'The Woman In The Wall' Steps Forward in "Show Thyself"

Last week's The Woman in the Wall premiere ended with the shock of being a much more literal title than I would have assumed. One morning, after waking from a troubled sleep, Lorna Brady discovered she had a dead body in her house; after a day or so of trying to figure out what to do with it, she hid it in the living room wall of her flat. The second episode returns to Lorna's house with her regarding the newly-plastered-over, body-sized patch in her wall. The last thing she remembered before shoving the body into the wall was the identity of the body, one of the midwives present when teenaged Lorna gave birth back at the Kilkinure Convent/Magdalene Laundry, tasked with whisking away the baby as soon as it was born.

Sister Eileen: "Recent" is a very relative term to an old anchorite like myself."

A string of calls come into the dead woman's phone from "Dara;" Lorna texts back, pretending to be her, and starts to arrange a meeting, learning along the way the deceased's name is Aoife. Unfortunately, that's when the phone dies, and she has to go buy a charger to get it juiced back up. She's also not the only one working this angle. Det. Akande is also trying to track down Aoife, as she is the main suspect in his case, that of Father Percy, who was pushed down the stairs earlier the same night Lorna met Aoife and may have killed her. The problem is Det. Akande doesn't know Aoife is dead. He believes she's out there covering her tracks, unaware what he thinks is a "cover-up" is actually Lorna acting out from PTSD while sleepwalking.