Title:
The Secret of the Solitary Scribe
Original Air Date:
February 3,2021
Network:
CW
Recap:
Still looking for a way to break the curse of the Aglaeca, Nancy realized in the last episode that someone places fresh flowers on the graves of Mac and his friends every year.
The episode begins with Nancy heading to the flower shop to see if she can find out who orders them in the hope of finding the sole survivor of the curse.
Unfortunately, the shop owner refuses to give her the personal information so she has Ace call and pretends to place a large order to distract the florist. Nancy hacks into the computer only to discover that Carson is responsible for the order.
Nancy arranges for Carson to meet her at the Claw.
Meanwhile, George is trying to talk Nick into renting his own apartment, which he thinks is pointless since they only have a few days left.
Carson arrives at the Claw thinking Nancy is ready to talk but instead she starts interrogating him about the flowers. Carson tells her it is a standing order that he set up years ago for a client.
He informs her that the client grew up in Horseshoe Bay and had changed his name. He told her the client was A.J. Crane the horror writer and that he had bought a hunting cabin in the woods years ago and had been a total recluse ever since.
Nancy demands that he give her the address and he refuses but offers to drive her. Once they arrive Carson learns about the Aglaeca and that Nancy and her friends only have a few days left. As they are leaving Nancy grabs a talisman off the porch in the hopes that it will keep the Aglaeca at bay.
Back in Horseshoe Bay Nancy goes to Hannah for help in identifying the talisman and any information she can find on it.
A.J. realizing Nancy stole the talisman calls Carson hysterical and it shakes him up so bad that he calls Detective Tamura and asks him to go to the house to check on Nancy.
Spirits are now starting to come out of the walls of Nancy's house when Hannah calls and tells her to get rid of the talisman because it doesn't repel spirits, it attracts them.
A.J. shows up and grabs Nancy and throws her under the table and tells her to cover her ears and protects her.
Of course Detective Tamura barges in and arrests A.J. much to Nancy's dismay and learns that Carson had called him.
Bess meanwhile believes she may have come up with a way to reverse the curse. She believes if they give Lucy's bones back to the Aglaeca that she will release them from the toll. Only problem is, they are missing part of the skull. Detective Tamura found part of the skull back in season one when he searched the Claw. Another issue they have is that Nancy doesn't want to let go of her mother's bones.
Now it's up to Ace to retrieve the missing skull from the police station. He learns that there was never a skull placed into evidence so he breaks into Detective Tamura's office and finds it hidden in his desk.
Ace runs into his dad when he's leaving and his dad asks him to join him for dinner. Ace agrees to be home for dinner when he realizes it might be the last time he can have dinner with his dad.
Unfortunately when he arrives he is surprised to discover that Detective Tamura has managed to get an invitation to join them and makes a point of letting Ace know he stole the skull. Detective Tamura is yelling at Ace that he's going to search him and the house and when he finds it he's going to arrest him.
Ace's dad walks in and tells Tamura this is my house and my son, whom I trust. If you want to search anything go see a judge. Ace also points out that if the Detective had indeed found a skull at the Claw it should have been logged into the evidence locker and not hidden in Tamura's desk.
Across town Nancy tracks down Ryan to see if he can get her into the police station to talk to A.J. and discovers that Ryan has been buying and taking groceries to Lucy's mom.
Nancy takes the talisman to A.J. in jail and returns it to him and apologizes for taking it in the first place. He finally tells her the reason they called on the Aglaeca. Turns out they were teenagers out goofing off one night and driving way too fast when they hit another car and that the car burst into flames.
According to A.J. The man and woman were killed instantly and their three year old daughter who was in the backseat was severely burned and not expected to survive the night.
They couldn't let an innocent child die because of their stupidity so they called the Aglaeca and asked her to save that little girl. The Aglaeca saved the little girl but they couldn't pay the toll which is why everyone died on the same day.
A.J. also told her that the little girl was none other than Hannah!
Nancy asks him if he thinks that if they give back what they asked the Aglaeca for if it would break the curse. He told her to try anything to save the lives of her and her friends.
Nancy, Bess, George, Ace, and Nick meet up and call on the Aglaeca again and ask her to take Lucy's bones back.
The tide takes the bones and they head over to Hannah's after Detective Tamura calls and says A.J. broke out of jail.
When they arrive they find Hannah unconscious in a car and A.J. pouring gasoline all over the car to try to break his own curse. They manage to stop A.J. and he runs off while they are calling for help for Hannah.
Nancy and the crew head back to the Claw only to discover that the Aglaeca has flooded the inside of the Claw and returned Lucy's bones as well.
Nick tells them to check their phones because a national post just went up reporting that horror writer A.J. Crane was killed in an accident earlier tonight. The Aglaeca finally caught up with him.
The episode ends with Nancy showing up at Carson's door and asking him if will go with her to say goodbye to Lucy. Nancy decided she wanted to bury her mother's bones in the woods she talked about so much in her journal. Walking through the woods Carson asks her if she would like to invite Ryan to join them, only to discover that he's already there waiting for them.
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