It is inferred that Ash and the gang travel back to the present with the advent of time- travel once again brought about via Pablo’s fusion with the Book of the Dead (of course, this time Pablo is alive to read it). Ash’s deal was honored, even though the fix had been in against it happening. It’s Pablo! The real Pablo this time, not Baal-masquerading-as-Pablo. Ash and Kelly escape once again, and this time the cabin definitively explodes (with Ruby, the Children, and Baal inside).įrom the leafy ground where the cabin did perch, a bare hand juts. The cabin in the woods begins to crumble, its wood floor gradually giving way to hellfire, as the no-longer-humanoid Baal falls in. Though Ruby gave Baal a sporting advantage, she evidently didn’t undo the terms of their arrangement. ’80s Ruby of course endows Baal with his abilities after all, and Baal uses those skills to alternately transform into Chet, Ash’s long-dead sister Cheryl (Ellen Sandweiss), and their pops Brock (Lee Majors).įinally, Ash gets the upper hand on Baal, running Baal’s lethal claw talon across his chest, then through his face. If Baal wins and kills Ash fair and square, Pablo stays dead, Kelly will be “defiled” and destroyed, and Ruby’s “Children” will run amok.
If Ash wins, Baal and ’80s Ruby return with Ruby’s “babies” to the underworld.
Baal/”Bill” (Joel Toebeck), whose body was destroyed by Pablo, is back again too! As he explains, he was able to affix himself to the dead body of Pablo (Ray Santiago), where in that guise he corralled a PCP-blasted Ash into traveling back in time a few episodes ago.Īsh proposes a mano-a-mano fistfight battle with Baal, sans Baal’s Dead One immortal demonic advantage. Of course, the feeling doesn’t last long. Ash’s previously severed hand returns! And Pablo (Ray Santiago), whose chopped-up corpse had been cut in half a few episodes ago (and for whom our heroes traveled across time to save) is suddenly, miraculously alive again!Īll seems well and good for two shakes. Suddenly, certain modified-timeline changes are afoot. Modern Ruby doesn’t quite make it.Īsh and Kelly make a desperate run for Ash’s Oldsmobile “Classic,” parked just outside the cabin, amidst the commotion (per Good Ruby’s instructions).
And who should follow them there but Ruby circa 1982, still an immortal Dead One hell-bent on unleashing her demon “Children” upon the planet. The hits just keep coming, as ’80s Ruby deals Modern/Good Ruby (who as you’ll no doubt remember is mortal now) fatal blow to the stomach. Poor Ash gets more intimate with Henrietta here than I’d imagine he would have liked.Īfter doing battle in the surrounding forest, Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) and Ruby (Lucy Lawless) return to the cabin in the woods that started it all, where Ash does battle with Henrietta in the basement. The Ol’ Prof, sadly, doesn’t quite make it past the grisly opening title graphics splash. His funniest opposition is Ted Raimi - twice this time, in his guises as both Henrietta Knowby, possessed wife of the power-mad Professor Raymond Knowby (Nicholas Hope), and as Chet, Ash’s old high school buddy. The season deux finale of Starz’s ASH VS EVIL DEAD, from Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Craig DiGregorio, keeps the self-reflective gags going, as Bruce Campbell’s oafish hero Ash Williams battles foes old and new in his home town of Elk Grove, Michigan, circa 1982 (thanks to a Necronomicon-assisted time portal opening up).
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