Anna and William exchange a longing look, something that Elizabeth catches on to. He breaks the glass of champagne in his hands and goes to the washroom. Elizabeth follows, while Anna sees them go in and tries to intervene. It seems like Elizabeth has a sense of what’s going on but uncomfortably assures Anna she believes her. Anna does not want to tell Jay about Aston, even when he brings it up after the party.
Anna meets William outside in secret obsessed, where she sends the harasser a text from his phone that they have nothing to hide.
The fact that nothing happened during the speech shows that they were only bluffing. William cannot live with the idea that Anna needs Jay more than him.. and they proceed to have sex on the wet ground.
We learn the next morning that the harasser was actually Sally. She does not know about them but found the torn page from Anna’s diary. Anna makes an amazing lie that captivates obsessed. She concedes the writing is hers and that she asked William to look after it at Hartley. Anna feigns being embarrassed that he might have read it and now Sally too, which forces her to turn apologetic.
Anna does not take the violation lightly. She tells William about Sally, as Anna says that she loves William as he is on every page of the diary. Jay meets with Peggy to get a sense of Anna’s past to write his speech but she advises him “not to go looking where she tells him not to obsessed.” How about that! Jay listens to Peggy and the affair continues, But it seems he is growing restless. He tries to be sincere in his expression of love but Anna is way past that.
Jay and William have drinks with the former’s friends. The son tries to express his insecurity and bitterness with Anna’s withholding of secrets. William tries to tell Jay that Anna is not ideal for him but cannot say anything obsessed. William quotes something from Anna’s diary that Jay immediately catches on to. Does the dumb wit finally know? He follows William that night to be sure, as he needs more evidence.
The Episode Review
Finally, Jay has woken up to the reality that Anna is cheating on him. It is quite extraordinary that someone as brilliant as Jay would have trouble figuring it out. Peggy’s statement is something that normal men would dismiss at the face value and move on. I know that the main focus of the show is the “obsessed” between Anna and William, but this is irresponsible filmmaking that shows what they really wanted to achieve with the series.
Episode 3 is another one down and finally, this torturous series can end. One cannot even call it morally ambiguous or complex anymore. In fact, it is flagrantly evil; a breathing nightmare that can have no justification, only the idea of the bottomless depth of human darkness.
