Awake

**"Awake"** is the thirty-ninth and penultimate/second-to-last episode of *Servant*. It debuted on 10 March 2023, on Apple TV+, as the ninth episode of Season 4.

## Plot

Dorothy tries to contact the hospital and is put on hold and lots of others are trying to reach loved ones as well - Leanne reassures her. Dorothy is eventually able to get through to Sean and he is okay, though is unlikely to be discharged soon due to his injuries. He wants to send Tobe over at 8am the next day to give some supplies to Dorothy. Dorothy comforts Jericho while Leanne contacts the hospital, posing as Dorothy, and is able to reach Sean. She asks if the doctor told Sean how close that knife was to his artery. Sean responds that Dorothy will fight Leanne, while Leanne replies that Sean should rest well as after he has healed he will have to start a new life. That night, Leanne wakes Dorothy saying she will stay in the room due to the storm outside.

The next morning, Dorothy is in bed with Jericho and she notices Leanne is not there. She makes her way down stairs using the stair lift and notes that Leanne has moved the furniture so the sofa faces the television as she could not sleep last night, she was too excited. Dorothy agrees to watch a film with Leanne, and as she does so the doorbell rings. Dorothy says it is Tobe and asks Leanne to go and answer it.

Leanne says no, citing a falling out between her and Tobe and Dorothy answers it instead. She finds a hamper outside, with a note to pretend to talk to Tobe which Dorothy duly does. Finished, Dorothy tells Leanne to get the basket in and then set up the film while she does something. Leanne believes Dorothy is trying to distract her and says as much, but Dorothy refutes this claim saying she is in no condition to go anywhere. They watch *The Wizard of Oz* and part way through (during the scene when Dorothy said that her killing the Wicked Witch of the East was an accident, to which the Wicked Witch of the West replied that she, too, could cause accidents; a direct parallel to Dorothy having indirectly caused the premature demise of her two-month-old infant son as just an accident), Dorothy wants to head to bed and gives Jericho to Leanne to bath him.

Upstairs, while Leanne runs the bath, Dorothy has a moment with her son, saying she will be back after speaking with his dad. Dorothy puts a pill in her mouth - but does not swallow it - while Leanne goes to the bathroom with Jericho. Dorothy makes the bed and attempts to move towards the stairs using her walking frame, but acknowledges it is very noisy. Carrying the baby monitor, she switches to using the walls to steady herself and goes downstairs on foot. She makes her way to the door and goes outside in the rain, with Jericho crying in the monitor. She makes it out to the car, where Julian and Sean greet her.

In the car, Sean and Julian tell Dorothy about how Leanne caused their injuries and they also want to tell her the truth about Jericho. Sean asks Dorothy what she remembers about August last year. Dorothy is confused as her brother begins to cry, apologising for not coming to help her with his nephew when she had clearly needed him. He says Dorothy called him a couple of days before Jericho died to say she was struggling but he did not come. He furthermore replays the voicemail to Dorothy. She is still confused as Julian and Sean explained to her about the Reborn doll. Dorothy begins to remember, flashing back to the previous summer when Officer Reyes, who was at the Turner house the night Jericho died. Her fellow police officers took the late two-month-and-a-half-year-old Jericho's lifeless body as Dorothy was catatonic in front of Sean and Julian.

Back in the present of late spring 202, Dorothy begins to scream and cry in extreme anguish, painfully lashing out at Sean and Julian as they attempt to unsuccessfully comfort her in the car and in the street. Looking out the window, Leanne sees the car outside and is downstairs when Sean and Julian walked Dorothy into the house. Leanne tries to present Jericho to Dorothy, and Sean and Julian realise it is the reborn doll. Sean tells Leanne that Dorothy now knows everything about what happened with Jericho and tells her to get out of their lives. Leanne says she was initially angry at Dorothy for causing her own child's premature death. She says her purpose in life was to help Dorothy correct that error, hence why she returned Jericho to life for her. Sean and Julian try to convince Dorothy that Leanne is lying as she is a complete psychopath, while Leanne wants Dorothy to agree to let her help her be with beloved son forever. Dorothy is left with a painful Faustian Bargain-like choice.

## Cast

### Starring

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

### Guest Star

* Victoria Cartagena as Officer Stephanie Reyes (flashback)

## Trivia

* Leanne had deliberately chosen *The Wizard of Oz* as a the "scary" movie to finally get Dorothy to wake up from her long-held delusion.
* Officer Reyes returns from a twenty-episode long absence since "Marino" in a flashback of Dorothy finally remembering.
* Sean mentions that Tobe had recently had a sense of Leanne being unstable.
* The reason Sean had guest starred on *Gourmet Gauntlet* was due the pressure of being a first-time father, just like the pressure of motherhood had overwhelmed Dorothy, ultimately leading to Jericho's premature death at just two months (thirteen weeks) of age.
* Natalie Gorman did not appear in Dorothy's memory, even though she was the first who Sean and Julian had called for help.
* Dorothy finally remembers the premature demise of the true Jericho, that it was all her fault of her careless; the title referring to her finally waking up to such a painfully harsh reality after nearly one whole year of intense denial.
* Dorothy sits in the right back seat of the car, which was where she forgotten Jericho and left him to die of heat nearly one year ago.
* In "Hair" it was revealed that Julian had found his catatonic sister on the floor of the nursery once she had seen Jericho deceased in his crib. In Dorothy's perceptive, she had unconsciously walked down the stairs and was on the couch with Officer Reyes asking what she remembered.
* Julian told Dorothy how the baby boy she thought was Jericho belongs to a family who has been looking for him two states away from Pennsylvania, contrary to what George had told them in "Myth."