Chapter 27
- Written by Patricia Ione Lloyd
Directed by Michael Zinberg
Airdate: January 30, 2020
The team deals with the aftermath of Orson LeRoux's release, a mother who believes one of her unborn twins is possessed, and the decision of Kristen's mother Sheryl to commit to Leland.
Tropes:
- Dream Within a Dream: Sheryl experiences one, filled to the brim with anxieties about her work and daughter Lexis.
- Fetus Terrible: Eleanor Chakiris believes she's carrying one. If David's suspicions are correct,
every single person who used the clinic she used had one too, including Kristen. - Guess Who I'm Marrying?: Kristen was upset enough about Sheryl and Leland dating, whom she thought she had broken up, enough to issue Sheryl an ultimatum when she learns. Sheryl coming back over later to inform Kristen of her engagement and to ask for her and Leland to mend fences is enough for her to ban her from ever seeing her grandchildren again and to slam the door in her face.
- Scrubbing Off the Trauma: Kristen's implied murder of Orson LeRoux leaves her in tears and scrubbing at her hands in the bathroom sink once she's alone for the night, the spark for the breakdown implied to have been Ben spotting blood on her leg earlier that day.
- Wham Line: Though Kristen's behavior in the aftermath of LeRoux threatening her children by breaking into their house and leaving a gift basket for them is suspect in and of itself (sending her kids up to bed and grabbing an icepick from the closet, a smear of blood on her leg that Ben notices), the call from Mira she gets later that night removes any ambiguity as to what exactly she did to protect her chldren.Kristen: Hey. Is everything alright?
Mira: Yeah. LeRoux's dead. - Wham Shot: Feeling guilt over what is implied to be her murder of Orson LeRoux in order to protect her family, and clearly terrified over what this means about her, Kristen cries in the bathroom and reaches under the sink for her old rosary. Much to her horror, it burns her.
