It is a scene-by-scene recap of Glad Face Season 1 Episode 1, “The Confession.” For a dialogue of the episode, please go to our Glad Face Collection Premiere Evaluate.
Melissa places on make-up whereas “Put On a Glad Face” performs over the scene. The mailman is loading his pack. He’s bought a number of letters for the household.
Melissa delivers her daughter Hazel a birthday donut in mattress.
Ben is jogging, a smile on his face.
Brother Max can’t consider what number of presents Hazel has. Hazel asks Mother to open one.
Ben will get the mail and drops it in entrance of Hazel, wishing her a cheerful birthday. He’s sweaty. Eww gross. Melissa appears at Hazel’s make-up and helps her appropriate it.
Hazel acquired a birthday card in a yellow envelope. It’s from somebody who says they’re household and mentions Chilliwack as a cheerful place for the entire household. Inside is a drawing, which can be hardly applicable for a teenage lady.
Melissa hides the cardboard within the protected, the place there are much more letters stacked up.
Melissa arrives on the studio for Dr. Gregg. Ivy is upset as a result of issues appear to have fallen via with a visitor. Ivy asks Melissa to strive calming down Cathy Weaver, right this moment’s visitor. Melissa appears to be a make-up artist with chairside method who can simply persuade reluctant visitors to speak.
Cathy is reluctant to go on the present, and her husband says it makes them look determined. Melissa says that an armchair skilled from final month mentioned 5 out of six Individuals will likely be victims of violent crime of their lifetimes.
Cathy heard that each violent loss of life is a rock dropped in water. Should you keep silent, the ripples of trauma simply preserve going, pulling everybody they contact beneath. That appears to the touch Melissa.
Hazel sends a photograph of Chilliwack, saying it appears like a reasonably cool place. It evokes Melissa to abruptly flip to Cathy. Somebody murdered her daughter they usually don’t simply get to go on residing. Somebody must pay for what they did to her and Cathy has to ensure he does.
Ivy is like, what the hell, Melissa? With out the emotional element of the present, they’re identical to every other present. Cathy, although, is prepared. Melissa’s outburst labored.
Melissa appears on the textual content once more. What she wants is a frozen deal with and birthday candles for Hazel’s cake. Proper subsequent to the candles, Melissa sees duct tape, which brings again, an unpleasant reminiscence. On the checkout, Melissa will get a burner cellphone together with her order.
Hazel’s birthday dinner is a hit. They’re a cheerful household. Ben is operating a marathon in Could, and he or she tells him to run whereas she cleans up. This offers her the chance to name the Oregon State Jail. She will be able to’t even do it whereas inside the home, taking to the darkish road to make the decision.
Nevertheless, she’s not alone. Renee from subsequent door says good day. She simply moved in. Melissa has a message for her father. Don’t ever name once more, don’t write letters, she’s not , won’t learn them, and can file complaints till he stops. Then she smashes the cellphone on the bottom.
Renee awkwardly tried to interrupt throughout the name. Why??
Dr. Gregg’s assistant Tabitha needs to speak with Melissa. Melissa is bowled over. Dr. Gregg is on the cellphone when she will get there, however he’s excited to see her. John from Authorized can be within the workplace. In two years, Melissa might have by no means met Dr. Gregg. She was a freelancer who dabbled in weddings.
Melissa thinks she’s in hassle for her conduct with Cathy the day earlier than, however Dr. Gregg asks Ivy concerning the Glad Face killer. Melissa is shocked that is taking place. Glad Face referred to as the present earlier right this moment. He’ll solely speak with both Dr. Gregg or Melissa.
Glad mentioned he has been writing to her for years. No one has a clue who she is, however Glad is looking once more momentarily. Both she tells Dr. Gregg, or he’ll get it from Glad Face. He’s her father.
Keith Jesperson is the Glad Face Killer. He needs to listen to Melissa’s voice, however Dr. Gregg interrupts. Keith needs to get “the reality” out to the media, not simply speak together with his daughter.
When she says, “What would you like,” he calls her Missy, which annoys her. She mentioned she already informed him to eff off; wasn’t that sufficient? Keith asks, “Is that how I raised you to talk in entrance of your boss?”
Dr. Gregg says to let him fear about that. Keith confessed in 1995 that there have been eight individuals, however he held one again. There have been 9. Melissa calls bullshit. He claims he’s making an attempt to make issues proper.
He says if she had learn his letters, she would know there have been 9. The ultimate sufferer is Jane. Jane Doe. Melissa is nodding with that uh huh look on her face. He’ll solely inform the reality to Melissa – in particular person.
It’s a four-hour drive. Ivy needs to know if she will be able to do it tomorrow. Ivy needs Melissa to face him down, not run away, however Melissa is aware of Ivy is making an attempt to supply her. Ivy apologies. Has Melissa ever visited him? Twice. When she was 15 proper after he first bought arrested, and when she was pregnant together with her daughter. Ben is aware of, however they informed the youngsters her father was lifeless.
Melissa says that is so fucked, however Ivy says what’s much more fucked, is that if Keith isn’t mendacity, they might get her household a solution. Melissa has loads to consider.
She begins by studying his letters. They include pictures, and one envelope has “discover God right here” with an arrow pointing to the seal. The pictures are common household pictures with a smiling Melissa in her dad’s lap. She types via a field of trinkets, and he or she remembers how he returned from a semi-trip and gave them to her with a narrative about every.
Melissa remembers feeding her dad ice cream on the sofa whereas they watched America’s Most Wished, and mother interrupted to say Melissa was too younger for it.
Ben finds Melissa within the closet, crying. He thinks Keith is mendacity to her, and he can’t consider that her employer is manipulating her as a lot as her father. However Melissa noticed and heard issues that ought to have warned her. She by no means mentioned something.
Ben is nervous. The final time she visited her father, she wasn’t OK, virtually a ghost after her return. She needs them to depart them alone. Ben isn’t certain she needs him to depart her alone.
She says her dad wasn’t at all times a monster, he grew to become one. Earlier than that, he was simply her dad. Ben will assist her, however what is going to they inform the youngsters?
It’s a dreary, wet day after they go to the jail. Keith can hardly stifle the enjoyment on his face when he sees her, however she hesitates to look him within the eye. Ivy introduces herself. He enjoys her work. They’ve gotten permission to document this, however he must signal the discharge first. He doesn’t.
He jokes about it earlier than asking about Chilliwack, after they went swimming, simply the 2 of them. Melissa mentioned then that the river was so sparkly it will need to have been a lady. He’s afraid that if he indicators the shape and talks concerning the lifeless lady, she’ll by no means come again. Both means, she received’t come again.
He indicators the shape with a cheerful face. In her frustration, Melissa says, “Oh, Dad, simply give it to her.” He relishes that she referred to as him dad. Will she do his make-up, too?
She wonders if he simply needs to be on TV. He laughs. He’s not the one who used to parade round the home pretending to be Dolly Parton. He sings “Right here We Come Once more.”
He says she’s nonetheless his little lady, digging in his pockets for treasure. He asks why Melissa is performing like god’s present when she’s the one who benefitted from each kill. She bought presents and time with Daddy as a result of he wanted to be together with her afterward because it bought him out of the darkness.
He bought her trinkets and issues her mother couldn’t afford. Seeing her glad erased all he’d performed as a result of in the event that they liked one another that a lot, then he couldn’t be all that dangerous. He will get teary, and Melissa’s face crumbles.
After he killed the ninth sufferer, he purchased Melissa a trampoline. It was the final present he gave her. She escapes to the lavatory. She’s accosted by a guard outdoors whereas exiting the restroom. He tells her to calm down. He simply needed to see if she was a sick fuck like her dad.
Ivy is asking Keith concerning the sufferer’s identify. Ask Missy. She is aware of.
Melissa is 2 glasses of wine in by the point Ivy joins her on the bar. At the moment was loads, and it’ll take much more than two to overlook. Ivy wants her to recollect. What does she know concerning the time round when she bought the trampoline?
She was 15 on the time. It was winter, and he or she was carrying her puffy coat. It was after Christmas since that’s when she bought the coat. Melissa calls for an additional glass of wine, and the bartender says it’s cheaper to depart the bottle.
Ivy says horrible issues are performed by individuals, they don’t simply occur. And that pursuits her. She’s bought a number of info on his killings, corresponding to that he strangled his victims out and in of consciousness to torment them additional. Melissa must go.
She remembers a time when he took her someplace, telling her easy methods to pull off the right homicide. He reveals her duct tape, however you should take it with you since they’ll get a print off of it. Zip ties are significantly better.
She is disconcerted however jokes that he’s been studying too many crime books. Melissa is now in tears, looking the online for particulars about her father.
She realizes that he lured his first sufferer to a home the place he killed his first sufferer. He was residing there with a lady named Allison. He was going to get bunk beds, however she needed to sleep on the sofa for now. She remembers seeing blood on the ceiling fan. He finds her, questioning what she’s doing. He says it’s spaghetti sauce.
Melissa tells Ivy they should speak together with her mother, who lives in Spokane. Once they arrive, her deaf husband signifies her mother isn’t right here. Melissa needs to undergo the basement to see her mother’s receipts. Once they moved right here, she slept in cots within the basement.
Ivy appears via scattered pictures. One is an image of Amy with a fellow, Brendan, whose face was scratched out. Mother finds them within the basement. Shane informed her Melissa was going to go to Keith.
Mother isn’t very useful and fairly exasperated with the questioning. She works at a safehouse serving to ladies, however Melissa mentioned she by no means helped her personal youngsters. Melissa claims that not telling her personal youngsters is totally different.
When Ivy steps out, Melissa asks why she’s performing so bizarre. Years in the past, after Keith went away, the cellphone rang. He knew simply what she was carrying, proper all the way down to her slippers. She was terrified, sitting on the sofa at midnight, clutching a knife.
She is aware of that Keith had one thing to do with it. Keith mentioned he despatched a “good friend” by who would go to once more. June is aware of that she’s solely alive as a result of Keith needs her to be. She needs Melissa to listen to her. Keith has energy outdoors of these jail partitions, and in the precise circumstances, she’d damage anybody, even his little Missy.
Whereas making her name, Ivy finds the trampoline outdoors. They pull it out to search for clues. It was made in Dunton, Texas, a clue to the final homicide. Melissa takes that information again to Keith. Ivy finds the sufferer, telling Keith she understands why he stored this one out of his confession. He’d fry in Texas. But when he needs to maintain management of his story, now’s the time to do it.
He says he delivered a load of franks to Texas. He needed to wait round for 2 days and met a cute little lady coming off her shift. He wasn’t on the lookout for hassle, however she was hitchhiking, all legs and thumb. It was destiny. She acknowledged him from the bar and mentioned her truck died. Victims at all times relaxed after they noticed pictures of his daughters within the truck.
He wonders what occurred to his little lady who needed to be a star who’s now simply doing the make-up of stars herself. The little bartender sang superbly, they usually had intercourse. He didn’t rape her.
He by no means raped any ladies or paid for intercourse. Did they prefer it tough, and did he strangle them? Sure, however he by no means raped them. She mentioned she’d be a giant star sometime, and he can say he knew her when.
It rubbed him the mistaken means, so he strangled her, utilizing his methodology of urgent his fist into their larynx till he smelled urine. Then he was performed. However the bartender was totally different.
He was choking her, however this odor began coming off of her, much like how scents come off of a skunk. It was grapefruit. The odor of it stuffed up the entire truck. It threw him, but it surely was the odor of her loss of life. He had simply began transferring her, and he or she awoke. He hit her over the top together with his 11-inch canine wrench, and he or she died.
He picked her up, carried her all the way down to the bridge, and dumped her. Then, he purchased a trampoline and drove straight to Melissa. He thinks she’s identical to him, even when she doesn’t see it.
Performing robust, secretive by nature, however deep down, stuffed with insecurity. Afraid she will be able to’t love or be liked. He’s not impressed with Ben, the department supervisor, or her youngsters, Max and Hazel. Don’t you fuckin’ discuss my youngsters, Melissa spits at him.
He’s sorry she has to have a dad like him. She deserves higher.
Later, she remembers the guitar decide he gave her from his pocket. She asks Ben to enter her protected. He didn’t even have the code till now. The bar was the Whisky River. It’s their lead on the ninth sufferer.
Ben worries about her, however he says out loud that if she goes down this highway, it can come out that her dad is the Glad Face killer. She is aware of that, proper? Hazel overhears.
Ivy finds the ultimate sufferer. Heather Richmond was raped and murdered on February 18 in 1995, however her boyfriend, Elijah Carter, was convicted of her homicide and stays on loss of life row, sustaining her innocence. He’s sentenced to die in two months. They’ve bought to go to Texas.
Hazel searches for the Glad Face Killer. Her expression when she sees him for the primary time is unreadable.