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“Wynonna Earp” recap (1.03): Donuts and Demons

Previously on Wynonna Earp, Wynonna joined Dolls as part of the Black Badge Division, Officer Haught swaggered in and shamelessly hit on Waverly, the Revenants wanted to escape Purgatory but can’t cross town lines without suffering a long and painful re-death.

We open at Shorty’s bar, where Wynonna is moving all of Waverly’s stuff from the upstairs apartment so they can move back into the old family home. She sees Henry sitting at the bar and asks him to buy her a drink, but he brushes her off, calling her forward. Wynonna says she can tell what kind of guy he is, someone always running after or away from something, which is just her type. He tries to say she’s not his type, which is not even a good joke because Wynonna Earp is literally everyone’s type.

Once the cowboy leaves, Waverly comes to talk to her sister about the little flirtatious exchange she just witnessed.

Wynonna says she could do worse than Henry, and asks if Waverly is ready for her research presentation, because tomorrow is the day her first day as Black Badge Division Consultant.

Meanwhile, across town, the Deputy Mayor is giving a speech about the wife of one of Purgatory’s founding fathers, who was a deaf, mute poet, and the time capsule she buried. They dig it up, but as soon as the capsule is out of the ground, three Revenants attack, pulling out Dixon’s diary and shoving it in their bag with a severed hand that’s already there. One particularly twitchy Rev asks if he can kill the mayor, and when he’s given the okay, he stabs him approximately a bajillion times.

At the precinct, Waverly presents her research to Dolls and Wynonna, explaining about the Ghost River Triangle, the cursed part of town. She trails off at the end of her sentence and Wynonna asks what’s wrong; Waverly says she didn’t realize how crazy it all sounded until she said it out loud. Despite the adorable nature of her pause, Dolls stays stern-faced as ever and tells her to go on. Wynonna mocks his serious tone to ease Waverly’s nerves.

Waverly goes on to explain why the Revenants can’t leave, and that she can’t quite ID them all just yet but she’s working on it. Wynonna is ready to fight; she growls out a badass battle cry. But Dolls points out that she’s not scaring anyone with powdered donut on her nose.

Dolls takes Waverly’s research, which she’s not too keen to part with, but Wynonna says that’s the way the donut crumbles.

Haught comes in because she was told to give Dolls the heads up if anything weird happened in Purgatory, so Dolls leaves with her. But Haught smirks at Waverly before leaving, too.

Dolls notices it and, by golly, I think he ships it.

On her way out, Wynonna high fives her lil sis and tells her she did great, leaving Waverly alone to collect the rest of her research. She drops a picture of Doc Holliday and picks it up, looking at it for the first time in a while, and realizing that it’s good ol’ Henry.

Speak of the devil (Demon? Friendly ghost? Whatever he is.) Doc gets a visitor to his trailer from a lady Revenant named Bethany. He hopes she’s there to give him the info Bobo has he wants, but Bethany says Bobo wants her to do something else first. Then she strips on down, which doesn’t surprise Doc as much as it surprises me. So they do it, to piss off Bobo.

At the precinct, Dolls is looking at crime scene photos, and when he tells that the mayor was filleted like a fish, I swear it’s the closest he’s ever come to smiling. I think if he ever laughed his face would be sore for a week from using muscles that have probably atrophied by now.

Anyway, Wynonna and Dolls try to figure out why they took the diary and watch a video of the Rogue Revenants severing a dude’s hand.

Wynonna recognizes Twitchy as one of The Seven from the night her dad died. Dolls realizes that this is all part of a ritual; a mute’s voice, the hand of an innocent murderer. Pieces to a spell that will get them out of the Ghost River Triangle. And there’s definitely going to be a third paradox they’ll seek out.

Wynonna heads out, and Dolls tries to stop her, but nothing gets between her and her tequila.

Wy heads out; Dolls tries to stop her, but nothing gets between her and tequila

At Shorty’s, Waverly tries to pull a Spencer Hastings and play it cool in the face of knowing more about someone than she wants them to know she knows. Henry is trying to get the name of a particular woman from the Wyatt Earp days, and she tries to get him to confess by showing him a picture of one of his wives, but he doesn’t bite. He describes the girl he’s thinking about, and she asks where she can find him, but he tells her the trailer park isn’t a place a lady should go.

Wynonna goes to the cemetery to visit her daddy and Willa and tells them she misses them. And then she cries. And words cannot express how much I loved this scene. Because she doesn’t for a second lose anything that makes her Wynonna, but she’s being vulnerable, showing her emotions. I think that’s what makes Wynonna different than say Jessica Jones or Faith the vampire slayer. She’s not really all that guarded; she’s just broken.

Wynonna’s feelsfest is interrupted by the sound of digging and crazy ranting, so she goes to yell at whoever is responsible, and finds Twitchy graverobbing. She tries to shoot him, but he’s too quick, but she does pick up something he dropped.

She takes this news to Dolls, and they figure out that the grave that was being robbed belonged to a banker, and the paper is full of code, so probably it’s a vault combination. They head to the store that used to be the bank, but they’re too late, the Rogue Revs are already there. Also, there are Waverly’s boyfriend Champ and her boss Shorty. And when Wynonna and Dolls are spotted, the two guys are taken as hostages.

Wynonna convinces Dolls to let her be their bargaining trip and go in with the combination and exchange the Earp heir for all the hostages. He’s about to give her advice about going into a hostage situation, but this ain’t her first rodeo.

Dolls takes her Peacemaker for reasons I will never understand, gives her a phone so he can communicate with the baddies, runs his hand through her hair in an uncharacteristic and confusing move, then sends her into the fray. She offers herself up to the Rogue Revenants, and they release all the hostages except for Shorty (who is having a bit of a hard time) and Champ.

Outside, Haught asks Dolls what they should do, and Dolls tells her that they’re going to keep the store surrounded. Dolls gives her a phone (I think he has a phone generating pocket? I don’t know where he keeps getting phones to hand to people) and tells her to call Waverly, because as I said, he totally ships it. Before she does, though, she notices Champ’s truck outside the car. Dolls asks, “Waverly’s boyfriend?” And she responds, “Unfortunately.”

In Reventantville, Henry goes to see Bobo and taunts him about being able to come and go as he pleases. Bobo says he knows Henry is looking for the Stone Witch, and that he’ll help him find her after he gets close to Wynonna. Waverly’s phone goes off just then, and the men see her creeping behind some trailers. Bobo tells him to deal with her, and Henry scares her away.

Things are getting out of hand inside the store, and Twitchy killed one of his Rogue Rev buddies. Wynonna keeps her head though and offers to open the vault as long as they don’t hurt Champ and Shorty. But mostly Shorty.

Henry catches up to Waverly at Shorty’s and officially makes his way onto my shit list by MANHANDLING Waverly and yelling at her for showing up at Bobo’s. She tears up and says that he’s supposed to be a hero, Wyatt Earp’s best friend, but he just keeps yelling, calling her vapid and the heir’s pitiful little sister. At this, Waverly straightens her spine and steels her face, saying the only thing she is is stupid for trusting him in the first place.

Wynonna cracks the safe and opens the vault, and Twitchy is excited to find a locket inside. The locket of a cheating wife, aka a loveless heart. The third paradox.

The Rogue Revenants use the three hostages as human shields and force Wynonna to break the two rules of hostage situations: never get in a car and never go to a second location. Dolls picks up Peacemaker and inspects it, following the van and his deputy.

The Revs drag their hostages to a field, where the Stone Witch has left them a little shrine of sorts to complete their spell. Wynonna scratches her head and finds a little tracker, understanding Doll’s weird touching earlier.

Shorty is fading fast, and the two remaining Revs fight over who will get Champ’s body, and it becomes clear that they’re going to use possession to walk out of the cursed triangle. Twitchy starts losing his mind, so the other Rev shoots him to shut him up. While he starts chanting, Wynonna tells Champ to run and save himself, for Waverly. Shorty tries to get Wynonna to leave, too, but she’s not exactly the ‘run away’ sort. At least, not anymore. He smiles at her and says that he always knew she’d come back to help them.

The Rev finishes the ritual and his essence seeps out of him and takes the form of the Black Smoke Monster from Lost. Wynonna prepares herself to be taken over (actually she says penetrated because of course she does) but at the last second, Shorty jumps in front of her and gets possessed himself.

The Rev is pissed to find out he’s in the dying man’s body, but the Stone Witch is there in her Pink Cadillac*, so he stumbles toward her anyway, figuring she’ll fix him.

*could be a Buick for all I know, Cadillac just sounded cool

Wynona then breaks out of her zip ties like a boss.

The Rev says he was going to let her live to watch him escape, but she has changed his mind. They fight, and Dolls swoops in and tries to shoot Peacemaker because apparently he really doesn’t listen to Wynonna when she talks, and when it doesn’t work, he smashes the Revenant over the head with it.

Wynonna takes Peacemaker and shoots Twitchy, sending him back to hell.

When she shoots the other Revenant, though, nothing happens. Because the Revenant’s essence is still in Shorty. Shorty pushes through and says that it hurts too much, and begs Wynonna to kill him. He can hear the Revenant’s thoughts; he can remember every horrible thing he ever did. He tells Wynonna they didn’t kill Willa right away, that she screamed for days. So Wynonna shoots her friend right between the eyes. It’s not the first person she loves she’s shot, and she crumples over Shorty’s body and cries.

At the bar, the Earp girls are having a memorial for Shorty. Officer Haught goes right for Waverly and offers her the most sincere condolences. She reaches out with her hands and her heart.

But then Champ the Chump comes in and pulls her away, kissing all over Waverly’s face in a way neither she nor Haught appreciate. Waverly reaches out to Haught, but can’t reach her with Champ holding her back. Literally and figuratively. But Haught notices it and tries to ignore Champ as Waverly meets her eyes and thanks her for the voicemail about Wynonna she left. Soon Waverly can’t be seen from under her Champ-shaped shield, so Haught leaves her be.

Champ says he doesn’t have a good feeling about Officer Whatsherface, and Waverly says, “Haught” and then tries to say something else, but Champ doesn’t let her get a word out. She cries, and he kisses her some more, telling her that since he’s fine everything is okay. But that’s not why she’s crying. There are like 20 different reasons she’s crying, and none of them are because Champ almost got bodysnatched. MAYBE the 20th reason. But only because she’s sweet. Champ promises never to leave her side again, and Waverly seems to take that more of a threat than a promise.

Haught goes to ask Dolls about the murders and the kidnappings, but he pretends like none of them are connected because somehow no one has quite caught on to the demons running rampant thing. An involuntary smile creeps onto Haught’s face, and she tells Dolls that Waverly told her she was happy she calls. Dolls says, “I’ll bet,” and I’m just going to go ahead and order him a #WayHaught sticker for his laptop.

Waverly tells Wynonna that she wishes she could be out there in the field, that maybe she could have helped today, but Wynonna says that wasn’t part of their agreement. There’s a reason she’s only Black Badge Division Consultant.

Wynonna is visibly bummed. She says she’s not sure she’s even one of the good guys, not if she can’t save people like Shorty, who were just trying to help her. But Waverly promises her that in this dark, dark world full of horrible people, Wynonna is definitely one of the good ones.

Dolls comes over to talk to Wynonna about their unresolved issues. They still have Revenants they can’t ID, Revs can possess people, and they have a Stone Witch on their side. Wynonna asks Dolls why he waited so long to jump into the fight if he tracked her, and he says he needed to see if possession was even possible. He calls Shorty collateral damage, which is the opposite of what Wynonna needed to hear. She tells Dolls that working with him was the worst idea she’s ever had, and bad ideas she’s had plenty.

Wynonna trudges home and finds Henry there. She tries to get him to leave, but he has important information for her. Waverly was right, and he’s Doc Holliday. He says he’s at her disposal, and Wynonna can’t believe her ears.

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