Preacher – ‘Sokosha’

What? No. You're crying.

Okay, I apparently left this one for a while, so...

The Saint of Killers comes gunning for Jesse, but Viktor’s daughter puts him off just enough for our ‘hero’ to escape. However, his friends are not so quick, and Denis ends up in the crosshairs; Denis whom Tulip misidentifies as Cassidy’s father, only to learn that he is in fact the vampire’s son(1). Despite his mission and all that, Jesse proves that he isn’t an unmitigated jerk and agrees to meet the Saint. This is all set to go very badly, but Jesse turns it around by showing the Saint the video of the God audition to prove that his ‘fee’ was never sanctioned.

Jesse then offers an alternative. The Saint, it turns out, can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven ever, because he doesn’t have a soul. Jesse offers to bring him one, and is given an hour (I think; as I say, been a while since I watched it,) to do so. He contacts a soul broker, who purchases parts of souls for resale on the occult black market, but can not find a matching donor for the Saint’s specific spiritual DNA... until he offers his own soul. 10% of Jesse’s soul later, and the Saint is primed for a true afterlife, but also – as Jesse no doubt foresaw – vulnerable to the Voice, allowing Jesse to trap him in the back of a van and drown it – although presumably not the Saint – in a swamp.

‘Sokosha’ shows that Jesse is not without empathy, compassion, and even a willingness to sacrifice; he’s just really self-righteous and a dick pretty much most of the time.

(1) Preacher’s thing is kind of letting you think that a thing is a silly thing and then turning it around on you, in this case Cassidy’s abusive relationship with Denis all apparently stemming from the fact that neither one of them has ever unbent enough to learn the other’s language (and the father’s cardinal sin of not aging as his son becomes old.)