Diablero S1E4
Episode 4 "An Arcade Incantation" / "Conjuro Arcano"
Resuming to where last episode left off at, Mama Chebala and the rest of the kids are silently tip toeing around the house. One of the demons is actually inside the house! Luckily, the kids stick together and make their way into a safe room where Mama Chebala is right behind them and slams the door shut.
It is now the next morning and all the cool kids are in The Hound. Elvis, Nancy, Keta, Father Ramiro and well looky here so is the would-be victim Magarita and her small child too. For safe keeping. Elvis is not too thrilled with that saying he isn't a daycare but Keta overrides him. Too fucking bad Mr Diablero!
Keta is super accommodating to the mother and child and says they will keep them safe and should they need anything else to let them know. In the meantime, she goes to Elvis while he's taking a shower (couldn't wait 30 freaking minutes, Keta?!) and grills them how they will proceed.
Elvis tells the whole group at dinner that he plans to use that claw to invoke that demon in hopes of being one step further in reuniting with Mayaken. Since this is a Type-2 demon, it will be a rough as fuck but Nancy assures him that she is down for the plan. Father Ramiro asks what he can do to help.
"Pray." Yeah, says the guy who didn't even have the confidence in god's existence lol
Back at Chebala's crib she tells the kids to write these marks from the Aztec gods on the walls preventing the demons from entering is fallible and it's only a matter of time before they are able to intrude so obviously this is only temporary. Mariana expresses survivors guilt that they are under attack all because of her but she assures her that the lawd brought her to her so that she can protect her wittle heart.
Her amulet that she had to protect her got yeeted out the window so that...kinda sucks. So they need to find it.
Nancy and Father Ramiro (I ship them...just kidding that sounds so cringe once I typed that out but for real though, they have an interesting dynamic together) have a chat about what is about to fucking happen. She explains to him that Elvis is about to perform an extremely difficult arcane invokation since he's summoning a demon from another world. How is that any different from Nancy's demons? She invites them but HE will intend to force their presence.
"When you knock on the gates of hell, you never knew who is going to answer." Creepy words, Nancy!!
The young kid peeks his head in the room in which Father Ramiro heads on over to the guest room where him and his mother are at and tries to assure them they need to stay in room for what's about to happen. Nancy then gets into position ready to party and oh what a party is will be.
Priest is in one circle and Nancy in the other with her headphones, which is her way of prepping the fuck up.
Meanwhile, Mama Chebala and the kids go looking for the amulet and forces Mariana to smuggle herself out the house walls in which she promises to try to distract the demon whilst she goes looking for the demon. Fuck.
Elvis recites this incantion in this super tense sense that's simulateounsly also showing Mariana on a crazy run from the demon. Luckily, she found the amulet which sent it flinging back. She gets inside the house but holy fuck demon gets there mere seconds after Mariana. She uses the amulet again and it seems to have a more tense effect on him and he drops to the floor. BUUUUUUT the demon is now exorcised from the victim and travels all the way to Nancy. Ritual success!
Except that it didn't work. Elvis is pissed and storms out of the room but still cautions Nancy and Ramiro to stay in the circles. He searches through his papeles until he notices a light bulb shatter. Hesitantly, he walks over where the doors are slowly opening by themselves 3 in a row. Nancy's silhohette is on the other sid and proceeds to stand up. While he's walking over there, he recites incantations.
Once he is back in the room, it is revealed that the demon is confirmed through Nancy. Crazy as fuck.
He asks the demons's name but it refuses. Upon asking why it is stealing kids, it only claims to be a "hand" in it. Also gives out the threats that they are all going to die. It then tries to test the temptation of Ramiro to step outside the circle and he unfortunatly makes the mistake of looking in the mirror and sees the actual demon which he trips over himself, breaking the circle. The demon then pounces on the priest
All hell breaks loose and everything gets flung around while simultaneously a neighbor is banging on their door telling them to keep it down.
The demon goes flying but Elvis lassos that motha and he goes sliding by. Demon ends up slaughtering the neighbor which gives him the time to catch up and exorcise the demon into the bottle. It kind of fucking burns so he tells them to hurry up and get a cork because it's burning him the fuck up.
He's getting impatient so he ends up using the neighbor's thumb and rips it off his hand as such. A little dark, not gonna lie but at least the neighbor isn't dead like I originally thought.
Mama Chebala is seen pulling Wences into the bed to rest (I suppose that he was the person the aforementioned demon possessed). She asks why the demon left his body. Wences doesn't know. But get this: she asked WHERE THE BOY IS?! What boy?! THAT KID WITH THE MOTHER WHO SURVIVED?
Wences replies that someone who spoke Nahuatl (Elvis). Wait a fucking second. Didn't she tell the kids that he is mute? Holy fuck. This is my first time watching this so WHATTTT! IS GOING ON?! So it turns out they are mother and son. Wences seems to have some sort of capabilities much like Nancy. Interesting. This is actually a bit disturbing because he really doesn't come across as a bad guy at all. If anything, he seems like he is full of trauma as he begs his mother not to let that demon possess him anymore. The plot thickens.
Mama Chebala then goes to tell the kids that this demon is dead and won't bother them again.
Nancy is now placed in this tub of ice in which it immediately sizzles into water. Everyone is panicking over Nancy's well being because her body temp is up there. She eventually becomes conscious and all is right with the world.
Once Elvis is calmed down, he tells that that this was definitely something different. Based on its answers, he comes to the conclusion that this demon was not a free agent if you know what I mean. It was leashed like a dog which means that there are bigger fish to fry. All this time they thought that it was all the work of a demon but in this particular instance, their enemy is an actual human that is the demon's master. Definitely someone who has mastered these arcane incantation. In fact an expert diablero.
Nancy reveals that she saw glimpses through the other victim's eyes and she in fact saw Mariana. She corrects him and says nope. He is not looking for an expert diablero.
A EXPERT DIABLERA!
Keta then confronts Elvis upon what he said earlier mentioning he's done this arcane invokation once before. Soooooo, when was this first one then??
He breaks down and says he "All I ever wanted was for the angels to come back." Not sure what the heck that means. But he said he wanted to see one. Sure enough 2 weeks after the invocation, she said she was pregnant.
He wanted to see a "good diablero."
Keta loses her shit and slams the door in his face.
Back in the safe room, Margarita (the mother who survived the demon) seems almost hypnotized goes beelines her way to the bottle where the demon calls home. She opens it and ends up possessing her now.
Back at Mama Chebala's Mariana seems to be the only one who didn't get knocked out from the drinks this diablera served to the kids. Sebastian and other kid falls asleep. Mariana looks out the window and sees a possessed Margarita descend with the body of Magarita's son. Mama Chebala gleefully retrieves him. She holds up the amulet and does this incantation to exorcise the demon from the mother and pulls out a bottle of her own to trap the demon.
A now normal Margarita is distressed especially when she sees her son unconscious on the ground. Mama Chebala ends up killing her!!! She beckons Wences to dispose of the body.
Father Ramiro is the first to notice the two are gone. To their horror, they realized what happened really quickly as the empty bottle in the hallway is looking back at them.
FUCK SHIT FUCK
That poor man's thumb was ripped in vain. Sad face.
Maraiana manages to escape the house and goes right back into the god foresaken country ass house fleeing for her life.
Concluding this episode. Wow. This really is such a good show. Episode 5 is next.
Outro: 🎵Los Weeds "Sexy Raver"🎵