By Joe R
There is closure to be found everywhere this week, all told through the framing story of a present-day Lana Winters granting an interview (Lana having become something of a tougher version of Barbara Walters). We find out that Lana gave up the written word for television, and her groundbreaking story was that takedown of Briarcliff that Kit lectured her about last week. She tried to find Jude, but Jude was nowhere to be found. Because it turned out Kit smuggled her out! After last week's encounter had turned into weeks and months of him visiting her, Kit broke Jude out and took her home to live with/terrify his children. He detoxed her and tried to help her work through the crazy, but ultimately, it was his freaky alien babies with their supernatural calming powers who took Jude out into the woods and made her better. For six months anyway -- six wonderful, idyllic months that might be the most beautiful thing this show has ever produced. Then she got sick, and the Angel Conroy came to retrieve her, and she was finally ready. Kit's children would grow up to be doctors and lawyers and perfect little half-alien role models to the rest of us. Kit got pancreatic cancer at age 40 and was alien'd up to heaven.
Lana, meanwhile, managed to take down Cardinal Timothy Howard, uncovering Dr. Arden's human experiments and hounding the Cardinal into a bathtub suicide that was far too dignified for what he deserved. Lana then comes clean to the reporter about the child she gave up at birth. She says she tracked him down once, rescued him from a schoolyard bully, even. This story isn't news to Dylan Face, who managed to impersonate a crew member and sneak into Lana's house.
After the interview wraps, Dylan Face emerges from the shadows. Lana's been ready for him -- turns out the FBI is a bit better at the whole investigation thing that pathetic mama's boy Dylan Face. They had already put the pieces together about Bloody Face 2.0's identity and questioned Lana about her biological son. So Mom and Kid have at it, Dylan Face once again whining about how Mommy didn't love him, and how she killed Daddy who DID love him. Lana sets him straight on his father-worship, not that he's listening to her. He pulls out his gun and puts it to her forehead, but with a few precise motherly words, Lana manages to talk him out of it. She even absolves him of his guilt ... right before taking the gun herself and shooting her son through the head. Boom. Done.
The season ends with a flash back to the beginning, moments after Sister Jude christened her "Lana Banana." She warned Lana about digging too deep into murder and mayhem. "You stare into the face of evil, evil stares right back." And how.