Abhiroop Das
Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, Hulu’s ‘Furious‘ centers around FBI agent Alice Black’s desperate attempts to catch Catherine, a serial killer who is on a mission. However, over the course of five episodes, the story evolves beyond this premise, presenting us with a gray world where Catherine cannot easily be labeled as the antagonist. In the previous episode, Alice gets forced out of the investigation as Nora realizes her fight is with her own superior at the FBI, who is almost certainly corrupt. Meanwhile, Catherine discovers that Hal kept records of the crimes, and copies that information before killing him. As fate would have it, though, Alice and Catherine meet again at the Safe Haven shelter by pure coincidence, and episode 6, titled ‘They Make a Noise Like Feathers,’ builds on this encounter. SPOILERS AHEAD.
Alice and Catherine Form an Unusual Bond
‘Furious’ episode 6 begins by recounting the ending of the last episode from Catherine’s perspective. Having killed Hal and escaped the scene, she somehow makes it to the Safe Haven shelter, where she is known as Gracie. After being unconscious at the doorstep and then being brought back to her senses, Catherine asks for a room just as Alice enters the shelter, and that is how we catch up to the present. Alice, pretending to be a domestic abuse survivor running from her boyfriend, manages to secure the same dorm as Catherine, but doesn’t seem to have much of a plan beyond that. Calling Nora doesn’t help much either, as while she is able to get a team to surround the shelter, she still has to report this to Ed George, who can snuff this impromptu operation with just a command.
Meanwhile, Danny and Choi find Hal’s body, only for Alden to claim full responsibility for the murder. Beyond that, he seems to have completely flipped on his position of turning Catherine in, and instead makes it his life’s mission to obfuscate the case as much as possible, be it by erasing all evidence from his PC or toying with Choi. While we don’t know what kind of conversation Catherine and Alden had before she left, it appears to have worked in her favor. As Danny walks out of the house, he is confronted by his superior at the police department, who isn’t happy with the added death tally. That’s not all, though, as it turns out that Marshall wasn’t arrested as per Alice’s plan. Instead, he talked his way out of it with the police and is presently a free man and very angry.
Nora Figures Out the Truth Behind Isabel’s Case
At the shelter, Alice goes ahead with Nora’s plan to slowly befriend Catherine before revealing her identity, but her first step is a rather shrewd one. Waking Catherine up from her sleep, Alice claims that she was mumbling Isabel’s name in her sleep, and that launches a personal conversation between them. To break the ice even further, Alice brings up memories of being abused by Marshall at the shower, and how the only thought she had after the worst episode was that she still had shampoo in her hair. This recollection comes back to haunt her, though, as the shelter requires everyone to get a bath, and Alice cannot bring herself to enter the showers. However, Catherine comes to her rescue, still convinced that she is talking to a friend.
Meanwhile, Nora has to fulfill a mission of her own, and it is to stall the inclusion of Ed George into this operation for as long as possible. While she is required to inform him as soon as possible, she can still prolong this by taking the longest route between the basement and Ed’s floor. However, Ed soon smokes out that something is amiss and begins looking for Nora all throughout the building, only to find her in his office. Cornered at last, Nora decides to go all out and accuses Ed of forcibly covering up the Isabel murder case fifteen years ago. As it turns out, Ed became as successful as he is today after bringing down an organized criminal group operating from a bank, and Nora now believes that it was Greg Easton who leaked this information to him, and, when the time came, asked him to bury Isabel’s case.
Catherine Confronts Alice and Drops the Big Reveal
Though Ed knows that he’s been caught, he also knows that Nora has nothing to back up these allegations either. More importantly, he now knows that Alice is inches away from arresting Catherine, and things don’t seem to be going well on that frontier either. As it turns out, one of the women at the shelter recognizes Alice as one of the feds who talked to her a few nights ago, and this prompts Catherine to strike back. After baiting Alice back into the showers, triggering a panic attack, Catherine knocks her out, but not before hearing that the shelter has been surrounded. As Alice slowly wakes back up, she finds Catherine still there, eager to have a conversation.
Although Alice is technically on the same side as Catherine, words are not enough to get her trust, especially after everything that went on with Hal. However, Catherine still has her trump card, the USB drive in which she has stored all the videos that Hal had stored in his laptop over the years. Alice realizes how powerful that drive can be in bringing the case to a close, and promises to help Catherine anyway she can in return for that information. In return, Catherine finally reveals that she brought Isabel’s baby daughter Elena to this very shelter once, and now the girl is with a man named Big Man, who is very likely the one who killed Isabel in the first place.
Marshall Gets Shot as Danny Sees the Full Picture
Catherine’s mission is to save Elena and kill Big Man, neither of which can be done with help from law enforcement, and thus, any hope for an alliance with Alice crashes down. Worse, Ed seems to have pulled back all the officers stationed outside the shelter, and Catherine soon catches on to this. As she escapes, Alice gathers the last of her strength to give chase, only to be ambushed by Marshall, who has been tracking her car all day. As he strikes Alice with all his force, of all people, Catherine steps in to protect her, shooting him before running away again.
The surprises don’t end there, as Alden, knowing that Catherine is in trouble, gives the USB drive to the only person he can trust at the moment, Danny. When he inserts it into his laptop, a series of video recordings shows up, all likely capturing Greg Easton’s crimes. To Danny’s shock, however, one of the video files is titled Alice, and when he clicks on it, his worst fears come true. Alice was sexually abused by the man she is planning on bringing down, and the question, now, is whether she remembers.
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