Warning: This post contains spoilers for Friday’s series finale ofServant, titled “Fallen.”
Did Dorothy say yes?
Leanne, once an innocent live-in caretaker slowly shedding her shell outside the cult-like religious group in which she was raised, has now come into her full power: She discovered her earth-shattering supernatural abilities the Church of the Lesser Saints so fears, and she doesn’t always use those powers for good.
But this season, the Turners turned their backs on Leanne, and she was ready to make the ultimate Faustian bargain with Dorothy: Simply say yes and I’ll bring back Jericho forever, but she gets to stay part of the household.
The newly clearheaded Dorothy, now almost fully recovered from her big fall at the end of season 3, declines the offer, but thanks Leanne as they level with each other. She tells Leanne in an emotional moment on the rooftop, in the middle of a rainstorm, why she can’t ask her to bring Jericho back from the dead again.
“It was the kindest thing anyone has ever done for me. I would’ve given anything to have had him for one more minute, and you gave me months with him. But this pain that I feel now,” says Dorothy through tears, “that’s part of my love for him too. I need to feel it.”
Leanne feels like she’ll never be forgiven, but Dorothy gets through to her and the two women move past their mistakes and accept each other for their true “heart.”
“I would’ve been so proud to have a daughter like you,” Dorothy tells her as the storm worsens and Leanne, again blaming herself, doesn’t know how to stop the chaos she ignited.
Once it seems Leanne is finally accepted back into the Turner family — even without Jericho resurrected — and they ask her to come with them as they flee the flooding, she makes an excuse to go back into their home one more time. Inside, she strikes a match, and the life-like doll that launched the entireServantseries takes on the first flames.
The doll melts and the smoke rises upstairs, where Leanne makes a FaceTime call on her iPhone (it’s an Apple Original, after all) to Tobe (Tony Revolori), Sean’s culinary mentee who took a liking to Leanne.
She accepts his offer for a date, but it’s clear Leanne’s waiting for the fire to engulf her just like the one that killed her parents.
After the call, Leanne speaks to her mannequin, a stand-in for her late mom, and asks, “What does it feel like when you burn?” The Turners soon go to check on Leanne, only to find their 97-80 Spruce St. residence burning.
“She made her own choice,” the ominous man says. “She has chosen to save us all.”
Now in the attic, Leanne puts on her favorite vinyl record and dances barefoot as the fire nears. She douses her eyes with perfume and cuts her arms, bloodying her dress as she twirls amid the flames. The rest of the disturbing scene shows Leanne burning alive, screaming as the floor gives out from under her and she falls through the house that she became so deeply connected with over four seasons.
“Maybe somehow she made it out?” Julian (Rupert Grint) suggests. But Dorothy responds, “Leanne is gone,” and tells Sean she’s ready to “start over.”
Officer Stephanie Reyes (Victoria Cartagena) later pulls Julian aside after Sean and Dorothy drive away in a taxi to their clean slate, and she informs him that he, too, cheated death.
“When you’re given a second chance, it’s for a purpose,” the officer tells an exasperated Julian.
“We’ll be here when you’re ready to talk,” she tells him, speaking of the mysterious cult. “We’re family now.”
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