Joanna Robinson

This happens in The Stand, etc.

Oh, The Stand miniseries.

Also very good.

comes to town he knows all of the dark secrets of everyone on this island and he will just like say it to them he'll be like hey remember when you gay bashed a man he lost his eye you should go see his paisley eye patch happy pride like that's like literally that's one of the secrets that he unearths he just like walks around and tells people the first thing he does

is he just kills the shit out of an old lady.

I believe he beats her with his cane.

Okay.

And so I was thinking a lot about Ruth when I was thinking about this old lady who dies right at the beginning of this.

You're right.

How do you go from patriarchy good, actually, to this?

The world may never know.

But after he's, like, terrorized the town, and then Tim Daly's character, as is often the case in these Stephen King stories, is the sheriff.

And he is, like, the beacon of good and truth on this island.

And he refuses to, like...

Get rid of this guy right away.

He's like due process.

I believe in due process.

But eventually there's this huge town meeting where this guy is played by a Canadian actor, Confior, like comes in and just like tells everyone in the town their various secrets.

And then he's like, I have but one wish and then I will go away and the storm will go away.

I would like one of your children.