{"id":459288,"date":"2026-06-03T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459288\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:59:14","slug":"hell-yeah-its-another-patricia-episode-on-widows-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459288\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell Yeah, It\u2019s Another Patricia Episode on ‘Widow’s Bay’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week\u2019s Widow\u2019s Bay double feature<\/a> took us back to 1702 to illuminate a crucial moment in the island\u2019s early history\u2014then saw Mayor Tom and Wyck<\/a> set sail with the 350-year-old Richard Warren, hoping that destroying the town\u2019s founder would also destroy its curse.<\/p>\n

But there are still three episodes of Widow\u2019s Bay left in the season, which is way too early for anything resembling a happy ending. Plus, there\u2019s still plenty of unfinished business to attend to. Like, for instance\u2026 Patricia\u2019s<\/a> Boogeyman trauma, which comes to the forefront in \u201cYour Baggage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a peaceful, dreamy, almost giddy feeling as Tom, Wyck, and Patricia share a victorious breakfast. Richard Warren is finally gone, and for the moment, it feels like the healing has begun in Widow\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n

Tom is already dreaming about taking Evan to a Red Sox game. All those angry townspeople that have been looking for their conspicuously MIA mayor for the past two days? Water under the bridge. Everything\u2019s fine!<\/p>\n

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Well, not exactly. Tom arrives home to find a somber Evan waiting for him, eager for answers about the photographs he\u2019s found\u2014which contain proof that his mother, Lauren, did not die in childbirth. But instead of the screaming fight Widow\u2019s Bay viewers might have primed to expect, given the stormy vibes between father and son lately, it turns into a very touching scene.<\/p>\n

For the first time, Tom is honest with Evan about what happened to Lauren. (Mostly, anyway; he doesn\u2019t mention that she became ill while they were leaving Widow\u2019s Bay on the ferry.) She had a stroke after giving birth, Tom explains, and after that, \u201cshe wasn\u2019t right\u2026 it did something to her mind, and it affected her behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just that Lauren wasn\u2019t herself anymore; she became dangerous. Tom had no choice but to commit her to \u201cthe Home,\u201d a now-defunct psychiatric hospital on the island. (An abandoned insane asylum is a peak Widow\u2019s Bay location, is it not?) Two years later, she died of a brain aneurysm.<\/p>\n

And it turns out there aren\u2019t just photographs in Tom\u2019s secret stash. There are haunting letters written from Lauren to her son, and Evan reads some aloud so we can soak in the horror of her illness.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Wyck pays a visit to Gerrie at the museum. His talk with Tom in \u201cSeasickness\u201d about the death of Gerrie\u2019s brother all those years ago\u2014which he still feels guilty about\u2014has stirred something in him.<\/p>\n

But just as he pulls out that old photograph and starts to tell her the story, her husband walks in. He\u2019s friendly, but Wyck loses his nerve and takes his leave, forcing a laugh to avert any awkwardness: \u201cI got a lot of photos I gotta give away today.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he notices something on the way out. The glass museum case holding the rubber \u201cMurderer\u2019s Mask\u201d has been smashed, and the artifact from the island\u2019s Boogeyman era is missing. Gerrie\u2019s husband blames tourist kids, but Wyck looks worried.<\/p>\n

He heads to the Boogeyman\u2019s cottage and sees the door is open\u2014like, way more than when we last saw it, when Evan started to go inside. It is smashed open, with bits and pieces of wood strewn around on the porch. Almost as if someone trapped inside has broken out.<\/p>\n

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Across town, Patricia has Driftwood Diner takeout and a bottle of wine, ready for a relaxing dinner. But when she opens the containers, she realizes her order is all wrong and in no way resembles the yummy spread she was anticipating. Because she\u2019s Patricia, she calls and leaves a very polite message to communicate her displeasure\u2014you know, just so the person responsible (KATHY) will hopefully learn from their mistake.<\/p>\n

After that, her big project for the evening is a closet cleanout, listening to some Enya, as one does. Suddenly, a car alarm blares from the Patti Wagon. Patricia goes outside to investigate, closing her front door behind her. When she comes back, though, it\u2019s open. She doesn\u2019t notice at first\u2026 but then she realizes an intruder is lurking in one of the upstairs rooms.<\/p>\n

As silently as she can, she creeps back outside, grabbing her taser (which has a dangerously low battery). She waits, and we wait, and suddenly, there he is! The Boogeyman, looking like Michael Myers crossed with Jason Voorhees\u2014and acting exactly like that combination too.<\/p>\n

As she flees, he follows, never breaking into a run but walking with that perfect slasher-villain determination. Just like Laurie Strode in Halloween, Patricia bangs on doors asking for help, but nobody answers.<\/p>\n

Back at Patricia\u2019s place, Wyck has arrived to find it empty. He has a pretty good idea of what\u2019s happening\u2014like Tom with the sea hag, Wyck just knows\u2014and sets out to try and find her.<\/p>\n

A few blocks away, Patricia is shrieking her way through the residential streets of Widow\u2019s Bay. Then, we come to a familiar home: where she\u2019d attended the party with all her high school frenemies. In fact, they\u2019re all gathered there now, having a book club meeting to discuss The Lovely Bones. When Patricia bursts in yelling about the Boogeyman, they\u2019re skeptical and immediately hostile, as you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n

And at long last, they get Patricia to admit she lied about getting the killer\u2019s signature hang-up calls during his first reign of terror. But she insists he did come to her house back then, and that somehow, he\u2019s returned.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter. The Regina George of this group, Kris, stands up and gets right in Patricia\u2019s face: \u201cI am not the reason you don\u2019t have any friends. It\u2019s because you\u2019re fucking insane!\u201d Patricia takes the insults until Kris starts talking to her like she\u2019s a toddler, urging her to \u201cgo bye-bye.\u201d Then, she brandishes her taser and gives Kris a well-earned zap.<\/p>\n

While the book club ladies gasp in alarm, Patricia goes outside, but she lingers on the lawn long enough to see the Boogeyman looming in the upstairs window\u2014then leaping his way through the second-story glass. That doesn\u2019t slow him down, and the chase resumes; when Patricia trips and falls, it seems the Boogeyman is about to do his worst when suddenly he\u2019s hit by a car.<\/p>\n

When Patricia comes to, she\u2019s being tended by EMTs\u2014one of whom is promptly killed by the seemingly immortal, clearly impervious-to-injury Boogeyman. Patricia gets up and starts running for her life yet again.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a brief break in the mayhem when we check back in with Tom and Evan; the latter is still reading his mother\u2019s sad, scary letters to him aloud: \u201cI\u2019m dead. I\u2019m dead. I\u2019m already dead. It\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tom gets up and produces photos of Lauren that weren\u2019t hidden in that box of shame; they show her true, happy self. \u201cThis person wouldn\u2019t want you to remember the other,\u201d he tells Evan. He explains he hid the other pictures and the letters because \u201cthey make me sadder than I already am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom apologizes, but Evan has another big question: \u201cWhy do we never leave this island?\u201d This could have been the moment to come completely clean, but Tom now believes that with Richard Warren\u2019s death, the \u201cdead zone\u201d is a moot point. Instead, he hands Evan the Red Sox tickets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings are gonna be different from now on,\u201d Tom tells him. And they hug.<\/p>\n

And now back to Patricia screaming her head off. She finally reaches the gas station, where an out-of-uniform Sheriff Clemons is doing some late-night shopping.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s naturally curious when she races in, very out of breath, and buys some gas to splatter a trap for the rapidly approaching Boogeyman. Her taser has just enough juice left in it to light the puddle on fire\u2014as Clemons and the convenience store clerk watch, mouths agape. The clerk\u2019s first instinct is to use a fire extinguisher to douse the knife-wielding inferno; the Boogeyman promptly chokes him out in return.<\/p>\n

Clemons grabs the clerk\u2019s shotgun and tries to intervene, but he\u2019s quickly flattened by a knife slash. It\u2019s looking very bad for him when Patricia picks up the gun and gets the Boogeyman\u2019s attention\u2014before landing a shot that makes him fall down and stay down.<\/p>\n

And she keeps that weapon pointed at him and ready to fire (while Enya picks back up on the soundtrack) as his corpse is loaded into the ambulance, taken to the morgue, and loaded into the crematorium oven. She only stands down when she confirms the Boogeyman has been reduced to a pile of ashes. Go bye-bye, forever!<\/p>\n

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Patricia and Wyck meet up at the doctor\u2019s office, where Clemons is getting treated for his wound. (In the background, a TV weather forecast warns that \u201cthe storm of the century\u201d is coming\u2026 that feels important.) For the first time, we get a look at Clemons\u2019 wife, who\u2019s previously only been a voice on the phone. When she stands up, we see that she is very pregnant. Like, \u201cdue any day now\u201d pregnant.<\/p>\n

Oh no. Patricia, of course, shares our concern. \u201cDoes Loftis know?\u201d she asks the sheriff. He explains he didn\u2019t mention it to Tom, actually, because of Tom\u2019s tragic experience with Lauren and her pregnancy. Patricia tells Clemons he has to go. Right now. \u201cYou can\u2019t have your child here,\u201d she stresses, and he understands that she\u2019s deadly serious.<\/p>\n

As the episode ends, Tom and Evan\u2014finally back on good terms\u2014are excitedly talking about their upcoming trip to Boston when there\u2019s a knock at the door. It\u2019s Wyck, of course, and we already know what he\u2019s going to say: \u201cIt\u2019s not over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sounds of the storm begin to howl and rumble. What will this evil island unleash next? We\u2019ll find out when episode nine arrives Wednesday on Apple TV.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week\u2019s Widow\u2019s Bay double feature took us back to 1702 to illuminate a crucial moment in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7074,156,111,139,69,437,20136,213438],"class_list":["post-459288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv","tag-tv-recap","tag-widows-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}