In the last episode, Kelvin and Keefe were ejected from the God Squad and kicked out of their house, and Eli was shot several tis and crashed his car. Gulp, he's dead!
Sky didn't really want a blow job, or he would have waited for Keefe to move his mouth into position. He wanted to tease Keefe, demonstrating what he couldn't have. The God Squad guys laugh and high-five each other. In gay communities, and actually among heterosexuals also, the person who performs fellatio is often denigrated, considered physically and socially inferior. Keefe's activity with Kelvin apparently brands him as "a bottom."
They yell at him for not being around late;y, but he isn't ready to show himself in public yet. "I am a beast!" Jesse quips that the robe makes him look like the beauty from Beauty and the Beast.
Next they argue over who will fill the power vacuum left by Eli's absence, until Martin has had enough: "Can't you just be kind to each other? Self-absorbed, loud, arrogant fucking assholes." That's about the size of it.
Kelvin agrees:"Y'all are a bunch of a-holes." Jesse points out that he was talking about "you, too, dick-lips." The term refers to lips that would be especially nice to receive fellatio from: a call-back to the glory hole scene earlier, and yet another reference to Kelvin being gay.
The Return of Baby Billy: After scenes where Judy promises to become a better person and Gideon announces that he's leaving to take a stunt job, BJ and Tiffany track Baby Billy's movements from his credit card statement. He's in Winston-Salem, spending money at Sbarro, Bojangles, Tommy Hilfinger, Aeropostale, and the Fossil Watch Store.
Timeline alert: the dates were all in mid October, 2022. This episode aired on February 13, 2022.
Tiffany can sound out most of the words; apparently BJ has been teaching her to read. He has become a father figure.
In Winston-Salem, Baby Billy is recording a commercial for his new scam, a coconut-flavored health elixir that will cure every disease, even COVID. Dude, that's false advertising, a criminal offense. On his way out of the studio, BJ, Judy, and Tiffany accost him. First he tries to hide; then he claims that he was trying to make money to support Tiffany and their son; then he assaults BJ and runs away.
Jesse's Plan: After discussing the possibility of blowing up Junior's house and having a heart-to-heart with Martin, Jesse reveals to the siblings his new plan: he'll tell the congregation and the news media that Eli is recovering, and give them his hospital and room number, so the listening Cycle Ninjas will know to where to strike again. Except Eli won't be there: Jesse will clear the hospital and lay in wait, ready to gun them down. Can you really clear an entire hospital? The siblings think that it's a crazy idea, but he talks them into it: "Let's lie to the church like a fucking family."
Cut to the ambulances and army jeeps moving Eli to the safe house. Which happens to be his own mansion; is that wise? Judy, Amber, and the kids join him.
On the third day he rose from the dead: Meanwhile, Keefe sneaks back to the God Squad compound and tells Keefe: "I'm busting you out of here."
Wait. When Eli visited, Keefe was already in the tiger cage. Then he was shot, and they announced that he was in a coma in the Sunday service. IT'S SUNDAY AGAIN! Has Keefe been in that cage for over a week? That would be inconceivably brutal. Besides it wouldn't fit with the Christ motif: Keefe has to descend "into hell" on Friday, and get resurrected on Sunday. I think there is a problem with the show's continuity.
"Are we taking back the house?" Keefe asks. I'd be asking a lot more than that, just before I called the police and my lawyer.
"We are ejecting," Kelvin answers. "We'll move in with the rest of the family in the safe house." They run from the Tiger Cage hand in hand, then through the yard to freedom.
Notice that Kelvin does not have an instrumental reason for offering his hand: Keefe is already standing. It is purely a gesture of affection..
This is a significant scene: Kelvin admits that Keefe is a member of the family, and invites a public display of affection that establishes them as a romantic couple. A scene ago he yelled at Keefe for trying to hold his hand. Now he initiates it.
Question: Keefe is wearing only a jockstrap. Where do they intend to find clothes? Kelvin had to move their stuff out of the master bedroom suite, but it would still be in the house, right?
Pizza and Cycle Ninjas: At the safe house, Keefe goes to work on embedding himself into the family. First he advises Kelvin to visit his father (and calls him Brother instead of the formal Brother Kelvin). Then he tries to distract Jesse's kids from the crisis with what he thinks are funny stories. While they are eating pizza, he notes that as a young boy, he often had pizza for every meal, even for dessert. That's not funny, it's sad. Where were your parents?
We cut to Kelvin visiting the comatose Eli. He admits that the God Squad was kind of dumb, but he just started it to make Eli proud. And invite a lot of musclemen to the steam showers. He prays, promising to "never succumb to hubris again" if God heals Eli. And Eli speaks! A miracle! The end.
Oh, right, we still have 15 minutes to go. Jesse, the men in the family, and the mercenaries waiting in the cleared hospital. Four Cycle Ninjas appear, armed with rifles. One is shot, and the others flee. Jesse follows, knocks a second off his motorcycle, and shoves a taser up his butt, enacting an anal rape. Gideon chases and subdues the others. The end.
Shaun Lynch and Jonathan Bennett after the break
