We begin this week in the infirmary of Briar Cliff, with nuns attending to a bloody and dying Grace. With her face colorless and her eyes rolling, a woman in all black, with sprawling black wings appears to Grace and reveals herself to be the Angel of Death. Before the Angel can take Grace the nuns revive her, all right before Sister Mary Eunice. The Sister instantly goes to Arden to blame him for a botched hysterectomy, but Arden insists he didn’t preform the operation. Arden goes on to berate Mary Eunice for her lack of respect and goes so far as to slap the nun. This proves to be a mistake, as Mary Eunice exposes a bit of her demonic powers and sends the doctor flying across the room with a look of her eye. We encounter the Angel of Death again in Threadson’s torture chamber, where we grotesquely find Lana being raped by the psychotic serial killer, while the Angel of Death looks on. When Threadson is finished, the Angel comes in to speak to Lana, telling her that she can end the pain if she agrees to give in to death, but Lana says she isn’t ready yet. Just as Lana turns down the Angel, Threadson reenters the room, delicately saying that he and Lana have reached an impasse. As Lana begins to react, Threadson warns her not to worry, for he will kill her as painlessly as possible. As Threadson comes at Lana with a needle of anesthetic, she reaches for a nearby picture frame containing a photo of Threadson’s mother and smashes it over his head. The two fall to the floor in a scuffle and Lana inserts the sedative into Threadson. After a classic quick recover, Lana kicks away from Threadson and flees from the underground torture chamber. Lana runs and hitches a ride from the first car that passes by. She urgently begins to state how she has escaped from a man, but is interrupted with misogynistic-laced disbelief. The driver begins grumbling about an ex-lover and Lana suddenly notices the Angel of Death in the review mirror, sitting in the backseat. Bracing herself for the worst, Lana watches as the driver suddenly shoots himself in the head and the car crashes. She awakes to the face of Sister Mary Eunice, back in Briar Cliff. After this, we pick up on where Sister Jude ended last week, finding the body of Nazi Hunter Mr. Goodwin. Jude begins to call 911, but notices a newspaper clipping of the girl she hit with her car behind the word “Murderer.” She then receives a call from Mary Eunice, telling Sister Jude that Goodwin was actually hunting her down. At this moment Jude puts together that Mary Eunice has been possessed and hears Mary Eunice tell her not to return to Briar Cliff. The Sister always tells Jude that she left her a gift, which she discovers to be a razorblade. At a nearby diner, she envisions her suicide and has a conversation with the Angel of Death, where it is revealed the two have met many times before. Jude tells the Angel she is finally ready, but she has to do something first. We find Sister Jude in the family of the girl she allegedly murdered, only to discover that the girl survived, which makes Sister Jude seem very odd and foolish to the family. Though it may not have been stellar, this week’s episode was an improvement over last week and definitely will have ramifications moving forward. With Grace gone, has Kit’s fate been sealed? We’ll have to check back in at Briar Cliff next week to find out. Best of the Rest:
