Review: Interrogator “A Corpse Like All the Rest”

I almost can’t believe that we’re at the finale of Interrogator. And let me tell you. You know it’s going to be a great episode when you go “what the fuck?!” within the first three minutes. I am all in, and ready to go!

I’ve been very vocal with this bullshit release schedule, because it takes away from a lot of the emotional investment of what goes on during each episode. Two weeks in between, a full month off, and I’m getting every single bit of lore drop. In spite of all of my feelings about it, I’m eating it up. Bellona’s plan, how Heroth got involved with the crew, what 1 billion psykers dying would do with the great rift…I’m somehow still all in. I almost think the payoff was worth it. The clincher? You see how Bellona truly feels about Bellona, and how one way the respect was.

The full plot puts Heroth in a different light. Let’s be honest. Interrogator has been purposefully written from the point of view of Jurgen, so you get how Bellona was (to him), and what Heroth was (to him). Forced perspective is a very powerful narrative tool, and it was used to perfection. Interrogator was a ridiculous rollercoaster of a narrative. I know I’ll say this at least once more, but I am eagerly awaiting the new season.

I sat at my desk, and I tried to envision what I thought the finale was going to be. I was expecting some crazy ass gun fight between Heloth and Jurgen. I was expecting shit to be blown the fuck up. I was expecting the planet to fall apart. I was also expecting Jurgen to completely unleash his psyker powers and making some heads explode. But no. The unexpected is what we needed.

Getting to see Jurgen just use calm tactics to get the shit he wants was so refreshing. Interrogator was all about bombastic action sequences, and to see this handled with a single bullet was glorious. I don’t want to go too deep into this flashback, because this is something you need to experience for yourself. The way that one flashback was able to flip Heroth into a sympathetic character who was doing the dirty shit for the right reasons.

However, I came into “A Corpse Like All the Rest” thinking Bellona was coming back, and boy was I was wrong. And I was glad I was wrong. Bellona went from a sympathetic end game reward, to a literal genocidal psychopath who wanted to kill billions to “save” trillions. I knew there was something going on with her to make her a villain, but I didn’t think this was it. I’m not totally done with thinking she’s coming back, especially with a season 2 getting hinted at.

There was a lot going on with Interrogator, and I think “A Corpse Like All the Rest” gave us the ending we needed. “A Corpse Like All the Rest” Was close to being a perfect episode, just like “The First Rule,” but there was nothing that drove “A Corpse Like All the Rest” over the top. Everything was what we needed, but it was done exceptionally well. Having the biggest chunk of the episode being a deep dive of the goings on between Bellona and Heroth was something we desperately needed. And getting us that deep was important, probably to set up what season 2 wants to do. I’m all in. But please, Games Workshop, fix this horseshit release schedule.