We’ve got a lot going on this episode but I’m going to
start by saying, again, I love this theme song. Because it’s awesome
Now, less awesome is Dolls being benched for most of this
episode. His shadowy bosses have taken him to places unknown to plan his
reassignment because he still can’t prove to them that there are actual
demons/revenants in Purgatory. And if he is reassigned then that means everyone
he’s recruited will need… dealing with
I’m dubious about this. Sure I can see them wanting some
results, but is it just Wynonna’s gun that leaves no trace? Because tangible
evidence of woo-woo must, by definition, be hard to find. And what do they
think he’s doing? Making up stuff so he can continue an extended holiday in the
arse-end of America? Is it not worth keeping 1 agent there since that agent
insists something is going on?
Unable to present evidence, he ominously mentions something
which isn’t revenant or demon which should interest them. That could be
Wynonna, Doc or the Stone Witch Constance.
Since Waverley is having a part, Wynonna and Nicole
Haught are left to get drunk and complain about not being invited (as well as
reflect rather obviously on Waverley’s character development) while looking at
the latest case in hunting down the last member of the seven. This introduces
the new pathologist (who is kind of fun and creepy), lots of ominous
foreshadowing for the revenant and the fact he keeps playing with Wynonna,
trying to freak her out. Including random nose bleeds. Nicole definitely knows
something is going on and Wynonna tries to drive her away, which is a shame
because they’re really good together.
Waverley and Doc are the ones who face the main action
this week. Doc continues to have a complicated relationship with everyone,
having told Wynonna to take a walk when she comes to him for help since he
doesn’t think their relationship is very reciprocal and is causing him difficulties
with the Revenant. All he cares about is Constance the Stone Witch
And all Constance cares about is getting the skull back –
the skull of her son. She does this by torturing the blacksmith. To death. In
doing so she learns Waverley has the skull
And RIP a potentially interesting POC character. That’s a shame because she could have been an excellent character and addition to the team
Waverley’s party is going pretty terribly since most of
her friends won’t come to the “murder house” and one of the two who did turn up
turns out to be a terrible terrible person. Wynonna and Nicole’s insight that
Waverley goes out of her way to appeal to the people around her even when they’re
terrible terrible people.
Doc joins the party because his relationship with
everyone is Complicated and if he has a thing for Wynonna he definitely has
something for Waverley, at least a desire for her respect. Everything continues
to be awkward and it’s almost a relief when Constance makes her move with
zombies
But not before the Blacksmith, dying, manages to tagger
to Doc and tell him Constance’s weakness… but she wants him to promise to get
Waverley safe first.
Of course he doesn’t – aiming for Constance is always his
first priority. His only priority. That leaves Waverley, Doc and her good
friend fighting zombies (with a well aimed pair of scissors among other things)
while terrible friend is duly killed and added to the zombie list (and no-one
was sad) but not before Waverley awesomely chewed her out (and her ring) while
good friend tells us al that is awesome with Waverley
Despite that awesomeness, Waverley’s plan involves… breaking the skull and hoping Constance goes away? Constance is, unsurprisingly enraged and plans to kill them all – and it takes Wynonna and Doc shooting her for her decide to come back another time. During all the fighting Waverley and Wynonna learn Doc’s full history with Constance and why he hates her so much
Though Doc learns that he shares Constance’s wounds when
she’s hurt. That’s going to make it awfully hard to kill her. He also tries to
explain his motivations to Waverley but she’s not buying it. She accuses him of
constantly lying and completely unable to look past his vendetta. She chews him
out properly – here’s hoping this will lead to a character realisation on his
part
Because they’re going to need to – as both Nicole and
Wynonna appear to have been kidnapped, just as Wynonna was going to tell Nicole
everything. Don’t you kill Nicole, Wynonna
Earp, don’t do it!
