So last episode Veronica got shot and Sister Assassin Nun
decides the best thing to do is not take her to a hospital and instead to pray
for her soul while she slowly bleeds to death. Yeah the nun has gone off the
deep end. She also interspaces prayer with questions about Damien and Ann, her
mother (poking more of Veronica’s mother issues since Ann was so obsessed with
Damien not her).
Simone is not a big fan of this solution but spends a lot
of time passively condoning it but it seems more shock as she tries to grasp
just what is going on and the general sinister nun and gun shot wounds et al.
Damien and Amani are sorting out their differences which involves
more of Amani returning to Damien’s service: firstly by putting him in touch
with Simone’s Assassin nun (who poor Damien even thinks may help him. Hah, no)
and by agreeing to try and get close to Veronica again to spy on Ann. This gets
Amani kidnapped because Ann really wants her daughter back.
With Damien arriving on the Assassin Nun’s doorstep, he
happily locks Simone and Veronica up to focus on “helping” Damien. He tells her
all his visions and she’s very comforting about it all. Which includes lots of
nice things about he’s god’s chosen and he doesn’t have to be evil and he can
be good. Which is nice except for the whole “you’ve been chosen to be the
antichrist – god’s will!” which Damien takes issue with. He’s not here to
praise any god that decides invading the world and unleashing torment and
horror is a good idea.
Hah-ha he’s using logic to try and convince the Assassin
Nun. That doesn’t work. Nor does the head injury that Simone inflicts on her
finally trying to escape with Veronica and get her to a hospital. Assassin Nun
decides the best way to help Damian is to stab him, wrap him in thorns, carve
up his head and bury him alive.
This is not helping. She even finds minions (from… somewhere? I mean where did these come from? She was alone and new to the country and kind of acting outside of Vatican sanction… so where did these minions come from? Extras?) to help her. Which helps her because Simone, after abandoning poor Veronica in the middle of the forest (we moved to a forest at some point) because she heard Damien screaming, needs restraining. As does Amani and Ann Rutlidge who have also tracked them down
Alas, Ann has left her minions before. I can see no reason why Ann DOESN’T have minions to be honest? She usually has minions. She managed to have people raid Damien’s home… but she left them at home while taking on Assassin Nun? Damn don’t you just hate it when you leave the house and forget something important? Keys, wallet, army of goons? Or does the show only have the budget for one lot of extras?
Satan also seems to have skipped out – all the demonic
forces are busy tormenting Detective James (his husband has now left him with
their son because James is becoming more and more terrifyingly obsessed and
with lots of hallucinations. He’s also been suspended from his job). Satan does
take time out to kill Veronica… because… I don’t even know. She’s just killed
by evil tree roots. She was already dying! Why even do this? That’s beyond
disposable. Despite all this, none of these demonic forces decide to rescue
Damien.
Quick quiz – if you wanted to make a good man embrace his
inner violent antichrist, what do you do? If you answered “torture him brutal
and bury him alive while chanting in latin” congrats, you win one furious
antichrist and one stabbed nun (though, to be honest, I think it was damn
restrained of him to settle for a simple stabbing)
It’s also possible that Assassin Nun intended this – it has
been implied by previous episodes that some Christians want Damien to succeed
simply because they want the second coming/rapture et al. As Assassin Nun said,
this is god’s plan… I can’t think of another reasonable motive for what she
did.
