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Originally Posted by CharlieDontSurf
What was the deal with the end of the show between Nora and the deaf woman?
I felt a little lost there. I thought The deaf girl knew that Nora's kids had departed?
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Originally Posted by Poogs
I was confused at the end though. I didnt really get why either of them threw the brick through each others window, and I didnt understand fully what exactly was going on at the end with the two women asking each other questions. What reason would they have for being mad at each other? I get the black lady thinks she had something to do with Evie departing and Nora telling her shes pathetic for thinking it, but other than that I was lost.
I think when Nora chucks the first rock, you could look at it a couple of ways. John might be her target, because he refused to help her brother get back into town. But maybe she's mad at Erika at that point a little bit too, not for any good reason of course, but because Nora moved all this way to try and get rid of her baggage and now her next door neighbor has a child who might have departed. Talk about hitting the nail on the head in terms of reopening old wounds.
When Erika throws the rock back, I take it as basically a direct F U. Erika knows at that point that Nora's children departed and also that Nora is trying to suppress her own guilt about their disappearance. But this shared grief wasn't met with sympathy from Nora, it was met with scorn - which Erika throws back in Nora's face with the "What was the last thing your children said....to the best of your recollection?", sort of a 'see? how do you like it?' type moment.
Nora has tried to put her guilt completely behind her, but between the crackpot scientists and the DSD guy, she's constantly being told during the episode that 'ya, maybe you did have something to do with it!' She tried to leave all her guilt and fear back in Mapleton, but it's all coming back. More than anything, she wants to know FOR SURE that her family disappearing wasn't her fault. The fact that the scientists turn out to be crackpots comes as a huge relief to her. She laughs and hangs up the phone. But then the DSD guy gets her wheels spinning again at the fundraiser with his "really? cause the DSD is taking some of that stuff seriously" comment. You can see how Nora reacts. Now she's feeling fearful and guilty again and she sorta takes it out on Erika, determined to show that Evie didn't actually depart. And lo and behold, it turns out that Erika is convinced not only that Evie departed, but that she's responsible for it.
In short, Nora is basically trying to deny the very same emotions (guilt, and probably irrational guilt, over the disappearance of a child) that Erika is feeling. Instead of these emotions bringing them closer together, Nora scolds Erika as if she's scolding herself (I read one review that astutely points out how the tighter and tighter shots in that scene eventually become Nora just looking directly at the camera, as if looking into a mirror). The scene is absolutely worth watching again.
And so, they now resent each other by episode's end.
Last edited by Vagos; 11-09-2015 at 04:27 PM.