Last week we found that Willa was apparently back – and one
DNA test later, it is proved. She is Willa, the elder Earp and technically he
heir. So we have two
This is noted by Dolls but Wynonna is more emotionally
broken by the knowledge that her sister was alive for this time and they
stopped looking for her – Gus steps up for some excellent comfort for the very
conflicted Wynonna.
In fact the whole emotional conflict over Willa’s return
and her returning memories (which is, perhaps, awfully fast tracked) is really
well done.
Waverley is somewhat excluded and self-conscious because
Willa and Wynonna have a lot of history and bonding while Waverley was very
young. Waverley feels definitely pushed out and isolated as Wynonna and Willa
grow close together (with Dolls providing support)
While Wynonna deals with the fact that Willa was trained.
Willa was prepared. Willa was taught by her dad. Wynonna had none of that and
generally went through hell dealing with it since then. She’s conflicted with
both resentment and imposter syndrome.
While Willa – well she gets her memories back awfully
quickly and adapts even more quickly to going from hippy to revenant hunter.
She also comes with disturbing revelations that seem to confirm that their dad
did indeed expect the Revenant attack
He was also a bit of an arsehole when training Willa
With her new found fighting instinct Willa decides to
kill a Revenant in a bar, get in a bar fight with Wynonna and rage at Dolls and
Wynonna for trying to be subtle rather than all kill happy in the street. Willa
sees them as hunters and Revenants as things to kill. She doesn’t see innocent
bystanders at all
This is doubly clear when a group of mercenaries attack
the homestead (and get shot multiple times by the Earp women and Dolls who are
Not Having This). During the fight Waverley is shot (a graze) and Wynonna and
stops to check on her – but Willa charges out to kill the last fleeing
mercenary. She doesn’t even pause.
Oh and Bobo saves her for Reasons. And then she saves
Bobo from Wynonna. This is going to get complicated.
There’s going to be lots of emotional fallout from all
this.
The actual monsters of the week are a pair of evil sexy
female revenants who seduce men then eat them. Really? Look, we’ve had 11
episodes of male revenants and none of them have been half dressed seducers who
eat their lovers after having sex. None of them have had the powers of mystical
seduction and sexual compulsion. None of them have been magically compelling. But
two of the few really notable female Revenants are this? Yeah that’s ridiculous
and sexist and really unnecessary especially since they were such bit parts and
killed.
We also see that those mercenaries were apparently hired
by the corrupt Judge because he thought Bobo wanted it – which he didn’t
I’d still like to know what the judge’s deal is to be
honest. Is it money? And does Bobo really bring money? It’s all so shaky
Meanwhile Doc tries to leave town in his new car but a
break down and a good Samaritan turns him round. This guys is called Juan
Carlos and is clearly SOMETHING
He’s not a revenant. But he knows about them. He also has
Doc’s old deputy star and seems to know a lot about him – as well as having
cryptic warnings about the upcoming winter solstice
I’m going to go with angel here. Because “Eve” asked “if
there are demons, are there angels.” So I think that was foreshadowing – yes there
are angels. And they are cryptic and not all that helpful. But he did get Doc
to head back to Wynonna
Well almost. He was hit on the head and kidnapped, but he
did head back
