The Cock Barrens: Season 2, Episode 6

WARNING: If you don't want to know what happened in this episode, don't read this photo recap! 

Quentin tries to summon Niffin Alice while Eliot and Margo try to get him to help solve some of Fillory's problems. Turns out Quentin has to get back for Alice's memorial service.

You know who's hanging around her own funeral? Alice, looking like a dead person, and trying to send Quentin a message. Whatever it is, he's not getting it, but it involves breaking into her father's office.

Julia and Kady try to figure out who it was that banished Reynard 40 years ago, and learn that it was likely in Hoboken, New Jersey. It's a lead!

Snooping around, Quentin bumps into Alice's father, Daniel. When Quentin confesses that Alice's ghost may be hanging around, the pair come up with a plan to free her spirit.

This is Prince Ess. Yes, it's pronounced princess. He's a soldier from Loria and he's pretty mad. He proposes a 50/50 split of the Wellspring and also says that Margo should marry him. When she refuses, one of his guards picks up Castle Whitespire and MOVES IT ELSEWHERE.

Quentin and Daniel spend some time building a pyramid, as per the magic spell instructions. But Daniel isn't taking this well (naturally) and entrusts most of the work to an unprepared Quentin.

Julia travels to meet with the woman who banished Reynard 40 years ago, Dana. Turns out she was pregnant, too and had the baby. Julia asks her how to banish Reynard again. Will she help?

So, after Margo and Eliot debate how to handle Prince Ess, Margo takes matters into her own hands and sleeps with Prince Ess. Consensually

In another part of the castle, Fen decides to fess up. She tells Eliot that she was part of the FU Fighters. She pledges her loyalty to him, and he decides to trust her.

Dana is not, it turns out, the most helpful person around. She leads Julia into a room in her basement and swipes her with a baseball bat.

Now, turns out this whole time, Penny has been outside of where the Castle USED to be, consulting with the Royal Mapmaker. After a quick pop into one of Margo's dreams, Penny tells the mapmaker where he thinks they are: The Cock Barrens of Loria.

Terrible news. The only way to banish Reynard is to harness the power of Julia's baby when it's born. Also, this spooky woman has been keeping a Haxenpaxen in her basement. It keeps her hidden from Reynard.

Kady turns up and saves Julia! Hooray! They decide to take the Haxenpaxen with them. She also stopped by an old friend who provided her with the answer as to who CAN help.

Penny cracks the case! Castle Whitespire was not, in fact, sent to Loria. Turns out the spell was a trick to make them THINK they were there, but they've been in Fillory the whole time.

The whole funeral prank thing, it turns out, was a plot to get Stephanie (Alice's mom) to confess that she was a terrible mother. But why? Well...

Niffin Alice pulled the whole thing off because it turns out, this whole time, she's actually been living in the Cacodemon tattoo in Quentin's back. She wants out, but until then, she's having some fun.

Also, Reynard is back, you guys. And now he's seeking revenge on Dana.

Okay, if you missed the episode, you should definitely check out Margo's speech here because it is brilliant. Not only does she read Prince Ess to filth, she declares war on Loria. Which is going a bit far, but they totally had it coming.