(Google “ Tuskegee syphilis study”.)ĭr Epstein was a follower of Horatio Winthrop – one of Titus Braithwaite’s old cultist chums – and the money for the house found its way to Leti via an elaborate Christina Braithwaite ruse. So what’s the deal with “the Winthrop House”, as the Leti’s arresting officer dubs it? It is haunted by the the souls of eight black South Siders, kidnapped and supplied to the previous owner Dr Epstein for experimentation, that’s what. Instead, wordlessly, Tic and other men grab guns to ensure she’s allowed to finish and, when she has done, Ruby quickly collects the incriminating evidence in her boot and drives off to dump it. This time it is Leti who picks up the baseball ball, and starts smashing up a row of racists’ cars.Īny kind of fightback would be dangerous in this neighbourhood, but what is powerful about Leti’s Lemonade moment is that nobody tries to hold her back. But there is so much else going on – sexual tension between Tic and Letitia, more roof-raising R’n’B from Ruby’s band and gossip about “that newcomer preacher” Martin (Google “ Betty Moitz”) – that it takes an actual burning cross on the lawn to focus the partygoers’ attention. Those ghosts and/or nuisance neighbours don’t let up on the night of the housewarming party either. We get another chance to see Wunmi Mosaku perform as Ruby. Or is it ghosts? Tic picks up a baseball bat and heads down into the basement to investigate (he’s got her, kid). So when strange things start happening in the house, Leti naturally assumes it is the local segregationists up to mischief. He is persuaded to stick around when Leti’s new neighbours launch their harassment campaign with a cacophony of blaring car horns.
As these two big men square up to each other, it becomes clear that Tic won’t be sleeping on the couch, after all.Īnd who just happens to have a spare room going? Amid the bustle of moving-in day at Leti’s recently acquired crumbling mansion, Tic turns up to announce his return to Florida. Montrose wants to stick with their cover story Tic feels she deserves the supernatural truth. This brief moment of father-son bonding ends with a row over what to tell Hippolyta about George’s death. Out of nowhere came a mysterious stranger swinging a bat like Jackie Robinson, hit home runs on all their heads, saving you both, and all he said before disappearing was …” – and Montrose pitches in: “I got you, kid.” Montrose is not in a good way either, drunk in the middle of the day, and reliving a memory from his and George’s youth, so well-worn that even Tic can recite it. Tic has been staying with George’s widow, Hippolyta (Aunjanue Ellis), but having worn out his welcome, he drops by Montrose’s apartment. Meanwhile, back on the South Side, life is not easy for the family George left behind. “Just last year there was almost a riot across town because a negro couple moved into an all-white building.” (Google “ Trumbull Park Homes race riots”.) Her younger sister wants them to be black “pioneers” of integration and she is not so optimistic. Yet Ruby is worried less by the necessary structural updates to the house and more by the necessary structural updates to American society.
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY EPISODE 3 SUMMARY WINDOWS
Ten days later three people went missing inside the house …”Ĭut to a sunny day in a North Side neighbourhood, as an excitable Leti leads her wary sister to a gothic-looking pile with boarded-up windows and dust everywhere.
Then, signalling the start of a new story arc, a title screen: “In the summer of 1955, a group of negro men … moved into a house in the North Side of Chicago. We opened at George’s funeral (RIP my hopes of a speedy Courtney B Vance reanimation), with another of the spoken-word soundtrack choices that Lovecraft Country is making a speciality (see the listening guide below). Montrose (Michael K Williams, left) isn’t coping well with the death of his brother George.