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‘Wynonna Earp’ S2. E11: Bobo is the Key

Previously on “Wynonna Earp,” Not Mercedes bit Nicole and started a process of cascading organ failure, we found out Nicole is married, and Waverly gave Not Beth the third seal in return for saving Nicole. Also, Gretta used the Burlap Sack Genie to wish that Wynonna never existed, setting up this episode.

OMG, how much do I love how this episode starts? Waverly and Nicole are shooting their way through a big, muddy, smoky Revenant brawl and someone is going ham with an axe. Waverly is dressed like she’s in a 1970s hippie wedding and Nicole is…Nicole. The two take refuge in a shed, where Jeremy is waiting with a remote detonator. Waverly says she can get Wynonna back, and a moment later the shed explodes. Cue opening credits!

Doc is freaking out in the well when his cell rings. Phew! He’s not stuck in the well forever. He also has a henchman above, and that henchman wants to know why Doc doesn’t just use the ladder to get out of the well, where he is ostensibly supposed to be searching for his ring. Doc crawls out and demands to be taken to the Earp homestead immediately, assuming that Wynonna will be there to make everything right. When he gets there, however, it turns out that in this parallel universe, he’s a ruthless warlord who rules over the Revenants.

The Homestead, the seat of his dominion, now bears the sign “Holliday Haus.” Doc hears shooting in the barn and assumes it’s Wynonna, but finds Rosie there instead. She’s been shackled the last six months and forced to make meth or something for Doc and his gang. Doc puts two and two together and realizes that no one else remembers what happened with the trophy at Shorty’s. He frees Rosie and decides to go find Dolls.

At the Sheriff’s office, Not Mercedes is really starting to look like roadkill. She believes that since Wynonna does not exist in this universe, she and Not Beth are free to do as they like, but freedom is relative given Dolls has her securely contained. Not only is her mind decaying (seriously, I think she’s leaking brain matter from that head wound), but that padding on her butt is getting bigger: she’s turning into a spider-human hybrid.

Doc arrives with the goal of convincing Dolls they need to figure out how to get Wynonna back, but Dolls immediately pulls a gun on him; in this universe, they’re mortal enemies. Doc, who planned for this, reveals he’s wearing explosives: shoot him, and the building goes up. Doc pleads for Dolls to remember Wynonna, but then he’s decked from behind by Sheriff Nicole and it’s lights out.

What happens next makes my heart go, “Awwwww.” Nicole looks at the photo of Sheriff Nedley (in this universe, Doc killed him), then at the clock. It’s 11:59 am, and she puts on lipstick because something important is going to happen at noon. And that something, predictably, is the arrival of Waverly, who walks into the room in slow motion and makes Nicole’s heart skip a beat. She’s bringing Nicole lunch. However, she’s wearing a hell of an engagement ring and she’s worried about whether their upcoming marriage is a mistake. Nicole is wearing a wedding band as well, and she experiences a moment of cognitive dissonance as the two universes overlap: why is she wearing it? The two share “A Moment” before Waverly heads out to meet her fiancĂ©.

It turns out I was wrong: Waverly’s fiancĂ© isn’t Jeremy, it’s Perry. Yeah, the dude from the Burlap Sack Genie episode. Apparently Waverly has been a total runaway bride and this is their third or fourth time trying to plan their wedding because Waverly keeps changing the wedding details. Perry tells her he thinks her vacillation is caused by her unfinished business: the murder of her family. He hired a private investigator to look into it, and the universes overlap again as Waverly has an outburst about the inappropriateness of finding out private information about her before she gets it herself. Perry tells her the killer has been found wandering the roads of Purgatory, babbling. She goes to the insane asylum to find the killer is Bobo.

This Bobo is from the other universe, and he wants to know why he resurrected from Hell. He eventually recognizes that they’re part of a spell and tells Waverly to find Wynonna. At the burned down church, Not Beth realizes that she can’t raise Sheriff Clootie without Not Mercedes, so she charges into the sheriff’s office to retrieve her sister wife. After their departure, Doc co-opts Jeremy into helping him.

In the basement of Shorty’s, Waverly opens a trunk of Earp mementos, including her mother’s wedding dress, which she puts on together with a headpiece of flowers. When she hears a sound, she goes upstairs to find Doc, who she doesn’t know as anything but a dangerous criminal. As Doc tries to explain that he’s harmless, Dolls shows up. Doc shoots him, assuming that Dolls is wearing body armor, but he’s not. Then Waverly shoots Doc. As he dies, Doc tells Waverly to find the iron witch and destroy the trophy. It’s the only way to set things to right.

In her hour of need, Waverly calls Nicole and explains what happened. Luckily, Nicole knows who the iron witch might be and is willing to take her. Actual dialogue:

Waverly: You’d do that for me?

Nicole: I’d do a lot of things to you.

Waverly: For…for me.

Nicole: Yeah, that too.

Haaaahahahaha. Never change, Nicole Haught, no matter what universe you’re in. “Wynonna Earp,” the gift that keeps giving to lesbians. At the edge of Purgatory, Dolls has driven to the city limits to die. He calls Jeremy to meet him and tells him to complete the mission. Dolls wants to exult in having killed Doc, but says it felt empty, like he was killing a friend. The universes overlap again, and Dolls dies with Wynonna’s name on his lips. Waverly and Nicole find that Gretta’s life was made no better by her wish. Also, she has an eye patch like a pirate. It turns out that Doc kept his memories because he was touching the trophy when the spell was cast, and those who remember Wynonna can only do so because they’re part-demonic. Gretta tells them that the trophy is at the Homestead/Holliday Haus. Although Nicole thinks it’s impossible to get in, Waverly has an idea: Bobo. She breaks him out from the insane asylum, and it’s on.

Jeremy goes to meet Black Badge’s asset on the inside: Rosie. He conveys news of Doc and Dolls’ deaths, as well as Doc’s “theory” about the tear in the space-time continuum. Jeremy and Rosie conclude instead that Black Badge has put mind-altering drugs in the town water supply. Meanwhile, the Widows try and fail to resurrect Sheriff Clootie because he’s not buried where they thought he was. One person knows where Clootie is, however: Bobo. As Bobo helps Waverly and Nicole (once they dig up the talisman, all the Revenants will be blown off the Homestead), the Widows appear.

Bobo, evading the Widows, enters the Homestead and an insurrection starts between Revenants loyal to Doc and those loyal to Bobo. Out of time, Waverly decides they need to get the trophy from the barn and run, which is when the episode re-aligns with the opening sequence. When Waverly and Nicole enter the barn, they find that Rosie and Jeremy have rigged it to explode in an effort to stop the perceived Black Badge conspiracy.

Perry calls to check on Waverly, who explains she’s in a barn wired to explode “and also I think I’m gay. Call you later?” (Nod to Willow in the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” episode “Dopplegangland,” in which she notes of her alternate universe self: “That’s me as a vampire? I’m so evil, and skanky… and I think I’m kinda gay.”) Outside, the carnage continues. The Widows catch Bobo, and Rosie leaves the barn only to be mowed down offscreen. Waverly realizes that death is the only way out. When the explosives go off, they’ll destroy the trophy. “Where you go, I go,” Nicole says. Nicole and Waverly kiss, then the three detonate the explosives.

Waverly, Nicole, and Jeremy are standing in the barn and their hair is ka-ray-zay. Waverly says the only way they’ll know if the spell worked is if they find Wynonna. Meanwhile, the Widows are threatening Bobo to get him to reveal Clootie’s location. Bobo, however, believes that Clootie is the only one who can guarantee that he won’t be sent to Hell again, so he willingly breaks the third seal. Moments later, Wynonna wakes up in the same field and watches as the Widows and Bobo walk past in the distance. She discovers that the third seal has been broken and hears Clootie awaken just as, presumably, her water breaks.

This was another solid episode, and I can’t wait to see how the finale goes. As a reminder, the show was renewed for a season 3, so there’s lots more Earping to come!

 

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