Tunnels

**"Tunnels"** is the thirty-eighth episode of *Servant*. It debuted on 3 March 2023, on Apple TV+, as the eighth episode of Season 4.

## Plot

Leanne watches 8 News as they report on power losses in Philadelphia due to the weather. As the reporter discusses it, rats stampede out from a drain the reporter is near. Meanwhile, Julian reads an article on speech loss which may correlate with stress. Leanne interrupts him and despite his efforts to cover what he’s looking at, she notices he is looking at psychiatric disorders. He tells her not to stay up late for him due to the amount of coffee he had that day. Dorothy is awake in bed watching 8 News while Sean brings in Jericho as he is concerned the storm will frighten him.

At the backdoor, Leanne speaks to a protector who says the storm is preventing them from staying in the park so Leanne says they should leave. Sean and Julian discuss a plan to take Leanne into the tunnels to meet George. Dorothy wakes up after hearing banging and uses her walking frame to investigate the source in Jericho’s room. It is a window open and the wind and rain causing the banging as Leanne sits on the ground. Dorothy asks Leanne to clean the floor which she does. Dorothy then explains how Leanne reminds her of her younger self, how she never gives up. Dorothy says how that’s not always a good thing however. Leanne says to Dorothy that she has always tried to make her happy, why doesn’t she like her? Dorothy asks why Leanne shows her, and Leanne acknowledges that Sean and Julian don’t like her either. Dorothy wants Leanne to back off and also wants her to see things differently.

Leanne goes upstairs to the attic while Dorothy takes a shower. Leanne uses the ladder to go to the top and stick her head out of the roof into the rain. As she gets wetter and wetter, she laughs as lightning strikes close by her. Julian interrupts her, telling her to get down. She says the storm is all for her and that ‘he’ thinks he can beat her, but he can’t. Julian asks Leanne to come downstairs with him, but she declines. Sean and Julian reluctantly forcibly restrain her and as she tries to fight them off, they drop her and she is knocked out. They put her in a wheelchair, covering her mouth, and take her down into the tunnel to meet George and followers. A fire is lit and George tells Sean and Julian to leave. Julian tries to question why a fire is lit, but he eventually leaves with Sean. Meanwhile, Dorothy leaves the shower as she hears a baby cry. She falls outside the show and begins to crawl towards Jericho to comfort him.

Julian is sick in the kitchen, while Sean reassures Julian that they did it - Leanne is gone. Downstairs, George frees Leanne from her bonds. He says to Leanne that we she came to the Turner house, it was selfish love. Leanne retorts that whenever something bad happens, it is because of ‘him’, not her. George says that Leanne has misunderstood ‘him’ and can only serve him. Leanne, however, doesn’t believe that. He tells her that she should not exist and the world is suffering due to her existence. She has trapped the Turner family in a living hell. The deluge is beginning and the world is out of balance - Only Leanne herself can end it. He mentions how they have tried to kill Leanne on many occasions and have failed as she is is far too strong for them. Presenting her with a heated dagger, he gives her the chance to do it as she is the only one strong enough. If she loves the Turners, she should kill herself. Leanne stabs George through the bottom of his mouth however and performs the ritual many tried to commit on her with George. She also kills George’s followers in the room.

In the ground floor, Julian can hear something and he and Sean realise the ritual may not have been successful. Sean picks up a knife and advances towards the attic door. As he does so, the glass window beside him shatters from a very strong blast of wind and he falls, stabbing himself in the chest with the knife he is holding. Leanne sees this and Julian apologises, asking her if he can get to the phone to call 911. She moves aside to allow him past but as he comes past, she pushes him down the basement stairs. Leanne looks down at Julian and as he tries to run, he falls into the water. In the kitchen, Leanne pulls the knife out of Sean and calls 911, saying there’s been an accident. On the stairway, Dorothy asks Leanne what happened with Sean and Julian, but Leanne says she should check on Jericho instead. The paramedics arrive and begin to wheel Julian and Sean out of the Turner house. Leanne says to Sean that she will never let him back inside the house again as Dorothy watches on. Dorothy asks again what happened, where Leanne says it was just an accident and it is just her and Dorothy now, just as Leanne always wanted.

## 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 (final appearance)
* Mathilde DeHaye

### Co-Starring

* Jack and James Hoogerwerff
* Caiden and Luka Ravenscroft
* Patrick White
* Kat Walsh
* Bill Vargus
* Megan Gunning
* Arielle Mandelberg
* Davy Raphaely

## Trivia

* Sean saying that Leanne should meet him at 2:00 am is when thirteen-week-old Jericho was found dead in his crib, from the extreme heat of the car, by his mother.
* George finally perishes this time as Leanne fatally stabs him through the head with the red-hot dagger and leaves his body to burn from the ritual of saving one's spirit from eternal damnation in Hell.
* Dorothy has somewhat recovered her mobility enough to get around via a walker; the scar from her fall in shown in the middle of her back.
* George told Leanne that she has trapped the Turners in a living Hell, which has indeed happened, even before Leanne's arrival due to the constant lies and gaslight illusions about Dorothy's unintentional hand in her own firstborn child's premature death.