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Sheryl is in deep now. A recap of 'The Angel of Warning,' episode 5 of season 3 of Evil, streaming on Paramount+.

One of the survivors, a woman named Jessica, tells the same exact story about the woman with the lamb as the rest do, but she adds one very peculiar part: She says that she also received a phone call ahead of the collapse, in which a woman warned her to “get out now” and then when they send Jessica to do some hypnotherapy with Dr. Boggs to see if they can illuminate any of her memories of the incident, she tells them the woman also told her to “tell David […] don’t trust your sister.” The intended effect is to make David question his work and friendship with Sister Andrea, who he is currently defending in her ecclesiastical tribunal. She started having them when Sheryl and Kristen’s dad were getting divorced, so Sheryl wonders if this has anything to do with Andy. “You’re better off without him,” Sheryl tells her daughter. “I don’t want to hurt him with what he saw.” Is this the beginning of another beautiful friendship? • During the tribunal, David tries to discredit Dr. Boggs by forcing him to talk about how he saw a demon, but Sister Andrea won’t have it. As David explains, “Angels and saints are thought of as white because Renaissance iconography has been force-fed to us for centuries.” Ben’s response is the best: “Oh, you mean the people in power wanted God to look exactly like them? This is the question she asks Leland after her second meeting with The Manager, in which, after a foul back scratch, she earns that promotion to Head of Misinformation. He’s not pleased that she went around him, but as soon as he sees the look on Sheryl’s face — she is holding back tears — he knows what she’s just experienced. He’s called to the emergency triage site of a horrific building collapse in Bushwick. Over 100 people die, but David speaks with the few survivors and learns that all four of them say they saw a woman in a bright white dress holding a lamb, and she led them safely out of the building. He’s been doing a great job during the tribunal, repeatedly exposing the hypocrisy and misogyny at play here, but it’s clear that none of it matters and they are going to force Sister Andrea to retire. But it doesn’t take long for Ben and Kristen to figure out that not only does Jessica’s story about being in the building not hold up, but that she used to work for a psychiatrist … named Leland Townsend. When the three assessors confront Jessica with this information, she goes real evil on their asses and tells them that the fact that people are angrier and meaner and prone to more violence means that “your team is losing.” “That doom you feel? She’s hired her own assistant, who seems alarmingly good at her job, and bribes her way in to see the mysterious Manager and ask him for a promotion. He welcomes her to the club and offers both “congratulations and regrets.” Has Sheryl ever seemed so unraveled as she does here? “The guy from The Good Place.” Now aside from this being one of the best references imaginable (spoiler alert if you haven’t seen The Good Place, but Ted Danson plays a demon wearing a human suit), it also signals that something is going on with Sheryl. Is she having a psychotic break, or is she simply one of the few people who can see demons in their true form?