Thanks to his crime of condemning B.J.
Vines to die in the desert, Joe has been haunted bythe Ye’iitsoh inDark Windsseason 3.
Earlier in the season, Emma also indicated that the entity haunting Joe may very well be B.J.
Vines himself, hisch’iidiior malevolent spirit bent on revenge for what Joe did to him.
The Ye’iitsoh following Joe is a ghoulish entity, appearing as a rotting corpse dressed in rags.
The most recent episode answered that question while filling in crucially important blanks about Joe’s past.
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Joe made a brutally hard decision atthe end ofDark Windsseason 2when he left B.J.
Joe is also still wrestling with his grief over the loss of his son, J.J. Vines behind his death.
Emma’s reaction to learning about B.J.
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Vines inDark Windsseason 3explained why Joe’s decision was fraught with so many consequences.
Joe knows it, so his subconscious is manifesting the supernatural retribution he feels he’s owed.
But Joe’s subconscious manifesting the Ye’iitsoh may run even deeper than that, as the episode revealed.
Deep down, Joe knows that his father did to the priest what he did to B.J.
Vines, even if he’s buried the memory under a false one.
Instead, that evil lies in humans, and the most heinous, atrocious acts are committed by men.
“That’s the thing, son,” says Henry.
“He wasn’t a monster.
He was just a man.
There’s no such thing as monsters.
There’s just people who do bad things and other people who do bad things to stop them.”
“He wasn’t a monster.
He was just a man.
There’s no such thing as monsters.
There’s just people who do bad things and other people who do bad things to stop them.”
The Ye’iitsoh he keeps seeing isn’t a monster.
Vines wasn’t a monster.
They were just men who did bad things, just like Joe.
They’re evil enough.
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