After Jesse takes out Starr's men, Starr decides to look into exactly who he's dealing with.
This episode contains examples of:
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted. The Black Comedy Rape incident was played for laughs in the comic, but did a real number on Starr's psyche, while he takes it in stride here.
- Bait-and-Switch: Throughout the episode, we are led to believe "Brad" is a special operative of the Grail, especially when a hulking man in a mask attacks Jesse's security detail. Turns out, that man was actually a run-of-the-mill New Orleans belligerant drunk. The real Brad, or B.R.A.D., is an airborne Attack Drone that the Grail uses to fire a guided missile at the apartment building the trio are staying in.
- Black Comedy Rape: Thanks to a misunderstanding in hiring prostitutes, Herr Starr ends up getting gang-raped in his office. While he's certainly not happy about it, he treats it as a temporary annoyance, and it even gives him a "Eureka!" Moment that ends up saving Jesse, Tulip, Cassidy and Denis.
- Enemy Mine: Starr proposes to Jesse a team-up to find God.
- Face Death with Dignity: Featherstone makes a show of this trope by loyally agreeing with Starr that she and Hoover deserves to die for their failure to take down Jesse, and helps him unjam the gun he's planning to shoot them with. It seems to have been a ploy to get him to agree to give them a second chance, though. Meanwhile, Hoover looks decidedly nervous, but he too neither tries to run nor begs for his life.
- Fun with Acronyms: B.R.A.D. stands for Battle-Ready Remote Operated Aerial Drone.
- I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Inverted. Denis, now turned by Cassidy, has a new fondness for his father.
- Mook Horror Show: We get one as the Sampson unit attacks Jesse and company, courtesy of their face cameras, night vision goggles and noise-cancelling headsets.
- Night-Vision Goggles: Used by the Grail when coming after Jesse and his friends.
- No Kill like Overkill: Even Herr Starr, who hasn't displayed much subtlety so far, thinks that deploying B.R.A.D. is excessive, but Featherstone insists that it's what it's going to take.
- Slept Through the Apocalypse: Thanks to Jesse and the Word, Tulip managed to sleep through the entire battle between her friends and the Grail.
- Take That!: Harry Connick Jr. gets blown up by B.R.A.D.
- You Have Failed Me: Learning that Hoover and Featherstone have failed to kill Jesse, Herr Starr prepares to execute them, apparently as a matter of pure routine.
