Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is getting nearer to uncovering her mysterious destiny. Episode 3 of the Netflix sequence gives readability on a number of issues, together with Wednesday’s connection to the Crackstone Crypt. We additionally get one other take a look at the mysterious monster plaguing the city of Jericho on this episode. Right here’s what all of it means.
[SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers ahead regarding Wednesday Episode 3 “Friend or Woe.”]
Who kidnaps Wednesday Addams?
Episode 2 of Wednesday ends with a mysterious individual masking Wednesday’s head and kidnapping her. As revealed in episode 3, her captors are present members of The Nightshades, the outdated pupil society Ms. Thornhill (Christina Ricci) described in the episode prior.
These days, The Nightshades is made up of present Nevermore college students together with the likes of Bianca (Pleasure Sunday), Xavier (Percy Hynes White), and former member Rowan. Shocked to search out the group nonetheless lively, Wednesday learns The Nightshades “fizzled 30 years ago after some Normie kid died,” however they’ve since restarted the chapter.
Wednesday is the key to the Crackstone Crypt
Because of her imaginative and prescient from episode 2, Wednesday is aware of she is “the key” to the Crackstone Crypt. That meant little or no to her till Outreach Day in episode 3, an occasion the place Nevermore college students volunteer at the companies in Jericho.
Per the image Rowan ripped from an historical textual content in the hidden Edgar Allan Poe library, Wednesday is squared up with a pilgrim. In episode 3, she discovers that pilgrim is Joseph Crackstone, the city’s founder.
Wednesday makes use of Outreach Day to research Pilgrim World, which is principally a shrine to Joseph, for solutions. There, she finds an image of the younger woman from her imaginative and prescient — the ethereal model of Wednesday — however not a lot else. Solely when Wednesday goes to the actual location of the former meetinghouse does she uncover the fact.
Goody Addams is a witch and Wednesday’s ancestor
Jericho would possibly take part in Outreach Day yearly, however traditionally the city has been exclusionary towards outcasts since Wednesday’s ancestor Goody Addams was a resident. After urgent Tyler (Hunter Doohan) for details about the assembly home, Wednesday has one other imaginative and prescient.
The woman from the image is Goody Addams, a relative of Wednesday’s who was exiled by the group of pilgrims that after inhabited Jericho. Joseph Crackstone ordered Goody to be burned at the stake, eager to rid the world of outcasts. However earlier than he bought to Goody, Joseph burned the assembly home down with Goody’s household and different outcasts inside.
Wednesday’s imaginative and prescient ends with a warning from Goody: “He won’t stop until he’s killed us all.”
What’s the monster consuming individuals in ‘Wednesday’?
Regardless of the stable glimpse of the monster Wednesday Episode 3 offers us (which you’ll see at 1:05 in the trailer beneath), it’s nonetheless not clear what sort of creature it’s. “The monster is human,” Wednesday factors out in the episode. “It’s tracks turn from monster to human.”
We beforehand described this monster as having the physique of a werewolf and the head of a fly. Based mostly on the picture captured at the finish of Wednesday Episode 3, we wish to amend that description. This factor seems to have the head of a fish, or maybe a merperson — might or not it’s of siren descent?
Regardless, Wednesday Episode 3 revealed two issues: No matter is killing Jericho residents is probably going a descendant of a number of outcasts and Joseph Crackstone is the actual monster.