Blink once for yes: Joyce asks Will if he is alive
Alone with a single bulb, Joyce sets up a yes/no code and gets her first real answers from her son.
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8 moments.
Joyce checks the body for Will's birthmark and refuses to sign
Joyce asks to see the birthmark on the arm; outside, Hopper and Jonathan talk about how tough she is, then she storms out saying that is not her son.
Ganesh's mother and the man who was not his father
Young Ganesh watches his mother come alive only when his father is away, and pays for it in a schoolyard fight.
Sartaj lies to his mother about the Gaitonde case
A late-night call home: his mother saw Parulkar on the news and hoped to spot him; Sartaj tells her he was never there.
Gaitonde's grief after Kukoo turns ugly
Depressed after losing Kukoo, Gaitonde tries to burn out his pain in brothels but keeps seeing his mother in every woman with flowers in her hair.
Sartaj's mother tells the story of Lucy the dog
Instead of scripture, Sartaj's mother offers a story about his father walking two days to find a stolen German Shepherd and being called a real cop.
A house built after Partition
Sartaj's mother refuses to leave the home his father built with his savings after Partition, and asks him to work with honesty.
Eleven asks Hopper if she has a mother
Hopper reads Eleven a bedtime book about an orphan; she asks about her own mother, then remembers wandering alone, asking the way to the school.