WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Evil Season 2, Episode 10, “O Is for Ovaphobia,” now streaming on Paramount+.
With David deciding to focus his efforts on taking down RSM Fertility, the team retraces their steps, meeting with parents of children from past episodes to learn more about the clinic. This includes Sarah McCrystal, who, Season 1 viewers will remember, allegedly killed her own son Eric after he threw her new baby in the family pool, and Mathilda Mowbray‘s biological mother, Tammy. Neither mother remembers anything strange about the clinic, but Tammy does mention that Mathilda had sharp, canine-like teeth when she was young, which catches Kristen’s interest.
Ben and David also interview Kristen about her experience at RSM and Lexis, who was born with the help of the clinic and also has some sharp teeth growing in. As any mother would, Kristen takes offense to Ben’s questions about Lexis and her supposed “demonic” nature but is unable to provide any other information to the team, describing the experience as totally normal.
While Lexis may not be acting demonic, she is going through some body image issues, personified by the Queen Vashti-style tail she sees attached to her body whenever she looks in the mirror. This is mostly due to influencer videos she is watching that are telling her to use special teeth whitening strips and to wrap her thighs in plastic wrap to make them seem skinnier. During a family shopping trip, she even decides to buy clothing that is too big on her out of fear of looking bad in smaller-sized outfits.
Sheryl is also shopping with her daughter and granddaughters, looking for something new to wear for an “influencer” party Leland invited her to. She picks out a stunning red dress and steals it from the store, but not before talking to Kristen, who has noticed Lexis’ body image problems. “She’ll get over it,” Sheryl says. “Body image issues go away. You’re looking in a mirror, and you’re seeing something that is not true. She’s not fat. So if Lexi sees herself as fat, she will eventually see herself as she really is.”
Meanwhile, Ben’s girlfriend Vanessa is having trouble with Maggie, her dead sister whose spirit lives in her body. Ben begs her to go to a psychologist, but Vanessa decides to take a trip to Botánica’s, the same spice shop Lila visited in “Z Is for Zombie.” Ben agrees to go with her, prompting Vanessa to confess her love for him. Ben hesitates but responds with, “I think I love you too. I’m sorry. It’s who I am. I have to think if before I believe it,” saving the moment — and his relationship.
At Botánica’s, Ben and Vanessa meet the shop owner, Miss Marie, and are treated to quite the show/spiritual experience, depending on how one looks at things, including banging tables, blowing winds and flickering lights. Miss Marie implores Maggie to let her sister live a normal life, causing Vanessa to faint. But the process apparently works, with Miss Marie declaring that Maggie is no longer a part of Vanessa.
Kristen calls RSM to get some information on her account and discovers that someone else has been paying for the storage of her eggs without her knowledge. However, when she asks who the mysterious donor is, she is informed that it is “company policy” not to disclose that information over the phone. She visits the clinic the next day in person but is run in bureaucratic circles until the receptionist, admitting “this place is awful,” gives Kristen the information she has been looking for: a woman named Dr. Cara Autry, a former employee of the clinic, has been paying for the storage of her eggs for the last few years. The receptionist also drops the fund tidbit that the world is coming to an end and that “we have to be kind to each other.” You know, the usual receptionist goodbye.
Ben checks in on Vanessa, who has become more flirtatious, sexually charged and “heightened” overnight. Ben tries to convince her to go see Kristen for her issue, assuming that Miss Marie’s method did not work. But Vanessa tells Ben that her sister is gone, only it’s the wrong sister, as Maggie now seems to be the one in control of the sisters’ body. The next night, though, she starts responding to Vanessa, quelling Ben’s concerns.
With the help of Sarah McCrystal, Kristen is able to track down and confront Dr. Autry about her eggs. Dr. Autry claims to not remember Kristen, and that she often takes it upon herself to save “abandoned” eggs from being destroyed due to her “religious convictions.” Kristen sees this as an invasion of her privacy and body and threatens to bring malpractice charges against the doctor. Dr. Autry fires back with a list of false accusations against Kristen and reveals that she knows she used to work for the DA and that she was fired. Kristen storms out in anger but, it turns out, the whole thing was staged by Kristen to spook Dr. Autry, who is followed by Ben and David to Leland’s apartment after she leaves her office.
Sheryl arrives at the party, which happens to be a white party — both in race and dress code — and meets Edward (The West Wing’s Tim Matheson), the “most powerful person at this party,” according to Leland. The two hit it off, with Sheryl lightly making fun of his occupation as an “influencer,” a word that “means absolutely nothing and everything at the same time.” She meets up with him again the next night just as he is finishing up with a client who “wanted to solve his troubles with murder,” something Edward talked him out of. Sheryl of course has no follow-up questions and accepts the drink he had made for her at the bar.
That same night, Ben visits Vanessa, who is now Maggie again. Ben thinks this is all a joke until he gets a call from Vanessa with Maggie standing right in front of him. Maggie even uses the phone to talk to Vanessa, who is pissed that Ben slept with her sister and not at all concerned with the fact that the sister who was living inside her all these years is now seemingly a full-fledged person. Ben, freaked out, runs out of the room.
Later in the evening, Edward and Sheryl find themselves at Leland’s apartment, laughing, drinking and waiting for Leland to finish up his chocolate strawberries. “If you tried to stand right now, could you?” Edward asks Sheryl. At first, Sheryl takes this as a drunk challenge, but when she can’t move her legs, she realizes that Edward did something to her drink earlier. “Try to scream for me,” Edward nefariously asks, knowing full well that Sheryl can’t do that either. He then injects her with a serum before he and Leland place her on the floor.
Leland sets the mood by putting on The Nutcracker “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and grabs a jar of mysterious liquid from a side room in his apartment that also happens to be hosting a captive Dr. Autry. With Edward lying down next to Sheryl, Leland injects the liquid into both of them like a backwards blood transfusion.
The next morning, Kristen arrives at RSM with a court order demanding that it return her 12 eggs that it has in storage. The clinic happily obliges, but it only has 11 eggs in storage, despite Kristen’s certainty that there were 12.
Still conducting his stakeout of Dr. Autry, David notices that her car is still in front of Leland’s apartment. He goes into the building, only to be met by a jubilant Edward and Sheryl, who tell David that Leland is out for the day. Suspicious, David retreats.
At home, Kristen catches Lexis putting on face cream and decides to intervene. She shows her photos of the influencer she follows without her makeup on, revealing that Lexis’ beauty idol is not as perfect as she pretends to be. “Influencers pretend to be easily beautiful, but they’re using every social media trick in the book to intimidate other women to try and follow their lead,” Kristen tells Lexis in a touching mother-daughter moment. “The point is, Lexi, you’re beautiful… Everybody’s got flaws, but flaws are what make you unique and distinct. Embrace it.”
Lexis takes her mother’s advice to heart, shedding her oversized clothing and plastic wrap and embracing her body and herself for who she is. Heck, she even comes to love her tail.
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