Orel is caught bathing in his friends' blood (revealed next episode why). Clay decides that a more severe punishment is needed, and bans Orel from going to church for a month. Orel doesn't take it well, but decides he could pray at home. Clay decides to taunt him by saying going to church earns him 'soul insurance', and Orel starts to go crazy from not going to church, resorting to drawing one on a wall and building a model one, which Clay takes away. Soon, Orel steals the model church and wears it, meeting Doughy. They realize it's missing a cross and Doughy takes Oral out to steal one from a sign, only for the metal cross to turn Orel's Church costume into a lightning rod and attracts a lightning bolt, striking poor Orel down, much to Doughy's horror.
Orel then proceeds to have a near-death experience, waking up in a crimson void. He quickly realizes his situation and, while initially excited to see God, he grows sad when God doesn't immediately respond. Orel then starts to apologize for having not been in Church, or for not having collected enough "Soul Insurance," in the belief that God was upset with him (with Orel possibly assuming that he was in Hell). A speck of light then suddenly illuminates the void. Believing it to be God reaching out, Orel calls to Him, but is drawn into it before he can finish, and he then wakes up in the hospital, having been revived. He begs to go back to church, believing that his experiences were a message from God that He misses Orel attending, but Clay refuses, so Orel decides to have Doughy help him electrocute himself at his house in order to try to talk to God again.
For his second near-death experience, Orel has a vision of Moralton's Church and faintly hears the sound of Bartholomew barking. Orel is overjoyed at the prospect of being reunited with his lost dog, but he is revived once again right before he could investigate any further. Now having become even more desperate for answers, he convinces Doughy to help him die once more by electrocuting him with the defibrillators.
What follows in Orel's third near-death experience is perhaps some of the most surreal imagery in this series, in which Orel now experiences both the past and the future accompanied by himself adorned in his home-made Church costume. Taking in all of these visions and piecing them all together, Orel finally comes to the revelation that he IS a church (metaphorically, referring to how The Bible describes a believer's body as a temple to God and how God can be found everywhere, not just in physical buildings) before nearly dying for real. When he finally wakes up, again, he tries to tell everyone about what he saw in his visions, but because it doesn't line up with Moralton's church dogma, Clay silences him and drags him to the study. There, Clay spanks him repeatedly until he represses the epiphany he just had so that he will stay in line with Moralton's status quo.
Tropes present:
- Blood Bath: Clay discovers Orel in a bathtub surrounded by Doughy, Billy, Tommy, and Maryenetta, with their wrists cut open and bleeding into the tub.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Clay is understandably horrified when Orel bathes in his friends' blood, but only because the latter messed up the bathroom.
- Ignored Epiphany: After Orel returns home from the hospital, Clay spanks him repeatedly until he represses the epiphany he received from his near death experiences.
- Room Full of Crazy: Eight days into his grounding, Orel has covered his room in scribbled fragments of Bible passages and a drawing of the Moralton church.
- Status Quo Is God: Taken to extreme measures in this case. After Orel has a vision of heaven, Clay literally beats it out of him so he won't rock the boat for the rest of Moralton.
