We open on a woman dancing in a psychiatric institution. She believes that if she stops, bad things will happen. She immediately stops and admits in a demonic voice that it (the demon) killed her children because she (Katherine) would never be exceptional if she kids were in the picture.
Cut to a room at The Entity. Father Kabiru puts a book in front of David, and I thought we were about to get an intro less than ten minutes into an episode! But no, we’re back to the kidnapped religious folks and David helping to find them with his gift.
Sheryl calls the girls looking or a toy of The Antichrist. Then she throws shade on Kristen’s job for being strange. Sheryl. You work with a goat man.
Now we’re at Katherine’s attempted exorcism. David has an inconvenient vision of the kidnapped people, and it appears that he is visible to them during. He is grabbed by a guard, then at the exorcism begins singing. Katherine dies. His singing wasn’t THAT bad. Despite being checked over before the exorcism, her body has gangrene on the feet, and they notice a tattoo. It’s of a demonic sigil, but it is marked vanquished by The Entity. Now I want this as a video game.
David tells Father Kabiru about his vision and cites a spire he saw as a reference for the location.
INTRO TIME! 12 minutes in. Our skip intro threat is “how to stop the haunting…show the intro to someone else”. Naimi Watts tried that once and we all know what happened with THAT.
Dr. Boggs has written a novel and has hired someone to review it. It is reviewed…very poorly. I’ve never seen someone click a pen in as much displeasure as Dr. Boggs did in this scene. Anyway, he handles criticism poorly. And doesn’t validate parking.
Dance studio! This instructor has real Fred Armisen energy. He tells them off and we don’t any new info out of him. But Kristen will talk to the other dancers. This one is hitting on her. Or trying to indoctrinate her into a cult called The Movement, which sounds like a poop related cult. Further proof that it might be a cult: an ex-member! She says Isabella, the one Kristen was talking to, is the ringleader and put a hex on her and Katherine. She brings out a poppet they put under her bed as proof, saying they told her if she ever danced again, she’d “dance with Katherine in Hell”.
Kristen wants to hear Isabella’s side of the story. You’re just saying that because she looks like Yvonne Strahovski, Kristen. Or maybe Katherine Newton? Anyway, she’s going to the dance performance tonight.
Isabelle says everyone got one of those dolls. What a cute party favor! She says Megan told Katherine the troupe was immoral. Apparently, Isabelle approves of Kristen’s feet because she wants Kristen to stay after the show. Feet are gross.
Honestly the girls giving their picture to some rando generative AI site is the scariest thing that has ever happened on this show. They’ve found Dr. Boggs’ story and are adapting it and “crowdsourcing” it. This will end well.
The dance performance happened. And yes I’ve been aware of the Suspiria nods this entire time. David is the only one seeing the Kate Bush dancer in the sheet.
Father Kabiru arrives to give us some exposition. This is a witch demon. Ben and Kristen do not approve of witch hunting. She’s also unhappy with the increased number of exorcisms they’ve been doing on women. But Kristen if you don’t approve of the Catholic church (and I don’t either), you shouldn’t work for them. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You’re an active part of this. I can’t believe I’m preaching morals for THIS show.
The girls’ version of Dr. Boggs’ story went viral despite it being incredibly shitty looking. The trending stories are St. Patrick, Ireland, Taylor Swift, Dr. Kurt Boggs, Stephen King, Elon Musk, and Kim Kardashian. Seems realistic. In a moment of extreme ethical responsibility as a therapist, Dr. Boggs cancels all his appointments for the day to chase internet fame.
Isabelle is confessing to David. She wants to know what Kate Bush said to him. It said to give up his god. She tells him to pray to whatever it is they created. Also, it really looks like she tries to boop him through the confessional screen.
David is seeing the hostages again, this time as if he was one of their captors. He cries out for God’s help, which in the end causes the captor to stab himself.
Dr. Boggs has writer’s block. For some reason Kate Bush comes to him to help. She’s also got shades of Angels in America going on.
Sheryl is with the girls and sees the little packet of sleepy herbs Andy gave one of them. She is very alarmed as she clearly knows what that is. She shows at Leland’s ready to kick some ass and, not finding Leland, decides she can at least destroy his home while she’s there.
David and Father Kabiru are both wrong here. David feels he murdered that guard, Dr. Kabiru feels it was for the greater good. But all David did was ask God for help. GOD murdered that guard.
The witches are dancing in the wood and Kristen is invited. I’d go too. While dancing with Isabelle, Kristen sees Kate Bush too. But David and Ben show up to spoil the vibe. Ben points out at that moment that Megan burned herself. Maybe you should have done this BEFORE, Ben. Somehow this makes it clear that Megan is the one who killed Katherine’s children and was the one possessed by this demon.
Leland arrives home and sees “You’re dead, motherfucker” written on his floor. Sheryl is waiting for him with a knife. THE END.
