Dear Doves,

Where to begin with this one….how about the show’s title: “Cairo”.

You might think that it has something to do with the capital of Egypt. But nope…this show takes place in the state of New York, and there is actually a small mountain town in upstate NY called Cairo (pronounced CARE-oh). Mapleton (where all these characters live) must be somewhere near there.

In the first scene, we see Kevin getting ready for a dinner at his house, with Nora Durst, Jill and Aimee. He wanted to introduce Nora to his daughter, but Jill already knows of her, and that she carries a gun in her purse. Jill and Aimee don’t like Nora, but I think that’s mainly because Kevin does like her. At the table, Jill comes out and directly asks Nora if she has a gun in her purse. Kevin is aghast at the question, but Nora calmly says she ‘had’ one, but doesn’t need it anymore. She offers to let Jill look inside her purse. Jill does and finds no gun. Kevin asks Jill to apologize. After the dinner, Kevin walks Nora to her car. Nora is sympathetic to Jill and thinks Jill actually likes her…which sadly isn’t true.

The Guilty Remnant cult is up to no good, as usual. Their despicable leader, Patti, is seen putting down clothes, laid out, on the floor of Rev. Jamison’s church that she recently bought out from under him. She hands over to Laurie (Kevin’s ex-wife) a tremendous amount of cash, obviously to purchase something big. Later on, we find out what it is. A truck pulls up to the former church, carrying body bags. The driver takes the cash and calls them all a bunch of sickos. Are these bodies from a morgue somewhere…or could they be wax bodies, the type that was shown in the Guest episode, where the salesman told Nora he sells those fake bodies at $40,000 each to people. Obviously, the G.R. has something very ghoulish planned for the next day, which is Memorial Day. This cult does everything they can to “make people remember” the Sudden Departure on October 14th.

Jill, Aimee and the twin teenage boys are seen smoking and getting high in the park. Aimee is asked how she thinks she’s doing, and she replies that she’s just fantastic. Jill looks at her and outright asks her if Aimee has slept with her dad. Aimee admits she has, and offers TMI (too much information) to Jill about it. Aimee walks away from the group and Jill is left probably wondering if that had anything to do with the break up of her parents. Well, at least Jill is seeing the truth about Aimee…too bad that it is about to put her over the edge, though. I’m guessing she feels real upset with her dad and may not want to live with him anymore.

Later on, we see Jill and the twin teenage boys breaking into Nora Durst’s house. Several episodes back they broke into her car and stole something. Jill is looking for Nora’s gun, and finds it in her departed childrens’ bedroom, under the bed, in a box. The boys find the Kevlar vest, and one of them tries it on. Jill starts to cry seeing this gun, then leaves it right on the bed so that when Nora returns, she’ll see it. I don’t know how these kids get away with breaking and entering (wouldn’t it be something if Nora had security cameras set up in the house?), and the fact she has a gun is none of their business. Nora is a woman living alone since the Sudden Departure…what do they care if she wants to defend herself (although that wasn’t the real reason she had it). However, who are they to break into her home and rummage through her privacy?

Talking about going over the edge….the main scene in this episode deals with Kevin’s mental problems and takes place in Cairo, NY. We see a cabin in the woods. Dean (the mysterious guy who goes around shooting dogs), brought Kevin over there. Kevin can’t really remember a lot of things, including this…which is very bad. Kevin goes with Dean into the cabin, only to see….the cult leader Patti tied up, bloodied, and sitting in a chair. Apparently, he and Dean abducted Patti and brought her there to that cabin, for the purpose of killing her. Kevin can’t remember doing it.

Patti tells Kevin that he is in a lot of trouble over doing this, and if he doesn’t kill her (which she wants, she actually wants to be a martyr for the cause)…that she will see to it that Kevin loses his job, goes to jail and that his kids are taken away from him. She does and says all she can to goad him into killing her. She tells him that she knows he cheated on his ex-wife Laurie, because Laurie told her so. I can’t repeat her exact words, because Patti is a very vulgar woman.

Kevin asks Patti if she murdered Gladys (the cult member who got stoned to death by unknown assailants). She readily admits doing it, saying that Gladys was “fine with it”…and that the same thing is going to happen to her and Laurie, as well. This woman is as batty as they come….

She also taunts Dean. Patti says that she is experienced in research (as we have seen by the dossiers she keeps on the entire town)…but could never find anything on Dean…he’s like a “ghost”. He’s real alright, but there’s nothing checkable about his past.

Patti continues to taunt Kevin, telling him that Laurie didn’t leave him because of what he did….that men always think it’s “about them”. I’m starting to think that Patti hates men, and probably was spurned by a lover. She says that everyone needs to remember the sudden departure, and never forget it. Kevin and most of the people are trying to move on….but not if Patti can help it. She starts reciting some dire poem that makes reference to “horses of disaster”….an obvious reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Dean says he’ll take care of Patti. Kevin goes out of the cabin, and

he calls Nora on his cell phone, trying to leave a message, telling her that he screwed up. Later on, when Nora gets the message, it is obfuscated…because the cell service in the mountains is bad.

Kevin walks around a bit, only to see his white shirts (missing from the cleaners weeks ago) hanging from various trees. He really thinks he’s losing his mind now. He may be crazy, but he will not be a party to a murder. Kevin goes back inside the cabin, only to see that Dean has put a plastic bag over Patti’s head. She is suffocating. Kevin gets into a scuffle with Dean, breaking a window, and rips the bag off her head…allowing her to breathe again. Disgusted, Dean leaves and tells Kevin he is on his own.

Patti continues her taunts of Kevin…she is evil personified…and wants to make him guilty of murdering her, so that she can become a martyr. Kevin walks over to get a knife and approaches Patti. She thinks he is about to stab her, but instead he slices the duct tape off her wrists so that she can leave. He tells her that it’s all her word against his….he is no murderer.

Patti does not want to leave the cabin alive…so she picks up a shard of glass from the broken window and slits her own throat. The blood is pouring out, as Kevin rushes to her side to try to stanch the bleeding. Patti says that Kevin now “understands”, and she dies.

We see Jill back at her house, with Aimee moving out. Aimee tells Jill that she is going to crash (stay) at some friend’s house…Jill says okay. I was glad to see that demonic Lolita, or whatever she is, leave. Jill goes out to the backyard where the barking dog is tied up. She gets a knife, and just like her dad…cuts the tie and lets him go.

One of the last scenes is at the Guilty Remnant house. No one has seen Patti. Laurie writes on the board that the upcoming big event is “still on”, anyway. Laurie seems to be taking over as the leader, sitting at Patti’s desk. There is a knock at the door….and it’s Jill. Jill comes in, stares at her mother. We are left thinking that Jill wants to join them.

Trying to connect a few dots here….in a previous episode, Dean is outside of Kevin’s house, during a “dream sequence”, trapping dogs and shooting them. I think it’s obvious by now that these dogs actually represent the Cults. Remember that after Gladys was stoned, Kevin talked to an agent who wanted to send in a SWAT team to kill the entire cult, thereby ending the town’s problems, but Kevin declined. Perhaps that’s who the mysterious ghost, Dean, is. Maybe he’s some type of agent (AFTEC: Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, Explosives and Cults) or from some similar agency, and that’s why there was no background on him for Patti to find. Dean told Kevin that he was his guardian angel (Kevin’s dad does talk to ‘entities’), but I think Dean is more like one of those spooks.

BTW, this series has been renewed for next season, ten more episodes. I still think it’s part of an agenda, giving us some serious real-life clues. This show has alluded to the AC being a half black man with American-Asian roots, it tells of a rapture where they want you to think that bad people were taken (remember that at the end, good will be called evil and evil will be called good), and it makes reference to “horses of disaster”, which are obviously the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Hidden in plain sight, as they say.

See you next week, friends….God willing.

YsiChrist,

Patty RP

P.S.~I looked up online the poem that the cult whacko Patti recited. Read this and tell me it has nothing to do with the Four Horsemen:

Michael Robartes Bids his Beloved be at Peace , by WB Yeats

HEAR the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake,
Their hoofs heavy with tumult, their eyes glimmering white;
The North unfolds above them clinging, creeping night,
The East her hidden joy before the morning break,
The West weeps in pale dew and sighs passing away,
The South is pouring down roses of crimson fire:

O vanity of Sleep, Hope, Dream, endless Desire,
The Horses of Disasterplunge in the heavy clay:
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat
Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast,
Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest,
And hiding their tossing manes and their tumultuous feet.