As the 3rd episode begins, Mycroft (Jonjo O’Neill) offers Bea (Thaddea Graham) food and drinks. Mr. Bannister (Charles Armstrong) listens as Bea admits that Watson doesn’t know she is there. Mycroft explains he is the brother of Watson’s partner Sherlock. She wants to know everything he knows about Watson but Mycroft would rather talk about the Golden Dawn which is a group of people who have an interest in the paranormal. He goes on to explain that each chapter of the Golden Dawn has a leader referred to as a magus. Their magus was a great man by the name of Richard Wynn who was killed and his body was staged like the magician tarot card. He goes on to say that a new magus is only made upon the previous leader’s death and only elite members become a part of the Inner Circle.

A new magus is picked from these few people. Mycroft says he is holding a meeting at his estate, Woodlands, tomorrow just outside of the city. The Inner Circle will be there and Bea is invited as well. He wants Bea to pretend to be his niece so they can find out who killed the magus. He offers to pay double the usual fee and tell her everything she wants to know about Watson. Leopold (Harrison Osterfield) steps out of the cellar with a smile on his face. Billy (Jojo Macari) approaches and tells him he can stay and pretend to be one of them, but he should stay away from Bea. Billy accuses him of being the type of person who lies and uses people. Leopold stands up for himself and tells Billy it is none of his business who he spends time with before Spike (McKell David) interrupts a potential scuffle.

They head for Woodlands immediately after that. Bea tells everyone that they’re not just there to investigate a murder. It is the place where Sherlock grew up so it might hold the key to find out what is going on. Jessie (Darci Shaw) checks to make sure she is okay but Bea says she has to be. As they walk along, Leo tells them about the history of the tarot before they notice some sort of gothic folly in the distance. Leo explains they’re not for anything and instead are like large garden ornaments. Once they get close to the manor, Bannister approaches and introduces himself. He says Isabelle (Emma Canning) will be their maid for the evening. The boys are going to be pretending to be grunts they’ve hired for the weekend.

The girls go with Isabelle and the guys go with Bannister around the back. Leopold works while the girls try on nice dresses. Leo tries to make sure Billy isn’t going to tell anyone about his ailments. He tells Billy it isn’t his fault he never told Bea he loves her. Leo calls him a coward before Billy threatens to hurt him next time. Bill runs into Bea and Jessie along the way but doesn’t say anything to her. Mycroft thanks the girls for coming and tells them these are the people he needs them to observe. He tells them about members of the Inner Circle including Alan Crawley (Pip Carter) who is the longest serving member. RP Breakwater (Kieran Hodgson) is the best-selling novelist. Then, there is Dion Cross (Shelley Conn) and Gustav Felkin. The last suspect is Patricia Colman Jones (Olivia Grant) who is an actress.

Mycroft introduces everyone to his nieces and explains that they won’t be attending any of the weekend’s events. They’re promptly taken to another room and allowed to spy on the group using a peep hole. They listen to the group as they discuss the recent murder of the magus. They talk aimlessly until Alan interrupts and asks when they’re going to vote for the next magus since that is the reason they’re all there. Patricia suggests waiting until his body is cold but Mycroft agrees they should do it now and anonymously. Spike talks to Mrs. Brown (Mia Soteriou) about Mycroft and his brother. She says they don’t talk about Sherlock. Spike gets her to say that Sherlock is a bit of a sore subject and left 15 years ago.

He supposedly fell in with a bad man and moved in with him on Baker Street. She admits she misses Sherlock before revealing he has a den in the attic that hasn’t been touched since he left. He came back late one night to hide something up there. She says it seemed like he had been touched by a demon. Leo and Spike head up to the attic to look around. Leo suggests he might’ve hidden something he wanted nobody at Baker Street to find. Leo finds something while Bea and Jessie continue watching the Golden Dawn members. Spike climbs a ladder and finds a strange box above it.

It is a puzzle box with the riddle saying “I am more foul than the devil”. Gustav Felkin (Erich Redman) is named the new magus. They offer themselves and get naked. Later that night, Bea and Jessie wonder if it is just a weird cult since they haven’t seen anything paranormal. They agree to focus on Gustav tomorrow before Jessie asks Bea about the spat between Leo and Billy. Jessie gives her advice but Bea says she doesn’t like either of them. She also calls romance bull crap but Jessie doesn’t like hearing that. They discuss what it would be like to grow up in a place like this before hearing something. They rush into the hallway and find Gustav dead. When Spike asks what they should do, Bea agrees to leave since it is straight-up murder.

When they try to leave, the house shows up in front of them. They question whether they turned down the wrong path, but it happens again when they go in the opposite direction. They stop and Leo says the body was posed as the eight of swords tarot card which means captivity and imprisonment. He says the upside down magician would mean manipulation, trickery, and deception. Bea agrees to stay since someone has gone to great lengths to trap everyone in the house and they’re using magic. Back inside, Mycroft tells everyone about the special investigators he hired to help identify the killer, but they’re not impressed. Alan knows about being trapped in the house since the time doesn’t seem to be changing.

Alan is impressed that the magic has finally arrived but Patricia reminds him that two people are dead. Bea warns everyone to be on their guard before asking Jessie and Spike to talk to Alan about the tarots since he might be able to understand them and the killer. Billy and Bea will speak to everyone. Leo will focus on Sherlock. While Billy and Bea wait for Patricia, he tells her how good and pretty she looked in the dress but she says she looked stupid. He says he never got a chance to thank her for what she did with the tooth fairy. Although she knew it would haunt her, she did it because they always fight for each other. He says he likes it better when she is laughing and they should have more of that in their lives.

He wants their story to be more than just fighting through the horrible stuff. She says it is only part of their story but it has made them more like family. Mrs. Brown arrives with tea to calm their nerves. Then, they interview Patricia about discovering Gustav’s body and being out of bed in the middle of the night. Patricia takes drugs before admitting she hadn’t actually gone to bed yet. She doesn’t want anyone to get into trouble but says she stayed up with Mrs. Brown and drank. On her way to bed, she found Gustav. She reveals she saw RP creeping about in the dark while making her way across the house. Once that interview ends, Bea puts Billy in charge of finding RP and bringing him back there so they can question him.

She says she’ll check on Leo and soon finds him working on Sherlock’s puzzle box. He believes something destroyed Sherlock before they joke about Bea being a morning person. Billy spies on them from the doorway as they laugh together. Then, they try to figure out the puzzle box. Bea wonders if he is being too clever about it since it is a riddle and might be something deceptively obvious. She says nothing is more foul than the devil so they try it and it works. They find a book inside which is the Grimoire of Sherlock Holmes. Meanwhile, Alan tells Spike and Jessie more about the tarot cards. Alan believes he can tap into their message but Dion doesn’t. He says there is a powerful vibration or movement.

Jessie reaches for the cards but he stops her. She feels something and immediately accuses him of stealing the tarot deck. She remembers Alan visiting his uncle when he was younger and wanting to be like him. When Alan walked in, his uncle was having a heart attack so he stole the cards. They notice the butterfly on her wrist and call her an Ipsissimus. Bannister is told to get RP while Dion says an Ipsissimus is a true psychic. They want her to join the order but Jessie doesn’t want any of that. Alan tells her she is one in a billion before she runs off and Spike goes after her. RP Breakwater and the others begin searching the house for her. RP says Dion needs to speak to Jessica.

RP wants Billy to trust him, but he isn’t sure he can. He asks RP about wandering around the house last night. RP wants Billy to promise not to tell anyone. Meanwhile, Leo looks through the book and says it is full of incantations that let you speak to the dead. Spike breaks in and asks if they’ve seen Jess because people are going crazy. He tells them about Jessie’s psychic ability. Leo explains he just read about Ipsissimus in the book and they have to be extremely careful. He also says an Ipsissimus’ powers can be taken from them by sacrificing them using ritualistic magic. They know it’s a trap and that they need to find Jessie immediately. However, she is trapped in a room with Alan. He tells her that the life of an Ipsissimus is a lonely one and people will try to take advantage of her.

He offers to help her. She tells him to look at himself because he is the person who stole cards from a dying man. Jess says it isn’t magic that makes someone powerful. Instead, it is decency and kindness. Then, he says he would do anything if she would give him some of what she has. She manages to break free and run from the room. Billy tells the others what RP said. They find RP and Dion dead together. RP was going to see Dion when Gustav was killed because they were lovers. They ask Leo what lovers mean while Jessie calls for Bea. Leopold says it means infatuation. Jessie hears someone calling to her. She turns around and heads toward the voice. Spike notices that Dion tried drawing XV as she was dying and Leo finds out that the XV card means devil.

As a result, Bea believes it is referring to Mycroft. Jessie follows the voice outside while the others confront Mycroft but he acts like he doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Mycroft denies everything and says he hasn’t spoken to the doctor or his brother for over a decade. Bea doesn’t believe that since Mycroft told her he saw them at 221B. Spike tells him about Mrs. Brown saying he gives her updates about Sherlock. Then, we see a flashback of Patricia admitting she stayed up with Mrs. Brown. Bea remembers Mrs. Brown bringing them a cup of tea. Alan joins them moments later and Bea tells everyone that Patricia is behind all of them. We learn that Mycroft was under a manipulation spell when he came up with the idea to hire Bea and her friends.

Billy suggests Dion died before she could finish the numeral and it should’ve been XVI. They check the card and it looks like the folly structures they saw outside earlier. Jessie approaches it as the voice urges her to come inside. Jessie approaches Patricia and tells her how much she likes her hair. Jessie says she would do anything for Patricia as the others exit the manor and run toward the folly. Patricia takes Jessie to the top of the building and tells her to grip the pole in the center. She tells Jessie that her powers would’ve been a curse to her but they’ll be a blessing for Patricia. Jessie is told not to let go of the pole before Patricia begins the magic trick to take her power.

The door slams behind Alan and Spike. Patricia is behind it. Alan holds a gun on Patricia while Spike runs upstairs. The others are locked outside. Spike tries to get Jessie to come back to reality and fight it because she is going to get herself killed. Patricia tells Alan about her intention to become the Ipsissimus. She says there is a rip and she’ll be able to channel the power of it. She offers to share her power with Alan and he lowers his gun. Jessie listens to Spike just in time to avoid being killed. Patricia reaches the rooftop and tries to convince Jessie to grab the pole but Spike holds her back. She tells Alan to shoot Spike but he can’t.

Patricia takes the gun and tries to shoot him but Alan pushes her into the pole and she gets struck by lightning. With Patricia dead, Jessie comes back to reality. When things calm down, Mycroft apologizes for getting them involved in all of them, but they tell him he doesn’t need to apologize. Bea wants to know what he knows. He admits he is not a member of the Golden Dawn because he has a personal interest in the occult. Instead, he has a professional interest in it. He says he is the head of a governmental department that does extensive research into the paranormal. He was placed there because no one wanted to work with him. The subject was considered a joke and he thought so too until he started his investigations at the Dawn.

He argues that people in the world of magic often lack rigor. He needed someone to bridge the gap between magic and science. Sherlock was that guy but he didn’t understand how obsessed he had become with it. He admits this happened once before 15 years ago. Before it appeared, he had a brother but now he doesn’t. He says something changed in his brother when the doctor entered his life. He argues that the doctor is a poison. He thinks the doctor will be close to the rip and whoever opened it. The next day, Billy tells Bea he’ll see her later because he is going to Acton. He claims he met a girl down there the other day. He says it is nothing serious but she seems nice. Before he leaves, Bea stops him and encourages him to have a good time.

Bea approaches Leopold and tells him it is a bit cold in here. He offers to let her join him under the covers and she accepts the offer. He is on the last page but hasn’t found anything about the rip. Leo explains it is just more of his forays into the darkness with Watson and this “A” person. They find a picture of Watson and a picture of a woman. Bea recognizes the woman as Alice who was her mother.

 

The Irregulars Review

I am not a big fan of The Irregulars by any means, but each episode has had its moments. I think what I find enjoyable most about The Irregulars is the character relationships. As crazy as it sounds, I am not even fond of all of the characters but I do enjoy their interactions with one another.

I could say that they’re starting to grow on me though. I wouldn’t be surprised if this show didn’t get another season because I can see why people wouldn’t like it. This episode wasn’t nearly as bad, but it feels cheesy at times. I am still not comfortable with the Bea character and Spike is a bit annoying at times.

It is going to take some time to accept the paranormal aspect of the show and the characters, but the episode was much better. I’d give it a 7 out of 10. Previous and future recaps of The Irregulars can be found on Reel Mockery here.