For more than two hundred years...
... we Owens women have been blamed...
... for everything that's ever gone wrong in this town.
Is that why people hate us so much, Aunt Frances?
They don't hate us, sweetheart.
We just make them a little nervous.
Let's face it, Jet, we Owens women have always created a stir.
It all began with your ancestor, Maria.
She was a witch. The first in our family.
And you are the most recent...
... in a long and distinguished line.
Is that why they wanted to hang her? Because she was a witch?
The fact that she was a bit of a heartbreaker didn't help.
Nor did it help that most of her lovers...
... had wives on the hanging committee.
But no, I don't think it was either of those reasons.
They feared her because she had a gift...
... a power that has been passed on to you children.
She had the gift...
... of magic.
And it was this very gift...
... that saved her life.
She was banished to this very island.
With her unborn child growing inside her belly.
She waited for her lover to rescue her.
But he never came.
No one came.
In a moment of despair...
... she cast a spell upon herself:
She would never again...
... feel the agony of love.
But as her bitterness grew...
... the spell turned into a curse.
A curse on any man who dared love an Owens woman.
Is that why Daddy died?
From the curse?
Yes, my darling.
Your mother knew.
She heard the beetle ticking for your father's death all day long.
She knew that when you hear the sound of the deathwatch beetle...
... the man you love...
... is doomed to die.
That's how you came to live with us.
We tucked you into our lives then.
We've raised you the best way we know how.
In this house we have chocolate cake for breakfast.
We never bother with silly things like bedtimes or brushing our teeth.
But with the sweets...
... comes the sour.
So when you find yourself the center of attention...
You want to play?
It's not that they hate you.
It's that, well...
We're different.
You witch!
Witch, witch You're a bitch!
Gillian...
...Sally.
The only curse in this family...
...is sitting there at the end of the table.
Your Aunt Fanny.
You have to admit that any man who gets involved with an Owens woman...
...is bound to end up 6 feet under.
Spare me.
What about my poor Ethan?
It was an accident.
It was fate.
It was an accident.
It was fate.
- Accident! - Fate!
Mommy died of a broken heart, didn't she?
Yes, my darling girl, she did.
My little witch...
...let's go inside and do some spells.
- What about my homework? - Pish!
Tosh! You'll both learn things in this house...
...you'll never learn in school.
Let's go.
Come on, Gilly!
I'm coming, Sally!
Very good, Sally!
You've been blessed with a gift.
What about me?
We don't worry about you, Gilly-Bean.
Your talents will emerge in time.
Sally, you just stay right there. Keep working on your spells.
Just keep working on your spells.
Get the bird.
Get the book.
I want him so much, I can't think about anything else.
I don't sleep.
He has to leave his wife. He has to leave her now.
Perhaps you might find one better suited.
I don't want anyone else. He's all I think about.
Why the hell else would I come here?
Take the money, Jet.
I want him to want me so much he can't stand it.
Be careful what you wish for.
I hope I never fall in love. I hope I never fall in love.
I can't wait to fall in love.
"He will hear my call a mile away.
He will whistle my favorite song.
He can ride a pony backwards."
What are you doing?
Summoning up a true love spell...
...called Amas Veritas.
"He can flip pancakes in the air.
He'll be marvelously kind.
And his favorite shape...
...will be a star.
And he'll have...
...one green eye...
...and one blue."
Thought you never wanted to fall in love.
That's the point.
The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist.
And if he doesn't exist, I'll never die of a broken heart.
And if he doesn't exist...
... I'll never die of a broken heart.
Get the door.
Sal, you have...
...no idea!
Do you love him enough to marry him?
Come on, Sal, what's enough?
I hate it here.
I want to go where no one's even heard of us.
I feel like I'll never see you again.
Of course you will.
We'll grow old together.
It'll be you and me living in a big house...
...these two old biddies with all these cats.
I bet we even die on the same day.
You swear?
Honey...
...I need your pocketknife.
Here.
My blood.
Your blood.
Our blood.
I love you, Gilly-Bean.
I love you too.
Good morning.
Hello, boys.
Charlie! Looking good!
God, what was I thinking?
Oh, Franny, let it go.
My goodness, Gillian's in Orlando! She's in Orlando.
- I guess the Roto-Rooter man's history. - According to that.
This is insane. She keeps going through all these guys.
Hopefully, someday she'll find a guy who'll go through her.
Hello, darling. How are you?
Oh, Jet, just give it up.
Never.
God, I miss her.
Oh, sweetie!
Oh, dear!
Oh, Samson! Now, just knock it off.
All I want is a normal life.
Darling, when will you understand...
...that being normal is not necessarily a virtue.
It denotes a lack of courage.
It's what I want.
See this couple? He's having an affair with the babysitter.
And she can eat a cake in under a minute.
Sorry!
What time is it?
Any moment now.
Where are you going, dear?
Most excellent.
Dear Gillian:
Today is our third anniversary...
... and all I have to show for it are...
... two beautiful little girls...
... and a husband I just can't stop kissing.
I don't even mind the beard.
I wish you could see us.
No more stones being thrown, no taunts cried out.
Everything is just so blissfully...
... normal.
Life is perfect.
Dear Sal:
I'm lying in the sun.
I'm hanging by the pool.
I've got a million friends.
You might say...
... that life is...
... perfect.
But I don't care about any of it.
In fact, I only have two words to say to you:
Jimmy Angelov.
Jimmy...
... Angelov.
Angel.
Angelov, Angelov.
Where are you?
Don't do this to me.
Come on! Come on!
- Hey, boys, catch anything today? - Not much.
See you in a bit.
Hey, Jimmy, what's going on?
I hear you.
Don't!
How's Mary doing?
She good?
That can't be. No!
What's that?
I know you're in there.
Michael, look out!
Look out behind you!
On your right!
It was the curse, wasn't it?
He died because I loved him so much!
My poor little girl.
We had no idea...
...when we cast the spell...
What spell? What are you talking about?
You didn't!
Please tell me...
...that my own flesh and blood...
It was just a little push.
You wanted so much to be happy.
We never expected that you'd truly love him.
Well, I did.
And I want him back.
You brought him into my life. You bring him back!
Bring him back!
I've never asked you for anything!
I never asked for spells, but do this! You can bring him back.
No, dear.
We won't do that.
We don't do that.
You can do this. I know you can. I remember.
I found it here when Mommy and Daddy died.
Even if we did bring him back, it wouldn't be Michael.
It'd be something else. Something dark...
...and unnatural.
I don't care what he comes back as. As long as he comes back.
Please do this for me. Please!
This is only temporary, don't get too comfortable.
There'll be no chocolate for breakfast.
Homework will be done after dinner...
...teeth and hair brushed before bed.
And as for you two...
...my children will never do magic.
Ever.
Mom?
It's time for us to go to school.
Mommy.
It's the same time as yesterday...
...and the day before that, and the day before that.
Out of bed, sleepyhead!
I'm worried about Antonia.
Do you know...
...she puts on her mouse ears, she drives around town all liquored up.
Naked!
All right...
...I'll see you around.
Come here, you!
I'm sorry, baby. I'm just so...
...tired.
It's okay, Mommy.
Gilly.
Sally.
I was just thinking about you.
You're always thinking about me.
Honey, I just have to go to the bathroom.
Let's go together.
Jimmy, come on.
I'm just kidding.
Go.
You're in my blood like holy wine
You taste so bitter and so sweet
I could drink a case of you
Still I'd be on my feet
I was really, really happy.
We were going to open a botanical shop. He'd get the ingredients...
...and I'd make the stuff.
He really loved my mint-oatmeal shaving cream.
He couldn't stop eating it.
I'm sure all this is really boring to you...
...but he really made me laugh.
- Angelov? What kind of name is that? - Bulgarian.
Bulgarian?
He's from somewhere near Transylvania.
He has this whole...
...Dracula-cowboy thing about him.
He's just so intense. I mean...
...he talks about our relationship in terms of centuries.
Sometimes we just stay up all night...
...worshipping each other...
...like bats.
Thank God for Jet's belladonna...
...or I'd never get any sleep.
Why are you taking that stuff?
I'm not using it. I just give it to him every now and then.
So you're drugging your boyfriend to get a little shut-eye?
Doesn't that seem strange to you?
Maybe.
And he's strong.
So much stronger than me.
He can survive the curse.
Do you forgive our mother?
Sometimes.
You'll never forgive yourself...
...unless you get up...
...and you get dressed...
...and brush your teeth, because your breath stinks...
...and you take care of those little girls.
Yeah, you're right.
I love you.
I love you too, Gilly-Bean.
How's your wicked mommy doing?
Witch! Witch! You're a witch!
You'd think, after 300 years, they'd make up a better rhyme.
Really, your troublemaker started this.
- I hate you! - Put the finger down, Kylie.
I hope you get...
...chickenpox!
She was just kidding.
No, she wasn't, Mom.
She was not kidding.
What's wrong with you? We do not cast...
...and we do not toy with people's lives. This is not a game.
No, you don't cast. You probably couldn't even if you tried!
She has all this power and doesn't use it!
I think you really hurt Mom's feelings.
Kylie thinks any man who marries us is going to croak.
That's such hogwash.
What about your grandparents, Jack and Regina?
Grandma Regina died of a broken heart, didn't she?
How could she do that?
Leave Mom and Aunt Gilly behind when they were just little girls?
Why won't she talk about it?
Was Mama good at spells as a girl? Why won't she do spells now?
What's going on in here?
Nothing.
Just making toast, is all.
Did you finish your homework?
A storm's coming. Go check the windows for me.
Making toast?
I want you both to watch what you say to those girls.
I don't want you filling their heads with any of your nonsense.
We'd never tell them nonsense, dear.
Good night, sweetie.
Dearest Gilly:
Sometimes I feel there's a hole inside me...
... an emptiness that, at times...
... seems to burn.
I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could hear the ocean.
And the moon tonight, there's a circle around it.
A sign of trouble not far behind.
I have this dream of being whole.
Of not going to sleep each night, wanting.
But still, sometimes when the wind is warm or the crickets sing...
... I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.
I just want someone to love me.
I want to be seen...
I don't know. Maybe I've had my happiness.
I don't want to believe it...
... but there is no man, Gilly...
... only that moon.
Gillian!
- It's Gillian. - I know.
What's wrong?
I'm scared. Can you come and get me?
Where are you?
I'm taking the first flight out. Watch the kids.
Just go to Gilly. The children'll be fine.
We'll take them to the solstice celebration.
Why can't you two just stay here?
We can't back out. We're on the committee.
We're presenting.
I don't want them dancing naked under the moon.
No, of course not, dear.
Nudity is entirely optional, as you well remember!
Hello!
- Just a minute! - Hello!
Gilly, I'm here.
Thanks, Sal.
Hi.
The room service here sucks.
Let's get you out of here.
I'm fine.
He's been really crazy, you know?
We've been driving for two weeks straight.
Not even straight, in these zigzags, back and forth.
Damn these shoes!
Then today he says he wants a jelly doughnut.
And he says to the kid, "Jelly doughnut, with cream."
And the kid looked confused.
And I said, "Jimmy, jelly's not a cream."
Then the kid laughed and I laughed and then he punched me.
He punched me real hard. The bastard!
Blood on the moon.
- I know. - Blood on the moon.
I know. Get in the car.
Where's my tiger's eye? It brings me luck.
- Is it in here? - No, I left it.
- I got to get my tiger's eye! - It's probably in the bag!
Gillian, come on!
Honey, just forget...
You drive.
You want some?
Nope?
You ever read any books...
...by Louis L'Amour?
Louis L'Amour...
...was a foreigner...
...and he loved all things cowboy.
Just like me, Jimmy-Boy.
Louis would write stories about rustlers.
Rustlers...
...who were really bad guys.
The belladonna is in my bag.
They would try to steal the cattle.
But before they could sell them...
...they would try to take away the brand of the owner with an acid...
...or by...
...scrubbing.
Unfortunately, they could never get rid of it.
So they would be caught and get hanged.
What are you doing?
Come on.
You can't hide the brand.
It's just you and me.
Watch the road!
Shut up!
Rustlers and branding! Louis L'Amour! Who is not a foreigner!
He's from North Dakota, you asshole!
- Watch the road! - You're freaking me out, Dracula freak!
Give me the bottle before I plow you into a truck...
...just to get you to shut up!
Calm down!
You know, girls...
...I am feeling very into sisters right now.
You were always on my mind
He should've passed out by now.
- You didn't give him enough. - I gave him plenty.
What's he going to do?
Just stay calm.
If I made you feel...
... second best
I was blind
You were always on my mind
Jimmy, please, baby.
Come on.
- Come on, baby, I love you. - I'm so sorry, my love.
I want to be with you forever.
Jimmy, please.
He's out. He's passed out.
Oh, God!
Oh, my God!
How much did you give him?
I wasn't using a measuring cup! He tried to kill you!
Come on!
Please, God, if you get us out of this, I'll be good. I'll have babies.
I have babies, Gillian.
I had normal.
I worked really hard to get that normal.
It's all my fault, Sally. I didn't mean to ruin your life.
I just had no one else to turn to.
Get in the car.
We have to go to the police. It was self-defense.
The old slowly-poison-him-to-death self-defense?
Come on, Sally, they're never going to believe us.
You should stop smoking so much.
Why?
I'll probably get life.
I should smoke two at once. It'll shorten the sentence.
I really don't want to lose my children.
I know.
I don't want you to either.
What are you thinking?
When Michael died, you asked the aunts to bring him back.
But they wouldn't.
Wouldn't, but not couldn't.
They were right. He'd come back as something dark and unnatural.
Jimmy already is dark and unnatural. I don't care what he comes back as.
No, that is not an option. That is not a choice.
We don't have a choice, Sally! This is our choice!
You...
...owe me...
...big-time.
He's going to be so pissed.
- Watch his balls. - You watch them.
Spell book.
Okay, Jimmy, I will get you out of this...
...but when I do, we are definitely breaking up.
It is over.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Are you sure...
...you want to do this?
Absolutely.
"Lips pursed, emit wind over tongue in motion, teeth on edge..."
Good enough, good enough.
"Touch bounded smudge of blue sage with braided wheat straw.
Insert needles through eyes of corpse."
- Through the eye? - In the eye.
No way!
I think we should wait for the aunts.
It's not like he's going to stay fresh.
It's now or never.
I need for you to get me something white to write on top of the star.
Chop-chop!
This is all I could find.
This is actually brilliant. This is good.
Now we're supposed to say:
"Black as night...
...erase death from our sight.
White as light.
Mighty Hectate make it right."
Black as night.
White as light.
Mighty Hectate make it right.
White as light.
Black as night.
Erase death from our sight.
White as light. Mighty Hectate make it right.
I want you to be my wife!
Can you promise me that?!
I want you to be my wife!
You have the worst taste in men.
I know this sounds really stupid right now...
...but I just...
I just really wanted to say...
...thank you.
Thanks for being my sister.
It's all right.
Let's just put this all behind us now.
What will we tell the aunts?
Nothing.
They're here.
What if they don't like me?
You won't believe it! We danced naked under the full moon!
It was so fun!
- We did! - So cool!
Oh, my God!
Aunt Gilly's home!
You guys are so big!
I can't believe this!
Hi, Aunt Frances.
My darling little girl.
Oh, dear!
A little mugwort will fix that right up.
Kylie...
...why don't you and I just go to the greenhouse.
I'm so happy to see you, sweetie.
Don't you worry, dear.
Whoever he was, he'll get what he deserves.
I think a brownie for breakfast would fix you right up.
A brownie?
You're still doing that?
You've been away too long.
Some things never change.
Too long you have been away.
Where are they?
Sal, I love this stuff.
It's great! You've done a great job.
Gillian, if you're going to work here, maybe you could, I don't know...
...work.
I am. I'm testing the merchandise.
You know where you can reach me. I'll be back.
If anyone cares.
Did I do something wrong?
Phone tree day.
Parents' hotline. If there's an emergency...
...like a snow day, they decide who's the most responsible...
You mean the most popular.
- Responsible mother to sound the alarm.
Each mom calls the next on the list. It's a big deal to get chosen.
Sally never gets picked. Everybody knows she's a...
Different.
Quiet! Quiet, quiet!
Third name from the top of the phone tree is...
...Dori Kancher.
- Sorry to interrupt. - Can I help you?
My sister.
Just wanted to see my sister.
Is that a snake tattoo?
Yeah. And there's one on her boob too.
That's right.
I'm back.
Hang onto your husbands, girls.
All that's missing now is me naked without my homework.
Second from the top of the phone tree will be Abigail Little.
Is this for real?
She screwed Coach Halfacre.
- Don't do that. - It wasn't me.
- I certainly didn't do it. - It was you.
Finally, I'm so pleased to report this.
The top of the phone tree list is...
One moment.
It's Sally Owens.
Go, Sal!
Now that was me.
Eye of newt...
... and toe of frog...
...wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Adder's fork and blindworm's sting...
Barbados lime is just the thing.
Cragged salt like a sailor's stubble!
Flip the switch...
...and let the cauldron bubble.
How convivial!
Wakey-wakey!
Midnight margaritas!
Come on!
No, this is serious.
All right.
I see a man...
I see a man in your future and he is...
He is gorgeous.
He is big.
But you're scared to death...
...and you wind up like a frigid old hag...
...with your two frigid old hag aunts.
I don't know where that came from. That was weird.
She's never been interested in her gifts.
- She just made that all up. - Don't lie.
Gillian has her own magic.
And we all know what it is.
Oh, please!
Since when is being a slut a crime in this family?
What would you know about it?
When we put that spell on you for Michael...
...we had to bind it with molasses...
...just to get your legs to open up.
That's so wrong.
You self-centered shrew!
Ingrate!
Goody two-shoes!
Witch!
Quite as often as I should have
- said and done
I just never found the time
You were always...
... on my mind
Where did this bottle come from?
Someone left it on the porch
What's going on here?
What's going on with you?
What's going on in this house?
Something's going on. I can smell it.
It's a very distinct smell. It's the smell of bullshit.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Broom fell.
Company's coming.
We had a problem. We handled it.
We deserve an explanation.
Right.
Come on, Jet, let's go.
No.
It's just not possible. Don't even think it.
Then tell me how that got here.
Tell me, how did this bottle get here?
It's not possible.
Leaving like this is a harsh lesson.
A lesson they must learn on their own.
What about the little ones?
Not to worry, Jetty.
A good piece of Maria's hanging rope will protect them.