Jonesy marches to the carousel and tells Sofie to come with him. He leads her to where two carnies are starting to dig a latrine pit, and tells them to shove off. Then he marks out an eight by four patch of dirt and tells Sofie to dig a hole four feet deep. Sofie picks up a shovel and starts digging.
Brother Justin sings "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" to himself as he admires himself in his bedroom mirror. He appears to be looking at something at the reflection of something off to the left as he sings, "For still our ancient foe/ does seek to work us woe."
Justin steps out of his room and runs into Iris in the hallway. He kisses her good morning (in a chaste way) and asks why she's carrying laundry around. Iris cheerfully insists that she can pitch in even if they have Celeste to help. Justin broodingly sighs, "Celeste." Iris asks what's up, and Justin shrugs, "Oh, I'm afraid she's not working out." He gives a "What can you do?" eyebrow-raise and heads downstairs. Iris ponders that, and then puts down the basket and enters Justin's bedroom.
Iris walks past the bed and spots Celeste. She's huddled on the floor next to the bed, naked, although her arms and legs are drawn up so that no naughtiness is revealed. So really, this scene is totally safe for Kevin to see. If he doesn't mind being freaked right the fuck out in a second. Celeste's head is turned so that her hair hides her face. Iris stares for a second and says, "Celeste?" Celeste turns her head, and her eyes are wide and crazy, and she's got this giant grin, and holy crap, that's really disturbing. It helps that, with her hair down, she looks a bit like Laura Palmer toward the end of Fire Walk With Me. But even without that association: yikes. Iris sort of gulps, and then sits down on the floor and holds Celeste, whispering, "It's over now." As we move in on Celeste, who starts gigglingly sobbing, or sobbingly giggling, we can see a nasty bite mark on her shoulder. Iris sure is unflappable.
Bluto and Sandy stand with Ben at the bottom of a staircase in the house. Ben, entertainingly, tries to make small talk by asking whether they all live in the house. Sandy says, "Sometimes." Ben sniffs disapprovingly and asks what he's smelling. Sandy explains, "She likes cats." From upstairs, we hear distant thumps, like people moving rapidly across the floor in heavy shoes. Then there's some high-pitched whimpering. Ben asks what the noise is. Sandy gazes up the stairs and says, "Her." We go to a POV shot, and the top of the staircase is completely hidden in darkness. Which reminds me of Twin Peaks also, except with blackness instead of a ceiling fan. Ben turns and eyes some framed photos on the wall. One is a portrait of a young couple in their wedding clothes, and Ben asks, "Is that her?" Sandy sighs, "Better days." A door opens upstairs, and Lee (né Dennis) rushes down the stairs with one hand over his mouth. He turns at the bottom of the stairs, headed for the back of the house, when Sandy says, "Lee?" With his back to them, Lee lowers his hand so that we can see some long stitches through his lips are holding his mouth shut. Sandy hands the shotgun he's been holding to Bluto and cheerfully tells Ben, "Your turn," before leading him upstairs.













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