Plot line #1 we have Kyle beginning to put his life back
together after he dramatically left Anderson last week, chewing him out for his
beliefs and not really doing any good
Kyle now has a job and is sending money to Allison and
generally looking to be on the up and up. His sister Megan is certainly happy
about this. She’s also dispensing the excellent wisdom she normally does when
Allison sends that money back: commenting that she gets that he’s showing he’s
responsible and capable but the world doesn’t run on his time line
This is an excellent line and scene. Just because you’re
doing something or trying to make amends/rebuild something doesn’t mean
everyone else has to co-operate with you and let you play that out the way you
want it to.
Unfortunately the demons aren’t letting that happen, old
demon Mildred tries to knock Kyle out and suck his magical breath for him. She
mentions, cryptically, that he’s meant for everyone – so at some point everyone
is going to be sucking on Kyle. Lucky for him, Ominous Man Sidney intervenes
and Mildred ends up dead.
Still this drags Kyle back into Anderson’s little
campaign
And Anderson is having a major crisis of... conscience? Competence? He looks through his gazillion of home videos of exorcisms he’s performed (and can there be any more proof of how much this is all about his ego than the fact he has kept fanvids?) and seeing no real proof of the fact he’s actually achieving anything. This news definitely annoys Chief Giles who has been covering up for him in the belief he was actually achieving anything…
Anderson gets more and more outraged and pouty as he begs
god in a very demanding and self-absorbed way to give him shiny exorcism powers
which he doesn’t have. His ego screams out as he tries to use his own blood to
perform an exorcism (to try and prove he’s as special as Kyle – who doesn’t
even use blood any more) and he kidnaps a possessed person to prove her an
de-possess them. And yells at Kyle who arrives (summoned by Patricia – more on
her lately) to do the exorcism for him. Because Kyle actually has powers,
unlike Anderson.
For some reason, Ominous Sidney also feels the need to
threaten Anderson so he and Kyle will stop their exorcisms (well Kyle anyway.
It’s not like Anderson is actually achieving anything). Sidney carves a
pentacle into Anderson’s chest to warn him off from his ineffective campaign of
uselessness
To rub salt in the wound, the de-possessed guy won’t even
feed Anderson’s ego in church because he didn’t find possession to be all that
fearful or bad: which conflicts with Anderson’s whole fire and brimstone
rhetoric.
Oh and we have Patricia who still wants to play house (or
something similar) with Anderson but apparently has a terrible taste in men –
so revealed by her son who slut shames and attacks her horrendously meaning
just about every man in her life is terrible including blood relatives. She
insists on championing Anderson to Kyle despite Kyle continuing to think
Anderson is pretty useless. In the end Kyle will work with Anderson – but he
insists, adamantly, that he be in charge now. Not Anderson.
Side plots – Mark Halter is continuing to investigate the
serial killer trailer with Ogden getting more and more nervous about some kind
of guilty secret. Mark is also in trouble with Alison, his wife (and awesome purveyor
of wisdom) who is now being blackmailed
by rapist Donnie who Mark decided to beat into brain damage. She is justly
furious about this.
