Evil Season 4 Episode 13 Recap: Fear of the Unholy

Welcome to your Evil Season 4 Episode 13 recap. This is, sadly, the penultimate episode.

David announces that today is the last mass as the building will be deconsecrated and sold. He finds a note “from a friend” on the vestibule that says to meet at their sacred place.

Kristen tells David she got teary-eyed, and David admitted it was odd that he felt closest to the two atheists in the building. As they ponder their last assessment, men arrive with ladders, ready to tear the place down.

Father Katagas from the Vatican is in David’s office. All the files are gone, but he has one last case for them. It turns out that the Vatican did not close them down; the archdiocese did.

Ben is surprised at their last case: an investigation into a professor they’ve invited to join them to consult on quantum analysis. Johan Taupin. He’s the top theoretical physicist in the world, he has two Nobel Prizes, and he’s also in a wheelchair. So, Evil‘s Stephen Hawking.

The Vatican is doing due diligence since Taupin once dabbled in the dark arts. Ben scoffs. Anybody who is interested in quantum theory is thought to be a wizard.

They have to meet with Taupin today and sign off by Friday. Kristen thinks it’s anticlimactic.

Taupin’s place is filled with whiteboards containing many formulas. Ben brings up their doppels.

When Taupin sees them, he says they’re here to discover his calendar for worshipping satan. Ben expresses admiration. The guy is a jokester.

When Kristen reveals why they are there — that Taupin displayed erratic behavior and screamed about evil — his assistant Neil mentioned The Five, post-grad students who worked with Taupin on his wave-particle duality theories.

They set off to interview the post-grads.

Kristen gets a chance to talk with Taupin, who calls her a soft scientist because of her doctorate. He’s super rude, asking her measurements and saying he is hard for her. She tells him to fuck the hell off, and he laughs.

Kristen wonders why they’re only talking to four of the five. Kristen finds the fifth, Beverly, elsewhere. She mentions Epstein and his crass behavior. She wouldn’t let him anywhere near the Vatican.

Ben laughs off Taupin’s behavior, which addles Kristen. Leaving the misogyny to the Church seems like a great idea.

Apparently, there was a holy relic in the vestibule. A sliver of St. Joseph’s thigh bone. Nobody has a clue. They never knew it existed. The guy just sloughs it off and tells them to be packed and ready for their next assignments in a few days.

Sister Andrea sees spirits stripping, pissing on the pews, and screwing on them. They can’t leave a missing relic there.

David visits the sacred place at the appointed time. He’s greeted by Father Giovanni De Vita (Denis O’Hare). He’s Vatican security. David jokes. So, no more friends of the Vatican for me? De Vita asks if David is angry with the church. David says he’s disappointed in it.

De Vita says while his anger is to be forgiven, his traitorous activities are not. He will be tested with 30 questions. It’s an honor, De Vita says. If he decides not to participate, he will be gone. Gone from their sight, their love, and God’s protection.

David puts his hand on a glass while a guy wearing dark glasses hovers his hand over it. I guess he’s a human lie detector. The first question is about the last time David met with Leland. De Vita questions his two months answer.

David adjusts his answer to 16 days for remote viewing, and De Vita asks about The Sixty. He’s asked if he stole the Prevalia Codex (spelling on that might not be right). David did not, but he did acquire a copy. He did not give Leland a copy, nor did Kristen to his knowledge.

Would David lie for Kristen Bouchard? David wants context. They won’t give it. Would he lie? Yes.

Ben is hanging out at home in his tinfoil cap when he gets a call from Taupin. Taupin says that something is in there with him, in his peripheral vision. His voice turns demonic. There is a being behind Ben. It looks like an alien from a ’50s movie, big red noggin and all.

“There are subliminal glimpses of sex and violence in this intro, but, sure, go ahead and skip it”

Father Ignatius is woken up in the middle of the night to the sound of pounding in the vestibule. It’s Sister Andrea, pounding holes in the brick, looking for the relic. Can’t it wait until morning? The faster he picks up a hammer and helps her, the faster he can go back to bed.

Father Ignatius gets his hand stuck in the hole, but he does retrieve the relic. The sliver of St. Joseph is missing. Maybe the rat got it.

David is wandering around and finds a painting of the end of the world. It’s grotesque and frightening. At the center of the painting, a woman’s face opens her eyes, sending David aback. A door opens, and Leland enters. David knocks him to the ground.

Leland says David shouldn’t have looked at the painting. David wants to know why Leland left The Entity. When he learned to remote view and step into the worst of the worst, he left because it seemed the Church was no better than the monsters he was stepping into.

But he didn’t just leave. He became the opposition. Leland requests the ability to sit up, and David offers him a chair.

Leland says, “I believe in the great unseeable truth, as do you. You’re aware of what exists beyond the material world. It’s a cross we both bear.” “You don’t bear shit,” David replies. “You chose evil.”

Leland says there is no evil. There is free will and God-given unbearable certainty and death. His only real gift is free will. We are free to do what we wish.

Why not stir up strife, discontent, and misery if it tickles him to do it. When they remote viewed into each other, they left seeds behind. David has some of Leland’s wickedness, and Leland has some of David’s virtue.

The Church didn’t want David to be remote viewing because he would see what Leland did — the opportunity of free will. He’ll be subjected to a human lie-detector test and marked. And if they can’t trust David, they’ll get rid of him.

David reports back to De Vita, who was particularly interested in the painting. When David mentioned seeing Moses worshipping a burning bush, he turned his head. David doesn’t think there is anything there of note. He thinks he has Leland’s trust. De Vita says he always trusted David.

When this is over, will he be assigned to Le Compte or Father Dominic again? De Vita says Le Compte died, probably of a heart attack. Father Dominic is gone, too. But De Vita assures David they are not killers.

David looks up his doppel, who is kickboxing with hate.

Leland is watching dog videos and crying. He tries to snap out of it by watching a brawl instead.

Kristen and Ben discuss Taupin’s behavior with him, and he claims it was not he who said them. Father Katagus wonders if someone could be hacking into Taupin’s voice box.

Karima is at Ben’s when he gets home. She’s curious about the tinfoil. He admits he has no idea how or why it works, but since using it, his migraines have gone. When she says that doctors use gold ion to address ALS symptoms, Ben calls David. They need to apologize to Taupin.

David tells Sister Andrea that he believes part of Leland is in him. He says he’s sick of faith. Then she sees blood on his back. He lifts up his sweater to reveal something eating his spine. It was sin. He needs to go to confession.

Sister Andrea is on hand and discovers Neil is a demon. He’s no match for her, but upon taking him down, Taupin begins bleeding from his orifices.

Neil attempts to staple his face back together. It doesn’t work well, so he puts on a mask. He stops Taupin from getting an MRI since Taupin has a neural path implanted in his brain. Ben mentions that when Elon Musk implanted them in monkeys, they had infections and whatnot.

Father Ignatius is awoken again by pounding. This time, it’s coming from inside the wall, not outside of it. Sister Andrea asks him to help her move a piece of furniture, and when she uncovers a hole, she begins to climb through it. He stops her, and she uses him as bait instead.

As they sit there, Father says he follows polls about people who don’t follow God. The largest religious affiliation now is none. Church going has fallen off almost 30 percent. He’s reaching the end of his life feeling like a fool. He can’t discuss god with anyone without them looking at him like he’s a bit dim or has been dropped on his head.

Sister Andrea says that God doesn’t see us as atoms but as who we are. That’s why they believe.

Sounds begin emerging from the hole. She tells him to close his eyes. A demon begins sniffing and climbs out of the hole toward Father Ignatius’s bait. She stabs the demon, but Father cannot see it.

Leland is making reservations for The Sixty. David knocks. Is he here to attack him again? David’s whole demeanor is different. Leland wonders if his handlers are disappearing. How does he think the church maintains its mysteries?

Leland loves Kristen. He just wants to force her to curse God so he can defile her. But what if he let it go? David would leave Leland alone. Leland thinks he should leave the priesthood. It’s a bargain. If he leaves the priesthood … Kristen will be saved?

David cloned Leland’s phone and gives it to De Vita. De Vita wants to debrief, but David says no. He’s done. Find someone else. David’s reassignment has come through. He’s been reassigned to De Vita as Vatican Security in Rome.

Sister Andrea puts on rubber gloves, which scares the demon. She sprays him with holy water, and his skin smokes. He admits he ate the relic when she releases the hard stuff on him. But he didn’t expect her to cut into his gut to retrieve it.

Ben visits Professor Taupin. Taupin is experimenting with himself. He’s using demon mode, and it will be uploaded to the cloud. Technology has made heaven irrelevant. He asks Ben to join him in the cloud.

In the end, they decide to recommend Taupin work with the Vatican. In exchange for their hard work, they receive three small bottles of olive oil from the pontiff’s vineyards.

Kristen is gutted when she learns that David is leaving for Rome in four days. She thinks it’s mean, so she grabs her olive oil and storms off.

She’s reading Surviving Separation in bed when she hears Timothy. She decides to look at her doppelgänger enjoying life.

Ben watches his doppel, too.

David sits in the deconsecrated church, thinking. Sister Andrea joins him. They’re saying goodbye. Sister Andrea is being retired to a silent retreat upstate, which they visited in an earlier season. He almost says she might like it, but he reconsiders.

Sister tells him not to let the Church pervert his talents. God guides the Church but also lets it fail. She tells him to go to confession every time he helps the Entity. He wonders how she knew he was helping them. She tells him to stand and asks him to turn around. She removes a knife. Sin is eating away at him again.

“I’m not going to be there with you, David, so go to confession. Sin gets bigger and bigger with each infraction.”

Sister has been there for 47 years. Instead of turning off the lights, they turn them on, and the credits roll.