English Dub Review: Angels of Death “I’m Not Your God”

See the truth.

Overview:

The truth about Rachel comes to light.

Our Take:

We find out a lot of crucial things this episode, namely a lot about Rachel. It turns out that while she didn’t start the murders, she then became a murderer in the end. Her family was a broken one, with her father being a former police officer turned alcoholic out of a job, and her mother at wit’s end. Her mother finally has enough, and her father, implied to be previously abusive and definitely abusive now, hits her and she loses it. While it’s Rachel’s father that ends up killing her mother, her mother was prepared to kill her father. The tragedy would have happened either way.

Neither of them seems to think very highly of Rachel either. Whatever might have happened before her father descended into alcoholism is gone, and only a shell of a happy family remains. Rachel’s father thinks that her lack of emotions is unnerving and that she’s looking down on him, and her mother doesn’t listen to her at all. Her mother has insisted that Rachel only asks her permission for anything, and if Rachel does something on her own, her mother gets angry. It’s altogether an extremely abusive household.

Then again, Rachel isn’t exactly blameless herself. Her selfishness is shown to have grown to extremes, as she wants isn’t just a desire, it’s also a drive to possess the things she desperately wants. If she can’t get it while they’re alive, then dead works just as well. When they’re dead, they have no autonomy, so Rachel can possess them as she sees fit, or comfort herself with the illusion that they belong to her. It’s why she sews together the puppy and then her parents, because if they can’t give her what she wants when she was alive, then she can do it when they’re dead.

Somehow she was brought to the institution and granted the title of Floor Master on Danny’s insistence, but she also did a good job at it. At this point, it’s unclear whether she actually had memory loss or was just faking it, but she was just good a floor master as the rest of them. She killed people, coldly and methodically. Most importantly, she didn’t think she was doing anything wrong. It’s not until she reads the bible that she realizes that she’s committed a grave sin.

In the end, she has turned on Zack when he refuses to go along with her delusions. She confronts him, but I’m not sure that she ends up killing him. While she does have mental problems, she is also much fonder of Zack than Danny. It could go either way, but I have a feeling that Zack will end up surviving.