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1John and Quiet try and retrieve Evelyn from the Holy Men.
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4* AGodAmI: Preacher was a former Christian minister who became disillusioned after the apocalypse and now believes that humans are the real gods.
5* {{Backstory}}: John's is told through flashbacks starting from his first memory post-amnesia.
6* {{Bathos}}: The destruction of Evelyn is followed by a montage of flashbacks of her providing shelter to young John followed by John learning to drive her and fixing her up set to "My Immortal" by Music/{{Evanescence}}. It is played completely straight with the only humor coming from the fact that this is a LostLoveMontage for a ''car''.
7* BondageIsBad: There are several dominatrixes in the Holy Men.
8* DownerEnding: The episode ends with the destruction of Evelyn after a fight with Preacher, followed by a GoodTimesMontage of John and Evelyn as John quietly sits in the wreckage to the tune of Music/{{Evanescence}}'s "My Immortal". It even has SilentCredits.
9* ForWantOfANail: If the Holy Men hadn’t forgotten to take the deceased victim off the cross by the time Preacher finished off John, he would have been killed then.
10* HollywoodAtheist: Preacher believes humans are the closest thing to gods there are. Also steals, tortures, kills, does drugs, and practices BDSM.
11* LostLoveMontage: After Evelyn's destruction there's a montage of her time with John, dating back to when he was a child.
12* MuggedForDisguise: John and Quiet use the masks of two Holy Men they killed to infiltrate their headquarters.
13* NowLetMeCarryYou: The flashbacks show John finding Evelyn as a child, full of supplies, and sheltering inside her. Later he takes her to a junkyard and fixes her up.

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