With Heywood Sr. out of the way, Neron moves onto the next phase of his plan, which involves abducting Ava and possessing her so that he can have control of the Time Bureau and its resources (more specifically, all the captive monsters.)
Suffice it to say, Sara is not fond of this plan. As such, she resolves to descend into Ava's own personal purgatory to get her soul back. Constantine is not initially on board with the plan but does eventually decide to go along.
Sara does acknowledge her own experience of coming back from the dead and retrieving her soul, but it turns out that this is a completely different kind of endeavor. As this is Ava's own purgatory, it involves a lot more metaphors that represent her own doubts, fears, and anxieties. It's a little on the nose at points, but it provides the necessary character insight and does allow the two characters to work past them to reforge their damaged relationship. The whole shopping/megastore setting could have been cringe, but the episode actually made it work.
On the flip side, the Nate/Nora reunion isn't what it could have been. After building up the idea that her presence has to be kept secret, the crew is made aware and doesn't really seem all that bothered by it. Even Nate relents surprisingly quickly. I guess he trusts Ray, but you'd think they'd want to maintain that tension for at least a little while. He just kind of shrugs and goes back to what he was doing.
He does get some degree of closure, though. While Nate initially wants to shut the theme park down, he decides to keep it going, coming to view it as something that made his dad a better man. It does still seem like a pretty bad idea. Nate himself even kinda/sorta makes the "Jurassic Park" comparison, but ultimately, the idea will live on. What comes of it? It's hard to tell at this point.
The other main source of conflict comes from Neron himself, who is pretty easily captured by the remaining legends. However, much like Madam Gao, this actually works to his advantage as he can wreak mental havoc on crew members, stirring up anger, creating tension, and escalating already existing ones.
Nate comes close to making things more difficult for the team. It makes sense, as he is angry over the death of his father, but the team is able to talk him down. Oddly enough, it's Ray who messes things up. In his defense, he didn't know what was happening, but him walking in distracted people, which allowed Neron to escape
While it wasn't initially clear what happened, the episode's closing wham moment lets us know just what happened to Neron after that big explosion. It turns out that he had jumped into Ray's body. The bit was well done, with a dog viciously attempting to attack Ray. It's odd at first, but once he starts whistling, you know what's happening.
There's only four episodes left in the season. Neron is still on the loose and the episode even hints at some sort of demonic partner named Tabitha. What she has to do with the endgame isn't clear, but that's something to be uncovered later, as we move closer to the finale.
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