Recap of Ash vs. Evil Dead
Season 2, Episode 3:
Last Call
- Ash: Should've never come to this stupid town, Pablo.Pablo: Yeah, we didn't pick it. Evil did.
Ash reminisces of all the good times he had with his car, including the trip to the Middle Ages, while Kelly doesn't share his nostalgia. Meanwhile, a group of teenagers, including the two that hijacked the Delta, are getting wasted and making love, Sheriff Emery's daughter Lacey among them. Lacey, Blake and Marcus leave Tyler and Amber alone with the Necronomicon. Amber finds the book and sees Ash's notes on demon summoning, reading them aloud. An evil spirit possesses her, and she starts undressing Tyler and performing oral sex on him, biting off his penis and revealing that she's a Deadite.
Ruby gathers the others to look for the Necronomicon, but Ash argues that he's in charge, and he has a different plan, involving a recipe from his youth. Ash goes to the bar and introduces everyone to his childhood friend Chet Kaminski, who would help him create Pink Fuck, a drink that would bring the teenagers to them along with the car due to high amounts of ketamine in it. Chet and Ash convince Kelly to drink Pink Fuck, and she has a brief trip, and Ash decides to cook up a large batch of the drink and throw a party.
Lacey and the boys return back to the car and find it empty. Tyler comes to them holding his bleeding groin, and the car locks itself with Lacey inside, severing Marcus's fingers. The Delta becomes possessed by an evil spirit and kills Marcus by sending a hubcap through his chest before attempting to run Blake and Tyler over. They attempt to hide at a construction site, and the car briefly stops. Tyler makes a run for it, and the Oldsmobile chases after him, but Lacey brakes just in time to save him. Her joy is short-lived, as the seatbelts wrap around her, and the car starts bouncing and shreds Tyler's face with its tire, burning his corpse and speeding off. The Delta torments Blake by threatening to run him over before finally going through with it and burning his body, scaring Lacey.
The party starts, and teenagers gather at the bar, and even Brock shows up with his buddies for his casual Saturday drink. Ash tells Ruby to keep him away from the other bargoers, while he goes to teenagers and starts carefully asking them about the car. Amber shows up, disguised as a living person, and hits on Ash. Pablo tells Kelly about his visions, and Chet overhears it and tries to suggest a solution by drinking his problems away, but Kelly instead tells to face his problems head on.
Brock hits on Ruby, and she gets fed up with him and shoves her fingers in his nose, forcing him to apologize. Ash decides to intervene and tells his father that he's not exactly welcome, giving him a chance of settling the differences in a rodeo, where the older Williams outlasts his son. Ruby storms off and sees Kelly outside, drinking on her own. She gives Kelly another plan to find the book themselves, enticing her by saying she's the actual "chosen one".
Sick of being shown up, Ash confronts his father about what happened 30 years ago and tells him that he's had enough of carrying the blame for what happened to Cheryl and the others, but Brock brushes him off and goes with Amber. Ash and Pablo see that the girl is a Deadite and admits that his plan is a failure. Pablo makes him snap out of his funk, and Ash interferes just in time before the Deadite can kill Brock. They fight in the bathroom, and Ash kills her by cutting Amber's head off, convincing his father that all his stories were real. A teenager walks into the bathroom while Ash is holding the head and causes panic in the bar, and Brock shouts that his son is actually a hero. Just as they're about to fully reconcile, the Delta runs him over and kills him, speeding away and leaving Ash wailing in sorrow.
Tropes:
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Brock admits to his son that despite all the tension between them, he still loves him deep inside.
- Call-Back: While reminiscing about the Delta, Ash has flashbacks of The Evil Dead (1981) and Army of Darkness.
- Dirty Old Man: Brock tries to hit on Ruby once again and tries to get Amber, not aware she's a Deadite.
- Downer Ending: Just as Ash and Brock are about to finally have a heart-to-heart after 30 years, the possessed Delta runs the older Williams over, killing him.
- Exactly What I Meant to Say: Ash briefly mocks Ruby over her obsession with the Necronomicon.Ash: Now I'll never get my car back.Ruby: You mean your book, right?Ash: Well, of course I mean the car. (laughs) Oh did I say "car"? I meant "car".
- Facial Horror: Tyler's face gets turned into mush as the Delta shreds it with one of its tires.
- Fingore: Marcus gets fingers on his left hand severed by the Oldsmobile's door.
- Gargle Blaster: Pink Fuck is certainly not a drink for everyone, with Kelly claims it's so sugary it hurts her teeth and makes her tongue numb in addition to making her go on a trip.Chet: Pink Fuck is a proprietary mix of liquors and spirits, garnished with orange rind, and, um... nutmeg. Oh, and... there's a shit ton of ketamine in it.
- Gasshole: Ash claims that he can't fart without tripping on the Necronomicon, and he farts a lot, proving his point to Ruby several seconds later.
- Groin Attack: A teenager gets his penis bitten off by his Deadite-possessed girlfriend.
- Mushroom Samba: Pink Fuck, thanks to high amounts of ketamine in it, causes hallucinations.
- Off with His Head!: Ash cuts off Amber's head while giving her a swirlie.
- Nose Shove: Ruby shoves her fingers up Brock's nose after having enough of his dirty talk.
- Too Dumb to Live: Would you ever touch a book and read some unknown notes aloud while the book has a face and is bound in human flesh? A teenager girl certainly would, and she would die for this.
- Torso with a View: We get a few seconds of a gaping hole in Marcus's torso as he gets killed by the Delta's hubcap.
