An Arcane Incantation

"An Arcane Incantation" is the fourth episode of the first season of Diablero, and the fourth of the overall series.

Synopsis
Using Nancy as the vessel and the claw that was stuck in his back, Elvis performs an ancient ritual to summon the demon -- with unsettling results.

Plot summary
Mamá Chabela warns the kids to stay together and be quiet as they hide from the demon. As she unlocks the door, he shows up, and she starts warding him away with magic, telling the demon the children do not belong to it. While she does this, the demon takes away her amulet and throws it outside the house. They draw symbols on doors to keep it out, and Mamá Chabela tells the children to do exactly as she instructed. Lorenzo tells her to call Wences, so he could help them, but she tells them she does not know where it is.

Elvis turns his car on and reluctantly moves forward with the group plus Margarita and her son, complaining that his house was not a day care. When they get there, Keta helps the mother and child settle in. Once they do, Elvis tells Keta that the only way to defeat the demon and to save Mayakén will be to perform an arcane incantation, but he's not sure if Nancy will agree to it, as she would be putting her life on the line.

The group sits down for dinner, and Elvis explains the situation, Nancy agrees to be the vessel for the demon. When Ramiro asks what he needs to do, Elvis tells him he'll need to pray. As they prepare everything, Ramiro notices this is the first time he had seen Elvis scared, and Nancy explains that Elvis is going to force a demon to come to them, while she only invites them, subsequently focusing on her music.

Back in Mamá Chabela's house, she tells them to be quiet, as they could be seen. When Mariana shows up, she asks her where she had been, only to find out the little girl had tried calling the police to no avail. Mamá Chabela tells them it's important for them to get the amulet back, as well as staying silent so they could find the amulet. Desperate, Mamá Chabela tells Mariana to run for the amulet while she distracts the demon. When she gets it, she's able to use it to force the demon to back away.

As the incantation is ready to be started, Nancy tells them to not look so worried, that there is always a first time for everything. Before they get started, they tell Ramiro about the circles needed, and that he needed to stay outside the circle. When the spell is complete, the demon leaves Wences' body, who was tormenting the children and Mamá Chabela and goes into Nancy's. It first appears not to work, but they soon realize it did. The demon stood up, and Keta and Elvis tried getting information out of it with incantations. Ramiro is also tempted by the demon, who tells him his daughter would die if he didn't leave the circle; Elvis instructs him not to do so. However, he is scared by the demon and jumps back when it lunges at him, leaving the circle. Elvis manages to hold the demon with a rope and asks Keta to throw him a bottle. They hold it and extract the demon from Nancy's body. While Elvis held the demon, his hand started burning, so he reached over and put his neighbor's finger on it, waking the latter up from unconsciousness. When the neighbor tries pulling his thumb out, it gets stuck in the bottle, solving the cork problem.

Mamá Chabela brings Wences to his bed and finds out the demon was taken from him by diableros, realizing they'd been robbed. Wences tries to explain he did not intend for that to happen, while also apologizing for hurting her when possessed. He asks for Mamá Chabela to not put the demon inside him anymore because it's evil and scared. Mamá Chabela goes to the children and tells them the demon is dead and won't hurt them anymore.

Back in Elvis' house, the group put Nancy in a bucket of ice, thinking of things to do, Keta injects Nancy with adrenaline, which is just enough for her to open her eyes and tell them the powerful diablera who they're up against has two more children. When Mariana asks her why she locked them in, she says it's to protect them. She is given something to drink by the Diablera, but she doesn't drink it when she sees Sebas and Lorenzo pass out after drinking it.

After being pressured by Keta, Elvis tells her that was not the first time he had ever performed an arcane incantation. The first time had been when she had gotten pregnant with Mayakén, due to him wanting to see angels return. This caused Keta to get angry dur to the diablero keeping it a secret. In her room, Margarita feels the demon calling her from the bottle, thanks to Mamá Chabela, who is trying to get the demon back. She uncorks the bottle and is possessed. While possessed, she grabs her own child and takes him to Mamá Chabela, while Mariana wacthed from a window in her room. The diablera puts the child down and retrieves the demon from Margarita's body. Back in her own consciousness, Margarita asks where she is and what her son is doing lying on the floor motionless. Since she starts making a lot of noise, she is choked to death by Mamá Chabela while a horrified Mariana watched. The diablera orders Wences to get rid of the body.

In Elvis and Keta's house, Ramiro tells Elvis the mother and child had left, and Elvis realized what had happened.

While Wences gets rid of the dead woman's body, Mariana sees an opportunity to escape and leaves, running to a nearby town crying for help.

Credits

 * Written by:
 * Pablo Tébar
 * Luis Gamboa
 * Gibran Portela
 * Verónica Marzá
 * José Rodríguez Suárez


 * Directed by:
 * Rigoberto Castañeda


 * Starring:
 * Christopher Von Uckermann - Father Ramiro Ventura
 * Horacio García Rojas - Elvis Infante
 * Giselle Kuri - Nancy Gama
 * Fátima Molina - Enriqueta Infante
 * Dolores Heredia - Mamá Chabela
 * Humberto Busto - Isaac "El Indio"


 * Also starring:
 * Vecino - César Ureña
 * Wences - Quétzalli Cortés
 * Mariana - Cass Iturralde
 * Lorenzo - Harry Garabatos
 * Lucas - Ricardo Zertuche
 * Sebas - Santiago Beltrán
 * Margarita - Natalia Plascencia