The Secret Circle- Balcoin

"You can’t let emotion cloud what you know to be true"

Moral of this episode? Be careful who you trust with your secrets. They could turn out to be witch hunters…

 Trying to figure out these old scriptures Calvin left for her, Cassie doesn’t waste any time. Jake finds a family tree drawn on the scriputers leading Blackwell to Balcoin. Balcoin was a last name of a family with evil and dark magic. Everyone believed it was eradicated but it wasn’t it was just changed to Balcoin. After John Blackwell was killed in the fire they believed the lineage had ended but he had a daughter Cassie, who carries that magic in her. After Jake debated if he wanted to turn Cassie over to the witch hunters, he acted like an asshole to her so he could just leave with them and let her go, hurting her as little as possible. That obviously didn’t work very well because once he saw her dressed up he accepted her date offer and they headed to the fundraiser together. They shared an adorable dance together after which we see that Jake really has fallen for Cassie. He gets a call from the witch hunter and finds out that he has to make Cassie come with him and they are kidnapping her because her magic is too valuable to leave behind. He quickly takes her too his home and explains a little about her family tree before she gets a text from Adam that says point black “Jake is a witchhunter.” She freaks out and runs to her house where she is kidnapped by the lead witch hunter who realized that Jake was flaking. As Jake tries to save her he is knocked out. It was very cute to see Jake change sides and try to save Cassie after he was so set on getting rid of all the witches. He is a witch himself, he obviously feels for them.

 Adam and Faye don’t trust Jake from the beginning and they spy on him all night. Adam follows Jake outside and realizes that he in fact is a witch hunter and that Cassie is in danger. When they see him knocked out they don’t realize that he was in fact trying to save Cassie until Faye see’s that he really does care about her. They drive to the dock where Adam runs onto the boat to save Cassie and Jake stalls the witch hunters. As Faye, Adam, and Cassie run they burn down the bridge behind them connecting land to the boat. They watch Jake leave on the boat with the witch hunters and you can see Cassie’s heart is broken but at the same time she is so confused. What was really intriguing was that the main witch hunter told Jake that she wasn’t the only child of Blackwell in the circle….Does that mean that Cassie and Jake are step sibilings? But they just fell in love…. So Cassies dad cheated on her mom? What does this mean for the circle? Why didn’t Jake jump off the boat? Did he feel obligated to stay?

 In calmer news, Melissa is still in depression and her cousin has come to cheer her up. This is the same cousin that Diana had a huge crush on when she was younger. He is obviously interested and Diana see’s a good opportunity to get over Adam and see if she could be with someone else. I smell romance and jealousy brewing. Will this push Adam towards Cassie now that Jake has left and he see’s Diana with another guy? Will Melissa become jealous? How will Faye cope with the realization that Jake can actually fall in love with someone else? Also, I am a little bit worried about Cassies grandmother. Seems the spell that Thomas put on her to forget what she saw has some negative side affects and she is showing symptoms similar to Alzheimers. How are they going to fix her? Can they undo the spell? Will this be deadly? Obviously the children are much better at this magic thing than their parents. That’s probably why the parents don’t have magic anymore… Just saying.  Overall a weak episode compared to Vampire Diaries. Hopefully next season picks up a lot.

Memorable Quotes

-Faye: There’s been a death in the family. No one will care if you go.

-Faye: No the Jake I knew would never hang out here like a retiree but he would steal.

- Diana: I’m single now. Its pretty empowering actually when I’m not desperately missing Adam.

-Cassie: What I’m good enough to kiss but not good enough to go on a date with?

-Jake: This isn’t me acting like a jerk Cassie. This is me being nice. I’m not interested what part of that do you not understand?

-Faye: Jake doesn’t do interested and not caring is what makes him, him. He’s after something trust me.

-Dawn: So if Jane suffers any long-term damage it’s on you.

-Adam: So first you’re trying to kill us and now you’re trying to save us?

-Adam: Oh right, when you were leading us to slaughter. I knew the situation looked familiar.

-Jake: She matters to me.

         Witch hunter: You’re a fool.

-Jake: She can fight off the darkness the circle doesn’t have to fight off the darkness.

-Witch hunter: Cassie Blake isn’t the only child of Blackwell in the circle.