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Sammy has won second place, wearing an elegant black and gold dress with a golden, shimmering coat. The show raises the stakes of this conflict in its queer ballroom scene. His hands were (literally) still bloodied after killing Yahima. I think the show wants us to be conflicted about Montrose, but after last week itвЂ™s difficult for me to be invested in his well-being. Montrose cries during and he wonвЂ™t kiss Sammy he likely never has. He walks in, not saying a word, and the two have unromantic sex to Frank Ocean. Meanwhile, Montrose takes refuge at SammyвЂ™s (Jon HudsonВ Odom) apartment. She occupies this position for a while, always blending in with her coworkers until a white woman, referring to Tamara, says, вЂњof course sheвЂ™s unqualified, sheвЂ™s a Negro,вЂќ and it stops Ruby in her tracks. But it makes Ruby complicated, and thatвЂ™s good. In вЂњHoly GhostвЂќ Ruby said, вЂњIf more colored folks fought like me, the race would be a lot further along.вЂќ ItвЂ™s an arrogant thing to say, a bootstraps mentality wrapped up in respectability that isnвЂ™t entirely fair. Her remarks arenвЂ™t only inflected by her new appearance, either. Her insistence that Tamara does better feels condescending rather than caring. When she interacts with Tamara, the other Black woman working for the store, everything she says reads as slightly more threatening coming from a white woman.

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In this new skin, Ruby finally gets the job at the department store sheвЂ™s always wanted - and going by the name Hillary Davenport, with white skin and blue eyes, sheвЂ™s instantly named the Assistant Manager. ItвЂ™s more.вЂќ The potion Ruby was given вЂњjust mimics metamorphosisвЂќ and вЂњwears off after a time.вЂќ ItвЂ™s enough of an explanation so that we get an idea of the situation, even if itвЂ™s not the complete details and specifics. Then a caterpillar emerges from the same cells, the essence of the butterfly, yet different.

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When Ruby wakes after the grisly transformation, William explains whatвЂ™s going on: вЂњA butterfly lives a full life before it dies. It feels like an important choice that she wasnвЂ™t stuck in the form of a white woman for days (or the entire episode, a dark-skinned actress relegated to exist only offscreen in her own story).

The second time I watched the episode, it was easier to stomach knowing RubyвЂ™s life wasnвЂ™t in danger and knowing that she would return to her original body at the end of each day. ItвЂ™s clear this is about to get bloody - something is bursting through. She is carried out of the cop car by William, and we see the shape of a hand stretching through as if trapped underneath her skin.

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ItвЂ™s a lot more visceral than most of what weвЂ™ve seen in the series so far, and it only gets more intense. We see RubyвЂ™s brown eyes take over DellвЂ™s blue ones. We hear her bones cracking, her screams of pain, and the breaking of gristle. In the back of the cop car, Ruby starts to change back. Ruby tells the officers to leave him alone, and itвЂ™s the first time sheвЂ™s aware of her вЂњpowerвЂќ as a white woman: the police stop at her command. They assume the young Black teenager trying to help Ruby is trying to hurt her. And of course, white police arrive and give us an answer. The show begs the viewer to consider if this is a kindness that white people would extend if the roles were reversed. The Black residents look on warily but still offer her help, sensing her panic. We watch as she looks at her hands, then rushes to the mirror, only to react in horror: sheвЂ™s in a white womanвЂ™s body, and one weвЂ™ve seen before: ItвЂ™s Dell (Jamie Neumann), the woman in Ardham who Letitia hit with a shovel in вЂњWhiteyвЂ™s on the Moon.вЂќ Ruby, in this white body, escapes to the South Side. The episode opens with Ruby waking up in WilliamвЂ™s house. These feelings were further punctuated by RubyвЂ™s final act of violence. I was nauseated after, and my nerves were fried. The genre this week is grotesque body horror, and the episode succeeds in making the viewer feel that horror. I had to make sure that she wasnвЂ™t eternally damned or enticed into living life as a white woman for the rest of the series. I had to fast forward, skip ahead, and make sure Ruby was alive at the end. When I first began вЂњStrange Case,вЂќ I couldnвЂ™t stomach it. And IвЂ™m choosing to believe this is intentional, that itвЂ™s meant to be a difficult watch. As she told Atticus previously, вЂњThis is evil, itвЂ™s the devilвЂ™s tools, it is corruptinвЂ™ all of us.вЂќ And as the viewer, itвЂ™s difficult not to agree. Leti is searching for something to help her make peace with the magical, violent world around her. In this episode and the last, weвЂ™ve watched these characters do some things that are extremely difficult to contend with. IвЂ™m just trying to find something good.вЂќ When Leti says this, I feel her grief.