Appropriately, at least 50 percent of Finish the Song seems to take place in blood-spattered rooms.
We open in 1881, where our not-so-friendly cowboys had a bad couple of days.
I love my horse, I love my wife, and I love my little girl.
Credit: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television/AMC
And as for Jesus, he can join us all in hell.
Then he exacts some old timey justice.
Did I say justice?
Thats the wrong word.
He actually murders every last soul in that saloon: patrons, prostitutes, piano player, and all.
The scene is shot in what Im starting to think is the typicalPreacherstyle: Ultra-violence thats only hinted at.
Thats shaping up to be a theme tonight.)
Jesse has other plans, though.
He apologizes and dives out of the police car, promising Root hell see him in church on Sunday.
Ive got no idea how a pen can jimmy a police car door, but Jesse apparently does.
Anyway, Jesses not the only one on the move this week.
DeBlanc and Fiore enter a travel agency and ask to travel south.Reallyfar south.
DeBlanc and Fiore provide them in unison: Serial killer.
But I love it.
In the end, she hands over their tickets and tells them where to meet their shuttle.
Okay, remember that story line I swore wed never talk about again?
Its gotten worse, and Tulip cannot deal anymore.
The living rooms full of cages, some full and some empty.
Heres some cash if you need more critters.
Dont go to Pet Express because theyre on to me.
Furthermore, Tulip says Emily can have Jesse, because Tulipsdone.
Shes dating Mayor Miles.
You know: ginger goatee, khaki pants, been chasing her forever?
He sounds … cool, Tulip lies, then leaves to kill a man in Albuquerque.
She agrees just to get him off the phone.
Oh, Khaki Miles, shes just not that into you.
Emilys horrified, and the guinea pig she drops in doesnt seem to take the edge off.
If heaven, Fiores worried theyll be separated forever.
So they toss a coin until it gives them the result they want (heaven).
But when they discover the heaven phone missing, their only choice is hell.
Gee, who else knows about the heaven phone?
With the help of a heaven phone?
We try, but we never budge an inch.
So good ol Miles rushes over to find Tulips uncle passed out on the couch.
DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN, DID YOU SEE THAT COMING?
BECAUSE I CERTAINLY DID NOT.
He gives a heartfelt you stay with me!
speech, but she begs him over and over to kill her.
In the end, he removes his hat and strokes her head, then strangles her.
Its a brutal moment of compassion that ends with the sheriff in tears.
Hes still choking her when the resurrected Soccer-phim appears briefly in the doorway, then leaves.
Wonder where shes headed?
Breaking Badshout out time!
Bless you, whatever delightful wizard made this happen!
(My moneys on producer Sam Catlin or director Michael Slovis, both of whom worked onBB.)
Anyway, back to the Adelphi.
The shuttle driver points to their trunk and tells them theyre not allowed carry-ons.
NEXT: Two story lines finally connect
Outside the OHare house, Emilys freeing the surviving guinea pigs.
Jesse walks into the charnel house, shocked by what he finds.
Cass, huddled in a corner, tells him to go away.
Its not safe for you here.
He sounds more like himself when he says mournfully, I told you what I was.
And now you see.
Jesse responds that Cass saw the worst parts of him, too, and apologizes.
Plenty, Jesse says, including letting Cass burn last week.
Well, you put me out pretty quick, Cass says.
So that answers that question.
And hey, whats even better than an apology?
Helping your best mate dispose of the mayors body, of course!
Remember when he secretly disposed of DeBlanc and Fiores bodies the first few times he offed them?
Now they can kill two birds with one unmarked grave.
Before they leave, Jesse calls Tulip.
Until the end of the world.
But is it too late for Tulip?
with a meat mallet.
But iftwo linesfrom previous episodes mean anything, her rage could be well justified.
And hey, here come Fiore and DeBlanc, picking their way across the blood-drenched floor.
At this point, the best location identifier in television history pops up: HELL.
The cowboy draws his guns.
DeBlanc offers to free him from all of this, and the cowboy responds by shooting him dead.
Do angels re-spawn in hell?
I didnt see a flash of light, and Im bummed because suddenly, Fiore and DeBlanc (FiBlanc?
are my favorite couple on this show.
Fiore carries on, telling the cowboy they want him to kill a preacher.
Cass grabs the angel hands: How many you need?
Mmmm, onell do, Jesse says.
Jesses on the run from the police.
Cass, Emily, and Root all killed people.
Tulip looks like shes about to, and the cowboy slaughtered a whole town.
So much for trying to be good, huh?
In next weeks finale, well see how they finish this particular song.
