In the supernatural procedural series Evil, from creators Michelle and Robert King (The Good Wife, The Good Fight), a priest-in-training, a forensic psychologist, and a tech whiz investigate unexplained phenomena for the Catholic Church. Season 2 ended with a murder confession by Kristen (Katja Herbers) just before she shared a passionate kiss with newly minted priest David (Mike Colter). And that, folks, brings us to Season 3. 

In the second-to-last season, the pressure is on: Kristen and David rekindle their friendship after a brief intimate relationship ends in David hooking up with a succubus Kristen clone, demon-seer Sister Andrea (Andrea Martin) is almost kicked out of the Church, and Leland (Michael Emerson) decides it’s time to bring a child into this hellscape. Read on to find out all you need to know about the Season 3 finale. 

Who’s in the cast of Evil? 

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How does Evil Season 2 end? 

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How does Evil Season 3 end?

Leave it to Evil to birth an episode as wild as this one. The action opens in the aftermath of the death of Monseignor Korecki (Boris McGiver), killed while protecting Grace (Li Jun Li) from an attack her prophetic abilities didn’t foresee. The news devastates Father Ignatius (Wallace Shawn), who decides to channel the grief for his longtime love into continuing to work with David, Kristen, and Ben (Aasif Mandvi).

The next case on the assessors’ list hits close to home, literally: Kristen’s new next-door neighbor, Sheila (Quincy Tyler Bernstine), complains of a demonic infestation. She and her family have been hearing strange growling noises coming from the walls that connect her home to Kristen’s, including those in her daughters’ bedroom. If that wasn’t unsettling enough, the bathroom faucet is leaking blood, and Sheila’s son sees an eyeball floating in the toilet — things that have also happened in the Bouchard home. There’s a shared sewer line, explains Ben, so these, er, plumbing issues are coming from either her house or theirs. 

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Later, Kristen’s mother, Sheryl (Christine Lahti), shows up just as the Bouchard family is about to log on to a video call with Andy, who has ostensibly been away from his wife and daughters hiking Mount Everest. But he doesn't show up. Instead, Edward (Tim Matheson) — actually Leland, via a deepfake video — appears from “Nepal” and tells them Andy went missing in an avalanche. (Andy has actually been incapacitated and trapped inside Leland’s apartment, and Sheryl is in on the nefarious plan.) 

Kristen is devastated, but her daughters suspect something is wrong and spring into action, using their Bumblebee Valley game to message Pollie the Pig, Leland’s avatar. They hear the pings through the video chat on their mom’s computer, exposing Leland as the person Kristen is actually talking to — not Edward. She’s too upset to understand the connection, but Sheryl calls Leland to tell him their cover’s blown.

That night, Kristen prays for the first time since she was 14 years old and begs for her husband to come home safe. The next morning, Andy (Patrick Brammall) walks through the door. A miracle! He’s suffering from memory loss and believes the avalanche story, but the reunion is still touching … until things start to get weird. He sees Grace’s sketch of Leland’s apartment hanging on the fridge, which triggers a memory flash of that same room before he collapses. Kristen also finds him out of bed, staring into space in the middle of the night, and tells her, “I’m trapped.” 

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Meanwhile, whether it was demons or plumbing issues, the assessors’ work at Sheila’s house is successful. But now there’s the issue of some mysterious writing on the wall of the under-construction addition to Kristen’s home. The crew calls in Sister Andrea to check it out, in part because it mentions her by name. David mentions the exorcism next door — perhaps the infestation jumped over to their house? 

So the good nun starts to investigate, which gives us a blessing of a scene in which she walks around the Bouchard abode, looking for demons and bashing their heads in with a shovel when she finds them, all while having a casual conversation with Lynn (Brooklyn Shuck), who’s curious about becoming a nun. (Lynn can’t see the demons, so, from her vantage, Sister Andrea is smashing at nothing.)

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Sister Andrea kills four demons, but she thinks there are more lurking around and recommends an exorcism for the rest. The house definitely needs something, because Andy follows some weird sounds he hears in the walls and comes across a whole host of demons gathered around the demon baby Kristen had a nightmare about earlier in the series. Boggs (Kurt Fuller) is there, too, smiling and calling the whole scene “beautiful.” Uh, sure!

It’s already too much to deal with, but then David sees a vision of an angel who warns him, “38 days. Woe to Babylon.” And Kristen gets thrown yet another bombshell — her egg that disappeared from the RFM Fertility clinic has been found, and it’s in the worst possible hands. It was sold to an anonymous buyer, and when Kristen goes to the address tied to it, she walks right into the office where Sheryl works … with Leland, who’s beaming over a very pregnant woman at a surprise baby shower. He says he’s “so happy to finally have a child so late in life.” Then he turns to Kristen and adds, “We’re going to be parents.” Most ominous birth announcement ever? 

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