This 92% RT Supernatural Western's Vomit-Inducing Scene Is One of the Most Twisted Moments in Modern TV

These days, television has few boundaries, especially when it comes to blood and gore. What would have caused granny to faint in her day — like blood gushing from a wound, or things that were relegated to slasher movies — are relatively commonplace now. So for a scene to stand out as particularly gruesome and deeply nauseating, it has to not only deliver on the visceral gore, but add nuances that change the context in which you're watching it. The best example of such a scene takes place in Season 1 of Wynonna Earp, in an episode called "Two-Faced Jack." If you plan on watching it, take our advice: don't eat first.

The Doctor Isn't Who He Appears To Be in 'Wynonna Earp's "Two-Faced Jack"

For the uninitiated, Wynonna Earp centers around Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano), the great-great-granddaughter of lawman Wyatt Earp, and it's up to her to battle the reincarnated outlaws that Wyatt killed. "Two-Faced Jack" pits Wynonna against a Revenant named Jack of Knives (Greg Bryk). The setup for the events in "Two-Faced Jack," however, occur in the previous episode, "Walking After Midnight," where Wynonna and Officer Haught (Katherine Barrell) are looking at the most recent victim of a serial killer. The doctor on hand explains that the victim was cut open alive, had her organs removed, then replaced, and then sealed back up by something with extreme heat. On her neck is the imprint of a spade, and, after moving away from the body momentarily, they return to find the serial killer's calling card in the corpse's mouth: a jack of spades playing card.

Fast-forward to "Two-Faced Jack," where Wynonna wakes up in a hospital room, abducted after an accident that happened off-screen left her legs temporarily paralyzed. She's being tended to by Dr. Reggie (Ryan Belleville) from the morgue, who talks about his pioneering efforts on a radical new procedure. But as he's talking, she pieces together that the doctor isn't a doctor at all ("Princeton doesn't have a medical school, dickwad"), but rather the serial killer — and Revenant — they've been tracking. She calls him out, and he switches gears from genteel physician to creepy psycho, chillingly telling her there's something wrong deep inside of her, and he'll cut it out and make her better.

He's off to prep an operating room, whistling a jaunty tune as he walks away, leaving Wynonna to try and figure out how to escape the trouble she's in. A quiet "hello" from the bed beside her gives her pause, and she opens the curtain to reveal Bethany (Sasha Barry), an associate of Revenant Bobo Del Rey. Wynonna tries to get her to run for help, but as the chilling whistling comes closer, she panics and shuts down. Dr. Reggie comes in and tells Bethany he's going to make her all better as he helps her to a wheelchair before taking her away to the operating room. Wynonna can only look on in horror, knowing what's about to happen. And we, as viewers, are unfortunately about to find out ourselves.

'Wynonna Earp's "Two-Faced Jack" Is Impressive for Many Reasons

The operating room scene opens with a shot of a blood-filled bedpan on a table as "Take Some Love" by Johnny Lidell, a 1950s country song, plays. It's a jarring dissonance, with the upbeat, friendly croon of Lidell decidedly at odds with what we're seeing — one of those aforementioned nuances. The camera continues to show images of blood-soaked tools on surgical tables before settling on Bethany's face as she slowly awakes. The camera doesn't stay there, but begins to slowly pan down to reveal Bethany's splayed chest, with the rib cage removed, revealing her working, and eerily lifelike, organs. She looks down, aghast, but can only squeak out, "Oh God, please don't!" as the doctor scoops out a kidney. "The doctor is gonna make you feel better, Bethany," he calmly says, but when the machine starts beeping he jumps into action, yelling, "She won't stabilize. I can't lose another one!" Just before that familiar flatline sound, Bethany lets out a blood-curdling, inhuman scream that shakes Wynonna to the core.

Whether it's the calmness with which Dr. Reggie performs his "radical new procedure," the ill-fitting choice of music paired with the moment, the slow reveal of Bethany cut wide open for a live autopsy, or that chilling scream, the scene brings up what once was down. Call it what you will — chunder, vomiting, hurling, blowing chunks, spewing, or plain old puking — but the sum of its parts (sorry, bad taste) will have you hugging the porcelain. But after downing the Pepto-Bismol and looking at the scene objectively, it is absolutely brilliant. The work put into creating the working, vividly life-like organs on display by Bleeding Art Industries is amazing (check out their testing here), and actors Belleville and Barry are masterful in giving the scene just what it needs to achieve the heights of hurl. Of course, with 4 seasons and a one-off special, Wynonna Earp: Vengeance, in 2024, it's safe to say that Wynonna escaped and took out Jack of Knives. But did it ever create a scene that reached the same level? No. And neither has anyone else.