As they play Guitar Hero, Lara absentmindedly makes a reference to Tulip’s days as a bank robber in Dallas - something she knows from her Grail intel files, but not something Tulip has ever actually told her about. In the process, Lara almost gives herself away. She just needs to coerce Tulip into finding them. The Grail has been monitoring Denis’s apartment for weeks, and Lara is well aware that Jesse hid the Saint’s weapons in the bathroom. Unfortunately, “Jenny” is actually Lara Featherstone, the Grail operative who has dedicated herself to undermining Jesse and Tulip’s relationship. In Jesse’s single-minded absence, Tulip has become increasingly reliant on “Jenny,” the friendly woman who lives down the hall. Jesse lied about banishing the Saint to Hell - as far as we know, he’s still in the back of an armored truck at the bottom of a swamp - and hid his guns and saber under a loose tile in the bathroom. What she doesn’t know is that she’s been living right on top of the relics from that horrific standoff. When she sleeps, she has horrible nightmares, and when she’s awake, she chases adrenaline and pain to tamp down her own anxiety. Tulip has been haunted by PTSD ever since her standoff with the Saint of Killers. But having traveled all the way around the world over a course of a single episode, Jesse doesn’t recognize the storm that’s brewing in his own New Orleans apartment. But if Jesse’s superpower is, essentially, the word of God … well, doesn’t that kind of make him God?įor now, Jesse rejects Starr’s proposal as blasphemous, vowing that he’ll continue to hunt for the real God with the help of his friends. If Jesus was God’s only son, and Humperdido is his only heir, Humperdido is the rightful heir to the Kingdom of Heaven in a traditional patrilineal way.
There’s a cold logic to Starr’s argument that I hope Preacher continues to explore in the episodes to come. So I ask you, why go on looking for God when you can just be him?” “God is God, and nature abhors a vacuum,” Starr says. And so he unspools his own pitch: Jesse should take Humperdido’s place as the messiah. It must be difficult for a 2,000-year-old organization to change course, but Starr, unsentimental to a fault, recognizes that Humperdido is probably not the man who can save the world. His greatest talent seems to be drawing pictures of dogs other than that, he’s mostly into peeing and humping things. Due to inbreeding - “like a royal family or a Maltese puppy,” Starr says - Humperdido is physically and intellectually disabled. Centuries of attempting to keep Jesus’s bloodline pure have backfired.
At which point Humperdido starts to pee all over Jesse’s face.Īs it turns out, the Grail has an unforeseen problem. Jesse is understandably awestruck to be in the presence of the sole heir to God’s own bloodline, and he drops to his knees in reverence. Until then, they’ll keep the bloodline secret and safe.Ĭut back to the present, as Herr Starr - having promised to help Jesse at the end of last week’s episode - takes Jesse Custer all the way around the world so he can meet Jesus’s 25th great-grandson, Humperdido. When the apocalypse happens, the Grail will finally reveal Jesus’ heir. He spent it getting a woman pregnant, creating a secret earthly heir, and spawning a bloodline that the Grail has obsessively protected ever since. In the Preacher-verse, Jesus Christ didn’t spend the night before the crucifixion praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. This, of course, is the secret that the Grail was organized to protect. Why does this scene seem to be taking place … I don’t know, around 2,000 years ago? Why does this guy keep talking about needing to do something for his dad? Why does he have all these friends lined up at the door waiting for him? And why are they talking about rounding up some getaway donkeys? As this mysterious, handsome, long-haired man indulges in a lengthy one-night stand with a married woman, the scene cleverly lets the viewer add up the details and figure it out for themselves. In its second season, Preacher has mastered the art of the stand-alone cold open, and this is one of its best.
PREACHER RERUN OF DIRTY LITTLESECRETS TV
This season is playing to the already-converted, so I suspect it’ll pass without much mainstream infamy - but even if a cultural backlash doesn’t follow, it’s pretty audacious to open a TV episode with an extended, porny sexy scene starring none other than Jesus Christ. If Preacher were a higher-profile show, I suspect “Dirty Little Secret” is the type of episode that might inspire angry denunciations from Christians around the globe.
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