Unbelievable
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I hope you binged this episode back-to-back withthe first one.
Its hard watching, for sure, especially for victims of sexual assault or rape.
(Its worth noting here that the chronology gets a little wonky if you arent paying close attention.
Maries story is set in 2008.
The rape that takes place this episode is set in 2011.
So every time we shift back to Marie, we are also moving back three years in time.)
Admittedly, I teared up it was like watching advocacy in action.
The language is like a gentle touch.
Does Marie need a breather?
Someone to hold her hand?
An advocate assigned to her at the hospital?
Reader, I cried.
Duvall then walks Amber through her apartment and we begin to learn a little more.
Her attacker peed a few times while he was there, meaning this was a long, protracted attack.
He also put a comforter on Amber when she shivered, not wanting her to be cold.
Then he raped her for four hours at gunpoint.
He, with his infinite ego, thinks hes a wolf, and that that is a high mark.
After all that, she explains, Amber doesnt believe this is his first rape.
Instead, after Duvall leaves her with a friend who has a hot bath ready, the story emerges.
He woke her up with a gun in her face.
Dressed her up like a hooker and a little girl.
Stopped and started again eight times.
Took pictures of her (with a flash, just like Maries rapist).
That big birthmark on his left calf.
There is some mystery to her (why all the nebulizer treatments and worry over her daughters cold?)
Shes emotionally unzipping, and the release pays off.
Max has heard of a similar case in his precinct.
The detective in charge might have some good information.
More of her and the backpack-wearing ditch-climber is coming, Im sure.
Nobody keeps Toni Colette in the El Camino.
The lie about lying is eating up the only stable sections of her already shaky existence.
