Note: The following contains spoilers from “The Watchful Eye” Season 1 Episode 10,
Freeform’s “The Watchful Eye” finale turns up the volume on the mystery troubling Graybourne as Elena finally reveals the identity of Eli’s killer, which she offers to Tori at a high price.
After learning that her husband, Dick, was responsible for Allie’s death, Tori (Amy Acker) gives her a poisoned smoothie to force her to confess to a crime, with the promise of an antidote. He must tell the truth once and for all. On the edge of life and death, Dick comes to Tory and admits that he drugged Ellie to induce suicidal thoughts, and that when Ellie took action to end her own life, he did not stop it. Although Tory provides Dick with a life-saving antidote – after he claims that he did what he did so that Tory could live a peaceful life without his sister – a rage-filled Tory stabs Dick with a pair of scissors, killing him. Blood started flowing.
Moments later, Elena (Mariel Molino) goes to Tori’s apartment to find Tori standing over Dick’s lifeless body, covered in blood and frozen in adrenaline, before Tori tells Elena “We need a shovel, — a moment executive producer Emily Fox suggests implicating Elena in whatever happens next.
Fox told TheWrap, “Almost anybody who’s gone to that point is complicit in what just happened.” “When [Tory] Elena looks up, it’s almost a relief to her because she knows there’s probably someone in the building who has a vested interest in what’s going to happen next.
While the show has not yet been renewed for a season 2, Fox also teased that characters involved in dark plots could get their appearances in a possible secondary season, saying that the phrase, “Be careful what you want,” is a central theme in the next chapter of the story.
“When you make a deal with the devil, it will pay off,” said Fox. “There are so many interesting things to explore in the world we’ve created – so many consequences.”
Keep reading to get seven burning questions from “The Watchful Eye” finale, answered by the expert herself.
TheWrap: After Matthew’s arrest, Mrs. Ivey tells Elena that she needs to stop transferring money until things calm down. Was Mrs. Ivey always going to make the deal if Elena wasn’t right for Tory?
Emily Fox: I think Mrs. Ive had no intention of paying him in the beginning, so she organized James to get rid of her. When it became clear that James had failed in his mission, Mrs. Ivey retreated a little into a corner; As was Elena, because she always knew she couldn’t depend on or trust any of them. So, she’s taking advantage of whatever she has in every direction… I think Mrs. Ivey doesn’t normally bargain, and she’s very rarely pushed to a place where she has to.
Amidst all the craziness, Elena also learns that her brother has set her up in a trap with their mother, who blackmails her for money. Why did Teo decide to work with his mother?
Teo is just a kid. He just wants his mother to love him, and his mother is a toxic narcissist, so he doesn’t really love anyone. But he’s fallen under her spell in a way that a lot of people have, and he doesn’t have enough agency or life experience to recognize it for what it is. … Beneath his adolescent whims, he just wants his family back, and he’s not ready to give up the fantasy that that could happen. In his mind, he and his mom are going to work together and Elena is coming, and then they’re all going home… I think all kids want to believe their parents, and I Ronnie seems to have to believe it makes perfect sense to me.
After escaping James’s grasp, Elena approaches Tory and tells her that she will reveal who killed her sister. Why did Tory agree to the settlement?
She is afraid of the truth, but she also needs to know. She doesn’t trust Elena at all, but she also knows that Elena isn’t taking her bullshit. She’s agreeing to it, because I think curiosity is overpowering, and it’s morbid curiosity. It shouldn’t matter because Ali is dead and we can’t bring him back, but it does matter, because I think Tori has found the truth on some level that she just can’t reach , or he has not allowed himself to be seen or felt, and he is not closed on this thing. that’s not nice. Elena has said that Tori is in a lot of pain during the season, and I think there’s a little part of her that thinks, “If I knew the answer, maybe that would help the pain, maybe that would take it away.” Will you help me go?”
When Tory threatens to tell Dick the truth, why does Dick come clean to Tory? Would he have ever told her if he wasn’t in the process of dying?
He comes clean because he knows he is the only way to get this antidote. If we’re psychoanalyzing this guy who just got poisoned, then all criminals want to confess, right? Because the burden of guilt can really destroy you from inside. I think there’s a small part of her that is proud of what she did… Dick’s perception of the whole situation is so two dimensional and so primal, and Tory is playing a completely different game. I think he’s like, “If I confess, she’ll save my life and then really, we get everything we want.”
Why does Tory choose to kill Dick?
If anyone is the poster child of repressed anger, it’s Torrie Ayers. It was supposed to come out sometime. I think they’ve been sitting there since Scissors episode 1 and there was always an understanding that that kind of vengeful anger, when it goes out of control, is unstoppable. For him to come out in a violent act I find horrifying, but it’s also a kind of catharsis.
Why did Darcy forge the letter in Ellie’s article and hand it over to the police?
She saw something on the laptop that implicates someone else and she wants to protect that person. Then again, he’s young – young men don’t always think about the consequences of their actions. You do something that may seem a little foolish or reckless or just plain illegal, but you do it because you’re pretty sure it’s the right thing to do, and you’ll find out it probably isn’t and maybe a kind of crime of Darcy, we know, is one who is a little far from reality. She is alone with her thoughts for a long time and she makes a decision that is very damaging to Matthew. She believes that collateral damage.
Has Mrs. Ivey always seen Jocelyn’s ghost?
She hears him and she knows he’s behind that stairwell wall, and she’s heard that cry all her life. She’s been the only one with that information – no one else knows, no one else can hear it – Elena is the first person who’s been there to hear it, at least that we know of.
Whether or not she knows the truth about who’s crying and why and what they’re crying about, we don’t know for sure yet. But it’s safe to think that she’s been hearing this cry all her life and it drives her crazy and that’s why she plays the piano to drown it out.
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