Less than a month has passed since Wednesday season 2 part 1 arrived, but it’s felt like an eternity waiting for the final four episodes of Netflix’s hit horror comedy to drop – especially after the way part 1 ended.
In the midseason finale, Uncle Fester helped Wednesday sneak into Willow Hill, where she uncovered that the “Lois” they had been looking for was not a person but rather an acronym for Long-term Outcast Integration Study. This study involved the institute secretly imprisoning and experimenting on several outcasts, with Dr. Fairburn’s assistant Judi proving to be the mastermind behind the operation in an effort to continue her father’s work in giving normies outcast abilities.
As things began to take a turn for the worse, Fester used his power to trigger a blackout, creating an uprising from the Willow Hill patients. In the midst of the chaos, Tyler managed to go full-Hyde and seemingly kill Marilyn Thornhill before throwing Wednesday through a window and leaving her for dead as he fled into the woods.
Warning spoilers ahead from Wednesday season 2 episode 5!
Principal Weems returns as Wednesday's new spirit guide
As part 2 begins, we find Wednesday in a coma following Tyler’s attack. Moments after Morticia and Gomez leave the room, Wednesday shoots up and is greeted by a familiar face from the past: Principal Weems, who is Wednesday’s new spirit guide. Now, before you ask how this is possible when a spirit guide can only be a relative, it seems Weems is a very distant cousin to Wednesday.
After giving Wednesday a quick recap, Weems prompts her to wake up and we jump to a press conference hosted by the sheriff. It’s here that we learn Judi Spannagel survived the ordeal at Willow Hill as she updates the media on the status of the escaped patients. All but three have been brought back in: Fester Addams, John Doe (Slurp), and Tyler Galpin.
Following the press conference, Judi calls a mysterious man who has just buried a body in the middle of the woods. It seems she’s tasked this man with eliminating the escaped patients from the LOIS experiment and only one remains on the loose, Patient 1938. Judi then pays Wednesday a visit to inform her that she’s cleared all signs of the LOIS project from the basement and blackmails Wednesday into silence.
Before Wednesday leaves the hospital, a nurse drops off a withered bouquet with a letter attached that threatens “You + Enid = Die Tonight.” Wednesday spots Tyler down the hall, disguised as an orderly, and gives chase, but he manages to escape before she reaches him.
When Wednesday returns to her dorm at Nevermore, she’s surprised to find both Enid, Thing, and Weems waiting for her – though she’s the only one able to see Weems, who has come to observe Wednesday in her natural habitat. Wednesday quickly brings her up to speed on the fact that Tyler is still in town and informs her of his plan to kill them both, asking her friend to leave before something happens.
Weems encourages Wednesday to tell Enid about the premonition, but Wednesday holds back, and Enid storms off to be with her pack.
The action moves to the courtyard, where Principal Dort is giving out t-shirts and getting the students amped up about the school’s Day of the Dead / Outcast Day of Remembrance festivities. Wednesday tries to convince him to cancel the events with Tyler on the loose and still in town, but he refuses as a number of high-profile potential donors are coming to the events. As he tells her, the school’s students are more than capable of defending themselves against Tyler, and they have the benefit of Professor Capri’s history dealing with Hydes.
This tidbit of information sends Wednesday running to Professor Capri and we learn that her ex-boyfriend turned out to be a Hyde. She assures Wednesday that she didn’t know his true nature until he tried to kill her at the order of his jealous master, who was also in love with him. While she never tells us what came of her ex, she reveals that he did kill his former master and then proceeded to reconfirm Thornhill’s teachings that a Hyde cannot survive without a master… or at least, male Hydes, that is. It’s an interesting throwaway line, but one that definitely raises some flags.
The conversation gives Wednesday the idea to try to become Tyler’s new master, a theory she’s dead set on pursuing despite Professor Capri and Morticia’s pleas not to.
Who is Patient 1938 in Wednesday season 2?
After being turned away by Wednesday, Enid vents her frustrations to Bruno. The conversation ends up giving Enid the idea to reunite the Nightshades to battle Tyler. She sends invites out to Ajax, Bianca, and Kent, which Agnes happens to see while lurking in the shadows. Agnes tips Wednesday off, and Wednesday ends up crashing the gathering of the nightshades. Rather than working against them, Wednesday brings them in on her plan, and the group sets a trap to lure Tyler out.
Just when it looks like Wednesday is about to succeed in becoming Tyler’s new master, another Hyde comes breaking into the cemetery and knocks Tyler aside. It turns out that the Hyde is Tyler’s mother, Francoise, who we discover is Patient 1938!
This revelation came together when Francoise paid Morticia a visit, searching for her son. The two women made a deal in which Morticia led Francoise to Tyler, and in exchange, she vowed to control Tyler and leave Jericho behind. As for whether that promise is one she keeps, we’ll have to wait to see.
Slurp's identity is confirmed and it seems he has history with Gomez
Early in the episode, we find Pugsley struggling with knowing that Slurp is out there alone. He’s worried that if someone finds him, they’ll end his life. Seeing his son distraught, Gomez offers to help his son track down Slurp.
He attacks at the Outcast Day of Remembrance event at Pilgrim World, Pugsley finds Slurp, who is looking almost human now and can talk as the brains he’s consumed have brought him back. As the police surround them outside, Slurp begs Pugsley to help him escape and thanks him for giving him a second chance at life.
Pugsley is able to help Slurp evade capture, but not before Gomez catches a glimpse of Slurp in the crowd before he flees. As the episode ends, a concerned Gomez comes to Morticia to inform her that Isaac Night is alive, hinting that Issac shares a history with the duo.