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Lots of reviewers hating this episode as pointless. However there are a couple of relevant breakthroughs. The largest is the way in which Jack is exposed to all, in BOTH a supernatural and rational way, creating a bit of bridge between the two and bringing the skeptical characters one step closer to a crux. Holly had suspected Jack and spotted his telltale blisters at the end of last episode. Jack is finally able to talk to someone about his condition, which is something that we have no knowledge of for any of the previously affected. Will this connection between Jack and Holly allow him to overcome? There are already signs that Jack may be better at resisting the compulsions than the previous victims. Then Ralph and Alec follow rational clues to Jack's place and find forensic evidence of something terribly amiss. They don't have the whole picture, but by the end of the episode, Holly's supernatural collides with the mounting physical evidence, and is happening before a child is abducted. Ralph approaches a point where denying a supernatural explanation is ironically becoming irrational and he knows it. There is some progress here. Yunis makes a critical distinction between Ralph and himself, implying that Ralph's need to rationally explain these events should come second to successfully stopping them. Without this episode, people would have been complaining about how quickly and easily rational empiricism gets abandoned in pursuit of the paranormal. There had to be an organic progression for it to feel natural. Alec and Ralph working closely together for the first time assists this bridging between accepting the unknown and demanding certain knowledge. Glory finally gets fed up and sets Howard on the path of vengeance, focusing on institutions but leaving individuals out for the time being. This episode sets up possible redemption stories for both Jack and Ralph. And yes, it was a bit slow.

Fans of TV shows are so used to marathon shows on Netflix and Amazon Prime that they can no longer have the patience to let a story flow. Be calm and enjoy the show, for God's sake.

The Outsider is doing great. I don't lower the 8 rate in this series.

Huh, so Jack was bringing Holly further away from the barn. I wonder if that signifies that there's a significance to it that has yet to be discovered, something that the entity is desperate to keep from being found. Perhaps that something is that it is hiding there and unable to go elsewhere, rendered immobile, most likely because it is still shedding and turning into Claude.

Speaking of Claude, the entity is probably going to be him and commit a murder very soon as he, the real Claude, left the town. I wonder if the scratch does more than permit the entity to change its form into the person scratched, like slowly making the person leave the town, etc., and the exact time it takes for that to happen is the exact time it takes for the entity to change into that person, however long it is, exactly, between each murder as the doppelgänger of different people. But when I think about that, that seems a little too intricate, but it would be kind of awesome if it was.

Anyway, again, I feel like things are being needlessly dragged out. Ten episodes are too many. Looking on the bright side, the show should be getting extremely tense and suspenseful, perhaps to a new degree, all because we're closing in on the end.

I don't get it why so many fans criticize about this episode. In fact, this was the most important episode in the show. It proved for everyone ,including the most stubborn one Ralph, that the thing is do exist. That's all we wait for it, don't we? So yeah this episode was so good and it had to be exactly like this.

I feel bad for Jack though and I happy that he didn't give up. We don't wanna lose him, he is best at acting.

Just appreciate the show. It's not fair to watch one episode and wait for everything to be seen.

The show started as a great who-done-it murder mystery, but now that we the audience know about "el cuco" and whats going on the show is loosing gas fast.

The show spent the last three episodes trying to convince the main character about "el cuco". We the audience already know about "el cuco" from 3 - 4 episodes ago!! That's boring. No more mystery.

A good show would have push the audience to take a side: "el cuco" believers or non believers, but the show made clear that "el cuco" exists so the show is not interesting anymore.

Now the main theme of the show is to convince the skeptic main character to believe the evidence, to believe in "el cuco". Bleh!!

How can you air this episode with a HORRIBLE scene like the last one? Bad acted, screaming to camera. It started being 10/10 first two episodes, that happened with the style? This scene looked straight from a Venezuelan soap opera. Same as the scene with the police fighting little mom... unwatchable. Who ever was in charge with the first two episodes needed to be the whole season.