A lot of segments on AEW programming don’t tell a story, they tell a chunk of a story and then leave the viewer hanging until next week. Christian Cage, Nick Wayne, Luchasaurus, and Adam Copeland, however, took viewers on a long, unwieldy ride Wednesday night.

What started as a rechristening, with Cage egomaniacally dubbing Luchasaurus “Killswitch,” quickly turned into Cage adopting Nick Wayne, declaring him the son he never had and reaffirming his “Prodigy” nickname. Wayne’s mother, disowned by Wayne just weeks ago, stormed to the ring in protest, but soon found herself knocked to the canvas and set up for a Con-Chair-To. Cue “The Rated-R Superstar” Adam Copeland, who saved Madame Wayne from a head injury. But after a vicious spear, Copeland’s anger was not sated, and he delivered a sickening Con-Chair-To to Nick Wayne — to his mother’s horror, and to Cage’s horror as well. It was more nuanced and complicated than AEW’s usual storytelling, and added a psychopathic edge (no pun intended) to Copeland, who no longer seems interested in “doing the right thing,” as much as he’s looking to cause Christian as much distress as possible.

AEW doesn’t always tell the tightest stories, and the segment itself felt like three segments sewn together like the Human Centipede, but every development had me hooting, hollering, and howling.