Liseys Story
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It starts with a recording from Jim thats still threatening, but Lisey has no idea whats to follow.
She struggles and passes out as the music rises.
He puts on a record: Waymores Blues by The Crickets, anotherso Stephen Kingchoice.
Its a deep cut, Jim.
Hes so intense that he would make Annie Wilkes ofMiseryreconsider her fandom.
He reveals that his favorite book of Landons wasThe Coasters Daughterand that hes read some of the unpublished material.
And then Lisey Landon calls him a thief.
He smashes Lisey to the ground before head-banging to the Crickets.
Its half-tantrum and half-dancing, and all unhinged.
He asks for the secret stuff by Scott before really assaulting her.
Theres no way around it.
Trying to talk her way into safety, Lisey tells Jim that theres a hidden sequel toRelics.
It doesnt quite work.
He starts cutting her face and body in a way that feels a bit like torture porn.
Eli Roth would be impressed.
She wakes to find a note on her body: Tell anyone I was here and Ill kill you.
But I will kill your sisters first.
Lisey takes the threat seriously.
Lisey goes to the mirror and sees the deep cuts and bruises all over her body.
She has one of several overlaid flashbacks to come of Scott saying that the Landons are fast healers.
Does that mean she is too?
Can she do it again to heal herself?
She hears Scott call her Babyluv and he sort of comes to her by her pool.
Does she have to push through the Bool Hunt to figure out how to stop Jim Dooley?
To bring her sister back from Booya Moon?
Still, that band is killer.
Lisey wakes up in her chair, mumbling about how much she loved Scott and gave him a voice.
In a flashback, Lisey comes to a more normal Amanda in the aftermath of an intense snowstorm.
Its a good scene between Moore and Allen, two of the best actresses of their generation.
Scott communicates differently with Amanda compared to Lisey.
They have a connection.
The broken people are there, captured in cries and moans before something massive ascends the horizon.
A growling, screaming cacophony unfolds before the Long Boy cuts Paul on the arm.
They know the pool can fix him, but now theyre connected to the Long Boy.
Its a metaphor for the connection between an artist and his darkest visions.
She yells at Scott before turning on the sink.
Lisey Landon, battered and bruised, stares into the sky for answers.
Scotts Epilogue
There are way too many shots of Lisey trying to remember things in this episode.
It doesnt hold it together like Larrain thinks, distracting with takes of remembering that only clutter.
Is there anything creepier than the way Jim Dooley calls Lisey Landon missus?
What a weird, very King touch.
