Midnight Mass episode 7 recap: Revelation

Sturge is the one who turned Howie, and he tries to persuade Bev, but ends up telling Howie to go for a walk by the shore and watch the sunrise. Howie falls to his knees crying, and Millie comforts him. Paul stands tall and says all are welcome, because this is God’s house.

When Paul walks into the church, he sees Sarah inside, dousing the place with gasoline. He looks at her, nods his head and says, “Good”, and tells her to go out back through the vestibule. He tells her he is proud of her, and he is sorry, and “I love both of you so much.” She understands in that moment who he is to her, but then she is shot by Sturge. Noooooo! Paul jumps Sturge and starts to fight him, but stops when Millie goes inside and sees Sarah.

Millie’s anguished cries of “No, my baby” are followed by her looking at Paul in desperation, and he opens a vein, allowing the blood to flow into Sarah’s mouth as she lay dying. But, Sarah spits the blood out before she dies, and her parents decide to carry her body to the bridge at the marsh. On their way out, Paul tips a lit candle over, and the church begins to burn.

As the parishioners silently watch the small family walking away, Bev and Sturge spot Hassan dousing the outside of the rec center, and Bev is outraged. She shoots Hassan in the leg, and sounds incredulous as she says, “You would burn us in our home?” *Really, Bev, after what YOU did? Then she calls him a terrorist. Hassan sees her salivating as she watches him bleed, and he asks if she’s hungry. She sneers, “Dirty blood.” *Note: Bev really is the worst, she is by far the most hateful character in Midnight Mass.

Bev tells Hassan she’s surprised he did it while the place was empty, and he says, “it’s not though, is it? Empty.” Erin has been inside the rec center soaking it in gasoline, and when she steps outside the door with the gas can, the angel swoops down with an angry shriek, and swoops her to the ground as she screams in terror.

I have to stop here for a minute to just recognize Kate Siegel’s performance in this scene. Her screams and terror are so real, I get goosebumps just remembering it.

Ali looks at his father and Bev (who calls him “boy”), then tosses the lighter into the rec center, and it begins to burn too. At that, Bev shoots Hassan in the gut. Ali helps his father hobble away from the church.

We see the angel holding Erin’s head to the side so he can continue to feed from her neck, and she weakly reaches for her knife on the ground. Brave Erin uses every last bit of her waning strength to make multiple slices to the angel’s wings. When he seems to realize something isn’t right and looks towards his wing, she gently guides his head back to her wounded neck.

Bev is now desperate, insisting there must be somewhere else to go, but Sturge tells her there is nowhere else. There’s a nice little moment between Ooker and Sturge, with Ooker saying he is pretty sure he killed his mom, and Sturge saying he has done some stuff too. Sturge asks, “Will you forgive me, kid?” and Ooker says yes, then they walk off with poor old Howie.

The angel seems to be snapping out of his blood stupor, and realizes the sun is rising, so he tries to fly off, but his sliced wings are definitely slowing him down and causing him to wobble.

At this point, the dying Erin imagines sitting in her living room with Riley, as they discuss what each of them believes happens when they die. It’s a riveting internal monologue (as most of the monologues/discussions in Midnight Mass are), that is way too long to get into in any depth, but what sticks with me is that the electrons of the body fuse with those in the ground, and “I am energy.”

Over Erin’s speech, we see Ali and Hassan at the shore, performing the Muslim prayer ritual together. Erin’s final words are, “Life is a dream – a wish made again and again and again and again…I am that I am.”

Leeza and Warren see the angel trying to fly, and Warren says there is no way he can outfly the sunrise; they can tell something is wrong with him.

The townspeople have gathered, and Annie begins singing Nearer My God to Thee, and Ed joins in. Slowly, so do the other parishioners, and they seem to find peace through their fear.

Bev is on the shore, very close to Hassan and Ali, and she watches them worship as she looks at the approaching sunrise. We see Paul, Millie and their daughter at the bridge, and Paul rips off his priest’s collar. We see Leeza and Warren out in the canoe, where they can see the flames and hear the voices of their friends and family members still singing the hymn.

Hassan collapses in the sand, dead. Bev, who has gone on and on about faith throughout Midnight Mass, completely freaks out and tries to dig a hole to hide in, then screams as she bursts into flames. We see Millie and Paul kiss before the sun destroys them, we see Ali burn. Leeza and Warren hear the hymn stop abruptly as the entire population of Crockett Island is wiped out by the sunrise.

Leeza looks at Warren, and says, “I can’t feel my legs.”

And that’s it. Midnight Mass has completed the tale of faith, regret, love and bravery that began 7 episodes ago. It’s a tale that will stick with me for a long time, what about you?

Midnight Mass did leave some unanswered questions, but maybe we will explore that at another time.

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