Back at Aunt Lydia’s School For Those About to Pee Themselves in Fear, Commander Weston brings Daisy and a few others (including Talia) into a room for solo questioning. He’s got her radio on the table in front of him, and he runs through her (manufactured) backstory with her. She had two dads, dropped out of school, went to Toronto with a boyfriend, and wound up living on the streets when they broke up. After giving her the hairy eyeball for a while, Weston lets her go immediately after, she ducks into an empty classroom to shake.
Over in marriageland, the Commanders start paying their potential child brides visits at home. One of Agnes’ suitors remarks that it’s amazing she was able to become “such a godly girl, in spite of her conception,” and it’s clear from Agnes’ face that she has no idea what he’s talking about.
Commander Weston’s visit also does not go smoothly: He abruptly leaves after Agnes obliquely references his first wife, who apparently died in childbirth. “It was the worst day of my life, the day I lost my child,” he says. Notice how the loss of his wife doesn’t even merit a mention?
Once he’s gone, a livid Paula is so ready to hit Agnes that she sends her outside for her own safety. Agnes runs into the yard and sees Chapin smoking; when he tosses the butt, she picks it up and gently holds it to her own lips… and then he catches her.
They have a sparse yet sweet exchange — he affirms that yes, she has a personality, which passes for high praise in this godforsaken land — and then she asks how things went with Becka. (As we saw earlier, it went surprisingly well.) There’s a lot that passes between Garth and Agnes unsaid, but then he suggests that she go inside, so she does.
We learn that despite the weirdness earlier, Commander Weston is still interested in making Agnes his missus. “It’s no fun breaking a horse that’s already docile,” he says. EW. Upstairs, Agnes takes Garth’s cigarette butt and lovingly places it in her special collection (“Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat? Wouldn’t you say my complete loss of autonomy is almost complete?”) of odds and ends that have meaning to her.
Back at the school, the Pearl Girls are made to kneel as Vidala announces that one of them has been deceiving everyone. Then the Eyes march in, grab Talia, and take her away as Daisy tries valiantly not to throw up in relief/fear.
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