"For the Future" is the forty-second episode of the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House. It premiered on January 21, 2023, and is the second episode/special of the third season.
Synopsis[]
Luz and her friends race against Belos to confront the Collector and save the Boiling Isles.
Plot[]
Shortly after Luz and her friends get sent through the portal, the Collector unleashes magical chaos across The Boiling Isles, ready to play The Owl House with King. Lilith and Hooty try to save King, but the Collector turns them into puppets. The Collector proceeds to takeover the Demon Realm and with capturing and turning everyone into puppets. Eda even flies to the rescue in Harpy form, but her curse takes over, and she has no elixir on her. She fully transforms into the owl beast.
The Boiling Isles under the Collector's rule.
Months later, Luz wakes up in between the realms. She sees someone who is trying to wave and say something to her, but she gets dragged out to the Demon Realm by Amity. Luz, her mom and friends, have returned to the Boiling Isles, and discover a lot has changed in their absence. The Isles has become all childishly cute and colorful by the Collector's influence. There now even stands a magical floating castle hovering over the skull: the Collector's castle. They also discover half the denizens have been turned into puppets and have become the Collector’s playmates.
The kids have a lot on their minds. Hunter is still hurt by the loss of Flapjack and has been trying to take his mind off it by focusing on finding Belos. Amity and Gus are worried about their families, and so is Willow, though she is trying hard to put on a brave face and be strong for everyone else. Luz especially has a lot on her mind. She remains ashamed of all that has happened and has made a painful promise to herself to leave the Isles with her mother as soon as everyone is saved, much to her mother's concern. Furthermore, she has still been unable to get her Palisman to hatch. While hiding out in the Owl House, Amity tells Luz about how she got Ghost. She would not move no matter what she thought of until she admitted not knowing what she wanted to be when she grew up. But she wanted to choose the path for herself, and that was enough for Ghost to come to her. Luz wants to be a witch and help her friends, but doing one always seems to mess up the other for her. All Amity can say is, she must be patient.
King with the Collector.
Later, they witness the Collector and King "playing" in the deserted streets of Bonesborough with most of the denizens as puppets. Amongst them are Willow's dads. Also playing along is Terra Snapdragon, who is being forced to dress up as Eda. And when she refuses to play along with the Collector's games, he turns her into a puppet, despite King's objections. Then they fly off back to the floating castle above the skull.
Shortly after, Luz and friends bump into Mattholomule, Skara, and Barcus, who take them to Hexside, which is now a hideaway from the Collector's spies. After the day of unity, the Collector sent spies to capture everyone. Everyone fought them off as best they could, but all the teachers were turned into puppets, along with a few students. The kids at Hexside are all that remained. Among the refugees are Emira and Edric, who managed to escape from the abomination factory. However, Edric ended up falling down a well while trying to escape from the Collector's spies and broke every bone in his body. The students of Hexside have also developed their own community over the last few months, and Luz and her friends learn that Boscha has made herself the school council, which nobody is happy about. Every time someone comes forward with a proposal to make things better for everyone, Boscha turns them down without giving it any thought, especially under the influence of her mysterious assistant, Miki. She even turns down Luz's request to help defeat the Collector and save everyone.
Meanwhile, Belos is limping through the woods to his old hideout. By now, his body is breaking down and is no longer able to hold together. He even finds himself haunted by visions of his brother, who he blames for everything that has happened. He makes it to his old hideout and continues to see visions of Caleb and previous grimwalkers looking at him disapprovingly. He finds one unfinished grimwalker, and possesses it.
"Can you read me a story?"
The Collector and King, meanwhile, return to their castle, and are greeted by Odalia, who has become the Collector's "MomOdalia". After ordering her to take the Collector's puppets back to the archive, the two head to bed where King tries to reason with the Collector about not endangering people's lives into dangerous games. However, the Collector has no empathy for how fragile a mortal's life is. He only cares about what he wants, and people are nothing more than something to own. After reading a bedtime story to the Collector, King heads to where they are keeping Eda. She is being held in a cage under guard by the Coven heads, who, including Raine, have been turned into puppets. Lilith is also with her, and she is no longer a puppet. King has also found Hooty, who is still a puppet, and brings him to Eda and Lilith.
Back at Hexside, Mattholomule helps sneak Luz and her friends into the magic photo classroom. They hope to extract a memory photo from Luz, where she witnessed Belos using the teleportation spell. They intend to cast the same spell to reach the Collector's castle. After some Digging, they find what they are looking for. Knowing that Hunter is a grimwalker and still upset about what happened to Flapjack, Willow gives him a picture of them together. She tells him that nobody cares what he is and is part of Luz's group now. However, instead of being happy, Hunter shows sadness over this. This makes Willow distraught and leaves to be alone. Gus reveals he also knew Hunter is a grimwalker ever since the Day of Unity and was waiting for him to bring it up himself, but questioning if waiting was the right move. Suddenly, they are ambushed and knocked out by Boscha and Miki, who turns out to be Kikimora.
Meanwhile, Belos is barely healed, but has enough strength to reach the Collector's castle and possess the Raine puppet. He sneaks into the Collector's room in attempt to possess the Collector. But he is quickly restrained when the Collector wakes up by his presence. Belos convinces him he was magically brought to life and has come to warn him that King is plotting against him. The Collector does not believe him at first, until he eavesdrops on King's conversation with Eda and Lilith. They are coming up with a plan to stop the Collector once and for all. Belos even tells the Collector that Luz has returned and is also plotting to destroy him.
Luz, Amity, Camila, and Mattholomule end up in the detention pit, and separated from Willow, Gus, and Hunter. Kikimora plans to start her own empire with the students of Hexside, and most of all get revenge on Luz. She jumps into the pit riding her Abomiton, and attacks. The four of them battle against Kikimora with whatever spells they have, but Kikimora proves to be much stronger. Luz and Camila get separated from Amity and Mattholomule and flee as Kikimora pursues them.
Amity and Mattholomule are ambushed by Boscha. She walks up to Amity, and surprisingly gets down on her knees. She begs her to rejoin her friend group, and rule Hexside together like they used to. Amity rejects her proposal and the two try to walk away. However, Boscha refuses to let her go, and tries to stop her from leaving. Mattholmule separates them, and creates a cloud of smoke. When it clears, Bosha pushes Mattholomule aside before pinning Amity against the wall. However Mattholomule reveals he used an illusion to mask himself and Amity as each other. As Boscha panics at the thought of Amity leaving again, Amity appears from behind. She tells Boscha she cannot be who she used to be, but they can still save her friends/teammates if she lets them try.
Luz's palisman hatches.
Luz and Camila escape the detention pit and retreat into the woods. Kikimora is still on their tail. At this point, Luz believes she has messed up again. Camila confronts her daughter. She knows she does not want to leave the Demon Realm, but believes she has to because she keeps messing up. She tells Luz that messing up is a part of living and admits to having her own fair share of mistakes in the past. Camila apologizes for being protective by trying to change Luz into something she was not. It is at this point, Luz realizes something. The only thing she ever really wanted was to be understood. In that moment, her palisman egg hatches, and forms into a staff.
Meanwhile, Willow, Gus, and Hunter find themselves in another part of the detention pit. Willow has begun to lose control of her magic and ends up trapping the two in vines. She tries to assure herself she is in control, but she is not. Eventually, she breaks down into tears, letting out all the things she’s been holding in ever since they came back. She misses her dads. The place begins to cave in, and Hunter unknowingly uses magic to save her and Gus and escape the pit. The three of them realize that Hunter has Flapjack's magic.
Luz's palisman Stringbean.
Willow, Gus, and Hunter soon find Luz and Camila, who are still being attacked by Kikimora. Luz also now has a staff but is finding it hard to control. The kids put up a fight against Kikimora, and soon Amity shows up with Boscha, Mattholomule, and the rest of Hexside. The students hold off Kikimora while Luz, her mother and friends cast the teleportation spell that transports them to the skull. Upon arrival, Luz’s palisman fully forms into a "snake-shifter" she names Stringbean. The group happily rejoices for the newly born palisman. Luz looks forward to showing her to Eda and King. However, the Collector is observing them from above with Belos by their side. Convinced and manipulated by his words that Luz has come to defeat them, the Collector has decided it is time to play a new game.
Cast[]
- Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda
- Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
- Alex Hirsch as King, Hooty
- Matthew Rhys as Emperor Belos
- Fryda Wolff as The Collector
- Tati Gabrielle as Willow Park
- Issac Ryan Brown as Gus Porter
- Zeno Robinson as Hunter
- Mae Whitman as Amity Blight
- Elizabeth Grullón as Camila Noceda
- Kimberly Brooks as Skara
- Cissy Jones as Lilith Clawthorne
- Jorge Diaz as Mattholomule
- Eden Riegel as Boscha
- Mela Lee as Kikimora
- Erica Lindbeck as Emira Blight
- Ryan O'Flanagan as Edric Blight
- Rachael MacFarlane as Odalia Blight
- Avi Roque as Raine Whispers
- Debra Wilson as Terra Snapdragon
Additional voices[]
- Kimberly D. Brooks
- Matt Chapman
- Grey DeLisle
- Noah Galvin
- Arin Hanson
- Erica Lindbeck
- Kevin Locarro
- Ally Maki
- Ryan O'Flanagan
Videos[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This is the second hour-long episode special of The Owl House.
- This is the first special to air in 2023.
- This special was leaked online on January 5, 2023 on iTunes, before being removed until the official premiere.
- Both Eda and Lilith have cut their hair short. Lilith is also growing out her natural strawberry red hair.
- Thollomule's name is revealed to be actually his last name this entire time, his real first name is Matt.
- Gus has known Hunter was a grimwalker since he used the amplifier on Belos in “Kings Tide”.
- Camila reveals her past mistakes to Luz were that, she scheduled her wisdom tooth surgery the day before her and Manny’s wedding, once she got road rage and accidentally bad mouthed Luz’s new principal, and she sold energy drinks for a pyramid scheme for 3 years.
- Luz's Palisman hatches into a snake-shifter named Stringbean.
- Hunter has Flapjack's magic.
- A new glyph combo is introduced by Belos.
Goofs[]
- When the teleportation spell is cast, the blue toe cap on Amity's right boot is missing.
- When The Collector snaps his fingers to make the puppets appear, there is a layering error which King and the Collector, overlap the puppets falling which are supposed to be in front of them.
International premieres[]
- January 21, 2023 (Canada)
- May 25, 2023 (Israel)
- June 14, 2023 (Australia and New Zealand; Disney+)
- June 24, 2023 (France, Portugal)
- July 8, 2023 (Bulgaria, Romania)
- July 30, 2023 (Japan)
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