Summary
Snippets of clues are revealed in each installment as the death count rises, but is this a mystery that warrants a full eight episodes dedicated to it? Time will tell, although in “Quid Pro Woe” the mystery starts to lose its appeal and drags on a little, showing signs of tailing off.
We recap the Netflix series Wednesday season 1, episode 6, “Quid Pro Woe,” which contains spoilers.
Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is an outcast amongst outcasts, but certain students at Nevermore Academy have tried their hardest to include her and over time she has won the majority of the students’ affection by being her unabashed self. This leads to a rather cute gesture in “Quid Pro Woe”, with her best friends wanting to surprise her for her birthday, but Wednesday doesn’t want to celebrate, she just wants to solve the murders.
Wednesday season 1, episode 6 recap – how is the Gates family involved in the murders?
The birthday chapter begins with a séance, Wednesday wants to raise the dead and communicate with Goody Addams. Morticia told her that only Goody could teach her about her own powers. She wants to master her psychic abilities and it would seem a dead person holds all the answers. This séance is rudely interrupted by Enid though and then a suspicious note that is slid under her door. The note states that answers to the mysteries at Nevermore can be found at Crackstone’s crypt. Enid and Wednesday head over to inspect immediately.
It’s all a ruse though, they have thrown a surprise party for Wednesday instead. She is presented with a cake and Thing even wears a party hat for the special occasion. But Wednesday is side-tracked, spotting a Latin inscription in the crypt, which reads: Fire will rain when I rise. Wednesday is decidedly distracted, but then has another intense vision to well and truly bring the celebrations to an abrupt end. In this vision, she speaks with Goody and witnesses a gothic gateway. Goody says that Wednesday needs to stop Crackstone.
Enid gifts Wednesday with a snood, whilst her parents supply their daughter with a taxidermy kit and some dead squirrels on ice. The Mayor and Principal Weems meet to discuss the vandalism seen at the end of the previous episode. She accuses the Mayor’s own son, Lucas, of the prank, but he has a solid alibi on this occasion. The son can be found cleaning in Nevermore as a punishment for his many other pranks. He starts a conversation with Bianca and they make plans for an impromptu date.
Wednesday draws connections between the fiery writing on the lawn and the Latin found in Crackstone’s crypt, but Sheriff Galpin isn’t interested. His son Tyler is equally annoyed with Wednesday, who appears to be ghosting him. She draws a picture of the gates from her vision and shows them to Tyler, but he isn’t familiar with this particular location. Xavier fairs better, he had the same visions in his dreams. It’s the entrance to the old Gates mansion. Remember Garrett Gates from the previous installment?
Everything seems to be connected and Wednesday just has to investigate the mansion for herself. She heads straight over but finds the Mayor leaving the abandoned building instead. He calls up the Sheriff, eager to explain his new theories, he reckons he’s on to something. Wednesday jumps in the Mayor’s car to see what his theory is, but the Mayor is run over outside the coffee shop before he can reveal his secrets to the Sheriff. Wednesday witnesses all of this and again falls under the Sheriff’s suspicions. Because of this travesty, the Principal puts the school under lockdown. Wednesday is unable to leave the campus.
Of course, a little ban will never stop our Wednesday and she plans her escape. She contacts Tyler and asks him to pick her up from the school’s entrance. Wednesday then invites Enid on a girl’s night out. Both fall for her scheme and are driven to an unknown location – the Gates Mansion. It’s a trick that upsets them both, but they still blindly follow Wednesday into the ghostly grounds anyway. Here they find the very same blue Cadillac that was used to run over the Mayor and then a hidden altar to Crackstone.
Wednesday season 1, episode 6 ending
The monster appears and hunts down its prey. Tyler is attacked, whilst Enid and Wednesday dive in a dumbwaiter to hide. The horrid creature claws at them from inside and the rope snaps sending them plummeting to the bottom of the building. In the cellar, Wednesday finds the missing body parts of all the creature’s victims. But they are chased out before swiping any hard evidence. The gang regroups outside and Xavier turns up for added support. They end the night at Tyler’s place, where Wednesday sees to his fresh wounds. Unfortunately, the Sheriff barges in and catches them all defying curfew.
The Sheriff forbids Wednesday from having anything to do with Tyler or the case for that matter. She returns to Nevermore, where Weems is waiting for her. Wednesday acknowledges her wrongdoings but refuses to apologize. The Principal has many reasons to expel her, although Wednesday has one reason not to be expelled. She believes she has been sent to protect Nevermore, showing the Principal the drawing that prophesizes a showdown between her and Crackstone. Wednesday is given one last chance.
Wednesday returns to her room to find Enid packing up, she’s had enough. Poor Enid has tried to make friends with Wednesday and help her settle in at Nevermore, but this night has been the final straw. She is left all on her lonesome, just as Goody predicted. Wednesday takes out a ballerina music box that she stole from the mansion, which belonged to Laurel Gates, Garrett’s sister. Inside the box are photographs, suggesting that someone is stalking Wednesday. The episode ends with Wednesday refusing to be intimidated by this development. Then the Mayor is seen in a coma at the hospital and a mysterious figure pulls the plug on the man.
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