Teacup Finale Recap: Did the Family Survive Assassin’s Attack?
In the penultimate episode of Teacup‘s first season, we learned that the elusive Assassin had been hiding inside Valeria. After revealing itself to Nicholas, Assassin jumped bodies again and immediately pushed Valeria over the line of doom. (R.I.P., James’ mistress!) Sadly, we were robbed of any repulsive body horror on this lovely Halloween day (sorry, gore-hounds), but at least we were left with one helluva cliffhanger heading into its tense season closer.
When we pick back up with the gang of survivors, Ruben, McNab and Donald are trying to figure out how to destroy the alien tree, since lighting the silo on fire didn’t take it down. Ruben arms himself with the rainbow-colored liquid and a hefty pair of gloves and attempts to snap branches off its extraterrestrial trunk. He’s only able to get one, but when they put it into a jar, it immediately melts down into more of that candy-looking liquid.
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Back at the house, Maggie and James wonder how they can win if Assassin can’t be killed. James opts for now to discuss his mid-life crisis, whining about how he always felt like he had a lack of control. (That’s the reason you banged the neighbor’s wife? I don’t know about that, buddy.) He says nothing makes sense and asks Maggie if they could make sense once again some time down the road. “Maybe” is all she can offer at the moment, but he’ll take that for now.
Arlo suggests to his sister that they trap Assassin with a teaup, similar to how his mom removed a wasp from his room in the premiere. “Nicholas” interrupts their conversation, luring Meryl outside. Assassin tries to jump into her body, but we don’t see the rainbow eyes effect in her face. She bashes Nicholas with a rock, while Arlo runs for his parents.
In the kitchen, it’s clear that Meryl has gone mad, so Maggie holds a gun to her daughter’s face, as Assassin threatens to slit the girl’s throat. James busts in, and mom and dad don gas masks. Project Drowning now commences (because if you read something online, then it must be true!) They drag the girl to an already filled bathtub and dunk her below the water’s surface. Once her body goes limp, Maggie begins CPR. Her efforts seem futile at first, until the girl coughs up water.
Shortly after, James appears to be fighting off a possession. He yells at Maggie and Meryl to RUUUUN, while the rest of the gang finds Valeria’s massacred body. (There’s the gore!) Assassin (now inside James) bashes Ruben’s head into the ground a few times before Maggie staves him off with a rifle. Arlo frustratingly runs away, while Maggie follows James into the barn with the ketamine syringe. Arlo/Harbinger distracts Assassin, while Maggie stabs her husband’s leg with the drug. Arlo reminds his mom about the wasp and the teacup. When Assassin tries to jump into Maggie, she stabs him with a knife and (barely) stuffs him inside a deep freezer, while Ruben begins to stack heavy sacks on top. “He’ll suffocate!” Meryl cries. “I know,” mom replies. (Say it ain’t so, Scott Speedman!)
Outside, the group divvies up the remaining rainbow liquid into separate containers. McNab slugs it down and cautiously steps over the blue line — he makes it! Everyone follows suit except for Ellen, who promises to stay with the animals. They pile into a van and head toward the fire station, only Harbinger urges that he has to “turn on the machine.”
While en route, the group is flagged down by a woman, the same mystery woman who was looking for McNab in the episode’s first scene. She introduces herself as Carol and she’s with a man named Milo. All seems hunky-dory until another car speeds onto the scene, plowing into Carol and Milo. The new-newcomers are Hayden and an unnamed woman. They claim “the bastards are waking up” and “they are everywhere.” They offer protection if the group follows them… but who are they and are they telling the truth? Those answers will unfortunately have to wait until Season 2.
Maggie sighs. “We’re not going anywhere until you tell us what the f–k is going on,” she says. Roll credits.
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