Zoo

**"Zoo"** is the thirty-sixth episode of *Servant*. It debuted on 17 February, 2023, on Apple TV+, as the sixth episode of Season 4.

## Synopsis

A half-birthday party for Jericho turning one-and-a-half turns into pure chaos, as the cult makes its boldest move yet. Dorothy later finds a shocking connection Leanne has with her.

## Plot

A news report is playing in the Turner house covering the sink holes and the potential evacuation of the street. Meanwhile, Julian speeds to the Turner house and get balloons out of the car. It’s the day of Jericho’s party and Leanne wakes Dorothy up for it. Dorothy doesn’t want to go to the party, but Leanne says she wants her there.

In the backyard, there are animals with a handler responsible for them. This party is for Jericho, though it is six months late due to Dorothy’s time in rehab. Frank and Kourtney chat, with the former wondering why the party is happening and how none of the friends there are Dorothy’s. In the kitchen, Dorothy and Sean discuss how the plan to invite the neighbors round to capture Leanne failed. They feel they missed their shot. Sean though believes Leanne may listen to Julian, so his brother-in-law may be able to help the situation. Dorothy, however, doesn’t believe that will work. Outside, Leanne thanks for the guests for coming, also saying to Dorothy that she wanted to take the pressure of her as she had been planning other things. Inside, Sean confronts Julian, angry at how he’s helping Leanne. Julian says Sean isn’t helping Dorothy by his attitude towards Leanne. At the party, Leanne is sitting with the other babies while the animal handler shows the babies a snake. As he moves down the line, the snake lashes out at Leanne, narrowly missing, then a goat eats Leanne’s dress. As the handler moves away, Leanne threatens the owner to control his animals.

Upstairs, Leanne is selecting a new dress when she hears footsteps. She hears a baby cry and goes into the room to find a baby in the bath. She is then confronted by multiple people from The Church of the Lesser Saints, including the neighbors from house 2113. Leanne is able to incapacitate all three people and calls for her protectors to come and clean up.

To try to get Dorothy in the celebratory mood, Julian attempts to give her a party hat but she declines. After Julian claims Dorothy hates him, Dorothy says she could never hate him. Julian says he feels bad for Leanne after her troubled upbringing by her mother. Dorothy says she remembers this, covering pageants where she met cruel mothers. Upstairs, Leanne gets into a new dress as her protectors clean up the bodies. Outside, Bev and Bobbie show Dorothy pictures of Jericho they had framed. Leanne tells them she said there were to be no gifts at the party. Inside, Julian can’t find candles and Leanne and Sean help. They are interrupted by a goat who headbutts the glass door repeatedly. It then breaks the glass just as the handlers take it away. Julian drops the cake at this sight and then quickly picks it up. As Leanne leaves, Sean accuses Julian of being terrified of being alone, hence why he wants to stay with Leanne.

Julian goes outside with the cake and Leanne starts singing “Happy Birthday”. As this happens, an animal attacks Leanne and someone else falls over and is sick. Bev takes Leanne inside to her apartment to help clean Leanne’s wound up. She tells Leanne to relax while she gets some treatment. As Leanne closes her eyes, she opens them and sees Bev injecting her with something. Leanne then gets up and collapses shortly after. Meanwhile, Sean and Julian continue to argue, throwing insults until they eventual begin a physical fight. In Bev’s apartment, Leanne wakes up to music playing and seeing Bev whip herself. Bev is frustrated that Leanne gets to be treated with this level of extravagance and gets to be reunited with “him”. As Julian and Sean fight in the living room, they stop as smoke begins to fill the room. They deduce that it is someone sacrificing Leanne and Sean says to Julian they should let this happen. Julian says he can’t lose Leanne and he runs into Bev’s apartment to shield Leanne from Bev. However, he sees Bev is catatonic and then she collapses. He and Sean see Leanne has done this, and Leanne laughs as Bev’s mouth begins to froth.

An ambulance arrives to take Bev away, while Bobbie apologises to Dorothy for what Bev has done, saying she did not know Bev was part of a cult. She says that Dorothy is a fierce person and adds that she feels Leanne thinks she has a divine link to Dorothy and is infatuated with her. She says Leanne would rather die than let Dorothy go. As Dorothy discusses this, Sean and Julian apologise for the fight as Leanne calls Julian inside. That night, Dorothy finds an old 8 News recording and plays it. She sees herself covering a pageant and talking to a young Leanne Grayson, which horrifies her to no end.

## 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

* Todd Waring as Frank Pearce
* Katie Lee Hill
* Barbara Kingsley
* Denny Dillon
* Mac Rop
* Tanzyn Crawford
* Andrew Durand

### Co-Starring

* Jack and James Hoogerwerff
* Caiden and Luka Ravenscroft
* Bill Vargus
* Charlotte Reese
* Jules Willcox
* David Turner
* Julia Frey
* Eoin O’Shea
* Tanya Davis

## Trivia

* As it is six months *after* Jericho's very first birthday on June 1st, it is now December 1st 2020, making it his half birthday.
* After witnessing Leanne telekinetically making Beverly catatonic, he finally sees her for what she is and turns against her.
* Beverly is revealed to have been from the Church of Lesser Saints, with Leanne being true to her word in outright ending anyone who is from the cult.
* Dorothy finally sees the old DVD of her interviewing a younger Leanne nearly a decade ago, which Leanne herself had watched at the end of "Bear"