The season premiere of Preacher was a two-part affair, and the second part picked up the crazy and ran away with it. Join me at the “Mumbai Sky Tower,” won’t you?

The Saint of Killers fires his gun at Jesse and, in excruciating slow motion, the bullet heads straight for him. A truck suddenly pulls into frame, and the bullet splatters the truck driver all over the inside of his cab instead. A large group of gun fetishists, in town for a “Greater Association of Gun Aficionados” convention, They open fire on the Saint, the only result of which is the killing of just about everybody there, except Jesse, Cassidy, and the Saint.

Jesse and Cassidy grab Tulip (who was watching the news on TV about the poor town of Annville) and they [barely] escape from the Saint and drive away in Tulip’s car.

At a gas station, Jesse and Tulip are sad about the loss of Annville and the relentless Saint, when Cassidy remembers the commercial he saw for The Amazing Ganesh, who turns out to be the angel Fiore (or is it DeBlanc?) (no, it’s Fiore).

FLASHBACK: Fiore, greatly saddened by the demise of his partner DeBlanc, gets picked up by the shuttle for the Mumbai Sky Tower, a hotel/casino where he tries to drown hang himself, shoot himself, and electrocute himself, only to be reincarnated immediately again and again.  Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) that last attempt was done during a lounge singer’s act. The stunned audience is silent for a bit, and then starts applauding. And the Amazing Ganesh is born.  Night after night, Fiore is killed in some spectacularly bloody way, only to walk right back out of the curtains to take his bow. The crowd goes nuts.

Our gang arrives at the hotel in time to see the show’s crew remove Fiore’s most recently mangled body. They go to the angel’s dressing room where he tells them that he is the one who hired the Saint and he’s the only one who can cancel the contract.  Jesse tells him that God is missing, but Fiore still refuses to help.  Jesse gleans that overtime he uses Genesis, it brings the Saint closer to him, like a homing beacon.

Later, Cassidy tells Jesse that he can change Fiore’s mind in an oddly-specific 2 hours and 45 minutes.  After mourning Tulip’s drunk uncle, gone with the rest of Annville, Tulip and Jesse get a room and finally have some alone time–after which Jesse impulsively suggests they get married.  She, naturally, slaps him. Later, she agrees to “stupid” marriage.

In Fiore’s hotel room, Cassidy gives the angel copious amounts of heroin, cocaine, and alcohol (as well as Archie comics, blanket forts, and ice cream) in an effort to change his mind about helping them. After an extended romp with beach balls, frisbees and hot tubs, and with just a few minutes shy of the 2:45 mark, Fiore relents.

Meanwhile, while waiting their turn at the chapel, Tulip sees a large man staring at her. She gets visibly shaken and follows the man when he leaves, claiming to Jesse that she needs to change her clothes.  The man, Gary, shows up at Tulip’s room, telling her that Viktor (from Tulip’s past in Louisiana) has been looking for her. He starts to call Viktor on the phone, Tulip knocks it out of his hand, and they battle each other. Tulip is surprisingly feisty against the larger Gary, and ultimately bests him by bashing him in the face a few times.

As Jesse and Fiore are waiting in the chapel for Tulip they have a conversation about using Genesis (or, rather, not using Genesis) and Fiore spills the beans that Eugene/Arseface is still stuck in hell.  Jesse seems surprised and chagrined all at once.  Tulip shows up and backs out of the wedding, saying that as long as they love each other, a stupid piece of paper won’t matter to them.

They all say their goodbyes, and Fiore seems to be most sad about Cassidy’s exit. Jesse tells Fiore that they’re headed to Louisiana, since God loves jazz so much (Tulip isn’t thrilled), and then commands Fiore to “Find peace.” He has let the Saint know where he is. They drive off.

Fiore returns to his trashed hotel room, saddened. Later, in his dressing room, the Saint shows up and, surprise! Fiore tells him that Jesse won’t give up Genesis, so keep after our friends and kill the preacher–but only after one more thing.

That night’s performance will be the Amazing Ganesh’s last. The Saint shoots him in the head from the back of the auditorium. Fiore does not reincarnate. He is finally at peace. The audience is unimpressed.

The Saint continues on down the road.

I know some fans had a bit of an issue with the first season, since it was more of a prequel to the graphic novel series, but this season is integrating with the events of the comic nicely. Graham McTavish, the actor playing the Saint of Killers, recently said that after reading the scripts for the second season, he was constantly asking, “How the f*** are they going to do that on TV?” so it seems this time around we might meet up with some of the even more unsavory characters from the books, like Jesse’s extended family, or Herr Starr.

We are definitely in for a deliriously bumpy ride this season, and I hope you’ll hang on for dear life as we go. I’ll be right by your side.

About the Author

Mike Hansen has worked as a teacher, a writer, an actor, and a haunt monster, and has been a horror fan ever since he was a young child. Sinister Seymour is his personal savior, and he swears by the undulating tentacles of Lord Cthulhu that he will reach the end of his Netflix list. Someday.