![]() Speaking of which, she’s heading to the mainland for a second opinion on the whole miscarriage thing, but she receives worse news while she’s there - that, biologically speaking, it seems she was never pregnant in the first place. He explains she has infiltrated his dream - this time, they were on the boat together. Joe’s body is wrapped in a carpet and dumped in the water.Įlsewhere, Erin and Riley wake up together after their prayer session. Bev has truly mastered the art of manipulating these people. ![]() A reluctant Wade is told he can’t accept God’s will when it comes to healing Leeza if he can’t also accept it here. She orders Wade and Sturge to clean up the evidence and justifies Joe’s death as the will of God. As he quietly shushes Joe, Father Paul begins to lap it from the floor.īev later discovers this scene - Joe dead and Father Paul faintly delirious, not quite realizing what he has done, or at least why he did it. Joe struggles, and when he eventually breaks free he falls and cracks his head on the way down. Father Paul, something evidently having come over him, grabs Joe tightly, holding him against his will. Joe, of all people, recognizes Father Paul from the newspaper picture and says he could be Pruitt’s son. Joe, who has himself been struggling to stay off the booze, catches him self-medicating. Later, he has another minor breakdown, screaming after the angel, demanding to know its whereabouts, and turns to drink. After drinking his own blood from a cut in his hand caused by his rosary, he visits Mildred, who in her newly aware state recognizes him immediately. And you aren’t alone.” - is particularly striking, and you can buy into her idea that the concept of God, of faith, is really just that shared connection, that sense of belonging to something larger than oneself.įather Paul also obviously believes in something larger than himself. Erin’s definition of Heaven - “You are loved. Later, both Riley and Erin exchange lengthy monologues about what they think happens after death expect these to be clipped up and do the rounds on social media before the weekend is out folks. Erin asks him to pray with her and he agrees. In exchange, Riley tells her about his recurring dream, in which he sits in that lonely boat in the middle of a wide-open bay, awaiting a sunrise he can never progress beyond, a new shore he can never reach. When she found out she was pregnant, she left him and returned to Crockett Island. After Erin left, she met and married a man who was basically a substitute for her mother. She tells a story about how her own mother once made her hold birds while she clipped their wings she said that her own were clipped the day Erin was born and made no secret of her resentment towards her daughter. Well, this and the conversation Erin has with Riley after telling him about losing her baby, her “Littlefoot”. This conversation is the most purely human moment in an episode that has vials of blood exploding in sunlight and elderly women with dementia continuing to de-age by the day. And since he thinks that Annie is a saint, everything that Riley has done, every mistake he has made, must have been his fault. He resented him, resented him for looking down on his father’s humble trade, and when the hit-and-run happened, he used that as an excuse to continue resenting him. As a blue-collar guy, he wasn’t interested in Riley’s stocks or tech start-up. But is it God or something else?Įd and Riley share a difficult, complicated conversation about regrets and resentment in this episode, and I found it charming watching the older man, stuck in his ways, try to explain his feelings to his son. He can feel God moving inside him, he claims. Father Paul’s - I’ll keep calling him that - miracles are all well and good, but the fact that sunlight burns him now is a bit worrying. For the townsfolk, especially the inner circle of Bev, Wade Scarborough, and Sturge, it’s important to keep up appearances for now. With the discovery that Father Paul is really Monsignor Pruitt having had his youth returned to him by the blood of an angel, Midnight Mass has reached something of a turning point, stepping over the boundary between the grounded and the supernatural. And at this point, very little that’s happening on Crockett Island makes any sense at all. But Erin hasn’t been anything other than rational. Sarah assumes, understandably, that she miscarried and blocked out the experience in her own mind. When Sarah makes this discovery, Erin is perplexed. But what you certainly don’t expect is to be told that the baby you’ve been carrying for months, that you’ve felt kicking inside you, is no longer there. As a father of two, I’ve attended my share of ultrasound scans, and they’re always nerve-wracking.
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