Farouk has achieved everything hes been after all season, and all of Davids plans are in shambles.
Except for Davids rapid descent into sadistic madness, the action of this weeks episode is primarily female-centric.
Syd ventures outside the tent to find a deep pit next to an oversized bathtub stopper.
Credit: Suzanne Tenner/FX
I get it, Syd says when Melanie begins her explanation.
Oliver left, and youre pissed.
But thats not whats happening to me, and honestly, Im kinda sick of talking about it.
That is the nature of Farouk as a villain: delusion embodied.
Farouk doesnt espouse unjust causes, he perpetuates the ideas that turn fearful people against justice.
The alternative is that the writers have written their villain to include occasional hollow-ringing satire of political-correctness overreach.
In any case, what Melanie shows Syd is David crossing a line into gruesome violence.
David, in his search for the abducted Syd, finds Oliver at the monastery.
As they investigate the area, a contingent of men dressed in blue climb out and attack.
In the fray, Cary is taken by one of the attackers and pulled into the maze.
Elsewhere, Farouk sets the minotaur, formerly of Melanies maze, loose.
His instructions for it are to kill the weak.
Kerry, searching for Cary, finds Syd instead.
