By: Kelly Kearney
Carrie is officially running out of places to hide, and this week, the walls aren’t just closing in, they’re literally moving. As the truth about Carrie’s abilities becomes harder to ignore, Chris Hargensen finally faces some consequences, Seth Peist’s secrets come crashing down and Chamberlain turns into a full-blown battlefield. Meanwhile, Margaret decides her daughter’s trauma is the perfect opportunity to launch a national crusade for parental rights.
Smoke and Mirrors
The episode begins with the story of Damon Nostra (Mark Hamill), AKA Greg McMurry, a famous psychic who rose to fame with his television show before eventually falling out of popularity. Even so, desperate people still sought him out for answers to their life’s problems. We meet one of those desperate people–a young woman (Elyse Maloway) who arrives at his business looking for help. She has visions from the other side and has no idea how to process them. They’re slowly driving her crazy, and she believes Damon can teach her how to manage because he seems to have figured out how to live his life with similar abilities. That is, until she reaches across the table and grabs his hands. On contact, Damon panics and pulls away, and she reacts by smashing his glass table when she realizes the truth: everything with him is smoke and mirrors. They don’t share the same abilities at all. While Damon runs to call the police because he thinks she’s having some kind of mental health breakdown and believes he’s in danger, she grabs a shard of glass and, screaming, jabs it into her eyes. This is apparently how she plans to manage the visions that have left her desperate and dangerous and without anywhere to turn. We start to see that the thing about psychics is that they very rarely manage their abilities without suffering–their suffering, and others.
Carrie Sees Red
We cut to Carrie (Summer H. Howell), surrounded by her fellow students, mocking her over the video where she appears to be talking to herself, not Emaline (Thalia Dudek). Overwhelmed by what this could mean, Carrie flees school, but as she runs home, Emaline follows. She tries to get Carrie to understand what’s happening, but the angry teen refuses to engage. She closes her eyes and begs the vision to go away, and in her desperation, she shatters the windows of a nearby car, setting off alarms all the way down the street.
By the time Carrie makes it home, she’s in a panic. She sits on the couch, taking deep breaths and trying to make sense of everything she just discovered. Then she focuses on the mantle in the living room, the same vantage point from which the video of her talking to herself was recorded. That’s when she spots a new camera hidden between pictures of her father and their family. She realizes her mother has been recording her and Carrie rips the camera from the wall.
As her emotions begin to swirl, so do the contents of the house. She tears through room after room, searching for more cameras and more of the secrets her mother has planted around the house. Her mind is working faster than her hands as she turns the place practically upside down. Then she finds another camera inside her bedroom. With every discovery, her emotions climb higher, sending everything around her into the air as she becomes increasingly unable to control her temper.
Margaret’s Little Spy Network
Later that night, Rita (Amber Midthunder) shows up at Seth Peist’s (Rahul Kohli) house with food for their date. He seems surprised that she’s there and a little annoyed, as he’s on the phone and has completely forgotten about their plans.
As they eat Chinese food, his phone continues vibrating on the counter, but he repeatedly turns it off and ignores it. He seems distracted, and the look on his face makes it obvious that whatever these phone calls are, has him in a mood. His attention is definitely not on the woman he’s dating, who he brushes off when she questions the constant hum of notifications. When the calls can no longer be ignored, Seth admits that the meme account leaked his number and now he’s receiving harassing phone calls. But something about that explanation doesn’t feel right. His recent contempt for the children he teaches and from his own admission, a complete loss of hope for his career, must mean something is clearly going on with him.
Rita tries to make him feel better, quietly telling him that everything will come out soon and the accusations against him for dating an underage student will eventually go away, but the more she talks about the truth coming out, the more nervous Seth looks. Clocking his anxiety, she tries to convince him that there must be some way to reach the kids and explain why this meme account is quickly going from teenage bullying to dangerous for everyone involved. Maybe they could talk about anti-bullying campaigns or find some way to make the students understand the harm they’re causing. Seth listens but his mind seems miles away until he admits he doesn’t want to talk about it. Instead, he kisses Rita to keep her quiet.
Meanwhile, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan) comes home to find the house in complete disarray. She panics, assuming they’ve been broken into again, until she finds Carrie sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by the security cameras she discovered. Simmering with anger and hostility, Carrie demands answers for the cameras and the recordings.
Once again, Margaret lies and claims that after the previous break-in, she bought the cameras to keep them safe, having no idea that Carrie has seen a recording and knows they were there before the break-in. She accuses her mother of spying on her and demands to know why there was a camera in her bedroom if this was all about security. What was she hoping to find in the privacy of her daughter’s room? Feeling cornered by the truth, Margaret starts rambling about how Carrie has been moody ever since starting school and how her behavior has changed. She says she just wanted to keep track of her. While that’s partially true, the cameras were mostly a way for Margaret to maintain control over her daughter now that Carrie had been influenced by the world outside their home and prayer closet. So Margaret turns the tables adding she was also worried Carrie might hurt herself. Her daughter does not believe her because she has never done anything that would make Margaret think she was dangerous to herself. She follows every rule–up until recently, without complaints. Why would her mother ever think Carrie needed to be watched for her own safety? Carrie is inconsolable and when her mother hesitates to tell her the truth, she breaks down and says, “Don’t make me hate you. I won’t have anyone left.”
Even that heartbreaking admission doesn’t move Margaret. She still refuses to answer and instead accuses Carrie of acting like a lunatic. Carrie does not want to hear anyone call her crazy, it is something she was privately worrying about, so she storms upstairs–finished with her mother’s lies. Waiting for her is Emaline, who continues trying to get through to Carrie about who she is and what that video meant, but Carrie just wants to block the voice out. She insists Emaline isn’t real, but she is, just not in the physical sense.
Meanwhile, Margaret is standing on the other side of the door, listening to Carrie talk to herself and becoming increasingly convinced that her daughter is actually losing it. Emaline can see Carrie isn’t ready to talk about what’s happening, so she disappears while Margaret remains outside the door, extremely concerned.
Seth’s Secrets
Back at Seth’s house, Rita realizes something is wrong and questions him about it. Their date ends early with the excuse he’s tired, and with her there–he jokes, rest is clearly the last thing on his mind.
The next day, Principal Grayle (Matthew Lillard) interrupts class to pull Chris (Alison Thornton) out for a meeting with her parents. He plays the recording of her confession, and she immediately denies it’s her voice. He explains how hundreds of students have been attacked by the Carrie Redd meme account, but Chris’s parents, who are attending this meeting together, are divided on whether to back their daughter. When John (Michael Trucco) threatens to sue the school and the principal, Mr. Grayle finally lays everything out–who has been hurt, and what the content of the account has done to the safety and peace at school. It’s all to the shock and horror of Chris’s mother, Madison (Heather Graham), who had no idea what her daughter was up to. Unlike her soon-to-be ex-husband, she looks angry and ashamed by what she’s learning.
According to the principal, Chris has been accused of bullying throughout her entire time in Chamberlain’s school district. Even in middle school she landed in detention repeatedly and later, was almost expelled after putting a firecracker in a girl’s shoe. That stunt–of which she never paid a consequence for, nearly cost the girl two toes. Thanks to Mr. Hargensen’s wealth and considerable power as an attorney– he threatened and bullied anyone who tried to hold his daughter accountable. Now, with the evidence Sue (Siena Agudong) turned in and Chris’s past taken into account, there is finally enough information to hold her responsible.
The principal suspends her, and the length of the suspension depends on Chris’ next move. If she wants to graduate with the rest of her class, she has to admit the voice on the recording is hers and make amends to the people she has hurt through some sort of community outreach. Her mother seems to approve of the punishment, but her father does not. It seems he has been protecting her from the consequences of her actions for her entire life, and that defense has created the monster behind Carrie Redd. Chris takes her father’s advice and refuses to set anything right, or admit her guilt. The meeting is over, and Chris is heading home, worrying about if she is going to graduate or turn heads at the prom.
While sitting in the car listening to her parents argue, she gets a message from Tina (Josie Totah) asking if she’s ready to add the picture of Sue buying a pregnancy test to the Carrie Red account. Chris is furious with her now former bestie for outing her with Mr. Grayle, so, of course, she gives Tina the go-ahead.
The Truth Comes Out
Meanwhile, Carrie is still trying to avoid Emaline’s voice as it follows her around school, practically begging her to let her explain what’s happening. Carrie might be able to ignore her, but she can’t block her out forever, and eventually, she gives in. In the cafeteria she finally asks what the voice wants, and of course, the other kids at the lunch table immediately start calling her “Crazy Carrie.” It looks like she’s talking to herself again. She blocks out the laughing boys as Emaline pleads her case for Carrie to join her in going rogue. She asks her to embrace her abilities instead of hiding them, and together, they can be a powerful force–Gods among the throngs of the average.
Elsewhere, the principal asks Miss Desjardin where Mr. Peist is since he never showed up to work–nor did he call. Just blowing off class isn’t like him, but Rita isn’t sure what’s up. Seth was acting awfully distant the night before after those harassing phone calls, and if he is missing now, Mr. Morton (Tim Bagley) will have to cover his study hall.
Speaking of study hall, Sue walks in late to a classroom full of laughing students who seem to be in on a joke she knows nothing about.Tina stares her down trying to read her reaction to Carrie Redd’s latest post, but Sue is clueless. That is, until Tommy (Joel Oulette) angrily barges into the room and walks directly over to Sue asking to speak with her privately. This sets the class off and everyone is laughing and joking, about trouble in paradise. That’s when Tommy hands her his phone, and there she is on the Carrie Red account, buying the pregnancy test, with the tagline: “When soccer don’t shake out the c*m.” Tommy wants to know if it’s true and Sue admits she was a few days late after the party, but the test was negative. She didn’t think she had any reason to tell him something that would hurt him, but he turns that around and accuses her of leaving him in the dark. She didn’t trust him enough to tell him the truth, and she didn’t need to deal with it on her own, they are supposed to be a team. If this is why she has been so distant with him, it makes sense but it doesn’t hurt any less. He’s going through things too; working two jobs, a sick dad, trying to survive their senior year, and now he is learning she doesn’t see them as a team? From her quiet reaction, it is apparent, they aren’t. He walks away angry leaving Sue desperately trying to explain but not finding the words to make things right..
Next, Rita goes to Seth’s house to check on him since not only did he miss work, he isn’t answering his phone. When she arrives the door is open, so she goes inside and spots three letters sitting on the entry tale. One for her, one is for Brooklyn (Rowan Danielle), and one for his father. A letter for Chris Hargensen’ s stepsister and student at the school? What’s that about? Rita continues on through the house until she makes her way into the kitchen where she finds Seth hanging from the ceiling! Whatever was in those letters must explain a lot–especailly painting a clearer picture of those rumors about him and an underage student. Maybe he killed himself because he couldn’t take the blowback that was coming once the truth came out.
Chamberlain Goes to War
With the news of Seth’s death, the police knock on Madison’s (Heather Graham) door hoping to talk to Brooklyn. They have questions for her, and they are holding that letter Rita found at the house. When Brooklyn hears that the teacher killed himself, she runs after Chris and starts attacking her–blaming her for pushing Seth to end his life.
The news coverage quickly turns into more than Seth’s inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old student. The Carrie Redd account is now being tied to his death, and the media gets in John Hargensen’s face. He continues threatening lawsuits against the school, which allegedly wrongfully accused his daughter. Then he spins the entire story accusing the school of treating his daughter like a villain when she’s actually a hero for exposing an inappropriate relationship. It’s a pretty major spin on what Chris actually did with that meme account, but her father is a good lawyer and he’s going to use everything he has to make sure his daughter never pays the price for her crimes.
The news is everywhere and parents continue to go to the press, including Margaret, to demand a safe environment for their children. The entire town is whipped into a frenzy– picketers line up outside of the school holding signs that say, “Parents Know Best.”
It is not a cut and dry case, as now the town is divided over whether Chris is actually the villain. Some see her as an inspiration, ignoring all the other horrors she inflicted on the student body and focusing only on the one crime she exposed. They say people need to be less sensitive and that the account did a good thing. The truth is getting lost in the outrage and so is the pain caused by the account. Once again, Chris seems to be slipping out of the clutches of accountability.
Next, Rita goes to Mr. Morton to talk about what the police have found. It turns out Seth had at least three relationships with students, two at other schools. The entire time Rita was dating him, he had been finding secret hookup spots with Brooklyn, away from neighbors, security cameras and anyone who could tie him to her. Mr. Morton questions whether Chris knew about it and Rita says “no. It was just a lucky guess.” Chris was far more invested in ruining Brooklyn than she was in having any inside knowledge about Seth Peist’s predatory behavior.
Eventually, it comes out that Seth killed himself because Brooklyn was going to tell her father. That, combined with the meme account, was too much for him to handle. Mr. Morton tries to put Rita’s mind at ease, reminding her how Seth didn’t take her integrity or her respect from her. He simply tricked her, and that’s on him. She’s a good person–they both are. and in his eyes, a victim of Seth’s lies.
Mediation, Chamberlain Style
With his daughter suspended, John Hargensen meets with the principal, practically begging him to allow Chris to graduate. If Grayle agrees, John promises to drop the lawsuits. Mr. Morton thinks a mediation between the families could end this and Grayle likes the idea. The guidance counselor volunteers to facilitate the mediation the following day.
John texts her about it while she’s at Billy Nolan’s (Arthur Conti) house, and he can’t help but laugh assuming the idea won’t work. From his experience, she’s still going to wind up expelled. Chris reminds him that his situation isn’t the same as hers. She has privilege, and he doesn’t.
Meanwhile, at Carrie’s house, Margaret counsels her on what’s going to happen during the mediation. Carrie is to stay quiet and let her mother do all the talking. Margaret goes on and on about shaping narratives and getting the media involved. This has become a major project for her, probably the first one outside of her own captivity. Now she has a platform, and people are looking to her for leadership. Her agenda has legs, but all Carrie wants is for this to go away.
If there’s any way they can make it all disappear, that’s her choice. Margaret advises her not to accept any compromises. “I’m doing this for you,” she says, but Carrie is not too sure she believes her. Yes, she asked her mother for help, but she never thought it would go this far. Margaret sees Carrie as too fragile to take this on herself, but she has no idea just how powerful her child is.
The word “fragile” does not sit right with her and she asks Margaret if there’s anything in their family history that might explain what’s happening. Perhaps there is a history of mental illness in their family? Carrie has learned that sometimes these things happen and can be treated with therapy and medication. Of course, the woman who rants about the deep state coming for them, is not about to send her daughter to therapy or a doctor. She doesn’t believe in mental illness anymore than she probably believes in telekinesis. She thinks it’s “a weakness of spirit,” and refers to doctors as demonic. Just the idea has her rambling about her fears of medical science and its conflict with her faith. After her research at the library, Carrie knows a little bit about mental illness, and doesn’t share her mother’s beliefs. Education has opened her eyes to many things–and that was what Maragret always feared most.
Instead of doctors, Margaret suggests Carrie pray for answers–another example of forcing her agenda through the guise of helping her distraught daughter. At this request, Carrie becomes increasingly anxious about letting Margaret take the reins at the mediation.
The two go back and forth debating science versus religion and the argument escalates until Carrie has had enough. She pounds her hands on the kitchen table and everything starts to shake. The room itself feels off-kilter, like an earthquake rattling the house. Margaret backs away, nervous, but not exactly shocked. She’s afraid–that’s obvious by the way she keeps her distance from Carrie but it seems like a familiar fear. “You’re not helping me. You’re helping you,” Carrie yells and then she runs upstairs to her room leaving Margaret shaken by the entire interaction..
The Truth About Carrie
We cut to a flashback from when a younger Carrie first met Stella (Naïka Toussaint). Margaret dragged her into the house, screaming, trying to force her into the prayer closet. Carrie wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone outside, especially the teenage girl next door, whom Margaret accused of flaunting her body and inviting the attention of boys. The screams grew louder until it started raining rocks, smashing into the White’s house and avoiding every other yard in the neighborhood. The sound has Margaret pause as it grows until it seems like the house itself is going to cave in.
Later, Margaret tells her husband that she felt something come from Carrie. She believes her anger is what caused it but Ralph (Tahmoh Penikett) disagrees and thinks it is some government experiment comparing it to some event he heard about in New Mexico. Now he is convinced it’s a secret plot against Americans, not a special ability his daughter might possess. He even goes as far as to blame Carrie–the five your old child, of lying even as he is standing in a yard full of rocks. Margaret knows what she saw and questions whether or not her husband thinks she’s crazy. Ralph thinks “crazy” is another government conspiracy designed to confuse and dupe people. She listens to him, but his voice eventually drowns out as she stares at the physical evidence of the rocks surrounding their house and the broken windows they caused. At one time, Margaret believed in the truth, she saw it with her own eyes. But years of being beaten down and subjugated by conspiracy after conspiracy broke her and now she plans to break Carrie.
Mediation Goes Off the Rails
The next day at school, the rumor mill is churning about the Carrie and Chris mediation. When the teacher tries to quiet the class down, Tina throws Seth’s death in her face. Chris has created her own little monster, with Tina– one that’s willing to do her dirty work while she fights for her chance to go to prom and graduate.
Inside Grayle’s office Mr. Morton lays out the goals of the mediation. They hope for an apology and a path forward to integrate Chris back into school so she can graduate. The administration would also like to bring some normalcy back to a student body that has been shamed, embarrassed and angry for weeks.
Right away, Margaret starts controlling the meeting by refusing to let Carrie speak. Instead, she asks Chris and her father to explain their role in her daughter’s trauma. Of course, that sets everyone off and the arguments grow heated quickly. The entire time Carrie and Chris remain silently staring each other down as Margaret insults John over how he raised a thief and a liar. Then she points to information she’s found in the comment sections of her social media pages that accuse him of embezzlement. “Thieves and liars raise thieves and liars.” This catches Madison’s attention, and probably the reason why he’s struggling financially. It could also be why safety measures at the construction site were lax and led to Ralph White’s death.
Perhaps this meeting was a mistake? The principal thought a civil conversation would fix this and now he is becoming increasingly exhausted by both the students and their parents who refuse to compromise. He says he’s willing to let Chris return to school if she admits she was behind the account and apologizes to Carrie, but she still refuses. Her parents argue that it isn’t fair to hold her accountable for every rumor posted by every person who contributed to the account. Even her stepfather (Gil Bellows) gives an impassioned speech about how angry he is at Chris for what she has done to his daughter, Brooklyn. She is struggling mentally, and he is searching for ways to move past his anger and hasn’t found one yet. That doesn’t mean he can’t see that Chris is a conduit for these posts sent to her by any number of students. Margaret points out how Carrie hasn’t been in school either and she has been equally traumatized by the relentless bullying Chris inflicted on her. That isn’t anyone else’s fault but hers.
Principal Grayle asks Chris to name anyone who could have been a culprit or an accomplice but she accuses everyone in the school including the teachers. Nobody had a problem sending her things until they saw them in print. Then everyone wanted to blame her. She is interrupted by everyone in the room’s phones going off. Apparently the students are rallying outside Grayle’s office, and now they are refusing to go back to class.
We see Sue has joined the crowd and tells an overwhelmed Miss Desjardin that the only way to get them away from the mediation room is to direct the students to walk outside. She takes the initiative and starts the procession and everyone follows behind her.
Inside the room, the parents continue arguing about how everyone knew about the account. Meanwhile, Chris gets nervous by Carrie’s stare-down and gets up to use the bathroom. That’s when Emaline pops into Carrie’s head convincing her to use her powers to force Chris to be for forgiveness.. Carrie chooses something else instead. Carrie appears in the bathroom and asks why Chris picked her out of everyone else? What did Carrie ever do to deserve this? All she ever wanted was to go to school. She recognizes that things weren’t easy for Chris, and points out she is not alone, they aren’t easy for anyone in high school. That account proves her point. The sad thing is,she didn’t need to put all this effort into pretending to be her friend when she could have just been authentic and Carrie would have reciprocated. Instead, Chris has no answer beyond calling Carrie weird. She tries to make Carrie understand that what she’s doing to her is somehow worse than that meme account. She’s going to ruin Chris’s life if she can’t graduate. She was given every opportunity to apologize and for a split second, it looks like she might but the moment is fleeting. While the girls are talking in the bathroom, Madison approaches Margaret in hopes of settling this outside of John, who is beyond unreasonable.
Mercy vs. Justice
Madison tries appealing to the mother in Margaret, the one who loves her daughter and is just trying to protect her. She tells her that ever since Chris was six years old, she has been emulating John, who is himself a lifelong bully. Madison tried to change Chris and eventually left, attempting to take her daughter with her, but Chris refused to go. Instead, she latched onto John and absorbed his personality like a sponge. Madison turns to Margaret with tears in her eyes and admits she is impressed with how Maragret protected her daughter from the outside world in a way Madison never did. She acknowledges that failure and even fluffs Margaret’s ego by admitting she is envious of the mother’s strength because she knows she won’t back down. They both would do anything for their children..Then she shows Margaret a picture of a young Chris on her phone and says that’s the girl Margaret is trying to punish right now. Outside forces made her jaded, and Madison knows Margaret understands those forces too. All she is asking for is mercy, while the crowds outside are screaming for justice.
We head outside to the walk out where we see someone alerted the press and the crowd is growing angrier. Most are on Carrie’s side, but Tina is doing a decent job of trying to build a free speech movement in honor of Chris. Grayle spots the numbers growing and how the cat is officially out of the bag–now he can no longer control the narrative. When the girls return from the bathroom, Margaret agrees to allow Chris to return to school if she publicly admits what she’s done and apologizes. It’s an attempt at de-escalation and John immediately objects because it opens the door to further litigation. Then Madison stands up and drowns him out with, “what does it matter? It’s just money.” If Chris makes a public admission of guilt at least their daughter can go to school.
Margaret picks up on this financial dig and says, “Yes, John. It’s just money. Unless you have any mitigating financial circumstances you’d like us to be aware of?” That’s when Madison’s fiancé steps forward and says he’d also like to know the answer to that question.
The entire time, Carrie and Chris have been locking eyes like they are challenging each other to say something. Finally, Carrie speaks up saying she’s fine with Chris apologizing and just wants to move on. Her mother tries to stop her from throwing her entire agenda she’s built under the peace bus, but Carrie is over it. It’s only two words.“I’m sorry.”
Everyone in the room waits for Chris to speak and then she turns to Carrie with a, “F*ck you, freak.” Carrie’s anger simmers and she leans across the table and says, “That’s three words, b*tch.” Even with her language, her mother looks proud. Outside the phones ping and the word flashes across the screen: EXPELLED! It only takes seconds to digest before the crowd divides between Tina’s group and everyone else’s cries for justice. It’s class warfare and an eat-the-rich vibe that has officially taken over Chamberlain.
As Carrie walks out of the school with her mother, the majority of the crowd claps and cheers for her. When Chris and her family emerge, everyone boos, curses and crowds around them as they try to reach their car. Principal Grayle is quickly losing control of the student body, and maybe for the first time, Chris looks afraid. She locks eyes with Sue in the crowd who is getting pushed around, and if that look could kill, Sue would be 6ft in the ground.
Total chaos breaks out and people rush toward Chris and her family. Cans and bottles start flying, hitting Chris in the head and knocking other students down. Punches are thrown and blood is drawn,Tina gets hit in the face, and Chris and her father barely make it into their car before packs of kids climb on top of their vehicle. Carrie also gets knocked down and is nearly pummeled by the growing riot, while Margaret desperately searches for her Tommy yells out for Sue too, who is also knocked to the ground. It is complete chaos and only the Police and EMS can disperse the crowd.
When it is all over, plenty of people are injured. We see Tommy and Sue watch as their classmates get hauled away by ambulances, and the police take witness statements. The entire day has the couple questioning what’s next, which pushes Sue to break-up with Tommy. She explains that the reason she didn’t tell him about her late period was because she saw her future slipping away, and he wasn’t in it. Surprisingly, Tommy takes it well and they decide to remain best friends.
Carrie Takes Control
Back at the White home, Margaret is still whipping her followers into a frenzy. The war isn’t over, she says, even if today’s battle is won. With the riots making the news, her agenda is reaching new followers and she hopes for it to go national. She wants Carrie to be a part of it but her daughter is clear, she wants nothing to do with it. As Margaret continues addressing her followers, Carrie can’t listen anymore and knocks the Zoom light away. She curses out her mother and tells her that when it comes to bullies, Margaret was her biggest. Angry, Margaret fires back claiming girls like Carrie always emulate their fathers. Maybe that is true because Carrie admits she was always terrified of Margaret, and that feeling, we learn, goes both ways. Margaret did see the truth about Carrie when she was younger and she allowed Ralph to change her mind. Margaret calls Carrie a monster, and her daughter admits she wishes she had died instead of Ralph. That earns her a slap to the face, but before her hand can make contact Carrie stops it mid-strike.
We see Emaline in the background as Carrie kicks the chair out from under her mother, leaving Margaret stuck with her arm raised and unable to control herself. Frozen and at the mercy of her powers, Carrie banishes Emaline, and then opens the prayer closet door and throws her mother inside. She tells Margaret she needs to get right with God, because things are going to change from now on. Carrie is in charge now, and Margaret can’t ignore the truth about what her daughter is capable of.