WYNONNA EARP – Season 2 Episode 1 – SPOILERS

Waverly stares down a Bulgarian Devourer of Souls, possibly indicating that her own soul, currently clouded with the tentacle goo she absorbed at the end of last season, is inedible. (In further evidence of this, after she and Waverly kissed, Nicole remarked that Waverly had a different taste.)

Wynonna has been keeping track of revenants, and says that 62 of them remain alive (there were 77 to begin with). Also, a demon takes a big bite out of the brim of Doc’s hat, and Rachel Skarsten turns up as Black Badge Agent Eliza Shapiro, a friend of Dolls, who has excellent taste in underwear.

The gang rescues Dolls from the clutches of Agent Lucado (Kate Drummond), and we find out that Lucado hates Dolls because he and Eliza survived a firefight near Kabul and her husband (who was under Dolls’ command) did not. Eliza tells Wynonna that without his medication, Dolls will “devolve”. During the rescue operation, the exchange below revealed that Eliza and Dolls were both modified in some unknown way by Black Badge.

WYNONNA: “Look, we came all this way for him. Just tell me what Dolls is.”
ELIZA: “He’s what Black Badge made him. Though they lied to him about that too. That’s why I was in Purgatory. I was trying to help him find out what he — we are. What they did to us.”

In the most charming sequence of the show so far, Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), speaking in her natural British accent, and towing the head of the demon that (partially) ate Doc’s hat in a wheelie bag, impersonates an emissary from Scotland Yard. It is in this scene that she stares down the Devourer of Souls. (Was she intending to conceal this power? Or did she just realize that she had it?) She tries, hilariously and without apparent success, to flirt with Jeremy (Varun Saranga) and ends up hitting him over the head and failing to knock him out. (The blow does draw blood, and we learn that the demon can smell that.) Waverly also casually mentions that the demon whose head she was transporting was shot with silver bullets. If she was not making this part up, then all of the bullets for Peacemaker must be silver, since there was no time to get new ammunition.

It is noteworthy that both Waverly and Doc shot the beast with conventional guns and had no effect. Peacemaker killed the demon, but did not send it on a firey trip to the underworld. At the end of the first season, Juan Carlos said: “The Triangle is not only a prison. It’s also a sanctuary.” Is it a sanctuary for these demons? If so, should Wynonna be killing them?

Doc frees Dolls (after determining that he has not devolved). Lucado wants to kill Wynonna and everybody who aided in his escape but is stopped by Moody (Kevin Hanchard) who only shoots Eliza. (Given that Eliza had been modified genetically, like Dolls, one cannot be entirely certain that the bullet killed her.) Moody, about whom we know almost nothing, demands that Wynonna, Waverly, and Doc sign a contract, in blood, agreeing to rid the Ghost River Triangle of the dozen or so demons that entered the place when Willa opened the gateway. In exchange, the contract requires Black Badge to help Earp locate and destroy the remaining revenants (which Moody says have scattered to the four winds since the departure of BoBo Del Rey).

At the very end of the episode, We see a hand wearing a Victorian finger glove (that’s what Emily Andras, who wrote the episode called it in an interview with The TV Junkies) extend itself from an air vent in a crate in the storeroom at the facility where Dolls had been held. Before the hand sets off some dynamite that Doc had left behind, we see the label on the crate, which was shipped from London to New York, and it bears what appears on close examination to be the signature of Black Badge Agent Robert Svane (aka Bobo Del Rey).

About that contract. Bobo told Waverly (in Episode 1.13) that she’s “not even an Earp”. Will her signing of the contract in blood cause Moody to find out that she does not have Earp DNA? It is unclear why Jeremy was required to sign, since he already worked for Black Badge. Though she feels slighted, It’s a good thing that Nicole wasn’t forced into that blood oath. Not signing it frees her to act against Black Badge without supernatural consequences.

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NOTES

Dana Hollenbach (Nedley’s daughter Chrissy) stars in the psychological thriller EXTERMITY. Hollenbach plays Alison Bell, an emotionally troubled woman who was once sexually assaulted by her father. Believing that confronting her trauma might relieve her pain, she signs up for a trip to The Manor, an extreme haunted house which promises an experience of absolute, undiluted terror. But the most frightening thing on display at The Manor turns out to be Allison’s own twisted psyche. Kelsey Andries (the woman in charge of cleaning out Dolls’ office who gets punched a couple of times) appears in the film as Morgan Leycock. Director Anthony DiBlasi told Blumhouse.com: “We really approached this as an art-house film, so we used these vintage Cinemascope lenses…The images these lenses can deliver are gorgeous. Design and composition were a very critical part of the process.” EXTREMITY is expected to be released in 2018.

Dominique Provost-Chalkley will be Terri Marshall in SEPARATED AT BIRTH, which is about Lucy (Brittany Allen), a woman who grew up believing she had a normal childhood, until one day she discovers (from reading old news articles) that she was abducted when she was very young. Lucy tracks down her biological mother, who is running for Governor of Pennsylvania, and becomes a media sensation. Her mother Elizabeth (played by Paige Turco) is happy to be reunited with Lucy, but Elizabeth’s other daughter, Terri, is not. Feeling jealous and threatened, Terri realizes that if she can’t bring herself up to Lucy’s level, she must bring Lucy down to hers. and Lucy soon finds herself in the middle of a police investigation. Directed by Jean-Francois Rivard, SEPARATED AT BIRTH finished filming in Montreal on 9 June. It should be in Canadian theatres later this year.

Rachel Skarsten will be Madelaine Krug in the romantic comedy MARRY ME AT CHRISTMAS. Krug is a bridal botique owner in the town of Fools Gold, who loves the challenge of finding the perfect dress for the bride and orchestrating an exquisite event. In the midst of designing a Christmas wedding, she unexpectedly falls in love with the bride’s brother, movie star Jonny Blaze (played by Trevor Donovan). But will the action star feel the same way? The film will air on The Hallmark Channel sometime in December.