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Recap of Ash vs. Evil Dead
Season 3, Episode 5:
Baby Proof
- Pablo: Fuck. Kelly, shit's about to get loco up in this bitch, and even though the Jefe would never admit it, he can't defeat this evil without me.
Ash attempts to trick the demon child into getting killed with the boomstick and notices a miniature organic chainsaw on his right hand. He quickly realizes that the child resembles him as a little boy and tries to capture him alive to prove to Brandy that he's not insane, but the Swedish hitchhiker tries to shoot the boy and scares him away. They manage to get out of the attic, and the two argue a bit, giving the child enough time to saw through the woman's shoulder. She shoots again, and the child manages to break through the door, but gets distracted by a toy duck. Ash devises a plan to tie the kid up, much to the woman's bewilderment.
Kelly tries to get rid of Pablo's face on her leg, while the real Pablo is trying to break into the trailer. He manages to break through the roof glass and tries to drag Brandy out, but he's dragged in himself. Kelly tries to shut the face of her leg up by shoving a towel into its mouth and making it choke, and the real Pablo starts choking up pieces of the towel. She then makes it drink some oil and lights it on fire, making the Deadite Pablo release fire from his mouth. Brandy uses an opportnity to stab him with the dagger, and Pablo's consciousness ends up in the spirit world along with the dagger, where he meets the masked woman from before and El Brujo. In the real world, darkness starts spreading through his body, and the only way to survive is to go through a ritual. The shaman gives Pablo a choice: be consumed by darkness or become El Brujo Especial. He gets several ritual slashes from the dagger that appear on his real body and gets to make a choice from two chalices with blood to add his own to them. He uses the dagger to make a correct choice and becomes El Brujo Especial, purging the darkness from his body.
Ash frees his hand from the sink and finds Ruby's study with the writings in blood on the walls and the photos from his and Candace's wedding, while the woman finds the keys from her handcuffs, knocking Ash out with the sink and taking the boomstick. She's unable to open the front door or any window, and the child finds and kills her. Ash wakes up and finds her headless corpse, as well as the child. He tries to lure the boy out by acting nice, but the kid refuses to play by his rules and crawls up the woman's body, controlling her like a mecha. It gives him a little trouble, but Ash manages to seal the demon baby inside and gets the corpse into the Delta's trunk, driving back home.
Pablo wakes up in the real world, and the worried Kelly kisses him, but he remembers about his duty to help Ash and heads out. Kelly sends Brandy to the store to find Ash while she remains in the trailer to take care of her would. Brandy finds Ash as he arrives at the store, but Ruby is also there, leading to a tense confrontation. She refutes any accusations, so Ash opens the trunk, showing the baby and the bloodied corpse inside. The local sheriff sees it and tries to arrest him for kidnapping a child, but Brandy starts up the Delta and tells him to get in, and the two drive off
Tropes:
- Bilingual Bonus: The woman who was Ruby's child's babysitter speaks in Swedish, saying "I said yes, that the baby was a devil".
- Call-Back: Kelly uses the same contraption in the trailer that Ash used in the first episode, only this time instead of a boomstick it has a glass bong.
- Full Name Reveal: Pablo's full name is revealed as Pablo Simón Bolívar.
- Synchronization: Deadite Pablo and his face on Kelly's leg affect each other, something that Kelly uses to defeat him.
- Male Gaze: El Brujo said that he sent a half-naked woman as his messenger to get Pablo's attention, invoking this trope.
- Moment Killer: Just as Pablo and Kelly get their first kiss, Pablo remembers about Ash, slightly ruining the moment.
- Only the Worthy May Pass: The ritual of becoming El Brujo Especial involved adding one's blood to a correct chalice, otherwise the initiate will die both in the spiritual and in the physical world.
- People Puppet: The demon child uses a woman's headless corpse as a mecha suit to fight Ash.
- Red Baron: Pablo gets the title of "El Brujo Especial".
- Too Dumb to Live: The Swedish lady made a big mistake of not sticking around Ash, and she gets killed for this.
