Paper Girls unleashes its second episode, “Weird Al Is Dead”- Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean what you think it does. In episode two, the Girls meet Erin’s future self and Erin is disappointed by what she finds. Mac learns more about her future brother, while Prioress makes it personal.
Make It Make Sense | Future Erin (Ali Wong) is convinced that she’s having a psychotic breakdown, while the girls in the kitchen realize that they’ve time traveled to 2019 and freak out after accidentally triggering Future Erin’s Amazon Echo. Erin (Riley Lai Nelet) sees a Chinese funeral setup honoring her parents and goes to see her future self to find out what happened to her mom. Future Erin explains to Erin that their mom got sick and their sister Missy had a falling out with her as a result. Future Erin is shocked, but agrees to let the girls sleep in her living room, while one of the future soldiers pursuing them, Prioress (Adina Porter) finds the body of the solider KJ (Fina Strazza) killed and finds KJ’s hockey stick with her name carved into it.
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Check Out the Future | Before the girls drift off to sleep, Tiffany (Camryn Jones) realizes that Weird Al is probably dead in the future, but she’s talking about her pet hamster. Later that night, Mac (Sofia Rosinsky) sneaks off to see the future Cleveland, but finds her house demolished. KJ follows her and reminds her that her childhood isn’t so bad compared to the fact that someone wrote an anti-Semitic slur on her locker last year. The next morning, Future Erin accompanies the Girls to the woods to find the capsule they came here in, but it’s gone. As Future Erin takes pictures on her iPhone, Tiffany realizes that the device from the future that the mystery man gave her is similar in design to the phone and asks where they could get it fixed.
Future Erin takes them to a computer repair shop where a guy she went on a date with once works and she asks him to fix it up, while KJ and Tiffany are stunned by the Xbox One they find. When the guy tries to charge the device, sparks fly and it fries to a crisp. Future Erin tells them that they need to find the future selves on the Internet and Tiffany Googles herself to see that she’s now running an institute and Mac sneakily looks up her brother to see that he’s now a doctor.
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The Worst Version | When Future Erin refuses to take them to Tiffany’s institute, Erin has it out on her future self for not turning out like she wanted her life to be. Future Erin snaps back and tells her past self that she quit her paper route after one day and never saw the other girls again, causing all of them to storm off. Unfortunately, they leave the fried device behind and Future Erin accidentally activates it, causing her to see a heads up display and she chases after the girls.
The four of them are holed up in an abandoned mall and Mac suddenly snaps at the rest of them for reminiscing about the past. She points out that her future brother is a doctor now and wants to go off to meet him and when the girls protest, she points out that they’ll never speak to each other in the future and walks off with her middle fingers in the air. In a random house, Prioress arrives and speaks to the older couple inside, who turn out to be KJ’s future parents and exits with pink light glowing from the house.
Paper Girls is now streaming on Prime Video.