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[[WMG: Who gets sacrificed is based on who would be willing to participate in the family rituals]]

Charity and Fitch were spared because Mr le Bail knew they were willing to do whatever it took to join the family. Grace and Helene’s husband had too much of a moral compass and never would have agreed to take part, so they had to go.

* Additionally, Le Bail may have intended that. Since he punishes the family for failing to kill the bride/groom by killing them all, and Le Bail seems to have VillainRespect for Grace surviving, inheriting the fortune is likely an intended outcome as a "winning price" for surviving.

* The fact that they were still willing to kill Grace after the deadline had passed in order to sustain their good fortune fits under the very definition of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Pride pride]], which is one of the cardinal sins - some cite it as the deadliest of all and the source of the other sins.

It isn’t until attempting to kill Grace that people start exploding

* Addtionally, Le Bail may have intended that. Since he punishes the family for failing to kill the bride/groom by killing them all, and Le Bail seems to have VillainRespect for Grace surviving, inheriting the fortune is likely an intended outcome as a "winning price" for surviving.

[[WMG: Le Bail supernaturally messed with Justin the OnStar agent's computer and sent the stolen car report]]

[[WMG: The man who sings the "Hide and Seek" song is Le Bail himself]]

Charity and Fitch were spared because Mr le Bail knew they were willing to do whatever it took to join the family. Grace and Helene’s husband had too much of a moral compass and never would have agreed to take part, so they had to go.

We don't learn much about Grace's backstory, but she is very competent with weapons and athletic, which would require training. Alex marrying her was, in part, because he thought on some level that she had the best chance of survival. She's still freaked by the whole situation because she's only human.

[[WMG:Grace becomes Bee from Film/TheBabysitter]]

** It's also possibly the ''only'' time they'd have killed someone without even the pretense of it being an accident (as with the maids) or a twisted form of self-defense. Helene's final attempt to kill Grace wasn't for fear that she or her kin would die if Grace survived, it was an act of pure spite.

Daniel's wife is pretty openly horrible and ruthless, even to the point of killing her own husband. She and Daniel are implied to have a rocky marriage, and she justifies her ruthlessness with having grown up in a difficult life. Meanwhile, Grace also grew up without much (she was shuttled around from foster home to foster home) but she's clearly good hearted and married Alex because she loved him-- and she would never have taken part in the cult. In a way, she's almost a foil to Charity (their names even both reference Christian virtues, ironic for individuals involved in a Satanic ritual). Grace mentions that Daniel keeps hitting on her while he's drunk, so he may have been attracted to her. (Really, what's not to like?) Then Daniel displays extreme confliction about saving Grace or saving his family, gives her a mercy head start at the beginning, and ultimately dies trying to save her, even at the risk of himself and his family. That might all fit in well with him secretly having had feelings for her (as well as being disgusted with the cult to begin with).

We don't learn much about Grace's backstory, but she is very competent with weapons, and athletic, which would require training. Alex was partially attracted to her because he thought on some level that she had the best chance of survival. She's still freaked by the whole situation because she's only human.