The Fall Of The House Of Usher Episode 3 Murder At The Rue Morgue Explained- Poe’s Detective Story Ends In Blood

There is always a price to be paid for success. Sometimes, it is as simple as sacrificing your time. Occasionally, it is more complex, like shifting your morals to suit the situation. Still, other times, it looks from the outside like you paid in blood, like the many supposed curses that plague a few high-profile families that everyone knows. Hell, they even reference John F. Kennedy Jr, in case you don’t know who I mean. The Fall Of The House Of Usher Episode 3 shows another chess piece falling as Roderick loses yet another child. Here’s everything you need to know about The Murders In The Rue Morgue.

The only survivor of Perry’s party was poor Morrie. She’s alive but just barely. In the aftermath of the death of eighty-some-odd people, Camille has been employed to do what she does best. The spin doctor is out in front of the mass death. Her side project of taking Victorine down continues. Who needs enemies when you have family? Her assistants have found substantiated rumors of Victorine’s animal trials being doctored. Some of the chimpanzees die during surgery, are thought to be chopped up and disposed of, and replaced with an identical chimp with a fake surgical wound. It’s unethical at best and barbaric at worst. We could easily be on Camille’s side if only she wasn’t such a vile person herself.

It’s all about perception. Roderick delivers a chilling to-camera soliloquy about the nature of consumerism. We are lemmings. When we stop thinking for ourselves, #lemons dominate the news cycle. Everything from pop culture references to art and, finally, what and how we consume for what reason is controlled for us. We wake up one day with sour faces, rotten teeth, and a vague sense that we missed something somewhere while the Ushers of the world make lemonade and rake in the dough. It might be funny if it wasn’t so fu@king sick.

Back in the early days of Roderick and Madeline’s time with Fortunato, Roderick is learning a valuable lesson from Rufus about the legalities of ideas. Rufus stole his medication idea and is magnanimously paying him $500 for his brain fart. While this power player and another who wants to be, discuss another man’s idea, the fact that neither of them is responsible for the intellectual product. They are both just methane dealers stealing and repackaging someone else’s brain fart.

Roderick gets a raise, a promotion, and a bonus, all of which Annabel Lee thinks is a good thing. Roderick thinks it is an injustice, and ever-strategic Madeline thinks it is an opportunity. She is thinking about what to do with Rufus even before realizing it. Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado is fervently whispered about, and it is almost missed. It’s clear someone will find themselves behind a brick wall. It’s only a matter of time.

Rahul Kohli’s Napolean Usher or Leo to his friends and family is an X-Box Gatsby. The term coined by Camile sounds sexy, but it is as empty a moniker as Leo’s head. Like the rest of the Usher children, he makes nothing. He contributes zilch to the world and leeches off the talent of those who love him. His boyfriend, Julius, is the real brains behind his gaming empire. Leo pays him back by cheating on him every chance he gets and killing his black cat.

Camile(Kate Siegel) is one of the few Ushers with actual talent. She uses her skills for evil, but she does have an incredible mind and the awareness to use it to manipulate the masses. Camile is a calculating monster. She expects her employees to be her minions and her sex slaves. When her two closest employees refuse to sleep with her because they have fallen in love, she fires them and is left alone and frustrated. She isn’t the only Usher with intimacy issues. Tamerlane Usher has to pay a surrogate to pretend at the closeness she should have with her husband, all while she watches from just across the room and gets herself off. It’s a particularly sad kink that plays out in a rush of adrenaline and a well-placed finger.

Like the rest of the Ushers, jealousy and petty competition rules her. When she should be mourning the loss of her brother or worried about the loss of valuable employees, she chooses to go to Victorine’s medical facility to get evidence of her chimp shenanigans. She isn’t doing it to save lives. She doesn’t care about people, and she certainly doesn’t care about the animals. Camile is doing it to destroy Victorine. Roderick has fostered such competitive hatred between the children that revenge is all they can think of. Revenge for what isn’t important. It hardly matters that they were pitted against each other and would be innocent collateral in a familial war if they stopped to think about who they should really hate for just a second.

Verna(Carla Gugino) shows up in several of the Ushers’ lives in The Fall Of The House Of Usher Episode 3. She is a heart patient that Victorine wants to take advantage of for her human trials, which should not be happening, Tamerlane’s sex surrogate, and a security guard at the lab that Camile bullies her way into.

Verna gives the children every chance for a peaceful death. She tells them they shouldn’t be there. Verna even tries to guide them away from whatever amoral activity they are getting ready to engage in. In every case so far, they have ignored her advice. She is elemental. A force of nature. Verna is the Lorax, and she speaks for the chimps in this case but chaos in general. The horror of the entire situation is Camile doesn’t care about the animals or even the people who will undoubtedly die because of her faulty data. She is there because she hates her sister. That fatal flaw makes her death painful, messy, and fitting. She is found the next day bloody and battered with a smiling chimp nearby.

The Murders In The Rue Morgue

One of the three stories C. August Dupin appears in, The Murders In The Rue Morgue, is about the gruesome murders of a mother and daughter. Those victims are named Madam and Camile L’Espanaye. Not coincidentally, that is Camile Usher’s name. None of the “bastards,” as Tamerlane refers to them, were allowed to use the family name or live in the family home. That should have been a blessing. It is the first appearance of Dupin, and this is considered the first fictional detective.

In the story, an ourang-outang or orangutan climbs a lightning rod and lept through the window of the women, where it slashed one with a knife and strangles another. The seemingly unsolvable case highlighted Poe’s fascination with mind games and allowed Poe to indulge in one of his favorite pastimes. Puzzles and cryptography were a passion of the gifted writer, and Dupin was a fictionalized stand-in for Poe himself.

The story structure was also similar to many of Poe’s stories, where a narrator stands apart, recounting the story detached from the action. The Fall Of The House Of Usher is another example of a narrator independent from the main characters of the story who is there simply to relay information and act as the voice for the reader.

The Fall Of The House Of Usher Episode 3 saw the end of Camile, who might have had the most in common with Madeline and Roderick. Her conniving thought process was most akin to Madeline’s, while her take-no-prisoners attitude aligned with Roderick’s. Of all the children, she was the only one with any actual talent, and it was a waste that she was born into this family. With another father, I wonder what she could have become.

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