Hive

**"Hive"** is the twenty-second episode of *Servant*. It debuted on 28 January, 2022, on Apple TV+, as the second episode of season 3.

## Plot

Workers are at the Turner house fitting security cameras and Dorothy asks them to finish up quickly as she is having guests coming. Sean is cooking in the kitchen and Dorothy bumps into Leanne who is shocked to see that Sean is cooking for many people. Sean was supposed to tell Leanne and he apologizes to her. Dorothy explains that this is important for the family and Jericho, to which Leanne responds saying families should be making decisions together. Leanne reluctantly agrees and goes upstairs to see Jericho in response to him crying through the baby monitor. As she is up there, she hears a sound from upstairs and it is the security guy finishing setting up the cameras upstairs.

Dorothy opens the door to Riley Gallagher who prefers to be known as “Mr Smiley” for the kids. Dorothy introduces Leanne to Mr. Smiley and Leanne reluctantly introduces herself, before walking into the kitchen. As Sean is cooking in the kitchen, Dorothy answers the door and Sean offers Leanne the chance to stay out in the kitchen as he could use the help which she agrees to. In the living room, Mr. Smiley is entertaining the children. Julian and Vera arrive, having been sent by Dorothy to man the surveillance systems to make Leanne feel more comfortable. As Leanne is taking food into the living room, she hallucinates thinking the group sitting there is from the cult. As she walks in, Dorothy beckons her further into the room to introduce her which Leanne reluctantly agrees to. Guests ask Leanne more about her and then move on to talking about personal subjects to Dorothy such as Julian’s substance abuse and the incident over one summer involving Jericho. After this, Leanne leaves to help Sean where he tells her that she is safe and she should not worry. She tells Sean signs to look out for in the cult members, like dressing differently and scars.

Leanne delivers another meal in the living room as the group go through an exercise. Leanne is looking for scars on their back which she sees on one mother. As she rushes back into the kitchen, Sean spills sauce on Leanne and she goes to the bathroom to wipe it off. As she does so, she sees a figure walking past the bathroom door. It was one of the mothers who went into Leanne’s room, claiming in front of Leanne, Julian, and Vera that she needed some privacy to tend to her baby and that she dropped something underneath the baby’s bed. In the surveillance room, Julian confronts Leanne telling Leanne to stop and to let Dorothy have this day. Leanne sits on her bed and a wasp lands on her hand. She talks to Josephine’s remains through the wall, saying she will not be scared and she will respect her family and will not leave the house. Going downstairs she finds the house deserted, meeting Mr Smiley who exits the bathroom. She confronts him with a knife and the group comes back in from outside at an ice cream truck. Leanne tells Mr. Smiley to take his shirt off to reveal his scars, to which he does, to reveal no scars there. Dorothy speaks to Leanne upstairs, reiterating that the Turners are doing all they can to keep themselves and Leanne safe.

As the Turners and the parent group toast to motherhood, wasps come flying out of the fireplace all at once and the parents flee out the house. An exterminator arrives later to inspect the chimney and summarizes that a bee hive fell during the installation of the security cameras and burst releasing bees into the house. Sean is surprised none had stung him since he was closest. Meanwhile, upstairs at the surveillance station, Julian thinks Leanne caused the bee swarm in order to ruin Dorothy’s day, thinking Leanne cannot bear seeing Dorothy with "her child." In Dorothy’s bedroom, Leanne is brushing Dorothy’s hair and Dorothy states that she only wanted Jericho to have friends and Leanne responds that Jericho has everything he needs right now. Dorothy also states that things in her life keep slipping away. Leanne says she will put Jericho to bed and assures Dorothy not to worry as she thinks that everything is happening as it is supposed to be. Dorothy looks uncertain.

## Cast

### Starring

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

### Guest Starring

* Sunita Mani (debut)
* Robert McClure (debut)
* Noah (debut)
* Matthew (debut)
* Ella (debut)
* April (debut)

### Co-Starring

* Joe Estlack
* Candice Tiffany Green
* Ruibo Qian
* Heather Plank
* Jules Willcox
* David Turner
* Julia Grey
* John Jezior
* Amanda Hill
* Brian Anthony Wilson
* James and Jack Hoogerwerff
* Caiden and Luka Ravenscroft

## Trivia

* The title refers the hive of bees that swarm the living room.

* One of the mothers implies the previous summer when Jericho had died.
* Julian's overdose is referred to as "that little incident."
* The moths that were eating Josephine's decayed corpse swarm the living room.
* Julian becomes more suspicious of Leanne

## Notes

1. ↑ In most parts of the US, the episode was actually available in prime time on Thursday, but the Apple TV app nevertheless maintained that it debuted on Friday. So the actual date of first stream was January 27, 2022.