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Witches of East End Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
Pilot
Sun, Oct 6, 201343 mins
Classy surgeon Dashiel 'Dash' Gardiner and his mother host a grand party for his engagement to goofy screw-up Freya Beauchamp, who gets cold feet from a dream about falling in love with a hunk, who turns up for real, proves Dash's black sheep brother Killian, and has little problem seducing her. Freya's reliable older sister Ingrid is asked by a date to help experiment with her major topic: the occult, which she doesn' believe is real. Their mother Joanna isn't amused by a surprise visit from her sister Wendy, who is careless in hiding she's her cat too, being a shapeshifter, but comes to warn that another is escaped from a cursed painting and after revenge. The Beauchamps are a cursed family of witches, doomed to a cycle of rebirth, which Joanna hope to spare her girls this time by by raising them as normal, ignorant girls. But the shapeshifter and a cahoot already set a bloody trap.
Episode 2
Marilyn Fenwick, R.I.P.
Sun, Oct 13, 201339 mins
Dash has mixed feelings about the return of his deadbeat brother Kilian, but fails to buy him off to leave again, now he's a witch's lover. The man who got liberated from the desert painting after arid 80 years seeks vengeance of the reborn witches by fire or drowning. yet they survive, helped by feline-shape-shifter 'aunt'. Mother is arrested and convicted to a huge fine, but a macabre legacy renders it affordable.
Episode 3
Today I Am a Witch
Sun, Oct 20, 201343 mins
Wendy teaches Ingrid and Freya how to use their powers.
Episode 4
A Few Good Talismen
Sun, Oct 27, 201341 mins
Dash, cornered about his undisclosed first fiancée, tells Freya Killian systematically seduced his girlfriends. His brother threatens to disclose 'the full story' and lets her tempt him to a dinner with their mother, who seems to like her for a change. Joanna's latest vision inspires her to trap the shape-shifter by guarding a key witness, but walks with attorney Harrison into a trap. Ingrid learns the price of magic is immediate on the witch's person if poorly executed or exacted on loved-ones, karma not of once's own choice.
Episode 5
Electric Avenue
Sun, Nov 3, 201339 mins
Dash's previous fiancee Elyse meets bride Freya, but she's a jealous ghost who, learning she can influence electricity, tries to kill Killian, whom Dash saves. Ingrid has resuscitated accident-killed cop-lover Adam, but must agree his ghost must also pass into the next dimension before sunset rather then get stuck with a mortal forever. Wendy saves Joanna from murder conviction by making widow-key witness Maura Thatcher delusional, but overdoes it.
Episode 6
Potentia Noctis
Sun, Nov 10, 201341 mins
Old pictures found by Ingrid and Faye's discovery at the Fair Haven estate get the girls wondering about the uncanny recurrence of features in their lives. Having abused magic, Ingrid falls ill and gets nightmares, which actually reveal her gruesome previous life, being slaughtered by shape-shifter Archibald Browning. Dash is in mortal danger when he examines Faye, who has been attacked with a deadly magical plant, so Wendy must instruct her how to prepare and administer a potion. To that end, she seduces her new studly neighbor and steals his Himalayan, rarest collector butterfly.
Episode 7
Unburied
Sun, Nov 17, 201342 mins
The shifter summons a familiar face. Ingrid discovers something startling from her past. A novelist comes to East End to research his new book. Wendy turns over a new leaf, and attempts to get serious with Leo. Joanna reads Freya's tarot cards.
Episode 8
Snake Eyes
Sun, Nov 24, 201340 mins
Dash returns, just when Freye fears having estranged him forever, for closure, but decides against a definite break-up. Killian duly protests being dumped as non-committal by the girl he started dating because Freya wanted a break and by her for failing to read her inconsistent mind. Meanwhile the brothers' mother Penelope Gardiner has poisoned Freya, and when Dasj cures her, she finds her powers gone, while Penelope feels invigorated. Ingrid is drawn to charming library client Mike, an author researching witchcraft as a believer hoping to validate his archaeologist father's theory about an alien origin. Wendy is furious when she finds Johanna pretended to have destroyed the Asgar portal key but kept it. Wendy can't resist looking into it and is mentally poisoned by the snake-bracelet into waging a magic duel to open it, while rebuking Johanna's abandonment of husband and son Philip.
Episode 9
A Parching Imbued
Sun, Dec 1, 201343 mins
A mysterious professor with old connections to the Beauchamps tries to help Freya regain her powers. Killian makes a decision about his future in East End. Mike reveals an interesting theory to Ingrid. Amidst wedding preparations, Dash tries to solve the mystery of the catacombs.
Episode 10
Oh, What a World!
Sun, Dec 15, 201342 mins
On Freya's wedding day, Johanna initially denies successive bad omens, then admits to deny she's attempting to fight them with light. When father Victor explains about their past lives, Freya concludes she can't go trough and cancels, which shocks Dash deeply, so he accidentally uses his unwitting magic powers to kill rival brother Killian. Penelope reveals her vindictive shape-shifter identity after capturing Johanna, whom she plans to execute, yet is fought off by the witches family. Ingrid refuses to help Mike prove his father was right about the Asgard portal, but he forces her to magically open it.
