Around the 37:03 mark in episode 3 of the present, Leo stumbles upon the disemboweled physique of Pluto, along with his drug-crushing knife wedged into her physique. The close-ups of this grisly scene final until 37:10, publish which, Leo disposes of the physique quietly and seeks to undertake a similar-looking black feline to evade suspicion and suppress his rising guilt. As Julius is unaware of this drug-hazed accident, Leo intends to maintain it a secret from him, digging his grave additional when he visits a pet store, whose proprietor is none apart from the mysterious, elusive Verna (Carla Gugino).
Once the sequence hones in on Roderick Usher’s (Bruce Greenwood) confession, it turns into clear that the Usher youngsters, who’re all useless inside the span of two weeks, have been held accountable for the sins of their father (and aunt), paying the value for his or her household’s doomed legacy and their very own personally-curated hells. Leo’s predicament is not any exception: after he adopts one other black cat and passes her off as Pluto, the feline scratches him aggressively, pounces on him with out warning, and leaves bloody, useless animals for him round the home. Pushed to the sting by these occasions, and Verna’s menacing phrases when she visits, Leo gouges the cat’s eye out, which happens across the 48:05 mark in episode 4.
While these scenes are disturbing to witness, it’s later revealed that Pluto the Cat was by no means useless within the first place — Leo’s “realization” that he had by chance killed her was part of the hallucinations induced by Verna to set his loss of life in movement. As the adopted cat was basically one in all Verna’s many methods, no cats had been really harmed by Leo, whether or not by chance or on function.
