A raven! I already like this episode. We open on a spooky church in a graveyard and the team checking it out. They’re seeking a werewolf, for which of course they bought alcohol along. Seems wise. Cut to night and they’re telling each other ghost stories, and Ben says “I’ll be right back” because he’s never watched Scream. This gives David and Kristen to first flirt and then discuss Leland’s plan to use Kristen’s eggs to bring about the Antichrist. The things I type because of this show!
The team sees glowing red eyes, David goes to investigate and is attached by a…mechanical object? It is a robot, and no one knows where it came from, but apparently one attacked another nun in what seemed to be a targeted attack. A racially targeted attack.
These people have been working with Ben for how many years and they have to ask him what jailbreaking software is?! Anyway, the running theory the team now has is that someone has hacked this robot to commit hate crimes. They turn on the robot dog to test it, and also have a conversation wherein Ben is being very shady about why no one can come to his apartment. My guess is whatever creature he saw last week is still there or he’s got some elaborate set up to “catch” it that would make him look crazy.
And I’m right! Ben is waiting out this creature at home. The creature tells Ben he’s not a trick of the eye and that Ben cannot “science his way out of this.” Ben points out that if the creature is outside of him, why does it have his voice? The creature responds by grabbing his head and appearing again. Very Del Toro-esque creature, I still love the design.
Now we’re at Kristen’s house and a daughter hears a noise. The robot dog has appeared at their front door and the daughter reacts to this as if it’s perfectly normal.
Leland is presenting something that’s clearly evil to a clearly evil to a clearly evil board of directors. Apparently, they’re discussing the percentage of people bound for Hell. Satan is on the Zoom call. Leland is assuring the team that they’ve got a woman 8 months pregnant with the Antichrist, but Kristen has to be involved somehow. Unsurprisingly the Board of Evil is misogynistic, who’d have thunk it?! Despite this, Sheryl is tasked with convincing a particularly awful board member of…something.
Andy is sleeping under the bed now. Kristen wants him to get another MRI. The robot dog is in Kristen’s house now and everybody finds it cute, but I don’t understand. It’s terrifying.
David is at a mysterious meetup, where he is led to what looks like an interrogation room and introduced to a guy named TJ who tells David random facts about himself including when he lost his virginity. TJ leaves. David is then led to a table with five other men and asked to focus on a playing card, then draw. This feels like something out of Fringe.
Back to Andy at the doctor’s office, and Andy is understandably confused as to why the doctor won’t talk directly to him. Turns out it’s because the doctor thinks Andy is using drugs. None of these interactions seems medically ethical, I have to say. Andy demands a drug test, and you just know he’ll test positive for some sedative or something considering what Leland and Sheryl have been doing. Ketamine maybe?
It’s night and the robot dog has gotten in the house and is displaying a vulva threateningly on its face/screen thing. It seems to see something in the house but it’s just one of the daughters, who is yet again sneaking in from Nun School. How long does it take to read a pamphlet, kid?
Sheryl is about to go try and charm this dude, who she just witnessed smacking his lawyer in the face with a book on tort reform. Sheryl is, shockingly, unsuccessful in charming or threatening the dude.
Back to David, now at the Ministry of Magic. He is needed more than ever, but for what? David is shown a video of a man on a bridge focusing on a card, then looking in both directions. What he sees is what David drew when asked to focus on a card. Are they angelic sleeper agents? Apparently, it is “remote viewing,” which has been tested by the CIA. And God, evidently. David seriously checks a text in the middle of this AND GETS UP TO LEAVE. Incredibly badass. Before he goes, whoever these dudes are tell David they just want to test his unique talents.
Now the team is meeting up with the owner of the robot dog, who just happens to be Black. The guy jailbroke it through a Reddit thread. At Ben’s house, Kristen and David are trying to ask Ben about his clearly strange experiments but he brushes them off. Ben is looking at what was used to jailbreak the dog. David wonders if it was programmed to be anti-Catholic and I laughed out loud.
Andy is shaking in the tub at home and really alarming the girls. One of the girls answers to “Feliz Navidad.” It was Leland calling of course. The girls calm Andy down but they will be in therapy for years over this one moment. Later, Kristen wakes up in the middle of the night thinking something is in her daughter’s room. She thinks it’s the dog, but the dog is at Ben’s. But it is A dog, and it’s after Wannabe Nun Lynn. It IS anti-Catholic! Kristen smashes it.
Sheryl successfully threatens that dude and gets a corner office…in the Being John Malkovich wing, directly under a glass ceiling above which all the men are milling. Damn, that’s cold.
Kurt Fuller returns! Ben is visiting him. The end.