I am so glad that Zach Quinto and Sarah Paulsen are apparently freinds in real life, because to play a scene like that with someone you didn't know/trust---brrrr. It made the aversion/conversion stuff look like Tuesdays With Morrie.
It's great that they really went for broke there because, really; how much are we going to buy a serial killer like Bloody Face if he isn't throughly invested in his craziness? It's like Liberace in earth tones--just doesn't work. Go big or go home!
Thredson's story of going to medical school in order to understand what was wrong with him was another great mirror to the religious characters. Thredson gained insights but no peace from his study of the mind. Jude and Mary Eunice both ran to the church to be "safe" from sins, their own and others, only to discover that there isn't a safe place as long as you're lying to yourself. Mary's resentment that the Church didn't magically heal the pain of her past left her vulnerable to possession. Jude's terror at being found out as a hit and run driver has driven her into corner after corner. Whatever the Monsignor's secret is, it's bad enough that he's letting Arden run wild through patients' bodies and souls.
And speaking of the good Monsignor...
Is anyone else having trouble making this track? Last week it looked like M was quite aware of Arden's past--sardonic Nazi smoking and all. But this week it was clearly established that he only met Arden in 1962--two years before. And he also had no idea what the doctor was doing until he saw Shelley and Spivey. So what was that housekeeping call about? If he had no clue about the doc's doings, why would he think to call and warn him?
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