Plot summary
Another school dance is happening in town, this time called Fire/Ice, while Cassie (Britt Robertson) tries to find out more about her father and who he really was by reading her mother's Book of Shadows. Diana (Shelley Hennig) tries to make her forget and focus on the dance instead, but a spell they attempt, turns into a failure.
Cassie and Adam (Thomas Dekker) try to find anything they can about John Blackwell and they take a walk at the City's Records. The only thing they find under his name is a residence, only to discover that this residence is the abandoned house they use as their shelter. Cassie and Adam go to the house trying to find anything that might belonged to Cassie's father and they find a strange symbol on the basement's ceiling.
Cassie tries to find out what the strange symbol means in her Book of Shadows, but the page that explains the symbol has been ripped out of the book. She suspects that Faye is the one who took it since she was the only one who had the book except from her. Melissa (Jessica Parker Kennedy) covers for Faye when Cassie calls her asking for the page. Later, Adam tells Cassie that the symbol is used for channeling dark magic.
Meanwhile, Lee (Grey Damon) comes to school to find Faye (Phoebe Tonkin) and it seems that he knows more about witches than Faye believes. He explains to her that the spell she brought him is a spell that extracts the magic from the person who owns the book and gives it to someone else. Faye finds this very interesting and she agrees to do the spell so she can get Cassie's dark magic.
Lee casts the spell but it has consequences for the rest of the Circle. While at first it seems like nothing is happening to Cassie, the other three members of the Circle start falling apart since the moment the spell was done as well as every time Faye is using magic. When Faye realizes about it, she immediately reverses it. The Circle conflicts with her and what she did and Faye abandons them being angry with them.
The episode ends with Cassie and Adam at the house's basement trying to understand why John Blackwell put that symbol on the ceiling and what he was trying to do with it. They end up kissing when Jake (Chris Zylka) walks in.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Fire/Ice. Paragraphs and formatting adjusted; illustrations, reference markers, block quotations and non-story material omitted.