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Last week, Ash vs. Evil Dead returned for its third season and this week the demons are already trying to destroy his seed.
The first episode of Ash vs. Evil Dead season 3 saw Ash learn that he has a daughter, only to have to save her life and watch her mother die at the hands of the Deadittes that rose from the earth once more.
While little was shown of Ruby, she did come back and knock someone’s head off to get access to the Necronomicon again. There is also a new guy who wants to help Ash named Dalton, although he only showed up at the end with Kelly.
Here is a look at five takeaways from the second episode of season 2 of Ash vs. Evil Dead: “Booth Three.”
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5. Booth Three
There is a lot wrong in this episode — and by wrong, that means there is a lot of very disgusting and borderline offensive humor in the episode. See, Booth Three is where Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) goes to donate sperm, something he has done for years in Elk Grove.
He is actually on a familiar basis with the staff, and it turns out that Ash’s dad (now deceased) went there to donate lots of sperm as well. With the sperm comes free nudie mags, so there is lots of nudity in the episode — although we just see a lot of it while Ash is looking at the porno mags and preparing to give his donation.
With that said, the reason that Ash went to the sperm bank, to begin with, was because he wanted to find out if his donations were ever used to help a woman get pregnant since he learns that the evil that haunts him wants to destroy his “seed.” That sets up this episodes big battle.
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4. Destroy His Seed
Now, what Ash assumed was that the evil wanted to destroy his seed — and he is partially right. However, they also want to destroy his “seed” — meaning anything that can be used of him to create any offspring. This puts Ash’s daughter Brandy (Arielle Carver-O’Neill) in immediate danger, but there is also the case of his multiple sperm donations, many of which still sit in the sperm bank’s freezers.
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This isn’t good for Ash or the women who work at the sperm bank. Ash went there to find out if any of his sperm was used, but he figured that the new magazine they had ready for him was too good to pass up and decided to give it a try. While he was in Booth Three, the Force showed up and possessed one of the women while killing the other.
Meanwhile, a nude model in the magazine got angry that Ash was looking at her and a hand shot out of the magazine to “destroy his seed.” Ash busts out and ends up having to fight the possessed employee and the arm. After a huge fight, where one Deaditte used canisters of sperm as weapons (gross), Ash eliminates the Deaditte and the arm, before escaping with a little too much seed on him.
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3. Ruby Has A Baby
Last week, Ruby (Lucy Lawless) took the Necronomicon and poured blood over one of the pages. She then began to drink the blood, before falling on the floor in pain. This episode shows Ruby driving, still in pain, with something in her stomach. She finally pulls over by two hitchhikers, and something rips its way out of her stomach.
When one of the hitchhikers opens the door of the car, they see Ruby there with her stomach ripped open. He follows an umbilical cord to the backseat where a baby lies on the floor. However, the baby bears its teeth and attacks him as Ruby, her abdomen still tore open, walks around to them.
This baby is the new Ash. The only problem is that Ash has to die, and all his offspring has to die as well before the baby spawn can become the rightful warrior that Ruby needs to finally achieve domination.
Ruby also kept the two hitchhikers. See, the baby needs to eat and is devouring the male piece by piece and Ruby keeps the girl as well for future meals.
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4. Brandy Has Some Problems
Brandy does little this week to make up for how terrible she acted last week. While she is a little more sympathetic, it is just because of small lines, like when she says she wants her mother. However, she is still a total jerk to Ash, and a lot of that comes from her preconceived notions about him from his demon hunting days.
Despite this, Ash is trying to be a father — the only way he knows how (like one of those cool TV dads). He even takes her to school, but this is where things get bad.
After Ash tells her not to say anything to anyone about the demons, Brandy goes straight to the only person she trusts and can talk to — her school counselor. This is where we learn what Ruby has been doing all this time since Ash vs. Evil Dead season 2 ended. She has been working as a school counselor.
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So, Brandy tells Ruby everything about her father being Ash and the Deaditte attack. The episode makes it clear that Ruby had no idea that Brandy was Ash’s daughter — but that secret is out now and if Ruby needs all Ash’s seed dead, Brandy’s life is in danger.
As Ash tells Kelly and Pablo, protecting his daughter is their primary mission now.
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1. Problems between Dalton and Pablo
The final thing to note about Ash vs. Evil Dead “Booth Three,” it is that Pablo (Ray Santiago) is still having problems. The tattoos and marks left by evil are causing him great pain, but he won’t tell anyone. That is good because Dalton (Lindsay Farris) knows that anyone marked by evil will become a demon sooner or later.
Pablo already doesn’t like Dalton because he showed up with Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo). Now, Pablo really doesn’t like Dalton because he considers Pablo untrustworthy thanks to the markings. Dalton even tells Kelly that the day will come that they will need to kill Pablo, or Pablo will kill them.
Pablo, meanwhile, has a vision. What might be one of his ancestors shows up, naked and wearing a tribal mask (the second nude scene of the episode after the sperm bank scenes). The being tells Pablo that he ignored his uncle before, but they are the only ones who can save him from the markings and the evil that is coming.
It looks like while Ash, Pablo, Kelly and Dalton are fighting evil and trying to protect Brandy from Ruby and evil babies, we will also have to deal with Pablo and Dalton bickering back-and-forth.
This week’s episode of Ash vs. Evil Dead was not as good as the season 3 premiere, but it had some amazing practical gore and effects (especially the demon baby) and some very disgusting moments (the sperm bank). Hopefully, next week can get back to the same quality surrounding the gore that the premiere offered.
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Ash vs. Evil Dead season 3 airs on Sunday nights at 8 p.m. CST on Starz and new episodes premiere every Sunday on the Starz app.