Episode Forty-Eight: Saturn Devours His Children

In which a door is pried forcefully open. Featuring: a holy rite.

Episode description: Three voices in unison, raised above and below.

Episode Overview
The ending of another chapter.

Trigger Warnings

 * Unreality, distortion, screaming, death, discussion of abuse and dehumanization.

Episode Summary
Having arrived at the Martin House, Lolo,  Janet, and  Anna prepare for the summoning ritual to get Mabel back. Janet draws chalk outlines on the floor with Lolo's guidance, and they discuss various topics. Lolo reveals that she was lying to Anna in [an episode check which one]; the world wouldn't end if they took Mabel back, but it scared Lolo that Anna doesn’t care about the consequences of her actions so long as Mabel is safe. Janet asks Lolo out on a date, and Lolo accepts.

Anna comes in with a collection of papers that Lolo had found when studying Mabel's case. She becomes angry that people strip Mabel’s life– and the abuse she faced– into a story. They discuss how the ritual will work and then begin after Janet apologizes to Anna for treating Anna and Mabel like a story. Lolo, Janet, and Anna (in that order) take turns reciting speeches. As the House shakes around them, the girls realize something is very, very wrong. Janet dies trying to get Mabel, and when Anna finally pulls Mabel out, she only begins to recite the first line Mabel? ever said, as "only a voice" and not a full person.

The episode ends there.

Continuity
''' Please note that this section contains spoilers for later episodes of Mabel. Continue at your own risk. '''
 * This episode is the season seven finale; in total, the season lasted eight episodes, with two hours and forty-six minutes of content.
 * This episode canonizes Lolo and Janet to be girlfriends.
 * Mabel? makes the same speech that she recited in A Superfluity.
 * YET ANOTHER MENTION OF THE ORPHIC EGG. WHAT IS THE ORPHIC EGG, MX. MAYBELL MARTEN! PLEASE!
 * Anna calls Mabel "baby", mimicking her worried speech in Delirium (""– look at me, please, Mabel, look at me, baby, please, are you –" versus "Baby. Come on. Look at me. Look at me, I know you can –".)

Trivia
'''Please note that this section contains spoilers for later episodes of Mabel. Continue at your own risk.'''
 * Lolo and Janet's universe is apparently concentrated near LA: Janet asks Lolo out to Canter's, a deli in the area.
 * The episode's title is likely a reference to the painting Saturn Devouring His Son (tw: gore).