When Part 1 started, I was irritated at the tone and direction of the plot. (Well, except for Leo's opening monologue.) So off we went into existential angst and physical death.
I am not sure if we ever knew until this episode the true depth of Leo's dark pit (what many of us call those worst times) during the first months and years of his grieving. I found the revelations into Leo's life and his questioning of how much of Eve's torment could be explained through medical science and how much might be beyond comprehension to be the most interesting part of the episode. As always, William Gaminara gave an outstanding performance working with difficult material.
As the seasons have progressed, we see more and more of our plucky band of pathologists acting like detectives and avenging angels and more. I enjoy that to a degree because this is, after all, fiction. It would be deadly dull if all we saw were the bodies and dialogue into the mics that record the autopsies. But sometimes it simply goes too far.
It's also true that this episode is a psychological and religious debate with little relation to anything that makes sense. I can't argue that it strays far outside the realm of pathology. Or does it? I think it is entirely reasonable that those who study the dead, who search for order and finality in science and do not always find them, would ask to what degree our minds control our reality and whether there are answers that are simply unknowable.
It was a very dark, depressing episode that asked those questions. It's certainly not one I expect to revisit. But I still have to give it an 8 simply because of William Gaminara's performance as Leo.
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