The Sinner 3.3: The Baby

An especially chilling episode of The Sinner - 3.3 - this past Thursday because, well, the focus of Jamie's psychotic urges was a baby.  His and his wife Leela's.

Nothing happens to their baby, but the mixture of a sweet young newborn and Jamie was disconcerting in a way that psychos in television drama usually are not.  Ambroise, hearing about at least a little of this from Jamie, gets him to a hospital, with a shrink, and security.  But Jamie, before Ambrose's very eyes, bolts.  Which I don't quite get - that is, I don't get why hospital security let that happen.

We saw that the doctor questioning Jamie was disturbed by what he was hearing.  So the doc did nothing because .... what Jamie said was insufficient to hold him?  Talk about letting a baby fall to the floor was insufficient?

The Sinner is and has always been about crime and psychosis of one kind or another than you don't find elsewhere on television.  Jamie and his baby has certainly brought that to a whole new frightening level.  And what's Ambrose now going to do?  Allow Jamie to go home to his wife and baby?

The one bright spot in this episode was the slight flicker of romance between Ambrose and that artist.  It was sweet when she asked for Ambrose's helping hand to climb over a log or a ditch or whatever, Ambrose gives it but remarks that she didn't really need it, and she replies that "someone has to break the ice".   Cool.   But, Ambrose, do something about that baby.  At least, get Leela and the baby out of the house,

See also The Sinner 3.1: Second Degree Murder, First Degree Detective ... The Sinner 3.2:  The Contractor and the Contractee

And see also The Sinner 2.1: The Boy ... The Sinner 2.2:  Heather's Story ... The Sinner 2.3: Julian's Mother ... The Sinner 2.5: The Scapegoat ... The Simmer 2.7: Occluded Past Unwound - Mostly ... The Sinner Season 2 Finale: The Ambiguity of Harry

And see also: The Sinner season one: Wild, Unconventional, Irresistible Mystery

 
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