Marianne: Episode 2
Clarke had tried his best to disbelieve it all,but at the end of the account,as he had written in his bookhe had placed the inscription:"And the devil is incarnate,and was made man"
-Arthur Machen
Episode 2 "Tradition"
Guys, don't watch this at night. This ain't a joke that this series is scary as fuck! I don't say this lightly. Or maybe I am just one big scaredy cat after all.
This episode opens up right where the 1st episode left off at. Camille is in a fetal position while the house alarm is still going off. She calls out for Emma but to no reply. Just a few moments later the house alarm finally shuts the fuck up.
Now the house phone starts to ring.
A hesitant Camille picks up the phone in your standard horror fashion. Unsurprisingly, it's the home security office asking if everything is fine and dandy. They end up notifying the police whom should be there shortly.. She proceeds to go in the front room so she can unlock the door while still on the phone and sees a creepy ass door wide open in the creepy ass middle of the night. The security then tells her to turn around to check the living room if there is anything amiss. She says nah, she's good.
"Look more carefully."
If you're starting to think this may not be the security peeps then you guessed right. The tone of the caller on the other line is now distorted. According to the captions, the name of this demon witch whatever is Daugeron, the last name of Caroline and her mother, is saying they are in the darkest corner of the very same room she's in. Camille slowly pans over and sees the stuffs of nightmares.
Next, there is a BANGING at the window. It's a bloodied Emma outside. All she said was that she hit her head explain to seeping blood down her face.
It's the morning after where Emma and Camille are now sitting on the steps and this random ass dude come driving up. He introduces himself as Inspector Ronan. Emma reports the strange happenings with her parents, including alleging that Daugeron drugged them but he immediately invalidates her concerns saying that not only are they unsubstantiated but they are consenting adults. So walking into the woods in the middle of the night is no crime, nor cause for concern. He steps past them and sees the weird ass bag of shit Emma swore she chucked when she first got there the day before. Alas, chucked it is not. It's hanging clear as day on their door.
After collecting it for evidence. He sheepishly asks Emma to sign -takes out 4 big boys- HER BOOKS! She says 'Okay, Inspector. I'll sign it, just go question that hag, Daugeron."
Emma and Camille are now playing super secret undercover brats and watch and she leaves her house. They're Curly short of being the 3 Stooges because it was pretty comical seeing them trying to break in Daugeron's house.
The point is, they made it. Actually it's her I suppose Camille is keeping a watch outside. Along with the graphic of Emma's book signifying Chapter 3: The Break-In.
Inside, she just sees the same wack ass mess as she did before. Books penned by her are just around the house all willy nilly. She spots this black crow in a cage. Nearby she spots this weird ominou looking picture amongst other oddities. She hear winds howling and abruptly stopping. Actually, no, she ends up going inside the house with Emma after she unlocks the front door.
Together, they go inside a locked bedroom in which they were hearing some movement in there. They were planning on both breaking down the door but HOLY SHIT DAUGERON IS APPARENTLY BACK AT HOME. In her own creepy monotone voice she ninjas behind them and inquires why they would want to? Afterall, she claims it's just cats. Literally cats, this time, since I know I usually shorten characters to cats. For real this time, it's CATS. And her teeth too.
ANYWAY
Emma immediately asks where are her dang parents at. She just replies "In the shadows rotting with their teeth chattering."
She excuses herself to take out a butcher knife and proceeds to saw into her arm dead ass. She gives the threat that what shall everyone else conclude when they see that she broke into her house and she's just an injured old woman? Blood is quickly pouring down her arms dripping at an alarming rate. Emma and Camille run the fuck out the house. Of course, not before Daugeron promises that all this can go away but ONLY if she writes about Marianne and Lizzie once more. If not, she'll see her in her DREAMS. Fucking hell, this villain totally rivals Freddy Kruger!
Inspector Ronan is seen driving on the road now doing all these road hazards under the sun. Smoking, and thinking this was the best time to read the note Emma's personal note to him in her book. The note was that she will dedicate her next book to him if he just finds her missing parents. He slaps it back down on the dashboard and continues driving.
He enters thus antique shop. It resembles Curious Goods from the Friday the 13th: The Series, there is even a shout out on the Monkey Paw in which there was an episode for it even though the story totally predates the series. Ronan inquires his old buddy Pat working the front counter about the evidence he bagged earlier. It's just that. A bag. However, Pat explains to Inspector Ronan that this a marker that someone has placed a spell on a particular target that acts as a sort of Wi-Fi router. Pat tells him to yeet it the fuck out of his shop but on his way out, Ronan spots a neckalace called "St. Dunstan Jailer of Demons" which is gratis. How nice of Pat.
Emma is now strolling by the beach with alky in hand and approaches this weathered and broken down boat and plops her butt smack down in the middle of it. In walks a blast from the past whom Emma recognizes as Aurore.
Emma asks if she is still mad at her for these as of yet unspecified events surrounding a LIGHTHOUSE but Aurore assures her that they were kids then plus it's been like 15 years.
It is pieced together that Emma, Caroline, Aurore amongst other tikes were once part of a group known as the "wreck kids", definitely what the boat was signifying over there. She also came across a picture back at Daugeron's.
It is now the dreaded night time back at the now empty parents house where Emma is having these weird hallucinations. A man's voice (captions say it's Phillip's voice) that is calling for her. He begs her to write and keep writing. In the dark corners of her living room with the lights enveloped in darkness, she sees weird humanoid figures in pain. The hallucination gets more and more intense.
Meanwhile there's these creepy girls singing a morbid lullaby while more insane imagery/sounds is shown before us. I seriously don't want to describe it but it's wacky and it concludes with roaring red seas with a deep red sky.
The next scene is where Daugeron is creeping out a neighborhood kid and the goes inside her car after he runs off. Emma snuck in the backseat and as soon as she closes the door, Emma tries to assert herself to just bring her parents back. Her response?
Locks click. She tells her that they are going to a reunion. Woop Woop.
No woop woop. It's Caroline's funeral. Daugeron walks over to the casket and hocks a loogie on Caroline's face and it sizzles. Disgusted, she runs out of the church.
She returns back to the beach where she reunites with another familiar face, a nice man named Sebastian. Along with the rest of the aforementioned wreck kids. Arnaud and his brother Tonio are accompanied with Aurore and they all have a drink to whom they affectionally knew as Caro. Camille comes into the mix to hang as well.
Daugeron was right after all. It is a reunion.
It is a very sweet scene. They are a just hanging out like old times while inserting lovely nostalgic music soundtrack it makes it a very happy yet somber vibe. Everyone is reminiscing, drinking and having fun together. Emma drunk off her butt lays on the ground where one by one each member of the crew says their farewells to her. All that's left is the brothers where one of them takes her home.
One of the guys texts Camille a link to a paper Emma wrote in high school which gives some more insight to her upbringing.
Emma walks in drunk as a skunk where Camille questions why she never told her about her depressing childhood. Emma snaps at her calling her a liar for Camille actually did say she wasn't going to read whatever was going to be sent to her.
She storms away to her room. Opens her laptop. And writes. She writes about the resurrection of the books protagonist, Lizzy. The episode closes just as a nude woman, her mother, is seen walking back into town with a bloodied and mutilated body.
Next is episode 3