Catch up on Ash Vs Evil Dead before this week’s episode. Ash travels back in time to bring Pablo back to life after losing him to the destruction of Baal.
Ash is drunk and doing donuts with a dead Pablo in the passenger seat. Pablo appears to tell him to go back in time to make sure Ash’s younger self doesn’t pick up the Necronomicon. Ruby and Kelly join Ash in the car. He races at top speed directly at a wall to convince Ruby to say the incantation that will bring them back in time. Will this really bring Pablo back?
They come to a stop in 1982. Ruby says the only thing Ash can change is his history with the book. Anything else would be catastrophic. A man who saw them arrive freaks out, so Ash gives him a bottle of booze. I’m thinking this will have a snowball effect.
Ash puts Pablo in the trunk with a letter to explain the situation if he wakes up. A demon force chases our heroes through the woods. How can it be alive when Ash hasn’t read from the book yet? It loses Ash in the cabin while Kelly and Ruby get lost in the woods.
The book isn’t in the place Ash originally found it. He steps on a nail in the wooden floor which infects his leg. Ash ties a tourniquet. Will he have to cut his leg off like he did his hand? Instead, he stabs it with a pair of scissors and tries to suck the evil out. He accidentally swallows some and his body starts fighting against him. Can he gain back control?
Ash vomits up a small demon and smashes it with a frying pan. He hears someone calling from the basement and grabs his chainsaw and gun. What can it be? Meanwhile, Kelly and Ruby hear somebody following them.
Ash explores the basement and finds a woman chained to the wall. She says her husband, the professor, is trying to kill her. Ash slaps her thinking she’s a demon, but no Deadite face appears. The professor arrives upstairs with a student, Tonya. The wife begs Ash to let her go, but he hides as the professor comes downstairs.
A bear trap closes on Tonya’s leg and the professor admits that he’s obsessed with the power from the Necronomicon. Ash unlocks his wife. The professor then tells Tonya that the book possessed his wife. That’s why she’s locked up. What has Ash done by releasing her? The professor wants to release the demon from his wife and place it in Tonya.
A possessed tree wraps its roots around Kelly and Ruby and pulls them towards its mouth. Ruby stabs the tree in the eye and it collapses to let them go.
The Deadite attacks Ash and her own husband. Ash fights back and tries to help Tonya with the bear trap. The Deadite comes back and pulls on Ash who’s still attached to the trap. He gets Tonya loose, but the professor has locked the trap door. We’ll have to wait until next week to see if they get free.