Penny Dreadful Recap: Episode 2.10 “And They Were Enemies” (Season Finale)
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We have come to an end once again, and bleak does not even describe the season finale as my best friend told me when she watched it…in one word she summed up the finale as: desolate and she was not kidding. What a heartbreaking hour, but yet it was so beautifully done…so here we go one last time until next year.
In the aftermath of killing Sembene (Danny Sapani), werewolf Ethan (Josh Hartnett) is trying to break through to find Vanessa while Hecate looks pleased with how things have unfolded. The Vanessa doll is calling our Vanessa (Eva Green) a murderer among other things and calls her Beloved…Lucifer is talking through the doll and tells her that she shouldn’t deny what is true…Vanessa sees right through and knows that in order for Lucifer to have her she needs to agree on her own accord. She tells Evelyn (Helen McCrory) that he is the Father of Lies and she will not fall for it…but Evelyn tells her that the moment she spoke Verbis Diablo and took another life is when things changed. Vanessa tells her and Lucifer that her soul is her’s…Evelyn tells her that Lucifer will never reject her that she needs to face and know herself.
One of the Nightcomer’s still has a hold of Sir Lyle (Simon Russell Beale), while in the room Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) and Victor (Harry Treadaway) are still having visions. Both are being guilt tripped…Sir Malcolm by his family and Victor by his creations. They want them to atone for their sins of the past…both parties want for both men to kill themselves because there is no peace for them.
Back with Vanessa she keeps telling Lucifer that she will not be tempted, but the doll tells her that they know of the old dream and the deep longing Vanessa has of being free of pain, to be loved, and to be normal. A vision of Vanessa dressed in white in a bright room when her children come running to her and then Ethan comes walking in and he’s her husband (oh my feels) and they are happy. We go back to Vanessa and she is in tears as she comes back to reality and calls them cruel and showing no kindness.
Sir Malcolm and Victor are still being plagued by these visions of their families telling them to end their suffering and to be at peace. Sir Malcolm is holding a gun and Victor a syringe.
Hecate once again looks on to what is happening with Vanessa and her mother. The doll is telling Vanessa that she can be at peace with the man she loves if she says yes. Vanessa asks what will happen with her friends if she says yes…Lucifer tells her that they will be released and live freely…to end the torment and just kiss her. Vanessa tells Lucifer that she’s been offered a normal life, but why would she want that and suddenly Vanessa starts growling and she is speaking the demonic language and goes up against Lucifer who is speaking it too and everything around them starts shaking. Vanessa grabs the doll’s face and breaks it while a bunch of scorpions fall out from the doll and Vanessa crushes the dolls face and says, “Beloved know your master” (what a scene just shows the talent of Eva). Evelyn starts screaming while she is turning old, Hecate opens the door where Ethan is locked in and runs towards Evelyn and he slashes her throat…he goes to Vanessa and she touches his face…werewolf Ethan backs away and runs off (I swear the angst with these two). Sir Malcolm and Victor have been released from the visions and come back to their senses. As Sir Lyle is getting choked by the Nightcomer he shoots her and this quote by Sir Lyle was just one of my favorties, “Never underestimate the power of a queen with lovely hair, my dear” (Yes Sir Lyle slay!) and she falls dead. Sir Lyle gets reunited with Sir Malcolm and Victor and are looking for Vanessa, while she is still in the room and a scorpion goes to her palm and she absorbs it into her skin and it seems like at that moment something has taken a hold of Vanessa…like she has accepted her fate…they find Sembene dead and Vanessa reunites with them and tells them it’s done.
At the Putneys, Caliban (Rory Kinnear) is still in the cell and both Mr. & Mrs. Putney come down and have a proposition for him…Mr. Putney tells him that they have a future ahead of them and he starts telling him about his freak show and that he can share in the success or suffer. Putney tells Caliban that if he plays along that he will give him a share of the profits and that his job will be to ease all the other freaks into transition…a father to all the freaks…Caliban breaks the cell door grabs Mrs. Putney snaps her neck and then grabs Mr. Putney and hits him repeatly on a wall and kills him too. Lavinia comes down and calls for her parents and Caliban says nothing and she calls him a grotesque animal and he leaves while he hears her screams in the background.
Hecate is singing a song while she gathers Evelyn’s case that had all of her mother’s tools of the trade…she sets the place on fire and she walks out the door.
Victor and Sir Lyle are in a carriage and he mentions to Victor that he has a good ear for listening should he ever need one and Victor appreciates the kind gesture and arrives home calling out for Lily and he sees the roses Dorian got her so he knows where she is. Dorian (Reeve Carney) and Lily (Billie Piper) are all dressed in white and dancing when Victor arrives asking Lily to come home with him…she tells him that she is home at Dorian’s. Victor starts begging and tells her he loves her (oh Victory why) she mocks him saying how she took his awkward virginity and he shoots her and doesn’t look phased at what he has done…Dorian licks the blood that is dripping from Lily and then Victor shoots Dorian in the chest, but is amused along with Lily because of course they can’t die. Both starting debating on whether they should kill Victor in their whole let’s conquest for supremacy thing they have going on…but Lily says they should let him live so he can live with what he’s created and that one day he will kneel to them along with everyone else…and when that day comes he will know terror and Victor leaves. Lily and Dorian continues dancing while all this blood is dripping from them.
Sir Malcolm and Vanessa are contemplating on everything that has happened…he tells Vanessa that he is taking Sembene back to Africa to be buried and if she will be alright. She tells Sir Malcolm that he should not worry about her…and kisses him on the cheek (all the family feels). Vanessa goes into her room and Ethan is there…he tells her that now she knows what he is she tells him yes and yet she still stands here next to him. Vanessa tells him that they can lock the doors and walk away forever…he tells her that he can’t and she hugs him she tells him to walk away with her to stay with her tonight and Ethan tells her that he needs to think and walks away as he tells her to forgive him and she does.
Ethan goes to Scotland Yard to see Inspector Rusk, Vanessa awakes up and sees there’s a letter addressed to her on the floor and it’s by Ethan. Ethan goes inside to the Inspector’s office and he confesses to the murder’s of the Mariner’s Inn and to all the other killings. Ethan thinks that he will be hanged for his crimes, but Rusk tells him that he isn’t going to get hanged…that he has an extradition order so it’s back to America for Ethan.
Victor is drugging himself…his arm where he pokes himself with the syringe is all purple and he pokes himself right between his fingers crying and lays down in bed…he is completely a broken man.
In one of my favorite scenes of this show…Vanessa goes down to hidden tunnels and sees Caliban…he asks why she is here and she tells him she needed a friend. He mentions to her that he is leaving forever…that where he belongs is to be away from mankind…Caliban mentions that he dreamed that he would have a kinship with people and he would be accepted…but sadly that did not happen. He tells Vanessa where she is headed to and she tells him that no place would be far enough for her immortal self and that she had thrown all of that away. Caliban invites her to come with him and she tells him that he is the most human man she has ever known and she kisses him on the lips and leaves…Eva and Rory were just amazing in this scene and both really brought a very heartbreaking but beautiful scene.
We see a ship and it’s Sir Malcolm heading to Africa with Sembene’s body to bury him…we see another ship and it’s Caliban heading towards the cold where it’s snowing and icebergs all around him…yet another ship with Inspector Rusk and a caged Ethan now with short hair (Noooo!) heading back to America.
A voiceover of Ethan starts off with Dear Vanessa…thanking her for being generous to him and for her affection and understanding. Vanessa alone is shutting off all the lights…and we hear more of what Ethan is telling her in that letter that she brought some light to him, but that he is made for the dark…that his path is doomed and tells her, “So we walk alone” Vanessa looks at the cross on the wall grabs it and burns it on the fireplace, she looks out the window crying saying the exact last words Ethan mentioned of them walking alone and that’s it folks until next year.
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