Signs and Wonders – The episode opens with Cal Quinn (Richard Roxburgh) leading a service at U Star Church. Jed Quinn (Jacob Collins Levy) sits quietly outside his burnt homeless center. In a flashback, a distraught Rosa Adebayo (Brigid Zengeni) pleads to be permitted access to the church. She calls Cal to ask him to come pick her up. Eli Slowik (Jacek Koman) urges Jed to come stay with him. Cal preaches about feeling lost and lonely without God.
In a video, Moses Quinn (Alexander D’Souza) identifies himself as a 16-year-old adoptee seeking his biological parents. He believes people would be better off without him in their lives.
Juno Adebayo (Andrea Sologne) shows Tayla (Emma Horn) where someone answered her call on Rosa’s phone. She questions if the person who has Rosa’s phone was with her when she died. Tayla says someone may have found her phone. Juno dials Rosa’s number. Issy Kalani (Hayley McCarthy) is holding the phone when it rings. She asks Benji Kalani (Jordi Webber) what is going on. Tayla urges Juno to go to church with her. Benji claims to have found the phone on the church driveway the night Rosa committed suicide. Issy asks why he never gave the phone to Cal before thinking that Juno may want it. She refuses to let him get rid of it.
Eli, Cal, Abi Quinn, (Rebecca Gibney), and Dion Quinn (Ewen Leslie) discuss accusations of Maddox “M.Dox” (Alex Fitzalan) cheating. Eli says hopefully Mitch Leeway (Christopher James Baker) doesn’t get wind of it. Abi assures him that he will see it. Cal recalls M.Dox recently proposing to Gigi (Nat Buchanan). Dion claims to have helped pick out her engagement ring. Abi says it is Gigi she feels bad for. Dion offers to speak with M.Dox. Cal questions if he would rather talk to Benji. Dion reminds him that he baptized him. Cal receives a call from Mitch voicing concern about the church being connected to an infidel. Cal tells him that Dion is going to give him spiritual counsel.
Moses is reading a letter when a school mate (Gabriel Wright) stops to stare at him. He runs the boy off. Elsewhere, Issy watches CCTV footage of the church entrance. Carl (Frederico Star) confirms it was the night of Abi and Cal’s anniversary party. Benji and Rosa appear to be talking. When she walks away, he picks up her phone. She asks him to unlock Rosa’s phone. Later, Issy confronts Benji with the new evidence. In a flashback, Benji sees a distraught Rosa outside the entrance. She asks where is he. He tries to help her but she orders him to not touch her. Back to the present, Benji says if he stopped Rosa, she may still be alive. He claims to have not wanted her to know he failed someone in need.
Juno is working when Jed stops by to place an order. He informs her of his center burning down from a possible gas leak. She gives him a drink for free. Tayla tells her that it is against the rules. Juno says to deduct it from her paycheck. He later returns with an empty cup and a note written on a napkin. She watches as Jed briefly speaks with Eli.
Moses gets into a fight at school. He tells Issy that his biological parents declined to meet him. She assures him that Cal and Abi love him. She says most children would die to have his life.
Juno asks Eli why he was at the hospital after Rosa overdosed. She questions why Rosa lied about knowing him. Eli suggests Rosa knew she never approved of her affiliation with U Star. She tells him that someone answered Rosa’s phone. She asks why Rosa never reached out to her before leaving.
M.Dox admits to messing up and needing Gigi in his life. Dion assures him that it is repairable but he will have to work for it. Elsewhere, Abi tells Cal that Moses got into a fight at school again. Cal orders him to sit up straight before calling him a “disgrace”. Moses walks away. Carl returns Rosa’s phone to Issy. Moses, Harry (Billy Zeng), and Tia (Giulia Modonese) race up a flight of steps to the rooftop of a building. Issy watches a video of Cal doing drugs with Rosa. Moses falls off the roof. Issy shows the video to Benji.
Cal, Abi, and Taz Quinn (Ming-Zhu Hii) are in the lobby at Ellsworth Hospital. Issy scolds them for not informing her of Moses’ accident. Cal gathers his family together for a prayer. Jed joins them. Dr. Selene Karras (Victoria Haralabidou) tells them that Moses has a C6 spinal cord injury that may leave him paralyzed. Moses is to undergo surgery. Abi voices concern about him never walking again. Cal tells her that doubt is the devil. Once alone, she scolds him for questioning her faith and demands he not blame her for being cruel to Moses last night. When he quotes a scripture, she assures him that she knows the Bible. Benji questions why Dion is absent. Taz claims Cal sent him to give M.Dox spiritual counsel. She sends Gigi a text to let her know that she is thinking about her. Jed is talking to Gordy on the phone when he sees Cal approach Kasem (Troy Harrison) and Maya (Zoe Trilsbach) whose daughter was in a car accident. Kasem gets upset when Cal offers to pray with them. Jed pulls Cal away. Cal visits Moses before he is taken to surgery.
Dion tells M.Dox that he owes Gigi and his fans an apology. He promises that showing others the love that God has shown him will help him get Gigi back. While Gigi gets a tattoo, Taz gives her counsel. She tells her that Dion has let her down a lot and they rarely have sex. She admits to feeling repulsed by him at times. Gigi assures her that they are more than how their husbands make them feel.
Cal blames his betrayal and weakness for Moses’ accident. He vows to confess to the world if God spares Moses. Elsewhere, Juno is collecting some of Rosa’s things when Jake arrives home. He threatens to call the police on her if she returns. She says go ahead and she will tell them what he did to Rosa. Her car won’t start. Elsewhere, Eli buys a new cellphone. He dials Rosa’s phone. Benji hears the phone ringing but doesn’t answer it. Later, Juno tells Jed that Rosa gave U Star Church thousands which she views as theft. He says the church should be about giving, not taking. He informs her of Moses’ accident.
Maddox leaves Dion to deal with reporters. Dion claims he apologized to God, Gigi, and his fans. He assures them that Maddox deserves their forgiveness. A reporter asks if Gigi and her parents should forgive him. Dion suggests they should. The reporter reminds him of the girl being 15. As Dion rushes away, the reporter questions how U Star supports this type of behavior.
Cal is praying in his car when Abi informs him that Moses is going to be okay. They scold Issy for not telling him that he was doing stunts. Issy says they have no right to lecture her on keeping secrets. After returning home, she tells Benji that Cal and Abi deserve what is about to happen to him.
Eli tells Cal that girl Maddox cheated with is only 15 and Mitch is not happy. Upset, Dion ignores Cal’s call. Taz comforts him when he sees her new tattoo. She says it was for him because he needs Gigi on his side. Juno calls to cancel Rosa’s cellular service.
Cal tells the congregation that he never prayed as hard as when Moses fractured his neck. Issy receives a letter from Global Reunion about Moses’ request to see her, his biological mother. She breaks down sobbing. Cal admits to doubting God but he was always with him, holding Moses’ hand the entire time. Abi pushes Moses in a wheelchair onto the stage. They help him stand. The congregation is left in awe. Jed watches from a short distance away. The donations pour in. The episode ends.
Prosper Review
After the discovery of Rosa’s phone, Issy sets out to learn how it came into Benji’s possession. Carl gives her access to security footage of the church’s front entrance on the night of Cal and Abi’s anniversary party. Benji finds a distraught Rosa standing outside the door. He tries to help her but she declines. She unknowingly drops her phone when she walks away. He retrieves it. When Issy confront him, he claims to have kept it from her because he didn’t want her to know he failed Rosa.
Moses is upset after his biological parents decline his meeting request. He gets into a fight at school. Cal calls him a “disgrace”. Later, Moses is doing stunts on a rooftop with Harry and Tia when he slips and falls. He suffers a C6 fracture. Cal blames his betrayal of his family for Moses’ accident. He promises to tell the world what he did if God spares Moses. Instead, he utilizes Moses’ recovery to rein in donations.
Maddox cheats on Gigi with a 15-year-old. The scandal and Gigi being underage threaten U Star’s relationship with Mitch. Dion gives him spiritual counseling only for Maddox to shy away from his responsibilities.
While the series continues to improve, the failed pilot probably deterred people from watching. Prosper does a great job showing how people cover up for an extremely popular but corrupt evangelist. Whether it be to protect their own positions or to protect the evangelist is questionable. One thing is for sure, the Quinns are not who they portray themselves as. This is not to say they are night-and-day different out of the camera eye’s, just different. Regardless, they are hypocrites.
The episode deserves a 5.2 out of 10. Get more Prosper recaps here. Support Reel Mockery by donating. Learn how our advertising can help build your brand awareness, click the link to reach our staff. Join our newly established forum to discuss the newest movie and TV show releases, scams, and sports.
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