Armor-Piercing Question: When Jesse tries to convince DeBlanc and Fiore that Genesis inhabiting him is part of God's plan. DeBlanc's response stuns him into silence:
DeBlanc: Preacher, we have a question for you. Genesis, the greatest power ever known, and you've had it all this time, right there at the tip of your tongue. And what good have you done with it?
Bait-and-Switch: The episode leads audiences to believe Donny has been Driven to Suicide since he sees no way to overcome Jesse's unstoppable power, putting his head in his car trunk, putting a gun to his head, and firing. It's later revealed that he was actually deafening himself to get a Disability Immunity.
Batter Up!: One of Quincannon's men charges Jesse's church armed with a baseball bat... which Jesse blows to smithereens with a warning shot.
Cutting Back to Reality: After Jesse Custer accidentally uses the power of Genesis to send Eugene to Hell in the previous episode; he manages to call Eugene back to Earth, leaving him unharmed but desperate for a glass of water. While he drinks up, they discuss what to do with Genesis; however Eugene happens to mention something that Jesse hadn't shared with anyone else, immediately arousing the preacher's suspicion... and then we cut back to a shot of the suddenly-unoccupied pew in front of Jesse, where the requested glass of water is still sitting, untouched. Turns out that the rescue was just a guilt-induced hallucination.
Disability Immunity: Donny figures out a way to get around Jesse's control: deafen himself by firing his gun in his car's trunk with his head inside. It works, but it annoys Quincannon and his wife later.
Driven to Suicide: Subverted; Donny's aforementioned Disability Immunity is set up as if he's realizing the futility of the assault on the church and deciding to end it all in an oddly convoluted way.
Groin Attack: When one of Quincannon's men tries to rush the church with a musket, Jesse shoots his junk off.
Humble Goal: Quincannon motivates his men to charge into Jesse's gunfire by offering them a food court in the new compound. When the rest of the men flee, Clyde continues to charge in, chanting, "Food court! Food court!"
I Never Said It Was Poison: Eugene asks if Jesse will give Genesis back to the two men in the motel, only for Jesse to quickly remind him that he never said anything about the two men in the motel. This is how Jesse figures out that the Eugene he's been talking to is actually just a figment of his imagination.
Instantly Proven Wrong: Quincannon chastises his men for aborting their charge on Jesse's church, since Jesse's a preacher who is only going to fire warning shots and would never actually hurt anybody. Clive then exits the church, revealing that Jesse shot his dick off.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Jesse disarms and beats up more than a half-dozen armed men who invade his church.
The Siege: Jesse spends most of "El Valero" holed up in his church, holding off Quincannon's men.
Start of Darkness: A flashback reveals that Odin was just a regular workaholic when his whole family was killed in a freak cable car accident. He denounces the existence of the soul because he cannot find any difference between the bodies of his family and the cows in his slaughterhouses, proclaiming, "It's all meat!"
