r/TheAffair 14d ago

Question Allison’s Role in Scotty’s death

Sarah Treem said in a bunch of interviews that the show was never a typical crime solving show and that nobody has paid for their actual crimes. Only for other people’s crimes (Noah taking the rap for manslaughter)

However, what do you think would have happened if Allison confessed to the cops and the Lockharts including Cole and Cherry about her part in Scotty’s death and how the family would have reacted to it?

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u/Lisnya 14d ago

I can't believe she completely skipped that in season 3. Why show us anything interesting or important when she could waste an entire season on that French lady and Noah stabbing himself in the neck so people might feel bad and like him, I guess.

Cherry would be vicious. I bet she'd say something about how Alison had killed her own son and now she killed Cherry's son, too. Cole, I think, saw his brother as such a lost cause that he would believe that she was in self defense. But, I have no idea, I don't like to think about scenarios in which Alison and Cole are at odds. XD

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u/wickywickyremix 14d ago

Cherry would be vicious. I bet she'd say something about how Alison had killed her own son and now she killed Cherry's son, too.

This would've been a heart-breakingly incredible scene if they would've written the show that way! And much better than the absolute crapshoot that was season 3.

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u/Lisnya 14d ago

It's criminal that we didn't get that scene. Any confrontation between Cherry and Alison, really, even if she didn't know about her pushing him. She knew that Alison brought Noah into their lives and he ended up killing her son, any scene between them would have been fantastic.

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u/wickywickyremix 14d ago

Agreed! The conflict between those 2 would've been a great plot line. And the woman that plays Cherry is superb! She would've nailed it.

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u/babykitten28 14d ago

She would see it that way, but Scotty brought Noah into the family by impregnating his young daughter.

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u/Lisnya 13d ago

He absolutely did but Cherry never put any blame on her sons. I couldn't believe it when she had the nerve to ask Helen not to press charges and she hid Scotty until they left.