Are Wynonna Earp and Nicole Haught your favourite TV duo? Because Wynonna Earp and Nicole Haught should be your favourite TV duo.
They're two extremely head strong people, bound together by their love for Waverly. It'll be a cold day in Purgatory for them to ever admit to each other's faces that they respect each other and that's what makes episodes like this so fun. They're such polar opposite characters, who annoy the hell out of each other, and that's what makes episodes like this so fun.
Tonight began with Wynonna enjoying a lil fireman action much to Nicole's chagrin. With Nedley having made the decision to step down as Sheriff, it means that someone aka Nicole has to step up to the plate and get approval to be Sheriff. That's a lot easier said than done when Nedley's giving them the key to the Purgatory supernatural case file castle and amidst their arguing, they end up breaking a good luck mirror.
The drink-off is going very well with Nicole and the revs getting tipsy whilst Wynonna is managing herself a little too well for said revs liking. It doesn't take them long to realize that Wynonna has been cheating, with skills she admits she picked up from Coyote Ugly (not gonna lie Wynonna's got good taste in films). Understandably the revs weren't too pleased with this spot of cheating, and Wynonna & Nicole were forced to flee the bar handcuffed to each other. Kudos to Nicole for telling Wynonna to stop quipping and run, because I'm seriously surprised she manages to kill as many revs as she does given the amount of quips she fits in pre-kill.
Waverly soon realizes the wife that mountain man is referring to is his gnome wife who was broken during the earlier struggle. Wynonna and Nicole keep the mountain man distracted with their back and forth, which soon turns into the mountain man strangling them both as Waverly and Jeremy argue over which one of them has to sellotape the boobs onto the gnome, as you do in a moment of crisis. Fortunately they are able to put her back together and present her to mountain man who is then on his merry mountain way.
Both Nicole and Wynonna admit that they are alright, with Nicole also admitting she can't help feeling jealous of Wynonna. In all of this Wynonna also hands Nicole a photo which reveals that Nedley is the one who saved her as a child. This gives us a sweet scene between Nedley and Nicole as he admits he has always watched over her, and disapproved of her parents letting a child go off to the music festival. Nedley knows Nicole will make an excellent Sheriff because she is such a great person and he will always be around to give her advice and support. Nedley is a gold star person who needs to be protected at all costs. He is always so supportive and accepting of situations, and he's had a good relationship with Nicole ever since the show began and she started to gain a bit of prominence. Stepping down as Sheriff is sad, but I hope that doesn't mean he himself is going anywhere because the show needs a character like him who has been and seen it all to balance things out.
As we saw at the end of last week's episode, Bobo proclaimed to know where Waverly's father Julian was and offered that information up if he was let out of the well. Doc isn't pleased at all when Mama Earp admits she let him out of the well, proclaiming that Bobo is a monster who can't be trusted. Mama Earp correctly points out they're living in a time of Bulshar hanging over their heads and sometimes? You need a monster to take down another monster. But the biggest thing to take from all of this is that Mama Earp has decided to leave Purgatory to go and find Julian, and ropes Doc into helping her. Despite their earlier hostile interactions Wynonna and Waverly have been willing to give Mama Earp another chance, now that they know the truth about her and why she's been away. Mama Earp knows Doc hasn't exactly liked that and that he'd be the one person who'd want her to leave town. He also knows Wynonna and Waverly are going to be extremely unhappy with this, and being abandoned by their mother again which he tries to call her out over. However being the all knowledgeable woman she is, Mama Earp is more than aware Doc is now a vampire and she's not gonna let a vampire preach at her.
Wynonna returns home to find Waverly in tears over Mama Earp leaving to go and find Julian, and once again I hope this isn't the last we see of her. Doc eventually makes his way to the homestead, where Wynonna reveals Mama Earp left a note for her warning her not to trust Doc. He's not very happy with that and tries to brush it off, but Wynonna's a smart cookie. She knows Doc's hiding something from her and eventually Doc reveals his vampire self to her. Wynonna is devastated by this and the fact Doc gave himself to Kate. He tries to play the cheap shot that Wynonna rejected him which she greets with a well deserved slap and calls Doc out on his selfishness and the fact that his immortality means more to him than anything else. It's an extremely sad and emotional fight between the two characters which is wonderfully played my Melanie and Tim. Eventually Wynonna does turn her back on Doc and tell him that he's not welcome anymore, which leaves them both somewhat devastated.
'I Fall To Pieces' was for the most of it an extremely fun episode, with the last 5 minutes completely shattering my heart which is what this show does best. Next week's episode looks to be yet another fun ride and you can watch it next Friday on Syfy and Space.
