"A Little Resurrection" Finds a Little Justice in 'The Woman in the Wall' Finale

In all the twists and turns of The Woman in the Wall, there were two that surprised me the most. The first came at the end of the first episode when Lorna actually took the body of the dead woman in her house and straight up put her in the wall. A shockingly literal translation of the show's title, it was something of a relief when she reopened the wall a couple of episodes later only for there to be no corpse inside, suggesting that scene had been a dream that happened while sleepwalking or a sleep-deprived hallucination. The second came at the top of the finale, when the series revealed, in actuality, that Lorna did put a woman in the wall; she just wasn't dead. Aoife Cassidy suffers from stress-induced catalepsy, which makes her appear to be dead at very inconvenient times, only to resurrect when those around her have given up hope — or stuck her in the wall of their flat.

Lorna: I can sleep now.

The finale opens with a flashback to Cassidy's visit to Father Percy and this explanation, which also is why she never took her final vows as a nun, as she saw the experience as a sign of God's wrath for what they were doing: Stealing and selling children. Percy shows her the box of cards, thanking him for creating their families to convince her they were on the side of right. This is how she got the photo of Breda to give to Constance; she grabbed everything from the box, wrestling it from Percy when he fought her for it; in the fight, he went headfirst down the stairs. Aoife left him there to die, stealing his keys and running for it. However, the letters and cards that rained down on the stairs she left where they fell, letters and cards that were gone by the time the police arrived.