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When Griswold wakes up, he’s chained up to the wall and sees Madeline and Roderick placing bricks in front of him to trap him inside. Because they despise Griswold and what he’s done, they’re going to leave him for dead inside the wall and secure themselves high positions at Fortunato. At the funeral for Tammy, Victorine, and Frederick, Roderick has a vision of Annabel confronting him for taking the kids away from her. Because Roderick had money and a glamorous life, their children wanted to be with him, despite not actually being a good father. We get a flashback to the ’70s when Annabel decides she’s going to leave Roderick after he lies on the record. The other subplots in this episode revolve around another flashback to the time when Madeline and Roderick were young adults.
Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood)
He meets with Roderick and gets yelled at for not cleaning up the site of Perry’s party yet. Roderick needs him to have the building bulldozed down, but Frederick hasn’t done it yet. Frederick then goes to see Morrie when Lenore isn’t in the room and does cocaine in front of her. He mixes chemicals from Fortunato together and adds them to her IV before the scene cuts to black. In Roderick’s retelling, Arthur meets with him and Madeline and tells them that the mysterious woman is messing with them but he just doesn’t understand how or why. He looked into the address of the bar from that night in 1980 but says it was never actually a bar and has been vacant since 1975.
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After hours, Victorine goes in and cuts up the dead monkey into pieces and retrieves the hardware to sneak it out and hide the evidence of what she’s been doing. Elsewhere, a young Auguste is starting to build a case against Fortunato as he detects a trail of bodies all leading back to the pharmaceutical company. Roderick and Madeline demand every member of the family attend a dinner where they’re forced to sign ironclad NDAs to protect themselves from the informant possibly spilling something that could ruin them. He wants the siblings to suss out which one of them has gone to the feds. Napoleon Usher is a drug-addicted gamer who spends his days snorting whatever he has on hand, cheating on his boyfriend Julius (Daniel Jun), and supposedly running a video game company.
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Frederick delivers the news to Morrie about him being the swing vote, clearly very excited about this new development. He continues to drug her and tells her that he doesn’t want to be a cruel person but he must do something that asserts his dominance over her. Tammy rushes home and ignores calls from Bill before having a vision of Verna dressed up as her and talking to Bill on the phone. Tammy picks up a fire poker and tries to hit Verna but misses, following her voice through her house.
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No one should expect to make money from the picks and predictions discussed on this website. If you’re a fan of his other shows on Netflix, like The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass, you absolutely must check this one out. Gugino does a killer job -- quite literally -- as the enigmatic Verna, who seems as fed up with the materialistic and amoral Usher clan as viewers are. The Ushers are clearly inspired by the Sackler family, the real-life pharma billionaires criticized for their role in exacerbating America's massive opioid crisis.
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The wreckage falls on top of him and kills him, marking the final Usher sibling’s death. Lenore is able to bust into her mom’s room and discovers the state she’s in, quickly calling the cops for help. At home, Madeline tells Annabel that it was the plan all along because now Roderick is the most important employee at Fortunato. He’ll get out of legal trouble right away and will start reaping the benefits at work. She thought Roderick would be a hero, but Madeline shuts her down and shames her for thinking that way.
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It becomes apparent that the siblings have an unspoken rule to never speak about that night again, and Madeline speculates that maybe Roderick had sex with her all those years ago and she could be back with a child he never knew he had. Arthur says he’s going to find her and try to negotiate with her, to which Madeline says she wants both of her eyes extracted. In the present time, Auguste finally comes clean and tells Roderick that there was never actually an informant and that it was just made up as an attempt to turn the Usher family against each other. He explains that if he knew the siblings would start dying, he would’ve never said it. Roderick has a vision of Auguste bleeding, with his heart literally beating out of his chest.
Frederick Usher (Henry Thomas)
La Chute de la maison Usher is a 1928 silent French horror film directed by Jean Epstein starring Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt, and Charles Lamy. Roderick and Madeline are twins and the two share an incommunicable connection that critics conclude may be either incestuous or metaphysical,[7] as two individuals in an extra-sensory relationship embodying a single entity. To that end, Roderick's deteriorating condition speeds his own torment and eventual death.
Roderick and Madeline are caught under the wreckage, which kills them. After meeting with her doctor, Juno tells Roderick she wants to get off Ligodone. He tells her that while it’s not addictive, she will have really heavy symptoms if she tries to get off of it.
The tanks that Prospero and his friends tapped into held old materials from when the building was a Fortunato lab. This episode also gives us some more background on Roderick’s new wife Juno. During a scene with Lenore, she tells Roderick’s granddaughter how she got into a really bad accident that resulted in her losing one of her legs and other extensive injuries. He plans to charge his elite and exclusive guest list millions of dollars just to attend. There, they’ll be served all sorts of drugs, alcohol, and anything else they desire. Frederick lays into Prospero particularly hard at a meeting with lawyers about the old properties, so it seems like extending an invite to his wife is Prospero’s way of exacting revenge.
In the flashback, they start at the Fortunato holiday costume party that night, which is hosted at the office. Griswold is wearing that jester costume we see earlier in the episode, and he’s being celebrated for his work. Griswold tells Roderick he’s his right-hand man and that he’s already told investors that he’s the best thing that’s ever happened to the company. Madeline distracts Griswold, getting flirty with him and luring him into the basement. Arthur collects photos of the mysterious woman, Verna, including one that was found on Leo’s phone. Madeline recognizes her from the New Year’s party in 1980 and tells Roderick he should know her, too.
Since he literally killed his boyfriend’s cat, Napoleon is out to find a replacement Pluto before Julius can find out what he did. For Napoleon, Verna masquerades as a worker at a cat shelter where Napoleon finds a cat eerily similar to Pluto. The only difference is that this cat is mean and it does not like Napoleon. Within minutes of meeting the cat and bringing it home, it scratches him and never wastes an opportunity to bite, scratch, or generally startle Napoleon whenever possible. We learn that even though Roderick brought Griswold the pitch about Ligodone, he didn’t accept it from him but instead went and bought Landor Pharma, the company with the chemist who made the drug. But Griswold does promote Roderick and give him a raise, intimating that he’ll keep helping him climb the ladder if Roderick keeps coming up with these good ideas.
These aren't people we particularly sympathize with, and the creative and grisly set pieces during which each member meets their end have an air of dark wit and karmic comeuppance to them -- think Succession meets Saw. The series occasionally stumbles when it overdoes the social commentary monologues instead of letting the story speak for itself, but overall it's a uniquely enjoyable tale of terror, just so long as you have a strong stomach. But as they continue to hear noise from the basement, Auguste isn’t certain that Madeline is actually dead. Roderick confesses that the biggest lie he’s told is that Fortunato could cure people of pain. But before their conversation continues, Madeline runs up from the basement covered in blood with the sapphire eyes in her eye sockets. Frightened, Auguste runs out of the house and watches it completely collapse behind him.
Throughout the series, it's mentioned how much Roderick's inability to contain himself impacted not only his own life, but countless others (both in and out of the Usher family). He's got six children—mothered by five different women, only one of whom he ever married—and that eventually turned into quite a lot of problems (and even more Edgar Allan Poe terror). But as with shows like Succession and Yellowstone, the family at the heart of Usher makes for quite the tangled web; parents, siblings, husbands, wives...
After Lenore’s death, Roderick goes to his office and realizes the time has come. He turns around and sees a vision of his dead children and grandchild all sitting in chairs. It starts raining outside and when Roderick looks, it turns out to be bodies falling from the sky, not actual rain. Verna says those are all of his victims who died at the hands of Fortunato’s drugs. She instructs Roderick to go back to his childhood home and call Auguste to come meet him. It’s a show loosely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1839 short story of the same name and some of his other works.
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