Preacher Recap: “The Coffin”

Season 3 / Episode 5, “The Coffin” / AMC Welcome back to the #ungodly bayou y’all!! Episode 5 opens up with Tulip rolling up in the Angelville Estate with the gun out! She’s got murder on the mind, and Marie L’Angelle in her sights! Tulip has her lined up looking like the Public Enemy logo. After a few tense moments, she changes her mind, puts the gun away and heads upstairs. Cut to: TC dragging a whole ass pig to where Cassidy is being held, only to find out that he’s gone. Again. He hollers out to Jody that Cass is gone and soon after that come across the skinned face of the pedophile science teacher. Jody decides he’s had enough of Jesse’s meddling and seeks to rectify this with a good old-fashioned ass-whooping. Tulip sits in bed with Jesse and wakes him with hypotheticals about the ethics of killing his grandmother. Subtle, right? They talk about the finer points of killing her but are interrupted by the hulking steps of Jody walking upstairs. Jesse and Tulip piece together that jig is up about Cassidy getting out, and Jesse asks Tulip the question she’s been waiting all her life for.

If you thought TC couldn’t creep you out further, he goes straight hillbilly ninja. He comes down slowly from some hidden compartment behind Jesse and Tulip!

Then it’s a TLC match for the tag team championship! Jesse goes to work on Jody while Tulip and TC throw each other around the room! TC throws Tulip through the bathroom door and each of them scrambles to find something to kill the o…