Peter isn’t dead (no surprises there) but he is captured
and being tortured by the freaky cult of kiddy killing. They think someone sent
them and they’re holy warriors doing wonderful things by piling up the bodies.
They also want Nadia – who they call “the beast.” Peter won’t tell them so it’s
more torture including special anti-werewolf torture using mercury. Even worse,
he gets incomprehensible babble from the cult leader.
Roman has noticed Peter’s absence and is worried – so
worried that he doesn’t want to take his last Upir treatment – though Johann
warns him that refusing to go ahead will bring all the upirness back and
probably more.
Olivia stomps into Johann’s office to demand he stop
experimenting on her children – having found Prishelly last episode. Johann has
no time or patience for her bullshit, points out she has zero maternal
instinct, doesn’t care about her kids and generally treated them like shit so
cut the false outrage. Johann is so calm but still capable of epic smackdowns
when riled.
When she tells him she’s dying and asks for his help he
points out the sciency reasons why his methods can’t help and why Dr. Zheleznova-Burdukovskaya is a dubious
person with a dubious history and really not to be trusted. It also leaves him
ragingly furious with the doctor and he stomps about demanding she come see
him.
Still Olivia goes to the basement where Roman is preparing for his last treatment and Dr. Zheleznova-Burdukovskaya is there to ask if she is really sure she doesn’t want to kill her son because “death solves all problems.” She also thinks Johann’s cancer suggestions are bullshit
Meanwhile Miranda has the creepy baby who ups the
creepiness by spelling her own name – and she’s a little young for that. And
Destiny contacts and pays an older Roma for some dubious means
Norman pays of Letitia and tells her to leave in between
his angsting and then goes to Olivia’s house with a gun. Can you please eat him
Olivia? Letitia isn’t a fool she’s followed him, she’s a trained detective
after all and tries to talk him out of it – especially since she will testify
against him for murder. She takes the gun and he leaves. Awww I wanted Olivia
to eat him.
Letitia goes to Michael to try and get him to make Norman back off but he has been looking at the evidence she gathered – including finger prints and DNA she obtained through breaking and entering. Naughty Letitia! To the cells! Then Michael does go to Norman to tell him about Olivia killing Clementine – and he wants to help Norman make sure Olivia is really dead.
In the cult warehouse, Peter uses more off-moon shapeshifting to get free and kill his torturer – and make a run for it. He calls Destiny as he escapes, but can only get Roman’s voicemail.
At the Godfrey Institute, now that Prishelly is complete,
Johann thinks it’s time for Shelly to die – even as she talks about twins. She
wants to see her mother first and there’s a beautiful seen of the ubersweet and
gentle Shelly telling her mother that she did the best she could and loved them
as she could and apologising for being such a hard child to mother. Awwwwwww,
Shelly. Olivia promises to be a better mother – Shelly doesn’t tell her of her
plans to die.
Dr. Zheleznova-Burdukovskaya
is plotting and tries to inject Roman with something “to help his pain” during
the last treatment, but as his phone keeps ringing, and Roman reaches it to
read his texts – Peter telling Roman that the cult knows about Nadia. Roman
cuts the treatment, pulls out all the tubes and gets off the bed. Roman goes to
the big vast of upir good – and plugs it directly into his IV. I’m sure that’s
not good. Dr. Zheleznova-Burdukovskaya
tries to apply the injection directly
Johann runs
into Olivia who is on cloud 9 from her talk with Shelly, she’s happy to die of
cancer living a normal life, living with and loving her children than
continuing to be the sociopathic upir. Which is when they find the goo-vat, Dr.
Zheleznova-Burdukovskaya’s
discarded needle – and the doctor herself swirling around in the vat, most
definitely dead.
Peter
reaches Roman’s to be helped by Destiny and Miranda – and Destiny’s vargulf-curing
contact shows up to take Peter away for treatment which may kill him (but Destiny
considers this better than the vargulf taking over). Peter finds the timing
rather vexing and he throws Destiny away
– violently. Horrified he realised what he did and apologises desperately. He
realises the vargulf is affecting him and the man tells him if he doesn’t get
help, the next time he shifts the wolf will own him.
At which point the butler gets pissed off at all the congregating in Roman’s home and starts ranting –only to be shot by the cultist hunters. Helpful of them to shoot the most expendable person first. Miranda and Destiny run to the baby safe room, while Peter seeks cover (mentor guy gets shot as second most expendable person in the room). Peter manages to stab one with an arrow but is then overwhelmed – but as someone tries to behead him Roman arrives. With a double handed battle axe, possibly a halberd. Well, people do keep odd things lying around. Of course, it’s unnecessary anyway because as a full Upir he is quite capable of throwing people across the room.
They split up and Peter gets shot with an arrow. Destiny comes out of the safe room and stabs one cultist in the groin – but the second hits her and knocks her down and starts strangling her. Peter starts shifting
Roman is
happily munching on cultists now. But the safe room door is disabled and he can’t
get in. The cultist leader breaks through one of the windows into the safe
room.. wait, it has windows? It has
windows?! The safe room has WINDOWS?! They weren’t even double glazed?! Does
the whole concept of safe rooms escape these people?
Anyway, cultist leader gets in the safe room (through the freaking window that leads OUTSIDE) and Miranda can’t stop him. So Nadia stares at him and makes him bleed out through his eyeballs.
Told you the
baby was creepy..
Peter breaks in and hugs his child, saying he loves her – and the baby doesn’t cry.
Of course the next problem is the vargulf – Destiny backs into the room with the vargulf growling and following her. Roman steps between the women and the wolf and tries to talk Peter down. That doesn’t work so Roman rips the wolf in half and pulls Peter out from its bloody carcass
Well, Hemlock Grove was always good with gore.
We pan over all that gore in the aftermath, but they managed to clean Peter up
at least, he’s now unconscious. He wakes up from a wolf growl in his dreams,
but seems ok.
Meanwhile, Michael
trains Norman in the fine art of upir killing and provides a body for him to practice
on. His brutal practice is intercut rather well with Olivia singing a lullaby
to Shelly.
That’s some powerful juxtaposition there. Now everything’s
closing it’s much tighter and clearer and we’re getting some nice character
moments a swell. Hey, it’s taken the better part of two seasons but these actors
finally seem able to work these characters. And Roman has finally given up the “being
an upir is so hard” which, I admit, he didn’t do awfully – but I never find
that a full storyline compelling.
