A worried Jo works in a GD lab. She goes over some calculations before turning around to see the real Jo standing in front of her. Uh oh. The real Jo is not happy. She's figured out that the imposter is Julia. "Please don't be mad!" Julia says pathetically. There's a lot of belief to suspend here, but I'm just happy to see two Jos this week. There's never enough Jo usually, and this episode is just an embarrassment of riches! Julia says she just wanted to be Jo for one day. Well, that's a lot of work to be a sheriff's deputy for one stupid day. Julia says that Jo is beautiful, confident, and has everyone's respect. Jo will agree with the confidence and respect parts, but isn't so sure about the beauty, which kind of negates the confidence part as well. Then Julia reveals the real reason why she wants to be Jo: because she's in love with Fargo and he's in love with Jo. Jo orders her to go back to her original Julia form, but Julia sobs that she can't -- something about "the DNA-based strands" destabilizing and her being unable to reverse the process. Well, no shit, Julia. That's what happens when you mess with things like this and don't bother to test it on animals first. I have no sympathy, and neither does Jo, who threatens to arrest Julia, at which point Julia's pathetic whimpering turns sinister as she pushes a button and Jo doubles over. It turns out that those pills Julia gave Jo in the beginning of the episode were remote time-release sedatives, and Julia just pushed the remote. I'm also going to assume she pushed that remote last night, so way to make double-action remote time-release sedatives that can't be crapped out or dissolve in the stomach, GD scientists!! Anyway, Jo falls unconscious for like the third time this episode. Just before she's down for the count, Julia apologizes once more and says that if she has to choose between being Julia and Jo, she chooses Jo. Well, it's always nice to be admired.
After the break, someone who looks like Julia is just waking up ... in GD jail! Henry and Allison think it's the real Julia, but she denies it, saying that she's really Jo. And since we all know that she is, let's all feel violated for poor Jo, whose clothes were removed and replaced with Julia's clothes while she was asleep. Although I guess it wasn't anything Julia hadn't seen before when she was parading around in Jo's body, but still. Icky. Julia-as-Jo appears next to Allison and Henry, at which point Jo-as-Julia realizes that she's in Julia's body. And for the sake of simplicity, I'm just going to call Julia-in-Jo's body "Jo" and Jo-in-Julia's-body "Julia." Anyway, "Julia" is pissed off to no end right now, and when she tries to explain what happened, Henry and Allison fold their arms and look disappointed and disbelieving, like, if they're already operating on the theory that Julia stole Jo's body once, why is it so hard for them to believe that she's doing it right now and that she put Jo into Julia's body? What explanation did the fake Jo give for why "Julia" was unconscious? And why didn't the real Jo tell someone about her theory and/or call for back-up when she confronted Julia in the first place! Well, I guess she's regretting that one now. "That's what Jo said you would say," Henry says. That still isn't a good reason not to believe "Julia," Henry.













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