WYNONNA EARP – Episode 212 – I Hope You Dance – SPOILERS ⁓

On their way to dig up the demon Bulshar, Bobo (Michael Eklund) and The Widows (played by Dani Kind and Meghan Heffern) encounter Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), who is surprised Bobo is alive, but doesn’t fear him. “You won’t hurt me,” she says, to which Bobo responds: “I won’t help you, either. Giving a shit about you has only caused me pain.”

Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) arrives and fires at Bobo twice with Peacemaker. The Widows catch the bullets before they reach their target, and the three continue on their way. Wynonna explains that Bobo is alive because she died briefly during her vision quest. (She was dead for 77 seconds in episode 208 — “No Future in the Past”, and the death of the Heir resurrects all the revenants.)

Bobo leads The Widows to the place where he reburied Bulshar’s coffin. Widow Beth is upset that her husband was not buried in consecrated ground but Bobo tells her the ground was sacred to the Assiniboine. It is not clear why a demon would require consecrated ground as a burial site.

Bulshar is weak after more than a century underground and asks his wives to feed him Wynonna’s baby. The Widow Beth is down with doing that, but Mercedes has other ideas. She begins by chopping Bulshar’s forearm off with an axe. “What have you done?” cries Beth.

“Chopped my way into the 21st century,” answers Mercedes. “The world has changed. Hell, look at Wynonna Earp. She’s ten times the gunslinger Wyatt ever was and he put Bulshar in the ground!” She grabs Bulshar’s severed limb, takes a ring from it, and sets off explosives, trapping the others underground. When Faux Mercedes touches Bulshar’s ring as she emerges from the mine, her transplanted face heals completely and her hair turns platinum blonde.

The Widows may have absorbed some of the Gardiner sisters’ personality traits along with their faces. Widow Beth revels in her role as a traditional wife, while the first thing Widow Mercedes wants to do is take control.

Bulshar’s severed arm will appear again in “The Other Woman” (episode 310).

Dolls (Shamier Anderson) brings the commemorative plate to the homestead. The plate glows when next to Peacemaker, and Wynonna decides to pay a visit to the Iron Witch (Rachael Ancheril) in hopes of weaponizing the thing. Gretta explains that according to Edwin Earp (Wynonna’s grandfather) the plate is only a shield. “We don’t need a shield,” says Wynonna. “We need a missile”. So Gretta, who must still have her late sister’s blacksmith equipment, analyzes the plate and discovers it is made of the same material as Peacemaker with traces of ammolite added. Gretta is able to melt the plate down.

Wyatt Earp’s Buntline Special was mostly made of steel, and ammolite is a form of calcium carbonate. The chemistry is not discussed but she probably turns it into Cubic Perovskite (CaFeO₃). Whatever the material, there is only enough to make one bullet.

Wynonna is almost ready to give birth. Waverly sends Doc (Tim Rozon) to get Doctor Navalar, then drives her sister to the hospital. Dolls is stopped by The Order who tell him they have killed the doctor and are coming for Wynonna’s baby. Dolls breathes fire and incinerates them all.

Shootout on Main Street

Widow Mercedes stops the Earps in the middle of town. Widow Beth, who has somehow escaped from the mine, gets there almost immediately and puts Waverly in a choke hold. “Use the bullet on Beth,” Faux Mercedes suggests, after pointing out that Faux Beth wants to feed the unborn Earp to Bulshar, “and we’ll take Bulshar down together.”

Then Doc shows up. “Do not make the mistake of threatening my unborn child,” he cautions. “Maybe I should just take the prize you’re fighting for.” He points his gun at Wynonna. “Mercy comes in many forms,” he continues. “It’s not so bad, Wynonna. Up there. I saw Wyatt and he is so damn proud of you. But I will kill us both before I let you walk in service to the devil.”

Wynonna catches on to what Doc is trying to do, and decides to play along.

WYNONNA: “If I die, they can’t use me.”
DOC: “Two birds, one stone.”
WYNONNA: “The Baby’s coming. You can save it. Aim high.”
DOC: “I will do my best. I’ll take one out on my way down…See you on the other side.”

Peacemaker glows and Wynonna fires first. A split-second later, Doc fires. His bullet splits the ammolite-laced round in half, and each half strikes a Widow in the forehead, causing both of Bulshar’s wives to disintegrate into small, round, possibly motile components that quickly scatter and disappear. Everyone else is unharmed.

Rosita’s Revenge

The baby’s birth is imminent, so they take Wynonna to Shorty’s. Jeremy (Varun Saranga) and Doc go to find out if Bulshar has risen. Nicole has gone to complete arrangements for sending the baby away to a protected location. This leaves Rosita (Tamara Duarte) and Waverly to assist with the birth. Like Bobo, Rosita has accumulated a great deal of resentment toward the Earps. Seizing the opportunity, Rosita knocks out Waverly and declares her intent to steal the child and sell it to the highest bidder. But Rosita seems less than sure that what she’s doing is a good idea. She gives assurances that the child will survive, and her threats against Wynonna are unconvincing.

Waverly wakes up and tries to shoot Rosita with Peacemaker, but since she’s not the Earp heir, the gun won’t work for her. Wynonna tells the gun to work but when it does, Waverly misses (or the gun decides not to hit it’s target). Then Peacemaker gets hot, like it might were it in the hands of a revenant, and Waverly is forced to put it down. Rosita escapes and will not return until “Holy War” (episode 4.5).

At the mine, Jeremy and Doc do not find out if Bulshar has left his grave, but they do get in a fight with Bobo, during which we learn that Jeremy was in a car accident when he was eleven and has a lot of metal in his body. This will be elaborated on in “Waiting Forever For You” (episode 308).

Alice Michelle

Waverly and Nicole take the newborn to meet a helicopter sent by Perry Crofte but they stop at the edge of the Ghost River Triangle. Waverly walks the baby across the line without ill effects establishing that Doc is the child’s father and that Waverly has no revenant blood in her. Waverly’s lineage is not entirely clarified until “Daddy Lessons” (episode 311).

After Doc says goodbye to his child, Perry Crofte (Patrick Kwok Choon) airlifts the baby to wherever Aunt Gus might be. oc puts Bobo at the bottom of the same well in which he was once imprisoned, and tells Bobo that Waverly is not part revenant. “I never said she was my daughter,” Bobo replies. “Just that she was kin. You don’t think I can handle being stuck in a well? I’ve been in Hell.” and Doc tells him that when he died in the Iron Witch’s illusion, he went to Hell as well. Bobo is delighted, and tells him: “Deep down, Doc, you’ve always been one of us.” Bobo will return in “Jolene” (episode 305).

Wynonna meets Doc and tells him she named her daughter Alice Michelle. (Wynonna’s mother is Michelle Gibson. Doc’s mother was Alice Jane (McKey) Holliday.) In the 2024 film “Wynonna Earp: Vengeance” a photo of Alice Michelle at the age of five is shown.

Nicole’s divorce papers come through. After looking them over, she opens a file on something called the Cult of Bulshar, and pulls a black onyx ring from her pocket

Motorcycling into the mountains, Wynonna remembers something her mother once told her: “There are men, Wynonna, mean as a rattlesnake cornered at dusk, and there are demons sweet as clover honey. And then there’s him. I told you he was real. I never stopped believing. But he will rise, and when he does, you’ll believe it too.” Sitting on a rock overlooking a mountain stream, Wynonna says: “Fine. You were right. Bulshar’s back. Now what do we do about it, Mama?”

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All 49 episodes of WYNONNA EARP can be streamed on AMC+. The 2024 film WYNONNA EARP: VENGEANCE can be streamed on TUBI.

WYNONNA EARP: TALES FROM PURGATORY, is available from Audible.com.