“Evil” Season 4 Episode 6 Recap

In “Evil” Season 4 Episode 6, the group probes still another terrifying inquiry challenging their knowledge and convictions. Apparently used to strange events, Ben (Aasif Mandvi) teams Kristen (Katja Herbers) and David ( Mike Colter) in investigating a troubling case involving a dancer who performs a terrible deed against her own children during an exorcism. Their search turns them into a dancing troupe whose creepy performances begs uncomfortable issues.

David is working on a new project from the Vatican that tests his psychic capacity, meanwhile. His mission brings him to Ethiopia, where abducted priests become the center of his work combining real-world obstacles with otherworldly components.

Elsewhere, Cheryl (Christine Lahti) discovers shockingly that Leland (Michael Emerson) breaches a line that affects her family, especially her noisy but cherished granddaughters.

At the start of the show, a major character named Isabella makes a harsh observation: “When two or more men are gathered, it’s a church; when two or more women are gathered, it’s a coven.” This opens the door for a close look at how the church sees and treats women, especially those who don’t fit into their “accepted roles.”

In addition to dealing with his own problems, David has to use his remote viewing abilities to find kidnapped Ethiopian clerics. Kristen then tells David a troubling fact: they’ve found 63 women to be possessed compared to 16 men. David’s first answer, that women might be more “susceptible to manipulation” because they are more sensitive, is quickly shot down by Kristen, who uses the many “Q-Anon Dads” as proof. Kristen has a different idea: the church calls women possessed or witches when they don’t follow the rules of their usual roles.

This talk sets the scene for the team’s most recent case, which is about Katherine, a woman who is in jail for killing her children. She’s been dancing nonstop in her cell for two months, which is very strange of her. Parents think she needs an exorcism, but when the team questions her, Katherine shows signs of being possessed by a demon by speaking in different voices, including those of her dead children. This is both scary and sad. Whether she has a serious mental illness or is actually possessed, it is clear that she needs to be exorcised.

Things go horribly wrong with the exorcism, though. Suddenly, during the ritual, David is taken to the body of one of the missing Ethiopian priests and sees a spire or monument outside the prison window. He leads the priests in singing “The Prayer of St. Francis” as the priest. When David goes back to the exorcism, he sings the song to Katherine, which stops her heart and kills her. This scene is both scary and important because it shows how dangerous it is when faith and mysterious events come together.

As the team looks into it more, they find Katherine’s gangrenous feet and a tattoo of a mark on her leg that wasn’t there before. This tattoo comes from a house of necromancers that was said to have been defeated, which leads Ben and Kristen to Katherine’s old dance group. Based on what they’ve learned, the troupe may be involved in evil practices. Kristen flirts with the troupe’s head, Isabella, and is invited to a performance. This seems to back up Megan’s claim that the troupe was trying to convert her and Katherine to Satanism. Megan, who used to dance, says that the group cursed them.

There is something creepy and strange about the troupe’s performance, and Isabella’s actions make it even more so. The team knows something is wrong when Megan shows up with a new sigil on her side and says the troupe did it. Ben sees soot on Megan’s hand, which means she burned herself. Megan is challenged and taken away because of this discovery. She is accused of being the real person who did what Katherine did.

In the meantime, David is still having trouble with his dreams and the moral effects of what he is doing. The fact that he saw the body of the Ethiopian cleric shows that his ability to see into the future is getting better. David’s inner struggle is shown by his guilt over possibly killing the General who was going to kill the priest. This is especially true when Father Dominic tells him that murder is okay if it stops a bigger sin.

At the same time, Sheryl is trying to get her granddaughters to spend time with Timothy even though she knows that Leland was involved in an attempt to kill her granddaughter Laura. There is a fight between Sheryl and Leland because of this, which adds more tension and revenge to the show.

Lastly, the side story about Kurt Boggs and the story that went online about his mother being a cannibal shows that things are going to get worse. At the end of the episode, there is a thought about the large number of women who are wrongly labeled as “possessed” by the church. This highlights the show’s criticism of official misogyny.