WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Lovecraft Country Season 1, Episode 2, "Whitey's on the Moon," which aired Sunday on HBO.

While a resilient group, enduring both systemic racism rampant in 1950s America and the monstrous horrors of Ardham, Massachusetts, Atticus Freeman and his friends are not without their own deep-seated fears. Atticus, his uncle George and their friend Letitia Lewis' respective anxieties are made real in the latest episode of Lovecraft Country when the trio is held captive by the sinister Sons of Adam, visibly shaking them to their core.

After barely surviving a night filled with racist sheriffs and ravenous vampires in the New England woods, Atticus and the others were welcomed into a palatial estate, which is the last known whereabouts of Atticus' missing father, Montrose Freeman. While Atticus remained wary of the mysterious group running the estate, Letitia and George quickly settled into their new digs, with the former finding a full wardrobe tailored to her size while the latter marveled over bookcases stocked with his favorite texts. Sure enough, Atticus realizes this is all just an elaborate trap and that his missing father is being used as bait.

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Atticus learns that the organization running the mansion is a religious cult known as the Sons of Adam, who use dark magic to keep Letitia and George docile while preparing Atticus for a mystical ritual related to his true bloodline. While Christina Braithwaite, daughter of the cult's leader Samuel Braithwaite, agrees to remove the spells inhibiting Letitia and George's memories and cognition, the three are confined to their bedrooms while preparations for the ritual continue. And while one spell has been lifted from the captive guests, they soon discover that they have been subjected to an even more insidious form of dark magic.

Leti is greeted by a vision of Atticus and confides in him that her entire life she has been plagued with insecurities and abandonment issues stemming from her mother leaving her as a child after the death of her stepfather. In the moment of vulnerability, Leti kisses Atticus, unaware that the image of her friend is just a magically induced hallucination. Over in his bedroom, Atticus has problems of his own, as he's attacked by a young North Korean woman wielding a knife. After the skirmish, Atticus is revealed to be deeply haunted by his actions during the Korean War, with the woman seemingly someone he killed while in the military. George's vision is more peaceful, reunited with his deceased wife Dora. Instead of being unnerved, George realizes the vision isn't real and joins her for one last dance.

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While the characters eventually come to their senses and are released from their respective bedrooms, the hallucinations offer an interesting glimpse into each of the their psyches that will likely inform their decisions as the season progresses. And with the trio under constant observation by the Sons of Adam, the sinister cult now knows what makes each of its captives tick mentally, making the secret organization even more dangerous than before. Each of them has their own heart of darkness, and thanks to the dark magic of the Sons of Adam, Atticus and friends just confronted each of their own demons head-on.

Starring Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Aunjanue Ellis, Abbey Lee, Jada Harris, Wunmi Mosaku and Michael K. Williams, Lovecraft Country airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.

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