Maureen Callahan

Anne Freeman, the mother of Carolyn, Lauren, and Lisa Bessette, her only children.

Two of them are now dead.

Imagine what Anne thought her later years would be like.

I'm sure she envisioned grandchildren and no shortage of happy times.

with her brilliant accomplished daughters and now two of them are dead.

Their bodies have yet to be recovered and she doesn't know if they will be.

And so this is what the scene gets right is that Anne had a meeting in Manhattan in a lawyer's office and her meeting was scheduled to be with Caroline Kennedy.

And the topic of that meeting, the only agenda item was what they were going to do with the remains once they were recovered and how they were going to memorialize John, Carolyn, and Lauren.

Caroline Kennedy did not show up, nor did she have the decency to give Anne Freeman notice prior that she would not be attending this meeting.

Instead, she sent her husband, the vile, deplorable, just my opinion, Ed Schlossberg.

And in real life,

Now, this series does a lot to humanize Ed and Caroline, maybe because they're still living.

I don't know.

I'm much more cynical than that.

I think it's because you cannot make Kennedys sympathetic without giving them traits they don't possess, without giving them a basic level of humanity they do not embody.

We'll watch this scene, and then I'll tell you what really went down.

To quote the one and only Hoda Kotb, Savannah, your mother got ripped out of her bed in the dead of night.

What went down?

Here we go.

Where is she?