Previously on Wynonna Earp, Bethany got attacked, Wynonna hunted a band of Revenants called The Seven, Wynonna was taunted by the last member of The Seven who uses a spade as a signature, Dolls offered up Doc to his boss to avoid getting the Black Badge Division shut down, and Wynonna was about to take Haught to breakfast when the two of them got hella kidnapped.
Doc inspects Haught’s police car for clues, and once he gets over the shock of the creepy music and the blood splatter, he notices a playing card on the windshield. A spade, of course.
When Wynonna wakes up in an unfamiliar bed, “Waverly” is the first name she says. But it’s not her sister with her or any of her friends-it’s Reggie, the morgue doctor. He sits on the edge of her bed and tells her that she has been paralyzed from the waist down, causing instant panic.
Across town, Doc storms into the police station, yelling that Wynonna and Officer Haught are missing, and even though the sheriff isn’t exactly jumping to be helpful, Doc comes in and is on the case immediately.
As Wynonna comes out of her haze, feeling hungover, the doctor tries to tell her she could have killed someone, but she’s not that out of it and remembers that she was not only sober for a change, but Nicole was driving. She then demands to know where Nicole was, but he waves away her concerns.
She starts to ask him questions like where he went to school and why, if we went to Princeton, he was working in Purgatory of all places, and he says that he’s doing some experimental stuff, like trying to get rid of the thing that causes irrational thought. While he’s rambling on like a regular Dr. Jekyll, Wynonna closes off her IV tube so he can’t give her any more drugs.
She asks him if he uses his cane as a weapon or if he really has a limp and when he quirks an eyebrow at her, she tells him the jig is up. Princeton doesn’t have a medical school. (Which…I didn’t even put together. So. Good job, Wy.) Reggie lets his freak flag fly then, eyes all crazy, voice all creepy. He calls her a bad girl and says that the doctor will cut out her bad parts.
As soon as Reggie leaves the room, Wynonna’s tough-as-nails facade falls and her face crumples. She shakes and holds her necklace close, looking around for clues. She pulls back the curtain next to her and sees Bethany in the next bed.
At the precinct, Waverly is in full panic mode. Doc says that he knows who took Wynonna and Nicole and that he goes by the Jack of Knives. He knows this man from back in his day, where some girls were found with their insides on their outsides. Doc almost caught him, but it all happened just as he fell ill. Wyatt must have got him, though, since he’s a Revenant now.
Waverly is ready to get out there and find this bad guy, but the little duckling has a broken wing, so she’s put on research duty.
When Dolls and Doc get outside, the Sheriff comes up to them and says they found Haught, who is alive. He also says “barely” which is a bit dramatic if you ask me. No one’s hair looks that good if they’re “barely” alive.
At the not-hospital, Wynonna finds out that Bethany has been there for about a week and doesn’t mind being kidnapped because Reggie is nice to her. Poor thing isn’t hugged enough. Wynonna asks her to get her a wheelchair so they can get out, but they hear Reggie coming, so Bethany just tucks herself back in and pulls the curtain back around her bed.
Reggie takes Bethany to an OR and opens her right up. He’s playing Operation with her insides, but after removing a few organs, he must hit the sides because Bethany screams and dies. Wynonna hears the screams and knows it doesn’t bode well for her own future.
Reggie is bummed, but he’s sure he’ll get it right with Wynonna.
The Sheriff takes Dolls to question Haught about what she saw and leaves them alone, saying he’s going to feed her cat. “She doesn’t like men,” Nicole says. I don’t even know what the point of that exchange was, but it was delightful.
Dolls asks Haught what the last thing she remembers seeing is, and she says it was Waverly Earp smiling at her.
Waverly thinks that’s sweet even though she’s all twisted up in worry for her sister.
As she’s talking, she also remembers a man blindfolding her and taking her to the woods and burying her alive. Doc asks her what he smelled like, and she says sour and musty, like spoiled fruit and gasoline. She also remembers now why her chest hurts so much-the man kicked her, hard, right in the middle, telling her that she was “the wrong kind.” Waverly does not like this news.
Nicole meets Waverly’s eyes and apologizes, but Waverly doesn’t blame her. She manages to get out, “I’m glad you’re okay,” before bursting into tears and running into the hallway. Doc comes out to the hallway to check on her, and she quite literally cries on his shoulder. Dolls comes out, too, and the three of them review their clues and together realize that Wynonna was taken through prohibition tunnels, and Waverly knows just who to go to for that information.
Unfortunately for Doc, he knows exactly who Waverly is talking to and once he and Dolls show up to talk to him, we learn that it’s because he owes him and his illegal fighting ring $10k. His name is Whiskey Jim, and he’s not thrilled Doc broke the real first rule of fight club: Don’t bring the damn police.
Meanwhile, Wynonna manages to will her toes to wiggle a little, so she throws herself off the bed and army crawls to the surgical tool tray. She sneaks back into her bed and chats with Reggie, scalpel hidden in her hand. Reggie is suspicious, and tests her by clamping on her toe, but she doesn’t react, pretending she still doesn’t have feeling. But as soon as he looks away she lets out a breath that implies she did indeed feel that, meaning she’s even more of a badass than previously realized.
No matter what Reggie throws at her, Wynonna responds with her usual snarky retorts, and it’s starting to bother Reggie, who seems to prefer when he feels like he’s actually torturing women.
Reggie notices Wynonna’s necklace on the floor and demands it back. When he starts to wonder how it got across the room, she distracts him by asking about Bethany. Reggie says the doctor made sure she didn’t feel any more pain, and Wynonna asks why psychos always talk in the third person. The psycho goes psycho on her then, but Wynonna keeps her composure, calmly asking for her necklace back again. And , of course, he doesn’t, because as we established, he’s criminally insane.
Whiskey Jim tells Doc and Dolls that he’ll only tell them where the entrance to the tunnels are if they fight, and so fight they do. But right before they step into the ring, Whiskey Jim shows Doc a shredded report that Dolls gave his boss about him, wanting to study his ageless body for science, which gets him in the mood to pop Dolls’ head off like a Rock ’em Sock ’em Robot.
When Reggie returns to Wynonna’s room, she’s not in her bed, so he goes tearing through the creepy tunnels to find her. His first step is to check on the Peacemaker, and when Wynonna pops out, she’s like, “Gee, thanks for helping me find my stuff.” She demands to know where Haught is, and is afraid she might be already dead.
But she nicks him with her stolen scalpel and sees that his blood is red. As Reggie gets impaled by an extra pointy walking stick, Wynonna realizes that Reggie wasn’t talking in the third person and that there is a doctor in the house. He says she can call him Jack.
In the fighting ring, Doc tells Dolls he knows about the report, and Dolls blames Doc for Wynonna’s capture, and they go at it with fists and words until Doc gets in a clean punch to the noggin’ and Dolls lands flat on his back. Whiskey Jim declares Dolls dead, which freaks Doc out; he didn’t mean to KILL the guy. So they toss Dolls into a dumpster, and Whiskey Jim gives Doc the location of the tunnels and the keys to Dolls’ truck.
Doc gets in the car and starts to fiddle around, used to a different kind of horsepower, and luckily before he can even get it started, Dolls shows up and takes over. He says he can lower his pulse on purpose, but I’m wondering if it has more to do with the creepy reptile eyes. (Fun fact: iguanas can stop their heart for up to 45 minutes to avoid detection from predators.)
Doc confronts Dolls about turning him over to the government because he wants body autonomy, but Dolls insists that his body would be great for science. They don’t have time to fight, though, and even though everyone is grumpy about it, they’ll work together for Wynonna.
The Jack of Knives takes Wynonna into an OR, ready to slice and dice.
To demonstrate how he’ll do it, Jack uses his hellfire-hot fingernails to slice Reggie’s head right off. He starts to draw on Wynonna, saying that’s where he’s going to cut, trying to tell Wynonna that they’re the same in some ways, to which Wynonna is not particularly receptive.
He promises to let Wynonna see her own organs before she dies, because that’s what every girl dreams of, right? Wynonna asks Jack why Bobo sent The Seven to kill her father, and Jack says that he liked her father, that he had wits, and that he aligned himself with Bobo. They were friends, even. Which obviously Wynonna doesn’t love to hear.
It’s obvious Wynonna is shocked by this news, so Jack offers to cut out her broken heart first, when her boys bust in, just in time. She stabs Jack and gets her necklace and Peacemaker from Dolls, telling the men not to kill each other while she goes after Jack. Doc steps out of attack mode though when Dolls says he had to turn over either Wynonna or Doc. Doc would have made the same choice.
Wynonna finds Jack dragging himself along the tunnels and yanks the knife from his back. He starts to taunt her, calling her broken. He says he wishes he could be here for what comes next. “A reunion, an escape, so much blood.” Wynonna doesn’t ask him to clarify; she just tells him to make his peace.
(Is the reunion Willa? Is Willa alive? Is that the escape? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?)
Jack slips into a British accent for his last creepy sentiments. He says she solved a great mystery, did what even Scotland Yard couldn’t do. She caught Jack the Ripper, all by her lonesome. She then says one of the most Wynonna things ever: That she’s not lonesome, just alone.
But as soon as she is alone again, after sending Jack to hell, she looks lonesome, lonely, alone, all the sad singular words for feeling a bit stranded, emotionally.
Killing The Seven was supposed to bring her closure, but instead, it cracked her world right open. Her father, her hero, possibly being in league with Bobo changes everything. It would taint all her memories, change her entire perspective. Nothing will ever be the same.
Back on the homestead, Wynonna and Waverly burn the picture of The Seven, hoping to at least end ONE chapter of their hellish lives.
Dolls goes to report to his boss, who is pretty mad that he’s standing there claiming a) Wynonna got rid of a notorious serial killer, but no one has any way to prove it and b) Henry was just a con artist, and the real Doc Holliday is dead. She’s about to cut off his nuts herself when he offers her up something better: Whiskey Jim. He finally caught her a Revenant. So he’s going to test his limits,
Dolls takes Whiskey Jim to a shed and says that there’s a mole in his organization, and he plans to find out who.
What did you think of “Two-Faced Jack”?
Here are some of our favorite #HaughtDamn tweets from the episode:
Need to prioritize these thinks ya know #WynonnaEarp #HaughtDamn https://t.co/5dSp5hstcK
– CathyL (@CathyL_66) 21 May 2016
Earp sisters once again melting my heart into a puddle of emotions that I wasn’t built to handle #WynonnaEarp #HaughtDamn
– MicNic12 (@micnic1291) 21 May 2016
Dolls has the best reaction face to Nicole flirting with Waverly from her hospital bed. He ships them. #WynonnaEarp #HaughtDamn
– Lady Liberty (@CindyLMarshall) 21 May 2016
Also, I just want to say, that I stay up past my bedtime for #WynonnaEarp and that’s saying something. #HaughtDamn
– Jerzey (@jerzeyredhead) 21 May 2016
A “haught” redhead in a tank top. Having trouble concentrating. #HaughtDamn #WynonnaEarp
– Because Awkward (@Bcuz_Awkward) 21 May 2016
When I grow up I want to snark as well as Wynonna does. #WynonnaEarp #HaughtDamn
– Call Me Root (@CloneNic) 21 May 2016
You guys. Doc & Wyatt Earp 100% were in love. And I am 1000% ok w/ that. #WynonnaEarp #haughtdamn
– Adrienne. (@legacymermaid) 21 May 2016
“Waverly Earp smiling at me from her front porch…” Well I just melted into a pile of awe. #WynonnaEarp #1×08 #haughtdamn
– enginerd (@enginerd_90) 22 May 2016
What the Earp is happening??? #WynonnaEarp #HaughtDamn
– Nik (@njnic23) 22 May 2016
I wonder who’s more in love with an Earp. Doc (with Wyatt) or Nicole (with Waverly) #WynonnaEarp #HaughtDamn
– None Goodweather (@noneqaf) 21 May 2016
straight fans: might get excited if a guy is shirtless
gay fans: lose their damn minds when a girls hair is down#WynonnaEarp #HaughtDamn
– Lexa Deserved Better (@KatiesNerdHQ) 21 May 2016
