"Bound In Flesh" is the ninth episode of the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead, and the ninth overall episode in the series. It was written by Rob Wright and directed by Tony Tilse. It premiered on STARZ on December 26, 2015.
Plot Synopsis[]
Pablo and Kelly rush into the back bedroom of the cabin to see Ash fighting himself. Their fight goes back into the main living room of the cabin, where Kelly and Pablo fire their guns in the air to get the attention of the two Ashes. Each of the Ashes take turns trying to convince Pablo and Kelly that they're the real Ash, until one suggest that they just shoot the both of them. The other Ash begins to panic, and Pablo and Kelly unload their weapons into the doppelganger, riddling his body with bullets. The remaining Ash asks how they knew that he was really himself, to which Kelly tells him that he tried to take the easy way out, a "total Ash move." As Ash goes to dismember the corpses of Amanda Fisher and Evil Ash, the trio hear a voice outside the cabin, and go out to investigate.
Pablo is the first to see that it's the hikers from earlier that guided him and Kelly to the cabin, and they've come seeking help since they've now become lost themselves. Ash is quick to tell the group that they can't stay at the cabin, and tells Pablo and Kelly to take them on a trail that will lead them directly to the town of Elk Rapids. The two reluctantly agree, and guide the trio to the trail. As they begin their hike, Heather asks Pablo what is it that they're really up to (as she doesn't believe the explanation of "veterinarians" and "hunters" that they were previously provided). It is then that Heather says Kelly told her that Pablo had a girlfriend, which is news to Pablo.
Back in the cabin, Ash begins to dismember Evil Ash, but the blood of his doppelganger begins to roll across the floor, making contact with the Necronomicon. The lifeblood gives life to the Book of The Dead, which begins to speak to Ash, begging for Williams to use it instead of burying it beneath the cabin. Ash doesn't want to hear this, and throws the book in the kitchen refrigerator. As he goes back to the living room to begin dismembering Amanda Fisher, he quickly notices that her body is gone...
Out in the woods, Pablo asks Kelly what about the "girlfriend" Heather told him about, to which Kelly says she did say that, because she believes Heather isn't good enough for him. As Kelly explains that it isn't good for either of them to be in a relationship due to the short life-expectancy they have fighting evil, a sound from the forest before them captures the group's attention. Brad and Melissa go to check it out, only for Melissa to be quickly killed by the Deadite Amanda. Brad meets a similar fate when he goes to attack Amanda, with the undead Fisher using the two fresh corpses like puppets to mock Kelly and Pablo. Heather runs away from the chaos, with Amanda giving chase and catching up with her in moments. When Pablo arrives to save Heather, Amanda tosses the girl against a tree, breaking Heather's leg. Amanda begins to strangle Pablo, only for Ruby to suddenly leap from the tree-tops and knock the Deadite to the ground. Ruby pulls out the Kandarian Dagger and prepares herself to stab Amanda, only for Heather's scream of pain to get everyone's attention, giving Amanda a moment to flee. Pablo bandages up Heather's leg as Ruby begins to dismember Brad and Melissa's bodies, telling Pablo and Kelly that Ash is the real danger to the world as long as he has the Necronomicon.
Meanwhile, Ash exits the cabin and grabs his shotgun laying outside of the nearby workshed, only to run into Ruby face-to-face for the first time. Ruby tells Ash that she's been cleaning up his mess for 30 years, doing more to save the world than he has in all that time. Ash tells Ruby of his plan to bury the book beneath the cabin, but Ruby says that it won't work, that the Necronomicon needs to be dismantled. After talking it over with Pablo and Kelly, Ash agrees to give Ruby the book.
Inside the cabin, Ruby gives Ash the Kandarian Dagger, and tells him that he must remove the book's face from it's binding, and cannot stop until it is completely removed. The group watches in shock as the Necronomicon begins to yell and moan in pain as the dagger cuts along its cover. With the face removed, Ruby then tells Ash that he must give power of ownership over to her, though Ash is a bit hesitant at first, but eventually gives it over to her. Ruby begins to read from the book's blood-inked pages, with the storm outside growing more intense with every second. Ash notices the Necronomicon's disregarded face begins to rise up from the floor on it's own, drawn to the necklace of Santa Muerte that Pablo is wearing. Pablo yells as he's dragged across the room, and the book's cover slaps onto his face. Kelly goes to grab the cover off Pablo's face, but it won't come off. Ash slams the Book of The Dead shut in Ruby's hands, and tells her she has no idea what she's doing, and tries to pull it from her grip. Ruby sends out a shockwave of air from the book itself that throws Ash across the room, telling him that she knows exactly what she's doing, as she wrote the Necronomicon...
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Soundtrack[]
- Just The Two of Us - Grover Washington Jr. & Bill Withers (Winelight; 1980) (heard while Ash dismembers Evil Ash)
- I Could Write A Book - Dinah Washington (For Those In Love; 1955) (heard during end credits)
Trivia[]
- References to other Ash vs Evil Dead episodes:
- Kelly tells Ash that if she's learned anything from him "it's that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is." This is a direct call-back to a line Ash says to Kelly in Bait, in which he tells her "when it comes to evil, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is."
- References to The Evil Dead:
- Ash tells Ruby he tried to destroy the book before, a reference to throwing the book in the fireplace at the end of The Evil Dead.
- References to Evil Dead II:
- Brad's line about the trees and the trail disappearing is an homage to a line spoken by Jake in Evil Dead II, where he notices that the woods "swallowed up" the trail that he and his group followed to the cabin.
- References to Army of Darkness:
- Ash's line "Chopping up my evil clone. Maybe someday that will feel weird" is a reference to the scene in Army of Darkness in which Ash dismembers the original Evil Ash outside of the windmill.