Fool Me Once

Maya calls Judith and curtly requests to talk. In with a patient, Judith instructs Maya to come by her office in the evening. While Lily is staying at Eddie’s to play with her cousins, Maya returns home to find a car in her driveway—it is Dr. Wu, unannounced. She tries to dodge his questions, but he can tell that she’s not okay. She admits that she needs the PTSD episodes to stop, especially since scaring Lily. He offers her a new medication. She asks him about hallucinations, a term that Dr. Wu refutes. She’s having vivid auditory flashbacks that occur only at night, rather than imagining or seeing things that aren’t there. Maya is relieved, but it also means that she didn’t hallucinate seeing Joe on the nanny cam video.

In an effort to dispel their power, Dr. Wu asks Maya to describe the events that she re-experiences each night. She’s terse, eliding the fact that five civilians were killed, including a mother and her children. When he presses her on this detail, Maya stops him, annoyed that the female victim is categorized as a mother, as if her life had value simply because she had children. This is a deflection; Dr.