Wynonna Earp – Landslide

By starrymag | June 16, 2016

By: Caitlin Walsh

 

Back at the homestead, Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), Wynonna and Gus are watching on as Willa (we’re mostly sure) sleeps. They are contemplating what the hell this could mean while waiting for Dolls (Shamier Anderson) to get back and confirm a DNA test. According to the results, it’s Willa.

 

When Willa (Natalie Krill) wakes up, startled, she’s still not exactly all warm and fuzzy about the news. It’s a bit much to take, on top of the fact that she killed someone and sent him to hell the night before. She may not have been drunk before, but Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) assures her she will now. She’s an Earp, after all.

 

Elsewhere, two guys break into a warehouse and encounter two demon siren-like ladies who end up gutting them. These guys knew exactly what those two could do and that eye contact was a huge no, but it’s not even like they wore sunglasses or anything to protect themselves. C’mon, guys!

 

Waverly and Wynonna take Willa to her old room and let her poke around. Waverly is clearly a little less thrilled and welcoming than the rest of the committee, but can we blame her? It’s a lot to swallow. They go through horse figurines, stuffed bears and switchblades trying to trigger memories–not that it works. It’s all just awkward.

 

Oh Yes, It’s Ladies Night

 

Apparently, there’s a Poker Spectacular coming to town and Waverly runs off to talk to Nicole (Katherine Barrell) about it before we see Bobo and Judge Cryderman discussing it, as well. (You thought you’d seen the last of him?) The good judge is also there to deliver something to Bobo—stones of some sort, and some vague discussion of help on the Black Badge front with a “get them taken care of sort” of chat.

 

Cryderman (David LeReaney) chats with one of their “esteemed” guests for the Poker Spectacular outside, assuring him that they’re set aside one of their best rooms for him. “It’s to die for.” Major red flags, sir, maybe take your suitcase of money and skidaddle, okay? (Note: He doesn’t.)

 

While Willa showers and takes some time to herself, Wynonna and Gus (Natascha Girgis) are still grappling with it. Wynonna’s been carrying around the guilt of her father’s death and Willa’s death for so long now. In a way, a new guilt rests there–that they shouldn’t have given up. Gus tells her they didn’t realize they had given up. Six months after she was taken, they found part of her nightgown with dried blood.

 

At the motel, Judge Cryderman’s friend finds the siren demons in his bathroom and just as he was warned, the room was certainly to die for. One bloody, gory blow job later, and the poor sucker will never play another game of poker again.

 

Wynonna finally lets Willa in on the truth. She takes her outside for shooting practice and to fill her in on all things demons, hellspawn and Earp. Willa is a little overwhelmed, clearly, and doesn’t exactly see how Wynonna can joke around about any of it. “If you don’t laugh, you’ll go crazy. I’ve been crazy. Didn’t care for it.” She tells Willa that the kicker is that she was never supposed to hunt revenants or be the heir–Willa was. She hands her Peacemaker and that’s all it takes for Willa’s memories to be triggered.

 

She doesn’t remember everything though, as she doesn’t remember what happened after she was taken. But she remembers before that–her sisters, her father, and apparently, her training. She’s a damn good shot–must be an Earp thing.

 

Elsewhere, Doc (Tim Rozon) and his bubblegum ride have broken down. A so called “good samaritan” stops by to help and seeing as Doc knows absolutely nothing about cars, it’s not really in his interest to turn it down. He is conveniently at the post marking the edge of the Ghost River Triangle so once he proves this guy isn’t a revenant, he’s all for accepting the help. The smirk on that guy’s face and his shifty attitude tell me he’s not exactly in the dark on what Doc just tested him for and I’m getting all sorts of alarms going off in my head about Doc’s new pal.

 

Waverly may not be all open arms for Willa, but she does try. She shows her some of their old things and they talk. Willa asks about her funeral, the services and what Waverly remembers. “That must’ve been hard for you,” Willa says dryly and cue the world feeling a little overprotective of Waverly Earp. Willa, we’re glad you’re alive, sure, but don’t come in this house and treat Waverly like that.

 

Willa gets another flashback of the night she was taken and it all is just a lot to handle, which she tells Waverly as much. But when she reaches out to Waverly, feeling faint. Waverly flinches back and Willa runs out of the room, out of the house.

 

Dolls and Wynonna go to check out the warehouse and after a quick pep talk from Dolls (“You’re the Earp I need right now.”) they walk in to find motel gentleman hanging by his wrists, dead while the demon twins eat away at him. One tries to get to Wynonna, but like she said–there’s a whole bunch of reasons she’s not Wynonna’s type.

 

Unfortunately, Dolls isn’t quite so good at resisting. The ladies pounce on him and he’s suddenly all smooth smiles and coolness. Wynonna, luckily, isn’t far behind and after a quick tango (literally, who knew Dolls had moves?!) they take care of business–just after getting a clue that Judge Cryderman is somehow involved. Thanks for the tip, girls.

 

Bad Company

 

Doc and his friend are chatting under the hood of the car and it all seems casual up until Doc’s new pal suggests that drifting is just another word for running away and that maybe he didn’t used to be like that. He notes that years in the dark will do that to a man. Uh, excuse us, who are you, again? Not a minute later, Doc’s looking through his toolbox and finds Wyatt Earp’s badge that Doc had previously burned. Suddenly, his friend somehow teleports into his truck 10 feet away. More alarms and red flags, but at least Doc is catching on now, too. Doc goes in, asking a lot of questions and getting no answers–only that “Juan Carlo” and his associates are interested in the Ghost River Triangle and they only have 4 days left. All I’m wondering is: Papa Earp, is that you? JC (Shaun Johnston) gives him a choice: keep drifting or go help Wynonna survive.

 

It doesn’t take long for Wynonna and Waverly to put two and two together–their sister is an Earp and since he ran off and drinks are half priced at Shorty’s/Bobo’s…Well, low and behold, they found her there. Willa, may be a little buzzed and certainly a lot angry, fills Wynonna in on a little bit of information–their father knew the attack was coming and he let it happen. She remembers. She remembers him warning her and to her it’s his fault and maybe it’s good he’s gone.

 

Before they can delve into a full on therapy session, one of the revenants in the bar pisses Willa off to the point that she takes Peacemaker from Wynonna and sends him back to Hell in front of all the bar’s patrons (some of which are plain, regular brand humans). Wynonna is starting to think Willa might be on the crazy dangerous side. Who knew someone could make Wynonna Earp look tame?

 

A quick few shots of Wynonna and Willa kicking ass in a bar fight with some random patrons who apparently just like brawls. Then, they make quick getaway with Waverly, and it’s all very Earp and I’m not entirely hating it.

 

Sister, Sister

 

Back at home, unfortunately, the fun ends. Dolls is expectedly angry and truth be told, Wynonna and Waverly don’t seem thrilled either. There are rules and order and while Wynonna wasn’t one for rules before (so it seemed), she isn’t going to let Willa run around shooting revenants in broad daylight for humans to see. It’s bad news. Willa has found her attitude though and goes at Dolls, wondering what his deal is and why Wynonna is following him–she thought she was the brainwashed sister. Wynonna snaps and storms off outside to the barn, not really feeling a family feud right now.

 

Willa follows her outside, having calmed down surprisingly quickly. She apologizes and Wynonna is quick to forgive. They reminisce about gummy bears and days long gone before Wynonna says, a little brokenly, “Then you went and died on me.” They were two peas in a pod once and Willa wants that again. With Waverly lurking in the shadows and looking on, heartbroken and forgotten, I can’t cheer for Willa and Wynonna on this one. Wynonna was never alone and she can rejoice that her older sister is back. But she better not dare forget her little sister who has been MVP most days lately.

 

Bobo (Michael Eklund) comes back to his mess of a bar and wants to know what the hell happened. When he’s handed a phone with a video of the brawl, being told it was the two Earp girls, he quickly realizes that Willa is the third Earp and he’s got a problem. He smashes the phone and trouble feels like it may be brewing.

 

While some sort of military SWAT teams surrounds the house without anyone noticing, Waverly and Dolls have a heart to heart over a cup of tea and it may be the best new friendship on this show. Dolls reminds Waverly that they need her and that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about Willa returning. Like Waverly said, she never really knew her and still doesn’t. “You’re good at what you do. It doesn’t matter how many Willa’s come back. It doesn’t. We’re still going to need you, Earp.”

 

Cue a smoke grenade being thrown into the house and some automatic weapons being fired all over the place. Dolls and Waverly fight from the house while Willa and Wynonna go for the element of surprise from the barn where, luckily, some guns are hidden. Waverly goes full badass inside and yells at Dolls when he tells her to hide. That’s not Waverly’s style, and she’s here for the fight.

 

One badass fight scene later and they all convene inside only to find that Waverly’s been hit and everyone’s hearts collectively stop around the world. It was just a graze (phew) and she’ll make it so everyone can breathe again.

 

Wynonna chases Willa outside, despite not being even bothering to wait to see if Waverly is okay. She wasn’t letting these guys get away. Willa’s tackled by one of the attackers and it looks bad until the least likely savior comes to her rescue and we have a million questions why. Whatever the answer may be, Bobo saved Willa. In return, Willa lunged at Wynonna when she went to shoot Bobo–letting him slip through their fingers saying, “He saved me.” (Okay, Wynonna, apparently you left out the Bobo chapter of the story earlier when you were giving Willa the Cliffnotes version of being an Earp. Get on that.)

 

I hope you didn’t think this was a happy ending because Doc’s life is in trouble and cut to credits. Note: This is the second week I’ve been left wondering if that was goodbye for Doc Holliday and it is NOT cool.