Evil Enters Even More Turbulent Times in Episode 5 — Read Recap
No frequent flier rewards are worth this.
The latest episode of Evil includes an extended scene, set on on a plane going through turbulence, which features a) a demonic relic, b) a ghost pilot, c) disturbingly otherworldly transmissions through the aircraft’s public-address system. A horror show about airline travel just as the summer/vacation season is getting underway? You do really know how to scare the general public, Robert and Michelle King.
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Meanwhile, back at home, the Bouchard girls meet little Timothy (aww) and learn his secret (oops!). Read on for the highlights of Episode “How to Fly an Airplane.”
ANDY UPDATE | The episode opens with Kristen and her daughters in their car. The girls are uncharacteristically somber and quiet; they’ve just come from seeing Andy at the facility he mentioned in the previous episode, and the visit has unsettled everyone. “When can he come home?” Lexis asks. Kristen says probably in a few months, and assures them that he’s going to be fine. “He really is.”
When they get home, though, Kristen locks herself in the bathroom and sobs; the teeny-tiny demon of grief from the previous episode peeks its head around the shower curtain as she weeps. She’s interrupted by a call from David, who — with Ben — is rushing a botched exorcism subject to the hospital.
CRASHPAD PARTY! | The woman in question, Vicki, slit her wrists during the rite. David and his team weren’t consulted before a rogue priest Father Jefferies went ahead with his plan, and now our favorite trio are being called in as part of a too-late, cover-your-tush move on the part of the Church. The Church’s lawyer, Mr. Flowers, tells David, Ben and Kristen that they should assess the case now, because if they find reasons for the exorcism, it’ll decrease the Church’s liability. “And if there are no reasons for an exorcism?” Ben asks. “Well, that would not be good,” the lawyer says.
When the woman’s husband, Marcus, calls everyone to her hospital room, they see that she has a ton of lesions on her back. Ben posits that they could be a staph infection. We learn that the patient is a flight attendant and her husband is a pilot, and both work overnight shifts. After her last redeye, she was depressed and clawing at her face, her husband reports. He adds that her uniform, which they want to examine, is at a “crashpad”— aka a hotel room, rented by the airline, for pilots and flight attendants to use to rest when the turnaround time between flights is too tight to go home.
Before they start their crashpad interviews, Kristen tells David and Ben about Andy’s hospitalization and how he’s not allowed to have a phone for a month, so she can’t talk to him. They tell her to go be with her girls, but she says she’d rather stay busy. Pretty soon, they’re swept into the crashpad, which is filled with flight attendants drinking beers and bingeing horror shows during a 12-hour layover.
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AT CROSS PURPOSES | Eventually, Tori, a co-worker of Vicki’s who was on her last redeye from Rome, arrives and recalls that Vicki said she saw a “ghost pilot” called Capt. Lemire. Legend is that after the captain’s pilot went down over the Atlantic, his spirit started showing up on turbulent flights over the ocean. She also recalls that Vicki collapsed, foaming at the mouth, after they landed, and paramedics had to take her away.
During the conversation, it also comes out that Vicki was planning to leave the workforce altogether because she’d picked up a lucrative side hustle: smuggling relics out of Italy to sell on the black market. “On her last trip,” Tori recalls, “she said she got something she could retire on.” Tori doesn’t know what the artefact was, but she remembers that when the plane was going through lightning, Vicki said, “I need to destroy it before it destroys me.” Marcus later shows Kristen, Ben and David the ill-gotten haul: a piece of wood which Father Dominic later tells them is believed to be part of “the true cross.” David is agog. “Christ’s cross?” he asks, and WOW I love watching Kristen watch him in that moment. Man, I’m going to miss this show.
“We need this returned immediately, and we need the three of you to deliver it,” Father Dominic says; the hope is that the return will exorcise her demon — and all three of them have to go the very next day: “This is non-negotiable.”
ROMAN HOLIDAY | Kristen’s lawyer Yasmine (remember her?) will stay with the girls while Kristen is on her Roman holiday. (“How’d it go with that stolen egg, by the way?” she asks. “Let’s talk about that later,” Kristen says.) Kristen’s only been gone a short time when an emergency has Yasmine running to her mother’s assisted living facility; the three youngest Bouchard girls nearly immediately overload the old home’s electrical circuits. Lila and Lynn go to the basement to reset the tripped circuit breaker but wind up running from a truly astounding amount of bats who fly into the house through a giant hole in the foundation.
As the girls try to evade the bats, which are flying throughout the house, they wind up outside, locked out; they call Rad G, who has a key, for help. She’s watching little Timothy at Leland’s place, and when she leaves to help her granddaughters, Leland makes her take the baby with her.
In Rome, David, Ben and Kristen, the relic and some Italian priests are loaded into a car and driven to Vatican City. Along the way, Kristen messes with the priests — who allegedly don’t speak English — by singing naughty words “Sodomy” from Hair at full volume. (Side bar: If it were up to only me, Katja Herbers would get Performer of the Week for this bit alone.)
ALL THIS WAY FOR NOTHING? | “Does it feel like we’re being kidnapped?” Ben whispers to Kristen a bit later. “Kinda,” she whispers back. They’re brought to a shady-looking tunnel in a trash-filled alley, then led through a mysterious door to another tunnel, and abandoned. They keep walking until a door opens and Father Dominic pops up; Ben quickly theorizes that the father didn’t travel with them because he thought their plane would crash, and the priest’s nervous, quick “No!” basically confirms it.
As they continue walking, Father Dominic explains that they’re in an escape tunnel for the Pope; during World War II, priceless items were moved there for safekeeping; the cross is down there. Even Kristen is in awe when they see the fragment, stored in a glass case. (“You’re still Catholic as hell,” Ben mocks.) Father Dominic dons white gloves and holds the stolen piece up to the real deal… and it doesn’t match up. The “relic” is a fake.
So why, David asks, is Vicki possessed? Father Dominic doesn’t know and doesn’t seem to care. He thinks her condition is psychosomatic, tells them to douse her in the holy water that he gives David, and sends them on their way.
Sheryl gets the bat problem under control by burning cinnamon sticks (which apparently is a real remedy) then introduces the girls to their half-brother (though she refrains from telling them exactly who he is, saying only that she’s babysitting). When Lexis holds him, Sheryl says, “It’s like you two belong together,” and gets all teary.
ASSUME CRASH POSITIONS! | On the flight home from Rome, the light over the seat where the fake relic is stashed keeps going on of its own accord. Then Tori, Vicki’s fellow flight attendant who happens to be working the flight, summons David to the galley: Father Dominic has called the plane (you can DO that?!) to tell him that while the wood was a fake, the box is a verified demonic relic, and it must be destroyed as soon as possible. C’mon, man! What’s he going to do: flush it down that tiny toilet?
Before they can finish the conversation, the plane hits some bad weather and the turbulence throws David around as he fights his way back to his seat. Kristen is freaking. David is, too. He starts to see flashes of the dead pilot Tori was talking about. A disturbing voice comes over the PA system, interrupting the pilot’s announcement. Ben tries to rationalize why it might be happening, but no one is comforted. Ultimately, David stands and retrieves the holy water from his carry-on, splashing the box with it until it starts smoking. When the box has taken significant damage, the turbulence stops.
Back at home, though, Vicki is still not doing well. And at Kristen’s, Sheryl prepares to leave before her daughter arrives. But first, she chooses violence. “Did you notice that Timothy looks like you four?” Sheryl asks her granddaughters. “He’s your brother.”
Now it’s your turn. What did you think of the episode? Sound off in the comments!
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