To start episode 5, Adeliene is in bed with another guy, and in the next scene, she is arguing with her mother about not being just a housewife. Ed and Adeliene are having some dinner, with Ed talking about the great day they had, involving the corpse play, and Ed talks about starting a family, to which Adeline replies she has to do some knitting thing with her mother. At the little get together, Adeleine and one of the ladies get into a spat, talking about the lady’s rapist son and how Adeliene’s going to laugh at her funeral. Sure enough, she ends up dying of a heart attack.
Ed and Adeleine are at the diner, and she tells him that she’s going away for a job interview in New York City, and if he would meet her there, and she also gives him some books involving the Nazi lady, and the transgender lady. Ed starts driving Adeleine to his house to try and have a kid, and she tells him she’s not ready for sex and not ready for the marriage thing, and gives him the idea to redirect his urges to someone who can’t say no (you know, a dead person). She even helps him find a fresh corpse to try it with. In New York City, where Adeleine is just as miserable there as she was in town, and Ed is on a date with the corpse of the woman (who is the woman who just died of a heart attack earlier).
After that, Adeleine meets with Mr. Weegee to talk about his work and to show him some of her work (crime scene photography). It doesn’t go over so well, and she’s off to crying, and she winds up beating the crap out of the receptionist lady from the hotel and taking her money. After Ed reads some of the comic, we go to the concentration camp, where Ilsa, the Nazi lady, gets her comeuppance for her war crimes in America, and it eventually translates to Ed fantasizing about her when he’s doing stuff with the corpse. Adeleine heads back home, and her mom questions what she was trying to do, and talks about how she might have caused her to have a lack of womanly skills, and talks about how she was an unexpected pregnancy, and her abortion attempts, throwing herself down the stairs might have contributed to her being unnatural. After telling her she needs to pull it together and find a husband, Adeleine goes back to Ed, and Ed tells her she’s too warm, and he has her do an ice bath to make her cold.
This one was very interesting to say the least. The episode showed even more of how much of an influence Adeleine was, along with the mother, in how Ed went down into this spiral, but was it actually true that Adeliene really influenced him, or is it played up for the drama? Overall, the episode wasn’t as good as the last one, but it still had the disturbance factor going for it.
Rating 7.7/10