Since its January 21st premiere, Apple TV’s eerie yet captivating horror-thriller series Servant has further immersed viewers into the slow yet intricate analysis of the show’s four pivotal characters: journalist Dorothy Turner (Lauren Ambrose), Dorthy’s husband, skilled chef Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell), her brother, reformed drug user Julian Pearce (Rupert Grint), as well as their strange nanny Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free). The series comes from showrunner, executive producer, and director M. Night Shyamalan.

Servant follows Philadelphia couple Dorothy and Sean Turner as they deal with the traumas attached to losing their newborn son Jericho. Living in a fabricated lie, Sean and Dorthy hire nanny Leanne to care for their reborn doll, which Dorthy truly believes is her son. Events quickly escalate once Leanne is supposed to have brought Jericho back to life, replacing the doll with a real baby.

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Although season three is not yet over, viewers have learned a tremendous amount of knowledge pertaining to strategic cliffhangers, initially revealed in season one’s beginning, generating answers to questions viewers have been racking their brains around, struggling to understand. As a product of these revelations, viewers are then led to questioning if everything they were initially taught to believe from season one was actually accurate, as characters make sense of the severity of predicaments they currently find themselves in onscreen.

Dorthy Has Known All Along

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The show is built on Dorthy’s memory fog, tied to a series of flashbacks, revealing how she left her newborn son Jericho to sit in the car for days. As a result of the post-traumatic stress she experienced, viewers quickly learn through pieces of season three that Dorthy understands what happened before Jericho’s death. She simply chooses to pretend as if nothing happened.

The plot of Servant is built on Sean and Julian, under the impression that Dorthy has no recollection of what occurred, as they try everything in their power to suppress her memory of that day. As Dorthy’s character is provided with many clues by fellow characters to invoke her memory, Dorthy instead chooses to skip through the process of remembering and carry on as if nothing happened.

Aunt Josephine hands Dorthy a baby onesie during season two’s finale, detailing the onesie holds her truth. From this scene, it looks as if Dorthy will finally wake up. However, she only insists that her baby (the one that Leanne brought into the house) comes back after the cult takes him away.

The Baby Isn’t Really Jericho

At the end of episode seven, titled “Camp,” Leanne confessed to Sean that the baby she put in Jericho’s place is not actually Jericho. Previously, Sean, Dorthy, and the rest of the viewers were meant to believe that Leanne supernaturally brought Jericho back to life in order to ease the pain of Sean and Dorthy losing their son in the first place. This, instead, was not true at all. In Leanne and Sean’s conversation, she reveals that the baby is not their son but another child.

Although we don’t yet know the details of who the child is, it’s interesting to see how Leanne’s tone shifts, leading viewers to question if the unidentified boy was her birth child all along.

The Mob of Kids Is Meant to Help

Season three, episode three, of the series introduces a few sketchy characters. The kids that Sean and Leanne meet outside at a nearby park, posing as homeless teens, are questioned about being a part of Leanne’s former cult, sent by the group to take Leanne down and the baby from the Turners. Each night, the group gathers outside the Turner’s home, with a direct view to Leanne’s window, with their eyes directly on her. She mirrors their stare from inside the house, out of her window. It isn’t until viewers later see in episode seven that Leanne runs in terror from her former cult members in the midst of the town’s neighborhood block party.

As the scene drags from outside the event, into the Turner’s home, to the back alleyway of the house, and later in the park, the group of kids comes to the defense of Leanne before the cult members can attempt to kill her. By the end of the episode, Leanne is covered in blood with a frightening blank stare as she slowly walks back to the home while the kids drag the lifeless bodies of the cult members away.

It will be exciting to see what the fourth and final season of Servant has in store. Shyamalan confirmed via Twitter that the last season had been officially greenlit. He went on to say, “I set the goal to tell 1 story in 40 episodes knowing there was no guarantee we would achieve it. It was a huge risk.”