Remedial Battle Magic is the eleventh episode in the first season of The Magicians.
Synopsis[]
Quentin and the others learn battle magic and prepare for a showdown in Fillory. Julia and Kady take on a mission with the Free Traders.
Plot[]
Quentin, Alice, Margo, Penny, and Eliot use a spell to locate Kady, who is in Julia's apartment. They visit her and tell her they need to learn Battle Magic. Kady tells them that Battler Magic has to be cast when one is completely clean of emotions it takes years to learn and that, to get started, they should meditate every day for a decade. However, she offers them an alternative: a spell that lets them literally bottle up their emotions while they learn the basics of Battle Magic.
Kady and Julia then go in search of a Lamia for the Free Traders. They find her appearing as Kady's dead mother and living in squalor. The Lamia tells them that the gods are dead and longer care about them. Back with the Free Traders, Richard disagrees and says that they have to keep looking, to which Julia agrees.
Kady experiences a vision in which Persephone appears to hear in her kitchen. She gives Julia a map with a point lit up and tells Julia to find someone there who has served her for a thousand years. She tells Julia she must bring this person three gifts in order to learn how to bring Persephone closer to her and the Free Traders.
Back at the cottage, Margo, Quentin, Eliot, and Alice are overwhelmed by their emotions after they end the bottle spell. Eliot and Allice pass out, while Margo and Quentin lay down. Margo tells Quentin that she envies him because truly believes in magic, something she has never done. They hug, then kiss, then Quentin wakes up in the morning with Eliot and Margo beside him in bed, naked. He starts to remember the night before in flashbacks, showing him kissing both Margo and Eliot, and Alice is sitting at the end of the bed, fully clothed.
Cast[]
Main Cast:
- Jason Ralph as Quentin Coldwater
- Stella Maeve as Julia Wicker
- Olivia Taylor Dudley as Alice Quinn
- Arjun Gupta as Penny Adiyodi
- Hale Appleman as Eliot Waugh
- Summer Bishil as Margo Hanson
Guest Stars:
- Jade Tailor as Kady Orloff-Diaz
- Anne Dudek as Pearl Sunderland
- Charles Mesure as The Beast (voice)
- Mackenzie Astin as Richard Corrigan
- M.C. Gainey as Stanley
- Amy Pietz as Lamia
- Garcelle Beauvais as Persephone
- Katie Findlay as Eve
- Colin Cunningham as Bjorn
- Bobbi-Jean Charlton as Silver
- Jesse Reid as Bender
- Fiona Hogan as Menolly
- Hannah Levien as Victoria Gradley (voice)
Appearances[]
Locations[]
Events[]
- Assassination of Jane Chatwin (mentioned)
- Assault on Travelers
Items[]
- The Book of Martin Chatwin
- Leo Blade (mentioned)
- Magical Buttons
- Spells
- Probability Spell
- Magic Missile
- Emotion-Suppression Spell
- Psychic Patch
Sentient Species[]
- Humans
- Travelers
- Werewolves (mentioned)
- Deities (mentioned)
- Neitherlanders (mentioned)
- Vampires
- Lamiae
Creatures[]
Mentioned[]
Trivia[]
- Due to the Travelers storyline, this episode concludes with a hotline for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
