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Liz asked Tom to promise that if she died, he would tell Agnes about her. He told her that wasn't going to happen. "Look at me," he said (referencing that he was in worse shape.) Most of the rest of it was both of them telling the other to hang on, don't give up, things like that. Not a word was said about the suitcase or the big discovery. My wife and I were fortunately watching it with the closed captions on; otherwise we wouldn't have heard the dialogue either.
Yes, I was highly offended by it. I just now submitted a review of the episode to the IMDB site, entitling it "Utter Rubbish," because that's what the whole premise was. I think that because we now once again have a President who respects religious rights, the writers were desperately trying to find a way to make religious freedom look bad, and this was their response. I'd mercifully forgotten that not too many seasons back they had a horrendous multi-part story about a sex-trafficking ring being run through a church. But this episode was a new low!
(By the way, this was not actually the season finale. You might want to update your title and just call it "Conversion," instead. Next week's show will be about a hate crime against Muslims. Want to bet that it will have many positive things to say about Islam, even though they had absolutely nothing positive to say about Christians this week?)
Don't forget about "It's a Good Life." We are told in the teaser that the town is controlled by the monstrous little boy. That's the twist. The rest is just a half-hour of watching him torture the poor townspeople. He doesn't die. He doesn't undergo a change. Nothing. That's why this is one of my least favorite episodes.
If I recall, it was Gregory's "wife" who tossed the tape into the fire, after he decided he was not going to. The bit with him burning Rod's tape was clearly just an in-show joke. Even Rod was just amused about it. From the narrative of the show, he can only destroy what he has created himself - and they are arguably not real to begin with, though they obviously think they are. I'd hardly say this qualifies him as a "monster", not that it's any big deal if some people think he is.