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Elora is working at the local gas station, cleaning floors and God knows what else.
Willie Jack and Bear are set to finally graduate from high school.
And as part of the process, the students engage in a kind of self-reflection activity.
Now, the outgoing seniors have just been given their old letters to read.
The real bombshell is that Willie Jack receives her cousinDanielsletter to himself.
Willie Jack decides to bring the letter to Daniels mother, who we find has since been incarcerated.
The spirit admonishes Hotki for failing to work with her medicine and ignoring her responsibilities as a knowledge-keeper.
Meanwhile, Willie Jack must endure going through jail security (Are you currently incarcerated?
asks an unblinking security officer).
But Willie Jack pushes back on Hotkis frigid act, pressuring her auntie to open up.
Turns out that before Daniel died, Willie Jack and Hotki were really close.
And that line in Willie Jacks letter to herself about being a wizard?
Eventually, Willie Jack breaks through to Hotki (with some help from the spirits).
In response, Hotki offers to pray for Willie Jack.
We knew our girl Willie Jack was strong, but thats somebigpower right there!
Its an important reminder to Willie Jack, especially given the trajectory of the season so far.
But the youth arent alone, and neither are their living elders.
Its the reminder that Willie Jacks been waiting for all season.
Love, she explains, shouldnt just be a reaction to hurt.
People arent just good or bad; we are a complex spectrum of grays.
Although Hotki has struggled and made imperfect choices, she is nonetheless a powerful knowledge-keeper.
At first, Elora and Bear push back against Willie Jacks observations, just like Auntie Hotki did.
they say, unconvincingly).
Willie Jack tries to show them the spirits like Auntie Hotki did, but it doesnt quite work.
So she plays her ace and shows the group the letter that Daniel wrote to himself as a freshman.
And thats our end-of-season cliffhanger!
Is it the trip to Cali?
Favorite joke of the episode?
In what may be the greatest cameo of the season (and of anything ever?
), formerUnited States poet laureateJoy Harjo (Muscogee) plays the role of the gas-station manager.
Her appearance is brief shes onscreen just long enough to inform Elora of a big mess in the shitter.
Another huge revelation Willie Jacks name is short for …Wilhelmina Jacqueline!
Does that mean I should change the title of this section?
