Warning! This article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 4!Boyd makes a big sacrifice with Randall from Season 3, Episode 4, which continues the monsters’ psychological torture and intent to “break” him. after from The season 3, episode 3 finale sees Tabitha returning to town in an ambulance, the series opens with paramedics driving at night. as expected, Monsters come out to trick and attack newcomersWhich results in the brutal deaths of two paramedics as police officers Tabitha, Henry and Acosta try to reach safety. With Randall and Boyd on the bus nearby, this put them in a difficult position.
Seeing the ambulance, Jim, Boyd, and Randall run to help get Tabitha and Henry out, though fromThe ominous monster is closing in on them. While trying to get back on the bus, Randall sees the cicadas again and stops on the road. Boyd tries to start the ambulance to drive the group away, but realizes that Nurse Creature has the key. He offers a deal: keys in exchange for Randall. Boyd reluctantly agrees, which not only instills him with massive guilt, but also sets up a massive confrontation where Randall might not actually die.
Boyd sacrifices Randall to save Tabitha and Henry from Season 3, Episode 4
Boyd has dedicated a life to saving others since season 3
Boyd’s decision to take the key while handing Randall over to the demons gives him a moral dilemma in the same vein as the famous “trolley problem”. The tough choice is that of Harold Perrineau from Builds the character based on the idea that he is willing to sacrifice one person’s life to save a larger group. If Boyd hadn’t taken the key, the night might have ended with Tabitha, Jim, Henry, Randall, and myself all dead. Or, he could risk Randall dying to give the others the best chance at survival.
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To be fair, Boyd didn’t have much time to think this decision through. Randall being surrounded by monsters already meant that he was in a position where he couldn’t be saved.And there was time to bring the occupants inside the colony house in an ambulance. Boyd’s hesitation proves that leaving Randall for the keys to the ambulance was not an easy choice, and he knew in that moment that he would be left to deal with the guilt of abandoning Randall.
Randall doesn’t really get along with the other residents
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Furthermore, Boyd probably argued that saving Tabitha, Henry, and Jim over Randall was the right choice for the community. Tabitha and Jim have two children who need their parents, and Henry has his son Victor in town. Meanwhile, Randall doesn’t really get along with the other residents fromIts town, has isolated itself on the bus, and hasn’t been much of a team player since its trauma with the music box monster. from Season 2 is over. That doesn’t mean Randall’s life isn’t as valuable as othersBut when forced to make that decision, it explains Boyd’s reasoning.
Boyd’s guilt over letting Randall go causes him to lash out against the new police officer
Boyd projects his own guilt about sacrificing Randall onto Acosta
After entering Colony House, Boyd quickly reveals his guilt about leaving Randall to Acosta, the new police officer who fled the ambulance after the paramedics died. Acosta was being chased by the creatures as he ran towards the Colony House, and while trying to shoot the many monsters that surrounded him, he inadvertently fired a shot inside the house. time to do Acosta accidentally shot and killed Nikki inside. The residents of the house were clearly upset, and Boyd only added to the tension by running in to scold him.
After the paramedics died, Acosta and Henry were the first new residents
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Expressing his anger at Acosta indicates that the monsters are starting to get what they want after killing Tian-Chen and letting Boyd live. from Season 3, Episode 1. The monsters wanted to break Boyd, shake him up, and stop him from being the glue that holds the community together. Boyd lashing out also suggests that he knows the demons’ actions are coming to him. This time, the monsters didn’t even kill Randall in front of him while he was helpless; Arguably bad for his stability and well-being, they forced him to choose to let the monsters kill Randall.
Is Randall still alive from Season 3, Episode 4?
Randall was still awake in the ambulance
Since Boyd had agreed to let the monsters take Randall in exchange for the key, he had already come to terms with the idea that Randall would not survive. Anyway, the end from Season 3, Episode 4 shows Randall pinned in front of an ambulance by monsters. At that moment he is alive, but Randall’s face has been cut open and he is badly injured and bleeding. Therefore, it seems fromIts demons did not actually kill Randall, but left him maimed and in critical condition to torment Boyd in the knowledge of his choice to abandon him.
Its new episode from Season 3 releases Sunday on MGM+.
In a nightmarish city that traps all who enter, residents struggle to survive while uncovering the city’s dark secrets. As they search for a way out, they must fight terrifying creatures that appear at night, threatening their lives and sanity. The Mathews family, newcomers, must adapt quickly to survive the horrors within the city.
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- Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ioan Bailey, David Alpe, Elizabeth Saunders, Sean Mazumder, Scott McCord, Ricky Hay, Chloe Van Landshut, Pegah Ghafuri, Courtion Moore, Hannah Cherami, Simon Webster, Avery Conrad, Paul Gino
- release date
- February 20, 2022
- the season
- 3
- Streaming Service(s)
- MGM+
- the authors
- John Griffin, Jeff Pinkner
- director
- Jack Bender, Brad Turner
- the creator
- John Griffin