No candidate can promise to keep any family safe, even her own.
No leader has jurisdiction over wanting what we shouldnt want.
Tragedy always waits patiently in the wings.
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The boy is alive and on the run with Dougs girlfriend, Jane.
A few flashbacks shows how the boys strained relationship was heightened every day they spent together in the bunker.
Bens hope had disappeared long before Adam became his roommate.
(And some remains on Dougs property suggest Ben may have already watched another friend come and go.)
And Adam grew steadily more frustrated with Bens resignation to their inhumane life.
It actually works, though Doug still outweighs his emaciated teenage prisoners.
Ben freezes at the moment of truth, watching Adam struggle with the man.
Doug gains the upper hand and rises off Adams cot.
Adam clings to his back and hits his head on a metal pipe running along the ceiling.
Alone in the woods, Claire rips the caution tape away from the bunker.
What took you so long?
Claire says what she needs to and doesnt skip the anger.
You just went with him like a lamb to the slaughter, she cries.
How, in one moment, could you be this stupid?
NEXT: Going my way?
For 10 years, he was kept in a dirty cage like an animal, she tells Willa.
Its not his fault that he became one.
Bens departure was a given after his confession to his surrogate big brother.
He happens upon Danny being typically productive, i.e.
playing online poker on a laptop that probably belongs to another Warren.
And I bet Danny has never wished so hard that his cynical instincts had been wrong.
(Reminder:John still doesnt know.)
The women drive out into the night and find him hitchhiking in the rain.
Come home, Claire beckons, and Ben complies.
Willa goes out again to bring her other brother home, but that trip is less successful.
She was going to tell him, Willa says, but quickly admits thats not true.
Danny cant even look her in the face.
At least it made it okay again, she says.
He slips away, and she deflates.
Danny seems to have given up on his family, but Det.
Meyer wont do the same to Clements.
Thanks but no thanks, Clements says.
Hell be long gone by then.
I have a baby to protect, she explains.
Kids become their parents, Jane, Clements responds.
Jane begs him not to kill Clements, and he lays the blame for his pending death on her.
(This is a recurring theme with this dude.)
She tells Doug where to find it.
Shotgun in his hand, Adam says he has one more item of business to attend to.
Minutes after the shot, Meyer finds Doug against a tree, blood pouring from his crotch.
Hes alive, but suffering.
Just as his victim intended.
Nothing in the bunker, the cabin, or the house tie Doug to either Adam or Clements kidnapping.
But the couples abandoned dog leads investigators to an electric fence encircling an illegal grave.
Meyer calls Claire into the precinct alone to give her two unattractive choices.
Less one penis, but free.
Do it, Claire says, pushing her Styrofoam cup across the desk.
Is that Willas doing?
Her flashes during Claires speech and her earlier standoff with her lover/nemesis seem to suggest it.
Youll get your 15 minutes, Willa says.
For one week they will make you feel very special and very pretty.
One above-the-fold local newspaper article doesnt make a star, especially in 2016.
How could anyone do the things that this man did?
John wants reasoning, but Hank tries to make him understand that desires do not operate according to logic.
He asks if John has ever wanted to have sex with a woman who was unwilling.
And instead of saying no, John says he would never do such a thing.
Wanting it doesnt make you a monster, Hank provides.
Its a simplistic view of morality and one that doesnt account for extenuating circumstances.
The question that this show leaves me with is this: IsBena monster?
He wanted Adams life and Adams family.
And he took it.
But is he the same as Doug, who knows what hes doing and feels no remorse?
Or Hank, who understands his defects in the context of the real world and hates what he is?
How much does premeditation mean?
A lack of love and a history of abuse?
These are themes that I hopeThe Familywould have explored if it had had a longer life.
