How It All Goes Down
- It's the second Saturday of the month, which means it's time to visit Kevin! Errmm… do we have to?
- Today, Eva does something different: she makes small talk with another mom in the waiting room.
- The other mom, Loretta Greenleaf, quickly realizes that Eva is mom to the infamous Kevin Khatchadourian.
- Loretta asks Eva if she ever figured out why Kevin killed "seven high school students and an English teacher […] and a cafeteria worker" (15.20).
- Eva says maybe it's her fault.
- Loretta tells Eva not to be saddled with all the guilt. "It's hard to be a momma" (15.44). And she squeezes Eva's hand.
- That might be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to Eva.
- Eva is called in to visit Kevin, who talks about how superior he is to all the other kids who have committed school shootings.
- This is what amounts to prison small talk.
- Eva is sick of it, so she decides to have some real talk: "Do you blame me?" (15.67), she asks.
- Nope. Kevin doesn't want Eva to have any of the credit.
- Eva asks Kevin to remember his childhood, and how he wore diapers until he was six years old.
- "Do you remember? What you drove me to do?" (15.94), she asks.
- Kevin does remember, whatever it is, and calls it the "most honest thing" (15.97) she ever did.
- What could it be?