‘Tell Me a Story’ Season 2 Episode 7: Is Tucker same as Olivia? They’re violent psychopaths with dark secrets
Spoilers for ‘Tell Me a Story’ Season 2 Episode 7 ‘Thorns and All’
The second season of this dark thriller series that originally aired on CBS took a wild turn the last time we saw it. The tables turned for Tucker, played by Paul Wesley, as he now found himself being caught and chained by the woman he had imprisoned, Olivia Moon (Danielle Campbell).
We know that Tucker’s obsessive stalking of women, capturing them, (and even murdering two of them), stemmed from the loss of his sister when they were young. With Olivia, he did the same. But in episode 5, Tucker’s fiance Maddie (Odette Annable) began to suspect that Tucker was involved with someone called Olivia. While Tucker denied it, she wasn’t convinced, and she told her friend and colleague Brendan (Harry Shum Jr.) about this.
Brendan, being Maddie’s ex-boyfriend, got on Tucker’s case and eventually found his dirty little secret. But unluckily for Brendan, he underestimated Tucker. Olivia escaped but Tucker caught Brendan and later killed him. He disposed of his body by throwing it in the lake.
Just as viewers are left wondering if Olivia will reach the cops and Tucker will be arrested and imprisoned, we see her return, knock him out, and put him in the same chains that held her earlier. In the last two episodes, we have gotten some insight into Olivia’s psyche. And by the looks of it, they are both the same. They are both obsessive. They are both unhinged. They are both killers. The only difference seems to be that only one of them is in denial of who they are.
Olivia, it turned out in the last episode, had killed her ex-boyfriend before moving cities. The ex was abusive and she killed him in self-defense. Or so it would seem. The fact, however, remains that even if it was in a moment of heat, Olivia did nothing to save him. Instead, she just sat there and watched him die. Now, Tucker believes that he isn’t a sadistic creep. But he also killed two women. He believes he was forced to. But that’s poppycock. He had kidnapped and imprisoned them.
Olivia makes Tucker call Maddie and break up. So that she would not visit his home and find out what happened. But one can tell she is not done with Maddie yet. She has a clear obsessive streak and it would be out of character if she did not pursue her in her effort to hurt Tucker.
They are both cold and calculating. They let their innocent-seeming personas mask the true monsters inside them. And they both make sure that nothing they do is sloppy. They are both careful to cover their tracks. And most of all, neither of them seem to have real human connections -- no matter how much Tucker claims that he loves Maddie.
Ultimately, it seems that Tucker’s bad karma led him to Olivia, a true match for him. But something makes one feel that their story will not go in any direction anyone can possibly imagine.
New episodes of ‘Tell Me a Story’ Season 2 air every Tuesday at 9 pm ET, only on The CW.