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'The Terror: Infamy' Episode 7 highlights elements of gory Japanese horror with a dash of Chester's identity crisis

The imperfections in Chester Nakayama's world shine through the cracks on the surface as he finds out more about his identity.
PUBLISHED SEP 24, 2019

This article contains spoilers for episode 7.

AMC's anthology horror, 'The Terror: Infamy's' episode 6, titled 'My Perfect World' makes all the imperfections in Chester Nakayama's (Derek Mio) world shine through the cracks on the surface, with bittersweet developments and cinematic gore playing the two prime elements of horror this time.

The episode starts with what can be imagined in the aftermath of Yuko coming back from the dead as a Yurei. We see an American doctor working at a lab, stripping off the skin from the arm of a dead body and placing it on Yuko's rotting one to cover up the decaying matter underneath. He ties it up with the black thread, and Yuk is good at new, trying to fix her appearance with whatever makeup she can plaster on her sewn up face.

Meanwhile, back in the island, Chester is trying to adapt to the new revelations and a new environment back home at the Terminal Island Japanese internment camps. Chester has found out about the reality of his parents, and the fact that they kept this from him for all these years is something that is driving him insane. Plus he has to deal with the fact that Luz (Cristina Rudlo) is gone too, so things are not looking for for the Nakayamas as a whole.

But the Nakayamas aren't the only ones suffering; with the onset of the yurei's wrath on the entire community, there's a dangerous breakout resulting in severe temperatures and vomiting amongst the children and the elderlies. Even Toshiro Furuya is under the insidious spell and while Chester's family is taking care of the boy, things don't appear all that normal. As for Chester, he is just busy writing letters to Luz, who left their camps, and the community after the tragic birth of her stillborn twins. 



 

We finally see Luz in this episode, and she looks slightly better, but that's on the surface. We see her father asking her to go out more, and meet more suitable men from their community, but Luz is clearly not over the trauma of what she went through, and for her dad to rush her like this is extremely unfair, but at the same time, also understandable. While her father busies himself in sending the unopened letters from Chester back to him, Luz finally gives in to meeting a boy her father has arranged for her to meet. Yet, it turns out just fine for the former lovers.

Upon receiving Luz's unopened letters, Chester acts out and violently so. After blocking his parents out and refusing to speak to them for their lies, Chester marches out of the internment camp, presumably to demand answers from Luz. Of course, he gets caught and detained, but he manages to escape but tricking the officers and plunging into a raging river from a bridge. He survives, and heads straight to Luz's, waiting for her inside a car while she says goodnight to the very gentle Spanish man she had just gone out with. 

Chester and Luz eventually meet and get their much-needed closure, sitting inside the car and speaking to each other about why she shut him out, mostly. Chester tries to convince Luz to allow him to help her, which she again gives in to, after much consideration and a lot of reassurance from him. But while one aspect of his life gets sorted, Chester comes back to dig into the missionary run orphanage to go through his papers from years ago, and finds that he has a twin brother too. At least Luz as agreed to be with him once again, which is much more than what Amy Yoshida can say after witnessing the soldiers kill her beloved Ken, only amplified by the fact that she had to watch her father die not all that long ago, the exact same way. 

'The Terror: Infamy' airs on Monday nights at 9 pm only on AMC.

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