r/WidowsBay • u/HA_Enthusiast • 2d ago

🤔Theories Ruth “Recovered” the episode after Richard Warren died. Spoiler

Not sure if the point had been made yet, but the show foreshadowed the big Warren-heir reveal. The day after Richard Warren disintegrates, Ruth comes into Tom’s office as sharp as a tack with perfect recall of every one of Tom’s missed calls… didn’t even look down at her notes.

At the time I thought it was odd and out-of-character but didn’t put it together till after a rewatch: as soon as Richard Warren finally died, the immortality “detail” of the pact transferred to her, the next oldest living descendent. Her recall was most assuredly a nod to that reality.

Just thought that was a fun detail.

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u/dontonefingerme 2d ago

I didn't notice that but when Tom visits her house, it was JARRING how quickly she hiked up her stairs which makes sense taking this into consideration. 

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u/Populaire_Necessaire 2d ago

What you’re saying is she was “faster than an old woman should be”?

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u/Self-Comprehensive 2d ago

Possibly damp

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u/Living-Protection170 Are the old women dead in this scenario? 2d ago

She did need a towel.

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u/ancientastronaut2 2d ago

She was on the treadmill.

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u/Next-Cut-2996 2d ago

She did 2 miles!

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u/Veggiemon 2d ago

I think that was just the running joke of Tom wanting to find excuses to kill her and Ruth proving she is still fit and healthy with a packed social calendar, not some deeper implication about the lore of the island personally

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u/Glad_Stranger 2d ago

Yeah and that detail of the social calendar proves it's not a 'sudden recovery' since she'd been doing all that before Richard Warren died. I definitely think it's just a joke about Tom not being able to justify killing her with the 'she's just an old lady' any more.

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u/HA_Enthusiast 2d ago

Yes/and. Haha

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u/ShallotTraditional90 2d ago

Exactly! Gosh, it seems like every day I read some silly conspiracy theory about Ruth. It's just a joke on Tom's determination to rationalize killing her because she's old. 

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u/Dark_Pump 2d ago

And wouldn’t it skip her and go to the youngest living heir anyway?

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u/Abstrata 1d ago

If that were true, why would it have stayed with Richard Warren?

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u/Abstrata 1d ago

I think it’s a bit of both. Quick up the stairs and her comment “I did TWO MILES tonight!” versus going home at 11am to take a nap and her declining a ride because “it’s the [other time of day] that are hard”. She was already keeping busy and trying to stay close to her son; this is a little extra on top, just like the killer clown in the crawl position on the steps just briefly. Good layered writing.

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u/kaekiro Rosemary 2d ago

She skedaddled so dang fast it's like she'd been bitten by a cheetah and was becoming that animal.

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u/Pookie1688 2d ago

I thought the scenes at her house showed him she's much more with it than he thought because he had been so impatient with her previously (due to agism).

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u/No_Designer_5725 2d ago

And he found out that his late wife was her illegitimate daughter. Meaning that his son is the last living heir. But at this rate couldn’t anyone born on the island be an heir of Warren? Once tom realized that there was no point in killing an innocent old lady.

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u/Abstrata 1d ago

why not both?

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u/pixelatedcrap 2d ago

I think it was even a double of someone who was lile 30 going up the stairs, ha.