Droo wrote:Actually, it's the second floor hallway, so we're going down the stairs into the first floor of the house. It's pretty clear we were going down to the first floor of the house.
I was talking about this earlier. The staircase that would normally lead to the first floor descends further into a black abyss. I then talked about how a child would fear a basement as an abyss moreso than the first floor, since it's under the earth. That's how I figured that particular staircase headed in the direction of the basement, where it all began.
It's a small town. Kaufmann can get away with a lot more than he would be able to normally. This isn't Chicago or New York City. It's a tiny resort town in the middle of nowhere.
Isn't that a little backwards? I was always under the impression that "there are no secrets in a small town," whereas you can get away with a ton in a big city because nobody cares.
Regarding the larger question of Dahlia's step out of bounds with the immolation, I'm still under the impression that Walter and Alessa were originally meant to perform a shared ritual, with the Valtiel Heather sees essentially being Walter's placeholder. Dahlia, however, wanted all of God's power for herself, and so performed her own private ritual in her own house.
