This can be a scene-by-scene recap of Comfortable Face Season 1 Episode 2, “Killing Disgrace.” For a dialogue of the episode, please go to our Comfortable Face Collection Premiere Assessment.
Melissa and Ivy arrive in Jefferson, Texas. Melissa has to inform Elijah’s lawyer every part.
It brings up recollections of the day they found her dad was in jail. Elijah by no means had an opportunity, in accordance with a video he recorded along with his lawyer. Their final attraction left them out of choices. The one bodily proof towards Elijah was a fingerprint on the steering wheel.
Gabriella, the legal professional, wants an absolute ruckus to convey consideration to this, and Melissa must testify in court docket.
Now, as Melissa grapples with testifying, she remembers her mother rounding all of them as much as purchase each newspaper in the whole area. June knew that if folks bought wind of this, all they’d ever be are the household of a serial killer. Her first intuition is to run.
After telling her the excellent news — that his boss is retiring and desires him to comply with in his footsteps — Ben reminds Melissa that this isn’t her fault and that she ought to simply breathe. He’s bought the chance to turn into regional supervisor, which suggests extra money and extra freedom.
Whereas exterior, Melissa walks previous the Whisky River. She exhibits the bartender her dad’s photograph, and he calls his dad over. Carl says he appears acquainted, however numerous truckers got here via. It’s a thankless job and lonely. He hopes her dad is retired.
She snaps a photograph of Melissa’s photograph behind the bar, and the bartender asks if she knew Melissa. He went to highschool together with her. She was a number of years forward of him. He wonders if she’s exploiting her useless buddy along with his social media.
They’ve a countdown for Elijah’s execution close by. Is that what she wanted to do the suitable factor?
Keith is boasting to his fellow prisoners about his kills. They may even do an entire episode of Dr. Gregg about him. He laughs, “There’s an entire lot extra the place that got here from.” He says he’s doing it to save lots of a person’s life. No person can say he’s all that dangerous if he does that.
Hazel will get bullied in school when some ladies discover a photograph of her grandfather on her telephone. They name her Queen Furry Bush. One of many two ladies apologizes, telling her to get a razor or a wax as a result of after they change within the locker room, it’s protruding in every single place.
Melissa and Ivy are working with Tyler and an actress to convey the dying of Heather to the display screen. Ivy is offended at Melissa for caring extra about her anonymity than a person on dying row.
Hazel is on the drugstore shopping for bikini wax when a boy named Josh says hey. She will get flustered and walks out with the bikini wax, setting off the alarm.
Melissa will get calls from Ben and silences them. When the movie shoot is over, Elijah’s sister Joyce finds them. She’s spent three many years screaming into the wind. The girl who lastly heard her get hugs. Joyce is so grateful. Whereas she’s speaking, Melissa takes Ben’s name. Hazel wasn’t shoplifting. It was an accident.
Ben isn’t happy that Melissa isn’t leaping on the subsequent aircraft to go dwelling. However when she’s on the telephone, she finds a contented face carved into the tree close to the place Heather was killed.
Gabriella brings the district legal professional by to take a look at the tree. He doesn’t consider this implies something. He thinks that is all circumstantial, which makes Melissa communicate up. What if Jesperson’s daughter desires to testify?
He says he doesn’t know Jesperson’s daughter, however he is aware of sufficient to know that if she grew up with a monster for a father, as an grownup, she’d have her personal set of issues. The web being what it’s, it wouldn’t take lengthy to search for this girl and use her points on the stand to make her testimony nugatory.
Proper after her father was arrested, Melissa was crushed by native teenagers for his actions. She deserves her father getting the needle, silly bitch.
Phrase is already out in school about being Jesperson’s granddaughter. One woman says her grandfather helped convey down the night time stalker, which is how she grew to become a murderino, and if they arrive together with her tomorrow, they’ll present her what meaning.
The DA revoked approval for Melissa and Ivy to go to with Elijah.
Melissa will get dwelling, strolling right into a heat hug with Ben. Melissa bought the children some trinkets from the airport. Like father, like daughter. However she has some a lot worse information. She’s interested by popping out about her dad on the present.
Melissa is completely pissed off about what they’ve uncovered being completely disregarded, believing they’re a bunch of outdated white guys who refuse to confess they made a mistake. She tells Ben how Joyce mentioned they should make plenty of noise to maneuver conservative courts.
She is holding on to what the DA mentioned about her being similar to her dad. He made her really feel like she was nothing, like she was 15 once more, accountable for what her dad did.
She wonders why she’s so fucking determined to maintain a secret? For who? Hazel admits she knew. She didn’t say something as a result of Melissa wasn’t right here. Hazel is pissed that they lied to her all her life. But when Melissa will help Elijah, then she must do it.
Hazel says she instructed some folks in school, they usually assume it’s cool. She calls him Grandpa, and Melissa corrects her. They are going to by no means meet. He’s a killer. Max hears the dialog, and Melissa tells him the reality.
Max wonders why his grandfather is in jail. Did he damage dangerous folks? No. Can he have some ice cream? Sure.
Ben is adamant that that is dangerous. Hazel stands behind her household. Mendacity is towards every part they’ve taught them. Ben cruelly compares Melissa’s return from the street to how Keith would come again from journeys with trinkets.
As a teen, Melissa hid her assault with make-up.
Grownup Melissa prepares to go extensive on the Dr. Gregg present whereas Hazel’s pals take her to the homicide museum. Her buddy says I believed your grandfather was Canada’s most well-known serial killer. The museum has a few of his “work.”
On the Dr. Gregg present, Keith tells his story, together with how he used to duct tape his victims to the underside of the cab to maintain them from rolling in every single place. Lastly, Melissa admits he’s her father. She tells him about her household and visiting Chilliwack. She didn’t come right here to humanize her father however to speak about Elijah.
Dr. Gregg says folks right here wish to know what it was wish to develop up with a serial killer. She remembers her first reminiscence of Chilliwack earlier than Dr. Gregg presses her about whether or not she nonetheless loves her father. She describes her dad’s MO and the way he bought caught.
He was questioned in regards to the homicide of Louise Nelson, who was completely different than different victims, as they have been relationship. They have been going to get married, and Melissa thought she would have made an excellent stepmother. Dr. Gregg pushes. After all, she couldn’t assist however consider her father. And she or he had a reference to Louise. They each liked a killer.
The girl on the museum presents $100 for Hazel’s birthday drawing. Hazel is shocked he can promote his work from jail and generate income from it. The museum curator says they promote out quick.
Melissa recounts what the Texas DA mentioned about her being an apple that doesn’t fall removed from a tree. Ivy asks Dr. Gregg to push once more. DOES Melissa fear that she’s like her dad? Melissa says she would by no means damage anybody and begins itemizing solutions about why she’s not like her dad.
All she ever needed was to have a standard household the place her youngsters didn’t have to fret about being evicted, going hungry, or visiting their father in jail.
Dr. Gregg says she labored laborious to create the right life from the skin, however does she assume she’s not removed from him in any case? Her father didn’t love her sufficient to not kill girls. She knew him finest, and he or she didn’t know. All the individuals who bully her are simply perpetuating that she already knew — she’s nugatory.
Melissa cries. What if she’s like him? She got here from him. He appeared so regular, however there was a facet of him that was so darkish. That’s why she doesn’t wish to see her father.
He plugs right into a facet of her that’s uncontrolled. Dr. Gregg says her father is manipulating her. Fortunately, he pulls it round and tells her every part pretty about her. She says she is aware of. She’ll by no means be her father.
She tells Dr. Gregg she feels relieved.
In jail, Keith tapes a information story in regards to the ninth sufferer to his wall.
A person in a comfort retailer sees the paper and finds Melissa’s photograph inside, because the story discusses what she’s revealed.