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More Militia Squabbles: Under the highway overpass, the militia men get more chicken, this time from Fancy Nancy's, but the portions are still too small. Plus they've accomplished none of their goals due to Peter's mismanagement. Instead of Brotherhood of Tomorrow's Fires, referring to an Apocalypse that isn't happening, they're going to call themselves the Keepers of Yesterday's Monuments, to key into their interest in (Confederate) monuments.
They kick Uncle Peter and Chuck out of the group, taking all of their money, but letting them keep the truck full of explosives.
Top photo: The tender bits of Steve Zahn, who plays Uncle Peter.
Hating on Eli: In the Executive Board Room, the siblings speak to Eli only through Baby Billy, expressing anger that he refused to pay the ransom.
Judy: "You left us to die! Uncle Peter would have killed any one of us, or all three, or he'd just mutilate us and send you our body parts."
Kelvin specifies: "Nipples, penis, butthole shavings -- all our tender bits." Interesting --the three body parts he finds erotic. We can also divide it up by sibling: Judy's nipples, Jesse's penis, Kelvin's butthole. We all know that Kelvin is a bottom, so he's concerned about that.
Jesse states that he's always known that Eli doesn't love him, but he figured that it was all about the church. But he was wrong -- it's all about the money.
Eli protests: it's not about the money. It's always been about his children.
Hah! They're not buying it.
Suddenly Eli is happy because the siblings are working together, cooperating, not competing. If it takes hating on him for them to work as a team, fine.
Showtime: The Sunday of the siblings' return to the church. Crowds waiting to greet them. A woman holds a sign: "The Gemstone 3 -- we missed you." The ticket booth announces: "The return of the Gemstone children -- praise be!" At the ministers' meeting earlier in the season, the siblings tried the "We Three and Thee" catchphrase, with disastrous results. Now the congregation is embracing The Three.
In the hallway outside their dressing rooms, the siblings say goodbye to their partners. Jesse/Amber and BJ/Judy kiss. Keefe moves in for a kiss, but Kelvin blocks him with a forehead press. Keefe looks very amorous, as if still caught up in the afterglow from whatever they did last night. Kelvin looks apologetic: "Sorry, dude, not in front of my family and the gossipy church staff."
This scene received a lot of misdirection in the trailers. First you didn't see who Kelvin was saying goodbye to, so you would think it might be Taryn. Then the lighting makes a square white patch appear on Keefe's face, as if he was injured during the rescue attempt.
Jesse signals "Showtime!", and the siblings join him to walk down the hall to the stage. Amber at the other end of the hallway, waiting for the partners to join her in the sanctuary. Keefe and BJ stand there, watching.
Suddenly Kelvin backs up, then turns around and walks quickly back to Keefe. What's going on? He's holding his dressing room key -- maybe he forgot something? He wraps his arm around Kelvin's shoulders, slams him forcefully against the wall, and kisses him. We cut to BJ grinning, and Judy grabbing at Jesse's arm in surprise.
In the second take, or maybe a second kiss, the dressing room key is gone, and Kelvin has moved his hand to Keefe's face.
They break, and Kelvin walks back to the siblings, grinning, pleased with himself. Keefe looks proud of him, too. Jesse and Judy give him congratulatory grins. He adjusts his glasses, as if to say "Well, that's that."
More after the break
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