bottles and cast an incorporate bond. Margo tends to Eliot's wound and calls to him. He recognizes her, but is seriously injured and passes out again. They rush him to the hospital for treatment but since all magic must be used for the bonds to hold the monsters they have to treat him the old fashioned way -- surgery.
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18 of 39Penny, Quentin and Alice travel to the Mirror World. They find the seam, and Alice warns that no magic can be used there. She leads them to the room where she sensed the seam. They find it, in a room that looks like an alternate Brakebills lab. And inside, a large mirror holds the seam.
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19 of 39Quentin successfully throws the first bottle into the seam. One monster gone. Then Everett shows up. He's pissed, and he wants that god power for his own. He knows he can't do magic in there, so he throws an object to break the mirror so they can't toss the other bottle into the seam.
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21 of 39Quentin tells Penny to "do it," and Penny grabs Alice and moves toward the door. Everett, enraged, asks Quentin what he's done. He answers: "Just some minor mending." Quentin worked magic to repair the broken mirror and heal the seam.
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25 of 39Magicians and hedge witches sense that everything is OK. They begin to celebrate. Only Penny and Alice know about Quentin. The two of them survive because Penny 23 pulled her out of the room, and he holds her while she sobs. Magic returns to the world.
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28 of 39They sit in Penny's office. Quentin is crying. He knows he has to reveal his truth -- and Penny tells him he has to reveal it to himself. He talks through his history, his struggles with mental health and self-harm. And how he found Brakebills and thought that everything changed. But here is the question that Quentin is now facing: Did he do something brave to save his friends? Or did he finally find a way to kill himself?
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33 of 39Margo adds the crown that she had once placed on Quentin's head to the fire. Fogg adds Quentin's Brakebills admissions form to the fire. Penny 40 and Quentin take a moment to appreciate everyone's sincere grief. And they laugh now at how Quentin inappropriately laughed when he learned Penny was dead. Penny then tells Q that he didn't just save their lives, he changed their lives.
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