Jesse decides he has to tell someone about his new shiny
powers – and who better than his live in vampire (who is finding odd jobs
awkward when he can’t go out in the sun). After a particularly ridiculous
demonstration of his super powers, Cassidy declares this super awesome
He’s not the only one, people in town are already hearing
of how he opened the comatose girl’s eyes (showing the limit to this power –
she’s still comatose. Her eyes are open, but she’s comatose). But we also see
the consequences – with annoying Mother-Issues’s guys funeral and the limits –
with the paedophile school bus driver noticing the girl he’d been ordered to
forget. This little bits are threaded into the rest of the plot quite neatly to
show the scope of his shiny new abilities
Tulip has had a series of adventures in Houston with some
strange people (and refusing the murder said strange woman’s husband) to
finally get some information
That information is the last known address of a man
called Carlos. Who is Carlos? I’m not sure but what we do know is he did some
terrible things to Tulip and Jesse – so bad that vengeance against him is enough
to stir Jesse from his path of goodness and rejoin Tulip in brutal murder
More interesting than this is Tulip’s emotional turmoil,
shown partly with her rather funny and poignant traffic stop in which she
emotionally talks about going all out to desperately try and save a friend who
has gone down a bad road. It’s touching because we see how much Jesse means to
Tulip and it’s funny because the whole bad road she’s desperately trying to
save Jesse from is being a preacher and bring him back to the right path of
mayhem and murder.
Of course it doesn’t last as we follow Donnie – the guy
who Jesse brutally beat and left with a broken arm. Donnie has had the awkward
conversation of trying to explain to his son that he doesn’t abuse his wife,
they’re just in a BDSM relationship. Very very awkward. He also teaches his son
the not very great life lesson by congratulating him for beating another boy
until he cries. It’s no surprising then that this typical man is feeling all
emasculated by Jesse
This is further shown by him working for his boss Odin
Quincannon – he who drives around the place levelling farms and sits in his
office listening to the sounds of live animal slaughter. A nice guy then. And
like last week where Donnie had to struggle with a briefcase and pen with one
arm, he again makes Donnie struggle with a task he can’t do one handed, noting
he has a “right hands man with no right hand”
Yes, this guy’s pretty much an arsehole. Let’s hope
Cassidy eats him.
Donnie with his oh-so-fragile pride decides to hunt down
Jesse and threaten him with a gun – which even without Jesse’s new super powers
would have Ended Badly For Him (especially since Jesse’s stare alone is more
intimidating than the weapon). I'm not being sarcastic (much) here about Donnie's fragile pride. It's actually a really good depiction of hyper-masculinity feeling threatened and lashing out. Between being beaten publicly by Jesse, being embarrassed in front of his son and then humiliated by his boss with more than a little ableism, lashing out is exactly what aggressive masculinity seems to do. The depiction of them all together really underscores the mind set
Of course, with his powers Jesse almost makes Donnie commit
suicide: not out of horror though. Or so it seems. Nope he has doubly decided
to stay in town and pursue the good fight
Tulip is not happy and yes she is definitely staying until she can drag him out of town and make him abandon his promise to his father – to save this little hole in nowhere.
The immortal guys looking for Jesse and his powers are
back – and take the time to thoroughly terrify the sheriff with their somewhat
stilted cover story of being from the government. They’re prepared this time,
loading up with body armour and many many many big guns
So Cassidy runs them over. That vampire is creative, I’ll
give him that. Though he curses about clones and clean up that involves.
Killing people is so messy!
And they come back again - which has Cassidy beat on one
with a club – before they can finally convince him that they’re not actually
there for him or any vampire. They want to take the power out of Jesse before
ill-defined bad things happen. Oh and they’re from Heaven. On this show? Yup, I
actually believe that
So, maybe, does Cassidy. And he offers to be their middle
man with Jesse because Jesse kicks even more arse than he does and those angels
are going to die a lot lot lot more times if they try to go after Jesse when he’s
conscious and sober.
Y’know, I’m still kind of loving this show. I love
Cassidy. I love Tulip and Jesse has a damn mean stare. The plot line is fun
with surprisingly moments here and there all scattered with random zany chaos which
I always appreciate.
