‘Motherland: Fort Salem’ Recap – ‘Book Club’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 306 of ‘Motherland: Fort Salem’. To revisit the previous episode, click here.
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We tend to believe… that evil and its lust for power… is a slow burning process. One that slowly corrupts those who aid it and one that creeps up on the world, before exploding into a nightmare that must be faced and defeated post haste and well… there’s some merit to that line of thinking. Because a great deal of the powerful evils we’ve seen take over nations and wage war, took time to do so and succeeded courtesy of apathy and delays. But in reality, evil can either take its time or strike quickly, as evidenced by other horrible moments in human history and when it comes quick… people have to scramble to fight it and well… that particular crisis is top of mind today, simply because it appeared in this week’s episode of Motherland: Fort Salem.

For ‘Book Club’ is a story that saw Hearst return to his masters with his tail between his legs to exude panic about the return of Sarah Alder and the fact that his team was slapped around hard. But rather than panic, POTUS and his lackeys saw this as the chance to spread their special brand of evil post haste. Because Hearst’s intel, proved that the Cession was now harboring ‘fugitives’ wanted by the United States of America and that meant… the president now had every reason to go into the Cession with armed forces to root out any witches that reside there. Which meant the army was going to have to obey and go after their own kind and that meant… everyone had to scramble to ensure that wasn’t going to be the case.

Which is why Abigail and Adil and Khalida returned to Fort Salem in a stealthy manner. To meet with General Bellweather and plan their next steps to keep the pending invasion from spiraling out of control and thankfully, they came up with some solid plans. Such as the fact that the general was going to do her best to create a slow-going campaign. One designed to displease the Commander-in-Chief, but oh well. For that in turn would give the Cession’s forces time to mount a counteroffensive/stalemate and it would keep plenty of witches safe. Plus, it would also provide Abigail with time to accomplish the most important task of all. Specifically, finding President Wade and bringing her back to D.C. so that she would be able to nullify the orders of an illegitimate president. 

However, while it was nice to see that Petra was ready to stall and save lives in the process, judging from the army being amassed to challenge the witch one, there will need to be more warriors present for the final fight ahead and well… they might by lying in wait. For Tally returned home to check on her mother in this tale and was stunned to see, that she was using her Book Club as cover to run an underground resistance ring. One that was quietly striking back at the Camarilla and their illegal actions and well, considering how impactful they were in this tale… there’s a chance the army might have more soldiers ready for the cause… and some resurgent power behind them. For this story also caught up with Raelle and the Mycelial Network. Wherein we came to learn that the network is starting to heal, and it can and will communicate with others as it gains strength, since Scylla and Edwin were able to speak with the mushroom version of Willa.

But what makes that significant, is that the witches will be able to use their full power when the time comes and who knows, Raelle could be part of the fight as well and use her power to really teach the enemy a lesson and well, in the end, this was just an engaging and delightful episode. One that saw battle lines be drawn and saw the Witch Army finally on the offensive after spending weeks getting sidetracked and surprised by their enemy. And while the plan might not be exactly what they want at this point, some control is better than none and well… that likely means the story is about to kick into overdrive, as the search for the real president gets underway and as the protectors of America, prepare for their greatest battle. Until next time.

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