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That was Teo - Luis's son and the body we saw in the opening shot of the season.

I was wrong in trying to explain her behavior because it was giving her a pass for her racism and her violent abuse of Gabrielle, and she doesn't deserve a pass; her actions are reprehensible.

Aja reminds me so much of Venus Xtravaganza. And I agree, she would have been brilliant as Crystal.

Oh, Aja as Crystal would have been perfect. Damn, I'm pissed we didn't get to see that.

Clair may just be an inherently evil person, or, as I suspect, she's acting out late-stage postpartum and stress from losing her mother, and that she's living with an emotionally abusive husband, and then taking it out on Gabrielle in the most horrific way. I'm reticent to say postpartum because I don't want to equate that with violent tendencies. If it were any other actor playing Clair, I would say she's just an all out nasty person, but Taylor plays her with a flicker of humanity that I feel there's something else going on.

In a previous scene, Dustin and this other guy had told her that Tracy had the best clients and was making the most money, so I think Shey went snooping on Tracy's computer to get the names of some of those clients.

That's how I felt too! Only I opened my mouth to yell but no sound came out. I'm still a mess over it.

Oh my gods.

That was like watching a slow motion horror movie. Everything about Clair and the husband are so creepy and if I were Gabriella I'd want to leave. Everything Gabriella said screams that she's about to become a victim. She isn't close to her son, he doesn't know where she is, she handed over her passport, the family is super weird. (the thing about the leftovers, the way Clair pushed her off the kid etc) I find the Gabriella scenes so intense and terrifying. "That was like watching a slow motion horror movie." Oh that's the perfect way to put it. I was utterly terrified by that scene.

Thank you so much! What a powerful scene, but then again, it's a powerful show. Mickaëlle X. Bizet is a powerhouse; everything she does in this episode had me in pieces.

Indirectly at the start with Diego being interviewed by a detective.

https://twitter.com/AmericanCrimeTV/status/851515655949922304 Hey, this has the scene.

Scheck surprised me the most; I would have thought he'd have shown some contrition, but no. Nothing can prepare you for the photographs. I read all the books, all the Vanity Fair articles, so I figured I'd be somewhat ready. Again, no.

If there is a season 3, I do hope you come back, because your insights into this season have helped me parse a lot of things that I missed or couldn't figure out. That also goes for the entire forum.

"the overall picture was of both broken people AND a broken system." I completely agree. I loved the finale, obviously; well as much as you can love something this tough to get through.

I'm destroyed.

She's said on Twitter how difficult it was to shoot her scenes; I agree with you, she's phenomenal. That scene with her husband at the kitchen table almost took the skin off my arms it was so brutal.

Thoughts on how things will play out in the finale? I can see Becca and Eric arrested and maybe Kevin, too; so all the kids end up in jail. The preview shows Eric being led away in handcuffs. Also, has anyone come across spoilers?

I can't figure this Sebastian thing out. I think the truth of the captain's party will come out at trial: Taylor will get a reduced sentence, Eric will go the jail, Becca will go to jail. And Leslie will be left standing victorious. And I want it to be over because I am drained. And I think the American Crime is the school system is broken and because of that everyone gets fucked and it's over, if you want to achieve the American Dream through education, tough shit.

Me too. That line destroyed me. It's the only time I've ever heard him say something reassuring about anything or anyone.

That was me, I think! I'd had Ordinary People on the brain because someone had tweeted that he'd watched it again and that if he were an Academy voter back then he would have chosen it for Best Picture, too; so I went off and viewed it on iTunes and was just as taken with it as the first time I saw it, and also with how great a youthful Hutton would have been as Taylor, and I saw elements of Conrad Jarrett in what Connor Jessup is doing. I'm not sure it's intentional. Anyway in a company of actors, Jessup is terrific. I hope all the younger performers go on to have great careers.

Oh, Jesus.

"I don think we will ever know what happened at the party and I think that's the point" I agree; I've come back to the theory that we won't know exactly what happened that night. Edited to agree with Winterfalls. I feel the same way as I felt about the last episodes of Breaking Bad -- I just wanted them to be over; it was too stressful dealing week over week. As much as I respect this show, I am looking forward to it being done.

If the Sebastian plan backfires I'm going to pull a Lillah Tanner and sell everything I own and head off to live a nomadic life on the tundra, because I will not be able to deal. I just want something to work in Anne's favour.

Thank you! There's so much to process in this episode but that was the one thing I couldn't figure out.