41. August 4, 2021

Summary

• Holly Gibney is at home, considering taking more pain medication, when Isabelle Jaynes arrives with two FBI agents, Herbert Beale and Curtis Rogan.
• Rogan is a profiler who flew in to work on a case involving serial killers and cannibalism.
• Izzy asks Holly about a newspaper headline that suggests the involvement of cannibalism in their case, anticipating a press conference by the District Attorney and Chief Murphy.
• Forensic analysis and the FBI team have uncovered diaries in the bedroom closet of Emily Harris that began before the murder of Jorge Luis Castro.
• Rogan points out the diaries contain over a thousand pages of what he describes as "fascinating" content, whereas Izzy refers to it as "terrifying."
• Izzy shares that Emily Harris was more psychologically disturbed than her husband Rodney, and she influenced him to go from theoretical discussions about cannibalism to actual murder and consumption.
• The diary entries reveal an intense hatred Emily harbored, evidenced by repetitive derogatory language targeted at Castro and others.
• There's speculation that Emily may have even kept her hate-diaries secret from her husband.
• Rogan notes the psychological goldmine the diaries represent, while Holly uses a more negative term to describe their content.
• The diaries suggest Emily viewed the consumption of Castro as a miracle cure for physical ailments and believed it provided various advantages, but the effects eventually faded, prompting further acts of cannibalism.
• Izzy laments that the couple should have been caught earlier given their sloppy attempts at cleaning up crime scenes.
• Holly comments on the unlikelihood of older people being suspected as serial killers and cannibals.
• Izzy credits Holly for her role in uncovering the truth, and Holly acknowledges Barbara and her poet friend Olivia Kingsbury for piecing together the mystery.
• Beale and Rogan prepare to leave, warning Holly of the impending media attention, which Holly acknowledges with a joking remark about complimentary nuts, prompting laughter among them.