Infinity Mirror Part Three: You and Me and the Devil Makes Three

In which an important message is relayed. Featuring: a phone call, and some familiar voices.

Episode description: Someone's been keeping secrets.

Episode Overview
Tressa meets her makers.

Trigger Warnings

 * Unreality, captivity, nightmares, loud noises.

Episode Summary
Tressa explains that her phone isn't working at all before talking about her plane ride to Ireland, where she met a woman named Maebh. Maebh shared her candy with Tressa and watched over her as she slept, even showing up in Tressa's dreams, where she tells her “We’ve heard the reverberations even here, such is the gravity of their choice; so greatly have we been untethered from our own axes.”

She checks the instructions list and is told to go look in a kitchen cupboard, where she finds the same brand of candy Maebh gave her on the plane ride. Then she talks about Becca De La Rosa. Tressa says that Becca sounds very different from Anna, because Becca sounds genuinely joyful while Anna seems to just be slogging through life. After Tressa rambles for a while about time, death, and sewing, she moves down the list. The next instruction is to pick up the phone, which suddenly rings just as she reads it.

She picks it up and hears her future self remind her again to remember the mourning dove, and after calming herself down from a panic, she follows the next step of the instruction paper and talks about a time she made a bargain. She explains that when she attended Lang Primary Conservatory for the Disabled, a bully in her class, Larissa Knight, wore a ring that Tressa wanted. Tressa challenges her to a game of hopscotch and, during her turn, trips purposefully, before saying Larissa stole her ring. Larissa gets in trouble with their principal, Lara Ouvriers, and Tressa keeps the ring for the rest of her life.

The final instruction that Tressa reads is to check her voicemail. She does so reluctantly and finds one left in her inbox. It's from Becca and Maybell. Becca quite cheerily tells her there's absolutely nothing to fear from Sally's house, and Maybell, laughing, tells her that she'd messed up-- it's not Sally's house, it's her grandmother's. Becca, however, drops the act and reveals herself and Maybell to be Anna and Mabel. Anna tells Tressa she's trapped in the House due to signing a contract, and she has to fulfill her end of the bargain to get out. Mabel tells her goodbye and Anna tells her good luck, and-- still laughing-- they hang up the phone.

Continuity
''' Please note that this section contains spoilers for later episodes of Mabel. Continue at your own risk. '''


 * Lara Ouvriers is presumably an alias for Aurora Silver.
 * Thus, Tressa's school is the fourth "cult school" ran by Aurora Silver. The other three are El Segundo Academy, Green Pines, and Saint Olga's Preparatory.
 * "Becca and Maybell" also run the podcast's social media in character as their Infinity Mirror selves. It is appropriately terrifying.
 * Tressa's story about her time in school is reminiscent of Jonathan's from The Consort.

Trivia
'''Please note that this section contains spoilers for later episodes of Mabel. Continue at your own risk.'''


 * Take a shot every time sewing is brought up, because that becomes ✨relevant✨ soon.
 * Future Tressa calling her younger self occurs in Remember the Mourning Dove.