Welcome to Methuen Home
Mrs. Deardorff gives Beth the tour of chapel, classroom and dormitory, interrupted by Jolene's foul mouth, and promises the two of them will be good friends.
Mrs. Deardorff
7 moments · 15 min
Jolene explains who gets adopted
Mary-Sue packs for her new family while Jolene tells Beth that the rest of them are lifers, too old or too Black for anyone to come for them.
Deardorff allows the simultaneous, then bans basement chess
Mr. Ganz asks to take Beth to play his whole club at once; Deardorff agrees with a chaperone, then calls Beth back to forbid games with the custodian.
Movie night: Beth raids the pill jar
While the girls watch a Roman epic, Beth slips out to the dispensary, swallows handfuls of tranquilizers and collapses in front of everyone.
Mrs. Deardorff sells Beth to the Wheatleys as a 13-year-old
The adoption interview: Deardorff shaves two years off Beth's age and pitches her as the model Methuen girl while the Wheatleys size her up.
Beth returns to her mother's trailer and remembers Deardorff
Beth and Jolene stop at the abandoned trailer; a Methuen flashback of Mrs. Deardorff on choices and consequences, and Beth decides never to go back in.
Beth finds Shaibel's wall of clippings in the Methuen basement
Beth goes back down to the basement where she learned chess, discovers Shaibel kept every article about her, and breaks down in Jolene's arms.