Season 2 Ep 4: Death's Cleansing Embrace
We find Ty as we
left him, with Eva’s lifeless body.But
he is very soon made aware of the fact he is not alone in the house. Agnetha is there; and she freely admits that
she killed Eva – because “someone had to”. The question, as far as Agnetha is concerned, is very much: what is Ty
going to do about this situation? We he
call the police on her?Or will he help
her with the cover-up?
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And so, in this
way, Ty gets drawn into Agnetha’s perfect murder plan.Together, he and his mother plant the
evidence that will paint a picture of Eva as a disturbed young woman who got
drunk and stoned, then hopped in her car and ventured off into the night. Then the body is put in the trunk of Eva’s
car, which Agnetha drives to secluded spot in the Waitakeres. Ty follows in Agnetha’s car and together they
complete the scenario that says: drunk and stoned, she drove out here to kill
herself, then walked off into the bush, fell, hit her head and succumbed to
hypothermia.RIP Eva.
Agnetha and Ty
return to the city, where they part company, with Agnetha telling Ty they
should not contact each other for a while.Ty has no problem with this at all. With that he goes about his business for the day, making sure those
around him know that he is worried about Eva, who seems to have taken off. Eventually the police come calling, to Ty’s
place, to tell Ty they have found a body.The unfortunate thing for Ty is that Colin is with him at this very
moment.
And Colin/Loki is not
fooled, not for a second. He does not
believe the stories of Eva’s death and he swears that Ty will pay for what he
has clearly done through a much more graphic death of his own.
As news of Eva’s
death does the rounds, there are others who also have cause for doubt. Dawn can’t help but feel this is a little bit
too much like her own near-death hypothermic experiences; while Mike
knows his brother well and gets the feeling he’s not being told the truth and
nothing but the truth.
But, as
predicted by Agnetha, the police declare that Eva’s death was either suicide or
a case of death by misadventure. Agnetha
– and Ty – have got away with murder. The Johnson boys dutifully turn out for the funeral, but when Ty returns
home there is yet another surprise waiting for him, in the ice-carving room:
Eva’s body, laid out on the table. Colin
has brought it there in preparation for a proper funeral, with a funeral pyre,
as befits a Norse Goddess – and his suggestion is that Ty might want to think
about joining his wife on that pyre.
In the run up to
this ceremony Mike becomes convinced he knows the truth and goes to Agnetha, to
tell her in no uncertain terms he knows what she did and, in future, to stay
away from Ty.Agnetha is unrepentant –
Mike was too cowardly to act on his brother’s behalf, so she did the business
to do them all a favour.Mike does not
buy this for a moment – she abandoned them, so his family is his responsibility
and she needs to step away.
And so to Eva’s
funeral ceremony: where Olaf worries about Ty, after Ty has asked him about the
separation of God spirit from mortal body; and Stacey too is worried, upon
hearing a rumour that handmaidens are often cast onto the pyre. So when Colin asks for a volunteer to
accompany Hel on her journey to the heavens, Stacey takes off. But Ty does not move, just watches Eva burn,
so Colin lets him know, in no uncertain terms, that he will be coming after
him.
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