Alright I'm going to go into an autistic rambling on how you could make season 2 episode 3 better, using this episode synopsis as the base:
So the episode starts like it did before with Charlie telling the others that Sir Pentious is up in Heaven. But instead of her getting pissy about Vox's blimp calling her a dictator, it's Vaggie that is the one that's upset. She's very protective over her girlfriend and doesn't like that Charlie is getting lied about. Charlie isn't really bothered by it as she's used to Sinners badmouthing her. Her concern right now is trying to figure out how Sir Pentious got redeemed and how she can apply that to the patients at the hotel. So she leaves to go check on them since now there is quite a bit more than just 2. So this is where we separate the A plot and the B plot.
Vaggie tries to find a way to clear Charlie's name. She asks Alastor if he could broadcast about the hotel, but he's Alastor so he fucks off. There's a ring at the front door and Vaggie answers it. It's Katie and Tom who came to do a report on the hotel. Vaggie is about to refuse but they say that they'll just report on the hotel not being serviceable. Vaggie is put on the spot here but she realizes this might be her only shot to have the hotel and by extention Charlie put in a good light for the masses to see. So she agrees to it. Coincidentally, a health inspector arrives to check on the hotel as now it's seen an an legitimate business. So instead of getting Charlie to help her either of these people, she decides to handle this all by herself. And of couse, this will turn out to be a bad choice as Vaggie is not the most people-person.
The B-plot has Charlie checking out on each patient which leads her to Baxter. Baxter is still on his hypothesis that redemption is not possible. Charlie tells him abour Sir Pentious, which just makes him laugh and this is when we get the backstory of the two being partners. Charlie tries to get Baxter to believe that Sir Pentious was redeemed, but he says he won't believe in redemption being possible until there is undeniable proof. So him and Charlie do some tests together on redemption.
At the end, the A plot and B plot will come together, resulting with the hotel looking bad. Katie and Tom leave to report the failings on the hotel and the health inspector gives them a notice that they have a month to get their shit together, otherwise the hotel will be forced to shut down. Some of the patients from the hotel also leaves because of this.
Vaggie takes full blame on everything that has happened and Charlie attempts to reassure that this was not all her fault. She's more worried about why Vaggie didn't ask for help in the first place. This will go back to Vaggie having self-worth issues from season 1, as she states that her purpose is to help Charlie with her dreams. Charlie is very appreciative of that, but she makes a point how she is also here to support Vaggie. They are a team, and when one of them needs helps, they should be able to rely on the other for it. Vaggie acknowledges that and promises that she'll do so next time.
Baxter has been watching this, admiring this "partnership" between Charlie and Vaggie. While he is still wary on the whole idea of redemption, he decides to stay because he wants to understand better the relationships that these people in the hotel have with each other. At the end of the episode, we are shown that Vox had specifically planned to have Tom and Katie and the health inspector to go visit the hotel at the same time. This is part of his plan to ruin the reputation Charlie and get more people to trust him.
While this rewrite isn't perfect, I think it's a lot better than what we got. We have Charlie not being so out of character and actually working on what her whole motive has been from the start of the series; we get to learn more about Vaggie as a person and her flaws which she learns to grow from; we get more screentime of Baxter and his whole deal so he actually feels like he's part of the main cast; and we see Vox coming up with his own plans without soley relying on the dumb decisions made by others.
