"I Think I'm Dead" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Marshall and Redd

Lois departs from the desert motel alone, having killed Megan's abusive boyfriend, Justin, and when she pulls into her driveway and changes into a clean shirt, she finds that someone's already in her home. It turns out to be Marshall and Redd, and they have a surprising and off-putting proposition for her. Asking her to sit down for some of Redd's famous Cincinnati chili and lavender lemonade, Marshall pours her a drink and says that they've screwed up.

There is a miracle, Marshall claims, to her recovery, and they need to be a united front to continue supporting Merritt. It's why he suggests that the three of them live together-- her, Redd, and Marshall-- in the same house. Redd and Marshall would live in the guest room; Lois would stay where she is. It's not a particularly enjoyable idea to Lois. In fact, it's so crazy she believes she's still in her coma, dreaming.

She asks the two to leave, believing that Marshall gaslit her for years. She plans to go ahead with the divorce. In the meantime, she begs the two to leave without starting dinner. It doesn't matter what Marshall says.

Answer: False

Marshall and Redd do leave, heading back to their place having tried, at least, to convince Lois of their plan. Redd takes the opportunity to ask, out loud, how she ended up in their town in the first place-- it offers nothing and she hates the silence it offers. And for what that's worth, she hates Marshall as well.

It's the moment, Redd says, that she tell him the truth. She knows that he never really wanted her-- not really-- since she was approached by several of the faculty wives he'd seduced in the past, making her just one in a long list of women Marshall committed adultery on and with. He tries to justify his actions, but she says she only went along with his plan for Lois because she wanted to be present for his humiliation.

As Redd drops Marshall off at the house and heads to the club to get work done, she tells him that despite his claim to have love for her and Lois, he has until the end of the week before she wants him out.

Answer: An accusation of sexual assault

Marshall continues to hold his lectures but finds different reactions from his class as he gives an impassioned speech. Partway through his line of thinking, Megan passes through the lecture hall door and his talk changes. She speaks to him once he has the room clear out to indicate that there's been some important news; a student of his has made a serious charge of sexual assault against him. He claims they had a real relationship, but the girl has a different account. They have no choice but to take him into custody.

Regardless of the proof that he may have in his text messages, the DA has chosen to go ahead. It's believed, at least amongst the detectives on the force, that he has an addiction. He will likely lose his job. Both Megan and Hanover suggest that he find help.

Going home, Marshall packs his suitcase. He leaves a letter on the table with his wedding ring atop it. By the time the pills hit, he's made it back to his bed.

Answer: No

When Marshall awakens and asks if he's dead, he turns to find that Redd is seated by his bedside. Unfortunately, or fortunately, he survived his suicide attempt, having taken all of his pills on a full enough stomach for Redd to find him, call an ambulance, and have his stomach pumped.

Redd acknowledges that her ask-- that he leave-- has not changed, and worse, she knows about the details of his arrest. She calls Marshall out for his cowardice, especially since his daughter would have been left behind. Redd invited her to the hospital once the emergency was called. Leaving in frustration, Redd reiterates that he needs to get his things and get out in the next few days.

As for Merritt, she enters the hospital room a short time later, and sits down to ask him to dredge up what he can to keep going. Its hard, she says, to want to know him, but she doesn't want to see a world without him in it.

Answer: The Mexicali Men's Club

Shortly after being discharged from the hospital, Marshall receives a mysterious text message suggesting that he be ready in five minutes for something that will change his life, and when he checks outside, it turns out that the person responsible was Ed, out in his truck, waiting to give him a ride to something that helped him in dire times. Marshall is dubious of the motive behind the invitation, worrying that Ed may be dragging him out to a religious gathering, but Ed insists that it's a group that believes in support and brotherhood. Ed now believes his anger is his salvation, and Marshall will find out more.

They arrive at the meeting hall, descending into the musty building to find the other members seated in the dark, listening to Dr. Milton Smythe introduce the evening's affairs. Ultimately, they want to interview Marshall and get to know him. And so Marshall takes a seat.

Answer: Traditional

As Marshall takes a seat, Ed asks particularly odd questions under the hear of a buzzing light while men in the crowd silently watch on. For one, he's asked about people, especially his students, using different pronouns, and he admits to being confused by the more complicated ones. Ed supports Marshall despited the crowd's protests as he claims it costs nothing to be respectful to people. At the far end of the hall, Dr. Mayhew takes a spot near the back.

Next, Marshall is asked about the shifting role of men in modern society, and he claims that there's a revolution taking place; it's a correction. Some of these changes may be a bit too drastic though; men and boys are being marginalized, and those who point out these disparities are being seen as dangerous. While Marshall continues, he notices that members of the police force are amongst them. He thinks, however, that weak men are much more dangerous than most. The room applauds this. It's important to be strong, but not angry. Ed agrees that they need to find success and rigor.

As Dr. Witticomb enters and takes a seat at the back of the room as well, Marshall admits that his name has recently been sullied and he is struggling to reclaim himself. But it's up to him to avoid shying away from the fight to seek truth. He hypothesizes that it might be time to seek a more traditional model for society, much to the delight of everyone in the room. Dr. Smythe reiterates that that this must mean a return to hierarchical order and personal responsibility. It would mean consequences.

The room concedes that it feels like they all live in a horror movie within society. It might time to defeat that boogeyman. The Mexicali Men's Club welcomes Marshall to their numbers as he rises to his feet to standing ovation.

Answer: Cotard's Syndrome

Merritt is called back to the hospital but, this time, instead of visiting Marshall, she's there for Lois' sake as her mother contacted her, afraid, and said she was admitting herself on the condition she could speak to Dr. Witticomb. The doctor asks how Merritt is feeling, and while she says she's okay, she's insistent that he figure out what's wrong.

Lois, as he finds out, believes she's really dead, and he's the only one who might be able to help her. He asks her why she believes the world isn't real anymore and she believes it to be a shock to the system. She's in an 'other world' and she never woke up from the coma. Really, Dr. Witticomb believes this could be a variation of Cotard's Syndrome since she's gone through too much to bear.

There are three things, she believes, that triggered this. The first was that Marshall and Redd asked her to be in a relationship with them, which she believes would never happen under any circumstances. She recalls it slightly different from reality.

The second thing was Dr. Mayhew, who she believes was sleeping with multiple people in her hospital room. She confronted him, but he refuted the accusation, especially since she associated his acts with demonic possession. The one thing he told her, to her face, was that he felt sorry for her husband, considering what he was putting her through. He called her corrosive to her core and assured her that she would be going to Hell.

Answer: Glorious McKall

Dr. Witticomb asks for Lois' trust in that her situation is only temporary, but she admits what happened at the motel-- something that she only does because she truly believes she is dead. Explaining that she killed Justin, she says that she's justified in having committed the murder in cold blood because he was a bad man, but something doesn't add up. As she left the motel, she told Megan that she would clean up the because she needed to get her head on straight and pick up supplies. She lost track of time and dissociated, and in doing this, she kept driving, justifying the killing as self-defence.

She tried to go back to speak to Megan, but what she found at the motel was a vacant, spotless room-- definitely the work of a cleaner. The only person around she knew who could do this was Glorious McKall. She went silent and she followed Megan in her car to find the proof. And it was there. Megan and Glorious met for lunch.

It led Lois to confront Megan at the station shortly after, but Megan assured her that she was seeing things. Megan admitted to meeting with Glorious about an unrelated issue, but she had no idea what happened with Justin-- she hadn't seen him in weeks. Instead, Megan turned this back around, suggesting Lois needed sleep or, better yet, help. It's why it all came together in her mind.

Answer: Possibly hundreds

The third reason that gives Lois cause to believe she's dead is the fact that she's in the afterlife, drowning in her sorrow. She says that Dr. Witticomb is nothing more than a demon, there to torture her with the idea of comfort in the face of all her obstacles.

She spies the video camera filming across the room and acknowledges the last piece of the puzzle to him, out loud, that brings it all together. There was a quintuple homicide in a home the other day, and the events that transpired were identical to what occurred in her dream. She believes he might be a copycat killer since he's the only person who could have done it; he has access to her files.

Dr. Witticomb notes that her files are valuable to research, and the facts about her dreams have been disseminated to a number of people. Hundreds of them have read her files. Even her daughter, who's an experienced medical professional, could have access via different platforms. More likely, as a suspect, he notes, would be Lois. She admitted to murdering Justin in cold blood-- execution-style; she dissociates; she loses time. Grotesquerie's motivations could very easily translate to her own.

Lois refuses to believe this. She believes she's in the dream. Or dead. But Dr. Witticomb levels with her; she's in the real world and she's coping poorly with he life. She's nothing more than a small-town detective in a very dark time.

Answer: Dr. Mayhew

Late in the evening, after her visit with Dr. Witticomb, Lois receives an unexpected visit from Megan who checks herself in and rushes to her room, crying. As it has been discovered, there's another murder scene in town, and this one is just as bad if not worse than the family of five encountered earlier. Megan apologizes for coming to her in the middle of a crisis, but this one is big-- they even know people amongst the victims.

Lois says that she's done, but Megan begs. It's real and she needs her to push back against the evil amongst them. Lois is not dead, she promises her. In fact, Megan admits that Lois shot Justin and killed him, and she did call Glorious to get rid of the body. It was all true.

When Lois and Megan arrive at the crime scene, they find a grotesque tableau waiting for them in a church. While in her dream, these victims were homeless people posed as though at 'The Last Supper', this time, the Jesus figure is none other than Dr. Mayhew, crucified and bearing a crown of thorns. The rest of the disciples are homeless people from the area save for one, Mary Colsbie, who they recognize as being the young woman who accused Marshall of sexual assault.

Lois stands before the people in the room there to bag and tag the evidence and insists that they meet her in her old office. She's taking up the case. And this time, she knows who did it.