Penny practices astral projection and discovers a woman, Victoria, chained in a dungeon by the Beast. Alice returns to Brakebills and Eliot and Margo try to use her connections to get a mentor. Marina erases James' memory of Julia to prevent her from telling him about magic. After being cut off by Marina, Julia tries to find other hedge witch safe houses in New York with the help of Pete, but nobody else has nearly as many spells. He struggles with accepting that magic cannot save his father, and eventually opens up to his father about magic. Quentin visits home after finding out that his father has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Marina, after being reunited with her memories, cuts off Julia from her hedge witch safe house because Julia tried to help Dean Fogg save Quentin. Quentin escapes the hallucination with the help of Penny and his visions of Jane Chatwin. Dean Fogg lowers the Brakebills school's security spell, allowing Marina and Julia to sneak in and steal Marina's memories of her time at Brakebills. It is revealed that Julia and Marina made Quentin's elaborate hallucination, and the only way to get him out involves summoning a demon bug. Quentin wakes up in the mental hospital to which he admitted himself in the first episode, where his memories of Brakebills and magic are treated as delusions. Penny, after being assigned incorrectly to the psychic discipline, discovers he is a 'traveler', who has the ability to teleport anywhere, even between worlds. Eliot searches for the book that Kady stole for Marina, which leads him and Quentin to Marina's hedge witches safe house, where Quentin finds and confronts Julia. Julia struggles to balance learning magic with maintaining her previous life. Devastated about what happened to her brother, Alice leaves Brakebills. Quentin binds him, despite Alice's belief that she can get through to him. When they find him, he attacks Alice and Quentin. Kady is secretly working for Marina.Īlice and Quentin find out that her brother, Charlie, was consumed by magic and turned into a niffin five years ago. Julia meets Marina when she has to pass a test to join the hedge witches.

But Eliza, who is called in as specialist, lets them go on probation.

Professor Sunderland investigates the Beast incident at Brakebills and Quentin, Alice, Penny, and Kady face disciplinary action for their involvement in the Beast's attack. Instead they accidentally summon the Beast who appears in the school the next day, attacking a teacher and the dean. She, Quentin, Penny and Kady try to contact her dead brother, Charlie. Alice recognizes the sigil and sees it as an opportunity to know how her brother died. In his dreams, Quentin meets Jane Chatwin from the 'Fillory and Further' novels, who warns him about the Beast and leaves him with a sigil burned into his hand. Refusing to accept that she cannot learn magic, she is later contacted by Pete, who offers to teach her. Julia fails the test and they attempt to wipe her memory about Brakebills and the test, but she leaves herself a clue to remember. Quentin passes and is accepted to Brakebills University. Quentin and Julia are invited to a test of their magical talent.

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