#LOVECRAFT COUNTRY EPISODE 3 SUMMARY PATCH#

According to her, Hiram Epstein was a follower of Horatio Winthrope, one of the founding members of the Sons of Adam who was excommunicated for stealing pages from the Book of Names. How she actually came upon the house is the one big piece of continuity in вЂњHoly GhostвЂќ, since it turns out she was given the money for it by a surviving Christina Braithwhite, who has her own interest in the house. It seems, though, that in the absence of the spirits, the house itself is something for Leti to concentrate on a sanctuary for Black creatives that she fought for and won. As for Tic, he and Leti have sex, which feels a long time coming but, in its aftermath, seems like it wasnвЂ™t a good idea for either of them вЂ“ especially Leti. While things initially look good for her and Ruby as they bond over fixing up and running the house, eventually the matter of where the money to buy it actually came from causes a further rift between them.

#LOVECRAFT COUNTRY EPISODE 3 SUMMARY PATCH#

Lovecraft Country episode 3 very much belongs to Leti, and so alongside her efforts to exorcise the house вЂ“ she eventually succeeds with the help of a priestess вЂ“ she also attempts to patch up her personal relationships, first with Ruby and then with Tic. ItвЂ™s a great moment of catharsis, but it comes at a cost as Ruby spirits the weapons away, Leti is promptly arrested by the police who have persistently failed to respond to the reports of trespass, vandalism, and threatening behavior that Leti has been reporting. Through it all, Leti remains steadfast, immovable, until a burning cross on the front lawn tips her over the edge and she takes a baseball bat to the vehicles outside while Tic and the other men wield shotguns to prevent any possible intervention. They sabotage the heater to smoke her out. They park their cars outside and fasten bricks to the horns.

Whereas itвЂ™s usually the otherworldly denizens who want to chase new occupants out of whatever building the spirits are haunting, here itвЂ™s the white neighbors who went Leti gone.

The cleverest and most effective gimmick of вЂњHoly GhostвЂќ is how it contorts haunted house tropes to further commentate on the racial subtext. Their bodies were buried in the deep sub-basement where Leti sets up a dark room and begins to find the missing victims and their killer in her developed photographs. Leti is herself something of a ghost at this point, having died and been resurrected in the previous episode, but she still tasks herself with ending the suffering of the spirits whoвЂ™re trapped inside the building with their killer, Hiram Epstein, whom we learned was experimenting on disappeared Black residents of ChicagoвЂ™s South Side. History repeats itself in Lovecraft Country episode 3, as Leti and a group of fellow artists and creatives, all Black, occupy the house much to the chagrin of the white locals. That house has a history вЂ“ an intertitle informs us that, in the summer of 1955, a group of Negro men and women moved into it, and ten days later three people went missing inside it, never to be seen again. The newly-rescued Montrose isnвЂ™t dealing with his brotherвЂ™s death well either, but heвЂ™s given little to do in вЂњHoly GhostвЂќ, which takes a monster-of-the-week, or several monsters in this case, and stuffs them all in LetitiaвЂ™s new house. This is a direct continuation, though picking up three weeks after Uncle GeorgeвЂ™s funeral, the cast is haunted by grief long before theyвЂ™re haunted by anything else, especially Hippolyta, who knows sheвЂ™s being lied to about the exact circumstances surrounding her husbandвЂ™s death. ItвЂ™s obvious what Lovecraft Country is doing with this structure, even if constantly soft-resetting undermines the character drama a little and makes some of their reactions a bit puzzling given what theyвЂ™ve experienced thus far.

Lovecraft country episode 3 summary