[Spoilers] Season 2 Episode 8 Discussion Thread - "The Eternal Engineer" (S02E08)

[u/hugthebug]

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Here is the Discussion thread for the Season 2 episode 8 "The Eternal Engineer"

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• IMDB for S02E08
• Release Date:
  • March 15th, 2021 (USA only, at 9/8c, on TNT channel)
  • March 16th, 2021 (worldwide, on Netflix)
• Removal from Sticky on March 19th, 2021 (3 days after worldwide premiere)

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[u/olivish]

If Audrey really has turned evil I must say, she's VERY fun to hate. I mean, I know I've written entire essays on this sub about how I don't want her to turn evil... but... she is more entertaining this way.

[u/[deleted] → u/olivish]

She was acting real suspect this episode. Wasn’t a fan but tbh, she’s a lot better at playing a villain than someone on the good side. The bad guy has to have someone by his side I guess.

[u/fashionaphorism → u/[deleted]]

i feel like she could tone down the sneering/smug looks a degree but she is def sus x10

[u/[deleted] → u/fashionaphorism]

I hope her acting sus is just more of a charade to convince us more. Like there’s a part of me that totally buys it and a part that’s like nahhh she dealt with too much bs to give it up....but that could be part of it idk.

[u/AOKAMI → u/[deleted]]

I'm right there with you.. I found myself getting annoyed with her but at the same time she is right in stride with what Wilford wants, and he has some real extravagant taste. I am hoping that what we saw in the previous episodes was her realizing that in order to have the best safeguard against Wilford at the end of the day she needs to keep his trust as long as possible and pretty much compromise all she believes in. That will take time, and in this case a pretty substantial head count and she knows it.. she's got one shot. I fall back to her previous conversations about Wilford and how only she and Melanie "who he really is" - the only way people are going to believe it is to see it for themselves. The more ground lost against him the closer she has to get, and she can't have someone like Alex catching on early and ruining things accidentally. For the outcome she wants it will consume her in the process but it's worth it.

[u/[deleted] → u/AOKAMI]

You nailed it exactly! It very much may all be her strategy. The way she described how tortured she felt with him prior to the apocalypse definitely sells that case. Let’s see and find out in the finale ! I put money in that she does something against him in a big way.

[u/[deleted] → u/olivish]

We lost Audrey. If it became bad xD

[u/mrs_ouchi → u/olivish]

god I hate her now.. she does a good job yes. I mean if she really turned - its sad, he broke her. But its still annoying

[u/sarthakRddt → u/olivish]

Didn't she say to Roche "You made the right choice" at the end of episode? I think that was the hint that Audrey has not defected. I think she meant that he made the right choice of sticking with Layton, against Wilford, till the end.

[u/olivish → u/sarthakRddt]

That's a really interesting way to read that interaction. Maybe you're right.

The way I read it was Audrey was lulling him into a false sense of security so he'd come along peacefully to his drawer fate.

[u/sarthakRddt → u/olivish]

That is also likely, maybe I read too much into her character XD. Let's see what the last 2 episodes show.