The Body season 1 episode 4 ended with Leo and Lisbeth’s mom, Catherine, yanking out Grace’s feeding tube cord and trying to kill her because she actually thinks that Grace is possessed by the devil. This is not great, clearly.
Thankfully, her efforts don’t seem to have ended in Grace’s death. In The Body season 1 episode 5, “Faking It,’ the doctors and nurses rush in and save Grace, but they think that the seizure Grace (Sofia Wylie) suffered was the reason her tubes were disconnected.
The Lions go on a retreat to lock in for Regionals
Forget about Grace, though, because there’s a dance competition to prepare for. The Lions head to Anya’s country house in the middle of the winter, and they need to get focus for this upcoming competition, which is Regionals.
There, Elise (Sara Boustany) warns Anya (Kristina Bogic) that Lisbeth is dangerous. She reveals that her family aren’t Catholics; they are cult worshippers. Anya isn’t ready to hear it, though. Elise tells her that she knows that something happened at the Halloween party, but Anya tries to play it off like Elise is just acting jealous.
Everyone finds out that Grace is making improvement
In the middle of practice, Lisbeth (Geena Meszaros) gets a call from Leo, who is on the phone with their mom. After some back and forth, their mother reveals that Grace is now breathing on her own, but she shares that she thinks she has been possessed by the devil. The girls on the team hear the story on the other line, and they’re starting to panic about Grace.
Word gets back to Grace’s father and uncle, and they talk to Lisbeth’s mom, who is clearly out of her mind. Thankfully, Grace’s dad knows something is up with her and doesn’t trust all the weird things she’s saying. Father Franklin doesn’t seem so convinced.
Later, Grace’s mom arrives at the hospital to see Grace, who now has her eyes open, too, but nothing going on upstairs yet. Grace’s dad wants her moved from the hospital because Lisbeth’s mom is crazy.
The party starts
Back at the house, the girls are still freaking out that Grace is potentially posessed. To make matters worse, the dudes from school, including Anya’s boyfriend, Steven (Orlando Norman), show up and start drinking and doing drugs.
In the middle of their trip on shrooms, Maddie (Shirley Chen) loses her mind. She was Grace’s best friend, and she threatens to go to Father Franklin (Nnamdi Asomugha) unless they try to vanquish the devil from Grace’s body. Guess who knows such ritual? Well, that’s Lisbeth, of course, who did a similar ritual at her old church, and it probably has something to do with snakes.
With Grace’s mom back in the picture, they move her into her old room instead of making her stay at the hospital. She can breathe on her own, so hopefully, she wakes up soon, they hope. They play music for her to see if that helps.
Unfortunately, the girls aren’t the only ones who think the supernatural or spiritual is at play. Father Franklin tries to convince them that something might be wrong.
Lisbeth is targeted by someone, probably Elise
Speaking of snakes, though. After Lisbeth showers, someone writes “Snake” on the mirror in the bathroom. Lisbeth thinks it’s Elise, but Elise was downstairs with the pizza. Lisbeth makes a beeline for her and crumples Elise’s pizza in her hand while warning her to stay away from Leo. Things are getting dangerous.
Anya arrives just in time to see the aftermath, but clearly, she feels caught in the middle, so she buries her feelings in drugs and alcohol at the party, which makes everything worse for her. Immediately after the fight, Steven shows up, and everyone makes fun of him for Steven and Anya’s intimacy issues. They get into a big argument, but they’re interrupted by Lisbeth letting Anya know that it’s time to perform the ritual to save Grace.
They aren’t the only ones getting ready for an exorcism? Father Franklin and Grace’s parents get Grace set up for an exorcism themselves, and hey, they ordered pizza, too.
Lisbeth and Father Franklin try to exorcise the Devil out of Grace
The simultaneous exorcisms play out very differently. Father Franklin comes from a place of love, while Lisbeth does some more weirdo cult shit. She makes all the girls feel ashamed and convinces them that their sins are the reasons this happened to Grace. She read through all of their instant messages, remember? Now, she’s using those secrets that they shared with each other against them.
She calls Anya out, and before Anya can confess, she gets another massive nosebleed. Anya walks through the house, trying to find the bathroom, but then she has a vision or hears something. Steven, who was out gathering firewood, finds her. They go upstairs, and Anya opens up about why she can’t ever relax, and part of it is because she thinks she is going to hell and that someone is always watching her when they’re together. Steven reassures her that she’s not going to hell, and Anya decides she’s ready to be with him, which is weird timing given everything else that’s going on around them.
Back with the exorcists, Lisbeth has all the girls crying and confessing the most random stuff, including being Canadian and jaywalking, the worst of the sins, apparently. Then, Lisbeth pretends to drag the demons out of the girls, starting with Maddie, who apologizes to Grace.
The girls, then, claim that they can see Grace with them in the room with them. It’s mayhem, and Elise tries to calm down the group by admitting she made up the story about seeing Grace. Lisbeth takes the opportunity to convince everyone on the team that Elise is the devil, and they attack her and pin her to the floor.
While all that’s happening, Steven and Anya are having sex in another room, and in the middle of it, she sees Grace on the ceiling above her.
I’m not quite sure what exactly happened, but it’s pretty clear that it didn’t work. Grace doesn’t wake up, but Lisbeth claims it was a success.
Lisbeth kills a snake with an axe
That night, a snake slithers over Lisbeth as everyone is sleeping. When everyone runs, Lisbeth grabs an axe and cuts off the head of the snake. Everyone blames it on Elise, who freaks out and leaves when no one else stands up for her.
In the morning, the team gives Lisbeth her team jacket, which is the same thing she’s been wanting since the beginning of the series.
Unfortunately for Lisbeth, Maddie wakes up and finds that her injured leg has been magically healed, and it’s all thanks to Grace, which means that Lisbeth doesn’t have to dance if Elise stays on the team.
The Body season 1 episode 5 is a ridiculous episode. Now, we’re just having random snakes slither all over the place. Something weird is going on, and sadly, it’s getting even weirder.
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