When we left Amsterdam last week, Euro Cash and Eddie had discovered the hidden door that gave the non-demon murderer access to the conjuring space, Citra and Drunkie Howser were posted up in a club surveilling Magic Man and crew, and Grandad Conjurer had just attacked an orderly at the hospital before making his escape. Luckily for that orderly, Hassell was on her way to the hospital, so she finds him soon after the attack, administers a bit of haphazard first aid, and confirms that Grandad Conjurer is in the wind.
Hassell’s first call, once more medical professionals arrive on the scene and take over trying to save the orderly, is to Euro Cash, who surmises that Grandad Conjurer might be heading to the club, and turns his car in that direction. Next call? Citra, who unfortunately can’t hear the phone ringing over the music. Euro Cash’s guess was a good one: Citra looks up in time to see Grandad Conjurer yelling something at Angelique (oh yeah, she’s here too), before approaching Magic Man and whispering something in his ear and then wandering off. By this point the entire squad has converged on the scene, but with the music and lights, nobody can actually find Grandad Conjurer in the crowd… that is until he starts convulsing on the floor, which understandably thins the crowd pretty fast. Euro Cash runs over and starts trying to keep Grandad Conjurer alive, barking out to the team to find Drunkie Howser, an actual doctor, but even with the help, they’re unsuccessful: Grandad Conjurer dies.
After calling for backup, the team locks down the club so they can interview everyone, and Drunkie Hoswer gives a preliminary opinion on cause of death: Grandad Conjurer turns out to have a pretty impressive stab wound on his abdomen. Hassell questions Angelique, who explains that she came to pay her respects, and apologizes for freaking Hassell out with the whole “your siblings basically tortured you, lmao” conversation in last week’s episode. Hassell pretends she’s totally fine, but is obviously rattled. Angelique, delightfully mysterious, tells Hassell that she’s sensing that she already told Hassell what this case is all about. She’s not a psychic, so she doesn’t know who the killer is, but insists that what she said earlier will help solve everything.
Meanwhile, Euro Cash and Eddie talk to Magic Man: why was he following Grandad Conjurer through the crowd? They think he’s got a good motive for the murders, since he’s likely the one who will take over leadership of The Order of the Blood Moon with both conjurers now dead. Magic Man insists that Grandad Conjurer was whispering weird nonsense before he ran off, and only after several repeated questions from Euro Cash does he share what Grandad Conjurer whispered: “the terror poet rapes and atones for rats.” Makes no sense to ME, but I’m sure it’ll get cleared up later?
Back at the station, Euro Cash and Hassell rap about the case. Euro Cash doesn’t trust Magic Man, and Hassell still doesn’t like the look of the first victim’s wife, who she’s brought in for questioning. Why? Well, because the day her husband died she messaged the guy who called the cops that first night 73 times. That’s definitely worth following up, so Euro Cash heads in to question her while Hassell talks to Cop Caller. Turns out that the pair had been having an affair for a while, after meeting when Cop Caller came to their house (he was a patient of the first victim). Cop Caller broke it off, and the victim’s wife wanted to keep seeing him, so she went to the club to try and get him to take her back. She also trashed her husband’s office: she hated magic, and knew he was scared of it, so she tried to freak him out enough to quit. Unfortunately for her, that makes her look pretty guilty of the murder too. In the next room, Cop Caller insists that they didn’t do it: he didn’t like her enough to kill her husband, and he tried to help get the ritual stopped!
The next morning finds the entire squad at the bar, where the only ones still awake are Hassell and Euro Cash (Eddie and Citra have slumped over on each other in a booth, which is hilarious). Across town, we get our second glimpse of a young woman who appears to be in a coma, and is hooked up to a bunch of machines in a very fancy room. Could this be Missing Member? And at Euro Cash’s boat, Lena arrives to drop off his key. Obviously he’s not there, so she lets herself in and drops the key on his desk before walking around looking nostalgic.
Back at the bar, Big Cheese wakes everyone up with breakfast and a good question: why kill Grandad Conjurer at the club when you could take him out during the summoning? To pin the first murder on him? Drunkie Howser has an annoyed outburst about Grandad Conjurer’s last words (which turn out to be an anagram of the magic square), specifically that he thinks it’s gibberish. He’s not alone in his frustration: everyone seems pretty stymied by the case. The kids were tracking down Missing Member, but couldn’t get super far overnight. However, when Citra checks her email, she finds a reply that points to a possible current address for Missing Member, so Euro Cash bundles everyone into the car (without letting them finish breakfast first, which is mean TBH) and heads straight there.
Arriving at Missing Member’s address, Euro Cash sends the kids around the back, and when no one answers the door, he gets Hassell to use her lock picking set to let them in. Seems illegal to ME, but what do I know? The goth besties find an open window, and assuming whoever was here did a runner, they send the kids to canvas the street. Hearing beeping, they head upstairs to find the woman we saw earlier. They’ve just decided to call in forensics when a caretaker walks in, and after a brief standoff, provides some answers: she doesn’t know what happened to Missing Member, but she’s got locked in syndrome. This means that she can hear everything going on around her, and still has full cognitive function, but her body is completely paralyzed. The carer works in total isolation, coming and going at specific times. She’s paid by a company, and tells the squad she’ll happily pass along the bank info, but needs to get back to her charge.
Later, back at the station, the squad talks over what they know about Missing Member: she had a troubled childhood, and while her parents are deceased, she had two siblings who would now be in their 30s. Of the OG suspects, it seems like Angelique, Granddaughter and Cop Caller could be the right age, but since the last two are either related to other victims or, you know, called the cops, Euro Cash and Hassell decide to start with Angelique. When they get to her place she’s in the middle of a major invocation with friends online from around the world, which the goth besties gleefully disrupt. Realizing that they won’t go away, Angelique pulls them aside to talk. Angelique doesn’t know who Missing Member is, but she is able to answer Euro Cash’s question about the timing around the other groups’ conjuring, which she confirms would have been very specific. Why ask this? Because Euro Cash wants to compare the ritual timing, time of death, and when Cop Caller actually called. Euro Cash also posits that Angelique’s pronouncement that she already told them what they need had something to do with siblings, before heading back to his boat to change after their all-nighter.
Speaking of the boat, Lena’s in the middle of writing a note to Euro Cash when there’s a racket above, and someone walks into the room. Someone who’s definitely not Euro Cash, because he pulls up to the dock a few minutes later and is too distracted by a phone call from Citra (telling him the time of the phone call was AFTER the conjuring) to hear Lena’s warning, and gets knocked out by the mystery intruder (who’s already tied Lena up).
Across town, Drunkie Howser visits Missing Member, whose condition has him extremely rattled, and chats up her carer. Back at the bar, Hassell’s also rattled, because Euro Cash isn’t answering her calls. Citra fills her in on the phone call timing, which Hassell also finds odd, and then Eddie shares what he’s found about Missing Member’s siblings: the brother was in the army, and the sister is a wanderer, and harder to pin down. Eddie also shares that the conjurers tried a new and controversial technique on Missing Member, which obviously had a bad outcome. Just then, Drunkie Howser rushes in looking for Euro Cash: one of the magicians had cleaning solution on his hands after the conjuring (from removing eye gunk), and also left fingerprints on a wand that could have been used to stab Grandad Conjurer. Before he can say who, the army sends through a photo of Missing Member’s brother. No surprises here, folks: it’s the same guy. Cop Caller. They all start trying to figure out where he is now…
… but we already know the answer to that. Cop Caller is the mystery intruder who’s got Euro Cash prisoner on his boat. Once Euro Cash wakes up, he tries to get Cop Caller to let Lena go — no dice. Cop Caller spills the rest pretty quickly: in his opinion, the conjurers had corrupted his sister with romance and magic, and then caused her condition with their botched procedure. Cop Caller blames himself because she acted out when he left, and he thinks her involvement in the magic group is the last example. He also thinks his sister would hate what’s happened to her, and he wants to unhook her from the machines: but only after he tells her he’s killed the conjurers. What’s stopping him? Euro Cash and co, who arrived at the house and ensured that Missing Member was found and will now be guarded.
So what’s Cop Caller’s plan? Get Euro Cash to call off the squad so he can go back and finish the job. He even threatens to kill Lena if Euro Cash doesn’t comply. Euro Cash tries to distance himself from Lena to keep her safe (which almost REALLY backfires: Cop Caller fires off a shot inside the boat). Of course, once their captor leaves, Euro Cash apologizes, and then gets Lena to retrieve an old phone from a drawer. It’s so old that they decide who to call alphabetically, and ring up bar owner and honorary member of the team Cliff, but get caught in the act. Cop Caller smashes the phone, but thankfully, using a weird old phone is enough to set off alarm bells for Cliff, who calls Hassell to help out. She rallies the group to meet at the dock, but when she gets there his boat is missing. Big Cheese calls out a chopper, and across town, Euro Cash, Lena, and Cop Caller arrive at the house. Euro Cash successfully convinces the cops guarding the door to leave, but Missing Member’s carer is not so easy to persuade. She’s paid to be there, and it finally takes Euro Cash scarily insisting that her employers want her to leave to get her to go.
Back at the dock, Hassell tells the group they should go back to Missing Member: that’s where her brother will be. If only they had the carer’s phone number so they could warn her! Well guess what, baby: they do, because Drunkie Howser is just that cool. Back with Missing Member, Lena and Euro Cash both try to convince Cop Caller that his sister doesn’t need to die. He doesn’t listen, and begins turning off the machines surrounding her. As he says goodbye, and promises to see her on the other side, Euro Cash and Lena team up to poke holes in the plan: what if there is no afterlife? What if this is all Missing Member has? What if there are advances in science that could give Missing Member a different outcome? He eventually starts to crack, giving Euro Cash a chance to smack him in the head with an air canister, which in turns enables Lena to turn the machines back on. They’re JUST in time, and Missing Member’s heart starts beating again as a tear rolls down her cheek.
Later, everyone — including Cliff and Missing Member’s carer (who seems like she might be wearing one of Drunkie Howser’s shirts?) — converges on Euro Cash’s boat for a celebratory beer. Lena’s also invited: apparently taking on a murderer together was enough to convince Euro Cash to give her a second chance. And just as they’re about to kiss about it, Drunkie Howser interrupts to call everyone together for a family photo. Not gonna lie, reader, the picture is very cute, and a delightful way to wrap up the season. Will there be another? No clue! But we certainly won’t want for drama: next week World on Fire and Annika both return for season 2!
