Dominion - 'Mouth of the Damned'

"I like Buster Keaton movies. Eccentric!"

Alex and Noma discover that New Delphi is inhabited by a mixture of humans and eight balls apparently living in peace. Julian, eccentric and trade-obsessed leader of the city - well, bunker; apparently the budget won't stretch to more than one actual city - is angry that Alex shot one of the possessed and demands the life of one of his party in recompense, although he is persuaded to delay when Gabriel attacks the city. During the defence it becomes apparent that New Delphi is armed with a substantial quality of the same angel-killing metal that Michael and Gabriel's swords are made from. After Gabriel retreats, Julian agrees to ally with Vega if Alex can retrieve a certain key from a nest of mad possessed.

In Vega, a V1 named Zoe attempts to assassinate Clare as the head of the oppressive, caste-driven government. Evelyn coaxes an eight ball into working for her, with the promise of returning images and artefacts of the woman whose body the angel possessed, with the implication that she had learned how to manipulate lower angels from Uriel. She sends the angel to make an incriminating sex tape with Whele - well, it never gets to actual sex, but that's the theme of the thing - which Clare uses to force him out of power, then Evelyn kills the eight ball.

Finally, Michael learns that one of the conditions under which the town is protected is that each year all of the townsfolk confess their sins to Serious Leader Lady (the series is still very bad at using people's names.) A woman who saw him washing blood off his wings stumbles back into town, having run away to avoid confession. She admits to adultery, but Michael persuades her that God wants her to keep quiet about the wings. Since secrets are sins - apparently, because obviously there had to be something messed up about this place - this leaves the town in peril, so her married lover - Manly Suspicious Pants - straight up murders her.

Once more, Dominion's overarching theme seems to be that, actually, maybe Gabriel is right and God has gone away because people are just that shitty. I quite like the city of eight balls, however; it's very different and now we have three distinct survivor settlements, or four if Helena counts when we haven't seen it. Sadly, Gabriel has just been angry so far, and we've not seen much of the fun and snarky psychopath who enlivened Season 1 with his affable monstrosity, although chirpy wheeler-dealer Julian takes up some of the slack.