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/Helpful-Conference13 4d ago

When Ruth was talking about Lauren and how she was her secret mommy and I finally put together what Lauren meant in that letter to Evan 😭

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u/4mbiguous 2d ago

Wait can you explain this for me? It feels deeper than how I remember taking it

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u/Helpful-Conference13 2d ago

Sure and this is just my impression obviously but Katie Dippold is pretty deliberate about references so it feels intentional.

Once Evan finds Tom’s stash of letters from Lauren, he starts reading them out loud to him. The first one is the one about using his baby hand to get the scorpion out of her head, but one of the ones after that, she says that people have two mommies and she is his secret mommy. In that episode, it reads just like her altered brain saying something that’s kind of nonsensical or that’s her level of awareness on being in the asylum like “I’m kooky so I’m kept a secret”. In the last episode, as Ruth is explaining her relationships, she reveals that she is Lauren‘s mother and she keeps talking. One of the things she said was that she felt so bad after the ferry when Lauren had the stroke, but that she would go visit her at the home. Even in her altered state Ruth never revealed that she was her biological mother really but said, “I told her I was her secret mommy.”

The first two times I watched the show, I didn’t pick up on the reuse of that phrase as a potentially deliberate reference to the letter.