Dirty John
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The episode unfolds on two parallel tracks, one from Johns present and one from Johns past.
(Was there no room in the budget for a Ghost of Christmas Future?)
Instead, we watch as both women realize that the man they married is a dangerous fraud.
In the past were in Dayton, Ohio in the 80s.
And Johns tux with the tails?
These outfits are the real travesty of the story.
Tonia is a nurse anesthetist that John meets in the bar while hes in law school.
They fall in love quickly and get married.
Thats when things go wrong at work.
Another nurse catches John pocketing fentanyl that he should be giving to a patient.
Fentanyl is some really bad stuff.
(Yeah, it killed him too.)
She finds Johns stash in a little toy kitchen set sitting in the garage.
What a horrible thing to do to an Easy Bake Oven.
Youre supposed to make tiny plates of brownies in there, not ride the white horse.
She destroys Johns stash, kicks him out of the house, changes the locks, and waves goodbye.
She cant stop investigating, though.
She talks to Johns law school friend who was the best man at their wedding.
It seems like he never liked the guy.
Then why show up at the wedding?
Once she starts poking around the threats start.
Johns final phone call to her is harrowing.
He tells her that one day he is going to see to it that someone kills her.
John is a really messed up and dangerous man, and we finally know the extent of it.
Debra is starting to learn the extent of it, too.
At the end of thelast episodeshe found all of his arrest records and other papers in his secret drawer.
Then she asks if Debra wants an annulment.
Oh, she says, with a little twinkle of recognition.
Say what you will about Ronnie, but she always looks good.
as Quiet Anne said so wonderfully.)
Ronnie takes her mother to see Quiet Ann and even then Debra is like, What would you do?
Even after they find out that John is a grifter Debra still cant pry herself away from him.
Quiet Ann wont tell her what to do, but tells her to have a plan.
She sells it hard.
But is that so different from the way weve seen her emotionally manipulating her daughters in past episodes?
(Remember how deliciousEcto Coolerwas?
I wish theGhostbustersreboot was more successful just so they could remake that stuff.)
At the hospital, Debra finds out that he has an intestinal blockage from abusing opioids.
That Easy Bake Oven is up to its old tricks.
When Debra leaves she and Ronnie pack up the house and move out in the middle of the night.
Damn, moving sucks, but to do it on a tight schedule is even worse.
It seems like its over for Debra, but things still arent over for Tonia in the past.
