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I was also hoping for a better outcome. I don't like to think Danny's future is so bleak . I didn't actually think there was much of a mystery to what was going on unlike the first episode with the twist and turns or the more promising outcome of the second episode. I knew it was Allison but even Danny's own lawyer didn't advocate for him. He needed someone to believe in him and at least do more investigating. You got the feeling his mom wouldn't have been as passive as his father was under the same circumstances. I was hoping someone else would figure things out and Danny wouldn't be so isolated and alone and not believed .

I have long believed Allison is the most dangerous kind of villain/ female serial killer. They get away with things it's hard for other to . I would like to see them revisit this one as well as another reviewer said. Maybe her crimes catch up with her through another family.

***Warning spoilers***

That Danny was hallucinating at the end?

It is very possible that he was hallucinating the entire time.

Consider, mental illnesses do run in families and if he inherited the tendency he was the right age and there was the right traumatizing event(s) and stress to set it off.

The mother has probably been sick for a long time and already he had been showing signs of mental distress to the point tht school was involved.

I once had the opportunity to see a virtual reality version of what someone with paranoid schizoidphrenia may be be actively hallucinating while seeing his doctor. (Not too mention as a counselor being with a client who was looking at me with the most frightened face and I wondered if I looked like a monster to him. What was he seeing?)

Anyway, the film showed a man with the disease wearing the virtual reality helmet watching and he took it off quickly and said it was too real.

I say all this because the smirks and facial expressions we saw from his POV may not have even happened.

The other thing was, would she really say all those things while he was being held down so the orderlies could hear?

Yeah, if she's evil, she'd tell him what happened to set him off and make him look even crazier or she's lying they are not dead and she said it anyway for the same reasons. Sitting at the table from earshot, but continue to taunt him when he was being held down?

But I'd think she'd be a lot smarter, since regardless whether anyone thought he was nuts, they could reconsider after a relatively young man dies in his sleep and a young boy are dead. So, would she risk that? Or, like I said before, they aren't dead but she wants to make sure he stays in and maybe she has better, less obvious plans for their future demise. Otherwise, the cops and DA are really bad at their jobs and so is his lawyer.

So we have two choices. He was right all along, mentally ill or not. Or he's a paranoid schizoidphrenic and she's innocent.

I had initially thought that this episode would end like the previous ones with a happier ending, but I was wrong. I do feel bad for what happened to Danny, and found it really surprising that his dad and brother couldn't accept the fact that Danny was possibly right about Allison.

I'm even more surprised there wasn't even a hint into looking into her background as well. When the ending showed Danny being stuck in a mental institution and Allison explaining what happened to Danny's father and brother, I could feel for Danny that now he's trapped there and can no longer prove what Allison is truly up to and warn others about it, without being deemed insane. My hope is that maybe they may revisit his story and we see what happens afterwards.

It's like watching alfred Hitchcock presents. I'm watching the show it opens with the young man in jail. It then goes back in time and it's starts to tell the story why he is acting like he does. It starts to show just a little bit at the time what he thinks he believes what is really happening. He has no idea why his father and brother don't understand what is really happening. Every time someone tries to get him help he just refuses. He even finds a friend who understands what he's going through but he is so freaked out what's happening in his life that he scares them away. He basically goes off the deep end and they finally put him in a mental institution. His stepmother visit him and tells him what is happening with his father and brother. He totally freaks out. When they show the look on his stepmother face is so totally Alfred Hitchcock.

From the beginning of this lame episode anyone watching who wasn't born yesterday could see every 'twist '. Rachel Bilson looked way too young to be so cunning and evil. And no one believed Danny? Not at all? The killing of the dog was unacceptable and telegraphed. The death of the father off screen was laughable. Right after the honeymoon? For him to drop his wife so easily as she was dying? Guy was a scumbag like my uncle who did the same thing. And there's no investigation? People who have heart attacks have prior heart problems. So no investigation? His lawyer was useless to just decry everything the kid said. Small as she was, that knife should have cut her in two. Decent acting doesn't help lazy, predictable writing.

Enjoyed the first two episodes a lot, but this episode was just one cliché after another:

Father has affair with his dying wife's nurse; Nurse kills mother, but no one other than the one son suspects anything, despite her unexpectedly sudden downturn; Nurse moves into their home right away; Takes late mother's dog for a walk - dog doesn't survive the walk; Suspicious son gets sick, but nobody will even listen to him about being poisoned - or about how she killed the dog; Son stabs nurse (this is the only point I had not predicted right from the start); Son is committed to psychiatric institution; Nurse visits son, tells him his father died of a heart attack right after their honeymoon, and his brother is very sick; Son reacts with an outburst, nurse pretends she doesn't know what's wrong with him and smiles a big, evil smile.

After the son stabs the nurse and finds himself at the psychiatric hospital, the acting - which was already extremely cheesy - now gets hammed up to the extreme, with camera angles that made me hope against all hope that this was just a dream sequence, and there would be a proper twist. I mean, in "real life" SOMEONE would have gotten suspicious that first the mother died so quickly, then the dog, one son is committed, the father - who looks the picture of health and did not have any heart issues we were told about - does of a heart attack and the other son takes sick as well?! Especially when one son had already sounded the alarm about the nurse! Nobody say her smiling that big, evil smile?!

Alas, it was not to be, and this was not a dream sequence, but simply a big cheese and ham sandwich of an episode. Jack Davenport was completely wasted on this.