She’s also someone who has now been exposed to vampires, Genesis, and even angels, yet this encounter with The Saint of Killers is the thing that really rattles her. She’s a woman who has always be able to take care of herself and presumably faced many near-death experiences in her life as a career criminal.
At this stage, I’m not so sure they are ever going to explain what’s going on with Tulip. I was apprehensive at first because it didn’t fit my understanding of her character, but I settled on waiting to see how things were explained before I judged. Tulip has been so off-base for me ever since the PTSD stuff started being developed. Not particularly the character or what is written in for this episode script (I actually enjoy her interactions with Featherstone), it’s actually what this story is built upon that drives me insane. My main issue with this episode is Tulip. “Dirty Little Secrets” makes great use of the existing narratives and tightens the overall story arc, but there are still some casualties remaining in its wake.
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We leave her looking at the guns and pondering how to handle the idea of The Saint of Killers possibly still being alive (although I’m not sure how she’d immediately come to that conclusion, it does seem to be the implication.) Overall Thoughts Swayed by a good, old-fashioned abusive boyfriend beat-down (thanks to the very dedicated Hoover,) Tulip is tricked by Featherstone into discovering where Jesse hid the guns of The Saint of Killers. They spend most of their time together cooking and playing video games, only to be interrupted by Featherstone’s partner Hoover when Tulip starts to question the legitimacy of their newfound friendship. Still suffering from PTSD, Tulip really takes to the incognito Featherstone despite her eventual reservations. Tulip spends the majority of this episode with Grail operative Featherstone, who is working on behalf of Starr to infiltrate and split up Jesse’s group. Cassidy tries to curb those urges by surrounding Denis with material pleasures like women and drugs, but it doesn’t seem to appease his appetite which, we find by the end of the episode, he might have already succumbed to. While their relationship has significantly improved, signs of concern start to emerge as Denis’s lust for blood continues to surface. The result of everything Jesse is shown boils down to an offer posed by Starr an offer for Jesse to become The Grail’s new Messiah.Ĭassidy flexes his newfound confidence as a father with his fledgling vampire son, Denis. Herr Starr takes Jesse back to Denis’s house where he explains that, even though Jesse compelled Starr to show him what The Grail organization knew, it all went as Starr had planned. The revelation repulses Jesse, who is in disbelief that this man named “Humperdoo” (which is priceless, by the way) could be the savior. Once they arrive at The Grail’s hidden location, Starr introduces Jesse to the Christ child, who turns out to be mentally challenged due to years of inbreeding to keep the bloodline pure. Herr Starr decides to take Jesse to meet The Messiah. Afterwards, he tells her that he must leave to do something for his father but, as he leaves, one of his followers picks up on what’s been going on (likely a founder of The Grail.) As if this ordeal wasn’t classy enough, the married woman Jesus was with (Mary Magdalene?) gives birth to a child who is taken by the founder of The Grail, who then promptly has Mary killed. In this opener, we see Jesus of Nazareth having sex with a married woman.
A development like this is far more interesting than your normal good guy / bad guy face-off and, with 3 more episodes left, I can’t wait to see how things are resolved. Starr’s plan to recruit Jesse in order to replace Jesus’s descendant as the savior is certainly not what I was expecting, but it fits the narrative so perfectly. The latter part of this season has truly surprised me and this episode is no exception. It plays so well into all the elements that have been crafted throughout Preacher’s run. Exploiting both Jesse’s desire to find God and Tulip’s vulnerability is exactly the sort of war you’d want to see a guy like Herr Starr waging against a team lead by Jesse Custer.
“Dirty Little Secret” is an episode that keeps its eyes on the prize by continuing to give us more of what we want: interesting villains, smart drama, and dark comedy. AMC’s Preacher, Season 2, Episode 10: “Dirty Little Secret” First Impressions
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