Contracción

* Jack Davis, Kate Krantz, Darren Brandl, Simon Ore, James Fino, Paul Young (executive producers)
* Mike Griffin (co-executive producer)

### Cast

* Diane Guerrero
* Alfonso Herrera
* Bryan Greenberg
* Carlos Carerra
* Karen Furlong Arellano

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***Contracción ("Contraction")*** is the eighth episode of the first season of *Woman in the Book* and the eighth episode overall. It is developed by Daniel Persitz, written by Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt and Pamela Garcia Rooney, and directed by Jeanette Jeanne. It stars Diane Guerrero, Alfonso Herrera, Bryan Greenberg, Carlos Carerra, and Karen Furlong Arellano.

The episode premiered on July 23rd, 2021.

## Summary

Lily hides as her husband Liam hunts her through the hacienda. But the Woman in the Book insists on intervening.

## Plot

Liam starts to search the hacienda for Lily, passing Juana's dead body. He tries to turn on the lights to no avail, and uses his phone flashlight to see better. As he calls Lily's name, he sees a female figure in an open doorway ahead of him. Thinking the woman ahead of him is Lily, he tells her that he just wants to talk to her. To his horror, the woman suddenly disappears, and as he looks around he notices something behind him. He turns and sees an open door, and goes through it to the hacienda library. Lily sees the light of his phone from her hiding place, and starts to have another panic attack.

As Liam walks through the library, he calls out to Lily, saying that he got a little angry and she knows that he loves her. Unknown to him, The Woman sneaks up behind him and drags her knife finger over the nape of his neck before disappearing as he turns around. He finds a blanket on the floor and gets on his knees to see what's under it. He pulls it away and finds Daniel's corpse, still fresh and bleeding. Shocked and now under the belief that there is a serial killer somewhere in the house, he gets back up and tells whoever is in the house that if they let his wife go, they'll both leave and deny they ever saw anything. As Lily sits in her hiding spot, she feels and sees ink dripping onto her. She looks up and sees The Woman standing over her, watching her with curiosity. She lets out a startled gasp, which Liam hears, and he starts to go to the passageway that the siblings opened -- which, for some reason, was covered by an illusory bookshelf.

Outside, Ricardo wakes up, and he tries to get back into the hacienda only to discover Liam must've locked the doors. Meanwhile, as Liam goes down the passageway, he sees The Woman standing at the altar. Still thinking this is his wife, Liam tells her that she can't leave him, and he loves her. The Woman doesn't respond, and when he gets a better look at her, he calls her by Lily's name. The Woman turns around and shrieks at him, which incapacitates him and gives Lily a chance to run away. However, Liam manages to see her as she runs by him and follows her, getting a glimpse of her running into another room. As he follows her, The Woman appears behind him and shrieks again before going in front of him and dissolving into a puddle of ink, blocking his path. Liam pounds on the door Lily is hiding behind, and she starts to look around for another place to hide. Outside, Ricardo is limping around the grounds trying to find another way into the hacienda. He grabs a rock and uses it to break one of the library windows, climbing inside.

Liam tries to force the bedroom door open, now trying to get in to escape the ink that is quickly gaining on him. As he breaks down the door, he catches Lily going into the bathroom. She locks herself in and goes to the sink, starting to see herself as Christina once again before Liam pounds on the bathroom door, yelling for her. When he realizes that yelling isn't going to get her out, he starts to ask Lily what's going on and what that monster was. Lily doesn't answer, and Liam asks her if she wants to end up like the corpses he saw and begs her to talk to him. After a brief moment of silence, Liam starts to destroy the door as Lily screams. He gets inside the bathroom and drops the bat, going over to hug Lily's pregnant belly. He starts sobbing that he's sorry, and he'll change for her. When he gets no response, he grabs Lily by her hair and drags her outside.

As Liam stands over her, Lily has flashes of Christina being dragged to the library by Antonio, who has found the book she made. He tears pages out of it and throws them in the fire as she cries, screaming at her for taking his property and filling it with her "ignorant, filthy words" before slapping her across the face. Instead of continuing to cry, Christina glares up at him, telling Antonio that he is an evil man as the curandera watches from the doorway. Christina and Lily curse their husbands and are slapped again, as Liam demands to know how she could curse the father of her son. The Woman then appears behind Liam and grabs him, lifting him up in the air. As she prepares to slit his throat, Lily begs her to stop, addressing her as Christina, telling her she doesn't need to kill anyone else and Lily will do whatever she wants. Christina stares at her, then drops Liam on the floor and shrieks again before turning into a puddle of ink.

As Lily recovers, Liam starts to hit the puddle with his bat before demanding to know what's going on. He grabs Lily and pushes her onto the floor while she struggles, demanding he lets her go. He gets up and starts dragging her again, but is knocked unconscious by Ricardo hitting him with a wooden plank. Lily hugs her brother and takes Liam's bat, along with his phone and his keys. They run outside, trying to find the way Liam came in, only to find nothing but undisturbed wall. As they run, Lily falls on the ground, holding her stomach in pain. Ricardo asks her if she's alright, and she tells him she's having a contraction as she screams into the night. Back in the hacienda, Liam wakes from his unconsciousness.

## Cast

 Carlos Carerra
 Karen Furlong Arellano

## Trivia

* "Contracción" translates to "contraction" in Spanish.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crypt TV. "WOMAN IN THE BOOK Episode 8 | Contracción." Facebook Watch, Crypt TV. July 23rd, 2021.