WARNING! This article contains major SPOILERS for Wednesday season 2, episode 4!Setting up the highly anticipated second part of the outing, Wednesday season 2, part 1’s ending reveals plenty of twists and turns for Nevermore and the titular character. After defeating Joseph Crackstone in Wednesday season 1’s ending, Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams faces another malevolent villain throughout the first half of season 2, whose identity is kept hidden until episode 4’s intense sequence at Willow Hill.
At the end of Wednesday season 2, part 1, Wednesday and Fester Addams discover the truth behind LOIS and the dark plans of the murderous Avian-powered Judi, who had been posing as Dr. Fairburn’s assistant at Willow Hill. As they free the Outcasts imprisoned by Judi, several other Willow Hill patients escape, including Tyler, whose Hyde embarks on another homicidal stint that culminates in Wednesday’s fate being left up in the air before part 2.
Judi’s Avian Identity Twist & Why She Killed Galpin Explained
Judi Is Augustus Stonehurst’s Daughter Experimenting On Outcasts
After Fester and Wednesday successfully break into the LOIS section of Willow Hill, the mysterious Avian confronts them and finally reveals her identity. All along, the Avian controlling the one-eyed crow was Judi (new Wednesday season 2 cast member Heather Matarazzo), the daughter of Willow Hill’s former chief psychiatrist and one-time Nevermore science teacher Augustus Stonehurst.
Judi reveals that her father was always fascinated with Outcasts, so much so that he wanted to become one. Eventually, his experiments in trying to extract Wednesday Outcasts species’ powers worked on Judi, giving her the bird-controlling ability of Avians, but failed for himself, with his body being unable to stand his attempts to become a DaVinci.
After Augustus himself became a Willow Hill patient, Judi took over his mission, but made Dr. Fairburn the public face of the hospital instead of herself. However, after Tyler was brought there, Judi and Augustus’ dark experiments, captivity, and false death reports of Outcasts were investigated by former Jericho Sheriff Donovan Galpin and his old partner Carl Bradbury.
Once Judi saw that Galpin and Bradbury were getting close to exposing the truth about her work at Willow Hill, she used her Avian ability to murder the two of them. Also, knowing that Wednesday Addams was at both crime scenes, Judi kept a close watch on her as another potential threat to her and Augustus’ secret operations.
Where Is Tyler Going After The Fight & Is Wednesday Still Alive?
Wednesday’s Exact Fate Is Left Ambiguous
After Judi explains herself to them, Uncle Fester Addams uses his powers to zap the entire electrical power of Willow Hill, causing the cells to unlock and any electrical-powered restraints to be loosened. During the mayhem, Marilyn Thornhill frees Tyler, hoping to manipulate and control him yet again.
However, Tyler turns into the Hyde and, in his rage, kills Christina Ricci’s Thornhill before coming face-to-face with Wednesday near a large window. While Wednesday season 2, episode 4 doesn’t show the actual struggle between the two, we see that it ends with Wednesday being launched through the glass window and landing on the sidewalk below.
As Wednesday lies unconscious, bloody, and broken in Wednesday season 2, part 1’s final moments, Tyler’s Hyde monster form is seen escaping into the woods, unable to be taken down by the police force’s gunshots. In that last scene, the exact state of Wednesday’s fate is left ambiguous.
While she’ll certainly be alive in Wednesday season 2, part 2, Wednesday potentially could have briefly died before being resuscitated, perhaps gone into a coma, or may just be in an unconscious state until she’s attended to by medical staff at the hospital. Falling that far during a fight with a Hyde will leave Wednesday in a near-death state, so she’ll likely still be in the hospital when part 2 arrives.
The question also remains of where Tyler is headed. He could be going to his now-abandoned home in Jericho, another location like the Gates home or a hideout in Jericho’s wooded areas, or even directly to Nevermore to finish what he started in season 1.
What LOIS Is & Who Are The Outcasts Wednesday Freed?
Wednesday Uncovers A Dark Conspiracy At Willow Hill
Entering a secret location in Willow Hill, Wednesday discovers that LOIS is an acronym standing for Long-Term Outcast Integration Study. The top-secret project led by Augustus Stonehurst and his daughter Judi was conducted with the intent of extracting the powers of Outcasts and giving them to Normies.
In order to conduct their secret work, Augustus and Judi took Outcasts directly from Willow Hill, falsified death reports, and kept them hidden underneath the hospital. It’s unclear what kinds of experiments Stonehurst conducted on them, but the Outcasts seen at the end of Wednesday season 2, part 1 are traumatized, scarred, and exploited.
Wednesday season 2 highlights a few of the imprisoned Outcasts in the LOIS experiment, including Patricia Redcar, an alien-like Outcast who was a long-term patient at Willow Hill. The others included Julian Meiojas, one of Wednesday’s Faceless Outcasts, a Frankenstein’s Monster-esque man, and a frightened woman in the last cell, who may actually be Tyler’s mother, the Hyde Francoise Galpin.
How Does Slurp Really Know Augustus Stonehurst?
Slurp Calls Augustus An “Old Friend” Before Killing Him
Among the Outcasts freed from their restraints at Willow Hill in Wednesday season 2, episode 4 is Slurp, the zombie teenager reanimated by Pugsley’s powers of electricity. The more brains that Slurp has eaten in Wednesday season 2, the more human-like he has become again, leading him to finally speak at the very end of episode 4.
During the commotion, Slurp comes face-to-face with Augustus Stonehurst, greeting him with the words, “Hello, old friend,” before eating his brain. This line indicates that Slurp and Stonehurst have a long history dating back to their time at Nevermore, hinting Ajax’s Tale of the Skull Tree is missing a key part of Stonehurst’s involvement.
Slurp’s immediate decision to kill and eat the brain of Stonehurst upon reuniting with him suggests the former Nevermore science teacher may have played a role in the boy’s death. Perhaps it was Slurp’s death that led to Stonehurst leaving Nevermore for good, with Slurp even potentially being one of Stonehurst’s first Outcast test subjects before officially beginning his LOIS project.
What Happened To Morticia’s Sister Ophelia?
Where Has Ophelia Been For The Past 20 Years?
The Tim Burton-directed Wednesday season 2, episode 4 also discloses some intriguing new information about Wednesday Addams’ mysterious aunt. Fester reveals that Morticia’s sister, Ophelia, was once a patient at Willow Hill, but she seemingly escaped the facility before Fester was committed there.
Wednesday’s Grandmama Hester Frump was the one who had Ophelia committed, which happened after Ophelia was found at Nevermore screaming with black tears streaming down her face due to pushing her psychic powers too far. It’s implied that Ophelia went missing directly after escaping, with her fate and whereabouts still being unknown to Morticia 20 years later.
Will Wednesday Get Her Powers Back In Part 2?
Wednesday’s Psychic Visions Stopped Working
One of the biggest questions leading into Wednesday season 2, part 2 is whether her powers will start working again, as they stalled after her vision of Enid’s death. Her near-death experience battling Tyler, potential search for Ophelia, or new openness with Morticia will hopefully help her find the right key to fully getting Wednesday’s psychic powers back.
Wednesday
8/10
- Release Date
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November 23, 2022
- Network
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Netflix
- Showrunner
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Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
