Every great couple with a criminal past has a few things in common. There’s a betrayal, a struggle against powers greater than them, and a flame of love that can be diminished but not extinguished. But what Jesse and Tulip have is something far stranger. Tulip meets Danni (previously thought to be a Danny) in Houston, and gives her the map in exchange for the “last known location” of someone whom Tulip believes needs punishing. Danni herself gives the map to a man in white, who is an enthusiast of snuff films. Apparently Texas has a vibrant indie film community.
So begins the third episode of Preacher. Fiore and DeBlanc are back in one piece each and better armed, Donnie makes an attempt at explaining sexual masochism to Chris, and while Linus truly doesn’t remember his lust for Janey, it seems to be born again when he sees her get on the bus. Oh, and Tracy did in fact open her eyes but not quite in the way Jesse may have meant. Between a brain dead girl who opened her eyes and an actually dead man who opened his heart, it seems that God is a literalist. There’s some real monkey’s paw shit going down in Annville because of Jesse.
As it turns out, he’s become aware of his powers and demonstrates them for/on Cassidy who is just tickled to be thrown around like a rag doll. Possibilities, he says, are endless. Meanwhile Tulip once again tries to convince Jesse to do this all important job, but now she has enough pieces of the puzzle to make the picture very enticing for him. The last known location she traded the map for was of a man by the name of Carlos, who double crossed both Jesse and Tulip some years ago. Though Jesse had made a promise to his father and walked away from his life of crime, it seems as though justice, or justice disguised as revenge is enough to make him jump in the car with Tulip and seek out this low down dirty Carlos.
While Jesse is on his own mission, Fiore and LeBlanc find themselves missing their target once again and getting the business end of Cassidy’s van. However this time around, once they are reincarnated they give him a better explanation of why they’re there. Only Donnie seems to be able to get the drop on the Preacher but he didn’t count on his otherworldly power.
Both with Cassidy and Donnie, Jesse reached a point where he seemed to enjoy the control and was about to abuse his power. But both times he manages to find his restraint, and for Donnie that means getting to keep his head. Jesse himself has an epiphany, which means Operation Kill Carlos is off, to Tulip’s violent dismay. He returns to Annville to bury Mr. Open Heart, but with Cassidy knowing a bit more about who Fiore and LeBlanc are, what awaits him in the coming days? During the particularly lonely services, Jesse reads a scripture about death and rebirth and we see his father’s grave as well as an ominous blast of air coming from some sort of pipe in the earth.
Is anyone else a little creeped out by Quincannon? I have odd ways of unwinding but listening to cattle slaughter is not one of them. Eugene and Sheriff Root make small talk, but once Eugene mentions going to see the newly “awake” Tracy, he gets a stern warning to stay away from her, her family and the “monster swamp.”
And if you didn’t catch the news report that Fiore was watching in the hotel room, Tom Cruise is dead.
Written by A Play On Nerds contributor, Jerry Herrera - Lover of horror, sci fi, and fantasy in that order. Semi-permanent Disneyland resident. I'm at least one of the droids you're looking for. Twitter: @FrankenJerry - Instagram: @GeraldoPedro