I want to talk a little bit about the sisters who were freed from the Devlin house. Specifically, about what they tell the Night Nurse when she interviews them after they're rescued.
They say, "those amazing ghost boys freed us."
Charles wasn't up and about when they finally come out of the loop. He certainly wasn't doing anything heroic. He was still on the floor, where he'd been knocked earlier by Mr. Devlin.
But that means that, for all they couldn't respond, the Devlins must have been aware of what was going on around them.
For all they couldn't say a word for themselves, they must have seen Edwin, Charles, and Crystal trying to help.
They must have seen Charles stand up to their father. Draw a weapon in their defense, and step in to protect them, in a way that literally no one, for the past thirty years, has tried to do.
Charles spends the next two episodes at an absolute emotional low. He thinks the worst of himself. He is painfully, acutely aware of his own helplessness to support the people he cares about.
In a very big way that kicks off here, in the Devlin house, where despite his very best efforts, he was able to help no one at all.
It's touching to think that, whether he knew it or not, Charles made an impact, after all.
He thought he'd done nothing, that he'd helped no one – but he did, in the end.
To those girls, he was brave. To them, the fact that he stood up to their father must have meant the world.
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