Lady in the Lake
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On any other show, Maddies privilege and unearned confidence would go unremarked.
As we see at the start of the episode, she was obviously involved with Allans father (!)
enough that he promised to leave his family behind and start up a life together.
At the Silver Dollar Diner, the two have come together to finally settle their divorce.
Not that her current life is all that great.
Its how the city of Baltimore finds that theres been a dead body there for months now.
she asks him during a call with him.
Only she knows he couldnt have done it.
He was with her when Cleos body was dumped.
Its an alibi he cant use, but it may be enough to clear him in her eyes.
Should Maddie be following this story?
Bob tells her to leave it to theAfro; theyre the ones whod fire off the Cleo story.
No one at theStarwould want to work, let alone read, about it.
And yet, ever the dutiful reporter, Maddie takes it upon herself to follow through.
And she gets the talking-down she deserves for such hubris.
Soon, the two women keep talking obliquely about Stephan and what may have happened with Tessie.
This is a mother who seems quite content to keep her son in jail.
To keep him safe.
Or maybe keep others safe?
The more Maddie pushes her, the clearer it becomes that Ms. Zawadzkie is hiding something.
And shell do everything in her power to avoid disclosing it, including stabbing Maddie.
Talk about a cliffhanger.
Did you catch the three icons Maddie has featured on her wall by her desk?
Anne Frank, Barbra Streisand, and Gloria Steinem.
Oh, and its during that same sequence that we see flashes of what looks like an abortion appointment.
So wait … Maddie had an abortion?
But then Milton isnt Seths father?
Did she get pregnant once more and then kept it a secret from Allans father?
