Mr. Mercedes recap: 'Gods Who Fall' 

Bill Hodges and Brady Hartsfield didn’t really interact much this week, opting to spend time in their own worlds and relationships, but at least we finally got an answer about how the latter might have stolen his infamous Mercedes in the first place.

“Gods Who Fall” kicks off with another flashback to Bill and Pete meeting with Olivia Trelawney, the car’s original owner. Once again, she denies leaving her keys in the car. When Olivia asks the detectives when she can have her car back, we get a hint of what Janey Patterson meant by last week’s comment that her sister was hard to like. As we’ve seen, that car was a bloody wreck. No one could possibly want to drive around in it, even if it really was Olivia’s only method of transportation (which I somehow doubt, considering how opulent her house is). But Olivia is insistent, so Bill tells her to talk to impound — which lands her a mocking spot on the front page of the local paper. Could that have had anything to do with her suicide? It sure seems like it was a tough position to be in.

Why did Brady choose Olivia at all? As he tells a picture of Hodges in his Batcave, even

doesn’t know what he’s going to do half the time. Right now, for instance, he’s been monitoring Ryan Springhill, that customer who was rude to Lou recently. After getting served a restraining order from his ex-wife, Ryan angrily logs on to a white power site to vent his feelings — at which point Brady activates a switch that destroys Ryan’s computer again.

An angry Ryan takes his computer back to Brain Buds and yells at Lou for not fixing it properly, ranting about “vag rings and Subaru Outbacks” — exactly the kind of LGBTQ stereotype he would’ve heard on the conservative talk radio he was listening to as he got ready that morning. When he starts screaming at Lou, that prompts Frobisher to come over — and, of course, meekly submit to Ryan’s demands since his company is a big source of business for the shop.

After checking out Ryan’s computer, Lou says that it keeps breaking down because of the spam on his white power websites (which is probably true, but it ignores the main source of difficulty: Brady’s mysterious tampering). In her words, he’s a big fan of photos of lynchings and instructions for how to “kill all the fags.” Thinking about all the hate inside of him, pumped out into the world by those websites and pundits, causes her to break down crying in the break room about how “there’s a lot of mean out there.” Even Brady is compelled to meekly comfort her, even though we know he’s one of the top exporters of “mean” around.

Oh, and the apparent explanation for why he was able to break into Olivia’s car with no signs of forced entry comes from Jerome. Stopping by Bill’s place (and promising not to tell his dad), Jerome offers that Olivia might never have taken the spare key out of the glove compartment. It sounds kind of unlikely, as Bill acknowledges, but given what we know about how self-centered and quasi-oblivious Olivia was, it sure seems possible. 

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