WYNONNA EARP – Episode 112 – House of Memories – SPOILERS ⁓
Willa and Waverly
Dolls (Shamier Anderson) and Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) kiss and are almost immediately interrupted by Doc (Tim Rozon). Nicole (Kat Barrell) and Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) kiss, distracting Waverly enough to allow Willa (Natalie Krill) to slip away and meet Bobo (Michael Eklund). Willa and Bobo don’t kiss, but clearly want to. They walk away, hand in hand, into a misty Purgatory night. The cause of all this kissing, both potential and real, is a party which takes place twenty-four hours before the winter solstice and to which Bobo has invited the whole town. Wynonna arrives late and through a window because guns are prohibited and she’s smuggling in Peacemaker.
Doc tied to something cross-like in Bubba’s laboratory.
Doc Holliday arrives even later, having been held captive by Big Bubba (twin brother of the late Vinnie the Vulture, played by Josh Bertwistle). During his captivity, he learned details of Bobo’s plan, It took some time for him to escape and somehow locate a suit to wear to the party. (How he did that last thing is not mentioned.)
Returning memories was another reason for Wynonna’s lateness (e.g. overhearing a conversation between her father and Bobo, and another between a younger version of herself and Willa about hiding a letter from Wyatt Earp. Wynonna finds the letter, and it explains that Wyatt came to be cursed because he killed Constance Clootie’s demon husband.
Wynonna, Dolls, and Doc
In that conversation with Bobo, Ward Earp (Patrick MacEachern) agreed to walk the revenant out of the Ghost River Triangle on the winter solstice, an act that would end the Curse. The September 2000 attack on the Earp homestead was staged to cover Ward’s actions. It wasn’t part of the deal for Bobo to take Willa, but he likely did so to insure against a double-cross. All of these goings on might have caused peacemaker (or Wynonna or a combination of the two) to shoot Ward as he was being pseudo-abducted by Bobo’s men. Why Bobo attacked in September when he could not leave until the winter solstice is a mystery.
Curiously, when Wynonna tries to shoot a revenant biker, peacemaker refuses to fire. This happens soon after Willa is hypnotized by Dolls, and remembers the attack on the homestead that resulted in her kidnapping.
Young Willa’s memories vanish in a puff of Constance Clootie’s breath.
Earlier in the episode, Bobo gave Willa an origami swan before Waverly chased him away. The swan seemed to mean nothing to Willa, but it made Waverly remember a bird sanctuary not far away. She and Willa go there and find the treehouse where Willa had been imprisoned after her abduction. Willa recalls being taken from Bobo by Constance Clootie (Rayisa Kondracki), who also wiped her memories and (though Willa does not remember this part) delivered her to Lou and his forest cult.
Bobo announces that the champagne being served at the party is poisoned. He also announces the existence of an antidote, which he will provide to whomever delivers Wynonna Earp to him, dead or alive. Then he walks off with Willa into the evening mist.
Miscellaneous Info
Big Bubba
Josh Bertwistle (Big Bubba) is Donald Spencer in Cameron Macgowan‘s satirical horror RED LETTER DAY. Dawn van der Shoot stars as Melanie, a mother who recently moved to a quiet suburban community with her teenage son and daughter. Mysterious letters arrive from an unknown source, instructing them to kill or be killed. RED LETTER DAY can be streamed on TUBI.
Stacie Harrison (face-peeling woman) is Paige Tennant in FAULTLINE, a crime mystery directed by Anna Cooley and written by Kirsten Lankester. Paige, a criminal laywer, must connect with her estranged sister when the case she is putting together uncovers unexpected information about their mother’s death two decades ago. Two others from WYNONNA EARP, David LeReaney (Judge Cryderman) and Peter Skagen (Shorty), are also in the cast. FAULTLINE premiered at the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival, and can be streamed on Amazon.
WYNONNA EARP: TALES FROM PURGATORY, is available from Audible.com.
** — Revised. Originally published on 21 June 2016.
