Adam Simon promises Night’s Black Agents has the strangest sex scene in television history in this week’s wrap-up.
“Good things of day begin to droop and drowse. Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse,” is Adam Simon’s favorite quote from Shakespeare’s occult political thriller Macbeth (Act 3, Scene 2), he says in this writer’s wrap clip for WGN America’s supernatural period piece series Salem.
The witches were “on the prowl” in “Night’s Black Agents,” Salem’s co-creator, writer and executive producer says.
“Cotton desperately tries to escape to Boston before Anne or the Boy’s followers track him down,” reads the official synopsis. “He comes across Tituba, who shows him a vision of his future, ultimately changing his decision to leave. Mary realizes that even without her witch powers, she can still use her femininity to manipulate those around her. Meanwhile, Alden and Billy continue the fight on the outskirts of Salem.”
Simon details the opening sequence where Cotton is besieged in the woods by a bevy of Anne Hales, each one with a different demand.
“Each Anne is different,” Simon explains, “and each one speaks differently to him,” while trying to get the prodigal husband home. But Cotton “is determined” to get to Boston to “tell them the truth about Salem.”
Simon goes on to call Sebastian “a very generous man” who offers to help Anne Hale with her “Cotton problem” before the Puritans “drive the witches out of Salem.” This is something “the Devil can’t allow.”
Slavery shall set you free in Salem. The political drama is playing out as Mercy exerts her seductive spiritual control over Hathorne, Salem’s magistrate. Simon admits the pair has a unique “chemistry.” He also claims that their “love slash sex scene” is the strangest in television history. Mercy certainly has the most interesting sex toy.
Hell hath no fury when a woman like Mary Sibley is scorned. The former witch is going through “withdrawal” when we first see her, according to Simon. But she learns “it means more to be a woman than to be a witch.”
Salem“boldly re-imagines the infamous 17th century witch trials in colonial Massachusetts in a world where witches are real, but they are not who or what they seem,” reads the series overview.
“The third season of Salem dawns with the triumph of the witches' plan to remake the New World by bringing the devil to earth and making Salem his capital. But the devil is a liar, and instead of a New World free from murderous Puritan hypocrisy, his own plan will bring nothing but death and slavery with the ultimate aim of leading humanity to destroy itself. And there's only one person on earth who can beat the devil -- the very witch that birthed him, his mother, Mary Sibley. The only problem is—she's dead. Or is she?”
Salem was created by writers Brannon Braga and Adam Simon. Salem. The series stars Janet Montgomery (Human Target, Made in Jersey), Shane West (Nikita, ER), Seth Gabel (Arrow, Fringe), Ashley Madekwe (Revenge), Tamzin Merchant (Jane Eyre), Elise Eberle (The Astronaut Farmer) and Iddo Goldberg (Mob City). New to the cast of Salem this season is Grammy-awarded nominated artist Marilyn Manson and Samuel Roukin (TURN: Washington’s Spies).
“Night’s Black Agents” was written by Brannon Braga and Adam Simon and directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins).
Salem season 3 airs every Wednesday, at 9pm ET/PT on WGN.