Slayers East Episode Guide: 'The Folding Crown'

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	Max holds a small party to impress Cynth, but it becomes a theatre of death as the Slayers East are caught up in a lethal performance of 'The Folding Crown'! Also: Candy gets a new watcher! (Air Date: 29 August, 2000) Regulars: Candy Cynth Zak Brian Other Characters: Meryll Stevens-Knight - Candy's mother Hubert Cheyne - Candy's new Watcher Max - Cynth's friend with romantic potential Billy - schoolfriend, used to have crush on C.C. Heather - mean girl not with her mean friends Aggie and Chrys - Cynth's older sisters Christian and Andrew - the two coolest boys around Cinema vampires - a nuisance that wouldn't go away! Episode Synopsis: Max, Candy, Cynth and Zak are at the movies and confront a trio of vampires who are not cowed by Candy's slayer-ness. It proves difficult to deal with the vamps without alerting Max to what's going on, but eventually one is dusted and the others flee. Hubert Cheyne arrives in town to be Candy's new Watcher while Alison is away. While he gets to know Brian and Meryll, the others head over to Max's place. He's having a small get-together; Candy, Cynth, Zak and Billy are invited, as is Heather, who is much nicer when Lolly and Stephie aren't around, and also Christian and Andrew. Cynth's older sisters Aggie and Chrys invite themselves along, too. Max has been given a play to read over summer - 'The Folding Crown'. He and the others start to read some of it aloud. Then things start going strange, as the partygoers start being possessed by the play! As Brian and Hube rush to the scene, the party is assaulted by the first of four plagues, a rolling choking fog, which is fought off with ceiling fans and air-con. Three more plagues follow: fire, lightning, and then a rain of viscuous blood accompanied by a monstrous blood-blob. With these horrors repelled, the play continues to its horrific end, and the arrival of the Regent Crimson. Before it can begin to kill, Zak speaks up - he knows the secret the Regent Crimson fears; Flight and Song, the two narrators of the play who everyone had channelled, are secretly in love. Defeated, the Regent Crimson departs, and the madness ends. But the idea of unspoken love has been raised, and there are several uncomfortable looks among the exhausted group... Trivia and Notes: Pre-production notes for the episode (.pdf file, 107K) Script for "The Folding Crown" play (.pdf file, 88K) The plot of this episode revolves around a mysterious, sinister play. This is another direct homage to Lovecraft, in this case to Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' stories, which were adopted into the Lovecraft mythos. This episode introduces Hube, the temporary replacement watcher sent by Alison to help Candy while she went to England to attend her son's funeral and to grieve. Unlike Alison, who took a while to warm to the group, Hube's easy nature (and Alison's trust in him) wins him friends quickly. Max takes a central role in this episode for the first time. This is the beginning of a larger role for Max in the Slayers East story. Cynth's older sisters, Aggie and Chrys, make their debut here although they have been mentioned on numerous occasions before. This episode also featured the infamous 'vampires in the cinema' teaser, which kept going and going as the superficially simple problem of three vampires watching a movie revealed itself as almost insoluble! "Hubert Cheyne = new watcher. He's from England. Are ALL watchers from England? Weird... Remember: Don't trust old books!" - from Candy's diary "Downstairs, the fog presses in menacingly. The guests are all in the lounge, trying to figure out what's going on even as their play characters speak through them and advance their own agendas. Cynth yells at them to shut up, telling them they've got to stop talking like that. It's hard for the others to believe her, as they're not aware they're speaking out of turn. She hits on an idea, producing a roll of duct tape from her backpack. Announcing she has to tape their mouths up, she advances on the startled party-goers. "It's for your own good!" There are no takers; everyone backs away nervously..." - from Blair's episode notes
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Season 2, Episode 4 "The Folding Crown"

Max holds a small party to impress Cynth, but it becomes a theatre of death as the Slayers East are caught up in a lethal performance of 'The Folding Crown'! Also: Candy gets a new watcher! (Air Date: 29 August, 2000)

Regulars:

Other Characters:

Meryll Stevens-Knight - Candy's mother
Hubert Cheyne - Candy's new Watcher
Max - Cynth's friend with romantic potential
Billy - schoolfriend, used to have crush on C.C.
Heather - mean girl not with her mean friends
Aggie and Chrys - Cynth's older sisters
Christian and Andrew - the two coolest boys around
Cinema vampires - a nuisance that wouldn't go away!

Episode Synopsis:

Max, Candy, Cynth and Zak are at the movies and confront a trio of vampires who are not cowed by Candy's slayer-ness. It proves difficult to deal with the vamps without alerting Max to what's going on, but eventually one is dusted and the others flee.

Hubert Cheyne arrives in town to be Candy's new Watcher while Alison is away. While he gets to know Brian and Meryll, the others head over to Max's place. He's having a small get-together; Candy, Cynth, Zak and Billy are invited, as is Heather, who is much nicer when Lolly and Stephie aren't around, and also Christian and Andrew. Cynth's older sisters Aggie and Chrys invite themselves along, too.

Max has been given a play to read over summer - 'The Folding Crown'. He and the others start to read some of it aloud. Then things start going strange, as the partygoers start being possessed by the play! As Brian and Hube rush to the scene, the party is assaulted by the first of four plagues, a rolling choking fog, which is fought off with ceiling fans and air-con. Three more plagues follow: fire, lightning, and then a rain of viscuous blood accompanied by a monstrous blood-blob.

With these horrors repelled, the play continues to its horrific end, and the arrival of the Regent Crimson. Before it can begin to kill, Zak speaks up - he knows the secret the Regent Crimson fears; Flight and Song, the two narrators of the play who everyone had channelled, are secretly in love. Defeated, the Regent Crimson departs, and the madness ends. But the idea of unspoken love has been raised, and there are several uncomfortable looks among the exhausted group...

Trivia and Notes:

Pre-production notes for the episode (.pdf file, 107K)
Script for "The Folding Crown" play (.pdf file, 88K)
The plot of this episode revolves around a mysterious, sinister play. This is another direct homage to Lovecraft, in this case to Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' stories, which were adopted into the Lovecraft mythos.
This episode introduces Hube, the temporary replacement watcher sent by Alison to help Candy while she went to England to attend her son's funeral and to grieve. Unlike Alison, who took a while to warm to the group, Hube's easy nature (and Alison's trust in him) wins him friends quickly.
Max takes a central role in this episode for the first time. This is the beginning of a larger role for Max in the Slayers East story.
Cynth's older sisters, Aggie and Chrys, make their debut here although they have been mentioned on numerous occasions before.
This episode also featured the infamous 'vampires in the cinema' teaser, which kept going and going as the superficially simple problem of three vampires watching a movie revealed itself as almost insoluble!
"Hubert Cheyne = new watcher. He's from England. Are ALL watchers from England? Weird... Remember: Don't trust old books!" - from Candy's diary
"Downstairs, the fog presses in menacingly. The guests are all in the lounge, trying to figure out what's going on even as their play characters speak through them and advance their own agendas. Cynth yells at them to shut up, telling them they've got to stop talking like that. It's hard for the others to believe her, as they're not aware they're speaking out of turn. She hits on an idea, producing a roll of duct tape from her backpack. Announcing she has to tape their mouths up, she advances on the startled party-goers. "It's for your own good!" There are no takers; everyone backs away nervously..." - from Blair's episode notes

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