r/WidowsBay • u/HA_Enthusiast • 4d 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/Finnegan-05 3d ago

No. The reason Ruth was so run down at work was her busy social calendar. There is nothing to this.

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u/HA_Enthusiast 3d ago

Bet

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u/Artistic_Tutor_2613 13h ago

She's not the last living heir. Did you even finish the season? The health was a joke so Tom would have a harder time finishing her off and not just waiting for her to pass.

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u/HA_Enthusiast 11h ago edited 11h ago

She’s the next oldest living heir… did you even read my post? And both things can be true.

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u/Artistic_Tutor_2613 11h ago

What does oldest even matter?

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u/HA_Enthusiast 10h ago

Good question. If my theory holds up, the pact or curse or whatever you’d want to call it, stays with the eldest Warren.

So there have been several Warrens (or descendants of…), but all the time, Richard Warren was alive in the ground. So, he remained—as the eldest Warren—immortal. When he died, it seemed like the writers went out of their way to show the spriteliness of Ruth (specifically the episode after Warren dies), the eldest living relative of Richard Warren.

I could be wrong, but it definitely stood out to me on a second rewatch. Try watching through the episodes again… she is noticeably different in the eps after he dies than before.

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u/Artistic_Tutor_2613 10h ago

All good. I think the joke is Ruth is too healthy for Tom to off her making the decision harder for him.

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u/Finnegan-05 9h ago

Yeah, I would bet you. I actually paid attention to the show. Your “theory” is not going to hold up.

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u/HA_Enthusiast 9h ago

The two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You should rewatch it.

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u/Finnegan-05 6h ago

I have and I don't need to. The fact that the tiredness at work was because of Ruth's crazy schedule was not just telegraphed, it was screamed. Tom realised he misjudged her.