Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of Under the Banner of Heaven Season 1 Episode 7 “Blood Atonement.” As the details of the murders become clear, Pyre and Taba embark on an interstate manhunt, hoping to catch the killers before they complete their list of those to be “blood atoned.” Here’s what you missed! Show Stay right here, stay mixed in for exclusive updates! Drop your email to get insights into your inbox… Watch Under the Banner of Heaven Season 1 Episode 7 “Blood Atonement”Previously on Under the Banner of Heaven Season 1 Episode 6, New details emerge about Brenda’s attempt to reckon with some of the Lafferty family’s most extreme members and beliefs, as Pyre and Taba hunt for those who killed Brenda before they can kill again. Warning… Spoilers below! On Under the Banner of Heaven Season 1 Episode 7, at Pyre’s home, he wakes on the couch to a phone call. Before he leaves, he says a stilted goodbye to Rebecca after her request that he share his testimony in front of his daughters. Ticking ClockAt the dream mine, Onais claims Ron was blinded by the power of being the one mighty and strong. With Onais losing faith in him, Ron became even more obsessed with his revelations, including one that his brother Robin should go to Nevada and bet some of their money to make more. Robin went, but bet on the wrong horses and lost the money and his faith in Ron. Ron was was sure someone had helped Dianna escape from him, and under pressure, Matilda admitted that the Lows and the Stowes gave her money to get away from Ron, but Brenda had planned it all. Up at the dream mine, Pyre arrives to speak to Onais. Onais explains that Ron had a list of those who needed to be removed, and claimed that the razors he found were meant to be used against their enemies. Onais began to think Ron had gone mad, but Dan staunchly supported him. The Hunt is OnRon, who was rapidly descending into madness, received a letter from his youngest son, with a return address in Florida. After finding out that’s where Dianna was, Ron read his revelation about her returning over the phone to her. Now, Onais is sure that Dianna and her six children are dead. At the police station, Pyre avoids talking to Rebecca on the phone. She wants him to share his testimony on Sunday, but Pyre no longer believes in what he would be forced to say. Pyre mentions to Taba that if the church were to find out about his doubts, Rebecca would leave him immediately. While talking to Allen, Pyre tries to find out why Dianna went to Florida but is interrupted by the church’s general authority (Frank Moore). He claims that the church is struggling with public perception due to racism already, and speculation of an FLDS connection to the murders is not welcome. The general authority tries to win over Detective Taba by reminding him of the Native Americans and Mormons working together, but Taba isn’t convinced and informs him that the Native Americans remember that story very differently. When the elder insinuates that the murders should be swept under the rug, Allen stands up to him angrily. When Pyre refuses to hold Allen back, the elder condemns them both and reminds Pyre that his eternal family is in the balance of this case. On the RunPyre is stressed after being condemned, but Allen explains that since losing his testimony he realized his real faith was Brenda and his daughter. Before Pyre leaves, Allen begs him to not let his family’s death be in vain. After finding the letter Ron’s son sent him, Pyre calls Flordia police to do a welfare check on Dianna’s last address. While they’re searching, Pyre reads his daughter’s notebooks depicting their faith and testimonies. When the welfare check turns up nothing, Pyre gets a call from a local bodega that has footage of Dianna and her children just four days ago. In the video, Dianna and her kids are buying groceries, before she sees a bearded man in the back of the store, and ushers her children quickly out without buying anything. Before Pyre can speculate, Jacob Lafferty appears at the station with a full beard and gives Pyre Dan’s journal. Jacob is the young Lafferty who Brenda caught cutting up a bird when he was younger, due to his mental state. Since the police searched the cabin in the woods, Jacob has been on the run and he came back when he heard that Brenda had been killed. Family TiesWhile reading Dan’s journal, Pyre discovers that months after Dianna’s disappearance, Dan broke into Allen’s house to speak to Brenda. He claimed she was driving a wedge between the family. Dan warned her about the consequences and promised that if she obeyed, she would be forgiven. Reading more entries in the journal, Pyre discovers Dan’s accomplices, and that Brenda and Dianna were scared enough to call the head of the church before Brenda’s murder. He is convinced Dianna could still be alive and plans to head to Florida with Detective Taba. When Pyre gets home to pack, Rebecca is angry he won’t be home to share his testimony and admits that she sent the church elder to talk to him at the station. Pyre is furious, but Rebecca tells him her father is coming to get her and the children if he doesn’t shape up. Pyre tries to explain his fear for their daughters, and the Mormon founder’s views on women and girls, but Rebecca claims she married a man of faith, and that is who she’ll raise her children with, whether that’s Pyre, or someone else. Close CallThe next day, Ron’s car has been found in Wyoming, and Pyre and Taba go out to find it at the house of one of Dan’s accomplices. In the house, Pyre finds Chip and Ricky and asks them about the Lafferty brothers. Chip and Ricky claim they left Ron and Dan after the murder, and that they had been headed to Reno. On the day of the murder, Sam and Jacob were left at the Lafferty home, while Ron, Dan, Chip, and Ricky went to Robins to borrow his hunting rifle. Robin was uninterested in helping his brothers and was clearly afraid of them. Next, Ron and Dan went to Allen’s house, where Brenda was relaxing in the backyard before she heard the phone ring. On the phone, Allen lets her know he can protect her from his brothers and tells her he just wanted to hear her voice. After Brenda got off the phone, she went to the door, but Ron and Dan had already left. Instead, she found a letter from Dianna in the mail. Ron began to lose it even more after they couldn’t find Brenda, and Dan had a revelation that he was supposed to commit the murders himself. Blood AtonementCircling back around the block, Dan and Ron head to Brenda’s while she pens a letter to Dianna about how hard the last few months have been. After she posts it, Ron and Dan show up outside with Chip and Ricky in the back seat. This time when they knock on the door, Brenda answers but tries to shut the door on Dan when she recognizes him. Dan forces his way in, and Ron goes in after but is spotted by Brenda’s neighbor. Ron is hesitant once he gets inside, but tries to knock Brenda out by punching her in the face. Brenda gets up briefly and begs Dan and Ron to see reason. When she understands that they will not stand down, Brenda reminds them of the portion of hell reserved for murderers and liars and prays to God that he will make her whole again. Then she and her baby are murdered. Dan is the one who slit Brenda and her baby Erica’s throat, but Ron helped subdue, choke and incapacitate them. Afterward, Ron and Dan planned to murder again but didn’t have enough cash, so they headed to Nevada. Dan constantly reminded Ron of the need to blood atone Dianna and their children. Truth Will OutWhen Pyre and Taba follow the brother’s route to Nevada, they search for the murder weapon Chip and Ricky told them could be found in an empty field. First, they find two blessed razors in Ron’s old briefcase, and Pyre sees them as a threat to any law enforcement who dares to come after them. Pyre is nervous about trusting Chip and Ricky, as their both atheists. Detective Taba opens up and explains that the Mormons tried to use the Native Americans to slaughter gentiles and blamed the ensuing massacre on them. Taba reminds Pyre that if you’re not a white, Mormon, and a man in Utah, your word means nothing. Afterward, he finds the murder weapon the atheists told them was there and chastises Pyre that lying is the culture of his ancestors, not anyone else’s. Pyre, completely disillusioned by his faith, shows up in Nevada more confused than ever. At the casino Ron and Dan were headed to, Pyre finds Sandy, the woman Dan mentioned in his journal. SurveillanceDetective Taba watches Sandy’s house, while Pyre dreams of being attacked by Dan in his hotel room and having his throat slit. In the morning, Pyre gets a call that Dianna and her children have been found, but that Dianna was heartbroken over Brenda’s murder. On the way out with the police, Dianna reads Brenda’s last letter, in which she claimed she would give her life to have their families reunited again without evil. Once the kids are settled in the safe house, Dianna leaves and heads out without telling the police. Meanwhile, Pyre watches the security footage from the casino. When Ron and Dan won, Dan looked directly up into the camera and made the sacred temple motion across his throat that he knew Pyre would see. Since the video was taken two days ago, Dan and Ron have been on the loose with the money they need for 48 hours. Meanwhile, Dianna heads back to Utah without telling anyone where she’s gone. The One Mighty and StrongThinking over Mormon history, Pyre realizes that Dan and Ron would have decided there could only be one leader before leaving Reno. In the meantime, Dianna breaks into the Lafferty house holding a tire iron, buoyed by Brenda’s last words about being sisters for eternity. At the casino, Pyre spots Dan talking to cocktail waitress Sandy on a security camera. In Utah, Dianna hears footsteps upstairs. Pyre orders the casino to shut down immediately, and goes after Dan. With the help of the FBI, Pyre chases through the casino after him but finds nothing. In the house, Dianna finds drawings depicting Ron’s polygamy with other women. Looking in the closet, she is almost attacked by Matilda who was hiding inside with a baseball bat. When Dianna tries to convince Matilda to come with her, they both hear Mrs. Lafferty downstairs. When they try to leave, Doreen (Mrs. Lafferty), chases them through the house until they run out into the yard. Stopping at a nearby gas station, Dianna comes face to face with Sam Lafferty, who Mrs. Lafferty called. Sam tries to take Matilda with him. Bear Your TestimonyDianna calls out to nearby Mormon men to help her save Matilda from Sam, but they stand by and watch. Realizing that no one will help her, Dianna condemns Sam with her words and encourages Matilda to fight back against him. Matilda, buoyed by her words, runs from Sam. Sam is shocked that a woman would stand up to him and leaves with his wife, and Dianna tells the Mormon men watching they should be ashamed. In a disgusting bathroom underneath the casino, Ron tells Dan the heavenly father has told him that Dan needs to die. As Pyre chases their trail, Ron begins to choke his brother out while he resists. Pyre breaks into the room just in time to prevent Dan’s death, and he apprehends both Ron and Dan while they’re alive, but not before Dan’s blood can hit the ground, vindicating his actions according to Mormon faith. When the brothers are arrested, Dan shouts out to the crowd that they have broken no laws of heaven, and compares them to Abraham and Brigham Young. In the meantime, Dianna and Matilda drive to the state line, and Matilda thanks Dianna for saving her before they keep going. Once the case is finished, Taba tells Pyre to go home. Taba sings a Paiute song about hoping the colonizers would leave. He meaningfully explains that even though he doesn’t believe the song has power anymore, it reminds him of home, which they all need. When Pyre gets home, his daughter is practicing piano beautifully, and he embraces his wife and daughters. They pray together, and Pyre imagines Brenda praying in the temple. The next day, he takes his mother for a walk to the river and reflects that just being with her in nature is enough of a miracle for him. What did you think of Under the Banner of Heaven Season 1 Episode 7? Let’s talk about Under the Banner of Heaven in the comments below! 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