Noah Hawley has been doing some crazy stuff with Legion this season. For one, he and Nathaniel Halpern have written every episode so far, an impressive feat rarely seen in even the most auterist of all television. And then there’s the singing robot women with mustaches and the guy with the basket on his head and the previous episode which was set almost entirely in the mind of Syd, digging into her past traumas. This weeks episode devotes almost all of its time to our villains: Oliver, Farouk, and a newly corporeal Lenny. And while Lenny spends the episode locked in a room that may or may not be upside down, the other two get up to some truly awful stuff.

Right off the bat as Lenny is being interviewed by Clark, something is different. It may take a little bit to notice, but Lenny’s eyes are blue. They definitely weren’t before. It’s a seriously effective, simple way to both unsettle the audience, and make the character somehow more sympathetic at the same time. Her stories of being given vodka by her grandmother at the age of nine and having a father who watched child pornography help in that regard as well, but it’s still unclear if she’s trustworthy. Meanwhile, Farouk and Oliver know where the body is, and they’re on their way to it. Oliver’s displeasure with the prospect of getting his suit dirty while digging it up is some welcome comedy from the great Jemaine Clement, and his reaction when after struggling to get the casket out of the ground Farouk simply lifts it using his mind is also classic.

Ptonomy’s interview with Lenny takes a sharp turn south when he tries to read her thoughts and that gross little bug that crawled into his head earlier interferes. Seeing him choking her is upsetting, as it’s so out of sync with his nature, although it’s exactly hers to crack wise about it. Next it’s time for another psychology lesson from Jon Hamm. Hearing the Mad Men stars voice in the season premiere was a lovely surprise and his continued presence is a joy, and the segments he’s voicing are as well. This one talks about human’s desire to see patterns in things, and how that can cause us to see coincidence as conspiracy. Even though the sequence ends on that word, I hope we see Hawley explore the concept further, whether in this or another work, as the desire for conspiracy as always escaped this writer, and Hawley’s work suggests he could turn it into something fascinating.

A submarine is selling donuts to men who are working in a hole. Oliver and Farouk are watching this. They discuss the morality of death, and Oliver suggest the idea itself of death (and life) may be obscene, or rather, irrelevant. Then he sees a vision of his beloved Melanie  and tells Farouk he will kill him. The submarine drives off and so do they. It’s now halfway through the episode and our hero, David, has yet to appear. But now he does. He’s speaking to Lenny and he seems genuinely excited and happy to see his friend again, even if he’s unsure if it really is his friend. Their conversation is sweet, but flashes of a familiar childhood cause worry as to who’s body this is Lenny is now inhabiting.

The donut truck pulls up to a house surrounded by armed guards. The driver goes in. Farouk asks Oliver what he meant when he said he would kill him. Oliver offers a hint, what does one plus one equal. Farouk says two, which is wrong. They drop the subject and head toward the house. David is asking Lenny who’s body this is. Now we see David’s sister Amy, absent from the season until now. Her husband enters. He was the one driving the donut truck. Oh no. He describes a feeling he’s having, dread. That’s the perfect way to describe the scene, as it’s already become painfully clear what’s going to happen, but it takes it’s sweet time happening. And here I thought I only had to worry about timeline fuckery on Westworld. Soon – though not nearly soon enough – Amy’s husband is ash, and Oliver is in her home, telling her that David is back, and then, as she starts to scream, levitating her over to the table. In one of the more horrifying things I’ve seen in my life, he uses a machine loaded with a piece of the body they dug up earlier to, clearly very painfully, morph Amy’s body into Lenny’s. Lenny, however, only woke up naked in a hole in the dessert, and even as David realizes what has happened and breaks down crying, she still doesn’t seem to, comforting her friend while he swears revenge on Farouk for what he’s done.

Why he’s done it – and broken his temporary alliance with David- remains, in part, a mystery to us Perhaps Lenny is more important than we yet know. Perhaps he’s just a dick. Okay, it’s probably not that. For now, we say goodbye to poor Amy, who didn’t deserve that horrible fate, honestly, I don’t know if anyone does. And we wait to see what David will do in response. It probably won’t be pretty, but visually, as the show always is, it’ll be beautiful. And it was recently announced that there will be an additional episode this season, airing after the season finale. How on earth does that work? I have no idea, but I trust that Noah Hawley does.