When you watch The Magicians Season 4 Episode 4 online, there will be a lot of talk about death and breaking things as Quentin deals with some childhood parental trauma following the death of his dad and The Monster struggles to understand mourning. Julia is looking for answers to her indestructability and travels to Fillory with Penny-23 to seek out the help of the maenads. A maenad named Soshana tells them about a ritual that can diagnose her, but she needs someone who believes in her body and soul to perform it. Penny volunteers. Back on Earth, Josh finally experiences The Quickening. He's going to have to sleep with someone to pass on his sexually-transmitted lycanthropy or kill someone. Since Josh would rather not be a rapist or a murderer he and Margo are looking for a way to stop it. In The Library, Alice meets Christopher Plover who has been living in the library in secret from The Order. He wants to escape to a world where he can be himself and do no harm to anyone. He helps Alice steal the books from The Revision Room and Alice discovers that Quentin's ends next week.