Cora tries out controversial recovered-memory therapy.
What could possibly go wrong?
As of this week, were halfway throughThe Sinners eight-episode run, and I am exhausted.
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How are you holding up?
At the station, Leroy and Ambrose interrogate Mason, who blames drug dealer J.D.
for startingtheir fight even though eyewitnesses disagree and for all of Coras troubles.
Before J.D.s fancy-pants lawyer swoops in and puts an end to his interview, J.D.
Are there no rules?
Is the entire series a flashback?)
Did somebody say flashback?
Boobs are weird, observes Phoebe.
(Just wait til you hear about penises, my young Padawan.)
When they hear their father coming downstairs, they slam the computer shut.
Phoebe already knew about the affair.
When Ambrose asks her about J.D.
Then it just all goes blank.
(Okay, sothat whole accidental-pregnancy-plus-suicide-attempt thingwas just a lie?
Glad we spent so much time on that.)
The psychologist counts down from 10 and instructs Cora to visualize walking into the waters depths.
Let the first memory of July 3, 2012, come to you, Chang says.
Cora sees a distant water tower.
Her feet are mired in the mud of a swamp; she feels hopeless.
Then shes making out with J.D.
in the Taproom parking lot.
J.D.s ex Maddie, who hates Cora, is also there, whispering in his ear.
They offer her a mysterious pill.
Back outside the Taproom, Maddie confronts Cora.
Youre trying to get rid of me, and then youre just going to meet up with him anyway.
You want me to die, she says.
Ambrose studies the transcript of Coras session with Chang.
She mentioned that, at the time, J.D.
would siphon gas from strangers cars into a gas can.
(This, kids, is why geometry is important.)
And within that distance, there are two water towers, only one of which is in the woods.
Because, ew), no current address found.
Shes mentioned in J.D.s vice file because her former landlord blamed both her and her then-boyfriend for a theft.
told her they were polyamorous.
Did he kill her?
this woman asks as soon as she hears the men are there as part of a murder investigation.
This was back in Ill give you a dollar if you could guess it!
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Parked at a distance, Mason watches J.D.
drive away from home, leaving behind a woman and a baby.
Mason approaches the front door, switching on a recorder on his phone before he knocks.
She covertly texts J.D.
I dont know who the hell is in our house, he says.
Mason meets Caitlin in a parking lot and promptly hands her a small manila envelope filled with the coke.
Great police work, Junior Inspector Tannetti!
You are such a bad cop, Mason; have you ever seen a single cop show?
Not oneLaw & Order?CSI?Columbo?
Hell, I would even accept aMiss Marple.This is what you do.
You screwed me in the photo lab and then you wouldnt look at me in public.
Preteen Cora waits for the neighbor boy beside his truck.
Im your neighbor, she introduces herself (strong opener; Coras got game).
I was wondering about something, Cora says.
Back in their shared bedroom, Cora tells her sister that she had two orgasms.
Phoebe gasps with delight.
Ambrose wants to sit in on the second memory-recovering session, despite the doctors disapproval.
Cora doesnt get why hes so invested he should at least tell her that much.
Maybe its that swamp, Ambrose explains.
You know, that you described, the last session.
How you felt like you were going to be stuck there forever.
I know that swamp.
Fine, okay, whatever.
At the request of her shrink, Cora sinks back into the body of water.
She returns to Carls Taproom, but this time, the person shes standing close to is Maddie.
They sway and hold one another as Maddie gently strokes the side of her face.
She can barely stand up, Cora recalls.
Then, Maddie is waiting in the truck, ready to go.
Ambrose, proving himself to be an unconscionable backseat driver, passes Chang a note: WHERE.
We hear what sounds like gunshots.
Coras childhood memory of a school bus keeps flashing back into her mind.
Maddie lures her into the basement of the house they drove to from the bar.
The song (yes, naturally, the murder song) is playing.
She descends to the bottom of basement stairs, though she feels physically ill. She asks him not to give up on her, and he agrees.
surveys the area of the woods he believes Cora was referring to.
It looks not unlike a shallow grave.
(Unlike Mason, Ihavewatched a cop show.)
Before long, a team of CSIs are working the scene.
Just below the surface of that spooky soil, they unearth a skeletal hand.
