Marlott is captured
and chained up and Esther is dead in the process of becoming not dead. Dippel
is being super creepy with Esther. Harvey is being super creepy with Marlott.
Everyone’s trying to out creepy everyone else and they’re all going for gold
Esther is resurrected
- but that whole weird creepy beach vision which I thought was Marlott’s
hallucination? Well it turns out like all the surreal moody visions, they’re
actually real. This beach seems to represent… limbo? Maybe? ANyway this is why
our not-entirely-dead people keep going there (because the land is life and the
sea is death so the beach is sort of in between. Nice metaphor. Also points for
moodiness. And making sure there are no seagulls. I feel seagulls would ruin
this). And Esther, on her way back from death, is in the sea and drowning…
until Marlott wades in and pulls her out
Which is nice but why
does Esther need a helping hand back to the land of the living?
This also gives
Marlot chance to tell Harvey what a terrible person he is killing his wife - he
protests he didn’t but Marlot claims she set the fire that killed her because
it was the only way to escape him. Because, yes, those creepy visions were real
and were her ghost
While Dippel embraces
Marlot as a sibling because they’re both not!dead people. He’s also passionate
in his belief there is no god, this allows you to do anything but also is why
he doesn’t want to die because it’s the end of everything. This from a man who
literally sees a vision of life death and limbo AND sees ghosts. At least point
being rather certain that there’s no afterlife seems… not the workings of a
rational mind. “There is no afterlife now I’m going to lure this woman into
following me into eternal life with the ghost of her son!”
I feel the writers
may need a slap upside the head from an atheist
Harvey and Dippel are
also working together - Harvey is really impressed with Dippel’s dad’s work -
Dippel is really impressed that Harvey can replicate it but they both kind of
need each other: Dippel is holding on to the formula for the catalyst while
Dippel seems to be running out of the stuff and possibly unable to recreate it
without Harvey’s genius.
But I’m getting ahead
of myself - because while, as I said last episode, everyone on team bad guy knows
each other and is working together, they’re all also all sharpening their
knives for more quality back stabbing than a Tory Party conference.
The Dean is duly
concerned that the current king is days away from dropping dead and Prince
William the heir is Not a Fan and all those pesky murders. So when Renquist
turns to him asking if the Dean will protect him the Dean happily says “god
will protect you”. Which is religious talk for “you’re screwed”.
Renquist responds to this by going to Boz the journalist and exposing the Dean as the murderer trying to make lots of money out of Pyre Street. He also orders the Parish Watch to arrest Dippel for the murders just so he can have a scapegoat
Queenie, Dippel’s
maid, does some of her own sleuthing in Dippel’s murder rooms and finds
Nightingale’s keepsake. A token mothers left with their babies at the foundling
home where she and Nightingale grew up so, if matters changed, the mother could
prove which child was there’s by describing this unique token. She has proof
Nightingale was there and takes it to the Inspector, threatening to take it to
the Parish watch if he won’t act
Yes that’s the watch
and the police after Dippel now.
Which is why, with
Esther newly awakened and screaming, the police arrive. Dippel and Harvey
promptly turn on each other, fighting over Dippel’s dad’s catalyst and the
formula: Harvey breaks the bottle which leaves Dippel distraught and all but
licking it from the floor. This is why I think Dippel is incapable of
recreating it - which is why he needs Hervey, I guess.
I wonder if Esther
and Marlott will need that catalyst as well?
