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Recap / Chucky S 3 E 7 There Will Be Blood

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Charles Lee Ray's spirit haunts the White House, while Tiffany's execution approaches.


  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: While in the Spirit Realm Damballa appears to his votaries in the form of the one they revere the most. In Chucky's case, given how much of a narcissist he is, he takes the form of Chucky's doll body.
  • Any Last Words?: Tiffany is asked this before being executed. Her last words being, "Goodbye GG. Goodbye Chucky. I love you so so much."
  • Bait-and-Switch: During the séance when Chucky lifts a speaker, it looks like he is going to kill Carol by smashing it on her head. Instead, he drops it on the ground, and it electrocutes Carol to death along with Vice President Spencer and his secretary Melanie due to standing in the puddle of blood.
  • Berserk Button: When Pryce discloses that they will explain the president's death by having Randall and the First Family announce that he's been diagnosed with brain cancer, Charlotte is against it due to Joseph having died of cancer.
  • Boring Insult: Chucky tries to get Damballa to notice how many sacrifices he made. Damballa states he wasn't paying attention (he stopped observing Chucky after the latter supposedly cheated on him with Catholicism) but when Chucky gives him a quick recap of his murders throughout the show with some callbacks to the movies Damballa rolls his eyes, looks at his nails then finally rebuffs Chucky as having gotten boring. This gets Chucky riled up leading to the trope below.
    Damballa: It's not really about numbers, Charles. It's about passion and originality.
  • Bullying a Dragon: In a twist, this time it's Chucky who is the victim of this trope. After Damballa calls him out on getting boring, Chucky angrily goes on an Cluster F-Bomb rant at him making Damballa threaten to dump him in Hell until Chucky gets on his knees begging him for mercy then scrapes up one more chance by the skin of his teeth just from Damballa being in an "unusually magnanimous mood".
  • The Bus Came Back: After a long absence following "Jennifer's Body", Nica returns to witness Tiffany's execution.
  • Call-Back: When listing off the types of murders he committed, Chucky brings up acid face melt and poison roulette.
  • Character Aged with the Actor: While Chucky was 30 when he originally died, his ghost is much older and roughly the same age as Brad Dourif.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Tiffany failed to consider that a voodoo slave might cross the street without watching out for cars. She also failed to remember that she had more than one voodoo slave and she could've sent all of them to go after the sniper.
  • Do Not Call Me "Paul": Chucky still doesn’t like being referred to as Charles. Ironically, he addressed himself as Charles Lee Ray to Damballa.
  • Drowning Pit: Chucky kills Randall and a secret service agent by trapping them in the elevator and filling it with blood until they drown.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Randall is empathetic for Charlotte when she objects to using cancer as a cover for her husband's death, considering her son actually did die from cancer.
  • Flipping the Bird: After killing Carol, Spencer, and Melanie, Jake sees Chucky's ghost across the room, who smugly flips him off.
  • I Choose to Stay: Grant refuses his mother's orders to leave with her and Henry due to not wanting to leave Lexy, Jake, and Devon trapped in the White House.
  • Jacob Marley Apparel: Charles Lee Ray's spirit is still wearing the same outfit as the night his human body died.
  • Judgement of the Dead: After Chucky's death in the previous episode he faces Damballa's judgement in the Spirit Realm. In a curious reversal of how such things usually go, Chucky lands in hot water and almost gets sent to Hell for what Damballa judges to be an insufficient commitment to evil in his human sacrifices, and he only just manages to talk Damballa into giving him one last chance to impress the deity before being cast into Hell. It should be noted that Damballa's dialogue implies that his personal involvement is a matter of preference and Chucky could have simply been "processed" straight to Hell.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • In the Spirit Realm, Chucky runs into Teddy (his first kill of the season) and laughs in his face while reminding Teddy of how he shot him.
    • He later takes delight in tormenting a traumatized Henry as a ghost.
  • Oh, Crap!: Tiffany has this reaction when she's informed that her brainwashed minion Erica Dorsett has been killed and she's run out of time to prevent her execution.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Two secret service agents go against Pryce's orders and help Charlotte and Henry escape at the risk of losing their jobs, one of them staying behind to help Grant and even knocking out a fellow agent.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Chucky filling the elevator with blood to kill Randall and the secret service agent could be a reference to The Shining.
    • Chucky claims to have learned thumbing the President's eyes out from Shark Week.
    • Jake takes his plan to enter the spirit realm from Flatliners.
  • Shown Their Work: After 36 years of strictly sticking to a Hollywood Voodoo version of Damballa, the show finally makes a nod to the real religion when Chucky first meets Damballa and tells him that he expected the deity to look like a serpent, which is how Damballa is depicted in real life.
  • Spanner in the Works: Tiffany's plan to break out of jail goes south when Erica gets run over and dies.
  • Spirit World: After his death, Chucky's soul (in the form of Charles Lee Ray as he would look if he hadn't died in 1988) enters an Afterlife Antechamber that resembles a warped version of the White House, which Damballa refers to as "the Spirit Realm" to face his judgement.
  • Spooky Séance: The group in the White House hold one to contact Chucky.
  • Surprisingly Sudden Death: Under Tiffany's control, Erica follows the sniper guard to his home to retrieve a personal item, only for her to be suddenly hit by a car while crossing the street.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Carol's insistence that they not break the circle during the séance even as Chucky is raining blood on everyone and throwing objects across the room. She still yells this even after everyone else has left the table in a panic, until Chucky throws a speaker on the ground, causing her to get electrocuted to death.
  • This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: When Devon, Lexy, and Grant volunteer to go with Jake to the Spirit Realm, Timmy explains that Jake has to go alone since he had the strongest connection with Good Chucky.
  • Trap Door: The Spirit Realm's version of the Oval Office has an iron grate over a hole leading straight to Hell, which can be opened by a Big Red Button on the desk. Presumably this is an addition by Damballa specifically for his meeting with Chucky.
  • Unexpected Successor: With the president and vice-president dead, the unseen Speaker of the House is now the president.
  • Unseen No More: After 36 years of being The Ghost, Damballa finally makes an appearance onscreen and interacts with Chucky directly to give him one more chance to impress him before sending him to Hell.
  • You Have Failed Me: Damballa threatens to put Chucky away for good for not being creative enough with his murders lately.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Randall realizes too late that being a body double for a president that will soon be declared legally dead means that he too will have to die in order to keep up the charade. His escape attempt is thwarted when Chucky kills him first.

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