Heavy Forecast (2)
In 1972, a mother noticed her baby die in her arms. She exited her room and cried for hours. The tragedy made her realize that she should have been more careful and that she could have saved him.
Pucci switches his twin brother’s dead body with a living one and places it next to another baby. Several years later, we find an aged Pucci sitting next to his fraternal twin’s gravestone with his family present. His mother informs Pucci about his brother and their shared name, Domenic. We then travel forward in time to 1987 and see a 15-year-old Pucci praying at an altar. ..
He asks God about his brother as the narrator gives viewers more information about Pucci’s Italian grandmother and his interest in pursuing his priesthood. That night, Pucci encounters Dio Brando, who explains why he’s resting in the church because he can’t interact with sunlight. Pucci asks Dio to leave by sunset, and he won’t inform the Father about his arrival.
Pope Dio is surprised that Pucci would allow him to wander around the church, but Pucci tells him he trusts him. Dio offers to help Pucci with his foot problem, but Pucci tells him to leave it be since he was born with imperfections. Dio hands Pucci a Stand arrowhead as he remarks how he loves traveling and meeting people.
In 1988, Pucci cleans an area in the church as a woman confesses a sin she’s held for 16 years at the booth. Pucci makes a wish on the arrow and Dio appears to him in the future. Dio tells Pucci to call for him–no matter how far into the future it may be. Dio promises to leave the church at sunset and vanishes. Pucci looks at his foot and is shocked that Dio healed his toes.
A woman who replaced Pucci’s brother with her dead offspring reveals herself to be the same mother. The woman vows that she raised their child correctly, but never told him about the incident. Meanwhile, we see a young man delivering juice to a restaurant and some girls gossiping about him as a woman swipes their friend’s purse. ..
A man was walking in a store when he was met by a can of juice. Unfortunately, the can of juice broke the store’s window and worried the man would get fired. The narrator then reveals that Wes Aquamarine is actually Weather, and that he made up the story to help Weather avoid termination.
Weather asks her if they can hang out soon as we flash forward to two months after the woman made her confession to Pucci. Pucci’s having trouble keeping the woman’s confession a secret as he doesn’t want to lose his clergymen status. Pucci encounters Perla at his residence. We learn that she is his sister. ..
Perla tells Pucci that she met a handsome man and wants Pucci to keep it on the down low. Pucci complies. The narrator asks the audience to form their conclusion on how made a sin between the troubling mother, Pucci, and Weather. Eventually, Pucci discovers that Perla’s secretly dating their biological brother, upsetting Pucci as he knows she’s committing a sin. ..
Pucci hires a private investigator to help him break up with Weather naturally. The investigator is a jack of all trades who has darkness in his heart that Pucci wasn’t aware of before hiring him. The investigator notices Perla and Weather kissing and is disgusted by it. ..
The investigator rounded up a gang of zealots and ambushed Weather and Perla. They beat Weather to a bloody pulp, and the investigator punched Perla to the ground. The investigator boasted how Perla’s brother wanted this to happen as he told Weather that he and his men set his fake mother’s house ablaze. After that night, we see Weather hanging from a tree by a cliff as Perla looks at the scene in horror. ..
Perla shares some tear-jerking words toward Weather and throws herself into the lake. The narrator remarks how Perla didn’t realize that Weather still had a pulse. Pucci sees some gentlemen scavenge his sister’s body and rushes toward her. Pucci grabs Perla in his arms and questions all that he’s done. During his breakdown, he recalls Dio’s words from years ago.
Pucci plans to visit Dio in order to see if he can help Perla, who is suffering from a bent toe. Suddenly, Perla’s head opens up and her Stand and memory disc are revealed. The arrowhead Dio gave Pucci shoots into his heart and sticks out his neck. While in pain, he hears Dio’s voice. Dio tells Pucci that he can’t resurrect Perla, but can savor the memories from her heart. ..
In a brief scene, we see Weather lying on the ground with blood spurting from his neck. After a few failed attempts at suicide, he yells out in frustration.
The narrator’s rage leads to more snails popping up and murdering the people in town. The snails are correlating with Weather’s powers, but no one knows how they do it. Meanwhile, Pucci awakens in a hospital and notices all the snails. He assumes that when he awakened his Stand, Weather awakened his since they’re twins. Pucci plans to defeat Weather and visit Dio for more information about his abilities.
In the present, Weather claims he has a score to settle with Pucci, but Anastasia remarks how they need to find Jolyne first. Weather disagrees and asks Anastasia if he can assist him in killing himself.
The episode concludes with Jolyne and the others hopping into a vehicle as they plan to reunite with Weather and Anastasia. ..
The Episode Review
While some may not adore the narration approach toward Pucci and Weather’s backstory, it touches upon some themes that’ll pull at fans’ heartstrings. The whole flashback wreaks drama and sorrow. I couldn’t help but feel bad for Pucci and Weather, as both characters were looking out for Perla before her tragic demise. This backstory allows viewers to empathize with these two characters and the different routes they took.
The reveal in the flashback of Weather’s true intentions toward Jolyne and her friends feels contradictory because it doesn’t seem like he would want to harm them in any way. However, his build-up as a threat makes it seem like he may be capable of doing so.
The narrator doesn’t receive an explanation of the snails and Weather’s Stand, which was a bummer. The narrator focuses on storytelling and lack of reasoning behind Weather’s darkened personality toward others, which offers more context for characters like Pucci and Weather.
This episode featured some heartbreaking scenery, emotional dialogue, and a decent characterization of our main antagonist. I’m curious to see if Anastasia will assist Weather in murdering himself or if we’ll get a battle between Weather and Pucci before the series closes shop. That said, let’s hope our heroes can triumph over the obstacles set in their way.
