Evil Season 4 Episode 12 Recap: Fear of The Other

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Evil Season 4 Episode 12 of Evil begins with Sister Andrea in a hotel hallway, seemingly guarding the room. She’s got a crowbar in her hand. When she sees a man, she asks what he wants. He moves and is splayed on the ground, dead. A man behind her screams.

There are two more weeks for the assessors. There are stacks and stacks of assessments remaining. They’re wondering what to choose next when Sister Andrea drops a red folder on the stack. This is the next assessment.

A man named Paul is there. He’s the son of the man who was the love of her life. Paul needs an exorcism.

A month ago, he decided to try a different coffee every morning and film it. The guy in the video isn’t him. It looks like him, but it’s not him.

His name is Gregory. He works as a data engineer in Studio City. As they try to write it off as a strange phenomenon, they show that Gregory self-immolated and entered Paul.

Paul Stoley, who Sister Andrea knew, killed himself. Is this generational trauma?

That’s who Sister Andrea was watching over last night. He’s possessed every night at 2 am. Kristen thinks he needs treatment, not an exorcism.

Sister asks Ben and David to be there tonight at 2 am.

Kristen goes to court. She’s shocked that Boggs is there speaking on Leland’s behalf. Boggs can see Leland’s attorney’s demon form.

Boggs can barely spit out his assessment. He wants Leland locked away in a high-security mental facility for life. Good for him! Who said Evil Season 4 Episode 12 wouldn’t be full of surprises?

Ben is sick of this Scooby Doo shit and can’t wait to get back to lab hours. It doesn’t fall in his two feelings — disdain and hunger. Kristen got that billionaire climber to pay her the money. She’s getting $800 grand for a fresh start.

David hears something in the hall and goes to investigate. The elevator keeps dinging. It’s Sister Andrea. She keeps putting her hand in the elevator to keep it from closing. She’s got a bag of bait that she’s dropping on the ground.

Paul was fine the last time they looked, but now he’s upright and unresponsive. That’s because it’s Gregory. Paul is in the hallway. When Sister Andrea follows Gregory, he does a SMILE face.

The opening credits include a knock-knock joke. Who won’t miss the opening credits?

John Carrol Lynch and Richard Kind are incredible guest stars, making Evil Season 4 Episode 12 a delight.

The demon is on the end of Kristen’s bed again, but this time, it’s Kristen. She screams and wakes up.

Tragoran paid Andy instead of Kristen. And Andy accepted ten cents on the dollar. Wow. This is tragic.

The girls wonder if they could sell their shoes or have Timothy be a baby food model. Maybe Kristen could do an Only Fans! Kristen wonders what kind of a monster raised them.

They should do a GoFundMe.

When Kristen gets to court, Leland is on the stand attempting to explain why two men were in his house on IVs. Why doesn’t Kristen share the USB file with them?

Leland even tosses Sheryl under the bus.

Sister Andrea walks in and straight to the demon. She sees him. He just lost the element of surprise, she says.

Kristen visits Ben. Ben got a job using AI and quantum computing to reproduce neurogenesis in the human brain. He’ll make $600 grand a year. She relays her own sad news, assuring them she’s fine.

Kristen found another version of Paul. His name is Jess.

We’re not possessed by only one person, Paul. David says we get to choose who we want to be.

Ben has a competing offer at $950k. He hangs up on them and wonders why he’s so afraid to succeed. He asks his Jinn for his thoughts.

Ben is on Find My Doppel looking for his twin. I wish this was a real thing. His doppel is a husband and father. Kristen is also searching, but she pauses to get David’s doppel instead. His doppel is a boxer. He’s quite ripped.

You can’t say that Evil Season 4 Episode 12 isn’t a lot of fun!

Paul does a video chat with his wife. She wonders why he is calling her. He apologizes for putting her through so much stress and strain. She wonders about last night when he told her to kill his kids and drive over them in the driveway until their organs were splayed. She got a restraining order.

In the hallway, Sister sees the man in the tan jacket again. The one who was dead in the opening scene.

She asks David to talk about an exorcism and investigates. She asks Paul if he’s sleepwalking again. She finds a chunk of his head on the ground. It’s not Paul, it’s her Paul. She tells him to go back to hell, demon.

She hands him his head chunk, and he places it back on his head. He wants to show her something.

She wonders why he’s trying to kill his son.

She enters another room where she is kneeling in the corner. It’s an angrier, more bound-up version of herself carrying a shovel. She’s a mother superior, perhaps? It says, dies, you must unholy demon and smacks her with the shovel.

Kristen dreams about her and David in bed, but it’s not David; it’s his doppelganger. He rips her clothes off, exciting her.

She wakes with a smile and takes care of herself. Yeah, Evil Season 4 Episode 12 is making me regret the cancellation even more!

She takes the stand at Leland’s trial. She’s got all kinds of bad news to share about Leland, including restraining orders.

She says her torment at hearing her mother torn to shreds this week has made her quite emotional. She paints a lovely portrait of Sheryl that she has never believed.

Another witness remains, and Leland says, Oh no. They got Leslie to flip.

When she gets home, there are flowers all over the house. The girls did indeed open a GoFundMe about Laura’s health.

They want to make money for the family. She’s angry. They don’t ask for charity; they make money through their talents. Kristen gets an idea.

Kristen asks Boggs a favor. She wants to have her own practice. She’s going to start one right there in her garage.

Paul is in a coma. He swallowed 20 sleeping pills. David is going to recommend an exorcism.

David delivers an appeal on behalf of the assessment program. They are selling the church for $45 million with the air rights. I have no idea what that means. They’ve decided to close the parish. They’ll be reassigned in two weeks and have been asked to move out.

David deserves so much more than this crappy treatment. That’s a downside of Evil Season 4 Episode 12.

David opens confession, and his first case is Sister Andrea’s. She has been self-righteous. She tried to stay strong and unchanged. She feels her piety turned Paul away from God, which led him to take his own. She’s the reason he’s in hell. She’s bereft.

Leslie takes the stand, but not before the judge talks with her in chambers. He wants to know if she’s being intimidated.

She says she’s never testified before. He always knows if someone is lying. Is she still willing to testify if she’s intimidated? She is. He chops her head off. WHAT??

He tosses her body, wrapped in a cloth, out the window and into the dumpster. That’s quite a development!

In court, he says that Leslie is a no-show. Because she isn’t there, the judge dismisses the case. Leland promises Kristen that she and her family will never see him. Yikes.

Everyone has a price on their soul, Leland’s attorney says.

David doesn’t know where he’s going next. They don’t have a choice in the matter. Leland is exonerated — there’s not enough evidence to hold him.

Two episodes left, and where does that leave things?

It’s exorcism time!

Oh my gosh. Little Paul asks why his dad left him, which hits Sister Andrea right in the heart.

Kristen finally looks for her doppelganger. She’s a foreign guitarist. It makes Kristen very happy.

David finds Sister Andrea playing the piano. He has not yet told her about what’s going on. He thought if he followed the path of righteousness, his life would fall into place, but it hasn’t. He’s never been so lost.

She takes his hand, and they touch the piano together. A sign of God appears. And that’s a wrap on Evil Season 4 Episode 12!