Here’s a short story-style recap of Young Sheldon Season 1, Episode 11, titled The morning sun had barely touched the Texas sky when ten-year-old Sheldon Cooper, armed with a worn copy of The Hobbit and a jar of mayonnaise for scientific purposes, marched into church. He wasn’t there for Jesus. He was there for the snacks and, more importantly, to debate the logistics of demonic possession.

“He’s sad,” she whispered to her pet frog, Leonard. “He’s got feelings. But no one asked.”

Meanwhile, across town, Sheldon’s twin sister, Missy, sat on the couch, staring at the television with the intensity of a general planning an invasion. On screen, a holographic alien named G’Nar the Annihilator menaced a purple-haired space ranger. Missy was mesmerized. But it wasn’t the laser swords or the exploding moons that hooked her—it was the quiet scene in between, when G’Nar paused mid-rant, looked at his claws, and whispered, “What if I don’t want to destroy… but to be destroyed?”

He didn’t know it yet, but that was the first time he’d ever tried to see the world through someone else’s heart.

The table went silent.

“If G’Nar the Annihilator went to Sunday school,” she said flatly, “would he learn about hell, or would he just be told he’s ‘special’ like the rest of us?”

But it was Missy who dropped the bomb.