Joanna Robinson

Give me one of your children.

I need to train up an apprentice.

I need an heir to my demon ways.

Okay.

And give me one of your children or else you'll go the way of Roanoke, the famed colony that disappeared.

He's claiming that he's the one who made Roanoke disappear.

He's like, so either give me one of your children or I will take all of your children anyway and you will all walk two by two into the sea.

And Tim Daly, hero of the hour, is like, we can't do this for our souls.

We cannot do this.

And it's basically him against the entire town.

And he's like, we don't know that he has these powers to do this.

We don't know that he is like a supernatural evil.

And if we make this decision to give up one of our children, like, how do we live with ourselves after?

Which is the question that Patricia asks inside this episode.

What does this say about us?

His wife, however, is like, we got to do it.

We got to give up a child.

The twist is, sorry, spoilers for this thing.

It's Tim Daly and his wife's child is the one that gets taken because the whole town votes and they decide to give up a child and then they draw lots.

It's very much like Shirley Jackson's lottery and it's his child.