Notes on - Evil: Let X = 9

 

Let X=9 notes

 

David and Kristen clearly haven’t resolved their fight from last week.  Does that feel manufactured?

They’ve never done a prophet before. How long has this program

Why are they at a day care?

Or is it a school

I wish I knew Chinese dialects.

The possibly prophet is either a teacher or day care worker

Grace Ling

David: How does God speak to you?

Grace: Very slowly

Grace seems sweet and genuine

David is asking if she waits for god to have something to say because he’s trying to justify the drug use to summon him

Timely Jeff Epstien reference

David really does want to know god’s plan for him

What’s with the beach ball

Grace says they’re in danger because ‘they’ know about his visions

Kristen needs to avoid the color red for the next seven days

Kristen: It sounds more like a fortune cookie than God.

Grace: Sometimes God sounds like a fortune cookie.

Reporting back to the Monsignor

The church wants to know if Grace is ‘right’. What was she right about before?

Oh, this is literally the following morning from last episode

Kristen’s right about experiment being the only way to prevent opinion from affecting results

***** Do you have any idea how weird it is for me to be involved in this? I mean, I go to Whole Foods during the day, and at night I say things like, ‘Would you have told the exorcist?’

Wait, did it glitch? Why are they replaying… oh. Sex fantasy. I see. Whose though?

Hey, George is back! OK, so it was Kristen’s dream. Can’t blame her.

Sheryl and Leland are on a date. It looks like fun if you don’t know he’s awful

Googling ‘local sinkhole’

Ah, this is confirming the prophet telling that woman that her home was going to fall into the darkness.

Ben thinks Grace is just really perceptive

Agatha Christie used to make this exact argument about intuition ALL the time.

Kristen believes enough to ask her Daughter (is that Lynn?) not to wear a red jacket

Sheryl points out that Kristen is wearing red earrings

Sheryl’s bringing Leland to Kristen’s for dinner. That’s a ticking bomb

It’s hard not to like Kurt

Kristen’s not telling Kurt about her sexy David feelings

I’ve tried lucid dreaming

Another gimmick to interrupt dreaming by seeing that the blue string isn’t there. A lot like the words on the ceiling in the pilot

Those personality inventories are like that

Kristen has a good point about why can’t God just say things directly

Will Laura be all right?  Of course that’s what Kristen would want to know

What is Grace drawing?

Ben: I checked out her..uh.. statements.

David: Prophesies.

Ben: Yeah.

She’s 70% accurate on prophecies.

Yes, why are they doing it?

Good on David for standing up to church secrecy

The Poveglia Codex (the g is silent)

15 pages of prophecies

Some of the prophecies in the special book have been echoed by Grace, even though no copy has left the archives in 500 years

‘A life of Grace?’ – cute headline

The propjecies in the codex are really bad, apparently

Interesting. We’re experiencing the ‘blue string is missing, oh it’s a dream’ thing in real time with Kristen. That’s a fun trick

Once again, Kristen’s dream hack has worked. Fun

Why did she take things to a snowy mountain

Kristen is taking none of George’s shit in the dream

I totally expected there to be a bite when she woke up

Ah, the prophecy is about the end of the catholic church. That’s why the church cares and why they want to discredit Grace

Grace: God loves you, David. You don’t need to see him to be loved by him.

But David WANTS to be super special so badly

Grace can throw down in scripture quoting. Was/is she a Christian before the prophecies?

Ah, back to the three stars in Jesus’ snow globe

Euler triangle?

Hey, David’s looking at the same Google search I am!

2, 3,4,6,8

What’s going on with David still in bed and getting the door

Grace’s drawing was the gaps in the codex

David is super high

What the actual fuck with the little kid on the chair???

Ah, the long awaited dinner party! Of course, Leland gets there before Kristen gets home so that he’s waiting like an evil surprise

Sheryl calls him Lee to keep the surprise (shows reason, not Sheryl’s)

Kristen is never going to buy that Leland didn’t do this on purpose

Kristen may very well stab him now

I actually typed that before she picked up the knife

Damn, she really cut him!

Kristen: Shut up, it’s survivable. I didn’t touch the coratid artery or the jugular vein.

Kristen knows exactly how many stitches that Leland will need

Kristen: You have 18 minutes.  Keep the dishtowel.

You have to feel bad for Sheryl at this point. She doesn’t know what’s really happening.

It’s brave how unbothered Kristen is to look crazy in defense of her daughters

Who is Kristen calling. Oh, David, of course

The Monsignor held back some of the pages.

Oh, it’s 280 pages, not 15 and about the world ending, not the church

Ben: Just a lot of popes, and us.

Ben’s kind of clutching at straws explaining this

Ben and Kristen talking about how they like each other is sweet

David’s admitting to Kristen about the drug use to find god

Why isn’t Kristen telling David about Leland’s home invasion?

ICE raid. Also very timely ICE took Grace and so, end of episode

Oh right, Kristen has the fake recording to show Sheryl what Leland’s really like- Sheryl is so hurt

David’s pretending to be Grace’s lawyer

How fast can Grace really draw these things?

Asshole ICE guard throws away the end of the world prophecy

How much does Sheryl believe?

Sheryl’s still good at this point, breaking up with Leland to put her family first.

And weasely Leland pretends to be good guy about it while tempting her to undermine it

Michael Emerson, sex object

The flames from under the bed are a nice effect

Why does Leland have that Red Dress? Should I remember it?