Episode Forty-One: A Superfluity

In which the mirage is revealed. Featuring: a girl, a mirror.

Episode description: New year, new you.

Episode Overview
An unhappy return to form.

Trigger Warnings

 * Distortion, mentions of death, arguments, screaming, unreality, mentions of mental hospitals, doomed thinking.

Episode Summary
We begin to episode hearing a slightly familar voicemail-- It's Mabel's, but she ends it with "If I’m not in my dorm room I’m probably in the forest, either dead or alive. Leave a message after the beep!" It can be assumed it's from her time at El Segundo Academy, seeing as this season has a lot of focus upon the cult.

We then cut to Aurora Silver, talking to a woman named Violette about recordings that Jonathan made. The recordings are lound wailing-- Aurora believes them to be a message. We then meet Eidolon García, swearing at her phone as she drives to the House and tries to call Janet's voicemail. Lolo reaches the middle of nowhere-- it seems the house has disappeared-- and finds Janet trying to convince Anna to stay and wait for an ambulance. Lolo and Janet begin to fight, Lolo saying that she told Janet not to go to the House alone. Janet interuppts to say that she found Anna, and Lolo insists that that isn't Anna. The three of them start to leave when Anna begins to scream, asking Janet why she cut her out of the wall, and then presumably does some Weird Magic Shit. Janet screams at Lolo to help.

We cut to Anna and Mabel; Mabel is infodumping about rat heaven, and explains that heaven is great, so long as they can leave. Veratrine shows up and talks about there being more holes than usual in the Hill; she says it's caused by Anna. Back with the ghostbusters-- Janet and Lolo, with Anna in the back seat -- the girls fight with each other. Janet asks Lolo if she put the cops in stasis from Alien. Lolo insists that Janet has no idea what she's done and Anna mutters "I'm going into the ground for you."

Then the show cuts back to Anna and Veratrine arguing, with Mabel as an unwilling mediator. Vera says that her and Luna have broken up. Mabel insists that she's going to tag Luna back for something she's done. We have one last return to the ghostbusters; Lolo tells a story about a rigged card game. Janet and Lolo tell Anna they're taking her somewhere safe and Anna gets mad, saying that the House was safe for her. Anna asks if Lolo's a witch, and Lolo responds that she's a fixer. Anna asks where Mabel is, and the question breaks the world around them as Anna gets out of the car.

Lastly, we hear from a voice labelled on the transcript as "MABEL?"; she talks of a girl who cut a rib out of herself to make the world, referencing Adam and Eve; the episode ends with Mabel? saying "I saw a girl thresh god out of her belly."

Continuity
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 * This episode marks the first appearance of Eidolon García ever, along with being the first time Veratrine has been in the show since Temporal Snake.
 * This episode is the first canonical episode of Mabel since the start of the Unending Hiatus that began on February 1st, 2019.

Trivia
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 * Eidolon's murmuring of "contenerla, atala, protégela" translates to "contain her, bind her, protect her" in English.
 * Janet's voicemail, endearingly, feels like an early 90's ghost cartoon.