Haunted Tonk

"Haunted Tonk" is the fourth episode of the second of the television show Xavier: Renegade Angel.
Plot synopsis
As Xavier wanders the desert yet again, he figures he was a gift from God and was given the power to enlighten through a figure he now seeks to recall. He pays a visit to the site of his childhood home, now a strip club featuring pregnant and lactating women. He recalls being left in Canada by his mother and returning to her, only to be called a "demon child" as she laments his return. This sets off a sequence of portal-like flashbacks, now recalling the strip club's stage as where Xavier's kitchen table once stood and the pool table as where his bath once was. In these flashbacks, young Xavier quietly displays for his mother a series of monster-like drawings, which he dubs the "Kuttlecrumbs", claiming them as his method of mental escape. She is consistently disgusted with his attempt to appeal for her love. Back to the club, which is being greatly occupied by fighting rednecks, the owner enlists Xavier's help as the new "violence absorber", citing his repulsive appearance and nature as an aggression-inducing distraction. As Xavier describes how he will help protect others by sacrificing himself (using a series of sexual innuendos), a woman vomits on him from a hole he created in the ceiling. Now that the club is able to stay open, the (male) owner relates to Xavier his dream, now able to be fulfilled, of bearing a child of his own using his own collected seed. Xavier pays a visit to the club's "break womb" and has another flashback, showing his mother deep in sleep and crying out about her demon child. Present Xavier disapproves of his child-self not appreciating his mother's skin and devises a way to communicate with him this message: To simply think that he was visited by his current self in the past, and it will have had happened. Once injected into his own memory, he conveys to Young Xavier that his mother will die soon, mistaking her night terrors as a demon possession. He advises Young Xavier to watch over his mother ceaselessly, and sets out to teach him how. After multiple sessions of lessons and in an attempt to remember how he became philosophically deep, Xavier recalls being visited by a "really creepy guy"; an older, decrepit version of himself. This version also recalls a "freaky stranger" coming to him; an even older and mutated form of Xavier. Current Xavier then shows Young Xavier the looped Xavier at the beginning of the episode, attempting to recall in the first place how he got his powers. Young Xavier is disgusted at the site of his future self being so dumbfounded, and vows to follow current Xavier as he ends up in a similarly confused, tongue-on-face loop while pondering the exit to the desert. The process repeats, pulling out to show another set of young and old Xaviers, similarly disgusted and confused, respectively. At this point, Xavier concedes that Young Xavier has learned all of his knowledge, and gives him his soul (in the form of the mutated re-remembered Xavier from earlier). Xavier's mother discovers her younger son's self talking to himself, unable to see the metaphysical adult Xavier nearby. She concludes that her "demon child" has brought evil spirits into her home and deems it haunted. She begins to crave alcohol and drugs to calm herself, to which Apparition Xavier responds by offering his younger self apple juice and sugar pills to give her, reinforcing his advice to "protectorize" her. He recalls time passing (a decade) and the house becoming gray and ruinous, discovering that the news of his mother being addicted to placebos and not the legitimate depressants does not go over well with her. His father appears from a similar hole (as the club's) in the ceiling as he describes how to break the news to his mother through more sexual innuendos. He vomits blood on Xavier. Xavier then tells Young Xavier to tell his mother that her addiction is all in her mind. Xavier snaps out of his memory reverie at this point and exclaims that he was talking to a child. The occupants of the strip club misinterpret this as a presence of a ghost and begin to evacuate, simultaneously ruining the owner's dream of birthing a baby. He commands Xavier to prevent this further and recalling his vow to be the sacrificial bouncer of the club, he (Xavier) converses with himself about how to rid the establishment of the nonexistent apparition. Coming to the conclusion that he must scare the ghosts away, he rips "the fabric of time" off of one of his last tangible memories (of his mother experiencing a panic attack), and throws the image over himself like a sheet. The image begins to display the events of his mother and father's death by fire which was caused by a candle-burning teenaged Xavier. His mother is convinced that the flames are not real due to her delusion, and falls into them, presumably dying. The club is now vacant of customers and as Xavier presumes, the ghost. He runs out and turns to find that the club has burnt to the ground, and witnesses the emergence of the now-mobile Kuttlecrumbs (who entered the present through the hole in time Xavier ripped), and who are now attacking aimlessly. As Xavier realizes he doesn't recall this event ever occurring, his teenaged ghost-self is seen running out of the flames, through present Xavier. Older, decrepit Xavier is now shown recalling the current events, pondering his main conundrum "What Doth Life?" haphazardly. His apparent great great great great grandson is shown next to him, in a nearly transparent, mutated form. He asks if he is done reminiscing yet, and the entire scene is zoomed out to be shown on the Kuttlecrumb's holy book in a surreal landscape, with a main Kuttlecrumb exclaiming "...And that is the legend of our messiah.". The episode ends on a colorful trip into the pink Kuttlecrumb's eye.

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