Century Falls Episode Two

As Tess struggles from the water, she discovers the little girl is gone. Ben is angry, and runs off.

At the Harkness's house, Esme and May tend their elderly mother. Trying to communicate, Alice takes a pencil and draws a crude picture of mask. Esme and May look concerned.

Julia, the maid from the Naismith manor, visits the post office. Esme is curious as to why Richard should now be employing staff after letting the manor house go to ruin for so many years. Julia replies that she and the butler are the only staff, and she is run off her feet tending to the children. On learning that one of the children Jane speaks of is Ben Naismith, Esme expresses surprise that he is still alive.

Back at home, Tess dries herself off. She helps her mother move some of their belongings into the room that will be the nursery. Mrs Hunter insists she wants to give her new baby a 'proper home'.

Esme and May tell their worries to Mrs Cooper, an elderly blind villager. They decide they must call a gathering.

At the manor house, Julia speaks to Richard and tells him of her concern for Ben. Richard tells her that he had them brought to Century Falls as here Ben can learn control. Later, Ben and Carey set out observed by Richard and Ashe. Ashe enquires what Richard has told Carey. 'A lie,' he responds.

The villagers gather in the hall and debate their fears. There are ways for them to find out what they need to know…

Ben and Carey call on Tess, to show her Century Falls by night. They creep into the village hall, and see the villagers involved in a ritual. Gathered in a circle, Mrs Cooper instructs the villagers to 'concentrate. Think of the village only. Century Falls'. The villagers' minds merge together.

'The whole village is the same' says Ben. The gathered villagers succeed in seeking out Elisabeth Hunter with their minds, and realise she is definitely carrying a child. They next try to seek out Richard Naismith. Naismith is however somehow 'protected' - at the manor house, a glow emits from an ornate cupboard.

Leaving the hall, Ben and Carey tell Tess she was privileged to witness a gathering. The villagers now seldom use their powers, because of something that happened in the past. Ben once more rounds on Tess, and she runs home.

At the manor house, Richard instructs Ashe to check on the patient, in case the gathering has weakened him.

Esme calls on Elisabeth Hunter. She warns her that since the events of 17 July 1953, 'not one child has been carried full term' in the village. Elisabeth is furious, believing that Esme is trying to drive her from her home, and throws the old woman out.

Ben takes Carey back to the Century Falls waterfall. Again he summons the fire on the water. Carey cautions him, but he insists that he wants to be stronger than the 'decrepit villagers'. A golden mask can now be seen through the flames: it is the same mask that Alice Harkness drew a rough picture of, with the word 'century' above; it is also the same mask that Richard Naismith stores in the mysterious ornate cupboard.

The figure of a beautiful woman - who wears the mask - now emerges clearly from the flames.

'What is it?' Carey asks Ben.
'All the past of Century Falls. And it's coming back.'