For a long time, Ray Walters appeared as the perfect right-hand man for Celia: quiet, doing the right thing, without question.

He and his mother ran the slave farm, holding Anya, Bear, and the other victims captive, using violence to keep everyone quiet.

When Anya became seriously ill, Ray ignored her pleas to be taken to the hospital, leaving her to slowly die.

For many viewers, Ray had long since crossed the line from “accidental” to “deserving of punishment”.

However, the Dylan incident became a turning point that even Ray himself did not expect. Driving straight into a kid he knew was April’s friend, knowing that he was the chosen target to intimidate the whole village, not just a mission. It was a moment that went beyond the point where he could fool himself into thinking “I was just following my mother’s orders”. When Ray stepped down, saw Dylan limp on the ground, pulled out the needle while screaming from the video call screen, he crossed a psychological boundary that would be difficult to return to normal.

That’s why the new spoilers show that Ray began to crack. He no longer swallowed all of Celia’s orders, but began to argue, hesitate, even dare to disobey. This is when this character revealed his complexity: he didn’t suddenly turn into a good person just because of a moment of torment, but he began to understand that he was on the same ship as a monster. That ship would sink sooner or later, and if he didn’t jump off himself, he would sink with his mother.