Preacher Season 2X09: Puzzle Piece
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- Extreme Spoilers!
- Another Constantine Easter Egg!
The Preacher Jesse(Dominic Cooper) is getting so desperate to find God that he goes to YouTube. This is mock worthy, and Cassidy(Joseph Gilgun) does a great job of caustically remarking on Jesse’s desperation.
That’s not tomato soup Cassidy(Joseph Gilgun) is heating up.
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Tulip(Ruth Negga) comes in from a night of getting shot in the chest to argue with Jesse as well. Jesse tells her she needs to sleep, but Tulip remarks that she will not. Knowing that The Word is an anathema to Tulip, Jesse still uses it to make her sleep a dreamless sleep.
I doubt Tulip(Ruth Negga) is sleeping in heavenly peace after Jesse(Dominic Cooper) uses The Word on her.
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The Grail
Lara Featherstone(Julie Ann Emery) shows surveillance footage of this to Grail head Herr Starr(Pip Torrens), and the misogynistic Starr says that a woman obeying a man is nothing new, and to kill them all. He has a date and leaves Lara and Hoover(Malcolm Barrett) to clean up. After watching his bizarre interaction with his date, maybe Paula Deen would be a good fit for Herr Starr.
Pip Torrens as Herr Starr, Terri Wyble as Sophie- Preacher _ Season 2, Episode 9 – Photo Credit: Michele K. Short/AMC/Sony Pictures Television
Assault On the Apartment
The Grail sends in a clean up crew to eliminate Jesse and his friends. This fails miserably, as they were not counting on two vampires and The Word. Jesse wants one operative left alive, but doesn’t get one. You read that right, Denis is now a vampire, and we see Cassidy schooling his newly turned son, Denis(Ronald Guttman), on the dos and don’ts of being undead.
Herr Starr is upset by this failure, and tries to shoot poor Hoover. Lara fixes his malfunctioning Glock while explaining to Herr how they met. He spares their lives, ordering them to get him prostitutes for rough sex.
New Orleans Standoff
Jesse knows the killers, the men in white, will be coming back. Using The Word again, he positions NOLA police around the building as eyes and ears to keep track of what’s going on around outside.
Herr Starr has amassed a file on Jesse, but finds nothing impressive, no missing puzzle piece to his plan.
He decides to deploy Brad, and in between finding prostitutes, Lara and Hoover manage to do so.
Outside Denis’s apartment, A large man with a creepy smile comes up to one of the police officer’s car as he is drinking coffee. Several officers try to subdue him, but seem to be failing.
Tulip shoots the cleanup man, who was actually there to clean up from the Grail onslaught, with a gun borrowed from a disguised Featherstone.
A Line and a Wire Crossed
Herr Starr gets a surprise when three men show up in his office. Male prostitutes had been hired, and Starr is not pleased. But they don’t take no for an answer. While Starr is being violated over his desk, he sees Jesse’s file again and has an epiphany. He calls Featherstone and Hoover to call off Brad.
It’s not a man, he was a drunken red herring. Brad is BRAD, a Grail missile, heading for Denis’s apartment complex.They do so last minute, and a beloved New Orleans native pays the price.
Preacher meets a Starr
Starr contacts Jesse, and tells him that he can help him find God. We also learn where his impeccable suits come from. We learn in detail.
Thoughts
Julie Ann Emery is a jewel. When she is playing the disguise of a victim of domestic abuse to fool Tulip, it’s not just Lara Featherstone in a wig. It is a different character. Such a great actress and I hope we see a lot more of her on Preacher.
Frozen blood bags are great for pain and swelling caused from getting shot while wearing a bullet proof vest. Thanks, Tulip!
Drunken guy was creepy af. Great Preacher red herring.
According to Vulture, BRAD stands for Battle-ready, Remote-operated Aerial Drone.
The song Denis sings at a very inopportune time is called “Non, je ne regrette rien”. Apparently it is in Inception, but I know it as the song from the Dove commercial because chocolate.
Preacher Production Designer Dave Blass mentioned on Twitter that the walls in Denis’s room were papered in several layers of authentic antique NOLA newspapers. Again, I demand this guy get an Emmy already.
Speaking of Dave-about that Constantine Easter egg-look closely at the record Denis spins…
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