WYNONNA EARP – Episode 111 – Landslide – SPOILERS ⁓

Can more than one heir to the Earp Curse can exist at the same time? Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) uses peacemaker to send a demon hired by Judge Cryderman (David LeReaney) down in flames, and later on Willa (Natalie Krill) kills another revenant with the same gun, and with the same effect. When Wynonna gained her powers, Willa did not lose hers, nor did Wynonna lose her abilities when Willa returned. When she fires peacemaker, Will remembers her father, Ward Earp, training her to use the gun, and also that Ward had foreknowledge of the attack that resulted in her kidnapping, and allowed it to happen.

The flesh-eating twins Cora (Karissa Strain) and Jolene (Katie Strain) mesmerize victims with their glowing pink-coloured eyes. They were locked in storage for a year with an old CPR steam locomotive. Cryderman gets them out of storage to help with his annual “Poker Spectacular”, which seems to be a scam designed to lure victims with lots of cash into town and then having them disappear. The twins devour Bradley Stokes (Christopher Rosamond) before Dolls (Shamier Anderson) and Wynonna track them down. In the process, Dolls kisses each of the twins, and they are the only people he has kissed thus far on the show.

It is unclear if Cora and Jolene are revenants or an entirely different sort of demon. Willa gets drunk at Shorty’s and shoots a revenant in front of a bunch of humans, which gets Dolls upset. One of Bobo’s cohorts filmed the incident on his phone, and Bobo becomes aware that Willa has returned.

Back at the homestead, the Earps are coming to grips with Willa’s return. Dolls has run a DNA test and the woman formerly known as Eve (see previous episode) is the spit and image of Willa. Wynonna and Gus (Natascha Girgis) discuss things.

WYNONNA: “We shouldn’t have given up, Gus.”
GUS: “Oh, we didn’t think we had. After six months of searching, we found part of Willa’s nightgown coated in dried blood.”
WYNONNA: “Oh, Jesus.”
GUS: “Well, it was a Thursday. I remember, cause you’d just been released from St. Victoria’s. Tried to burn down your classroom.”
WYNONNA: “Miss Hanson called my diorama an aberration. I stayed up all night hand crafting those little papier-mâché demons.”

Cryderman delivers several large, perfectly formed yellow-green crystals to Bobo (Michael Eklund), who says he will need more, and instructs the judge to “lock down” law enforcement during the poker spectacular. (This is likely why we don’t see the Sheriff or his Deputy in this episode.) The Judge gets overly enthusiastic in his attempts to please Bobo and sends a team of ex-military types to assassinate Dolls, and they attack the Earp homestead with automatic weapons. Waverly is wounded slightly, and Willa is saved from certain death by Bobo who just happens to be wandering in the vicinity. Willa prevents Wynonna from shooting Bobo, which makes sense after his saving her and all.

Christmas is approaching in the Ghost River Triangle. Juan Carlos (Shaun Johnston), stops to assist Doc (Tim Rozon) who is still on his way out of town, and whose 1978 Lincoln has overheated and stalled. Juan Carlos takes Doc’s gun from him in a preternaturally fast manner, and warns that the solstice is four days away, and that if a certain portal opens on that day, Wynonna Earp will lose (presumably her battle with the revenants), even with Doc’s help. The stranger displays the Deputy Sheriff badge Doc threw into the fire in Episode Two, and says Doc can have either the badge, or a fan belt for the Lincoln, but not both. What Doc chooses is not specified, but a little farther dodwn the road his car overheats again. When Doc raises the hood he is whacked over the head by an unidentified person, and dragged away.

Doc has no known living enemies, other than Bobo and (possibly) Dolls, both of whom should have been happy to have him leave town, and Constance Clootie, who is buried up to her neck in salt somewhere.

---

Miscellaneous Info

Katie and Karissa Strain wrote, directed, and star in CALL OF THE BLACKBIRD, a fictional tale based on their real-life experiences growing up in Chatham, Ontario and getting into the movie industry. Their own poetry and music is incorporated into the film, Karissa told Ellwood Shreve of the Chatham Daily News. About half the film is visual vignette set to their poetry.

The song playing during Wynonna and Willa’s bar fight is Run Amuck, track nine from the 2015 album Faded Gloryville by Toronto singer/songwriter Lindi Ortega.

The locomotive the twins were imprisoned with is Canadian Pacific Rail engine number 2024, and is on display at Heritage Park in Calgary, Alberta.

The song on Doc’s car radio when he is knocked out is Forever, by Swedish rockabilly band The Go-Getters.

---

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

The 90 minutes TV special WYNONNA EARP: VENGEANCE can be streamed on TUBI.

All 49 episodes of WYNONNA EARP can be streamed on Netflix

---

** — Revised. Originally posted on 14 June 2016