Good can win out over bad.
Komodo dragons are tasty.
But South Will Rise Again (and lookee there, another promise!)
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doesnt offer much evidence that those promises can actually be kept.
The establishments proprietor asks if the cowboy wants a whore room or sleep room.
as her child watches.
The next day, he leaves with his medicine, riding past a hanging tree full of corpses.
Its not clear how they died, but what is clear is the cowboy straps on his gun belt.
Nonreaders of the comics, arent you anxious to see how this storyline interacts with our present-day characters?
And comic readers, arent you scared about how this storyline will be changed?
(Four Gospels Only 90s Kids Will Love!)
When Emily tells him this behavior isnt like him, he says its not him.
Turn into a bat?
Sleep in a coffin?
Not if I can help it.
Afraid of the cross?
Its a 2,000-year-old symbol of hypocrisy, slavery, and oppression.
But it wont burn me face off.
Cass eventually cops that the sun bothers him, but SPF helps.
Also, he prefers single malt to human blood.
(Cue flashback to Carlos leaving them behind on that ill-fated job.)
We lost everything because of him.
Took two years to track him down.
And your boyfriend said no to this?
Plus, Tulips obvious competition for the affections of the wild-haired man of God.
So Tulip arrives at the diner, where parishioners are waiting for Jesses advice.
They were going to eat that dragon anyways, Jesse says.
They were setting up a barbeque spit.
Tulips furious Jesses denying who he is, but Jesse stays calm.
He tells Tulip hes changed, and so can she.
We dont have to be what weve been.
it’s possible for you to be good.
Thats what we want, right?
We all want to be good.
Its Eugene, whos had a rough couple of days.
Then his father made it clear he agrees with the vandals suggestion.
He knows its his fault, but he doesnt want his dad to suffer for his sins.
Jesse decides to fix this by driving Eugene to Tracy Loachs house.
But come on, its not going to be that easy, Jesse.
NEXT: Quincannon has weird ideas about serving the Lord
Now lets check in on the Quincannon crew.
Donnies languishing in bed, shamed into inaction by the multiple whuppings from Jesse.
His wife tries to buck him up by telling him the South will rise again.
Her storys more effective.
And suddenly Donnie starts to put some things together, the strain of thinking showing on his face.
He said to serve God, Quincannon says.
Which I will, from this day on.
Later that day, Donnie breaks down while having lunch with his wife.
Preachers got a power, he says.
He made me do things.
He explains about the gun, the lustful bus driver, and Quincannons surprise conversion.
c’mon dont screw Russell in accounting.
He cries on her shoulder, and she promises Custer will eventually get what he deserves.
(A slight massive security breach is in their working draft.)
They agree itll be the end of them both if they dont handle it right.
But when they finally go to answer the phone, the incessant ringing stops.
This is a bad, bad sign, apparently, because they both stare in trepidation.
Tulips been doing some thinking of her own, and shes decided to embrace bad.
Then they climb into her car and have deeply unsexy sex in the backseat.
Thats one way to show Jesse who she really is, I guess.
Gee, thanks, Dr. Phil.
Then DeBlanc and Fiore roll into the diner.
Jesse thinks theyre there about Dallas, but no.
As in the sky above?
Theyve been watching him use his new power, and now they want it back.
Ah, but its not God inside of him, the heavenly ambassadors tell him.
And we terminate the episode with Quincannon.
He and the mayor greet three suits from Green Acres, the competing company Quincannon rejected last week.
Were your spidey senses tingling during this scene?
If so, congratulations!
Youre a consumer of modern entertainment!
Because sure enough, Quincannon pulls out a shotgun and murders the crap out of the Green Acres people.
We grow or we die, Quincannon explains to the horrified mayor.
But hey, Im not the biblical scholar Odin Quincannon is.
