Myth

**"Myth"** is the thirty-seventh episode of *Servant*. It debuted on 24 February, 2023, on Apple TV+, as the seventh episode of Season 4.

## Plot

Leanne and Julian are lying in bed, and Julian gets up to see people in the street out of the window. He hears movement, and it is Sean moving into another room. Julian goes into the camera room and is frightened by the Sean cardboard cutout from Gourmet Gauntlet behind him. Julian then reads a book on religion which Sean had been reading. He reads about a fall from grace and Lucifer.

Later, Dorothy speaks to a colleague from 8 News to confirm the last name of the little girl she spoke to in the video. He can’t identify her, saying she possibly didn’t fill out any forms before appearing on the news program. Meanwhile, Leanne plays music while Julian brushes his teeth as the lights flicker. Leanne wants him to dance with her which he reluctantly agrees to. He is furious at Leanne, for people getting hurt in the Turner household. Leanne says not to worry and kisses Julian, biting him as she does so. Sean is watching a viral video of him on Gourmet Gauntlet and then speaks with Julian about Leanne. They discuss how things go bad when Leanne is angry, and things go well when she is happy. In Sean’s religious book, this is down as “The Faustian Bargain”. Julian thinks that’s a crazy thought, though Sean begins to wonder if Leanne actually died and was reborn, like a fallen angel. Julian begins to talk but can’t. He asked Sean via a note whether Leanne has done this to him.

Dorothy goes downstairs and Leanne meets her at the bottom, wondering why she is going downstairs. Dorothy says she wanted a change of scenery and is also working on a story. Leanne offers to help, but Dorothy declines. Leanne is getting ready to take Jericho out as Sean and Julian discuss what they can do about Leanne. They are interrupted by Roscoe who has snuck into the house. Startled, Sean and Julian ask what he is doing there before he leads them to George. Dorothy listens to a colleague give her more information about Leanne where he says her body was never recovered from the fire. Meanwhile, George says to Sean and Julian that he wants to finally tell the Turners the truth. He reveals he has left the Church and has wronged the Turner family. He says before he joined the church, he was in a dark place and tried to end his life and you. He woke in a hospital room with May Markham there, where she told him he died and was reborn a servant of God. He chose to adopt the faith as he had nothing else to look for. He journeyed with May as Aunt and Uncle, where Leanne was a good target to join them as she felt she was to blame for the fire. He told Leanne she had died in the fire and was reborn a servant of God as well. They, however, miscalculated how broken Leanne was and when she left the Church, she believed she was becoming something else.

However, George reveals that Leanne is just a deranged, ordinary woman and everything that has happened to the Turners has a logical explanation:

* **Beverly was bitten by a snake, leading to her collapse.**
* **The splinters Sean kept getting was a trick Leanne liked doing, putting them in beds and on furniture**
* **Sean’s lack of taste and smell caused by the common cold or Leanne drugging him**
* **Jericho appearing and disappearing, replaced by a reborn doll can be explained by a secret network of tunnels beneath the Turner house and street**

Dorothy asks her colleague about Leanne’s mother. She had problems with alcohol and died two days after the fire on April 17, 2011. Looking through recordings on this date, Dorothy can see Leanne is every one. George reveals to Sean and Julian that Jericho is not their son, and is indeed the son of an addict with similar features to Jericho. Shortly after her mother died, Leanne saw Dorothy and became obsessed. To ease Leanne’s pain, George allowed Leanne to see Dorothy one day a year, which was April 17, 2011. This wasn’t enough for Leanne to observe and as she got older, she would watch Dorothy much more regularly. Jericho’s death was a turning point and that was Leanne’s way into the Turner house and Dorothy’s life. George wants Sean and Julian to help get Leanne back. As Sean and Julian move away, George sees Roscoe who listened to George’s explanation in disbelief. He accuses George of lying to him. George tells him that he should go back to his family who he left for the faith.

Leanne returns from the walk and she joins the Turners for a family dinner that Dorothy prepared. Dorothy mentions how she enjoyed meals with her mother, while Sean thinks the viral video is nothing special - to the frustration of Leanne. Furthermore, Sean is thinking of cutting his contract with Gourmet Gauntlet which Leanne objects to. Julian asks why it matters to her, where she gets up and leaves, saying the Turners should be careful. Elsewhere, George whips himself, asking the Lord to forgive him for putting the Turners in danger for lying about Leanne's true nature and her supernatural abilities, but that such deception was necessary to prevent what is to come. He wants to bring "the Fallen One" back to them.

## Cast

### Starring

* Lauren Ambrose as Dorothy Turner
* Toby Kebbell as Sean Turner
* Rupert Grint as Julian Pearce
* Nell Tiger Free as Leanne Grayson

### Guest Starring

* Boris McGiver as George
* Phillip James Brannon as Roscoe

### Co-Starring

* Charlotte Reese
* Rebecca Newton
* Olivia Carroll
* Arielle Wyatt
* Rick Chavez
* Jack and James Hoogerwerff
* Caiden and Luka Ravenscroft

## Trivia

* It is ultimately revealed that Jericho had never returned to life, but was replaced by the infant son of a deceased drug addict Leanne had found the previous year.
* George claims to have left the Church of Lesser Saints, butt his proves to be a fabrication as is Leanne being an ordinary young woman.
* Dorothy researches Leanne's late parents, Laura and Stephan, on the internet and finds out about the fire that supposedly took their lives on April 15, 2007.