Suzanne drops off Mae at the family services center to get checked up before heading off to a foster home, while Peter is left with the unenviable task of taking the poor bird to the bird sanctuary. Only, it happens to be closed. Peter decides to leave the box by the front door, but when he notices numerous birds circling the house ominously, he has second thoughts and decides to take the bird back home after all.
Peter is in debt and may soon be facing foreclosure. He went to the bank asking for more time, but it’s unclear right now if he’ll be able to get what he needs. ..
Detective Lopez arrives at the hospital seeking to question Mae. Suzanne refuses though, pointing out that she’s still a minor and in shock. For now, Suzanne manages to sort Mae out a foster family and it appears she’ll be moving on soon.
Mae seems to have formed a strong bond with Jules though, who she awkwardly speaks to about her past. Jules forces a smile but it’s clear she’s uncomfortable. If that wasn’t bad enough, Mae even leaves a strange corn figurine by Jules’ bed that night. Jules isn’t exactly happy about it but Suzanne looks past that and sees it as an amazing contribution to her school paper project.
Lopez heads to the scene of the crime and finds a bloody knife hidden in shrubbery.
Lopez continues his search for the scarecrow, following the tracks of the Scarecrow. He eventually finds an ominous scarecrow, complete with a severed pigs head and a strange symbol carved into the wood below.
Detective Lopez returns to his car after speaking with Sheriff Wilkins. The detective finds that the same shady guy from episode one is waiting at his car. The two men have an uneasy conversation in which Lopez points out that no missing person report has been filed and apparently there is no conclusive evidence either. Although Lopez manages to leave, it’s clear there’s more going on here. ..
Mae is brought into the foster home but she doesn’t seem enthused by the prospect of living there. They’re a religious family and there are kids all over the place. The cross up on the wall seems to affect Mae quite badly, and she struggles to compose herself. In fact, she turns the cross upside down before they leave. “I can’t stay in that house.” Mae eventually says later at the store, pointing out that there being no place to hide as the reason. ..
Mae decides to dip out and Suzanne asks Rhoda to reconsider the adoption. She agrees, and Mae is able to continue staying at Suzanne’s place for the time being. However, she continues acting strangely, taking Jules’ hair from her hairbrush. Not only that, but Jules ends up seeing Mae’s pentagram scar on her back.
Suzanne is trying to escape from the cult because she has scars on her wrist that seem to suggest she was in a previous cult. ..
Peter is offered an extra six weeks to try and rustle up the funds he needs to prevent slipping further into debt. When he tries to bury the bird, Mae actually gets there first and takes the dead crow and serves it up as an offering, marking a familiar sigil we saw on that pig-head scarecrow on a tree stump she’s turned into a makeshift shrine. And with that, she bows and whispers a “thankyou.”
The Episode Review
Mae seems to be trying to get closer to the family, and it’s clear she has a dark agenda. She’s been worshipping the devil and has been obsessing over Jules, which suggests she may want to remove him from the family. ..
The woman’s past is a mystery that has been linked to satanic rituals or an antichrist cult.
The detective’s subplot involving the bloodied knife is intriguing. It remains to be seen what will happen with that knife too.
