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'1923' Recap: Season 1, Episode 5 -- 'Ghost of Zebrina' (TVLine)

1923's People We Care About body count climbs two, possibly three notches in this week's episode. Sheesh, being attached to the Duttons really isn't good ...

“I killed the nun who beat me, and I killed the nun who raped me,” she says. While Cara is out in the carriage later, she runs into Don Whitfield, who introduces himself as her new neighbor and who asks for a good time to swing by and meet Jacob. “That is the first good news these ears have heard in months,” she says, beaming as she hugs a very relieved Elizabeth. “We don’t speak, you don’t touch me,” she says, warning him against hate, which “takes your whole heart, every bit of it.” She’s actively choosing not to hate Banner because she wants to have room to love Jack, but if he won’t do the same, she says, “take me to town. “I am Otter from the Kills Many Clan,” she says in her native language. At the School From Hell, Father Renaud is alerted to the deaths of Sister Mary and Sister Alice, who killed with an envelope opener to the chest. “This one’s leaving the harbor,” he says. “Spencer, I don’t think those are supposed to leave the harbor,” she says. Spencer wakes to realize that the engines aren’t running, and he rushes upstairs to find Lucca has hemorraghed or something equally gross and bloody during the night. He finds that option in a man named Lucca (played by American Gods’ Peter Stormare) looking for deckhands for a trip to the Suez Canal. “And for my young brother, it will be his last.” Which probably just means he settles in that state — after all, thanks to Lightning Yellow Hair’s Cara drives to the post office — with two guards — and sees newspaper: Electricity is coming to the valley.

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1923 Recap: The Tedium of 'the Tedium of Healing' (Vulture)

After a midseason hiatus, it's a bit lackluster to return to see the Dutton's reinforcements heading to Yellowstone at a snail's pace. A recap of “Ghost of ...

Eventually, a telegram is sent to a one-room post office serving Paradise Valley and the ranchers who live just past the route of the mailman, beyond the electricity that powers modern life. The question is: when she holds the telegram in her hand, is Spencer just embarking on his adventure home — the one the episode teases, again and again, will be his last — or is he already drowning in a dark and swirling sea? He’s no longer the acting head of the family, but by the end of the episode, he’s something of a consigliere, advising Cara on what moves Banner might be making. Banner is a rich man now by way of his alliance with Donald Whitfield — the miner who wants Yellowstone for gold. Our seafaring trio hasn’t made it far before the captain perishes of what I assume is TB, leaving Alex and Spencer to fend for themselves, which they cannot. It upsets me the most, and thus I’d like to get it out of the way, preferably in one headlong breath. Resolved that he doesn’t have seven weeks to waste on what will ultimately be only a third of his journey, he seeks out a less salubrious alternative to the RMS Franconia (which, for all y’all history nerds, will be requisitioned in WWII and retrofitted as a troopship). Teonna cleverly erased her tracks with branches resourcefully tied to her waist, and 2.) I’m doubtful the pasty deacons Renaud dispatched can hack even a few hours out of doors. The young and the old are dying, drip by drip, riding their horses in the direction of their own unadorned graves. In fact, everyone in 1923 is dying all of the time. We already know four months have fallen from the calendar between the black day Cara Dutton wrote to recall Spencer from the bush and the day his fiancee finally read the note aloud to him. And so I expected 1923 to return from its winter hiatus with an invigorating time jump — the promise of its favorite son’s urgent homecoming.

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<em>1923</em> recap: Homeward bound (EW.com)

'1923' recap: Spencer hits the sea for the States while the ranch shores up in preparation for Banner's next play. Read EW's recap for more.

He puts out a "Mayday" call, grabs the wheel, and attempts to right the ship. As she anxiously reads it with an emotional mix of joy and relief, the camera pans over a wide shot of the ocean. While a smug Banner sits in the back seat, the shady businessman exits the car and approaches Mrs. In light of the cattle business becoming unsustainable, he wants to meet with Jacob and discuss some progress-embracing opportunities. Having just received the happy news that Elizabeth and Jack are expecting a baby – having apparently wasted no time consummating their makeshift marriage – Cara's headed back to the post office. As part of the deal, Whitfield hands a slack-jawed Banner the keys to a beautiful, modern home outfitted with plumbing, electricity, and a gas oven. She accepts the offer, and just in time, because Renaud has ordered a trio of priests to find her and bring her back to the boarding school. His urgency to get home is somewhat deflated when he sees the boat set to tackle the first leg of the trip. When the trio encounter one such abandoned vessel, a hulking freighter, the old man pilots his creaky craft dangerously close to it in some sort of superstitious tribute. This leads to a shady meeting with a shadier sailor (Peter Stormare,) an old man with a nasty cough and a tugboat in need of a deckhand. [Timothy Dalton](https://ew.com/person/timothy-dalton/)), plan to buy up all the land bordering the Dutton ranch, including that of the Stratford widow, who's decided to pack it in after daughter Elizabeth snubbed her in favor of her new Dutton family. [1923](https://ew.com/creative-work/1923/) , [nearly a month ago](https://ew.com/tv/recaps/1923-recap-season-1-episode-4/), the Duttons were just barely rebounding from Banner Creighton's (Jerome Flynn) deadly ambush.

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