People will want to know I stand for something, Lee says.
Im going to hunt fascists.
But Marina only laughs, you look ridiculous.
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Jake Epping isnt laughing.
Jake and Bill, our time-traveling tag team, are now living in the apartment directly below the Oswalds.
This makes the spying slightly easier, but also enables Bills growing crush on Marina.
She catches him and waves back, apparently unfazed by his stalking.
Back at school, Jake walks into a music classroom where Sadie is playing piano by herself.
He kisses her, telling her not to worry because everyones gone.
He then busts out a little rendition of The Beatles I Saw Her Standing There.
Thats catchy, she says.
Did you make that up?
Unfortunately, it turns out that not everyone was gone.
With a loud throat-clearing, Principal Deke Simmons announces his presence.
He gives Jake a talking-to.
Sadie and Jake are role models, Simmons reminds him.
The female students especially look up to her, he says, because shes a new kind of woman.
They cant see him taking advantage of her.
Its Ms. Mimi, with a slight cough.
It turns out that Jake never turned in his required immunization records after he got hired as a teacher.
Once again, Jake is able to turn pop culture to his advantage.
And for some of us, dignity matters.
Sadie admits that the candlelit room and record player are a bit dramatic, but shes taken in anyway.
She and Jake sleep together, though the camera pans out to suggest someone watching from the bushes.
They smile at each other.
This obviously freaks him out.
Jake suspects that the photos were taken by the CIA.
He thinks they know he and Bill are getting close to their Oswald/de Mohrenschildt plot and are pushing back.
They follow Lee and George to what they suspect is a top-secret CIA meeting.
Theres even a password to get in: candy bar.
In a twist, the place turns out to be a fancy brothel.
On the way to their room, he catches a glimpse of George and Lee.
Right then, cops burst in to raid the place, catching Jake and Bill.
Jake catches her coughing, harder this time.
This bears no small resemblance to Als cancer coughs from way back in the first episode.
The past has been relatively quiet recently; no red lights or swarming cockroaches or migraines for a while.
Maybe now its fighting back by targeting Ms. Mimi, for some reason.
Or maybe shes just sick.
Johnny Clayton is back in town.
She thought shed gotten away from him, but apparently her mother told Clayton where to find her.
The reasons she ran away, as she tells Jake, is that her husband abused her.
On their wedding night it was revealed that he wore a clothespin on his penis.
When Sadie laughed at it, Johnny hit her.
When she cried, he hit her again, and raped her.
Jake asks why she didnt leave him then and there.
Jake reacts to this with confusion and shock, but Sadie interprets it as revulsion.
I ruined it, I ruin everything, she says, tearfully driving away.
They split up, Jake driving in pursuit of George while Bill monitors the Oswalds on tape.
He hears Lee giving Marina a family photo so their child can have it if anything happens to him.
Then they start having sex, which angers Bill so much he rips off his headphones.
NEXT: Things get broken
Jake hides behind a car to observe George meeting with two other men.
A dog starts barking loudly, potentially the past interfering.
It was Clayton who spied on Jake and Sadie, not the CIA.
Clayton has a genteel manner and tells Jake they can settle their dispute without profanity.
F you, Jake says.
You get my message?
This wakes Clayton up.
Jake asks if Claytons wearing his clothespin.
Jake tells him to give Sadie the divorce, and Clayton appears to back down.
Jake then goes to Sadies place.
Hes got flowers and chocolates in hand, but an even better speech prepared.
People want to think life is flowers and hearts.
Back at the house, Jake finds a drunk, angry Bill laying on the couch.
Lee and Marina have once again gone from lovemaking to fighting, and its driving Bill nuts.
He wants to go fight Lee, but Jake holds him back, reminding him that they cant interfere.
Bill calls him an asshole and storms off.
A little later, he finds a beaten Marina sitting on the outdoor fire escape.
He gives her a cigarette and a shoulder to cry on.
Back at school, Ms. Mimi is nowhere to be found.
Deke says shes out sick, and comes off angry in his interaction with Jake.
Ms. Mimi might be in serious trouble.
In any case, her replacement seems somewhat less chill about Jake/Sadie than Ms. Mimi was.
Jake later apologizes to Bill for their kerfuffle.
Were doing a crazy thing, and I know now I couldnt do it without you, he says.
Were a team, Bill affirms.
Theyve come a long way from Holden.
Later, Sadie stops by Jakes place in Jodie.
Shes got baked goods and a note saying I love you, but Jakes nowhere to be found.
As Sadie walks around looking for him, a shadowy figure moves in the background, heading out quietly.
Jake finally arrives, but its a little too late.
