WYNONNA EARP – Episode 302 – When You Call My Name – SPOILERS ⁓

Waverly

Something has been bothering Doc (Tim Rozon), and it’s not that his daughter Alice was sent away for her own protection. “She is safe. That is all I can ask for,” Doc explains when asked about that, then continues: “No, I am angry because the fight has been fixed, the fight between the living and the dying. When the Iron Witch made her wish, and made Wynonna pop, disappear [in ‘Gone as a Girl Can Get’] you and me, we were enemies. You killed me. And I died…I went to hell, The same place Wynonna sends her demons. That is my reward for all this?”

Xavier Dolls

Dolls (Shamier Anderson) tells him he’s got time, and Doc says “Time for what? To replace my bad deeds with good ones? No, that is the rub, Dolls. That is what they do not tell you about turning the hero. It turns you into a killer, too. So you face it, Xavier. We are murderers, you and I, destined for the dark.” Dolls disagrees. “We’re not the same,” he says. “Cos I don’t need a threat of damnation to fight for the right side.”

It is not mentioned, but Wynonna’s disappearance and everything that went with it was the result of a glamour spell, so Doc was not, in reality, shot by Dolls. He believed he was, and likely believed that he went to hell because he felt that was what he deserved. Glamour spells are all in your head.

Wynonna on the Rocks

The unnamed revenant who takes Waverly captive.

Before all that, Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) is driving back to the homestead and trying to explain to Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) where their mother is, and neither Earp is wearing a seat belt. She hands her sister a prison pass. Distracted, she doesn’t see something in the road ahead, and the truck flips, ending up near the edge of a cliff. Waverly is pulled from the wreck and dragged away by the revenant (Dimitri Vantis) who set the trap that caused the crash. He has been forced to hunt humans for food because the game he usually pursues has fled the forest. He is not pleased to learn that Bulshar has risen, and says: “He’s buried, gone, never to find me again.”

Wynonna and (a hallucination of) her mother.

When the truck flipped, Wynonna was thrown from the vehicle and over the cliff’s edge. Clinging to the rocky cliff face, Wynonna converses with a hallucination of her mother Michelle (Megan Follows) and we find out that shortly before Michelle left home, she took Wynonna into the woods to teach her survival skills.

WYNONNA: “It was my birthday. The last time you took me camping…It was the weekend of my birthday, and I wanted to go see the Pixies.”
MICHELLE: “Hah. You wanted to see Hanson.”
WYNONNA: “Yeah, that’s right. And you thought taking me into the woods with a packet of dehydrated chili was a much better idea.”
MICHELLE: “And then I forgot the bowls and we had to eat the damned thing with our hands.”
WYNONNA: “I was so pissed. I should’ve put down that damn Gameboy. If I’d known…”
MICHELLE: “Yeah, if you’d known I’d be gone a couple of days later.”

Hanson was big in 1998. If Wynonna was seriously considering going to see Hanson, the only time that band played anywhere within driving distance (assuming that Purgatory is in the general vicinity of Calgary, Alberta) would have been when they played the Key Arena in Seattle on Tuesday, 21 July of that year. That’s not on a weekend, but the 1100 kilometer drive would likely have taken at least two days, so they would have needed to leave on the weekend to get there. The Wynonna Earp Wikia gives her birthday as 12 September 1989, and the nearest Hanson concert in September 1998 was on the 11th and some 3900 kilometers away in Albany, New York.

Death of a Dragon

Keelan McAuley as the hunter who tries to rescue Waverly and dies in the attempt, underscoring Doc Holliday’s complaint that no good deed goes unpunished

The revenant holding Waverly prisoner uses magic to steal her voice. but leaves the rest of her mental faculties intact, so he might be a witch of some sort. When he dies, Waverly’s voice exits his body as a tiny, glowing, entity that seeks out and re-enters Waverly.

Earp the younger is rescued from the man who kidnapped her after a very funny scene in which a caged Waverly who is unable to speak tries to warn her sister that the cabin is booby-trapped. Wynonna kills the cannibal by kicking him into one of his own trapping pits. Since she doesn’t have peacemaker with her, he does not burst into flames when he dies.

Wynonna and Waverly

Wynonna, Doc, and Nicole (Kat Barrell) attempt to retrieve Peacemaker from where Wynonna was forced to leave it (at the bottom of the cliff). They are attacked by the Hungarian vampire leader Lord Bondicus (Kevin Davey), who was spared by Wynonna in “Blood Red and Going Down” (episode 301) so he could deliver a message to Bulshar.

Earlier, Doc found Jeremy (Varun Saranga) in Shorty’s basement, and Jeremy explained that “there is something wrong with Dolls’ drugs…He’s been having side effects.” Doc asks what kind, and Jeremy tells him it’s none of his business. “I’ve seen what happens when he devolves,” Doc persists. “It could put all of us at risk.”

With everyone else busy helping Nicole retrieve the gun, Dolls is left to fight Bondicus. In the process of killing the demon, Dolls dies. When Wynonna has difficulty accepting his death, her mother appears to her again and tells her: “There’s no more pain. No more drugs…You have to let him go now.”

Dolls comforts Waverly after she learns that her sister has kept the whereabouts of her mother from her.

Showrunner Emily Andras told The TV Junkies: “There are absolutely no hard feelings and the truth is Shamier is an extraordinary talent. Hollywood is calling and has been for a couple years now…We felt like he gave us an extra year to tell more of Dolls’ story and we felt like this was the best course of action to make everyone happy…I gave him the option of how he wanted to leave. It was extremely important to Shamier personally that he have Dolls go out as he lived, which is a hero. It almost makes me cry talking about it. He really wanted Dolls to be remembered as someone who sacrificed for the rest of the team. I was kind of impressed and flattered that that was so important to him versus just being written off or just leaving for something. He wanted a big finish so we were determined to give him that.”

** — Revised. Originally posted on 31/07/2018