Joanna reveals the serpent key that can open the gateway to another world. It infects Wendy and the two have a magical showdown in the house. Ingrid learns some facts about the new man at the library and Freya's future mother-in-law takes action.

Just as the pace ramps up in one section of the story, it comes to a standstill in another. The whole battle between Joanna and Wendy is filler of the most blatant variety. It barely moves the story along at all, but takes up nearly the entire episode. Some of the moves are fun, but they seem to spend an awful lot of time looking for each other in a house that isn't that large.

The revelations are made elsewhere as Ingrid learns a whole lot more about where her family came from, and the explanations do seem a little out of place in the current locale and characters. There's no reason why it should, but it does. When talk turns to Asgard, you just can't help but think about thunder gods. That's just the way it is.

And Freya is given a pretty thankless episode. Her task is to get an antidote into her boyfriends and their lovers, but since she's a bartender that is hardly a stretch. The cliffhanger with her mother-in-law is something else entirely.