Picking up right where we left off a few weeks ago, Arden
is reviving Kit from his chemically induced “death”. Kit wants to know if it
was worth it, but Arden says nothing happened. Of course, actually Arden has
secreted Grace and Pepper away in his lab. Arden observes that Grace has
completely healed from her gunshot and that Pepper is no longer microcephalic. Arden
debates using X-rays or even an emergency C-section to find out what exactly is
growing inside Grace, but when he brings the scalpel out he is thrown across
the room. Pepper tells him that the aliens are protecting Grace, and they’re
laughing at Arden and if Arden steps out of line, they'll turn those lobotomy practices back on him.
Pepper FTW!
Act I! Sister Eunice is tending a wounded Monsignor, who
survived his encounter on the crucifix but not before the Angel told him that
it wasn’t his time yet because the Devil has taken Eunice and it’s Monsignor’s
job to cast him out. Eunice leaves Arden to his thoughts and goes to the common
room to oversee the installation of a new jukebox. Jude says that Eunice only
brought it in to taunt her, but Eunice corrects her, saying no, here’s the
taunting part and then cues up Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You”
and dedicates it to Jude. Lana and Kit are taken aback when Thredson suddenly Don
Drapers his way into the common room. Sister Eunice apparently offered him a
full-time position after freeing him from that closet and so now the healing
can begin again! Later that night, Eunice orders a search of the women’s ward
and “discovers” a cucumber in Jude’s room. Eunice refers to this as “awkward
given our past relationship” but she can’t have Jude picking up any tricks from
Shelly so something has to be done – to the electroshock therapy room! Eunice
and Arden strap Jude down and hook her up to the machine. Arden tells Eunice to
throw the switch, but go no higher than 50%. Eunice opts for 80%, crediting
Jude for being a tough cookie. The lights flicker and Jude screams.
Act II! Eunice is back with Monsignor, unwrapping the
bandages on his feet and hands and calling him a saint for trying to help Leigh
Emerson, who has gone missing. Monsignor tries to shove his rosary onto Eunice
to expel the demon, but it really doesn’t take. Eunice laughs it off, recites a
dirty limerick about priestly anatomy and jumps on Monsignor, stripping off her
habit and literally getting into his pants. He begs her not to, but it’s not like
this show isn’t going to take an opportunity for another rape scene, so you can
guess what happens. As Monsignor struggles, Eunice notices Arden is watching.
Just to be clear, this is a scene about a nun possessed by the devil raping a
priest while a Nazi watches. Oh to be a fly on the wall in the writers’ room
when this one came up. In the common room, Jude is not in a good way. The
electroshock wasn’t kind to her and she’s unable to speak or move clearly. Lana
approaches her, trying to help and asking if she knows who Lana is or even
knows her own name. Jude pauses at the question, noticing that “The Name Game”
is a song that is available on the jukebox. And then, I swear to God, this
happens:
dafuq???
Yup, that is a high-contrast dance number where Jude hallucinates
singing in a glam dress while the inmates and the nuns launch into a
choreographed routine. If you ever had any doubt that this is from the
same people who brought you Glee…
Anyway, in the woods, Arden is carting out the usual viscera to feed the zombie
inmates when Eunice coquettishly interrupts him while sucking on a lollipop and
asking about the feasibility of performing a lobotomy on Jude. Arden is acting
glum and Eunice laughs, telling Arden that Monsignor “didn’t mean anything to
me.” The zombies approach for their feeding and Arden WTF shoots each of them
in the head, announcing that “the experiment is over.” Ah, zombie inmates. We
hardly knew ye. Arden brings the gun to his own temple, but can’t do it,
collapsing on the ground and sobbing to Eunice, “you have no idea what it means
to have lost you.” Eunice almost looks like she’s going to have an actual human
emotion before uttering that Arden is pitiful and walking away.
Act III! Jude is in the kitchen, trying to knead a lump
of bread when Monsignor approaches asking for her counsel, saying she always
had a clarity about her, although obviously that’s not so much right now.
Monsignor confesses that she was right, Eunice is TOTES possessed and that
Eunice has taken his virtue and what she he do? “Kill her,” Jude manages. Thredson,
meanwhile, is going through Arden’s lab when he hears Grace screaming. He finds
her giving birth with Pepper attending and announcing the baby is crowning.
Upstairs, Monsignor prays for strength when Eunice finds him and asks if he’s
ready for round two. Eunice taunts Monsignor again, going between sexually
objectifying him and asking how he’s planning on killing her, perhaps using the
statue of St. Francis? Although that would be “ironic.” Monsignor follows
Eunice out onto a balcony, trying one last time to expel the demon but he is
pushed against the railing by Eunice for his trouble. The demon screams from
insider her that it will devour her and then, for a moment, the real Sister
Eunice surfaces, sobbing and saying that she’s tired and wants to let go. Monsignor
uses the opportunity to push Eunice off the balcony and she plummets to the
ground like a true fallen angel. Broken and laying in her own blood several
floors down, Eunice sees the Angel. “Take me,” Eunice asks. “I’ll take you
both,” the Angel replies and kisses her.
Have I made a flying nun joke yet this season?
Act IV! Monsignor is delivering Last Rights when Arden
asks to have her body cremated. Despite the Catholic prohibition against it,
Monsignor reluctantly agrees. Thredson has had Kit brought to him. Kit saying
nothing will make him tell Thredson where the tape is. Thredson calls his bluff
by showing him Grace, holding what she claims is their son. Cut to Thredson ransacking
the hydrotherapy room looking for the tape, but Lana has beaten him to the
punch and confesses that she has already re-hidden it and if Thredson does
anything to Kit, she’ll find a way to get the tape to the police. In the common
room, Jude is attempting to remember the names of the inmates when Mother
Superior arrives. Jude wants to tell Mother Superior goodbye, Jude is going to
Rome with Monsignor to get married in the Vatican and then be Pope together and
btw, Eunice totally sexed up Monsignor because the devil was jealous. In
between the crazy rambling, Jude manages to ask Mother Superior to help get
Lana out of Briarcliff. In the crematorium, Arden loads Eunice’s body onto a
gurney and prepares to send it into the oven. As her body slowly starts to
enter the fires, Arden climbs on top of her, going into the oven with her. The
door to the oven closes and Arden screams in pain. An ironic death for a Nazi,
to be sure.
Next week! Jude regains some clarity.
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