The Wives

Thursday wakes up thinking about Hannah and the baby. She wonders whether Hannah is feeling sick and how her doctor’s visits are going. She thinks about Regina and her messages to “Will.” She remembers that Regina asked what makes Will happy, and Thursday realizes the only thing that makes her happy is Seth. She decides that she needs to remove Regina from their lives.

As Thursday takes a walk to clear her head, Lauren approaches her. Thursday notices that Lauren’s husband isn’t there, and the two awkwardly speak on the sidewalk. The two tell each other that they’ve both had very bad days, and they go to a bar to drink. Thursday is surprised by Lauren’s drink of choice, whiskey, because it doesn’t match the image of her that Thursday has built in her mind. Thursday makes a comment about Lauren’s “picture perfect life,” and Lauren admits that her husband cheats on her constantly. Lauren admits that all of the traveling the pair does together is to make up for the cheating. She blames her inability to have children for her husband’s actions.

Surprised, Thursday asks if Lauren has contemplated leaving her husband. Lauren says that she loves him and can’t leave him. Thursday, understanding that feeling well, admits to Lauren that Seth has two other wives. Lauren comments on how messed up their situations are, and they bond over their mutual inability to leave their husbands and their resentment toward the other women in their husband’s lives.

Thursday lies on her couch thinking about Regina and Hannah. She feels that she represents the middle ground between them. She packs a bag for Portland, deciding she can no longer wait to know if Hannah and Regina know each other. She texts Hannah to let her know she is on the way. Once she is in Portland, she drives to Hannah’s house. Hannah greets her happily, and Thursday wonders why Hannah doesn’t have any photos of Seth in the house; she wonders whether it is related to the bruises on her arm.

When Thursday pulls into the restaurant, she notices that Seth has texted her, asking where she is. She asks where he is rather than answering. Seth says that he is at home, and Thursday wonders which one. Thursday asks Hannah how she got the bruise on her arm. She tells Thursday that it seems like she really wants her to make something up rather than hear the truth. Unconvinced, Thursday reminds Hannah that she had told her about the missing birth control pills and that she just wants to check. Hannah tells Thursday that Seth has a temper, but he does not hit her. She says that she wonders whether Seth’s past continues to affect him.

Hannah reveals to Thursday that Seth had been sexually abused as a child and had family members who bullied him. Hannah tells her the bruise on her arm came from an argument with Seth; she slapped him and attempted to walk away, and he grabbed her. Thursday asks Hannah about a bruise under her eye, and Hannah promises her it was from an accident while working on a house project. They move on to discussing the things Hannah likes about Seth, and Thursday wonders why she’s never noticed those details in Seth herself. The two eat dinner and converse until Thursday goes to the restroom, wishing she knew what Hannah was thinking as she watched her walk away.

When Thursday returns to the table, Hannah is gone; she left a note saying that she felt sick and needed to leave. The next morning, Thursday wakes up from a restless sleep to a voicemail from Hannah. In the voicemail, Hannah says that she’s freaked out and she and Seth had a fight. She says something more, but Thursday can’t quite understand what she is saying; Thursday blames her cell-phone reception. Scared for Hannah’s safety, Thursday calls her friend Anna to ask for advice. Once she gets off the phone with Anna, Thursday tries to call Hannah back. Hannah doesn’t answer, so Thursday leaves her a voicemail telling her she’s worried and to call her back. Thursday drives back to her condo in Seattle.

At home, Thursday uses the bathroom. When she’s finished, she goes back into her foyer and notices that her phone and purse have been taken. She looks around and notices Seth standing in the kitchen doorway. As she looks Seth over, she notices that he is not smiling and that there is a bandage over his knuckles on his right hand. Seth asks where Thursday has been, and she tells him that she was visiting a friend like she told him. She asks whether Seth was at their condo all night, and he says that he was.

Seth angrily asks Thursday what she has done. She claims she doesn’t know what he’s talking about and asks what happened to his hand. Seth admits that he hit something but won’t tell her what. Thursday asks Seth what he has done.

Seth lunges at Thursday, shaking her and breathing heavily. Thursday is unable to get away from him as he yells at her, saying that nothing is ever enough for her. He asks her again who she was with, and Thursday admits that she was with Hannah. He asks why she would do that when they had an arrangement. Thursday yells that she’s tired of the arrangement and that Seth got everything he wanted but left his wives to suffer.

Thursday accuses Seth of hitting Hannah. Seth denies it, telling Thursday that she is losing touch with reality. He asks her if she has been taking her pills, and she asks what pills she is supposed to be taking. Seth is startled into silence, and Thursday continues by asking him why he never told her he built and remodeled a house for Hannah.

Seth explodes, telling Thursday that he thought she could handle their agreement, but she can’t, so it’s over between them. Seth tells her that he tried, but after they lost the baby, Thursday changed. Thursday yells that she is going to tell everyone about Seth’s “lifestyle” and that Regina is cheating on him. He tells her he is going to call her doctor and that Thursday is having “delusions” again. In her anger, she rams into him. Seth tries to hold Thursday at an arm’s length, but she slips on some spilled water and falls to the ground. She hits the floor hard and passes out.

Thursday wakes up confused in the Queens County hospital, the same hospital in which she lost her baby. She tries to remember how she got there but only remembers flashes of the journey. She suddenly feels very sleepy and realizes she’s hooked up to IV medication before falling asleep. When she wakes up, Thursday asks her nurse what kind of medication she is on. The nurse tells her she is on Haldol, a medicine used to treat psychosis and violent behavior. The doctor enters the room, saying that he is Dr. Steinbridge and that he was the consulting doctor on Thursday’s case the last time that she was there. Thursday doesn’t remember being there before. Dr. Steinbridge asks Thursday if she remembers what happened. She denies knowing and asks Dr. Steinbridge why she doesn’t remember getting to the hospital or being there before. The doctor tells her that it could be because she hit her head or that her mind is protecting her.

The doctor asks if Thursday remembers attacking Seth. Thursday explains that she found out that Seth is hitting his other wife and that she confronted him about it. Confused, the doctor asks Thursday to explain, and she tells him about the relationship between Seth, Regina, Hannah, and herself. The more Thursday tries to explain herself, the more she feels unsettled. As Thursday says that she can prove that her marriage to Seth is real, a nurse enters the room and says that Thursday has a visitor.