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1	The Saint returns, Tulip and Cassidy find out about Jesse's dealings with the Grail and Eugene and Hitler proceed with their plan to break out of hell.
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3	!!This episode contains examples of:
4	* AintTooProudToBeg: When Jesse is about to be scalped by the Saint, he makes a desperate attempt to appeal to his humanity.
5	* AndThenWhat: Jesse is sadly unable to answer Tulip's and Cassidy's questions what will become of them after Jesse becomes the Messiah.
6	* BrokenPedestal: Eugene realizes that Tracy Loach was incredibly [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish and attention-seeking]].
7	* CallingTheOldManOut: Eugene also confronts his a projection of his father about the way he was treated despite being only a kid.
8	* CurbstompBattle: Jesse and friends stand no chance against the Saint, even without his magical weapons.
9	* DespairEventHorizon: Losing his family made the Saint abandon all efforts to change himself.
10	* GoodThingYouCanHeal: The Saint of Killers spares Tulip by knocking her unconscious on his path to the Preacher, but snaps Denis's neck in the very next scene. Luckily, Denis is a vampire by this time and survives.
11	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: His wife convinced the Saint to change his ways, but after his attempted kindness got her and his daughter indirectly killed, the Saint brutally abandoned the effort.
12	* InternalReveal: Tulip and Cassidy find out about Jesse's dealings with the Grail.
13	* OneDegreeOfSeparation: On his way out of Hell, Eugene passes over the Saint's cell.
14	* ShoutOut: The Saint is [[NamedByTheAdaptation named]] William, in reference to William Munny of {{Film/Unforgiven}} whose backstory inspired the Saint's.
15	* TitleDrop: Said by Jesse in a flashback to his last encounter with the Saint, and by the preacher in the flashback to the Saint's baptism.
16	* VillainousRescue: Mannering, on Herr Star's orders, takes William (The Saint) back with her to Hell, just in time before the latter scalps Jesse.
17	* WhamEpisode:
18	** Jesse breaks with Tullip and Cassidy and agrees to become the Grail's Messiah.
19	** Eugene is breaking out of hell after confronting his traumas about Tracy Loach's suicide, being molested as a child by Pedro the Prairie Dog, and his father's treatment.

Context Recap / PreacherS2E12OnYourKnees