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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Evil Season 4, Episode 4, “How to Build a Coffin.”
This week’s Evil featured a very close call that almost ended with a Bouchard family member’s death.
Under hypnogogic suggestion from Leland, Kristen’s husband, Andy, came thisclose to injecting their youngest daughter, Laura, with a drug that would stop her heart. At the absolute last minute, he was able to overcome the demonic mission by sticking the hyperdermic into himself, giving himself a near-deadly cardiac event. Kristen found him, and the needle, in time to get him to the hospital and save his life. But when he woke up, she assumed that she now had unavoidable proof of the drug habit his doctor suspected a few episodes back.
“I think we need to look into an addiction-treatment program, Andy,” Kristen gently told her husband, who immediately refused. “It’s something else. It’s something worse,” he said, admitting that even he had no real idea what was going on. But on one point, he was clear: “I need to stay away from you and the girls.” Then he announced that he was going to check himself into a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York, citing the need for “separation” from his wife and children.
The break was so affecting — and felt so big — that we immediately asked series co-creators Michelle and Robert King what this development means for the rest of the Paramount+ drama’ final season. For starters, is Patrick Brammall, who plays Andy, leaving the show? Read on for their answers.
TVLINE | Let’s talk a little bit about Andy’s trajectory in the first part of the season. Will he have a presence past Episode 4, maybe in spirit, if not in Patrick Brammall’s body?
MICHELLE KING | A little of both.
ROBERT KING | Yeah, both. First of all, Patty’s such a good actor. If you’ve seen his other show, he’s very funny. So, you know, he’s so often the hated guy on this show which —
MICHELLE KING | But not by us!
ROBERT KING | — not by us at all! But I mean, he’s a good person to have around. Obviously the difficulty for us is that he has another career, so we grab him when we can.
TVLINE | There’s a lot of back-and-forth in the first four episodes of the season about how Kristen and Andy are feeling about each other. When faced with what happens at the end of this episode, though, how is that hitting her in a way she maybe thought it might not?
ROBERT KING | You know, part of this is based on [the fact that] you deal with a lot of directors in this business. And directors are journeymen and journeywomen who have to travel long distances, stay on a show for months or weeks, and then go home. And we were talking to a director who was saying how difficult it was to go back home and how often you didn’t fit into the family. The family had a working relationship, especially if you were on a movie that could have [had you] three or four months away.
Based just on how difficult it is, and how it takes a psychological toll — and here it has the added problem because of something going on in the plot that makes him really alien to this family. So, I think it’s slightly tragic for Kristen that he can’t fit back in, but also maybe a bit of a relief, because she at least has a system without him.
And he just still seems like a little bit of a frat-boy guy. I’ve always thought of him as someone who didn’t quite know how to be a dad or disciplinary dad, you know? Kristen has been running the ship on her own. [Laughs] You know, with difficulty.
What did you think of the episode? Hit the comments with your thoughts and predictions for the rest of the season!
Anyone know how many episodes this season has not including the plus 4 that got to wrap up the story which I’m sure those 4 probably wont air till next year. This show just don’t seem no where near to finishing up.
I read that theres going to be 14 episodes total, airing uninterrupted for 14 weeks.
Yep. Basically it was supposed to be 10 episodes for the last season but they gave an additional 4 episodes to wrap things up in. Like Andrew said, the last four episodes will run uninterrupted but it will be like a short mini season 5. I think they should air around July/August sometime.
So how did Leland even get the baby? Did Kristen hand him over between episode 3 and 4?
Yeah, this confused me a lot. I had to check to make sure I didn’t miss an episode. Episode 3 ended with Kristen hiding the baby and the surrogate at a different hospital to protect her and then episode 4 started with Leland just having the baby.
Can it have to do with the “many worlds” hypothesis that Ben and his girlfriend were talking about? Are we watching a separate timeline, after the “laser” accident in the particle accelerator?
This seems to be the only logical explanation I can come up with.
I wondered, too, where the birth mother is? I know she was terrified when she realized exactly what her situation meant. But has she disappeared? Gone into hiding? I feel sure Kristen would know since Kristen is the only one she trusted.
That entire scene with Andy in the igrls’ room was so intense. I was watching that through my fingers. I had a feeling Andy would ultimately do something to spare Laura, but damn if him jabbing himself with that needle and falling to the floor didn’t hit me in the gut anyway. I do hope, whatever happens with him going forward, he makes it out the other side okay.
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Really liked the whole storyline with Sister Andrea as well, especially her talk with Father Ignacius. That was so moving and so sweet and so touching.
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This was a great episode. Incredibly intense, but great.
David and Kristen romance?
Will Kristen ever find out that her mother & Leland have been telling Andy what to do? I hope so
I sure hope so. I cannot stand Sheryl. She needs to get what’s coming to her.
I liked the episode and was so glad he didn’t kill his daughter. I want him to stay on the show and to remember what is going on so they can catch Leland and her Mom. Make them pay for what they have done
I would totally watch a spin off show of Sister Andrea hunting and killing demons! I love her!
I find myself wondering why these quality tv shows are so often cancelled by networks, before they have found their feet so to speak. Evil and Longmire come to mind, as well as Star Trek from the past. I am sure there are more out there, but that is the ones I know about. I loved Evil because I could see where they were going with it, and then they had Timothy baptized. So, I would really like to see what direction they are going with this show. There are too many loose threads to leave it like this. Someone please pick this show up! We cannot let the devil win! I fear that is what will happen if we leave it like this. Don’t leave Kristen this way!