Mary Goskirk had just returned to the village after her retreat when she felt “something was wrong.”

It wasn’t a vague premonition, but the atmosphere in Rhona and Marlon’s house was so heavy, as if someone was hiding a corpse in a closet.

Dylan had just woken up, and the police were questioning him, but everything remained unclear because Dylan claimed to remember nothing about the accident, giving Ray Walters and Celia Daniels even more room to shine: they remained detached, calm, and most frighteningly… confident.

While Rhona tried to stay calm, Ray chose the kind of behavior that would make the audience want to throw their shoes: he “smoozed” Mary, flirting, winning her over, and befriending her smoothly.

Rhona panicked, rushing out to yell at Ray to stay away from her mother, and warning Mary not to get involved with him. But the more she was forbidden, the more suspicious Mary became, realizing her daughter was hiding something enormous. Rhona couldn’t tell the truth, because saying it would mean drawing Mary into Ray and Celia’s sights, and these two were increasingly tightening their grip on the whole family, like hostages.

So Rhona chose the cruelest way to protect her mother: pushing her out of the house. Rhona bluntly stated that the house was too small, they needed space, and Mary had to move out. Mary was shocked, angry, and demanded that Rhona tell the truth. The argument dragged on until Rhona made herself the villain: scolding her mother for overbearing, saying they were fed up with her presence, and coldly ordering her to leave. The pain here was that Mary wasn’t just rejected, but also struck at a mother’s deepest fear: being treated as a burden by her own children.