WYNONNA EARP – Episode 103 – Leavin’ on Your Mind – SPOILERS ⁓

Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) presents her accumulated data on the Earp Curse to Dolls (Shamier Anderson) at the sheriff’s office. She defines the Ghost River Triangle as: “Everything from the mountains to where the North and South Ghost rivers meet forms the Ghost River Triangle…It cuts through the big city, contains thousands of square miles of forest, foothills, prairie, uh, the Badlands.” The presentation is cut short by Deputy Haught (Kat Barrell) who alerts Dolls to strange events in the big city.

Three revenants, Sam (Roger LeBlanc), Marty (Murray Farnell), and Gary (Andrew Legg) are seen on film chopping off the hand of an old man waiting for a bus. The same three are later filmed stealing a mute poet’s notebook. Wynonna identifies Marty as being in the group of seven who attacked the homestead and took her sister Willa.

Wynonna visits Willa’s grave and Marty is digging up another grave nearby. He runs away before Wynonna can shoot him, but drops what he came there for, a scrap of paper with numbers. Dolls suggests that talismans are being collected for a ritual. He is correct, and the ritual is a variation on the “Hand of Glory” spell. Another variation of this spell was described in “Fae Gone Wild” (Lost Girl Episode 2.7).

The numbers Wynonna found are the combination to an old bank vault now hidden in a hardware store. Waverly’s boyfriend Hardy Champ (Dylan Koroll) and Shorty (full name Robert Simons, played by Peter Skagen) are buying a two inch clamp for Champ’s tow hook, and are taken hostage.

We learn that revenants souls that can migrate to human bodies through a witch’s spell; that Wynonna has been in hostage situations before (on the other side of the law) and has safe-cracking experience; and that Dolls can’t fire Peacemaker. (Wynonna exchanges herself for some hostages, and Dolls holds onto the gun for her, but when he pulls the trigger it just clicks.)

Shorty dies. Later, Dolls calls Shorty’s death “collateral damage”, and tells Wynonna: “This is a war. You want to avenge your sister and your dad, right? And this is what victories might have to look like.” Wynonna is not happy with this. “And what about our failures?” she asks. “With all the shit I’ve done in my life, Dolls, working with you – I don’t think I can look in the mirror.” The different ways that Dolls and Wynonna approach things serve to illustrate the differences between the two halves of the Black Badge Division cross-border task force.

Bethany (Sasha Barry) visits Doc (Tim Rozon) with a message from Bobo (Michael Eklund) and it is implied that she and Doc have sex. Bethany might be a revenant, but most of them have very bad teeth, and hers seem well maintained. The music playing when Bethany visits Doc is Poor St. John, by Joe Marson and the Satisfied Mind.

Like the revenants, Doc has leavin’ on his mind, but he wants to find someone first. He asks local history expert Waverly for help and (suspecting his true identity) she shows him an old newspaper with a picture of Big Nose Kate (who will first appear in “Blood Red and Going Down” (episode 3.1). Doc explains he’s looking for a blonde.

Later, Doc blusters at Waverly to keep her from interfering in things, and she reminds him: “You’re supposed to be a hero. You’re supposed to be Wyatt Earp’s best friend! You’re supposed to be here to help us!” Bobo del Ray has information on Doc’s person of interest, the Stone Witch, who will not appear until “Diggin’ Up Bones” (episode 1.5). But Bobo wants something in exchange. “Wynonna Earp’s taken a shine to you,” he tells Doc. “We can use that. You get the heir to trust you. Have her think that you’re on her side…Then and only then you’ll get the name.”

All we see of the Stone Witch in this episode is her car, a pink 1979 Lincoln Continental 4-door Collecter’s Series.

Officer Haught drops by the bar to comfort Waverly, but Champ is already trying to do that. The song in the background is Quiet Lies by Matthew Mayfield.

When Wynonna gets home, Doc is there, and he reveals his true identity. “The fact is, I have not properly introduced myself. You can tell your sister she is right. I am – was – friends with your great-great-grandpappy. My name is John Henry, but most people just called me Doc.”

Tim Rozon told Bridget Liszewski of The TV Junkies: “People ask if Doc is good or bad and my answer to that is, what’s good and what’s bad?…Doc lives in a grey area of good and bad and I think everyone on this show is driven by their own mission. Everybody feels they have something they need to get done for themselves and Doc is hell-bent on something. He’s going to use whoever and whatever he can to get that mission done.”

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Miscellaneous Info

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

All 49 episodes of WYNONNA EARP can be streamed on Netflix

WYNONNA EARP: TALES FROM PURGATORY, an Audible Original, will be released on 17 October, and can be pre-ordered from Audible.com.

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** — Revised. Originally published on 21 April 2016