The Humans

The lightbulb over the stairs burns out as well, and Deirdre jokes that the woman with no face in Erik’s dreams is back. Deirdre laughs and takes a flashlight to go upstairs to use the bathroom. Brigid tells a confused Aimee who the woman is and storms away from the table. Erik follows her and gives her a big hug, breaking the tension between them. Aimee takes Brigid into the kitchen as they start clearing the table, leaving Erik and Richard alone.

Richard starts talking about dreams again, and Erik admits that there was more to his dream with the woman with no face. He tells Richard that the woman is trying to get him into a tunnel, he doesn’t move. Richard explains that he learned in a class that the image of a tunnel is ingrained in the human psyche, going back thousands of years, and that tunnels can represent things hidden from people. He encourages Erik to go into the tunnel the next time he dreams. A loud rumble interrupts them, and Richard assures Erik that it is just the trash compactor.

Aimee and Brigid return from the kitchen and start poking fun at an email that Deirdre sent them recently.