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Oh deary me; things look bad for our - for want of a better word - hero: Riled by his blase attitude, his ex-lover (now 'with' Jesus) Anne-Marie left him gut-shot in a sewer while she rescued a pair of babies. He soon gets out of that quandary... by inviting the Demon King Pazuzu into his body to heal him and scare off the unkillable Invulche, figuring that he'll evict it later. Said eviction - or exorcism, this show being more trad than
Dominion - takes up the bulk of Part 2, along with John occasionally Pazuzing out and killing a few people.
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Pazuzu you ungrateful gargoyle, I put you through college and
this is how you repay me?!
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Back from the mid-season break,
Constantine shows us that John is pretty much willing to sacrifice anyone to get the job done, but that if it's him being sacrificed, he'll work to the bitter end to find another way. Arguably he'll do the same for others, but as that is rarely the focus of an episode it's hard to say. In this instance, his rescue costs at least nine lives, although admittedly all bad people (eight hardcore gangsters and a corrupt diplomat.) Was it worth it? I'm sure John thinks so, although as Manny points out, it's telling that he'll welcome a demon into his own flesh rather than
ask Heaven for help.
Zed gets some early focus as she escapes from her kidnappers, but really it's Chas and Anne-Marie who get the lion's share this week, Anne-Marie finding her strength to exorcise Pazuzu and Chas generally providing the loyal core of decency and niceness that prevents us just giving up on John as a bad job. After all, if someone as gosh-darn stand up as Chas rates him, he must have something going.
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