‘Monarch’ Recap: Season 1 Episode 7

Monarch followers are formally in on the Roman household’s deadliest secret but.

Tuesday’s episode revealed that the sufferer being buried within the flash-forwards is none aside from Nicky’s philandering husband Clive. He acquired violent with Nicky after she refused to take him again, forcing Gigi to hit him over the pinnacle with an award.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t sufficient to kill him. Clive regained consciousness and crawled out of Albie’s truck in the midst of the woods, leaving the household patriarch to complete the job with a bullet.

“We wondered how the audience would feel,” showrunner Jon Feldman tells TVLine. “We hoped it would come as a surprise, that they would understand why it had to happen, and why the Romans did what they did.”

And though the Romans are hardly out of the woods (too quickly?), there’s a silver lining to Albie and his daughters committing homicide collectively.

“There are all these forces working to pull the family apart, so we wanted to explore the unexpected ways that they could come together,” Feldman says. “It felt surprising, yet appropriately dysfunctional, for the Romans to come together over a murder cover-up.”

Now that we’re caught up with the flash-forwards, Feldman confirms that the season’s remaining 4 episodes received’t be leaping forward in time.

“We’ll have one timeline going forward, but the threat is only growing for the Romans,” he explains. “The ticking clock will tick louder than ever.”

As for final week’s large reveal — that Catt is definitely Albie’s daughter, the product of his affair with the girl Dottie murdered — the entire state of affairs seems to have resolved itself properly, with Albie inviting his granddaughter Anna to carry out alongside him. (Key phrase: seems.)

“We wanted to go a different route with this one, instead of doing what was expected,” Feldman says. “But that storyline, even though it appears that everyone is accepting it, is not going to go as simply as that. There are ripples and ramifications of that reveal moving forward through the end of the season, with many unexpected twists and turns.”

There’s additionally the matter of Luke and Kayla’s affair, which Feldman calls “another bomb that will explode in the last part of the season.” After all, (*7*) Feldman additionally teases that future episodes will “dimensionalize” Luke’s character, and he hopes the viewers will “find ways to sympathize with him.”

Were you stunned to be taught that Clive was the present’s large sufferer? And what are your hopes for the season’s last 4 episodes? Whatever’s in your thoughts, drop it in a remark under.