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LadyintheLoop

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  1. Lorraine's aide (Jerome?) was Black. So was Bowman, Roy's foreman and right-hand man. Roy clearly respected and trusted him, which may have been the real reason for Gator's racial resentments.
  2. He assumed he was going to jail but we never saw it. A newly blinded prisoner would have been a lot of trouble for the system, and he would have gotten some kind of a deal for testifying against Roy.
  3. You had to go in there by yourself?
  4. So that's the end of Bowman. I thought his race was going to signify that he was just a man who valued his job, not a true believer, but maybe the show's going for a rare bit of nuance. Say what you like about Lorraine and Roy but they're equal-opportunity employers.
  5. And he thought his mother had chosen to abandon him. You could see how conflicted he was when Dot told him she hadn't wanted to go. Did Munch bring the fog?
  6. Which makes it all the more amazing that Danish would meet Roy alone, on his own turf. At least the eyepatch is explained; Witt Farr had to recognize him instantly, out of the corner of his eye, as he drove past the gas station. Karen knows Roy's just not that into her because he's so obsessed with Nadine. No wonder she wants her dead. Dot was talking about generations; she was saying that Roy was Roy Tillman IV, and judged Gator unworthy to become Roy Tillman V. Gator may have been telling the truth, though, when he said she'd always been a liar. It's one of her several survival skills. Dot clearly got under Gator's skin, though, when she told him that Linda hadn't chosen to abandon him. I want happy endings for all three woman but that may be too much to expect. My guess: Dot is rescued and teams up with Lorraine and Indira's husband brains her with a golf club for affronting his vanity. That other woman wasn't going to take him in.
  7. Right. Who escapes unwanted sexual attention by running away and hitting the streets? Someone who's in more danger at home. I'm still trying to figure out whether Roy had three wives or four. There were four wedding portraits on the bedroom wall; could one have been of Roy's parents? And when the Feds are talking to their boss about people disappearing from Roy's orbit Meyer includes "two of his wives," not "his first two wives." The twins are young enough that there could have been a brief marriage between Nadine and Karen. Maybe Roy consented to a divorce from Linda so that he could marry Nadine. In that case #3 could be the missing wife, Linda wouldn't have to hide, and Dot might indeed have been on her way to meet her.
  8. For all the good work shown there was something a bit creepy and cultish about the camp, which makes sense once you realize it was Dot's dream. "Saint Linda" cast herself as Dot's savior, and set her up to take her name of Mrs. Tillman.
  9. Or he divorced Linda before he married Nadine. And divorced Nadine for desertion before he married Karen. Unless they're a group that doesn't believe in government marriage at all, Odin would tolerate no less for his daughter. I keep thinking, though, that Karen was the fourth wife, not the third. What if Linda is just a red herring, her fate was never a mystery, and #3 is the one who ominously disappeared?
  10. Another shot from the movie, though probably no woodchipper on the scene. I think the restaurant bulletin board had a recipe for piccata; later the Lindas had it for dinner. So that's the back story to "they took me in"? Linda Tillman brought her home and groomed her to be her replacement? So Roy would let her leave?
  11. I'm still wondering how her prints got into the system.
  12. Maybe Gator's planning to steal the money back and light out on his own. Interesting that he recognized Dot at the hospital and didn't betray her. Maybe, back in the day, he had a crush on his cute teenaged stepmother. Did Gator ever get a good look at Wayne? He had to be more rattled than he wanted to admit by the darkness and the flashing lights and all the other distractions Dot arranged. When he first saw the patient, could he just have thought, "Guy looks different without his glasses"? His covered-face order suggests that he thought the man would get out alive. OTOH, maybe he was just hoping that Bowman would be the screwup for a change.
  13. Dugger is the strip-club banker, Vivian is usually a woman's name in the US, and "VD" was once instantly recognizable as "venereal disease." Lars spritzed on some cologne before he left for his "physical therapy." Maybe he thinks he has a better wife lined up. It's a shame Scotty went hungry but is she really too young to be left alone? If bad guys had shown up she could have hidden; Lars would have handed her right over. Is Dot planning to kill Roy?
  14. So, a local ad from Minnesota is showing in western North Dakota? (You have to wonder what the real people of Stark County think of all this.) Dugger's parents named their son Vivian and gave him the initials VD? How much did they hate him? Lars is at the opposite end of the Bad Husband spectrum from Roy, but I bet he can turn vicious when he's thwarted.
  15. Some libertarians think that marriage is a matter for two spouses and, if they're so inclined, their Creator. They don't want the law involved. I think Roy actually wants Dot back as his wife. That could complicate things a bit with Odin's daughter.
  16. Right. By Roy's account, her escape from him was anything but dramatic.
  17. And when the hospital staff finally frees Wayne from the bathroom, she'll realize that Dot risked her escape to save him. Points to ponder: Roy says "Nadine" owes him a debt. Dot says "they took me in," which sounds more like a kindness than a crime. (Are "they" Roy and the first wife?) Roy stopped Joshua once and for all from abusing Lenore, then immediately made her an accessory to obstruction of justice (not murder). Maybe Sheriff Roy actually rescued young Nadine from an abuser and then embroiled her in something illegal. Her prints had to be in the system for a reason.
  18. Unless she somehow disposed of the bodies (a crime in itself) she'd blow what was left of her cover. That's the thing she was avoiding at all costs. RE: Gator and Dot: I wonder . . . her prints were already in the system, after all. Maybe she'd been accused of partnering in something illegal with Roy? He's clearly obsessed with her; back in the day he might have called it love. I think she was his favorite wife; he may have appreciated her intelligence and feistiness as long as she "knew her place." He may even have been counting on her to bear him a son who wasn't a complete idiot. Could turning up pregnant have been her final impetus to run?
  19. Was Gator's mother the other missing wife? Killing a wife-beating waste of skin to pin a murder on him? Roy must have seen Boardwalk Empire.
  20. Jury's still out. There may have been a moment in her young life when she thought that putting herself under a big strong man's protection was a good idea. I like the thought that she might have learned her survival skills from Roy. Maybe she encourages Scotty's boyishness because she's come to see overt femininity as a display of weakness.
  21. Sometime around the VIN numbers I stopped counting the callbacks to the original movie. So, which husband is Scotty's real father?
  22. Maybe Dickie felt an inexplicable bond with Loretta because he'd heard her voice in utero.
  23. And Howard's mother ordered him to give up acting . . . you don't suppose?
  24. So the visiting director from New York was Dickie's father? Wonder if he really thought Loretta was any good or if he was even a director. Poor girl. Ben was poisoned on opening night? Didn't his tox screen come up clean?
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