Similarly, due to some carefully worded dialogue and reactions between Noah and the detective in the present, it’s entirely possible that Helen divorced him after this affair came to light, taking custody of their children along with her.

The plot of the week, that Noah and Alison are outside of the town, on Block island, ostensibly on “vacation” together, is a very ballsy plot, as well as some pretty reckless actions by the two of them, as they go and engage in things like change room sex at little boutiques, as they’re pretty much screaming to get caught. Of course they’re off in a foreign place, but with every person they make contact with and talk to, it almost stabs you a little deep down, giving you the impression that this is going to end up being the person that says something to the wrong person and everything comes collapsing down on top of them.

Seeing Noah get caught up in lighthouses and how they work is pretty great as Alison talks about the beauty in seeing someone talk about something they love and you feel that he wouldn’t be looking that different as he talked about her. We see Alison put out the same affection as she talks about shipwrecks (the destruction of something beautiful, like say, a marriage), and it’s weirdly comforting to see these two bonding more and more, revealing secrets about each other, delving into each other’s sexual history and past, as you watch these two married individuals break their spouses’ hearts.

There’s a very revealing scene where Alison talks about not believing that people can be so easily reduced as “good people” or “bad people”, and by admitting such her ability for rationalization becomes a lot more clear. Alison’s certainly been the more passive one in the Noah and her dynamic so far, but her true, manipulative nature seems to be making itself more obvious. She’s more forceful with Noah, less ambivalent. When Noah quasi-rebukes the topic of sex with her, she straight up storms off and leaves the island. The sort of Alison we may be seeing in the next couple of episodes is very exciting.

Even after Noah and Alison have a fight and she appears to have left, they can’t escape one another. At the house Noah is checking out, he sees a painting of a shipwreck that he lingers on because he knows how much Alison would love it. Later on, they return to the same store and are thrown in each other’s paths, unable to get away from one another, their bond even stronger now.