Apocalypse On Tap–Preacher Recap: Masada

Season 4 / Episode 1, “Masada” / AMC  The Return of the #Ungodly We open on God’s gift to the moving image, Tulip O’Hare, and Cassidy. They share some gallows humor and kiss lovingly. Cut to: Jesse falling out a plane and hitting the ground like a whole ass cartoon. In Australia! Then: TIME JUMP to a ‘couple months before’. Without Crashing It Tulip is doing her ‘Gone In 60 Seconds’ thing, pushing that ’72 Chevelle to the limit while drifting and swerving! Turns out, Jesse and Tulip are getting it in while driving at breakneck speeds like certified freaks. Satisfied, Jesse says he loves Tulip. She comes back with her signature response, “‘Till the end of the world?”

Grail University We catch up with Cassidy, who was abducted by The Grail at the end of season three. He’s chained up and chilling in a tiny version of the prison Bane climbed out of. Get this, he’s in there with some mouthy dude cracking jokes while being strung up by his wrists! Oh yeah, the mouthy dude is an angel. Like, with wings and what not. Enter Agent Featherstone she does her ‘I’m mean’ thing and takes Cassidy on a tour of the Grail’s catacombs. Which leads up a winding staircase, into more catacombs, before letting out into an ancient altar made out in Humperdoo’s image. Featherstone tells Cass they’re in Masada, aka Grail HQ, a fortified mountain in the Judeo-Christian holy land. Which of course has a coffee shop front and center. It’s like walking through parts of Brooklyn that used to be gangster, bu…