Cora and Lieutenant Ambrose take a day trip to the Beverwyck
Hoo, boy.
We are in for quite a ride this week in the present and especially in Coras past.
Dont say I didnt warn you.
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He hides around the corner as two men exit, hop in a car, and drive away.
Theres a curious buzzing sound inside, but Mason enters anyway and finds J.D.
on the floor, looking very dead, with a massive pool of blood around his head.
Mason switches off the still-running table saw and hears the baby crying from another part of the house.
are banging in his motel room.
Suddenly, hes terrifyingly unresponsive.
She shakes him back into consciousness.
Ambrose has crossed a line.
She breaks it off, seemingly for good.
Im sorry I didnt learn your name sooner.
Look, I know what youre thinking.
Its been more than 45 seconds since weve had a flashback to Coras past.
Should we call someone?
Well, worry no more, because here we go!
Phoebe takes a deep breath from her oxygen mask as she watches Cora get ready for a night out.
The atmosphere isnt much jollier at Chez J.D.
Maddie, ostensibly looking for a missing pair of shoes, walks in on J.D.
Jealousy keeps you from your potential, J.D.
(A necessary correction: In writingmy previous recap, I hadnt realized the Tannetti delivery guy who J.D.
sent to the hospital with his bat was actually Masons father, not just another employee.
Sorry about that!)
They seem to believe him.
Extreeeeemely good point, Captain.
Mason goes to see Cora and tells her what happened.
Were you ever really happy with me?
Faye finds her estranged husband standing outside her house in the rain, fertilizing the dogwoods.
Ambrose planted these trees; he doesnt want to abandon them.
She demands he leave.
Its not fair, he tells her.
You dont get to just decide.
Actually, though, she does.
She calls up Ambrose, whos doing some sad solo drinking at his motel.
Cora wants him to get her out.
If she can visit one of the places from her memories, maybe that could bring everything flooding back.
He tells her the state police wont allow it; she accuses him of giving up.
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In Coras memory, she arrives at the hospital.
Phoebe passed out that morning and now her T-cell count is elevated.
Cora lies down in the hospital bed beside her sister.
That night, J.D.
Shes a vampire, and as long as you stay with her, youll be a shell.
Cora, I am almost certain that nobody should be taking life advice from J.D.
Then theyll head back to his place together, and shell stay there.
Were drawing ever closer to Coras fateful lost night.
Ambrose is sternly warned that there are to be no unscheduled stops and no touching.
He and Cora have exactly two hours.
If theyre not back by 6:00, a warrant will be issued for both of them.
Theres a moment of unexpected physical comedy as Ambrose struggles to buckle the seatbelt around her handcuffs.
Cora observes that his backseat is full of kicked-out-of-the-house junk, including detergent and a pair of shoes.
But as soon as she sees the wrought-iron logo above the entrance, something comes over Coras face.
She knows shes been there before.
Past Cora returns home to find Phoebe upset she didnt call.
Youre gonna leave me…youre in love, she says.
Itll be easier when Im gone.
Cora climbs into her bed once more to comfort her.
Phoebe begs her to tell her what J.D.
Well, they touch, Cora says.
Phoebe pleads for a demonstration.
Show me how he kisses you at least, she requests.
She leans in and kisses her sister, tongue and all.
Where does he touch you?
Cora reluctantly lays a hand on Phoebes breast.
Remember how ominous the scene where her father came tosleep in her roomwas?
But I can say confidently that I never expected this moment with Phoebe.
Cora asks Ambrose to pull over on the drive back, even though theyre short on time.
They stop outside her childhood home.
She regrets not moving to Naples, she says, and facetiously suggests they head for Florida together.
Outside the physical confines of Coras incarceration, they have what might be their most human conversation yet.
Why did his wife ask him to move out?
Im just, um, Im not easy.
Im not good at talking, he explains.
Everyone assumes we start out in the same place, Ambrose muses.
She remembers, in a flash, Phoebe blowing out birthday candles.
Even though theyre running late, Cora asks Ambrose to take her back to the club.
Shes desperate to give it one more go.
When they arrive at the Beverwyck, Ambrose removes her handcuffs.
This is going to make this easier, he says.
Hmm, is it really, though?
The handcuffs didnt seem to impede anything before.
Its not like she needs to solve a Rubiks Cube to jog her memory.
But by the time he hangs up, shes gone.
How many thousands of acres of forest does the Beverwyck own, again?
But Cora hasnt mounted a great escape.
Ambrose finds her standing in another building on the grounds, transfixed by a familiar doorway.
Thats it, she says.
It happened down there.
She approaches the top of the stairs weve seen in her memories so many times before.
I remember now, Cora says.
