Homecoming
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In thelast episode, everything was out on the table: Heidi knows what happened.
Colin knows that Heidi knows what happened.
Thomas isnt in a position to mete out justice.
Heidi wonders how culpable she might be for her actions.
Colin heads home, embarrassed and maybe a little ashamed, but not in any immediate trouble.
(GuyslikeWalter, mind.
We know he didnt make it to redeployment, we just dont yet know why not.)
Theres no good scenario coming out of Homecoming: Stop the medication early and youre a mess.
Finish the program and youre a perfect tool of the state, subject to infinite redeployment.
So where does that leave Heidi?
(Has she gone out on dates?
All signs point to no.)
You had, what, three years experience?
And they wanted you to run that whole company like that?
Pay you that salary?
She thought she was helping them recover, albeit in a medically extreme and ethically dubious way.
And so she worked extremely hard to help these men feel better, accepting imperfect circumstances.
He follows his instincts, investigates the complaint thoroughly, and sends it up the line.
Heidi gets the message.
They dont want a qualified candidate.
They want someone who will work hard and be flexible.
They need a compromiser.
But shes a compromiser no more.
Getting back to her serving job is not going to salve this reopened wound.
And without the help of exotic Vietnamese serums.
Heidi carries her box of personal belongings from Geist and throws it in the trash.
Destruction of evidence or leaving the past behind?
Seems like the latter.
The scene with Heidi dining with Walter at the cafeteria is a stunner.
Its a gesture motivated equally by guilt and by desire.
Once you get to know people, they start to become like family.
Or you dont and you pretend.
Nice line from Walter about the nature of memory.
When we forget something, were often motivated to act like we dont.
Mrs. Trotters dying in her booth unnoticed seems to be the spark that gets Heidi on the road.
Its an unnecessary gadget.
Any deeper connection between the Kubrick and this episode ofHomecomingis unclear.
