We open with…Sheryl confessing to David. Have we heard of the evil group described as The Sixty before and I just forgot? I probably just forgot. Sheryl tells David what Leland has been up to and confesses how she and Leland attempted to murder each other, and reveals that Timothy is the Antichrist. She wants David to baptize Timothy, and David agrees. Operation Antichrist goes down 9am Tuesday.
Father Kabiru arrives to ask David to do some remote viewing. I’m gonna be thrown off every time they talk about “AOLs” being distracting to David’s work here.
David is being thrown a surprise party! No, wait, he’s remote viewing a surprise party. Nothing of note is seen, and then David really IS being thrown a surprise birthday party, with just Kristen and Ben. Apparently, Kristen’s daughters are extremely good at decorating cakes. They should go into business. Can you imagine? A bakery run by a bevy of chatty white girls? They’d be rich. David talks about what he saw with a palpable yearning, and somehow Kristen knows where the guy in the vision lives.
Cut to Ben’s apartment, the goat man and his team of suits has shown up and are upset that babies cry. Through trickery, Sheryl has finagled an entire day with Timothy.
Now we’re back with David’s visions. What he sees makes it clear this man he’s seeing lost one of his children in car crash. The man is about to kill himself and David prays for God to help him. He appears to stop, then appears to change his mind and become a family annihilator because that’s normal. David screams, and an adorable dog shows up to stop the man from killing his family. Which means we can all agree: David’s screams cause spontaneous dogs.
CREDITS at 20 minutes in. “Don’t go swimming for at least one hour after skipping an intro.” Jokes on you, I don’t swim.
David is telling Father Kabiru about the man in his vision and Father Kabiru tells him to focus on what’s important. Rude. So, David goes to Sister Andrea which frankly everyone should be doing first no matter what the problem. She tells him to play a heavenly chord. Did she mean “secret chord” and she just wants him to listen to “Hallelujah”? David starts attempting this on some garbage app that you’ll never get a heavenly chord out of…but he does. When he strikes it, clues start to appear. This would make an amazing Myst puzzle.
David, Ben, and Kristen are going to try and find the man in his vision. Of course, now Sheryl has to rush to baptize Timothy, and the only person available is Father Ignatius. Sheryl shows up at the door, which is answered by Sister Andrea. Sheryl just goes ahead and tells her the truth about Timothy, and Andrea sees Timothy as a creepy little demon. They begin to baptize him. Sheryl has some trouble with the rejecting Satan part, but she gets there. She doesn’t sound particularly convincing. But Timothy is successfully baptized and the storm that was raging the entire time abates somewhat. Sheryl nails Timothy’s baptism certificate (is that a thing?) to Leland’s front door.
David prays for the man in his visions, and the man appears to hear him. He also seems to sense where David is in the room. And he appears to still be considering family annihilation. David also gets a baptism report from Father Ignatius, who tells David he doesn’t trust Father Kabiru.
David is describing his Heavenly Chord vision to Kristen and Ben, who are helping him identify AOLs in a nice callback to past episodes. They manage to get a clue towards identifying the man in the visions because apparently the only way to get this particular book is through Dr. Boggs.
Leland is terrified of newly baptized Timothy and is going to attempt to smother him. Then we cut to Dr. Boggs talking to vision man’s wife. If he’s worked with this woman before, how is this his first time hearing her husband’s name? I love that Dr. Boggs is pretending he cares about ethics and confidentiality now, when he calls Kristen to tell her who the woman is. We must have missed a scene where they planned all this.
Back to Leland and Timothy. Despite his many flaws it appears Leland can’t kill a baby. Wuss. Instead he burns the baptism certificate and tells Timothy “this never happened”.
Back to the team tracking down Tyler, the man from David’s visions. The three are terrible liars and make up a story about representing a school. David speaks to Tyler and says God told him to come, which is not the best thing to lead with honestly. But David breaks through Tyler’s denial and Tyler admits to what he’s been thinking. He convinces Tyler to get treatment and they hug.
Work party with the Satanists! I always wonder: why do blood sacrifices have to come from the palm? Seems like that would inconveniently disable you for a bit. Why not use the inner thigh or upper arm? Anyway, everyone gives some blood at the office, goat man says “welcome to the new age”, and the crowd turns to…
Something we don’t get to see, END OF EPISODE.