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* StudentDebtPlot: Kristen only joins David's team because she needs to pay off her student loans while raising her daughters. This leads to a lot of heartbreak for her.
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''Evil'' is a 2019 {{horror}}/suspense {{thriller}} series with elements of MysteryFiction and {{supernatural fiction}}. It was created by Robert and Michelle King, who previously created ''Series/TheGoodWife''. The first season aired on Creator/{{CBS}}, while the second season onward aired on Creator/ParamountPlus. The show got renewed for a fourth season.

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''Evil'' is a 2019 {{horror}}/suspense {{thriller}} series with elements of MysteryFiction and {{supernatural fiction}}. It was created by Robert and Michelle King, who previously created ''Series/TheGoodWife''. The first season aired on Creator/{{CBS}}, while the second season onward aired on Creator/ParamountPlus. The show got renewed for a fourth season, which will serve as the last season.

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* CutHimselfShaving: Multiple times:
** No, Andy, the multiple cross-shaped burns on Kristen's abdomen, which are in various stages of healing, are obviously the result of a single injury when she leaned against the hot stove, and not from her SelfHarm.
** No, Kristen, the multiple long slices along the back of Kurt's hand, are clearly from Kurt having this trope happen to him (or he ''fell''. He claims both within the span of three lines). They couldn't possibly be part of a demonic ritual to treat his WritersBlock, the effects of which have become dangerously addictive and caused a fair amount of SanitySlippage.



* EarlyBirdCameo: Sebastian first shows up in 3 Stars, being a former IT person who Byron Duke fired. When he appears again in "Vatican 3", Townsend starts grooming him.

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Sebastian first shows up in 3 Stars, being a former IT person who worker whom Byron Duke fired. When he appears again in "Vatican 3", Townsend starts grooming him.



** In the second episode, David tells Kristen that he used to have visions, but he doesn't anymore. At the end of the episode, it's revealed why: in order to have those visions, he needs to ingest mushrooms that he bought from a drug dealer. He finally gives in and buys some in order to have a vision in the end. Later, in "Exorcism Part 2", David admits to having gone to cocaine rehab several years ago.

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** In the second episode, David tells Kristen that he used to have visions, but he doesn't anymore. At the end of the episode, it's revealed why: in order to have those visions, he needs to ingest mushrooms that he bought from a drug dealer. He finally gives in and buys some in order to have a vision in the end. Later, in "Exorcism Part 2", David admits to having gone to cocaine rehab several years ago.ago, as well as being a recovering sex addict.




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* SelfHarm: Multiple instances:
** In Season 2, after being mysteriously burned by a cross, Kristen, who is undergoing SanitySlippage, starts repeatedly heating up the same cross on the stove and burning her abdomen. It ends up causing a grid pattern, which lets her claim to Andy that it's the result of leaning against the hot stove. Andy calls her out on this because the burns are clearly increasing. She's able to quit by the end of the season though.
** Kurt falls into this in Season 3, when he becomes desperate to cure his WritersBlock and Leland persuades him to try a demonic ritual that involves, among other things, a variation of PalmBloodletting (on the ''back'' of his hand so he can still type). It works, but only temporarily, and Kurt has to keep doing it to be able to keep writing. The cuts start piling up until Kristen notices and becomes suspicious, having experience with the trope as seen above.


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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Leland seems to have this to the point that it borders on PerceptionFilter. Everyone but the main characters refuse to see him as anything other than a normal forensic psychiatrist, and even they have a hard time believing how evil he is, such as Sheryl disbelieving Kristen's claim on his malevolence and Ben brushing off the Bouchard sisters' claim that he kidnapped Andy.
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''Evil'' is a 2019 {{horror}}/suspense {{thriller}} series with elements of MysteryFiction and {{supernatural fiction}}. It was created by Robert and Michelle King, who previously created ''Series/TheGoodWife''. The first season aired on Creator/{{CBS}}, while the second season onward aired on Creator/ParamountPlus.

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''Evil'' is a 2019 {{horror}}/suspense {{thriller}} series with elements of MysteryFiction and {{supernatural fiction}}. It was created by Robert and Michelle King, who previously created ''Series/TheGoodWife''. The first season aired on Creator/{{CBS}}, while the second season onward aired on Creator/ParamountPlus.
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** A demon with this aesthetic appears at the end of the episode "Justice X 2". Hilariously, he's acting as [[BigBad Leland Townsend's]] therapist, helping him deal with his anger after Kristen [[ShutUpHannibal put him in his place]] earlier in the episode. He also begins appearing to David in dreams. He returns as Leland's shrink in the Season 2 episode "U is for UFO", where it's further established that he's a MiddleManagementMook serving as a go-between for Leland and "[[GreaterScopeVillain the manager]]" (implied to be Satan) [[spoiler: until Leland [[KlingonPromotion kills him for a direct link]]]]. L

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** A demon with this aesthetic appears at the end of the episode "Justice X 2". Hilariously, he's acting as [[BigBad Leland Townsend's]] therapist, helping him deal with his anger after Kristen [[ShutUpHannibal put him in his place]] earlier in the episode. He also begins appearing to David in dreams. He returns as Leland's shrink in the Season 2 episode "U is for UFO", where it's further established that he's a MiddleManagementMook serving as a go-between for Leland and "[[GreaterScopeVillain the manager]]" (implied to be Satan) [[spoiler: until Leland [[KlingonPromotion kills him for a direct link]]]]. L



* Brainwashed: Implied with Sheryl in starting in Season 2. While she was already becoming more malevolent under Leland's influence, she wasn't at Leland's level. So he drugs her with a paralyzing agent, and then infuses her blood with an unknown substance. Afterwards, she not only has no reaction to this violation, but is completely corrupted and willingly helps him with his SerialKiller activities, and even joins one of the demonic houses. WordOfSaintPaul says that this has to do with the substance itself, which is incredibly addictive.

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* Brainwashed: {{Brainwashed}}: Implied with Sheryl in starting in Season 2. While she was already becoming more malevolent under Leland's influence, she wasn't at Leland's level. So he drugs her with a paralyzing agent, and then infuses her blood with an unknown substance. Afterwards, she not only has no reaction to this violation, but is completely corrupted and willingly helps him with his SerialKiller activities, and even joins one of the demonic houses. WordOfSaintPaul says that this has to do with the substance itself, which is incredibly addictive.



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** ''Season 2 Episode 10''': [[spoiler: Cara Autry]], a doctor affiliated with [[spoiler: RMS Fertility has been paying money to illegally obtain Kristen’s 12 eggs from storage. Later on, after Kristen enacts the necessary legal actions to repossess her eggs, it is revealed that she has regained all but one of them; which Dr. Autry sold to an unknown buyer]]. Meanwhile, it’s heavily implied that Sheryl [[spoiler: has been recruited by the Sixty to partake in their operations]].

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** ''Season '''Season 2 Episode 10''': [[spoiler: Cara Autry]], a doctor affiliated with [[spoiler: RMS Fertility has been paying money to illegally obtain Kristen’s 12 eggs from storage. Later on, after Kristen enacts the necessary legal actions to repossess her eggs, it is revealed that she has regained all but one of them; which Dr. Autry sold to an unknown buyer]]. Meanwhile, it’s heavily implied that Sheryl [[spoiler: has been recruited by the Sixty to partake in their operations]].
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* AccidentalSuicide: A shy young man named Sebastian is encouraged by Leland to cultivate his resentment against women and to plan a mass shooting. But shortly before the big day, [[spoiler: Sebastian is playing with his new guns and accidentally shoots himself in the head]].

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* AccidentalSuicide: A shy young man named Sebastian is encouraged by Leland to cultivate his [[HeManWomanHater resentment against women women]] and to plan a mass shooting. But shortly before the big day, [[spoiler: Sebastian is playing with his new guns and accidentally shoots himself in the head]].
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* OppressiveImmigrationEnforcement: Minor recurring antagonist, the quiet mysterious ICE agent [[PsychoSupporter Adam Gardner]] secretly serves [[BigBad Doctor Leland Townsend]] and his satanic agenda, who uses his position to further Townsend's goals, such as arresting and deporting suspected Prophet Grace Ling. It is also him who Townsend dispatches to train [[HeManWomanHater budding Incel]] Sebastian in handling guns, out of Townsend's desire to groom the young man into becoming a mass shooter, with Adam doing his own part to corrupt Sebastian, assuring him that killing will prove him to be a real man.

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* AndIMustScream: The fate of the victims in "E is for Elevator". Wyatt becomes obsessed with the "Elevator Game", an activity whereby pressing specific buttons on an elevator in a certain order is said to open a gateway to Hell. Instead, it accidentally opens up to a forgotten sub-basement in the building, with no exits and without a working elevator button. If the player leaves the elevator, and it is called away, there is no way for them to escape the basement or call for help. He becomes trapped there and begins slowly dying in the dark. His girlfriend is able to find him, but doesn't realize until too late that all she had to do was hold the elevator, and becomes trapped with them. Ben later has the same thing happen to him, and discovers their corpses clinging on to each other.

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* AndIMustScream: A recurring element:
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The fate of the victims in "E is for Elevator". Wyatt becomes obsessed with the "Elevator Game", an activity whereby pressing specific buttons on an elevator in a certain order is said to open a gateway to Hell. Instead, it accidentally opens up to a forgotten sub-basement in the building, with no exits and without a working elevator button. If the player leaves the elevator, and it is called away, there is no way for them to escape the basement or call for help. He becomes trapped there and begins slowly dying in the dark. His girlfriend is able to find him, but doesn't realize until too late that all she had to do was hold the elevator, and becomes trapped with them. Ben later has the same thing happen to him, and discovers their corpses clinging on to each other.other.
** In another episode, Leland paralyzes Cheryl and injects her with a mysterious substance, an act that is framed like date rape.
** For several episodes of Season 3, Andy is paralyzed and locked in Leland's penthouse, able to hear everything Cheryl and Leland are planning, but unable to do anything. Cheryl at one point monologues to him about how they are planning to murder him and pretend he died in an avalanche, and then manipulate Kristen and the girls into moving on from his death. She does this while nonchalantly giving a motionless Andy a manicure. Andy is clearly terrified, but unable to do anything about it.


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* GoneHorriblyRight: Lila and her friend try to rescue her friend's dad from his horrible working conditions as a warehouse worker in an Amazon-like facility. Their efforts seemingly succeed and he both escapes the warehouse job and seemingly mentally recovers, but is promoted to ''overseeing'' the other warehouse workers, who are being worked near-to-death, with no indication that he will change any of the conditions, ''and'' abandons his efforts to unionize the other employees.
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** 'Z is for Zombie' has Lila and her friend thinking the friends dad and workmates are Zombies, they get a special serum to cure them, and whether it works, or they were just imagining things because they're kids is left open ended.
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** Season 1:
*** Episode 12: Leland Townsend: [[spoiler: is actually Jake Perry, an insurance adjuster from Des Moines whose real past is less impressive than he'd lead you to believe]].
*** Season Finale: Eric, the boy from Episode 4, and [[spoiler: Lexis]] were [[spoiler: conceived at RMS Fertility - a fertility clinic that serves as one of the many institutions for The Sixty’s operations; whose purpose is to propagate fetuses with infernal natures]].
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*** Episode 6: Ben [[spoiler: has a dark past that involved founding a gene-editing program called CAS 3. Something he deeply regrets]].
*** Episode 12: Sheryl’s [[spoiler: Eddie doll]] from Season 2 Episode 6? [[spoiler: There is more than one]].
** Season 3
*** Episode 6: Kristen [[spoiler: never returned to David’s room after leaving. It was an incubus who took her form and whose true form is that of a mosquito-like monstrosity]].
*** Episode 7: The Entity [[spoiler: has had their sights on Lexis for some time; speculating that she is a potential usurper for demonic forces]]. [[spoiler: And that Leland has been targeting the Bouchard family since Season 1 for this very reason]].

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** Season 1:
'''Season 1''':
*** Episode 12: '''Episode 12''': Leland Townsend: [[spoiler: is actually Jake Perry, an insurance adjuster from Des Moines whose real past is less impressive than he'd lead you to believe]].
*** Season Finale: '''Season Finale''': Eric, the boy from Episode 4, and [[spoiler: Lexis]] were [[spoiler: conceived at RMS Fertility - a fertility clinic that serves as one of the many institutions for The Sixty’s operations; whose purpose is to propagate fetuses with infernal natures]].
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'''Season 2''':
*** Episode 6: '''Episode 6''': Ben [[spoiler: has a dark past that involved founding a gene-editing program called CAS 3. Something he deeply regrets]].
*** Episode 12: '''Episode 12''': Sheryl’s [[spoiler: Eddie doll]] from Season 2 Episode 6? [[spoiler: There is more than one]].
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*** Episode 6: '''Episode 6''': Kristen [[spoiler: never returned to David’s room after leaving. It was an incubus who took her form and whose true form is that of a mosquito-like monstrosity]].
*** Episode 7: '''Episode 7''': The Entity [[spoiler: has had their sights on Lexis for some time; speculating that she is a potential usurper for demonic forces]]. [[spoiler: And that Leland has been targeting the Bouchard family since Season 1 for this very reason]].



** Season 1 Episode 7: The codex [[spoiler: illustrates an intricate, diagrammatic hierarchy of demons nestled in Earth’s infrastructures; each one is represented by a sigil]]. [[spoiler: One of the sigils has been adopted by David’s father]].
** Season 2 Episode 10: [[spoiler: Cara Autry]], a doctor affiliated with [[spoiler: RMS Fertility has been paying money to illegally obtain Kristen’s 12 eggs from storage. Later on, after Kristen enacts the necessary legal actions to repossess her eggs, it is revealed that she has regained all but one of them; which Dr. Autry sold to an unknown buyer]]. Meanwhile, it’s heavily implied that Sheryl [[spoiler: has been recruited by the Sixty to partake in their operations]].
** Season 2 Finale: [[spoiler: Leland and Lexis have been regularly meeting ever since the former broke up with Sheryl. We also see how the next generation of the Sixty’s houses [[ImAHumanitarian “inherit”]] the sigils. Kristen confesses to David that she murdered Orson [=LeRoux=]… and he absolves her of her sin before they tenderly kiss]].
** Season 3 Episode 6: [[spoiler:Andy never made it back to the Himalayas. All of those video chats he had with Kristen were just deepfakes by Leland to cover up the truth: that he and Sheryl abducted Andy; and are holding him captive in a state of paralysis in a storage closet in Leland’s penthouse]].
** Season 3 Episode 9: In an attempt to [[spoiler: murder Grace Ling, Leland ends up killing Monsignor Korecki, instead]].
** Season 3 Finale: [[spoiler: Andy is released and happily returns home to Kristen and his kids… but has been converted into a conduit for the Sixty’s machinations]]. [[spoiler: Kristen locates the carrier of her egg at the Makob headquarters… where she discovers that her mother is a high-ranking employee who is still aligned with Leland. And the carrier of her egg is Leland’s new wife]].

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** Season '''Season 1 Episode 7: 7''': The codex [[spoiler: illustrates an intricate, diagrammatic hierarchy of demons nestled in Earth’s infrastructures; each one is represented by a sigil]]. [[spoiler: One of the sigils has been adopted by David’s father]].
** Season ''Season 2 Episode 10: 10''': [[spoiler: Cara Autry]], a doctor affiliated with [[spoiler: RMS Fertility has been paying money to illegally obtain Kristen’s 12 eggs from storage. Later on, after Kristen enacts the necessary legal actions to repossess her eggs, it is revealed that she has regained all but one of them; which Dr. Autry sold to an unknown buyer]]. Meanwhile, it’s heavily implied that Sheryl [[spoiler: has been recruited by the Sixty to partake in their operations]].
** Season '''Season 2 Finale: Finale''': [[spoiler: Leland and Lexis have been regularly meeting ever since the former broke up with Sheryl. We also see how the next generation of the Sixty’s houses [[ImAHumanitarian “inherit”]] the sigils. Kristen confesses to David that she murdered Orson [=LeRoux=]… and he absolves her of her sin before they tenderly kiss]].
** Season '''Season 3 Episode 6: 6''': [[spoiler:Andy never made it back to the Himalayas. All of those video chats he had with Kristen were just deepfakes by Leland to cover up the truth: that he and Sheryl abducted Andy; and are holding him captive in a state of paralysis in a storage closet in Leland’s penthouse]].
** Season '''Season 3 Episode 9: 9''': In an attempt to [[spoiler: murder Grace Ling, Leland ends up killing Monsignor Korecki, instead]].
** Season '''Season 3 Finale: Finale''': [[spoiler: Andy is released and happily returns home to Kristen and his kids… but has been converted into a conduit for the Sixty’s machinations]]. [[spoiler: Kristen locates the carrier of her egg at the Makob headquarters… where she discovers that her mother is a high-ranking employee who is still aligned with Leland. And the carrier of her egg is Leland’s new wife]].
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* SleepParalysisCreature: In each of the first three seasons, one of the protagonists is tormented by a demon. that acts like this. Kristen by George in Season 1, Ben by Abby in Season 2, and David by Demon-Kristen in Season 3. Sister Andrea's vision of Demon-Kristen as a demonic mosquito implies that they are all some-sort of parasite that feeds on their victims minds as they sleep.
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* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Leland and Sheryl when they're a couple. In real life Creator/ChristineLahti is a couple of inches taller than Creator/MichaelEmerson. The crew tends to enhance the disparity in filming.
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*** Episode 7: The Entity [[spoiler: has had their sights on Lexis for some time; speculating that she is a potential usurper for demonic forces]].

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*** Kristen [[spoiler: never returned to David’s room after leaving. It was an incubus who took her form and whose true form is that of a mosquito-like monstrosity]].
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*** Episode 6: Kristen [[spoiler: never returned to David’s room after leaving. It was an incubus who took her form and whose true form is that of a mosquito-like monstrosity]].
*** Episode 7: The Entity [[spoiler: has had their sights on Lexis for some time; speculating that she is a potential usurper for demonic forces]].

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** Season 3 Episode 5: [[spoiler: Sheryll’s boss at the Sixty-aligned cryptocurrency company is revealed as a five-eyed goat demon]]. [[spoiler: And Andy never made it back to the Himalayas. All of those video chats he had with Kristen were just deepfakes by Leland to cover up the truth: that he and Sheryl abducted Andy; and are holding him captive in a state of paralysis in a storage closet in Leland’s penthouse]].

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** Season 3 Episode 5: [[spoiler: Sheryll’s boss at the Sixty-aligned cryptocurrency company is revealed as a five-eyed goat demon]]. [[spoiler: And Andy 6: [[spoiler:Andy never made it back to the Himalayas. All of those video chats he had with Kristen were just deepfakes by Leland to cover up the truth: that he and Sheryl abducted Andy; and are holding him captive in a state of paralysis in a storage closet in Leland’s penthouse]].


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** Season 3 Episode 5: Sheryll’s boss at the Sixty-aligned cryptocurrency/troll farm company is revealed as [[spoiler: a five-eyed goat demon]].
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** Season 3 Episode 4: Near the end of the episode, we finally see what [[spoiler: angels]] look like in the show’s universe.
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** Season 2 Finale: [[spoiler: Leland and Lexis have been regularly meeting ever since the former broke up with Sheryl. Kristen confesses to David that she murdered Orson [=LeRoux=]… and he absolves her of her sin before they tenderly kiss]].

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** Season 2 Finale: [[spoiler: Leland and Lexis have been regularly meeting ever since the former broke up with Sheryl. We also see how the next generation of the Sixty’s houses [[ImAHumanitarian “inherit”]] the sigils. Kristen confesses to David that she murdered Orson [=LeRoux=]… and he absolves her of her sin before they tenderly kiss]].
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** Season 2 Finale: [[spoiler: Leland and Lexis have been regularly meeting ever since the former broke up with Sheryl. Kristen confesses to David that she murdered Orson LeRoux… and he absolves her of her sin before they tenderly kiss]].

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** Season 2 Finale: [[spoiler: Leland and Lexis have been regularly meeting ever since the former broke up with Sheryl. Kristen confesses to David that she murdered Orson LeRoux… [=LeRoux=]… and he absolves her of her sin before they tenderly kiss]].



** Season 3 Episode 2: Victor [=LeConte=]reveals the name of the person The Entity and David are trying to save through their clandestine methods: [[spoiler: Grace Ling]]. Who is being held captive in a [[spoiler: Chinese work camp]].

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** Season 3 Episode 2: Victor LeConte reveals the name of the person The Entity and David are trying to save through their clandestine methods: [[spoiler: Grace Ling]]. Who is being held captive in a [[spoiler: Chinese work camp]].

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** Season 2 Finale: [[spoiler: Leland and Lexis have been regularly meeting ever since the former broke up with Sheryl. Kristen confesses to David that she murdered Orson LeRoux… and he absolves her of her sons before tenderly kiss]].

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