1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Next

Thelma goes right to church and appears before Roxanne. But instead of being sore afraid, Roxanne's just surprised:

Roxanne: "Thelma?"
Thelma: "No. Trainee angel Xena at your service."
Roxanne: "What?"
Thelma: "Well, you get to change your name, you know. I've always been a fan."

Naturally, Roxanne thinks she's going insane, but Thelma-Xena says she's been chosen: "God is all-seeing. He sees all. And he has seen you."

Thelma: "You know, you're not nearly as bitchy as you used to be."
Roxanne: "Thank you. And you're really much more attractive."

And then Thelma gives Roxanne a task and tells her not to doubt God.

That was really kind of brilliant. Or at least kind of funny.

Malachi's room — Roxanne apologises to Malachi, trying to ignore all the lurking succubi and incubi.

Ella's room — Thelma tells Ella the plan is working, and that those were probably the best ten minutes of her life. I hope Maya didn't hear that, wherever she is. Ella says she's glad Thelma's had the best ten minutes, because she (as in Ella) is about to have the worst. That was nice and cryptic.

The extrasensory plane — Roxanne pretends to lead Malachi in meditation as she snoops around his room. Finally she finds the amulet thingie — I'd forgotten all about that.

Fondue — Ella's got a bowl of fire in her room and is sticking her dagger (and her hands) in it.

Thelma: "I used to like sticking my fingers into candles and picking off the hot wax, but I guess this isn't really like that."

Maybe not, but I do have a soy wax massage candle with your name on it. Well, yours and someone else's, really, but you don't mind a threesome, do you? Didn't think so.

Apparently that whole thing had something to do with giving the dagger/knife/whatever its power back. Hum.

Ouch — Leon goes to Tom's grave, and of course there's Tom, with a not-so-pretty zigzag around his neck.

Church — Roxanne has brought the amulet, and Thelma is there to accept it.

Roxanne: "I live to serve you."
Thelma: [lasciviously] "Rrrrreally?"

Now that did make me laugh.

Roxanne looks nervous for a moment, but then Thelma says "that is all we ask." Aww, that's no fun.

A graveside chat — Tom tells Leon to go back to Ella. Leon pouts about it, because "sometimes the things we want most are not the things that are best for us." Nah. Really?

Confusing stuff — Ella's in a nursery, and there's Nurse Perie the scary faerie... oh, this is baby Malachi? She's gone back in time, I guess? Ella reaches for the little demon spawn, and of course Nurse Perie reaches for Ella, and they have another battle because we all liked the first one so much. (I did, I'll admit.) Ella finally head-butts her (well done) and then moves to stab the baby. But she hears Leon's words in her head — "you've been killing for so long, you've forgot what love is" — and that gives Nurse Perie just enough time to make Ella stab herself instead. And then Ella time-travels back to her room, where all Thelma can do is rip up sheets and listen as Ella starts to die.

Ella ruminates about what Leon said — about being heartless, blah blah. "He's got to me, that boy," she says.

But Thelma understands why Ella's lived the life she has, and doesn't want Ella to stop living it just yet.

A ha — Malachi discovers that the amulet is missing, and immediately thinks of Roxanne.

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 - Next