A major revelation comes to life as the group decides what to do with Silas.
What can I say?
I’m warming up to this fella.
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As for the truths, let’s unpack those one by one.
Silas is tied up to a swing-set pole outside.
He’s crying, quivering, staring up at the stars in the night sky.
Everyone else is trying to figure out what to do with him.
Silas says he doesn’t remember what happened when he blacked out.
Silascouldhave done it, but also maybe (and definitely) not.
Elton is somehow the only logical thinker of the group.
That leads us into Silas’s flashback, which takes us back to the day he killed his father.
Silas’s dad used to be a good parent.
But something changed, perhaps his drinking habit.
He started beating on both him and his mom.
That fateful day, his dad was screaming at Silas for leaving the kitchen a mess.
He then attacked his son and began strangling him to teach him a lesson.
Silas fought back and beat his dad until his face was unrecognizable.
Silas then finds his dad upstairs.He turned into an empty.
When the tape deck runs out, he doesn’t hear anything anymore until his mom comes home.
He can’t find any.
She does save Silas later that night, however.
An empty broke through the gate and was crawling towards Silas.
He didn’t scream for help but struggled in panic and eventually loosed his restraints.
But then he remembered the look on his mother’s face when he killed his father.
She was terrified of him.
So, instead he stared up to the stars to await his death.
That’s when Hope came in to kill the empty.
She says she believes Silas killed Tony and Percy, but that too many people have died already.
That night, Elton and Iris can’t sleep.
Elton believes they all should have a vote in what happens to Silas after this.
Iris goes to Silas the next morning.
She wants him to say he didn’t kill them, but he genuinely can’t.
To her surprise, Silas stands up, free of the ropes.
He thinks there’s something wrong with him.
He says he killer who murdered his dad, Tony, and Percy.
Silas makes the decision to leave and walks off alone.
He also hopes that maybe he can find his mom and sister one day.
That’s when Hope comes clean about what really happened.
She hands him his mother’s necklace and tells the story.
Having slipped away on his own, Elton is obviously torn up about the revelation.
He clutches his mother’s necklace and cries, but then he gains a flash of Silas.
So he trudges on.
The second truth has nothing to do with Silas and all to do with Huck.
She is a secret CRM agent.
Not only that, but she’s the daughter of Col. Elizabeth Kublek.
Huck confirms to Kublek that “the asset” is safe, whatever that is.
Whatever it may be, this all means the kids are actually falling right into the CRM’s hands.
That is unless the absence of Silas and Elton forces the group to diverge from their current course.
