She even explicitly asked Kayce to kill the men who took her son. But after Tate was kidnapped before, she seemed thankful to John and Kayce for keeping him alive, even though all of this happened (and keeps happening) because John is a target. Monica reminds Kayce that she never wanted their family to stay at the ranch to begin with. Trauma affects everyone differently, of course, but even allowing for that, why are the reactions so different this time around? And why does Kayce get all the blame? If Monica really does hate him as she says, why not take Tate and leave? But a quick trip with his mom and some time on the ranch seemed to fix him right up. When Kayce saved him, it even took him a moment to stop screaming and recognize his dad. On the other hand … where’s the consistency here? Tate was traumatized once before, when he was kidnapped by the Becks in season two and thrown in a cell, his head shaved. So, on the one hand, Monica is right when she points out the ways the Dutton ranch has corrupted them all, normalizing violence and cold-blooded murder as a tool to maintain the status quo. We finally learn what Monica and Tate have been up to near the end of “All I See Is You,” and it turns out the answer is “not much, besides lying in bed completely miserable and traumatized.” It’s not an unreasonable reaction, necessarily after all, the last time we saw them, Tate killed his first man to protect his mom. Before Monica appears near the end of “All I See Is You,” what would you imagine her demeanor to be? What have the last two months been like for her, and what’s the state of her and Kayce’s marriage? Are she and Tate still living in the lodge?
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