Recaps

Wade and Elsie investigated the Stonefield family while the Scourers’ alliance with Prometheus fractured and Abigail was captured. The Acolytes rescued Abigail from Liana Lightfoot’s laboratory, but Braun’s ruthless methods left Abigail wary of him.

• Corbett escaped the Aurors but Lila and the Cloaked figures found and killed him, then Lila recruited them to help establish a new order.
• Rolando Stern’s Scourer base fell to the Aurors, and Fontana stopped Stern from killing himself before Stern was arrested and questioned about his hatred of wizards.
• Brolin reached the Stonefield Manor with Ilari and the Golems, while Assistant Paul persuaded Ilari to consider working with William Stonefield and transfer the Golems’ loyalty.
• Wade and Elsie entered the Magical Congress, questioned Stern, and learned that his hatred of wizards stemmed from his father’s use of Love Potion against his mother.
• Wade went to Washington to find Liana Lightfoot, while Grant White drugged Abigail and sold her to a Prometheus operative.
• Braun killed Grant White and rescued Abigail, but their attempt to reach Lightfoot led them into a warehouse trap where Liana captured them.
• The Acolytes attacked the warehouse, captured Liana, and freed the prisoners, while Braun ordered the remaining personnel killed.
• Braun explained that he had used the trap to draw Lightfoot out and treated the captives as expendable, leaving Abigail recoiling from his indifference to human life.

Braun and Wade uncovered Prometheus’s plans as Abigail began confronting her altered memories, while Hawthorne and Hughes were caught in Lila’s conspiracy over the Time Particles. Hawthorne escaped with baby Hughes, and Salina began broadcasting evidence against Prometheus and its allies in Congress, though Rex Grim attacked the studio to stop her.

• Abigail learned that the Magical Congress had raided the Scourers and agreed to help Braun investigate Prometheus, while Braun reunited with Wade at Liana Lightfoot’s apartment.
• Wade’s Golems gathered Lightfoot’s fortune and intelligence, then began planning an independent business, security, and information network, and Braun agreed to help them build it.
• Braun told Abigail that the Scourers had abducted and transformed Carlyle, and Wade revealed that the Dream Weaver had altered Scourers’ memories, leading Abigail to make the wizard her target.
• Hawthorne and Hughes uncovered Lila’s manipulation and Perez’s collaboration with Prometheus, but Perez’s Time Particles aged Hughes into a baby and left Hawthorne accused of murder.
• Seraphina defended Hawthorne as he released the Time Particles, and Grindelwald rescued him and baby Hughes from the hostile crowd.
• Hawthorne learned that Hughes might have only a few years to live, while Viktor discovered that Prometheus and General Carlton Crawford had used captured wizards in experiments with Time Particles.
• Salina Goldstein took over FMC’s studio and began broadcasting evidence of Prometheus’s experiments and its allies in Congress, but Rex Grim stormed in to stop the broadcast and fought Salina, Anderson, and Lopez.

Wade uncovered the Stonefields’ scheme to replace wealthy guests with Golems, then revealed evidence of Congress’s trafficking and corruption during Lila Piquery’s inauguration. The ensuing violence left Seraphina in charge, the accused officials in custody, and Lila’s whereabouts unknown.

• Salina Goldstein was killed during her broadcast, and Lyla Piquery arrested Rex Grim while Nelson received Salina’s papers and contacted Mr. Marchioni.
• Viktor interrogated John Stonefield and uncovered the trafficking of children, while Wade’s group learned that the Stonefields planned a Soul Transfer Experiment demonstration.
• Disguised as John Stonefield, Wade entered the demonstration and watched William explain how Golems would replace unconscious guests and seize their assets.
• Brolin attacked William, but the Golems turned on the Stonefields, killed Paul and William, and began massacring the family before Wade’s appearance calmed them.
• News of the Stonefield Manor massacre spread as Wade shared access to the family’s shadow assets with Elsie and gave Rita Skeeter evidence for a larger story.
• At Lila Piquery’s inauguration, Rita broadcast evidence of trafficking and Salina’s murder, while Seraphina Picquery exposed the framing of Niccolo Hawthorne and the corruption within Congress.
• As the crowd turned against Lila, her clerk Corbin caused an explosion that killed several people, and Lila and Fontana disappeared amid the chaos.
• Wade restarted Rita’s broadcast, Aurors detained the named officials, and Seraphina ordered an investigation before collapsing, and Stella asked Wade to ensure Lila and the others were punished.

Wade and Grindelwald consolidated control over Congress while Lila and Fontana’s escape ended in their deaths. Meanwhile, Braun and Abigail killed Grimson and recovered Abigail’s memories, exposing how Rake had shaped her hatred of the Wizarding World and pointing her toward a hidden rift in Kosovo.

• Barrett took charge of Congress after Lila and Fontana fled, while Wade learned that Barrett and Devers served Grindelwald and tracked the fugitives with Ant Golems.
• Wade and Antoine pursued Lila and Fontana through New York, where Fontana died and Antoine killed Lila after she recognized Wade’s role in the attack.
• Grindelwald explained how he controlled Barrett and advised Wade to build lasting loyalty by tying his companions’ ambitions and safety to his own future.
• Abigail and Braun found Grimson’s hidden cottage, where Grimson attacked them and Braun killed him after resisting his attempts to recruit him.
• Abigail and Braun discovered Grimson’s warehouse of memory vials, and Abigail relived how Brolin had manipulated her after she uncovered the torture of children.
• Abigail’s memories revealed that Rake had taken her from the farm, taught her magic, and used Grimson to reshape her painful past into hatred of the Wizarding World.
• Abigail connected Rake’s lead about a hidden Kosovo rift to recent wars and Time Magic injuries, then seized Braun to share what she had realized.