Somehow, someway, we spent potentially too many hours on this season of The Bachelorette watching Jenn find her happily ever after. Or did she?

You certainly can’t tell by the utterly ominous tone with which Jesse hosts the first hour, but let’s not jump ahead.

We have three (!!!) hours to slog through, so let’s get to it.

After the recap we’ve been seeing since the first week, Jenn telling someone in a tan suit she can’t let them propose, Jesse walks out to a live studio audience ready to see love, tears, heartbreak, and everything in between — all the things you want to take place in front of a live audience, naturally.

He starts things very creepily, stating that we’re about to see something we’ve never seen before, and I shouldn’t believe him, but I do.

Back in Hawaii, Devin and Marcus meet Jenn’s mom, aunt, brother, and best friend, and you can tell they are all skeptical as hell.

We’ve heard a lot about Jenn’s past relationships being wildly unhealthy, and it’s obviously taken a toll on her family as well.

When Jenn tells them that only one of the two has said they love her back, you can almost feel the internal eye roll around the room.

The family meets Devin first, and he’s his usual self, which is to say very free in his praise of Jenn, his love for her, and how she makes him feel.

But Jenn’s family is unmoved by anything he says, which is ouch for Devin, but one point in the drama column.

When it comes time for Jenn to debrief with mom Trinh, she is just not feeling any of this. And respect to her because she doesn’t care what this show is supposed to be about.

Jenn is her daughter, and she won’t put on an act because there’s a camera in her face.

Give us more, Trinh!

Back in Los Angeles, Dylan (my favorite), Jeremy, and Jonathon are there for some reason.

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When Jesse checks in with them, Jonathon says he heard “rumors” and wants to be there for Jenn to support her, while Jeremy says he also wants to support the guys.

Now, what goes on here? I get they need to keep people invested for all three (!!!) hours, but I’m starting to feel baited and annoyed.

This final reveal better be on Arie and Becca levels of making me want to scream at my television.

Back to Jenn and James, they talk things out, and much like the rest of his family, he’s not here for anything Devin is selling.

And even more than that, he doesn’t give Devin his blessing when he asks privately, and I kind of feel bad for the guy.

He thought he would schmooze these people, but he somehow did the opposite in a spectacular fashion.

Jenn bids him farewell while also telling him not to get in his head, but good luck with that, my guy!

Next, Jesse sets up another plug for that show about Mormons and has Hakeem sit awkwardly between two couples when he should be sitting with his boys.

He’s also nervous, and I swear if they don’t stop with all this foreboding!

I’ve already resigned myself to giving up my whole Monday evening. It’s enough!

With Devin back at the hotel, presumably, Marcus shows up to meet Jenn’s family, and they already feel some way about him, which is more than obvious and not entirely wrong.

They know he’s not in love with Jenn, and while they can appreciate his sincerity in talking about his past, it doesn’t tell them much about what he feels about Jenn or their relationship.

During Marcus’s conversation with James, he does that thing where he dances around every question and looks down at the ground, and that stuff will not fly with Mr. James!

He’s been there and done that with Jenn’s exes, and he’s TIRED.

Then Ms. Trinh talks with Marcus, and she’s even less impressed with him than she was with Devin. Is there a real future between Jenn and either of these dudes when her family is so BLAH about both of them?

When Jenn talks things out with James, it’s clear that he sees Marcus as an amalgamation of all her exes and needs her to see it, too.

Their chat is by far the saddest thing we see to this point because you can tell there is so much sibling love there.

It helps to see James in the cutout crying in Los Angeles, too.

Before Jenn and Marcus split, she again asks him to tell her how he feels about ANYTHING, but he continues to talk without saying much. I

t’s not the same way Sam M. talks to talk, but Marcus has a way of droning on so much that you forget the original question.

It would be impressive if it weren’t infuriating.

We next get another audience check-in with Jesse. This time, James tells us he’s not happy, and OH MY GOD, WE GET IT! Something is about to go down, probably at 10:55 pm EST.

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Jenn and Devin have their final date in Hawaii, and it’s sweet.

These two love getting deep and engaging in the cultures of the places they visit, so they participate in a Hawaiian spiritual ceremony, which has them ditching the past and looking to the future together.

It’s so obvious Jenn will choose Devin, but what the hell has everyone in Los Angeles FUMING?!

The night date with Devin and Jenn is more of the same. They love each other; Devin gives Jenn a gift, Devin trusts her, and they kiss.

Again, Jenn is choosing Devin, so when do we get the Marcus dumping?

Well, not until after a plug for Doctor Odyssey, that’s for sure. (Side note: I will be covering Doctor Odyssey here at TV Fanatic, so come back this season!)

On the day of the date with Marcus, Jenn is confused, and she decides to get answers right from the source instead of plastering on a smile all day with a man she’s quickly losing hope in.

There have been a lot of hotel conversations this season, and this one has another bumbling man and a woman who wants someone to stand the hell up and fight for her and their relationship.

And that’s just too much to ask these men.

Marcus drops an L-bomb during their chat, but it’s too little, too late because he says he wants to try it with her in the same breath.

Excuse me?

It was probably tough for Jenn to recognize that Marcus was giving her the same energy she’d gotten in the past, but she got there. And it was truly time.

Cut to Los Angeles, where Marcus is now with Jesse and still has little to say of substance.

He insists he wasn’t living up to what she needed, and then Jenn comes out, and they are polite enough for people who once said they loved each other.

One thing about Jenn is that she sticks to what she feels. She doesn’t backtrack or act like things with Marcus were different than how they appeared.

Their relationship was what it was, but she checked out from fantasy suites on, and that’s a wrap on Marcus.

Now, it’s time for the obligatory ring shopping with Devin, and then we get what I assume is what we’ve never seen beforec…cJenn is proposing to Devin!

You may be asking why, as I am, but I mean, is it good for her?

She’s talking about choosing herself, but I feel sick to my stomach because the way the people in that audience are angry means something nasty is about to transpire.

And right on cue, Jesse tells us we won’t see that proposal, and my stomach hurts!

Jenn comes out after crying backstage, and she spends a good minute crying onstage in total silence, which is incredibly heartbreaking.

I’ve seen a lot of Bachelor dumpings and mess on the live shows, but this one is up there with one of the WORST.

Jenn tells us in detail that Devin is a horrendous human being who switched up the second they left Hawaii. She’s been fighting for their relationship for months.

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She details him basically saying he didn’t love her anymore and regretted getting engaged, culminating in him breaking up with her over the phone.

You have got to be kidding me.

I have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok, and flat-out deceived (in my Stephen A. Smith voice!)

I could have seen Marcus doing something like this (sorry, not sorry), but DEVIN? I feel sick that I defended him when it was all lies and propaganda!

By the time they even bring Devin out, you can tell that room in Los Angeles, which was already hot, is literally scorching. And Devin does himself no favors by stammering anytime he’s made to explain himself.

The Devin on the show and the Devin during those final segments were not the same person.

He was so confident and sure of himself on the show, but he had absolutely nothing to say when confronted with his inconsiderate post-show behavior.

I’m sorry, but Devin gives his version of ‘it’s me, not you,’ and Jenn and I both see through it the minute he starts talking.

Oh, Jenn is a stronger woman than me because I would have refused to sit on that couch with a man who broke off our engagement via a phone call. Not even a Facetime!

I know this is a show, and they want to milk the drama, but in what universe is it okay to still show the proposal with both of them sitting there watching? This is emotional warfare.

It’s hard to even tune into what’s being said during the dual proposals when you know one side is a fraud.

This season was historic and had so much potential. Instead, it ends with Jenn getting a redo of all her past relationships, with the added bonus of all of America tuning in to watch things crash and burn.

Jesse does what he can to hype Jenn up when it’s all over, but it’s all so incredibly awkward, and Jenn did not deserve any of this! She deserved a better group of men fighting for her.

She deserved better from EVERYONE.

I need three showers to rinse the stink of those last forty-five minutes off me.

I feel so badly for Jenn, and not even the cute Golden Bachelor plug to cap off the evening can undo the damage. 

Thanks for following along this season! I’m still in shock that this is where we are, but if there’s one thing to expect from this ABC staple at this point, it’s something happening that will piss you off.

Please leave me a comment below with your reactions to what transpired. I can’t wait to hear what everyone thinks!

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Well, those days may be over, or they at least took a vacation during this season of The Bachelorette because this season could have been an email — or a little add-on before the finale.

Seriously. Did we need two hours of this? Even Sam M.’s inevitable hot seat moment felt lackluster. BIG sigh.

But before we get into the men giving us nothing, we see Grant telling his mom he’s going to be the next bachelor, and he will be such a cute little thing when his season airs.

He seems so genuine, which, as we know, is NOT a given in this franchise, and you can tell he’s nervous and probably a little overwhelmed, which is refreshing. He probably has no idea what he’s getting into and a love that for us as the audience.

Jesse introduces the guys who’ve decided to attend the taping, and I won’t lie; I do not remember some of them. Like, who the hell is Ricky?

But there’s no time to talk to them when we still need to determine who will make it into the final two!

So, we flashback to Hawaii and Devin knocking on Jenn’s door, and I want to defend Devin because on a fundamental level, I GET IT, but on another level, you’re putting baby Jenn in a corner, and I hate it.

Jenn is in an impossible situation, and she’s still trying to sort things out. Devin’s desire to hear her say she loves him before he potentially proposes is normal in every single circumstance except during this bachelorette process, in which you willingly agreed to participate.

Devin is the most all-in of the three guys, and I’m sure he knows that, but you can’t force someone to feel something they may not feel yet to make you feel better.

And I kept waiting for Jenn to say she was falling in love with him because unless my memory is worse than I realize, I could have sworn she said she wasn’t in love with that man right before their overnights.

Instead, she says, and I quote, “Devin, I do love you, you freaking idiot.”

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Man, I love romance.

Maybe the possibility of Devin leaving made her realize her feelings. Or maybe she loved him all along and was too scared to admit it.

Or maybe it’s all lies and propaganda. We’ll never know!

Anyway, Devin feels placated and doesn’t want to leave after all, so we fast-forward to the least suspenseful rose ceremony in history.

Jonathon is a nice man, but he doesn’t love Jenn, and Jenn doesn’t love him, so it’s time for him to go.

I felt bad for him for a second, but if he was ever going to get there with Jenn, then he needed to get on his Zoom much earlier than two months into the whole thing.

Devin and Marcus are now your final two, and I can hear the collective groan across the country.

Jenn loves both guys, apparently, but only one loves her. Whatever will she do?

Back in Los Angeles, Jesse talks to Ricky (?) and Brett, who didn’t make it past the first night. And oh my god, did we need to read those cringy DMs?

I was having a moment, okay!

I kid. I didn’t write those, but whoever did, I hope ABC sent you a Bachelor stainless steel tumbler for putting your business on blast like that.

Next, we get a season recap. Yawn.

Then we finally get into some of the odder things from the season, like when Aaron gives Devin that book and finally admits who he had been warning Jenn about before he left.

Aaron referencing Devin (because he hated him) and Sam M. (we all know why) makes all the sense in the world, but Spencer? Granted, I do feel like he wasn’t super sold on Jenn, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying!

Aaron has zero self-awareness and is still messy, so he’s perfect for this show.

Sam N. gets a few minutes to explain nothing really except he jumped the gun and admitted his love for Jenn instead of stripping. And then it’s time for the main event!

Sam M. has been getting raked through the coals for good reason. He was walking around like he was Vin Diesel at the height of his Fast and the Furious fame, hating on Devin more than he was talking about Jenn, and there’s no real defense for that.

However, the guys were too nice in their assessment of Sam M., who chose to come on and say all the right things so everyone would think he had learned from the experience. Maybe he did, but his answers were too neat and tidy.

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Like his defense of calling Jenn dull and saying he was talking about her eyes (huh?), and not meaning to disrespect Jenn when he explicitly said she wasn’t his type and thought the bachelorette would be Daisy or Maria. Double huh?

Having watched him all season, I know he knows how to say words and make them sound meaningful until you sit back and realize he didn’t say anything.

After this segment, I need them to retire ‘keep the main thing the main thing.’ I will scream into the void if I see that stupid phrase on one crop top.

Jonathon comes out to wax poetic about Jenn and their time together, and again, I feel bad for him for a few seconds, but I genuinely don’t think he and Jenn had more than a strong friendship.

Jesse then extends an invitation to Bachelor In Paradise to Jonathon next summer. And I don’t know when they start filming, but if his DMs are anything like Brett’s, good luck staying unattached until then!

After this, we get an EXCLUSIVE look at the Hulu show ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,’ and I can’t tell you what it’s about because all I did was stare at Hakeem’s reactions in the corner.

The man is made for television.

Grant gets his time to shine next and endear himself to all of America. There’s something authentic about him, which is a nice contrast to the Sam M.’s of the worlds, who so clearly look like they’re putting on a show.

Grant is a little bumbling and may need some media training, which I love. We need a man in it for the experience, not the Gymshark partnership.

The evening gets ready to wrap with Jenn coming and doing her little check-ins with some guys. She has some nice things to say to Jonathon and Sam N., but she’s still disappointed with Thomas M. because of that time he pulled Devin, and Sam M. gets all the smoke after that.

Jenn’s clearly been watching the show back and seeing all Sam M.’s antics when she wasn’t around, and ugh, she must be so mad he blinded her for so long.

Sam M. wishes he could do things differently, and Jenn hopes that’s true. That’s likely the last time those two will ever be in the same room.

The next segment is lovely, as Jenn talks about the importance of her season and the representation of Asian Americans. Jenn’s been a fabulous bachelorette, so don’t let the haters tell you differently. It’s nice that she’s feeling that love and support from her community.

Jesse then oddly pivots to Charity and Dotun and offers them a redo trip to Greece because Dotun was sick when they went before.

Meanwhile, Aaron’s twin, Noah, and fiancée Abigail, sit in front of them and get nothing from production besides better seats.

Bloopers are next, and they’re funny or whatever. Jenn, referring to Jonathon as her ‘medium-sized king,’ got a chuckle out of me.

They don’t know how to fill two hours, so they bring out a spider to crawl on Hakeem’s legs, and all I want is to see the dramatic final rose teaser. I love Hakeem, but it’s enough!

He’ll join Jonathon in paradise, though! So, at least he’s leaving there with something!

The finale looks messy, and I need it in my veins! But we have a whole week to wait, so while we do, let me know how you felt about this lackluster Men Tell All in the comments!

And how are you feeling about Devin vs. Marcus?

The Bachelorette Season 21 finale will air on ABC on Tuesday, September 3 at 8/7c!

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And that’s what you missed on Glee The Bachelorette.

Overnights, as usual, bring some revelations, sexy times, and, for one man, a bit of a meltdown. Let’s get to it!

This season flew by. How are we already at the end when I vividly remember Hakeem getting all these balloons stuck in that tree like it was yesterday?

Anyway, the DRAMATIC overnight episode begins like all others before, with a look into the end of the two hours, with Devin going through it.

Now we know the overnights must not go as he wanted and that he has to wait until later to find out why. I’m intrigued and annoyed, so you won, ABC!

The Hawaii tourism ad is gorgeous, and then Molly shows up for a free vacation to chat with Jenn about the importance of these dates and how she’s feeling.

At this point, the men are in unique categories, all different from one another, and she’s not saying anything groundbreaking here.

It’s basically that Devin is too good to be true, while Jonathon still isn’t opening up enough, and she likes Marcus more than he likes her. Dilemmas, dilemmas, dilemmas.

Devin and Jenn are up first, and it’s time for the 383002th helicopter ride of the season. In taking them around the world earlier than in the past, the tradeoff was only having the budget for helicopter rides and packed lunches.

Everything about the day portion of Jenn and Devin’s date is sweet because you can tell they have a genuine connection, and he’s head over heels for her. But this is one of the first times you can tell Jenn likes this man but isn’t all the way in.

I think everyone can relate to Jenn about not wanting to self-sabotage and accepting a good thing for what it is, but it’s much easier advice to give to someone else.

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It’s difficult for me to hear Jenn flat-out say she’s not in love with Devin, so I can’t even imagine what Devin feels when he says he loves her again and is met with crickets on crickets.

If I told someone I loved them and they said they were trying to get there, oh brother, my therapist would be having a TIME.

The dinner portion of the date is much of the same, and I feel for Devin because he is obviously ready for this whole thing to be over so he can hang with his dog, go running with his friends, and be with Jenn.

It’s a lovely sentiment, but it also feels like Devin has forgotten he’s on The Bachelorette and he’s competing for someone. And it’s a competition with a finite end date. You won’t win it and be informed during overnights.

This is television, bruh, and they’ve got more hours to produce.

Devin says yes to the overnight, and the two do indeed spend the night, with the following day bringing a Pete Davidson joke. And I’m sorry, since when is Devin being compared to Pete Davidson?

I don’t see it at all and feel like I’m not in on the joke.

Perhaps the most awkward moment of this whole date comes when Devin tells Jenn he loves her AGAIN as they leave one another, and all she says is OKAY.

Jenn can only feel what she feels and be true to herself, but oh my god! My therapist would hate me if I were Devin.

Devin looks so forlorn when it’s all over, and I’m as sad as Devin when Jenn leaves, and he has more time to think about being stuck in Hawaii, knowing his girl doesn’t love him.

Alas, we move on to Jenn and Jonathon. And here’s the thing with these two; I don’t see it.

I’m pretty sure Jenn doesn’t see it either, but there must be three now. Thems the rules!

The two eat some, which Jonathon clearly does not appreciate, and then it’s time for the packed lunch by the waterfall. Jonathon says all the right things about wanting to be a slice of happiness for her, but what else does he want?

I don’t know, and clearly, neither does Jenn.

You can’t be talking about the potential of a relationship at this point while expecting someone to propose.

The dinner date gives Jenn and Jonathon time to talk about their childhoods, embracing the cultures, and what life could be like with their hypothetical kids. Jonathon sees a future, but does he want a future with Jenn?

I asked the magic 8 ball, and it said, ‘very doubtful.’

Jonathon accepts the invitation to spend the night, and the next morning, they look like they had a good time. There’s talk about their potential again, and I’m tuning it out because maybe these two would have a chance if the show were two months longer, but it’s not, and he isn’t proposing.

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Before we get to Marcus, we get an intense Devin interlude where he discusses not feeling like he’s number one with Jenn and oof. It’s like he’s foreshadowing everything (sick job, production) because as soon as we get the lead-up to Jenn’s date with Marcus, she says the one thing Devin is understandably terrified of!

Oh, I cringed when Jenn says she’s in love with Marcus, if only because I, and all of America, know he is not there yet. And he makes a point of saying it through tears as often as possible.

He’s waltzing into their date with uncertainty. She’s walking into it in love.

Devin is somewhere walking with a camera crew, contemplating his current life situation under the backdrop of a Hawaii sunset.

Jenn and Marcus get the best date, a boat ride and then swimming with Manta Rays at night. They are flirty and happy, which signals that the dinner portion will be anything but.

Marcus is nervous because of the last rose ceremony, and it is finally dawning on him that this whole thing is supposed to end with two people in love and ready to plan a wedding.

It’s almost like you can see that realization hitting him when he’s sitting at that table.

He drops that dreaded potential word again, and I wanted to fast forward so badly, but if I did that, I couldn’t write this, and I know you’re thrilled I kept listening.

Jenn seems shocked by Marcus admitting he’s not in love with her, and I won’t lie, I’m not sure why. At every turn, he seems to shy away from getting too deep about his feelings, and nothing has changed for them between hometowns and now.

Marcus and Jonathon feel like they’re at the same place with Jenn currently, but the only difference is that Jenn likes Marcus more.

I wasn’t sure if these two would end up spending the night together, but they do, and the following day, Marcus talks about their night being magical or whatever. But I will be continually stuck on him saying he wants to remain hopeful he can fall in love with Jenn.

Just typing that out sent a full-body chill down my spine.

We should be getting to the rose ceremony, but that ain’t happening because we haven’t even seen Devin’s struggles from earlier, so we get him talking to Jesse and expressing his feelings.

And it feels like a classic moment we’ve seen repeatedly in The Bachelor franchise.

Devin feels like he’s giving and giving, and he does not feel the love in return. So, how will he feel comfortable proposing when he feels like he’s the only one putting his heart on the line?

This is the first time all season I’m desperate to see what comes next!

Devin won’t leave (I’d bet my Chevy Trax on it), but what will Jenn say to make him stay?

Will she tell him she’s in love with Marcus?

There are so many questions about this Devin situation, but we’ll get answers tomorrow during the Men Tell All, so let’s count our blessings!

Hit me up in the comments with your thoughts!

You can watch The Bachelorette on Mondays at 8/7c on ABC.

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For this last hurrah (although we’re still keeping our fingers crossed for a Hail Mary because it’s never been more appropriate), we’ll combine the recap and review for a real sense of closure. Who am I kidding? There is no closure here.

But let’s carry on!

Evil Season 4 Episode 14 Review: Fear of the End

By now, we’re all familiar with the joke: A priest, a scientist, and a psychologist walk into a bar… Imagine if every story could be built on such a simple yet rich premise.

The Evil Series finale (shut my mouth!) was bigger on deep meaning than wrapping up outstanding storylines, and if we want to keep hope alive for rescue, that’s a very good thing.

All of the remaining players had a bit, no matter how small, helping to bring the story to a close. Putting a lid on four seasons seems like a heavy lift, but somehow, despite all the crazy tales and demons, the story was about friendship and faith in it, and it served those designations very well.

And when you look at the episode count, it’s amazing how much was accomplished in a mere 50 episodes. In the old days, you weren’t even halfway to a syndication contact for the series to be rerun elsewhere, but here, you have fully fleshed-out characters and myriad plot points.

That’s a testament to Michelle and Robert King, who put their hearts and souls into every part of the shows they produce. Their work leaves viewers satisfied and craving more, which is becoming increasingly infrequent in this industry.

Another thing the Kings do well is pointing a finger back at the industry. Evil’s final four episodes have used that kickback to grand effect, and they pulled no punches, equating the end of the assessor program with Evil being kicked to the curb.

Why did they shut down the assessor’s program? Because they don’t know what they’re doing. If that’s not a statement on TV as a whole, I don’t know what is. In a word, it’s perfection.

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One thing that becomes apparent almost immediately with the finale is that participating in the assessor program changed the lives of Kristen, David, and Ben forever.

Even if they fool themselves into thinking they can return to the way things were, the reality will be much different.

They discovered the magic of working with people unlike themselves on projects that tested the very foundations of their humanity. As long as they provided answers, they had little oversight in how they achieved their goals.

Evil also closed out the series by retaining its apparent mission of pointing out that evil forces need not go to great lengths anymore because they can pump despair right into your brain without raising a finger to do it.

The sad reality is that we are our own worst enemies. DF decided to take the fight further with its games, but in our lives, playing into each other’s misery via social media does the trick.

David, Kristen, and Ben learned that by stepping into worlds they wouldn’t usually visit, they could escape that misery or, at worst, suffer through it together. They didn’t have to come from the same background or believe in the same things to find that common ground.

Mother Midnight was akin to any social media algorithm. It took your fears and created a future for you.

Many people these days are so wrapped up in their devices that they don’t have close siblings or friends to bear witness to the madness, let alone help them through it.

We watch horror movies looking for monsters but forget that big tech has created demons that leech into our very souls, exposing our greatest fears for the world to see.

Evil, the show, has found a way to address those demons through supernatural investigations but never lets go of our modern-day equivalent, either.

This is the kind of brilliance that we need on TV, and instead of creating a more welcoming home for one of TV’s smartest shows, it’s been vanquished. It’s so painful that it bears a mid-review reminder.

The journeys of other series regulars have already concluded, so the finale paid special mind to Kristen, David, and Ben.

In doing so, they revealed how it was after the assessor program shut down, what fears remained, and how easily they got lured back in when the door of opportunity offered another path.

Kristen’s outlook on therapy changed. Her approach to helping her clients was more mindful, and she admitted she used the word reverence more during treatment than she imagined she would.

But it wasn’t until she played Mother Midnight that her greatest fear was revealed. She’s unsure of how she’s raising her daughters. She questions whether it’s right to treat them as peers when they are her children, and with Andy and Sheryl gone, she’s on her own.

David closed the door on his old life, leaving his Demon behind, but by doing that, he also found a way to keep the real Kristen closer to him, at least for a little while. When he played Mother Midnight, he realized that heeling for The Entity was eating away at him and pulling him farther away from God.

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And Ben discovered that money won’t buy happiness, even if he’s not ready to admit it. His imagination is so great and his desire to learn so significant that he won’t work well stifled in a glass cage without a shred of privacy.

His scientific brain has taken a beating. For every answer he finds, another question awaits him. The most puzzling comes through dying Karima: What if he’s wrong, and it isn’t just the big empty awaiting us all after death?

These are existential dilemmas that prey on all of us. Through Evil, we question our humanity, faith, friendships, and our very existence.

They’ve managed to make Evil such unabashed, irreverent fun while still gazing deeply into our mind, body, and spirit. I can’t think of another show on TV of late that offers something similar.

Of course, they were going to let Leland live to see another day. If the show returns, he will escape. If he doesn’t escape, he will find a way to terrorize everyone from the darkness of his demon box.

Despite the four years of increasing tension, Kristen demonstrates her strength and resourcefulness, subduing Leland with a stun gun before later attempting to strangle him. However, her friends stop her, saving her from crossing another moral line.

David, who has been entangled with The Entity and its sinister plans, makes a significant decision to leave the shadowy organization.

Despite his doubts about The Entity’s methods, he secures a role in running the assessor program out of Rome, which suggests a shift in his focus from combatting evil through The Entity’s extreme measures to a more measured approach.

David was born to run the assessor program. The Archdiocese that closed the program and shuttered St. Joseph’s was too small for him. De Vita said David’s choice was the bottom rung of Church hierarchy, but he was also jealous.

Those in power look down on those with gifts they do not share.

How annoying that Sister Andrea gets to see what they fear or that David gets results where they don’t. And how dare a lapsed Catholic and an atheist see so much in the cases before them when the higher-ups would miss the correlations completely?

The Church is embroiled in bureaucracy like any other corporation. Those on the lowest rung get to carry out the real work on behalf of God.

The Kings wrote in a six-month reprieve for the show. Kristen goes to Rome with David while they navigate the new program. It gives Ben time to grow weary of his glass cage. It also gives Timothy time to grow into his demonic side, forcing Kristen to work doubly hard to raise him.

She’s worried about how she raised the girls, but she’ll only get away with jamming a binky in Timothy’s mouth a couple of times before he learns to bite it in two. She’s got her work cut out for her, but she’ll relish it.

The finale touches upon the cornerstones of the series, including the love shared between Kristen, David, and Ben and the pervasive evil encroaching on our existence, which most are too blind to recognize.

It’s a thought-provoking conclusion to a button-pushing show. There is so much more evil to explore, both on-screen and in our everyday lives. Here’s hoping someone rescues Evil to help us navigate the murky waters they’ve created for us.

Evil Season 4 Episode 14 Recap

Kristen’s practice is going well. She has a female clientele that she can relate to. She seems to have it all together, but she says, “Looks can be deceiving.”

Ben started his first day at his new job. Ironically, he’s got a glass ceiling just like Sheryl’s, but he doesn’t have to bend down. The reality of any corporate job is that we all have glass ceilings above us, and breaking them can only come from above.

He’ll be working on the H-link, a small but important part of the operation. His office is more of a cell without any privacy, and it’s degrading. But for $650k, maybe he can get used to it. Then again, maybe not.

David’s room is packed up. He’s got one bag remaining. Demon Kristen is very sad. She can’t believe he’s not taking her. Katja Herbers played this scene brilliantly, and it actually hurt to watch Demon Kristen grovel.

Father De Vita welcomes David to his future. They downloaded the information from the cloned phone and located a meeting place for the next day. David is skeptical of their plans, which seem to include killing The Sixty.

The meeting involves a black mass and the killing of a young woman. Also, Leland will try to kill one of the assessors before tomorrow. David has had enough. He will protect his assessors.

Kristen’s girls are looking for their virtual reality headsets. They have a plan.

Kristen’s next patient, Mr. Ernest Truman, is actually Leland Townsend. She walks right to the file cabinet, grabs her protection order, and calls 9-1-1. He drops The Sixty at her feet, but she doesn’t bite.

She begins recording the infraction. Help him out tomorrow night, and he’ll never bother her or her girls again. She pulls out a stun gun, and down he goes.

David and Ben arrive, scared of what they’ll find. Kristen has it under control. She keeps shocking Leland every time he begins to get up. OMG. We’re back, Ben says. You can tell it’s far more exciting than his new job.

David puts Leland on his back. He’s going to talk to The Entity about Leland, and he’ll be right back. He dumps a crying Leland on the floor in front of the armageddon painting and snaps some photos. I really need a screenshot of this thing to see what all it represents.

David calls De Vita. He wants insurance that he’ll be ending The Sixty once and for all. When De Vita asks for the assessor files, David hangs up. The next scene is our trio reminiscing and burning their files. Good for them!

Leland and Henry Stick audition women for the “screaming girl” role. Is this a ruse? Leland says the screaming woman is a backup.

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Henry Stick wants to end Kristen and move on to the next, but Leland has no desire to do that. Sister Andrea is the next woman. She followed Stick’s scent. He’s displeased.

Stick tries scaring Sister Andrea with a free hook. She plays with him instead. Leland says she’s all talk. We know she’s not.

Kristen, Ben, and David talk about how they influence each other. She says it’s with her canned beverages, but she says she’s more humbled by other people’s knowledge now. David has never had a lot of friends, especially not those who he can talk with about deeper things like death.

Kristen says nobody talks about real things anymore. It’s all about influencers and TV. In therapy now, she speaks a lot about reverence. They realize how much they’ll miss each other.

The girls decide to play Mother Midnight, a game that shows you your fate after a brief stay in a closet.

When they go into the closet and follow Mother Midnight, they are soon wandering around the house. They see David, Kristen, and Ben chatting. They’re enjoying each other’s company when Leland emerges from behind them and using a pickaxe like the one Kristen used to kill Leroux, kills Kristen.

Their screams bring Kristen, David, and Ben running. Ben, of course, is interested in investigating. There is a clock running down on the game.

Apparently, what they saw will come true in 24 hours. When they begin talking about what they saw, it does give the assessors pause. It’s a little too on the nose for a game.

“For old time’s sake, don’t skip this intro” is the intro message. That’s all they’ve got for the finale. This is far too sad!

Kristen, Ben, and David put on the goggles and head into the closet.

Ben: What are you doing?

David: Something stupid.

One by one, the three of them get pulled into their own potential futures.

Ben is the first to experience something. But once they’re inside, they stop seeing each other, so they’re probably doing it simultaneously.

Ben sees the girls in his imaginary future, and they’re looking into a room with a hospital bed. It’s Karima. She doesn’t have much time. She needs to know — where is Allah?

She understands the science they both share, but now she’s afraid. She’s cold. There’s nothing, is there? There’s just empty. Just before she dies, she says he’s right. There’s nothing.

Kristen sees Dr. Boggs in her imaginary future. He asks her to take a seat in her office. He has 567 true-or-false statements so they can better understand her behavior and how she ended up an unfit parent. It’s an intervention.

The girls have no father, no grandmother, and they are practically raising themselves. She treats her girls like adults, and Boggs says that’s the problem.

He has heard that her girls are mean because she’s so freely sarcastic with them. This is not the way a good mother leads, and so they are being taken from her.

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David’s visit with his imaginary future includes Sister Andrea listening to banging on a wall. The wall explodes, and a demon comes out from behind the wall. He bends over David and takes a substantial bite out of his neck.

Leland asks him if he sees the blinding white light leading him to the pearly gates. No? Bummer.

David was a fool. He believed in a book written by broken men who offered the world nothing but false hope.

When they escape their imaginary futures, Kristen is not amused. That was not a game.

The game is in beta, and it’s still counting down. Despair is Satan‘s masterpiece, David says. Ben looks out the window, and there is a horde of goggle-wearing people milling around and looking into the window.

They have been playing the game, and they were directed to Kristen’s house via the game.

They have all been in the house looking for a way to turn off the clock. One man has been told his girl will die on her bike. They need to remove one of the bricks to stop the clock. There is a tunnel to hell in the basement.

There is a scientific reason for this game. The demon tracker game the girls have been using has mapped their whole house. Ben will figure out the rest.

A real estate agent is showing Leland and Stick the deconsecrated church. That is the space they will use for their black mass. They even ask for witches’ cauldrons, but the agent thinks it’s fun.

Sister Andrea finds De Vita in a car outside of the church. She says they have this wrong. But nobody in power ever listens to her, so it seems unlikely they’ll do it now.

Ben has found a device that links the cloud to a person’s brain without an implant. That’s what is embedded in the goggles. It’s similar to what Taupin had but isn’t as powerful.

He has also discovered who created the demon tracker app — DF. David looks away and sees a connection between the regions of the brain connected to the thalamus and The Sixty. The sixty sigils connect with the mapping.

David: Sixty evil families, sixty regions of the brain. Why go to the trouble of tempting when you can upload despair right into the brain?

Sister Andrea calls David about the issue at the church. There are no longer demons at the church. She wants him to convince De Vita by being tall. Tall people are convincing, even if they’re dumb.

What’s the use of all these satan worshippers running around if you can just meet online, Ben wonders. David realizes that the only reason they would pretend to meet in person is for a setup. Moments later, the screaming girl screams, and the team rushes in.

De Vita gets a card that says, “Meet the evil coming to New York — you.” The cauldrons begin spewing poison, and those inside die.

When David reaches him, De Vita is still alive. “We’re dead,” he tells David.

The Sixty have their zoom meeting touting 18 of The Entity dead, the tables turned, and they’re just getting started. Norm, in demon form, is muted. They try to walk him through turning on his mic. So true!

They’re no longer families in real life, but they are families in their minds. The next time they meet, they’ll welcome the apocalypse and a new antichrist figurehead to rally around.

An avatar named Gray wonders where the black mass is. Where is the death they were promised? Stick eyes Leland, who caves and says it will happen tonight.

He has protected Kristen for four years, and it ends tonight.

David tells De Vita he doesn’t want to be in The Entity. He doesn’t believe in it or its weapons. Every time he helps them, he feels less Godly. It’s eating away at him.

What he wants is to run the assessor program. De Vita says it’s the lowest rung of the hierarchy, and David is better than that. David likes the lowest rung. They settle on David running the program out of Rome.

David wants Kristen and Ben to join him. Kristen wonders why they shut them down in the first place. He scoffs — because they don’t know what they’re doing. It’s only for six months to see how it works. Kristen is both intrigued and scared.

She doesn’t want to play into the patriarchy. David promises that won’t happen. She will have a position in the hierarchy. Kristen says that priests won’t even look her in the eye.

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We also learned they only make $65k a year, and they might make double that with the new positions. Since Ben is making ten times that, it’s not intriguing to him.

Kristen has many reasons why she doesn’t want to consider it, but she seems to be talking herself out of it. Ben could totally see Kristen eating gelato, looking at art, and wearing cool sunglasses. She begs out. But the girls overheard. They will pluck away at her!

The girls look at the goggles. Less than 15 minutes left. Kristen watches her doppel, who says, “Yeah, well, a risk not taken is a life not lived. Never give up a chance to fuck or travel.”

Kristen looks around her room. She decides to go for it. When she does, the door handle jiggles. Leland has arrived. When he can’t get in, he comes in through the basement by knocking out the bricks between the houses.

He puts in his earbuds and plays “Dang Me” by Robert Miller. He engages Kristen’s security system — an empty can in front of the basement door.

She’s waiting for him in her closet with a rope. She jumps on his back and starts strangling him. She’s doing a great job, but Ben and David arrive, stopping her from doing more damage to her soul.

She starts to cry. The clock runs out. She’s alive.

There is an ad for the Revolution.5. The future is in their hands. The clock was counting down a trial period before they needed to pay for a subscription.

Kristen is bummed that Leland is still alive. That just means he’ll come back.

The next scene shows Leland wrapped in burlap, screaming about his plight. Sister Andrea opens the demon box from the silent monastery, and they put Leland inside.

Kristen and the girls are in Rome eating gelato and video chatting with Ben. She says he loves him, which throws him before returning the sentiment.

Kristen sends the girls to school and looks down at Timothy. His eyes go a bit demon. David comes up from behind, sporting sunglasses. Timothy shows demon teeth, and Kristen puts a binkey in his mouth. Nothing is wrong — nothing at all.

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For Jenn, she enters hometown dates with four guys, and only one of them seems to know with absolute certainty that Jenn is the one for him.

But we still have two weeks to go, so we must endure these hometowns. Let’s jump in!

Devin is first up, and it’s good to get him out of the way, so you forget it by the end of the episode because it’s so obvious he’s making it to the end of this season.

Devin likes Jenn. No, sorry, Devin loves Jenn, and at this point, it’s just a matter of when he’ll say it versus if he feels it.

The other guys can’t relate.

Houston seems nice from the park, where Jenn and Devin run around while some of his “closest” friends trail behind.

Underneath some of the theatrics, Devin seems like a kindhearted individual, and I get wanting to integrate your girl into your activities, but if a man made me run a mile and sweat my ass off the first time I met his friends, there’d be some problems.

Jenn loves it, though, and she and Devin do their thing: flirting, deep talks, and casual intimacy. If I didn’t know they were on a reality TV dating show, I’d think they’d been dating for ages.

Devin’s family is sweet, especially his mom, Jennifer, whom Devin clearly adores. Again, this is the hometown where there aren’t issues because everyone knows Devin likes Jenn.

If anything, they try to make Devin seem a little unsure as he talks about his family being unlucky in love and wanting to change that, but it’s just a smokescreen to try to dredge up something that isn’t rainbows and butterflies.

Jenn starts the obligatory round of questioning: Why Devin? What makes him special?

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She passes with flying colors. Then it’s time for Devin and his bestie mom to discuss the situation, and she basically says you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

And because Devin is nothing if not someone who treasures his mom, he tells Jenn he loves her on the doorstep of his mom’s home. There are no fireworks, and it’s very much a super chill love confession, but it’s also very Devin.

Jenn doesn’t say it back, and I can’t exactly blame her since she still has three more of these hometowns to get through. And Devin takes it all in stride because he’s at least putting himself out there in a way no one else has yet.

With Texas down, it’s time to head to Connecticut for a hometown with Jeremy, who is inexplicably still there.

I want some of Jeremy’s confidence because how he walks away from his date, thinking their relationship is anywhere near the others, is a mystery that will never be solved.

Jenn and Jeremy go to a strange yet charming grocery called Stew Leonard’s, which my friend who lives in the area says is a real place, and she will bring me something from there next time she goes.

Small victories, people.

If Devin and Jenn are defined by their casual intimacy, then Jenn and Jeremy are defined by the laughter. Those two stay laughing when they’re together, and it’s cute and fun, but life isn’t always about laughing!

Sometimes things get serious, and there ain’t no animatronic cow to make it all better!

Jenn meets with Jeremy’s family, and it’s obvious early on that they aren’t sold on this whole thing. It’s almost like they’ve been watching the show with the rest of us.

Jenn and Jeremy have barely interacted, let alone shared their feelings, so she’s hoping this visit will spark something in Jeremy and he’ll open up. But his family, especially his mom, Karen, presents as very skeptical, and the vibes are just off.

They sit on a cleverly placed bench outside the house before Jenn leaves. She wants to know if he’s ready for an engagement, but it’s apparent he’s nowhere near ready to propose.

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He’s clearly not sure Jenn is the one yet, so how can he even consider marrying the girl?

Jeremy says he’s falling for her, the one phrase you will hear on repeat while watching a dating show, and Jenn takes it for what it is.

Jeremy shouldn’t be long for this show, but maybe there will be another Karen out there.

Sunny San Diego is next, and Jonathon is there, ready to show Jenn around. I kid. He wants to play lacrosse AGAIN because that’s starting to feel like the only thing he feels they have in common.

Another date ensues with running and sweating, but no one is around for the sweaty kiss, so that’s a plus.

Much like Jeremy, Jenn wants Jonathon to let his guard down and let her know how he’s feeling, and I GET IT. But at the same time, she’s dating three other dudes, and it’s okay to keep some things close to the chest when there’s a huge chance you’re going to embarrass yourself on national television.

Jonathon’s brother and his wife had a real-life speedrun relationship, but even he of the speedrun feels a bit like Jonathon may get hurt in all of this.

It’s nice when the families are sweet and incredibly awkward when they’re rude, but the reality is they’re just meeting these people, and they don’t know a thing about their relationship. Acting like they’re TOO excited about this whole process is suspect.

However, Mom Lisa sees it for Jonathon and pushes Jonathon to tell Jenn he’s falling for her. So, now we have one full-blown love confession and two fallings for those keeping score at home.

Last up is Tacoma, Washington, where Marcus and Jenn don’t get their little alone time somewhere in the city but go right to his friend’s place.

Marcus has been a frontrunner from the jump, and Jenn is VERY connected to him, but as the weeks have passed, I’m starting to see the connection less and less.

It’s like that friend who’s dating someone, and they are SO into them, and you’re excited for them, but then you meet them, and the math just isn’t mathing.

Where’s the spark? Where’s the chemistry? I fear I just haven’t seen it lately compared to others.

No shade to Marcus, but their vibes and energy don’t always seem aligned. But Jenn is into him, so we move.

Marcus’s sister, Gabriella, seems so lovely, and she and Jenn crying together is easily the most emotional moment in the episode, which is surprising because hometowns can be intense.

It’s interesting to hear Marcus flat-out say he isn’t in love with Jenn yet and sound so apologetic about it.

The Bachelor model as a concept is so wild because what do you mean you feel awful that you’re not entirely in love with someone you’ve been dating alongside mad other men for the last few weeks?

But anyway, Gabriella doesn’t want Marcus to get hurt, but she does tell him to go for it! A theme of the two hours.

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So, Marcus tells Jenn in the rain that he’s falling for her, and we’re ending hometowns with everyone on the road to love, Devin already there, and Jenn having to snipe someone right before the finish line.

Having the guys meet up at like a neighborhood Chile’s to debrief and talk about their family time is awkward, made all the worse by Marcus, who is REALLY struggling with what he’s not feeling.

He feels so far behind, and he sounds like he’s not sold on Jenn being his person. He also realizes only four people are left, so he needs to get sure or get walking.

The rose ceremony comes with everyone but Marcus feeling confident, and it’s apparent that Jeremy will be the odd one out. And shocker he is.

Nothing against Jeremy, but how he didn’t see that he was actually the one far behind, I’m unsure. But alas, it’s his time to go, and he handles it gracefully.

We’ve now got Devin, Jonathon, and Marcus left, and Jenn dropping the L-bomb to Marcus, which has me FLOORED because my gut has been saying Devin is her man for the past few weeks!

And we get a double-feature with the Men Tell All also airing next week, which means we’ll see what mantras Sam M. pulls out of his latest self-help book to stun us with.

The season is almost over, folks! Let me know if the comments who you think are making it through overnights and onto the finale!

You can watch The Bachelorette on Mondays at 8/7c on ABC.

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David announces that today is the last mass as the building will be deconsecrated and sold. He finds a note “from a friend” on the vestibule that says to meet at their sacred place.

Kristen tells David she got teary-eyed, and David admitted it was odd that he felt closest to the two atheists in the building. As they ponder their last assessment, men arrive with ladders, ready to tear the place down.

Father Katagas from the Vatican is in David’s office. All the files are gone, but he has one last case for them. It turns out that the Vatican did not close them down; the archdiocese did.

Ben is surprised at their last case: an investigation into a professor they’ve invited to join them to consult on quantum analysis. Johan Taupin. He’s the top theoretical physicist in the world, he has two Nobel Prizes, and he’s also in a wheelchair. So, Evil‘s Stephen Hawking.

The Vatican is doing due diligence since Taupin once dabbled in the dark arts. Ben scoffs. Anybody who is interested in quantum theory is thought to be a wizard.

They have to meet with Taupin today and sign off by Friday. Kristen thinks it’s anticlimactic.

Taupin’s place is filled with whiteboards containing many formulas. Ben brings up their doppels.

When Taupin sees them, he says they’re here to discover his calendar for worshipping satan. Ben expresses admiration. The guy is a jokester.

When Kristen reveals why they are there — that Taupin displayed erratic behavior and screamed about evil — his assistant Neil mentioned The Five, post-grad students who worked with Taupin on his wave-particle duality theories.

They set off to interview the post-grads.

Kristen gets a chance to talk with Taupin, who calls her a soft scientist because of her doctorate. He’s super rude, asking her measurements and saying he is hard for her. She tells him to fuck the hell off, and he laughs.

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Kristen wonders why they’re only talking to four of the five. Kristen finds the fifth, Beverly, elsewhere. She mentions Epstein and his crass behavior. She wouldn’t let him anywhere near the Vatican.

Ben laughs off Taupin’s behavior, which addles Kristen. Leaving the misogyny to the Church seems like a great idea.

Apparently, there was a holy relic in the vestibule. A sliver of St. Joseph’s thigh bone. Nobody has a clue. They never knew it existed. The guy just sloughs it off and tells them to be packed and ready for their next assignments in a few days.

Sister Andrea sees spirits stripping, pissing on the pews, and screwing on them. They can’t leave a missing relic there.

David visits the sacred place at the appointed time. He’s greeted by Father Giovanni De Vita (Denis O’Hare). He’s Vatican security. David jokes. So, no more friends of the Vatican for me? De Vita asks if David is angry with the church. David says he’s disappointed in it.

De Vita says while his anger is to be forgiven, his traitorous activities are not. He will be tested with 30 questions. It’s an honor, De Vita says. If he decides not to participate, he will be gone. Gone from their sight, their love, and God’s protection.

David puts his hand on a glass while a guy wearing dark glasses hovers his hand over it. I guess he’s a human lie detector. The first question is about the last time David met with Leland. De Vita questions his two months answer.

David adjusts his answer to 16 days for remote viewing, and De Vita asks about The Sixty. He’s asked if he stole the Prevalia Codex (spelling on that might not be right). David did not, but he did acquire a copy. He did not give Leland a copy, nor did Kristen to his knowledge.

Would David lie for Kristen Bouchard? David wants context. They won’t give it. Would he lie? Yes.

Ben is hanging out at home in his tinfoil cap when he gets a call from Taupin. Taupin says that something is in there with him, in his peripheral vision. His voice turns demonic. There is a being behind Ben. It looks like an alien from a ’50s movie, big red noggin and all.

“There are subliminal glimpses of sex and violence in this intro, but, sure, go ahead and skip it”

Father Ignatius is woken up in the middle of the night to the sound of pounding in the vestibule. It’s Sister Andrea, pounding holes in the brick, looking for the relic. Can’t it wait until morning? The faster he picks up a hammer and helps her, the faster he can go back to bed.

Father Ignatius gets his hand stuck in the hole, but he does retrieve the relic. The sliver of St. Joseph is missing. Maybe the rat got it.

David is wandering around and finds a painting of the end of the world. It’s grotesque and frightening. At the center of the painting, a woman’s face opens her eyes, sending David aback. A door opens, and Leland enters. David knocks him to the ground.

Leland says David shouldn’t have looked at the painting. David wants to know why Leland left The Entity. When he learned to remote view and step into the worst of the worst, he left because it seemed the Church was no better than the monsters he was stepping into.

But he didn’t just leave. He became the opposition. Leland requests the ability to sit up, and David offers him a chair.

Leland says, “I believe in the great unseeable truth, as do you. You’re aware of what exists beyond the material world. It’s a cross we both bear.” “You don’t bear shit,” David replies. “You chose evil.”

Leland says there is no evil. There is free will and God-given unbearable certainty and death. His only real gift is free will. We are free to do what we wish.

Why not stir up strife, discontent, and misery if it tickles him to do it. When they remote viewed into each other, they left seeds behind. David has some of Leland’s wickedness, and Leland has some of David’s virtue.

The Church didn’t want David to be remote viewing because he would see what Leland did — the opportunity of free will. He’ll be subjected to a human lie-detector test and marked. And if they can’t trust David, they’ll get rid of him.

David reports back to De Vita, who was particularly interested in the painting. When David mentioned seeing Moses worshipping a burning bush, he turned his head. David doesn’t think there is anything there of note. He thinks he has Leland’s trust. De Vita says he always trusted David.

When this is over, will he be assigned to LeConte or Father Dominic again? De Vita says LeConte died, probably of a heart attack. Father Dominic is gone, too. But De Vita assures David they are not killers.

David looks up his doppel, who is kickboxing with hate.

Leland is watching dog videos and crying. He tries to snap out of it by watching a brawl instead.

Kristen and Ben discuss Taupin’s behavior with him, and he claims it was not he who said them. Father Katagus wonders if someone could be hacking into Taupin’s voice box.

Karima is at Ben’s when he gets home. She’s curious about the tinfoil. He admits he has no idea how or why it works, but since using it, his migraines have gone. When she says that doctors use gold ion to address ALS symptoms, Ben calls David. They need to apologize to Taupin.

David tells Sister Andrea that he believes part of Leland is in him. He says he’s sick of faith. Then she sees blood on his back. He lifts up his sweater to reveal something eating his spine. It was sin. He needs to go to confession.

Sister Andrea is on hand and discovers Neil is a demon. He’s no match for her, but upon taking him down, Taupin begins bleeding from his orifices.

Neil attempts to staple his face back together. It doesn’t work well, so he puts on a mask. He stops Taupin from getting an MRI since Taupin has a neural path implanted in his brain. Ben mentions that when Elon Musk implanted them in monkeys, they had infections and whatnot.

Father Ignatius is awoken again by pounding. This time, it’s coming from inside the wall, not outside of it. Sister Andrea asks him to help her move a piece of furniture, and when she uncovers a hole, she begins to climb through it. He stops her, and she uses him as bait instead.

As they sit there, Father says he follows polls about people who don’t follow God. The largest religious affiliation now is none. Church going has fallen off almost 30 percent. He’s reaching the end of his life feeling like a fool. He can’t discuss god with anyone without them looking at him like he’s a bit dim or has been dropped on his head.

Sister Andrea says that God doesn’t see us as atoms but as who we are. That’s why they believe.

Sounds begin emerging from the hole. She tells him to close his eyes. A demon begins sniffing and climbs out of the hole toward Father Ignatius’s bait. She stabs the demon, but Father cannot see it.

Leland is making reservations for The Sixty. David knocks. Is he here to attack him again? David’s whole demeanor is different. Leland wonders if his handlers are disappearing. How does he think the church maintains its mysteries?

Leland loves Kristen. He just wants to force her to curse God so he can defile her. But what if he let it go? David would leave Leland alone. Leland thinks he should leave the priesthood. It’s a bargain. If he leaves the priesthood … Kristen will be saved?

David cloned Leland’s phone and gives it to De Vita. De Vita wants to debrief, but David says no. He’s done. Find someone else. David’s reassignment has come through. He’s been reassigned to De Vita as Vatican Security in Rome.

Sister Andrea puts on rubber gloves, which scares the demon. She sprays him with holy water, and his skin smokes. He admits he ate the relic when she releases the hard stuff on him. But he didn’t expect her to cut into his gut to retrieve it.

Ben visits Professor Taupin. Taupin is experimenting with himself. He’s using demon mode, and it will be uploaded to the cloud. Technology has made heaven irrelevant. He asks Ben to join him in the cloud.

In the end, they decide to recommend Taupin work with the Vatican. In exchange for their hard work, they receive three small bottles of olive oil from the pontiff’s vineyards.

Kristen is gutted when she learns that David is leaving for Rome in four days. She thinks it’s mean, so she grabs her olive oil and storms off.

She’s reading Surviving Separation in bed when she hears Timothy. She decides to look at her doppelgänger enjoying life.

Ben watches his doppel, too.

David sits in the deconsecrated church, thinking. Sister Andrea joins him. They’re saying goodbye. Sister Andrea is being retired to a silent retreat upstate, which they visited in an earlier season. He almost says she might like it, but he reconsiders.

Sister tells him not to let the Church pervert his talents. God guides the Church but also lets it fail. She tells him to go to confession every time he helps the Entity. He wonders how she knew he was helping them. She tells him to stand and asks him to turn around. She removes a knife. Sin is eating away at him again.

“I’m not going to be there with you, David, so go to confession. Sin gets bigger and bigger with each infraction.”

Sister has been there for 47 years. Instead of turning off the lights, they turn them on, and the credits roll.

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Well, yes. I did. And if you’ve been watching this season of The Bachelorette, you probably did, too.

I don’t know what Sam’s primary objective in all of this was, but it certainly wasn’t to be with Jenn. But let’s break this hour down because there was a lot more going on than Sam failing to answer a single question.

When the hour starts, everyone’s back in the United States, Seattle, to be specific. If you want to play a drinking game through the first hour, then take a sip every time someone says they’re in the Emerald City.

It’s a big week because from here, it’s off to hometowns, and Jenn has to decide which guys she’s most serious about, enlisting ex-Bachelorette Charity to help talk it out.

Charity remains a lovely woman and one of the best Bachelorettes. She gives Jenn some good advice and talks her through some of the guys she’s still unsure about.

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The top three guys she’s concerned about being Sam M. (duh), Jeremy (I barely remember he’s there half the time), and Marcus (she clearly likes him, but he’s less open than some of the other guys).

The guys get a date card at the hotel, and it’s for Marcus, which is OUCH for Jeremy! He still needs a one-on-one, and Marcus is already on number two!

It’s so obvious that if Marcus is just a little more open, it’s probably a wrap for all the other guys, sans Devin, because she’s very much into the guy. But alas, Marcus just isn’t going to be something he’s not.

The Jenn and Marcus date is a marketing campaign for Wicked (out this Thanksgiving!), and their date involves Kelsey and Daisy, Charity, and Trista showing up at various spots on a yellow brick road to get the two lovebirds to open up.

Perhaps the sweetest moments are seeing that quick video from Marcus’s sister and Jenn getting a nice letter from her mom.

Even though Jenn feels like it’s a struggle for Marcus to get vulnerable, I swear these two are often on the verge of tears or openly crying a lot, so they’re doing a lot more than just giggling and talking about nothing, which is actually true of several of the other guys.

Their date ends in a hot air balloon because Jenn continues to make sure all these men find their way up into the sky one way or another; then, it’s time for the evening portion, where Marcus gets deep about his childhood.

Mixed in is a date card for the remaining men, and everyone is headed on a group date except for Jeremy. Finally! It’s episode 6, and I know literally nothing about Jeremy. I imagine that Jenn doesn’t really know much, either.

Back to Marcus and Jenn on their emotional date in an abandoned baseball park, I can’t wait to meet Marcus’s sister because it’s clear they have a strong bond through their shared childhood, and he and Jenn seem very suited to one another.

There’s this emphasis on Marcus not being as far along as Jenn is, but it reads like they like each other, and they’re getting there at a nice pace. It’s not as if Jenn is throwing herself at the man, and he’s running from it.

Jenn gives him the rose, and as I’ve been saying since the first episode…FRONTRUNNER.

The group date involves another blast from the past: Jason and Molly Mesnick, who are still happily married and have come to listen to the guys be awkward on the radio.

So much of this episode is framed around Jenn’s indecision about Sam M., and honestly, the whole thing is so real. It’s so evident from the outside that Sam is just talking to talk 95% of the time, but when you’re physically attracted to someone, you often overlook many things until that shine wears off.

The dwindling numbers clearly have Jenn realizing Sam M. is just a walking catchphrase, and the whole radio date becomes him sticking his foot in his mouth repeatedly until the show puts Jenn and us out of our misery.

I don’t know what the worst part of the whole thing is. When he mentions Jenn isn’t his type, and he thought the bachelorette would be Daisy or Maria? OR when he doesn’t answer a question and just kisses Jenn while IN THE MIDDLE OF A RADIO INTERVIEW?

Everyone is horrified by Sam because he’s not keeping the main thing the main thing, and then it’s off to the cocktail party.

Everyone has a nice moment with Jenn, and they all say some variation of their falling in love with her, but it’s worth noting she only reciprocates with Devin.

Make of that what you will.

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Jenn and Sam’s time is spent with her trying to get him to say words that make sense, and when he fails at that, he blurts out that he loves her, and I just know she was screaming on the inside because what?

Sam couldn’t tell her three things about herself, yet she’s supposed to believe he’s in love with her?

If there’s one thing men will always have, it’s the audacity.

Jenn doesn’t give out a rose because she doesn’t, and I’m left wondering why she didn’t send Sam packing right then and there.

Jenn and Jeremy’s date takes them to that fish market that shows up in every montage about Seattle, and the thing about these two is that their dynamic is very much rooted in fun. They make each other laugh, and there’s an ease about their interactions, but deep love and affection?

I’m not seeing it.

Their day date is cute, though, and the evening portion revolves around them talking about their religions and hypothetical children, which is a common first date talking point.

There is nothing inherently wrong with Jenn and Jeremy, but when you put them up against her and Devin and her and Marcus, it’s just not even fair how much better those pairings work.

Jeremy would have had to really blow it for Jenn not to give him a rose, but he doesn’t, and he gets one, which means heading into the next rose ceremony, Jenn has two roses and five guys to choose from.

But she doesn’t even make it to the ceremony before she shows up at the hotel looking for Sam M., and I can not believe he was ever truly there for Jenn because their final conversation is AWFUL.

Not only does he not throw Jenn a bone, but he’s all-around weird. It’s odd to tell someone you love them but not be able to say anything else of substance.

I love that Jenn didn’t even explicitly dump him. She’s just like, been there, done that, and I simply can’t be bothered anymore.

And the nerve of Sam to say Jenn’s energy was dull? Get him off my screen expeditiously!

The rose ceremony is anticlimactic if you’ve been paying attention.

Devin is a given, and between Grant, Spencer, and Jonathon, she has the most natural chemistry with Jonathon.

Grant is genuinely devastated, and Spencer’s phone call with his mom is sad, though he appears more upset that he wasn’t chosen by someone rather than selected by Jenn specifically.

So, our hometown dates will be with Marcus, Jeremy, Devin, and Jonathon, and if I’m reading this all right, we’re on a collision course of Marcus and Devin making it to the end.

Though Jonathon could be a dark horse!

All right, guys, let me know how you’re feeling after this one in the comments! Will you miss Sam M.? Have you ever cringed harder than during that radio interview?

You can watch The Bachelorette on ABC on Mondays at 8/7c.

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Evil Season 4 Episode 12 of Evil begins with Sister Andrea in a hotel hallway, seemingly guarding the room. She’s got a crowbar in her hand. When she sees a man, she asks what he wants. He moves and is splayed on the ground, dead. A man behind her screams.

There are two more weeks for the assessors. There are stacks and stacks of assessments remaining. They’re wondering what to choose next when Sister Andrea drops a red folder on the stack. This is the next assessment.

A man named Paul is there. He’s the son of the man who was the love of her life. Paul needs an exorcism.

A month ago, he decided to try a different coffee every morning and film it. The guy in the video isn’t him. It looks like him, but it’s not him.

His name is Gregory. He works as a data engineer in Studio City. As they try to write it off as a strange phenomenon, they show that Gregory self-immolated and entered Paul.

Paul Stoley, who Sister Andrea knew, killed himself. Is this generational trauma?

That’s who Sister Andrea was watching over last night. He’s possessed every night at 2 am. Kristen thinks he needs treatment, not an exorcism.

Sister asks Ben and David to be there tonight at 2 am.

Kristen goes to court. She’s shocked that Boggs is there speaking on Leland’s behalf. Boggs can see Leland’s attorney’s demon form.

Boggs can barely spit out his assessment. He wants Leland locked away in a high-security mental facility for life. Good for him! Who said Evil Season 4 Episode 12 wouldn’t be full of surprises?

Ben is sick of this Scooby Doo shit and can’t wait to get back to lab hours. It doesn’t fall in his two feelings — disdain and hunger. Kristen got that billionaire climber to pay her the money. She’s getting $800 grand for a fresh start.

David hears something in the hall and goes to investigate. The elevator keeps dinging. It’s Sister Andrea. She keeps putting her hand in the elevator to keep it from closing. She’s got a bag of bait that she’s dropping on the ground.

Paul was fine the last time they looked, but now he’s upright and unresponsive. That’s because it’s Gregory. Paul is in the hallway. When Sister Andrea follows Gregory, he does a SMILE face.

The opening credits include a knock-knock joke. Who won’t miss the opening credits?

John Carrol Lynch and Richard Kind are incredible guest stars, making Evil Season 4 Episode 12 a delight.

The demon is on the end of Kristen’s bed again, but this time, it’s Kristen. She screams and wakes up.

Tragoran paid Andy instead of Kristen. And Andy accepted ten cents on the dollar. Wow. This is tragic.

The girls wonder if they could sell their shoes or have Timothy be a baby food model. Maybe Kristen could do an Only Fans! Kristen wonders what kind of a monster raised them.

They should do a GoFundMe.

When Kristen gets to court, Leland is on the stand attempting to explain why two men were in his house on IVs. Why doesn’t Kristen share the USB file with them?

Leland even tosses Sheryl under the bus.

Sister Andrea walks in and straight to the demon. She sees him. He just lost the element of surprise, she says.

Kristen visits Ben. Ben got a job using AI and quantum computing to reproduce neurogenesis in the human brain. He’ll make $600 grand a year. She relays her own sad news, assuring them she’s fine.

Kristen found another version of Paul. His name is Jess.

We’re not possessed by only one person, Paul. David says we get to choose who we want to be.

Ben has a competing offer at $950k. He hangs up on them and wonders why he’s so afraid to succeed. He asks his Jinn for his thoughts.

Ben is on Find My Doppel looking for his twin. I wish this was a real thing. His doppel is a husband and father. Kristen is also searching, but she pauses to get David’s doppel instead. His doppel is a boxer. He’s quite ripped.

You can’t say that Evil Season 4 Episode 12 isn’t a lot of fun!

Paul does a video chat with his wife. She wonders why he is calling her. He apologizes for putting her through so much stress and strain. She wonders about last night when he told her to kill his kids and drive over them in the driveway until their organs were splayed. She got a restraining order.

In the hallway, Sister sees the man in the tan jacket again. The one who was dead in the opening scene.

She asks David to talk about an exorcism and investigates. She asks Paul if he’s sleepwalking again. She finds a chunk of his head on the ground. It’s not Paul, it’s her Paul. She tells him to go back to hell, demon.

She hands him his head chunk, and he places it back on his head. He wants to show her something.

She wonders why he’s trying to kill his son.

She enters another room where she is kneeling in the corner. It’s an angrier, more bound-up version of herself carrying a shovel. She’s a mother superior, perhaps? It says, dies, you must unholy demon and smacks her with the shovel.

Kristen dreams about her and David in bed, but it’s not David; it’s his doppelganger. He rips her clothes off, exciting her.

She wakes with a smile and takes care of herself. Yeah, Evil Season 4 Episode 12 is making me regret the cancellation even more!

She takes the stand at Leland’s trial. She’s got all kinds of bad news to share about Leland, including restraining orders.

She says her torment at hearing her mother torn to shreds this week has made her quite emotional. She paints a lovely portrait of Sheryl that she has never believed.

Another witness remains, and Leland says, Oh no. They got Leslie to flip.

When she gets home, there are flowers all over the house. The girls did indeed open a GoFundMe about Laura’s health.

They want to make money for the family. She’s angry. They don’t ask for charity; they make money through their talents. Kristen gets an idea.

Kristen asks Boggs a favor. She wants to have her own practice. She’s going to start one right there in her garage.

Paul is in a coma. He swallowed 20 sleeping pills. David is going to recommend an exorcism.

David delivers an appeal on behalf of the assessment program. They are selling the church for $45 million with the air rights. I have no idea what that means. They’ve decided to close the parish. They’ll be reassigned in two weeks and have been asked to move out.

David deserves so much more than this crappy treatment. That’s a downside of Evil Season 4 Episode 12.

David opens confession, and his first case is Sister Andrea’s. She has been self-righteous. She tried to stay strong and unchanged. She feels her piety turned Paul away from God, which led him to take his own. She’s the reason he’s in hell. She’s bereft.

Leslie takes the stand, but not before the judge talks with her in chambers. He wants to know if she’s being intimidated.

She says she’s never testified before. He always knows if someone is lying. Is she still willing to testify if she’s intimidated? She is. He chops her head off. WHAT??

He tosses her body, wrapped in a cloth, out the window and into the dumpster. That’s quite a development!

In court, he says that Leslie is a no-show. Because she isn’t there, the judge dismisses the case. Leland promises Kristen that she and her family will never see him. Yikes.

Everyone has a price on their soul, Leland’s attorney says.

David doesn’t know where he’s going next. They don’t have a choice in the matter. Leland is exonerated — there’s not enough evidence to hold him.

Two episodes left, and where does that leave things?

It’s exorcism time!

Oh my gosh. Little Paul asks why his dad left him, which hits Sister Andrea right in the heart.

Kristen finally looks for her doppelganger. She’s a foreign guitarist. It makes Kristen very happy.

David finds Sister Andrea playing the piano. He has not yet told her about what’s going on. He thought if he followed the path of righteousness, his life would fall into place, but it hasn’t. He’s never been so lost.

She takes his hand, and they touch the piano together. A sign of God appears. And that’s a wrap on Evil Season 4 Episode 12!

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I’m beginning to wonder if she may have told a little fib about the whole heights thing because she never misses an opportunity to jump, fly, or do just about anything up in the clouds.

I’ll give it to her, though. Each opportunity allows her to snuggle up to her men, and you can’t be mad about it.

I forgot we didn’t actually have a rose ceremony to close out the previous hour until things opened up.

Let’s be serious: Jenn was never going to let Matthew back in.

If that were truly the guy she wanted to be with, having already had a history with him, she would have welcomed him back immediately or called off the whole thing and ran away with him.

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She did neither.

Making him stand in front of the men and apologize is one of the most awkward things this season has done, including the strip tease.

The guys acting like they would leave if Jenn invited that man on the journey was laughable because they weren’t going anywhere.

Devin is here to the end, y’all. He may have complained, but he would have taken a new guy coming on as a challenge.

Hopefully, Matthew got to spend a little time in New Zealand before returning to Boston! I don’t believe in staying someplace for a shorter time than it takes to fly round trip!

The rose ceremony is uneventful, mainly because there aren’t any conversations with Jenn, but ultimately, time is up for John and Thomas N. And that decision tracks with what we’ve seen.

The nine guys left feel like they’re the ones Jenn is feeling the most—some more than others.

After the rose ceremony that they should have been tacked on to the last episode, the next day brings coffee talk and a one-on-one with Jonathon.

Remember when Jonathon came in dressed like a Grey’s Anatomy extra with his face covered and his butt out to meet Jenn for the first time? Did you think then he’d still be here now?

The thing about Jenn and Jonathon is that they feel like besties. Nothing about their vibe screams deep, emotional connection. And they clearly feel that way too, which is why they spend the day portion of their date being silly and cute and then get deathly serious at night.

For obvious reasons, you have to go from 0 to 60 in the land of The Bachelor, but having to unleash your relationship trauma every time the lights go out and a candle gets lit has to be exhausting for the guys.

Jonathon explains why he’s closed off emotionally, and I would be, too. It’s a hell of a story, and Jenn has yet another guy she feels understands her past. She gives him a rose right as an unexpected rain shower passes over.

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It feels very staged, but as a firm believer in Sweet Home Alabama being one of the best romcoms of all time, I support it.

While Jenn and Jonathon are getting DEEP, the guys get a date card, and it’s obvious that if Austin doesn’t get the one-on-one, he’s out of there.

Of course, he does not, and we see everyone but Grant shipped out to a sheep farm where they have to play farmer of the day for Jenn’s heart. And Diane and Richard run a tight ship!

The best part of the date is seeing how all the different guys chose to wear their flannel shirts.

And the obligatory Devin piling on we’ve all come to expect.

You would think this far into this whole thing, the guys would pick up on her enjoying Devin’s brashness and willingness to put Jenn first no matter what during a group date.

Instead, they’d rather talk their stuff and clean up sheep poop. I can’t feel sorry for them.

Somehow, Devin wins farmer of the day, which results in them making out on a sheep farm. And he remains the one to beat.

The night part of the date brings the dramatic part of the episode, as Austin decides to bow out. I can see why Jenn is upset, but what did she know about Austin?

They haven’t spent much time together, and she IS further along with pretty much every other guy there, so it’s less about him not choosing her and more about him choosing himself because he knows these other guys are more invested and have a better connection.

He figures he can’t catch up enough to not get his heart broken, which makes sense.

At the same time, Jenn feels like she let Austin down, which is a tough feeling. It has her not feeling her best the rest of the night, which is very relatable.

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The guys do a great job of validating her feelings and making her feel seen, which is nice for her.

Jenn doesn’t give out a rose because emotions are too high, and that’s that.

The next day brings us Jenn and Grant’s horseback riding date. Please don’t jump me when I say this, but these two have absolutely no chemistry. And it pains me to say that!

They’re both so pretty and nice, mature adults, but when you see Jenn with Devin, Marcus, Jonathon, hell, even Sam M., there’s something in those interactions that isn’t there with Grant.

It sucks because you can tell Grant really does like her, and she likes him, too, but it’s not enough.

Their date also gets a rain segment, but it just looks cold. The night portion involves more bonding over family trauma, but Grant is just so genuine and kindhearted. He wants to be a good man, and if Jenn doesn’t want to marry him, I will.

Jenn gives Grant a rose, but if I had to place a bet now, he won’t make it to hometowns.

The cocktail party and rose ceremony have subdued energy, which is the theme of the hour. Jenn cancels the party because she knows what she needs to do, and I love that for her.

She’s at the point where the connection is either there or not. And it wasn’t with Dylan, so he gets the boot.

Dylan is SO sweet, and he should put in a Bachelor application because he’s just the total package.

We’re down to the final seven guys, and the end-of-episode montage shows basically every single one of them breaking down at one point or another, lots of ‘I love you’s’ and Jenn standing with her final one telling them not to propose.

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Oh, the dramatics! We’re halfway through the season, and I need that drama to keep on keeping on.

Hop in the comments and let me know what you think about Jenn’s final seven and who you think is heading to hometowns!

You can watch The Bachelorette on Mondays at 8/7c on ABC.

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The episode begins with the BAU unaccounted for in the explosion of Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2 Episode 9.

As Penelope frantically searches for signs of life from her coworkers, Monica receives a text message from her mother. Is she alright? The compound’s explosion is on the news.

Rossi is trapped under debris, having visions of Voit. FauxVoit wonders if Rossi wishes he’d never mentioned Gold Star so that this would never have happened.

Tara arrives with the military to help Rossi.

Emily is missing, along with all of the usual suspects.

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Emily is tied up beside Frank Church. Jade is not dead. She’s in control. When he starts babbling about saving the children, Jade shoots him between the eyes. You go, girl!

Penelope finds footage of Emily during the blast and sees Jade and her new partner drag Emily away.

Jade is now partnered with Peter. She’s in front of Church, amazed that he’s gone. She recalls when she was first caged. Damien, in the next cell, tells her to take his hands. No matter what happens or what they do, he’s got her.

Jade asks Emily Prentiss, bound to a chair, how she pleads, but Emily needs to know the charges. Awwww! Luke Perry flashback. Jade knows every unsub who abducted and interrogated Emily.

Emily reminds Jade that in the US, she has inalienable rights. Is Jade just like the deep state she’s trying to overthrow?

Jade says they’ll show Emily her case. Emily wonders, “Who’s we?”

Tyler wonders why they took Prentiss. Rossi realizes that Emily’s been in their line of fire the entire time. It’s been one blow after another since even before Bailey died.

Rossi visits Voit at Club Fed. Voit has a nice corner room with large windows, a TV, fresh water in a pitcher, and a coffee maker. He’s living the life of Riley.

Can Voit confirm the last Gold Star actor? Voit isn’t interested in helping, but Rossi persists. Why has Prentiss been stalked over the rest? It began the moment Voit first mentioned Gold Star to Bailey.

Jade shows Prentiss a video of Bailey. Pete B is Peter Pailey, Doug Bailey’s younger brother. He holds Prentiss responsible for what Voit did to his brother. Voit laughs, and elsewhere, Prentiss finally meets Pete.

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Prentiss remembers a conversation with Bailey before a raid. They chatted about their siblings, but he changed the subject rather than offering more information.

Pete thinks Voit is a false flag to cover up the BAU killing Bailey to keep his mouth shut about Gold Star and Pete.

Pete is shocked that Voit made a deal with the FBI director, but it serves his purposes. Voit’s deal goes all the way to the top — how convenient. Prentiss says she didn’t mean it like that.

The new director, Madison, who has not been seen since the Evolution premiere, is finally back.

Pete was offered an experimental diversionary project while in juvie. He was the first Gold Star subject. Pete would tell his family that his job was to break up child trafficking rings run by the country’s elite. Pete had no details, which drove a wedge between him and Bailey.

Monica is confused. Why classify Gold Star and then hand it to BAU to solve? Bailey asked them to classify it so that he had time to find his brother. He thought the BAU would find Pete first and kill him.

Madison tells them to toss the Hail Mary if they have it. He’ll cover for them.

Vincent visits Monica representing Voit and looking for immunity. What a piece of garbage. He wants her to take the offer to the BAU. Voit knows where Prentiss is but wants to be released to Genpop. They can’t afford to say no.

Voit is on his way back to the BAU. Why did he have to be there to help? Other than that, he is a bright spot on the cast these days.

Flashback to Pete and Bailey talking about trafficking. Madison walks in on them horsing around, and Pete thinks it’s funny.

Pete promises Bailey he’s on the right side, but Bailey counters that the last threat assessment said child abduction conspiracy theories are a growing domestic terror threat. Pete rolls his eyes.

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Pete says if he’s wrong, he’ll admit it. But what if Bailey is the one who’s wrong?

(As an aside, it’s funny that the left is now waist-deep in conspiracies, such as believing that Trump tried to assassinate himself.)

Prentiss profiles Pete. She says that anybody can be a source these days, especially if they validate what someone already thinks. Needless to say, he distrusts the media.

Jade repeatedly shocks Prentiss in an attempt to get her to say Damien’s name. Instead, Emily bites through her tongue.

This smartass Prentiss is much different than the one who was easily duped into an arrest and wanted to quit her job.

Bailey was trying to connect with Pete, but there was an interloper creating deep fakes of the videos. Voit has the GPS coordinates for where Pete is probably holed up with Prentiss. Voit wants to be let out again to go on the hunt.

Voit wants Tyler to accompany him. Tyler wonders what happens if he hurts Voit and realizes that he’s been chosen because it will be easy for Voit to get under his skin, ultimately setting Voit free.

When they finally get out there, it goes down as expected, with Voit getting on everyone’s last nerve. Voit brings up Tyler’s brother, which is a step too far for Garcia. She removes her glasses and steps right up into his face.

Voit was visually freaked out. Finally, someone can get a reaction out of him.

Next with Voit is JJ after he mentions BAUgate. She discovers that the deep fake videos are of his wife. He was filming her without her permission. Voit is once again quite moved.

Emily tells Pete how her opinion of Bailey changed. She feels responsible for his death, but it was Voit who pulled the trigger. Jade pulls out her gun again, but she holds back on killing Emily. They need the whole team here.

Jade pulls out a kill kit and begins setting things up so that one wrong move will kill them all. All they have to do is open the door.

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Penelope finds a security camera and hacks into it. It doesn’t give them a good enough look, and Rossi asks for the door to be opened. At the last minute, Alvez stops them.

JJ remembers Voit’s finger gun, and from that, Rossi realizes it’s a trap.

In a strange turn of events, there is a remote access video projector in the room with them, so Penelope hacks it and tosses a video of Voit admitting to killing Bailey on the wall.

Jade uses her handy dandy deep fake software to verify it’s authentic, and Pete realizes the jig is up. He doesn’t mind dying, but not over a lie.

He hands her his gun. There is a gold star bullet in there. Pete frees Emily, and the posse arrives. Jade holds the gun to her temple. She has a final speech to give, though.

Jade believed all the bullshit because the alternative was worse. (Not sure that’s the best message for conspiracy theorists!) Emily promises to listen to Jade, and they’re both led away in cuffs.

Prentiss wrote a passive-aggressive after-action report, so Madison visits her. She wants to know if it was worth it. Were all the dead bodies worth the deal with Voit?

Madison says that not everybody knows what it takes to be a leader. Discretion is the better part of valor. You stop a secret from becoming a conspiracy by keeping it a secret.

Prentiss is worried that Jade and Pete will get life while Voit gets out in five. She’s got a deal for him.

The deal is that they get to see their loved ones. For Pete, it’s his parents. For Jade, it’s Neela.

Tyler has submitted his resume to Quantico.

They’re having a “Hooray, you’re alive” party at Garcia’s. Tara and Monica announce they’re back together.

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Tyler is worried about Voit and his desire to be in Genpop. When Prentiss arrives, Rossi sees Voit lurking behind the door.

Voit is doing laundry at the prison and scouring for chemicals when two fellows arrive. One of them has a shiv. He splashes one of them in the face with the chemicals, and a fight ensues. Will he die?

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