Walking After Midnight: Season 1, Episode 7

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Doc has been camping out in the woods trying to get away from Wynonna, and the Revenants that want him dead. Wynonna interrupts Doc’s Walden-pond like excursion to get some information on the last of the Revenant’s in the photograph.

If that rocking chair’s a rocking, then you better be talking. The Stone Witch shakes down the Blacksmith in search of the skull (the one entrusted to Waverly).

Wynonna pores over the photograph looking for clues to the lone Revenant’s identity, and Dolls pores over Wynonna. Turns out their perpetrator is a gentleman (in the true sense of the word) who carries a cane.

After a torture session that would send Vlad the Impaler running for his mommy, the Stone Witch draws from the Blacksmith’s lips the name of the keeper of the skull. And she didn’t even have to buy a vowel!

Before the engagement party Waverly is hosting for her friend begins, Doc drops in and gives her new keepsake a thorough going over. What’s the matter, Doc: never see a skull with four sets of teeth before?

Dolls isn’t able to return to headquarters and finish out the case with Wynonna, as he’s relieved of duty and manhandled into the back of an official car. Maybe the agents will be lenient with him, and allow Dolls to at least eat the Chinese takeout that he picked up.

After hearing a suspicious noise inside the Earp barn, Doc decides to stick his mustachioed nose in. He finds a dying Blacksmith come to warn Waverly that the Stone Witch is after her.

Left uninvited to the engagement party, Wynonna and Officer Haught are left to investigate a serial killer’s latest victim (boring!) down in the morgue. Whoever killed this poor woman did it by removing her organs from her still-living body with a blade that was burning hot.

After tracking down a noise coming from the cooler, the doctor, Haught, and Wynonna return to the corpse to find the killer’s calling card in its mouth. Jack of all spades, expert in freaky stuff.

Surprise, surprise: one of the Stone Witch’s henchmen has arrived to drop off a “package” at the ladies’ party. But we know the truth: he’s after a skull, not singles.

And Doc breaks his promise to the Blacksmith to take Waverly far, far away from danger and the Stone Witch. Instead when the Witch arrives for her skull, Doc opens fire on her and her other lackey.

The Doc better come quick, because this stripper’s role-playing is getting a bit too intense for pretense.

They say you shouldn’t run with scissors, but they don’t say anything about not jamming them into the temples of an intruder (as Waverly does), even if he is offering a courtesy strip tease.

Unable to produce hard evidence of Revenant activity (perhaps because they disappear when they’re killed), Dolls is having trouble justifying his mission in Purgatory. And his boss is done justifying keeping him there. She is relocating him.

Waverly confronts the Stone Witch outside, and brandishes her son’s skull in front of her. Hopefully Waverly’s heroism will be rewarded, and she won’t catch a cold in the freezing winter air.

A skull is a terrible thing to waste. Unless of course it’s wasted by Waverly, who hurls the Stone Witch’s son’s skull against the barn door.

When Doc and Wynonna show up, the Stone Witch, outnumbered and ticked off, promptly disappears. She then reappears driving her pink Caddy far and away. Also? Doc was able to get one shot off at the Witch which grazed her arm. As the bullet hit her, Doc noticed that he too started to bleed from the same arm, as if he had also been shot. As if he and the Witch were some how linked. How curious.

With Dolls missing in action, Wynonna has little choice but to cooperate with the only law that’s stuck around. And Haught isn’t one for secrets — except maybe her secret love for Waverly.

While collecting DNA samples from the Stone Witch, Doc comes across a rather peculiar sight: Officer Haught’s patrol car making the rounds. Only neither Haught nor Wynonna are inside it, and the car seems to be driving itself. Its taste in music isn’t at all bad, though.