From S2E7
Previously on From
Now: Episode 7 "Belly of the Beast"
Jesus fuck Fatima is officially pregnant. That could explain all the mood swings that Ellis was noticing her elevated shifts in mood. She doesn't want to say anything to him yet though.
It is now the next morning and holy hell, Mr. Smiley's body is still on the ground making his best impression of a water puddle. With everyone circling it now, Kristi saying this is a great opportunity to dissect this body to get some more insight on these monsters. Kenny is not happy but since he still has a lingering crush on Kristi, he appears to hold back some of that anger for letting this evil ass corpse inside. Tough shit. Cope, Kenny.
Donna keeping watch over Dale, the dude who stabbed Ellis. Someone had to be the villain here, I guess. Dale is still an asshole about his views with the bus people saying they don't belong here. She is tired of hearing his shit because she has better places to be. She locked the door behind her and has a guard in front to keep him in check.
Bakta crosses Donna in the hallway and asks what is she ultimately going to do about that jerk. Donna can't give immediate answers and even if she could, their conversation gets interrupted when she is notified that the van is back with Ellis in tow.
At Tien Chen's house, everyone just finished breakfast I think? Ethan asks to go visit Victor but Jim says NOPE. Julie offers to take him Jim says NOPE even Tabitha says it's not a bad idea...ehhhh wrong answer. Jim takes Tabitha outside to ask WTF for undermining him in front of everyone. They have a big disagreement but Tabitha sticks up for Victor as he saved their daughter's life and of course her own too when she fell in that hole when her house went into dust. I'm not sure if you noticed but the actress playing Tabitha occassionally lets her accent slip out. I looked up her WIKI and yeah she is Columbian. I knew it!!!
Anyway, Jim now being the only one out there has notices Randall flying his drone. He haz idea now.
Kenny continues to look in disgust as they set Mr. Smiley on the dissection table. He then brings up..."Ehhh where are these worms you speak of?" Well worms don't have GPS so how the fuck are we supposed to know, anyway? Mari gets sick and runs out of the room to throw up. Not sure why Kristi told them she is going through withdrawal but she blurts it out anyway. Thanks, Kristi.
Jim approaches Randall in which he gives a half assed apology for the near miss of the drone as it was intended to be a present for his nephew because that was his destination for his birthday party. Jim never got a chance to thank him for helping on their first day there. Randall being the asshole he is was saying "Yeah sure but your wife wasn't even in the rubble and got 2 guys killed for nothing." He has a wall up on his own and Jim thinking this drone can be a pivotal point in his plan doesn't fly well with Randall and tells him to fuck off.
I guess it was okay afterall for Ethan to go visit Victor. However, Victor is just as standoffish as before. He assures him they are still friends but thinks bad things happen to his friends. As Ethan walks away, he has a change of heart and feigns reluctance to offer Ethan to help him.
Marielle is going through hella withdrawals so Kristi ain't lying about that. She is getting the shivers and stuff so she is lying down in bed. After Kristi gives her a peck of solace she walks into another room where Boyd is at and offer not much of any valuable info to put here.
Tabitha decides to visit Jade at the now former bar where she asks him why did he not act like he was taken aback by the sight? Jade confides to her that he reacted all chill about it because he went through the same shit. Remember when he hallucinated being attacked by a civil war soldier and entices her to help him out with his own project in order to give her more details. Oh, how I love casual manipulation.
Holy shit, I guess I was wrong about Randall telling Jim to fuck off because he actually does end up going with Jim. They arrive to their RV still crashed in the side of the road to retrieve the antenna and ultimately use the drone to amplify it.
They then have an interesting conversation because Randall says if he thinks this town is one big experience, did it ever occur to him to some of the town's inhabitants may be in on it? TF. You know, to keep people in line. Well, damn.
With Ethan chatting away with Victor, Julie visits Ellis to see how he is holding up. Fatima gives her a big hug thanking her for stopping by. On her way out Donna comes bearing food gifts to help him recover despite the food shortage.
On Julie's way out Elgen is at the same spot where she originally told him it's all gucci if he ever wanted to talk. Today is when he takes her up on that offer and wants to go somewhere more private so they set out on a walk.
At the hospital, that I will now call a clinic from this point on, Kristi is ready to make an incision. She hits a nerve and Mr. Smiley jolts which makes Kenny scream like a little girl and throws a tantrum that Kristi and Boyd are totes cool with that. Kristi tries to talk his nerves down but Kenny is worried as fuck about the worms itself. This devolves into Kenny eventually confessing that the real reason why is so anxious is because dun dun HE LOVES HER. Yowza.
Inside the clinic, Mari goes looking for Kristi but holy fuck Mr. Smiley's body is GONE!!!! She runs into Boyd and fucking fuck Mr. Smiley is standing at the door in broad daylight slowly walking towards them. Boyd tells her to run but in her frozen terror she doesn't but notices the ballerina box music playing before he lunges at him.
SIKE. It was just part of her withdrawals but man that literally gave me quite the scare. Mari wakes up in a cold sweat, still during the day at that. Just relieved it wasn't real so there's some solace.
Fatima visits Donna at the greenhouse while looking a bit down. Donna is a bit down because plants are dying but Fatima is like nah it's about me BECAUSE I'm FUCKING PREGNANT! Donna is elated but Fatima not so much as she was always told she was infertile and hasn't even told Ellis yet. She thinks this place is just torturing her but Donna breaks out in laughter. In simple terms, she says just assume everything and anything here is terrible but to look on the bright side of things. She's having a BABY!
As Tabitha concluded helping a now chill but still foul mouthed Jade with his project is when he reveals more shit about his civil soldier attacking him and then Christopher. Who is Christopher? The man in the photo.
She reveals to him that the crap she is currently seeing is creepy ass children. She thinks she is seeing that as a form of punishment as a result of her infant son's death. Which sours the room a little and Jade expresses his condolences. She excuses herself but on her way out she sees the drawings in Christopher's book. She claimed she saw the symbol in the tunnels. Eh now Jade needs to be caught up now.
Victor and Ethan are still within eye sight of Colony House. Literally not much. Victor takes note of the trees losing their leaves which is different from fall season. Here? Dat is bad. Ethan, the aspiring optimist is maybe it is unprecedentally good? Victor takes note of that comment, too.
Despite Kenny's protest, the show must go on and Kristi is ready to extract the rib cage or whatever it's called. Kenny returns to help. She pulls it out and is shocked to see that: this monster is human? Gee, I wonder what gave that away? She observes that all the human organs are there and everything, just shrivelled. Literally everything is bone dry no moisture or anything. Frustrated, she tries to dig deeper but she snaps and starts stabbing at Mr. Smiley. Turns out to be a good thing because when she stabbed the gallbladder, it starts leaking bile. Okay, they can work with that.
On their walk, Elgin confides to Julie to what he saw the previous night with witnessing Mr. Smiley. This also segues into another point that he believes that something is being repressed in him. Something that he is supposed to remember but for the life of him, he cannot. So yeah. That sucks. Maybe it's not important.
Boyd is holding the bottle of bile that got extracted. Ew. He asks Kenny if he wants that deputy badge back. He doesn't answer and just goes home.
Kristi checks in on her fiance and she told her the nightmare she just had. Even mentioning the ballerina box.
Elgen decides to take Julie's advice is submerging himself in a bathtub to alleviated his stresses but all of a sudden some skeletal lady pushes him underwater!!!!!!!!
Episode 8 is next.