Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Season 3, Episode 10, “Revelations: Chapter Two.”
THE Of The Season 3 finale finds Sara Myers (Avery Konrad) making a shocking decision when she’s alone with Elgin (Nathan D. Simmons). In Season 1, Sara hears voices that tell her to kill certain individuals among Ofof cast of characters. The voices promise that these murders will allow Sara and the other residents to escape the town, but this is a lie, and the manipulation ends in tragedy when Sara accidentally kills her own brother, Nathan (Paul Zinno).
Many of the residents still don’t trust Sara and discover that she is one of the Ofone of the scariest characters, but Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau) has learned that he can count on her, including when she helped him during his journey through the forest in the final episodes of season 1. Meanwhile, Elgin has been deeply invested in ensuring that Fatima (Pegah Ghafoori) gives birth, even when it means hiding her whereabouts from the other characters. This leads Sara to make a brutal choice, as she refuses to let Elgin keep this secret for the duration. Of season 3 finale.
Sara tortures Elgin because she is already corrupted by the town, but doesn’t want Boyd to be
She doesn’t want to see the city break Boyd
Sara recognizes that Elgin is convinced that Fatima’s baby in Of will save everyone and needs to be tortured to divulge this information. Boyd breaks Elgin’s hand with a hammer, but this is not enough to make Elgin talk. Sara is grateful for the support and benefit of the doubt Boyd gave her. She knows he is a good man and doesn’t want him to see him lose himself and be corrupted by the dark forces of the city.
Due to the murders she committed in Season 1 and the voices she hears in her head, Sara finds herself already corrupted by the city and beyond the point of redemption. Sara takes out Elgin’s eye to prevent the town from completely breaking Boyd and have Elgin finally reveal where Fátima is being held captive. Especially now that the voices have returned, Sara feels like she can’t be saved, but she wants to spare Boyd before it’s too late for him too.
Will Sara be punished for gouging out Elgin’s eye in season 4?
Many residents will want to punish her, but she will probably be fine
After Tillie (Deborah Grover) was murdered, many residents assumed that Sara was to blame and wanted to see her punished for it. Donna Raines (Elizabeth Saunders) explained to Boyd that the residents never understood that Boyd forgave Sara and let her live freely in the town. When they learn about what Sara did to Elgin, they will have a new reason to demonize her and call for her to be punished. However, the residents will also have plenty of reasons to be upset with Elgin, Fátima and even Boyd because of the secrets he hid.
Sara’s unique connection to the voices and the city itself makes her invaluable, and punishing her doesn’t help any of the story’s larger problems. Of.
While there may be protests demanding that Sara be punished, focusing on that would be a mistake. Between the emergence of the Man in the Yellow Suit (Douglas E. Hughes) who killed Jim Matthews (Eion Bailey), the rebirth of Smiley (Jamie McGuire) and the discoveries made by Tabitha Matthews (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and Jade Herrera (David Alpay) , the residents have more pressing concerns to deal with in season 4. Sara’s unique connection to the voices and the city itself makes her invaluable, and punishing her doesn’t help. with any of the major problems Of.