The season two finale opens with another glimpse at teenage Jesse, who begins his criminal ways in Angelville and worked under the thumb of his grandmother Madame L'Angell. The people that come to the family home are in search of spiritual guidance and Jesse begins subtly pick-pocketing the guests to save up a cash stash of his home but it's muscled off of him from a man named T.C. - who was also the one that killed Jesse's father. In a rage after the encounter, Jesse stomps a chicken dead but he's overcome with guilt and brings it to his grandmother in the hopes that she'll resurrect it. She agrees but warns him that everything has a price.

In the present day plot, Jesse is preparing to take on the role of the Messiah but rejects Starr's speech to do so. Jesse is set to give a speech to a class of kids at a school taught by nuns but his talk is interrupted by some armed Armenians that want to kill the nuns and children. Jesse commands them to stop but it appears that Genesis is glitching. However, Jesse is still able to beat them through old-fashioned fighting skills. He determines that the attack was a sound and orchestrated by Starr in order to give Jesse the opportunity to play hero, as the guns the Armenians had weren't actually loaded. But Starr is unapologetic about the move, as it worked to make Jesse out to be a hero since Starr was filming the entire encounter.

Cassidy is concerned that Denis is a bad influence on him, as he has embraced a more violent, hedonistic approach to vampirism. Tulip is out picking up large quantities of sunscreen and other supplies in preparation for a trip she and Cassidy will be taking to Bimini. Tulip assaults the cashier at the shop and robs the register, and attempts to give the money to a single mother she saw shoplifting in the aisles but the woman leaves without taking any of the cash.

When Tulip returns to the apartment, she finds a stressed Cassidy smoking crack to try to alleviate his rattled feelings about Denis' behaviour. She tells him that whatever happens next, they should just let happen. The two begin to hookup but then Cassidy begins to violently feed on Tulip, taking a large bite out of her neck and seemingly killing her. But that encounter between them was all just a dream, as Tulip once again returns to the apartment and asks Cassidy if he's smoking crack before heading to her room to pack her belongings.

Hitler helps Eugene make it to the ferryman that will lead him out of Hell. Hitler won't go though, as he belongs in Hell. Eugene should be able to get the ferryman to take him out of Hell because he was never supposed to be there to begin with. The ferryman is an intimidating figure whose face we never see, as he's entirely covered in a black cloak. But once he begins to speak, he becomes more relatable. The ferryman summons the boat but just as Eugene prepares to board it, the superintendent arrives and demands his return because she doesn't want to let anyone leave. The ferryman says that it's his jurisdiction to decide and Eugene doesn't belong there. She shoots the ferryman and calls for backup. Hitler shows up and knocks the superintendent out, before sending Eugene on his way. But just as Eugene begins to float away in the boat, he insists that Hitler come with him.

Jesse is riding with Starr on the way to make an appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show after the video of Jesse's heroism goes viral. Starr wants to know why Jesse didn't use Genesis against the armed gunmen and Jesse lies, claiming he didn't need to. Starr warns him that he will.

Tulip discovers one of the surveillance bugs in the apartment and reveals it to Cassidy. They must decide whether or not to tell Jesse about Starr's surveillance and consequent sabotage of their group. Cassidy has a tense moment with Denis when he realises that he can't maintain a relatively moral way of life when Denis is bringing his corrupting influence. So he shoves Denis outside into the sunny day and barricades the window till Denis has gone entirely up in flames.

Jesse and Hitler return to Earth. Hitler takes off running away from Jesse and gets hit by a car. He gets up and continues to run, albeit with an injured leg, and even knocks down a man on crutches while making his getaway. Confusingly, Eugene doesn't make even a remote attempt at chasing after Hitler.

Cassidy prepares to leave with Tulip but doesn't tell her about killing Denis. He also decides to set his dog Banjo free, whom he had previously rescued from a leering Denis that appeared to be considering eating him. Cassidy appears to not want the temptation around of turning Banjo into food while they're travelling together. Tulip decides to go back inside the apartment to say goodbye to her neighbor 'Jenny' but realises she's one of Starr's agents after discovering a strange manual. Tulip grabs a screwdriver and holds it behind her back while Jenny/Lara has a gun behind her own. Hoover also exposes the situation further when he comes out of the bathroom and isn't showing himself to be the abusive ex Lara had him pretend to be. So Lara whips the gun out and shoots Tulip.

Jesse and Starr are leaving behind a large group of eager reporters. They're about to leave on a private jet but then Jesse gets a message from Cassidy that Tulip has been shot. Starr is fine with Jesse leaving but tells him he needs to come back when he's finished this business in order to retrieve his soul, that Starr has in a small vial after it was retrieved from the Saint. Cassidy called for an ambulance but Starr had used his influence to order it to be stopped. Seems he wants Tulip out of the way to stop distracting Jesse from being the Messiah. Tulip is on the brink of death and Cassidy tells Jesse to use Genesis. But the glitch is still in effect so it doesn't work. Cassidy tries to bite Tulip to save her by turning her into a vampire but Jesse attacks Cassidy and orders him not to. But their fight is interrupted by the sound of Tulip making her last breaths. Still, Jesse restrains Cassidy and tells him to let Tulip die rather than become a vampire.

However, there is a journey to be taken to resurrect Tulip. Jesse and Cassidy ride together with Tulip's body in the backseat. Cassidy is furious, telling Jesse he hates him. But Jesse tells him if he hates him now, just wait. Things are about to get a whole lot worse, apparently. They reach the gates of Angelville, where the chicken from the episode's beginning is still alive and running around. Seems they'll be reaching out to Grandmother L'Angell for help on something far bigger than a chicken.

Finally, in a dingy motel room we see the dog costume hung up while dissonant jazz plays on a record player. There are also beverage cans scattered all over the room. The bathroom door opens and a figure completely obscured by light is barely shown - it's the missing God.

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Eugene is being coached by Hitler in the loop of his worst moment so they can find the backdoor to escape Hell. Finally, Eugene stands up to Tracy to tell her that she is a mean person and declares that her suicide is not his fault. Eventually, the school mascot emerges and Eugene kills him because he had molested Eugene in his youth. Then a version of Eugene's father, Sheriff Root, emerges with Eugene's facial disfigurement and once again blames Eugene for his mother's death. He tells Eugene to kill himself but Eugene refuses, saying he was just a scared kid and he does not need to apologise for his father's pain. The key to being able to escape from Hell is for Eugene to show that he does not belong in Hell and this act of love is what finally allows Hitler and Eugene to escape through a window in the vision, which is a shaft of sorts out of Hell.

In a flashback, the Saint of Killers is shown to be tormented with memories of his lost wife and child while trapped in the armored truck. Then the Grail track down his location and remove the van from the swamp while dropping in a decoy version of it in case Jesse returns to it. They then open up the truck to let the Saint out and remove the bit of a new soul that Jesse had put him in. This means that his powers are restored.

Tulip and Cassidy are still harboring feelings of resentment and betrayal towards Jesse. They contemplate the power dynamics of their group and Cassidy is disgruntled at the claim that he is third in their hierarchy. But once Jesse returns, the group seems to be taking a step towards mending things, as Jesse declares he no longer wants to think about God. When Tulip heads out into the hallway, she is confronted by the Saint who knocks her out when she tries to attack him. The Saint heads into the apartment and is intent on attacking Jesse but also fights Cassidy and Tulip when the two attack him to defend a drunkenly passed out Jesse. When Jesse wakes, he is overpowered by the Saint who intends to scalp Jesse. But before he can do so, the superintendent from Hell appears with some guards from Hell that say he must return to his place in Hell or else his wife and child will be the ones to fill it. The Saint leaves willingly and the superintendent tells Jesse he is fortunate to have Herr Starr on his side.

Tulip and Cassidy are checked out by some EMTs and head to the hospital to be patched up. Afterwards, they visit Herr Starr who advises them that they should let Jesse go and are holding him back from fulfilling his potential. The entire universe is at stake, according to Starr. Starr tells them of all the plans and how Jesse needs to take God's place. He also claims that Jesse doesn't truly care for him. They return to Jesse and express their disdain at the prospect of his taking on this role, despite their love for him. But Jesse had seen a TV address by the Pope that claimed that God's disappearance means that the Messiah is coming. He is weary of the idea of Humperdoo being elevated to Messiah status.

Down in Hell, Hitler and Eugene are still crawling through a vent, in an effort to escape from Hell. Jesse decides to take over God's job and pays a visit to Herr Starr, who kneels before him.

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The episode opens on grim flashbacks of Jesse being submerged in a pond while locked in a coffin. He's just a teenager and his grandmother L'Angelle is ordering this shocking treatment in order to break his will.

In the present day plot, there are divers that have worked to draw the armored truck from the swamp under the orders of Jesse and Tulip. Tulip is furious that Jesse didn't kill him and also lied about it. There's still tensions between the two from all the baggage in their relationships. Jesse assures Tulip that the Saint can't get out but when he opens the truck, he finds that the Saint has disappeared. This only further escalates the animosity between the two.

Lara Featherstone reports back to Herr Starr about what has just transpired between Jesse and Tulip. Herr Starr reveals to his agents about his plan to replace the mentally handicapped Messiah with Jesse. He believes this will bring real order and control to the world.

Jesse gets into an argument with Tulip and Cassidy but the conversation is interrupted when he begins to intuitively realise that the man in the dog costume that he briefly encountered at the beginning of his search for God in New Orleans is possibly God himself. Tulip and Cassidy won't go with him, so Jesse must follow this lead on his own.

Eugene decides to try to team up with Hitler and Tyler to try to escape Hell. Eugene and Tyler go with Hitler to relive his worst memory, which is of his last day as a good person. He had tried to pitch his art to an art dealer but his work was insulted. He then had an opportunity to stand up for himself when some men came in and attacked the restaurant he was in but he maintained his demure approach. Things escalate further when the woman he is with leaves him for his lack of drive and aggression, and the last piece of plum cake he had ordered went to a Jewish man that arrived after Hitler had already ordered.

Tulip wants to have all of the Saint's weapons melted down but they are indestructible by any regular mortal methods so she opts to send mail them to Brazil instead. Out of sight, out of mind.

Jesse is unable to find the man in the dog suit and visit Herr Starr to demand answers. Starr didn't know about God, and Jesse now blames himself for not having realised right then that it was God. When Starr plays a recording of Jesse's prayers as a teenager, he is heard to be begging for his father's death and being sent to Hell. Once again Starr offers Jesse the opportunity to take over the vacancy God has left but Jesse declines it again, even going so far as to command Starr to shove the tapes of his prayers up his bum. This leads to the reveal that the Grail had been behind swapping out the truck in the swamp and the Saint of Killers is released under Starr's order.

Back in Hell, Eugene reaffirms his commitment to escaping, teaming up with Hitler in the process, and the pair enter the "Hole" in pursuit of a backdoor out.

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In a flashback, we see Jesus have a vigorous affair with a married woman and swears her to secrecy about what they have done. Back in the present, Herr Starr is forced to answer Jesse's questions about God and the Grail under the influence of Genesis. Starr reveals that the Grail was the one that hired and consequently killed the God imposter following God's disappearance.

The female Grail agent is able to infiltrated Denis' apartment by continuing her fabricated cover of being an abused woman. Tulip begins to open up and confide in her about everything that's been going on with Jesse. Cassidy is spending time bonding with the newly vampire-d Denis, who is being impulsive and hedonistic with his new strength and powers.

Meanwhile, Jesse goes back to the Grail headquarters in the hopes of learning more about where God has gotten to but the Grail doesn't appear to have any knowledge of his whereabouts, even when he meets the Pope. Those present from the Vatican reveal that a group of rebellious angels turned against God and forced him to go on the run but there's no further information. They mention something about a boy that needs to rise up and be the new leader but Herr Starr ushers them out before they can say anything further. Jesse uses Genesis to force Starr to reveal that there is a descendant of Jesus alive that is considered the be the next Messiah. Jesse commands Starr to take him to this heir after learning that the Grail's origins lie in the disciples of Jesus that had surmised what happened with both Jesus having an affair and consequently an offspring, and murdering the mother after the baby was born and taking it into their care.

Cassidy becomes concerned when he takes Denis out with their new women friends and Denis once again displays an inability to control his new vampiric impulses. Meanwhile, Tulip briefly realises that the Grail agent, 'Ginny', knows more than she should when she accidentally reveals knowledge of Tulip's past with the bank robbery gone wrong. So 'Ginny' slips into the bathroom and calls her Grail colleague and tells him to pretends to be the drunken ex that was part of her cover story. The two go out into the hallway when they hear him yelling for her and beat him up. Tulip tends to 'Ginny's head wound she got in the scuffle and for now it appears that Tulip buys the story. The two also note the broken tile in the bathroom and Ginny advises her to fix it as part of her self-care, which will undoubtedly send Tulip on the path of discovering what Jesse hid in the bathroom after sinking the truck containing the Saint - his stash of weapons.

Jesse is forced to put his head under a cloth bag to keep the secret of the Messiah's whereabouts but is still brought to meet him. When he finally meets the so-called Messiah, he's revealed to be a severely mentally handicapped man named Humperdoo. Starr thinks that Jesse should use his Genesis powers to fill God's role while he's missing but Jesses declines this offer as he believes doing so would be blasphemy. The Grail agents are revealed to be under Starr's orders to try to break Jesse and Tulip up and Tulip was deliberately manipulated into finding the Saint of Killer's weapons under the bathroom tile so that when he returns home, they will have a fight about it.

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Herr Starr's new office is being cleaned out and redecorated to suit his evil aesthetics, while his agents manage to catch Jesse using his Genesis powers on the surveillance system they installed in Denis' apartment. Things are still tense between our main trio, as Tulip continues to struggle with her PTSD and Cassidy resents Jesse. Tulip doesn't want to sleep because of the nightmares she's been having but the lack of rest isn't helping her health, thus prompting Jesse to use Genesis. Some agents later try to go after Jesse in the dead of night on Starr's orders to kill them all, but Jesse fends them off with his Genesis powers and commanding one agent to kill the rest of the men. Jesse wants to interrogate him but he is attacked by Denis, who is now a vampire.

Herr Starr is advised by one the agents to active "Brad" in order to take out Jesse, who has compelled the local law enforcement to not only clean up the mass amount of dead bodies in his apartment but to protect them as well. Jesse and Cassidy make peace over their past disagreements, with Jesse giving his approval of Denis being turned. Jesse also makes amends with Tulip, as Jesse implores her to see that going out and getting shot every night won't help her to move past her pain but she can get through it just as she has in the past with all that they've been through together as outlaws. She visits the new neighbour, still not knowing it's an agent, and borrows a gun from her. The other agent in the apartment doesn't understand why she'd let Tulip borrow a gun, but she merely states that it won't help at all against Brad.

Tulip's recovery won't be so easy though, as she ends up shooting the cleaner when she mistakes one of his bottles of chemicals for a gun. The tension is escalating in the apartment, as Jesse remains certain that something is coming for him. B.R.A.D. is revealed to be a drone that is heading straight for Jesse's apartment. Meanwhile Herr Starr finally begins to read Jesse's file and starts to gain an interest in what he learns about him. This prompts him to order his agents to call off the B.R.A.D. missile and with just moments to spare, it is redirected to land elsewhere at Harry Connick Jr's house. Herr Starr then visits Jesse in a bar, revealing himself and offering to help him in his search for God.

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Eugene has spent a few weeks in hell and assumed a tougher persona as a means of surviving. He's bulked up and has a back tattoo that reads "Tracy" in big gothic letters. One prisoner is sent to the Hole for being caught doing something nice so Eugene must avoid getting caught doing the same or he risks suffering the same fate.

Tulip is still suffering from PTSD following her violent encounter with the Saint of Killers but she doesn't want to talk about her nightmares with Cassidy, who reflects on the birth and life of Denis. Denis is still rapidly declining in health and Cassidy refuses to turn him into a vampire as a means of saving him. Cassidy asks Jesse if there's anything he can do to help him but Jesse is uncertain if Genesis would be able to help the situation in any way. Jesse and Tulip's relationship is strained. Jesse seems to harbour some resentment towards Tulip, while Tulip chooses to cope with her trauma by shopping for a replacement refrigerator instead of opening up.

The Hell system is broken because there's an extra person there that shouldn't be. Hitler rightly suspects that Eugene is the extra person and warns him that there are more facets to the horrors of Hell. To prove this, he trips a woman to trick Eugene into doing something kind, helping her up. This means that Eugene will be sent to the Hole.

Jesse continues his search for God by getting help trying to extrapolate information from the audition tape. Tulip further copes by spackling over the holes in the apartment and performing other repairs. The Hole doesn't only make a person relive their worst memory on a loop. That memory is twisted to match your worst fears too. In this memory, Tracy doesn't kill herself. She responds well to Eugene admitting his feelings but then she says she's already promised herself to God and Jesse emerges from the bathroom. Tracy and Jesse begin to hook up and a distraught Eugene prepares to kill himself once again. Hitler tells Eugene that if he's caught as the mistake that he will be thrown into the Hole forever as opposed to simply being let go. Hitler says he wants to help Eugene escape...

Cassidy struggles with watching Denis die but his own memories of the difficulties his life has had as an immortal being make him stay determined not to turn Denis. Life isn't less painful just because you're immortal and you can't numb the pain away with drugs or enjoy some time off at the beach... essentially, Cassidy doesn't think that the perks of being a vampire are worth the costs and he doesn't want to subject his son to such an existence.

Tulip meets a new neighbour, Lara Featherstone, who claims to be a battered woman on the run. In actuality, she has been sent to be a monitor of Jesse on behalf of the Grail. The two appear to strike up a casual friendship when Tulip patched up the hole in Lara's apartment. Jesse has given up his attempts to use the DVD in his search for God and leaves it at the store where it is put into a shredder. But Jesse somehow was too obtuse to notice that the words "Grail Industries" were stamped onto the DVD.

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In Vietnam, an older couple is frightened by something outside their home. Herr Starr is called in to investigate the commotion it attracts and finds a floating pig that both frightens and awes the locals.

Back in New Orleans, Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy are resuming their search for God but struggle to know what to do next. Denis is recuperating as well as to be expected after being terrorized by the Saint, whom Jesse had locked in an armored truck and sunk into the swamp in the previous episode. When Jesse is at a loss as to where to go next and what to do so Cassidy proposes they go to a dive bar where a dangerous game is being played. People that choose to participate must don a bulletproof vest, be shot at and then get up afterwards. Jesse and Tulip set up a scam so Cassidy will be shot at in the game with the biggest gun the the players have which would kill anyone that was a regular human. Cassidy is posing as Tulip's boyfriend and the two kiss as part of the charade which Jesse is taken aback by, believing it to be a bit more convincing than he'd like. Cassidy is injured but survives due to his being a vampire and the trio are able to scam the players out of their money.

Denis must use a translator at the bar, due to Cassidy not understanding French, to inform him that although Cassidy has been a selfish, absent father, he can save Denis from dying of congestive heart failure if he would agree to turn him into a vampire. Cassidy refuses to do so and Denis leaves the bar upset.

In a flashback, Herr Starr is interviewed by a hiring agent that informs him that only the most qualified and pious candidates will be considered for an elite new job. Herr Starr has resolved the floating pig situation in Vietnam by killing everyone that was exposed to it. He is invited to a rigorous boot camp in which he is tested on a number of skills including combat and seduction. He has the most unconventional approach out of any of the candidates but proves to be an effective candidate, though opts to make threats instead of traditional seduction. However, he is the strongest at withstanding torture by electrical shocks as he doesn't react at all. When the candidates are narrowed down to two candidates and they are tested on their ability to shoot, Herr Starr opts to shoot the final candidate remaining instead of the target. Thus, he is selected to join The Grail. This secret organisation has been at the heart of many world events for a long time and their aim is to preserve the lineage of Jesus Christ, who secretly had a child, in preparation for the apocalypse. Herr Starr must help take out false prophets and be the right-hand man of the Grail's leader. The Grail was even responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. But Herr Starr kills the man in charge that recruited him shortly after he is brought into the group.

Tulip has a nightmare about the Saint of Killers due to the trauma of her encounter with him. Cassidy is missing as he passed out drunk after his disagreement with Denis and was mistaken for a dead body. When he wakes up he is inside a morgue cabinet. Tulip decides to cope with her trauma by engaging in the dangerous shooting game as a way of distractive thrill-seeking.

Herr Starr is given his next assignment, which is to go after Jesse next. Jesse is sitting watching a news story about the dead Vietnamese village that Herr Starr killed. He has been struggling with the aftermath of sacrificing part of his soul for his loved ones.

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A Japanese man running a clinical trial of sorts meets with an African American couple. He extracts 15% of an unknown substance from the man as the two are desperate for funds to pay their bills. The couple is given a check for $150,000 for the small vial of glowing liquid extracted from the man's leg. In turn, the man brings the vial to an older white couple. The woman appears to be suffering from dementia or a similar condition that effects her cognition. After confirming that the sample is a match to the woman, the Japanese man uses a machine to turn the liquid into a pill which restores the woman's cognitive abilities. Following this, the man is paid $2,700,000 for her services. He is shown to be transported in an armored truck with a security team and a cabinet full of similar vials.

Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy are resuming their search for God and enjoying breakfast together while discussing where they'll go next. The Saint of Killers is fast approaching with Viktor's daughter, who agreed to give up Jesse's location when he cornered her after murdering Viktor. She directs him to the correct building but sends him into the wrong apartment. While the Saint is murdering one of the neighbors, the girl runs away. The Saint continues his hunt for Jesse by murdering the neighbors one by one. Jesse realises something is wrong, having heard a gunshot and finding that a stray bullet went through the fridge and into a yogurt. The bullet indicates it's the Saint that's on his way to their location but by the time he arrives at their apartment the trio have escaped out the window.

Jesse tries to call Fiore for help or perhaps information but learns of his death, though it doesn't seem he knows that he was inadvertently responsible for him finally being able to die by using Genesis to tell him to find peace. The trio head to a library to do research on the Saint of Killers in the hopes of finding a way to stop him. This is how they learn that the Saint was a man that lost his soul and was banished by God. He was forced to relive his worst memory in Hell over and over again. Cassidy cals Deniis to try to warn him about the Saint but by then it's too late, as Denis enters his apartment anyway and is captured by the Saint. Jesse speaks through Denis' cell phone and uses Genesis to tell him not to hurt Gensis. Jesse says he's coming and returns to the apartment. Denis is still alive but being help captive. Jesse informs the Saint that God is missing and shows him the audition tape to prove his account of what has happened and how he is now on a quest to find him. Jesse strikes a deal with the Saint. Now that God is gone, he can't be the one to let the Saint back into heaven so Jesse offers to find him a soul so the Saint will be able to enter heaven. Jesse informs Tulip and Cassidy of what he must now do and they must stay behind as the Saint's hostages with Denis. Jesse has just one hour to get a soul for the Saint or else they'll all be killed.

Jesse visits a voodoo shop in search of a soul for the Saint. The man running the shop tells Jesse about the Japanese company seen at the beginning of the episode, which has now taken over the business of dealing with souls. He directs Jesse to a truck outside that operates for the company and the man inside is the same one seen previously. Jesse tries to get into the truck but it's too heavily armored to easily break into and the men inside either don't notice him or refuse to open it up. Tulip calls Jesse to check on his progress and warns that Denis isn't doing well and needs his medicine. Tulip instructs him to go to a shop to pick up some simple supplies to build a bomb that detonates as the truck is beginning to drive away but the technology is so advanced that the man in the back doesn't even notice that a bomb went off. Jesse is confronted by some police officers for making the bomb and says he'll have to call Tulip back.

Tulip asks Cassidy about the concern he has for Denis and Cassidy reveals that Denis is his son. Tulip is moved by this revelation and implores the Saint to let Denis go so he can get the medicine he needs and says that she and Cassidy will still be his hostages. Tulip tries to use the memory of the Saint's daughter to convince him but this only angers him and he remains unmoved to the plight of Denis.

Jesse uses the police officers that cornered him to get into the truck. He demands the man find a match for the Saint but his soul type is so rare that none of the vials in the truck match. Jesse then tests his own soul and finds that it is a match. Jesse asks what the least amount he can give is and the man says it's 1%. He gets the extract turned into a pill and makes it back to the apartment just in time before the Saint was about to kill Tulip and was only delayed by Cassidy having his fingers sliced off on the Saint's blade to hold him off.

Jesse is revealed to have come from a family called L'Angelle that has some type of connection to the ongoings of the series but the extent of which has yet to be revealed. Cassidy and Tulip leave with Denis to get him his help, leaving Jesse alone with the Saint. Jesse hands over the tablet and the Saint correctly deduces that it has come from Jesse. Once the Saint has taken the tablet, Jesse is able to use Genesis to command him to do his bidding. Jesse orders the Saint to get on his knees and the Saint must obey. The Saint was only immune to Genesis before due to his lack of a soul. Jesse forces the Saint to disarm himself of all his weapons and Jesse considers sending the Saint back to hell for all the crimes he has committed in his time murdering people.

Instead of sending him back to hell, Jesse requires the armored truck and locks the Saint in the back portion of it before sinking it into a swamp. The Saint screams for Jesse as the truck slowly sinks to the bottom.

Cassidy gets Denis settled back into his home with brand new TV (the Saint had destroyed the previous one). Tulip is worried about Jesse and tired from the latest disruptions to their quest. Jesse is shown to be in the bathroom, hiding the Saint's weapons under the bathroom floor.

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Jesse is shaken by the revelation that Tulip is married to Viktor and continues to beat on him and keep him a chokehold despite Tulip's protests that she only came there to get a divorce from him. Tulip is shocked by Jesse's blatant use of Genesis, as evidenced by all the frozen henchmen scattered throughout the house and Jesse drags Viktor to the torture room in the house. Tulip repeatedly apologises and tells Jesses to stop what he is doing but Jesse ropes Viktor up and prepares to torture him. Tulip implores him to remember that they had originally been through with their relationship after Dallas but Jesse uses Genesis on her and orders her to leave the room.

A flashback begins about what happened after Carlos betrayed Jesse and Tulip, causing her to miscarry their baby. This is the story of Jesse and Tulip in Dallas. They tried to pick up the pieces of their life by living a regular life with non-criminal jobs despite offers to get back into the business of crime. They also try to get pregnant again but are unsuccessful.

Tulip brings Viktor's young daughter Ally to Denis' house to try to keep her away from the violence, though she knows about Jesse and how he intends to kill Viktor. Tulip punches Cassidy for telling Jesse where she went and Cassidy insists that he only did so because he was worried about her safety.

Resuming the flashback, Jesse increasingly spirals into drinking his sorrows away and prays even more for Tulip and he to be able to conceive. His routine is monotonous, consisting of drinking, getting high, trying to get Tulip pregnant, and being despondent all the while. The discontent accumulates until Tulip decides to begin working as a contract criminal once again. Jesse is upset when he finds a stash of cash which reveals her return to crime-work and the fact that she lied about it. The two have a massive argument in which Jesse also confronts Tulip about how she hasn't gotten pregnant because she's been taking birth control the entire time while pretending to try to get pregnant again with Jesse. Tulip says she doesn't know how to aspire for the normal life that Jesse has been trying to build and the two separate, with Jesse returning to his father's church to become a preacher. This is the final straw that leads to their breakup.

Cassidy visits Jesse, seemingly to try to talk him out of killing Viktor. Jesse confronts Cassidy about how he lied to him for all that time about Tulip and Viktor and Cassidy convinces him that no matter what Jesse decides to do about Viktor, he will support his decision and expresses empathy to his predicament. Cassidy acknowledges that if it was his woman in Tulip's situation, he wouldn't hesitate to kill Viktor. He also stresses that Tulip still loves Jesse even after everything that has happened. Jesse is concerned that killing Viktor would mean the end of his relationship with Tulip but appears determined to carry out his brutalisation of Viktor anyway.

When Jesse returns to Denis' house, Tulip and Cassidy stare at him tensely, wanting to know what has happened to Viktor. Jesse reveals that he took Viktor down, and the pair initially interpret this to mean that he killed Viktor. He then clarifies that he took Viktor down from the ceiling straps and did not actually kill him. The only thing he did was compel Viktor to sign the divorce papers. Viktor's daughter is still at Denis' house and Cassidy leaves to tell her the good news while Tulip and Jesse reconcile their relationship despite knowing they have toxic aspects to it.

In the flashback, we see Tulip begin her relationship with Viktor and marry him due to his money and power. One day, she receives a call from Dany who tries to offer her a job that Tulip declines. But when Dany informs her that she has found Carlos, Tulip runs off and leaves Viktor immediately.

In the present, Ally is returned to Viktor and asks him to read to her till she falls asleep. The Saint of Killers arrives at Viktor's house, having tracked Jesse's use of Genesis. Viktor tells his daughter to hide in the closet and attempts to shoot the Saint of Killers but to no avail. The Saint demands to know where Jesse is and shoots Viktor when he doesn't give an answer. The Saint then finds Ally hiding in the closet and prepares to shoot her until she says she knows where Jesse is.

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Tulip is away, having turned herself in to Viktor's men but Jesse and Cassidy are none the wiser. Jesse goes to Denis' house and decides to take a nap after talking with Cassidy about the continuing search he has been on for God.

Tulip is finally reunited with Viktor and he is less than welcoming as are other faces familiar to her at his house.

Eugene encounters Hitler in hell along with some of the other residents form other cells. Eugene sticks up for one of the women when one resident named Tyler is giving her a hard time. When Tyler turns his attention to Eugene, Hitler steps in and tells him to stop. Some alarms start blaring and everyone retreats back into their cells. Eugene is locked out of his room and Hitler offers him opportunity to come into his room, saying if he is caught in the hall that he will be put into the hole. Eugene is understandably nervous being in the same room as Hitler. Eugene experiences Hitler's simulation which takes him back to Munich 1919 where he is having lunch with a woman that arises him to speak to an important dealer in the same restaurant as them. The simulation is interrupted midway due to the machine resetting and Hitler advises Eugene to go back to his cell.

Jesse tells Cassidy they need to keep searching for God and claims that Tulip being missing is just due to their having fought and that she will return once she has settled down. Cassidy spots an actor on an infomercial that had posed as God in Jesse's church. They do a bit of research and find that the actor is Mark Harelik (who is playing a fictionalized version of himself). After tracking down Haerlik's talent manger, they obtain a demo reel of his that was provided by the people who hired Harelik to portray God.

Eugene is pulled aside by some higher-ups in Hell that inform him of how overcrowded the place is which is why they are often breaking down, plus the low budget doesn't help, and warn him that they've reviewed his life tapes and observed his kind nature. Such behaviour won't be tolerated in Hell and he will be expected to act accordingly to his surroundings and the higher-ups will be watching.

Jesse and Cassidy watch Harelik's demo reel and in it, Harelik is executed in order to be sent to Heaven. This makes Jesse wonder why they have encountered so many coincidences in New Orleans related to his quest to find God. Cassidy then decides to reveal to Jesse about how Tulip had turned herself in to Viktor. Tulip has grown sick of everyone giving her the cold shoulder and knocks out one of the henchmen to get his gun and plot to kill Viktor and make her escape. She corners him with the gun and demands that he let her go or else she will kill him. Heels her to do it but she is tackled by some of Viktor's men before she can go through with it. They disarm her and knock her down and Viktor tells them to leave her to him. She looks helplessly at her phone that's been knocked to the side which is receiving text messages from Cassidy asking if she's okay.

Eugene is sent to a room where the other Hell residents are lounging. He strikes up a conversation with Hitler and says he doesn't seem as bad as he was when alive and asks him if he is still bad. Tyler comes over and begins to make fun of Eugene's facial deformity and Hitler stops him once again. When Tyler begins to beat Hitler up instead with the other inmates, Eugene looks at the cameras monitoring them and joins in by kicking Hitler.

Jesse uses Genesis to infiltrate Viktor's home in search of Tulip. One of Viktor's henchmen knocks Jesse down and puts some headphones in and blasts music loudly so Jesse's attempts to use Genesis are unsuccessful. A fight breaks out between the two until Jesse manages to get the upper hand and find out where Tulip is. He goes upstairs to Viktor's bedroom and finds Tulip talking with Viktor and when Jesse punches Viktor and overpowers him, Tulip says he can't kill Viktor because he is her husband. Finally, we see the Saint on the move, having detected Jesse through the multiple uses of Genesis.

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Eugene, still trapped in hell due to Jesse's accidental using of his Genesis powers in season one, is shown to be trapped in an endless loop of reliving how he came to be known as "Arseface" with his facial disfigurement. A girl he was in love with was on the verge of committing suicide but Eugene talked her out of it. But when he kissed her afterwards, she became disgusted and shot herself in the head anyway. When Eugene was about to be caught by her mother, he shot himself with the same gun, thus leading to his disfigurement.

The trio arrive in New Orleans and split up to search for God. Jesse begins his search by visiting bars and asking the locals about where God is. He eventually encounters a singer in a jazz bar. This singer is later kidnapped by an unknown group but Jesse saves her. She goes on to tell Jesse that she had been told by a man that God was missing, but that man later turned up dead.

Tulip is becoming increasingly concerned when she spots a black limo driving around. She opens up to Cassidy when the two visit a house owned by one of Cassidy's friends, Dennis. Tulip tells Cassidy that she had betrayed a man named Viktor, whose men are now coming after her. She doesn't want her past to become a problem for Jesse and Cassidy so she allows herself to be caught by Viktor's men, who call Viktor to tell him that they've finally caught Tulip.

The singer Jesse saved is revealed to be an operative for the group that had seemingly come after her. Jesse had used Genesis (along with some fighting skills) to save her but he unknowingly revealed confirmation to pass on to her superiors of Genesis' existence.

A glitch in Hell's system allows Eugene to be freed from his memory loop and he observes that he is in sort of prison cell. When he exits his cell and walks out into a corridor of many other cells. When Eugene calls out for help, he is shocked when he sees Adolf Hitler walk out of the cell next to him.

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We pick up immediately where we last left off on Preacher, as Jesse has been found by the Saint of Killers who has been shown to be immune to Jesse's Genesis powers. The trio is able to escape due to a large group of bystanders acting as figurative cannon-fodder when a large shoot-out ensues but their guns do nothing to stop the Saint of Killers. Regardless of the show's heightened reality and style, we have to wonder if there is an unknown force at work protecting Jesse and/or the rest of the trio because by now, they really should have ended up dead or at the very least shot during all these shoot-outs.

The trio heads to the Mumbai Sky Tower casino where fallen angel Fiore has taken up residence as a magician. He is in a slump and alternates between indulging in hedonistic vices such as gambling and sex, and unsuccessfully trying to kill himself. His antics are discovered and he gains an adoring audience in awe of his suicide attempts which they believe to be eccentric, gory magic tricks.

Fiore explains that he was the one to hire the Saint of Killers in order to stop Genesis. Fiore refuses to call the Saint off and inadvertently reveals that Jesse using Genesis is how the Saint tracks his location. In turn, Jesse reveals that God is missing but Fiore doesn't seem to care much about anything anymore, resigned to a life of magical antics.

Cassidy concocts an intense drug that he injects into Fiore, sending him on a wild trip. Afterwards, Cassidy seems confident that Fiore will call off the Saint.

Meanwhile, Jesse and Tulip get engaged but shortly thereafter, Tulip is startled by the reappearance of a man from her past named Gary. Tulip invites Gary into her room and he tells her that Victor has been looking for her. She tries to play it cool but it's clear that there's some skeletons threatening to spill out of her closet. Gary tries to call Victor but Tulip stops him, leading to a confrontation between the two. Gary has a significantly larger frame than Tulip and has the upper hand at first but eventually, Tulip is able to get some good blows in and brutally beats his skull till he dies. Cassidy comes to talk to Tulip after learning of her engagement and she insists that he not tell Jesse about this incident.

Jesse is downstairs waiting for Tulip so they can get married. Fiore reminds him that he sent a boy (Eugene) to hell and when Jesse asks if he can get him out, Fiore is adamant that he will never go to hell again. Jesse wants to be able to use his gift freely but Fiore tells him that Genesis isn't a toy. When Tulip arrives, she says she no longer wants to get married and that they love each other so they don't need to get married as they continue on their quest to find God.

Jesse says that they're going to New Orleans because the only clue they have about God thus far is that he loves jazz. Fiore says he'll call off the Saint but as the trio leaves, Jesse uses Genesis to tell Fiore to "find peace" which has disastrous consequences. When the Saint arrives, Fiore tells him to kill him onstage. The Saint is the only one that kill an angel so that it will stick. Fiore reminds the Saint that their deal still holds, in that if he kills Genesis the Saint can see his family again. Fiore tells the Saint where they're headed, since Jesse has disregarded his warning to not use Genesis. After the Saint kills Fiore, he does not rise again and so the audience boos.

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The Search For God

Cassidy is ranting about the number of circumcisions that take place annually, while Tulip drives him and Jesse. A high-speed pursuit begins when police cars chase after them for speeding. Tulip loses them momentarily but they're caught once the car runs out of gas. Rudy needs an umbrella to protect him from the sun and runs into one of the squad cars when a police officer knocks it away. He tries to force Jesse back into the sun but Jesse uses the power of Genesis to command the officers do various things (gas up their car, hold hands with each other, recite the Yellow Rose of Texas, and the officer that had threatened Cassidy to mace his own balls).

The standoff is interrupted by an unknown sniper shooting explosive rounds at the group. Many officers end up dead and the trio are able to get away by using one of the dead officer's intestines to siphon off some gas to refill Tulip's car. The Saint of Killers is shown to be pursuing Jesse, as he had been summoned from Hell specifically to destroy him. The Saint of Killers also kills a roadside worker that had encountered the trio.

Cassidy feels guilty about concealing the fact that he and Tulip previously had sex and she tells him to go ahead if he really wants to. They all reach a preacher-friend of Jesse's named Mike, who has a woman kept in a covered cage as a way to cleanse her of her sins. They tell Mike that God is missing. Jesse also shows him his newly manifested Genesis powers. After the trio leaves, Mike realises that the Saint of Killers will be coming after him too so he kills himself after the Saint  enters his home, questioning where Jesse is.

The trio visit Tammy, a woman that Mike had previously helped with this special brand of cleansing, where she works at a strip club. Tammy had claimed to have seen God and admits this to be true but won't provide anything more than the fact that God loves jazz and a terrifying stare. Cassidy uses the time on the mission to indulge in a lap dance while Jesse wants to use Genesis to get more information out of Tammy. Tulip doesn't Jesse being so quick to use his ability, as she'd also rather beat the information out of Tammy. But after Cassidy gropes a stripper and a scuffle ensues which results in a security guard shooting his gun. The bullet goes through the wall and kills Tammy. Jesse tries to use Genesis on her but doesn't get anything helpful.

Jesse hooks up with Tulip in their shared hotel room, and the noise is abundantly clear to Cassidy who is staying in the next room over. When Jesse emerges from the room, the Saint of Killers emerges with a gun and Jesse's Genesis powers don't work to try to stop him.

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