"Yesterday's Lie" is the tenth episode of the second season of The Owl House, and the twenty-ninth episode overall. It is also the mid-season finale of the second season.
It premiered on August 14, 2021.
Synopsis[]
Luz thinks she's found a way back home but questions if she's ready for what she'll find on the other side.[2]
Plot[]
At the Noceda residence, "Luz" is shoving items into a box. She then carries it in her hands but stops in front of a mirror and smiles at her reflection. Camila notices her with the box, and asks "Luz" what it's for; she replies that she's just cleaning up her room. Camila picks up a tin foil swan and asks her if she is sure she wants to throw it away, pointing out that she made the swan for her. "Luz" takes it back and replies that she's looking for a fresh start, before setting down the box beside the garbage can. She mentions that the summer camp has taught her a lot, to which Camila solemnly agrees, being visibly concerned and saddened over her "daughter's" new personality and how she has seemingly abandoned her previous sense of creativity.
Right then, they hear a rabbit squeaking, and find it caught in a trap. Camila asks "Luz" to grab a pair of pliers, then uses them to cut off the string. "Luz" mentions that that is the fifth trap this week, and Camila angrily replies that she will beat the person if she finds out who they are. Camila then tells her to go back inside the house together, promising to make maduros. Sometime later, "Luz" goes into her room to take out a shirt. When she closes the closet door, the real Luz appears from within the mirror on the door. Enraged, Luz angrily yells at her doppelgänger, scaring her.
Sometime prior on the Boiling Isles, Luz, Eda, King, and Hooty are in front of a makeshift portal door near the Owl House. Luz says that Philip Wittebane mentioned the hardest part of building a portal door is finding someone who knows how to do it, but a lot of the ingredients are pretty easy to find, as Eda had most of them. King hands over Amity's glove to Luz, who can't believe that the key contained Titan's Blood this entire time. After a moment of silence, Luz remarks that if Emperor Belos wants to get to the Human Realm, he has to beat her to it. She then tears a piece off the glove and sticks it on the portal door.
After that is done, Eda starts pedaling on her makeshift flying bathtub, transferring energy to the components of the portal door and then to the door itself. The door works, albeit looking crooked. Luz ties a rope onto her waist, reminding Eda, King, and Hooty to pull her back if the portal starts closing. Luz hugs the trio, and then jumps through the portal. Luz then finds herself in an odd dimension, floating in a pool of black water surrounded by floating cubes. She tries calling out for Eda, King, and Hooty, but they can't hear her. However, her yelling summons a cube out from the water.
She holds it and finds herself becoming a reflection in one of the windows of the Owl House, seeing Eda, King, and Hooty waiting for her outside the portal. Luz releases the cube, then wondering if she can see Amity, yells out her name, before telling herself to focus on her mission. She calls out her mother's name and spots a cube above her glowing. She tries to use an ice glyph to reach it, but it doesn't work. She climbs onto another cube that is floating up, only for gravity to switch halfway up, and she lands face-down beside the cube.
Luz then grabs it and becomes a reflection in her mother's cellphone. She tries to call out to her but is shocked when she sees another Luz in her house. Luz then frantically tries to call out the doppelgänger's name to talk to her, but is unable to do so, as she doesn't know it. Luz then tries to calm down, telling herself to count to five, when suddenly a new cube emerges from the water. Luz grabs the cube and appears in the mirror on her closet door, directly confronting her doppelgänger.
The impostor attempts to break the mirror but stops when Camila asks if everything is alright from outside the room. She then jumps out the window and escapes into the old house, and Luz appears in a purse mirror beside her. There, the impostor is angry that she has to run again and that things just can't work out. She kicks a rock out of frustration, and accidentally triggers a trap, causing a rope to tighten around her foot. The doppelgänger becomes stressed and reveals her true form, a basilisk.
Luz calms her down, then asks for her name, and learns that it's Vee. Luz guides Vee into untying herself and asks Vee why she is pretending to be her. Vee replies that she's looking for a place to belong, and she only stays with Camila because she is nice. Luz then realizes that she can just stay where she is since Camila is unaware her real daughter is missing, but Vee remarks that she needs magic in order to shapeshift again, and she just ran out of it, so she can't fully change into her disguise. Luz starts thinking and notices a piece of newspaper beside her.
She asks Vee to read the back of it, which has a story of Eda terrorizing a café on the main page. Luz mentions that Eda might have left some magic stuff behind, making Vee hopeful, and she walks out of the door. A hidden camera is seen recording everything in the house while all of this is happening. Vee reaches the café and walks inside. The shopkeeper mentions that "Marylin", which is Eda's alias, tried to pay for a latte with a live raccoon once and did something weird to the croissants when she tried to call the police. Vee then walks out the back door into an alley and is freaked out by two talking rats with glowing red eyes.
She runs away, and Luz notices three high schoolers not far away playing Hexes Hold'em. She thinks they might know where to get the cards, and reminds Vee to approach them carefully, but she just laughs and walks up to them, mentioning that they're cool. Apparently, the three high schoolers were Vee's cabinmates during her stay at Reality Check Summer Camp. She asks one of them where they got the cards, but they insist on giving Vee a reading first before telling her. According to the reading, Vee is running away from a past that was not kind to her.
However, the guilt and fear she carries will eventually catch her in a self-fulfilling prophecy that she won't be able to escape from. Upon hearing this, Vee becomes terrified, and Masha reveals that they got the cards from the Gravesfield Historical Society museum. Vee thanks them and starts walking towards there with a gloomy expression. Vee walks into the building, and is greeted by Jacob Hopkins, the curator. Jacob mentions that the cards are really popular among high schoolers, and that he bought them from an old lady who was dumping them into the river, which Luz figures was Eda getting rid of them.
He then asks Vee if she wants a set, which she confirms. Jacob asks her to wait as he carries a box into the staff room, and Vee walks around the museum. Luz notices that she is upset and tries to console her, telling her that she knows what it's like to run away from home, as she did the same thing. She replies that they are not the same and starts telling Luz her backstory.
Vee's real name is "Number 5", and her kind, the basilisks, went extinct a long time ago. They were brought back to life because Belos wanted to know how they drain magic. Vee managed to escape, along with a few other basilisks, but she knew it was only a matter of time before Belos caught them again. On the first day Luz came to the Boiling Isles, Vee saw her and snuck through the portal when no one was watching. When she reached the Human Realm, she heard Camila calling out for Luz, and with no place to hide, she transformed into "Luz". Vee then went to the camp on Luz's behalf and started living with Camila.
Back in the museum, Vee finishes telling Luz her story and about her complicated feelings about Luz running away from home. Just then, Vee smells something and follows the scent into the staff room. She turns on the light and is shocked by the various items in the room such as weapons on display, creepy pictures on the wall, and a toy with a witch on a guillotine. Vee notices a bulletin board with pictures of Eda on it, gets scared, and backs away, accidentally turning on the computer screens behind her. She realizes that she has been watched by someone, and tries to escape, but trips on a laser beam and gets trapped inside a cage instead, panic shifting into her real form again. Jacob walks in and is happy that he finally managed to catch a real demon after setting up many traps. He reveals that he knows that witches and demons are real after an encounter with the Owl Beast. However, he believes that they're from Mars and harvest human teeth in order to power time machines. Vee realizes that he's nothing but a conspiracy theorist, but Jacob insists that he knows enough, and tells her to get comfortable because she will be spending the rest of her life in a cage. Luz tries to assure Vee that they will get out of the situation, but she tells Luz to go back to the Demon Realm instead. Since Jacob now knows her disguise, she thinks he will out her to Camila and it would cause her more trouble than if Luz just disappears. Vee assures Luz it's okay, as she's used to living like this, before breaking the glass with her tail, frustrating Luz.
Luz then calls out for her mother's cube. Inside the kitchen, Camila is shown to have taken the box Vee threw out back inside and is playing with the tinfoil swan when Luz appears on her cell phone screen and starts to grab her attention. She walks to the phone, thinking Luz is just calling her. Instead, she starts telling Camila about what really happened in the past few months. However, Camila thinks this is all just a creative story made up by Luz but goes to the Gravesfield Historical Society Museum anyway. She tells Luz that she doesn't need to make up a story to make her come pick her and her friends up, but Luz insists that it's all real. Camila walks in, asking Jacob to show her his captured demon. He thinks she is sent by the government and requests a verbal confirmation from her that he gets to publish his findings first, to which Camila hesitantly agrees. Jacob then brings her inside, telling her Gravesfield's history and showing her the trapped Vee. Camila notices Vee's basilisk characteristics and realizes that she is real. Jacob then shows her his camera recordings, and Camila finally sees that the "Luz" she has been living with was an impostor this whole time. While Jacob walks off to get his costume, Luz reassures her mom that Vee is not bad, and pleads with Camila to save her. Camila walks over to the cage and tells Vee that she is a strong girl. Vee is touched by that and tears up. Jacob notices Luz on Camila's phone screen, but thinks she is merely recording, and attempts to start dissecting Vee. Camila stops him and tells him she will be taking her away. Jacob protests and tries to stop her, but she strikes him hard with a flip-flop, knocking him out, tying him up, and trapping him in the cage.
Camila then brings Vee back to her home, and Luz's reflection appears in front of them as the car headlights light up the rain. Vee thanks Luz for her help, and Camila assures Vee that she can stay as long as she needs. As Vee heads inside, Camila then turns to her daughter, holding back her tears. Apparently, she has been trying to hold back her emotions, as she is scared about Luz being alone in a strange realm. However, Camila is glad that as scary as the situation seems, Luz appears to have matured, to which Luz replies that staying in the Boiling Isles was the best choice she has ever made. This upsets Camila, and she thinks that Luz always hated living with her in the Human Realm. Luz tries to assure her it isn't like that, but Eda, King, and Hooty begin to pull her back. Camila tearfully pleads for her to stay in the Human Realm when she comes back, telling her that she didn't mean to push her away by sending her to camp, before promising to support Luz’s interests instead of suppressing them. A dejected Luz promises, and then disappears, leaving Camila alone in the rain, crying.
Back in the Boiling Isles, Eda, King, and Hooty finish yanking Luz back from the portal. Eda explains to Luz that they had to do that because the portal was closing, and then the portal twists and disappears. King asks if Luz told Camila about him, to which she lies and tells him that she did, and that Camila can't wait to meet the trio. Eda assures Luz that, with everything they have learned, they will have a working portal in no time. King wants to eat human snacks, and Hooty can't wait to share parenting tips, prompting Eda to ask Hooty who dubs him as a parent. The trio laughs, while Luz just stares ahead with a nervous expression on her face.
Cast[]
- Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda and Vee (disguised)
- Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
- Alex Hirsch as King and Hooty
- Elizabeth Grullon as Camila Noceda
- Michaela Dietz as Vee
- Roger Craig Smith as Jacob Hopkins
Additional voices[]
- Eric Bauza as Talking rats
- Grey Griffin as Masha
- Zeno Robinson as High school boy
- Kari Wahlgren as Robin's Roast Cafe barista
Mentioned[]
Other characters[]
- Emperor Belos (flashback)
- Warden Wrath (flashback)
- Coven Scout (flashback)
- Coven Guard (flashback)
Title in other languages[]
Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Spanish (Latin America) | Mentiras del pasado | Past's Lies | |
Bulgarian | Вчерашни лъжи | Yesterday's Lies | |
Portuguese (Brazil) | A Mentira de Ontem | Yesterday's Lie | |
Mandarin | 昨日的謊言 | Yesterday's Lie | |
Czech | Všechno je lež | Everything is a Lie | |
German | Die Lüge von gestern | Yesterday's Lie | |
Danish | Løgnen fra i går | The Lie from Yesterday | |
Spanish | La mentira del ayer | Yesterday's Lie | |
French | Le mensonge d'hier | Yesterday's Lie | |
Indonesian | Kebohongan Kemarin | Yesterday's Lies | |
Hebrew | השקר של אתמול | Yesterday's Lie | |
Italian | Tornare dalla mamma | Coming Back to Mom | |
Japanese | 過ぎ去りし嘘 | Bygone Lies | |
Malay | Pembohongan Semalam | Yesterday's Lie | |
Dutch | Leugens van Toen | Lies from Then | |
Norwegian | Gårsdagens løgner | Yesterday's Lies | |
Portuguese | A Mentira de Ontem | Yesterday's Lie | |
Polish | Bazyliszek | The Basilisk | |
Romanian | Minciuna de Ieri | Yesterday's Lie | |
Swedish | Gårdagens lögn | Yesterday's Lie | |
Turkish | Dünkü Yalan | Yesterday's Lie |
Transcript[]
For a full transcript of "Yesterday's Lie", click here. |
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Trivia[]
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 0.36 viewers on its premiere.[3]
- The secret message for this episode is on the conspiracy board: , which translates to "of".
- This episode marks the mid-season finale of the second season.
- This is the final episode to air in 2021.
- This is the first episode in the series where the majority of the story's setting takes place in the Human Realm.
- When Vee checks Luz's closet and sees her in the reflection, the shirt she takes out is the same one Luz wore originally in the series' "Next Time On" animation test reel.
- When Vee gets confronted by Luz, she wields a red baseball bat, which was Luz's main weapon in the "beta" rendition of her character.[4]
- A statue of Philip and Caleb Wittebane can be seen in the town center of Gravesfield.
- This is the only episode of Season 2 where Vee is voiced by Michaela Dietz, as the rest of her appearances are silent cameos.
Revelations and significant events[]
- Luz slept in a bunk bed in the Human Realm.
- The town where Luz and Camila live is named Gravesfield.
- Several things are revealed about Luz's doppelgänger in the Human Realm:
- Her name is Vee.
- She is a basilisk.
- She is an escapee from the Emperor's Coven and reached the Human Realm through the portal door during the events of the episode "A Lying Witch and a Warden", while Eda and Luz were distracted at the market in Bonesborough.
- Vee went to the summer camp in Luz's stead.
- Basilisks, a species that had previously been extinct, were brought back by Emperor Belos to investigate how they drained magic.
- Luz is confirmed to have a father, who appears in a picture in the kitchen of Luz's house, although his face is covered by the light reflected in the picture.
- One of Eda's aliases during her visits to the Human Realm is "Marylin".
- In a DVD commentary of Gravity Falls, it was stated that Stan Pines was briefly married to a woman matching Eda's description named "Marylin" for less than a day before she robbed him and mysteriously disappeared.
- Gravesfield Historical Society Museum curator Jacob Hopkins knows about the existence of witches and demons after seeing Eda's Owl Beast form.
- Camila works as a veterinarian.
- In the 1600s, two brothers from Gravesfield entered the Demon Realm after making contact with a witch.
- Camila discovers the truth about Luz's time staying in the Boiling Isles, witches and demons, and Vee taking Luz's place.
Continuity[]
- Luz uses Amity's glove covered in Titan Blood from "Eclipse Lake" for her portal.
- The events of said episode are directly mentioned.
- Eda's propeller bathtub from "Separate Tides" and "Echoes of the Past" is used to power the portal.
- The abnormal doll Luz once found in "A Lying Witch and a Warden" is used in the construction of the portal.
- Luz dons the magic-resistant cloak from "Young Blood, Old Souls" again.
- Luz ends up in a realm between the realms, which was first alluded to in Philip Wittebane's notes in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", and briefly appeared in the portal at the beginning of "Keeping up A-fear-ances".
- Glyphs do not work in the realm between realms, as was first noted in "Young Blood, Old Souls".
- Luz mentions the events of "The First Day", in which a basilisk attacked Hexside.
- The events of "A Lying Witch and a Warden" are shown in a flashback from Vee's perspective.
- Eda had, prior to the episode, discarded her Hexes Hold'em cards in the Human Realm, fulfilling her promise to King in "Hooty's Moving Hassle" to get rid of them.
- Among the items in Jacob's office is a training wand, similar to the one Amity owned in "Adventures in the Elements".
Allusions[]
- Anime - Luz mentions Monster Slayer Academia which Camila refers to as "anime":
- The first part of the title references Demon Slayer.
- The second part of the title may be a reference to either My Hero Academia or Little Witch Academia.
- Comme des Garçons - A little girl in the town square is wearing a shirt with the heart logo of this clothing brand.[5]
- Tarot - The person with the Hexes Hold'em cards uses them for real-life card reading practice. Additionally, the three cards used resemble cards found in a traditional Tarot deck:
- The card on the left side, reflecting the past, matches the Moon, which represents dreams, deception, and illusions.
- The card in the middle, reflecting the present time, matches the King of Cups, which represents wisdom, compassion, and diplomacy. However, the skeleton may be a reference to Death, which spells change and new beginnings.
- The card on the right side, reflecting the future, matches the Three of Swords, which represents loneliness, grief, and betrayal; but in its reversed position, it can mean healing, forgiveness, and recovery.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The four weapons hanging directly above Jacob's office door are the main weapons of the franchise's protagonists: a katana (Leonardo), bo staff (Donatello), sai (Raphael), and nunchaku (Michelangelo)
- The devil talking to a gentleman and a judge - The image that Jacob shows of the two brothers is based on this woodcut print from 1720.
- LARP - Camila assumes the items in Jacob's office are for live-action role-playing.
- La Chancla - Camila uses a flip-flop to beat up Jacob. In Spanish, "La Chancla" means "the flip-flop" and it is used by Hispanic parents to discipline their children when they are misbehaving.
- YouTube - MewTube is a reference to this video-sharing website.
Errors[]
- In the cold opening where Vee sees Luz in the mirror, Luz has a bruise on her cheek, her hair is messy, and she appears enraged. But when this scene is revisited from Luz's perspective, Luz has her normal look and appears confused.
- Vee jumps out of the room through an opened window. In the next scene showing her landing outside, the window is closed.
- In that same scene, you can see two windows; however, before she jumped out, there was only 1.
- Vee's flashback indicates the portal was open for her to slip into when Luz and Eda were distracted by the crowd. However, in the first episode, the portal was depicted as closed the whole time.
- Right when Vee drops the compact mirror, Luz's leggings disappear before the mirror shatters.
- When Luz gets pulled back into the Demon Realm, she is seen losing grip on her mother's arms, but when the scene cuts to Camila's face, she is seen having full grasp of Luz
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References[]
- ↑ Yesterday's Lie - Concept by Mariama Alizor 1.png
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "August 2021 Programming Highlights". dgepress.com (July 22, 2021).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Metcalf, Mitch (August 17, 2021). "Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.14.2021". Showbuzz Daily.
- ↑ Terrace, Dana [@DanaTerrace] (November 20, 2020). "I wasn’t expecting people to be so into these beta designs from the charity stream. They certainly hold a special place in my heart. Perhaps there’ll be a time to explore this alternate world in the future. ⚔️" (Tweet). Retrieved March 15, 2023 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Yuvienco, Tristan [@trisketched] (August 17, 2021). "there was a time where everyone in manila was wearing shirts with this heart so I just threw it in for this random kid" (Tweet) – via Twitter.