Wynonna Earp – Two-Faced Jack

By starrymag | May 25, 2016

By: Caitlin Walsh

 

Picking up right where we left off last week, Doc (Tim Rozon) checks the empty police cruiser, finding more blood than anyone would ever be happy to find and a playing card on the windshield–a note, if you will.

 

Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) wakes up in the hospital, disoriented and not remembering much. The doctor from the morgue is there to greet her. “Why can’t I feel my legs?” she asks. The doctor lets her know that there was damage to her spinal cord, and she’s paralyzed from the waist down. (Say it with me: “WHAT?!”) She is, understandably, just a little upset. Us, too.

 

Doc rushes to the police station, frantically looking for Dolls (Shamier Anderson) to let him know that Wynnona and Haught (Katherine Barrell) were taken–and both their faces are stricken. Wynonna, never one to let her emotions get the best of her, jumps right into casual case working mode. Wynonna jokes, “I thought I might go to med school. My solid D- thought otherwise.” Funny even in the darkest of times, humor as a coping mechanism–a girl after my own heart. She asks him where he went to med school, casually, and he lets her know he went to Princeton, yada yada–Wynonna sees right through it as Princeton doesn’t have a medical school. She calls him out, putting a kink in her IV line in the meantime. But what more can she really do right now? He leans down close and I have to hand it to Scrofano–Wynonna may be keeping her cool, but you can still see the clear fear in her eyes. Wynonna knows this isn’t good, not by a long shot. And she’s all alone.

 

Once he leaves, she hears a noise and pulls back the curtain beside her only to find Bethany (Sasha Barry) propped up in the bed next to her. So, she apparently wasn’t eaten by the cannibal revenants like I had thought before. Interesting.

 

You Can Call a Jack a Jack…

 

Dolls, Doc and Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) regroup at Black Badge’s office and Waverly is, rightly, freaking the hell out. Doc tells them this wasn’t Bobo, or the Stone Witch, and their weapons won’t do much good “against Jack’s knives.” He tells them the story of a school teacher he’d been sweet on, back in the day, and she’d been thought to go missing with a few others. Wyatt and him tracked them down. It seems they hadn’t gone missing, but that Jack had taken them, killed them and taken out their insides, leaving them around their bodies “like a Thanksgiving feast.” They’d called him the Jack of Knives.

 

Dolls isn’t letting Waverly in on the action, not with her arm in a sling, and asks her to stay in the office and research for them–him and Doc will team up and handle this one. They run into a few other officers outside, who let them know that Officer Haught was found by the side of the highway. She’s alive, but just barely.

 

Back at the makeshift “hospital,” Wynonna lets Bethany know that “Dr. Reggie” is not a real doctor. He’s a serial killer and they are in some serious crap unless they get out of there–like Wynonna is determined to. But Bethany can’t do it. She lies back down, tearfully, telling her she’s not brave like her. Dr. Reggie (Ryan Belleville) wheels her off for surgery, and she throws Wynonna one last teary, terrified look.

 

Seconds later, we see her wake up on the operating table, her entire chest and abdomen wide open, bloody instruments around them and him removing her organs. (For the record? I have a very strong stomach. Medical shows, gore, etc.–they never bother me much, if at all.) This made me sick to my stomach. Holy. Crap.

 

Seconds later, Bethany screams before she crashes and Dr. Reggie isn’t happy–he throws a fit, throwing his tools around the room. Wynonna hears it all and she looks good and royally screwed. This is a whole new freak out level for this show. I’ve never truly been nervous for Wynonna before, always had confidence that somehow, she’d get out of this okay, she’d be all right. This time? I’m not sure.

 

Dolls and Doc go to see Haught, and the Sheriff is trying to give her time to rest, but they don’t have the luxury of time and Haught knows that. She wants to talk to them, to help. The sheriff at least tells her he’ll stop by her house to check on her cat. Dolls asks her what the last thing she remembers was and Haught replies, “Waverly Earp, smiling at me from her porch.” (Ow, my heart.) Waverly is standing in the doorway…The rest is a blur. She remembers a man at the side of the highway, but no description. She was blindfolded, or drugged, but she couldn’t see–she was just left in a ditch at the side of the road, kicked in the chest, told she wasn’t the right type. Wynonna, apparently, was just the right type.

 

Listening to Dr. Reggie throw a fit, she’s not cool with sitting still and waiting by any longer. She wills her feet to move, gets just a wiggle from her toes, but it’s something. Wynonna Earp has more fight in her than most people can ever muster together and that is everything. She throws her body out of the bed, army crawling her way over to scalpels and knives, just trying to get some sort of leg up (too soon?).

 

Anger Management

 

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Dolls, Doc and Waverly are trying to piece the puzzle together. Haught said she remembered smelling something like gasoline and sour fruit–like fermented alcohol, Doc points out. The kind from his day–bootleg, could probably kill a horse sort of booze. Waverly puts two and two together. Thankfully, she’s all brushed up on her underground bootlegger operation history, walks them through it and Doc finally puts together just who it is they’re looking for. A guy he knows who runs an underground fight club.

 

“Let me guess, the first rule of fight club is you never talk about fight club?” Who’d have thought Dolls has ever seen a movie or read a book for pleasure. “If nobody talks about it, how the hell is everyone gonna know where it is?” Doc, apparently, hasn’t had the chance to catch up. Unfortunately, the first rule is you never bring the law down there–and Doc promptly breaks that one, obviously. They meet a friend of Doc’s (who he happens to owe an alarming amount of money to) named Whiskey Jim and Dolls pulls out his badge, asking if they can talk.

 

Dr. Reggie comes back around for Wynonna, who has crawled her way back into bed, managed to get herself situated again, scalpel stealthily in hand. He comes over, wanting to ask her questions. He grabs a tool, asking her if she can feel him breaking her damn big toe and she keeps a straight face, telling him no, he could just be giving her a pedicure. But Wynonna forgot one thing during her crawl–her necklace fell off and he finds it. The jig is up and he’s starting to lose it, just a little, when Wynonna calls him a psycho. “I’M NOT PSYCHO!” Dude, seems like if you have to say it out loud, it’s probably not true.

 

Cut back to Brad Pitt and Ed Norton–Whiskey Jim lets Doc and Dolls know that he’s not exactly feeling helpful and the only bargain he’s willing to make to let them check out the tunnels is for them to fight. And one of them needs to leave on a stretcher. Make it bloody. Then, they’ve got a deal.

 

Dr. Reggie checks in on Wynonna and, well, would you look at that–she’s not there. Let the games begin.

 

Dolls starts warming up for his fight like it’s UFC 90 and he’s about to take on Connor McGregor, and Doc looks at him realizing maybe he did get in a little over his head. But Whiskey Jim (Joris Jarsky) makes a quick delivery (present from Bobo) beforehand, shredded documents that have been put back together. They’re about Doc, put together by Dolls as a record on him, and suddenly, Doc really has an axe to grind. He’s ready to fight. And Dolls is ready to put on a show.

 

Dr. Reggie runs to find Peacemaker to see if Wynonna has taken it–and she sneaks up behind him, thinking she’s got him in just the trap she wanted. In some ways, she has–but once she has him bleeding, she realizes he’s not a revenant. But Jack of Knives (Greg Bryk) does come along and kill him right there and Wynonna is actually good and royally screwed this time.

 

Doc and Dolls are putting up a hell of a fight and Doc isn’t looking to play it safe, pulling out broken bottles and the like (still getting his butt kicked, may I add). Dolls asks him what happened to his shoulder–and Doc tells him he’s surprised it wasn’t in the report. It clicks, and for a second, Dolls looks nervous, upset maybe?

 

But it turns out he just wants to know how the hell Doc knows, and my friendship dreams for these two are starting to die out, lose hope. Doc says Wynonna will never forgive Dolls for turning him in, but Dolls lets him know that he wasn’t there for Wynonna when it mattered and it’s Doc’s fault that Jack has Wynonna.

 

With one powerhouse uppercut, Doc knocks Dolls right on his back, ending the fight. Whiskey Jim checks on Dolls and cheers. “You sure did give them one hell of a show. You killed him.” (UM. EXCUSE ME?! Get him some blue juice, hurry!)

 

Whiskey has his friends drop Dolls’ body by the dumpster, promising Doc they’ll take care of it and giving him the information to the tunnels he was looking for. Doc asks how Bobo (Michael Eklund) got the file and all Whiskey could say was that while the revenants may be trapped inside the triangle, Bobo’s reach far extends it. He’s got connections.

 

Wynonna is laid out on a table, again, beside a dead Dr. Reggie with Jack now in control.

 

Doc goes to drive off, but has no idea how to operate a car and this scene gave me a light chuckle amongst all the angst of this episode and I’m grateful.  Dolls appears at the window a few seconds later. “You weren’t gonna leave without me?” Doc looks just about as confused as he should, maybe even a little scared, but there’s not much time for that. Wynonna is about to be sliced into.

 

Previously On Grey’s Anatomy

 

Like she says, Jack is the sickest puppy in the litter. Jack tells her about having “studied” surgery, liking to see what makes people…well, people. He likes slicing into them, likes taking out their insides. (Though, how much research is he doing, really?) Ever the gentleman, he might want to take a look at her insides, but he promises to keep her alive long enough so she can, too.

 

Doc still has no answers on just how the hell Dolls is alive and Dolls is playing coy. He tells him it’s a Black Badge, government, military training sort of thing where he can train his pulse to slow to a near stop. Doc ain’t buying it. Regardless, the boys aren’t happy with each other and both agree that if Wynonna weren’t in trouble, they’d take the other out.

 

Realizing this may be it, Wynonna just wants to know one thing from Jack–why he killed her father. He reminds her that they didn’t kill her father. She did. And he lets her know that in fact, he was a fan of her father’s. He wasn’t like the other heirs–he was witty and he apparently played the game of politics, making an alliance with Bobo. According to Jack, they were good friends.

.

 

Doc and Dolls burst into the room and while Doc distracts Jack, Dolls gets Wynonna and runs to get Peacemaker. She grabs a knife, plunging it into Jack’s back and the three of them regroup for a minute once Dolls gets back with her gun while Jack staggers off. She runs off to take care of him, for good, and tells the boys not to kill each other. She’s asking a lot. They pull their guns on each other immediately.

 

They have one more chat and Doc just wants to know why. For Dolls, it was simple. “It was you or her.” And that’s an argument that even Doc will buy. He lowers his gun, admitting Dolls isn’t a villain and tells him to fight. Dolls may just buy that. (What’s that? My friendship dreams for these two are back in action, full force?)

 

Wynonna, who they let go off by herself, finds Jack crawling along the floor. He laughs at her, telling her he wishes he could stick around to watch the fight with Bobo (who makes the rest of them “look like choir boys”) and the reunion (not much elaborating, but I have some ideas). He wants to know what the hell she’ll do when she kills him. He’s it, he’s the last one. He calls her out on acting tough. Hell, he might be right, but he’s also dead and sent back to hell, seconds later.

 

Wynonna sits by the floor, looking lost and broken. Even when she makes it home with Waverly, burning the photo of the seven, she’s not rejoicing. Wynonna has been on a quest for vengeance for a long time now and I don’t think she knows who she really is outside of that – outside of being the heir and getting revenge for her father and Willa. And now having heard that her father is not who she thought he was, she’s got a million more questions, I’m sure.

 

In the last shot, Dolls meets with Agent Lucado (Kate Drummond), telling her he has her delivery. It may not be Doc, who he tells her is just a great con artist named Henry, but he’s still got something for her. It’s a revenant that he plans to torture and “study,” which is at least something to get her off his back.

 

It seems Dolls is looking to find the mole that’s apparently in the Black Badge operation and he’ll use Whiskey Jim to find them.