Eric, April and Mary (Part Three)

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From Red Flag [Episode 1.10] - Eric's parents are talking:
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Gail: why do you keep acting like it’s no big deal?
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Johnston: I don’t. I’m also trying not to act like a hypocrite.
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Gail: This is nothing like what we went through.
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Johnston: Oh No? I seem to recall when my mother thought your name was ‘the other woman’. And I ignored her, just the way Eric’s ignoring us. Now, if this is so different, I’m not seeing it.
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Gail: It is different because we were barely in our twenties. She wasn’t your wife. And she wasn’t pregnant.
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Johnston asks Gail if Eric knows. She says no but it won’t be long before father tells son and before Eric and April are standing amidst shafts of autumn light in the Green family living room ending their marriage.
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“I didn’t want you to stay with me because of the baby Eric.”
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“Well I think we’re the only two people who agree on that.”
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As Eric shuts the door behind him the tiniest convulsion flips thru Aprils body.
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Gail goes to Mary Baily with a piece of paper in her hands. She glances at the paper while telling Mary she will never be able to forgive her for dividing her grandchild’s family. Later Mary finds the paper on the chair where Gail had been sitting.
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It reads:
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When April dies shortly after as a result of a complication with her pregnancy in the now sub standard med center where she had worked, where she and baby could both have been saved just months before, we, the viewer, become acutely aware that the world this lovers triangle finally plays out in is nothing like anything we can imagine. It deserves to be judged differently and though it takes some time for Eric to realize this through his grief, he eventually returns to Mary. The savage events which follow continue to take reality by surprise to the extent that when we see Eric and Mary walking together to help dig Bonnie’s grave it is completely natural and as though they were meant to be together.
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Debby from South Carolina also had this to say:
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“What the writers did best in that storyline was to have characters that seemed real. All were flawed. I don't usually root for the relationship between the cheaters to work but after April's death I did.”
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So did I Debby.
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