Recaps

Joseph sought the golden candlestick and entered the Sistine Chapel, where visions forced him to confront his family’s past. Meanwhile, Pomona and Severus pursued the vampire architect and encountered a Muggle whose fears arose from seeing magical creatures.

• Joseph obtained the golden candlestick from the Vatican vaults and prepared to protect the Pope as he awaited a crisis.
• Pomona and Severus set out to find the vampire architect, while Pomona investigated a Bundimun account and Giovanni warned her that Severus might be using their life-exchange contract.
• Joseph received a report of a bleeding consecrated host but stayed in the Vatican, where Lisa asked him to help investigate a message associated with Zodiac.
• Mills investigated Angela Warren’s death, found her Leonardo da Vinci quotation, and suspected she had gone to film nature reclaiming an abandoned city.
• Joseph entered the closed Sistine Chapel with Lisa, lay beneath The Last Judgment, and experienced visions of royal religious conflict and his parents’ troubled history before collapsing.
• Mills told O'Sullivan that a priest had helped him think about protecting people rather than becoming like the murderer who inspired him.
• Pomona discovered Severus using the Imperius Curse and Veritaserum on Richard Du, who said he had come to repent and hoped his missing son could find peace.
• Severus explained that Richard’s supposed demons were magical creatures, and Pomona left with him, reflecting on their life together before kissing him in the gondola.

Mills investigated Angela Warren’s death as hypnosis, psychology, and the possibility of a hidden suggestion complicated the case. Meanwhile, Pomona and Severus navigated their strained marriage and new plans, while Joseph, Veronica, and Bergoglio faced their own religious and personal struggles.

• Mills questioned Ethan Logan about Angela’s possession and death, but Ethan denied killing her and described her use of Animal Magnetism.
• After watching Angela’s footage, Mills suspected Scott Davis was involved and began consulting psychiatrist Antony Marcus about hypnosis and Angela’s behavior.
• Joseph sought relics as weapons against evil, entered a hidden chapel, and rejected visions urging him to show compassion toward sinners.
• Veronica was bound by thorns during a frightening vision at the nursing home, then later woke at the abbey with no memory of the ordeal.
• Bergoglio recalled his attempts to protect Jesuits during Argentina’s dictatorship and lamented that he had not done enough for those who disappeared.
• Mills told Antony that Scott might have hypnotized Angela and implanted a suggestion, then asked Antony to help examine her recording and brain waves.
• O’Sullivan reported that Scott had been stopped at the airport, while Mills noticed a necklace appearing on Angela in the footage and left to investigate it.
• Pomona and Severus continued their life together, and Pomona later visited the Academy Gallery with Nakamura Xue as she thought about the summer solstice eclipse.

Pomona’s Venetian visit with Severus and Nakamura Xue ended when Voldemort used the Dark Mark to capture her on Poveglia Island and press Severus’s alchemical work toward his resurrection. Meanwhile, Mills investigated Angela’s death and the haunting at Room 64 while struggling with grief, and Joseph became entangled in Church politics and questions of faith.

• Mills confronted his guilt over Angela’s death, heard a mysterious girl warn that someone was in danger, and began questioning Antony’s identity and his own certainty about the case.
• Pomona arranged for Severus to spar with a Centaur, then spent time in Venice with him and Nakamura Xue, discussing philosophy, marriage, ghosts, and magic.
• Joseph considered leaving the Church, met with the Pope and church officials, and sought relics and Lourdes Spring water for a defense against demons.
• Mills investigated Angela’s tooth-bead Rosary and the Mandala Hotel’s Room 64, where a dream revealed a hidden compartment before he woke to find it undiscovered and broke down grieving Tracy.
• Voldemort located Pomona through the Dark Mark on Severus’s arm, took her hostage on Poveglia Island, and said Severus had studied his alchemical texts but was not fully loyal.
• Pomona rejected Voldemort’s demand that she embrace pain and violence for magical power, while he explained the symbolism of holy water and its place in his resurrection potion.
• Pomona recalled Voldemort’s knowledge of Draco’s attempt to poison Albus and Ron’s near-fatal reaction to the twins’ concoction as she watched monks work on the island.

Pomona and Severus investigate the dangers beneath Paroldo while Pomona also prepares for the Werewolves’ threat and considers the people depending on her. Joseph investigates a troubled monastery, Mills pursues Angela’s case, and Voldemort forces Pomona to confront her role in the past.

• Voldemort explained his return to Pomona, then they encountered a masked student in Mahoutokoro robes.
• Pomona searched a priest’s memories and learned of a monastery death, while Mills and Jim uncovered the story and haunting associated with White Chrysanthemum Maru.
• Joseph questioned Baduchi about Father Gordon and Valak, then received the Pope’s order to investigate a murder at a monastery in Montenegro.
• Pomona and Severus left Venice for Paroldo, where they discovered ruined structures and a cabin diagram pointing to a dangerous underground maze.
• Joseph reached the remote monastery and investigated Alex’s violent condition and Father Howard’s death.
• Severus told Pomona that the maze held at least a hundred human faces and that a Quintaped remained inside, while Mills and Antony argued over examining Angela’s body.
• Pomona visited Malfoy Manor, learned the Werewolves planned to attack Muggle football stadiums, and prepared for her journey to Paroldo.
• Pomona warned Neville and Hannah about Voldemort’s return and the Werewolves’ plans, then Voldemort ordered her to return to the past and threatened Severus if she refused.