"Preacher" Season 1 Episode 5 maintains the momentum from "Monster Swamp" as "Agent Carter" actor Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer will now have to try and avert tragedy in Annville. In "South Will Rise Again," which is the theme for "Preacher" Season 1 Episode 5, The Cowboy may force Jesse Custer to show that his episode with Odin Quincannon (Jackie Earle Haley) was no flash in the pan.
Variety points out that Jessie Custer using his powers to force Odin Quincannon on board his program in "Monster Swamp" feels like a promise that "Preacher" Season 1 Episode 4 is the pretext to things going very wrong. Still, as interesting as it is to see Jesse Custer learn to control his powers across "Preacher" Season 1, watching him control the consequences of the use of power would an equally interesting watch.
As it is, "Preacher" Season 1 is throwing in all the ingredients for a strong build up of characters around Jesse Custer, including criminal manipulator Tulip O' Hare (Ruth Negga), Chinese food-loving vampire Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) and reformed pedophile Donnie Shenck (Derek Wilson). However, at the heart of the mayhem in "Preacher" Season 1 Episode 5 will be The Cowboy (Graham McTavish), who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere in Episode 2, "See."
Will "Preacher" Season 1 Episode 5 finally reveal The Cowboy for who he is? In the "Preacher" canon, The Cowboy is villainy embodied as The Saint Of Killers.
Suffice it to say that The Cowboy has no name, but he has a dark purpose. "Preacher" Season 1 could be getting ready to expose that purpose.
The Cowboy, or The Saint Of Killers, and Jesse Custer have a strange connection, which has to do with assassination and "Preacher" Season 1 Episode 5 seems like the beginning of its exposition. Certainly The Cowboy will make a bad decision "Preacher" Season 1 Episode 5 in according to Comic Book Movie and it may or may not be a tragedy for which Jesse Custer will have to call on his power once more.
The Cowboy, Jesse Custer, Tulip O'Hare and Cassidy will do more revealing in "Preacher" Season 1 Episode 5. "South Will Rise Again," "Preacher" Season 1 Episode 5 will air on AMC on June 26.