Jellyfish in the Sky - Olivia is first seen having a chilly conversations with her son, Roman Godfrey, but he brightens up when he finds out she rented out an entire carnival for him as a gift. After Roman had come back from school Olivia asks him how his first day of school went during dinner, and Roman immediately starts talking about Peter, the âgypsyâ whoâs rumored to be a werewolf. Olivia seems disgusted by the very mention of the Rumanceks. In a flash back to thirteen years ago, where her father, J.R. and her uncle Norman are arguing on the side walk in the middle of the rain. They talk about Shelley, whom J.R. emotionally disowns, and his wife, Olivia, whom he deems to be evil. He asks for Normanâs help in destroying Olivia, but when his brother refuses, J.R. is enraged â and he hisses in his ear that he knows Norman has been sleeping with Olivia. J.R. goes home to grab a gun from a desk drawer, and rides the elevator up to Shelleyâs attic. All he does is stand over her crib staring at her, though, and after a few moments he heads to Romanâs room and kisses his forehead. He then goes to see Olivia who is already waiting for him on the couch. However we do not see what happens to J.R. Little Kid Roman walks in to see his fatherâs dead body pouring blood out onto the rug. Olivia comforts him, saying that everything would be alright because Roman is âso much strongerâ than his father was. In present day, Norman is confronting Olivia about the recent increases in funding for Dr. Pryceâs branch of research at the Godfrey Institute. Olivia dodges his lines of questioning expertly, but Norman isnât easily deterred.
The Angel - In a flashback, we see Olivia ordering âthe usualâ, a slab of meat for Shelley at a fancy looking restaurant, despite Shelley having indicated several times that she wants a salad. With the encouragement of her brother, Roman, and Jenny, a sweet waitress at the restaurant, Shelley stands her ground and asserts herself to her mother as an âintelligent, autonomous individual with valid desires. Meanwhile, Norman and Olivia meet up at a hotel bar, where Norman angrily demands answers from Olivia concerning his daughterâs pregnancy, asking if she or Dr. Pryce had anything to do with it. When Olivia expresses confusion as to why heâd even come to that conclusion, he explains that Letha told him sheâs still a virgin, and that she was âvisited by an angelâ over the summer and that it had gifted her with a child. After confiding in Olivia, the two of them go upstairs to a hotel room and have sex. Afterwards, itâs revealed that they've been having an affair for quite awhile â even after J.R. Godfreyâs death â but that Norman had tried to end it with Olivia the last time they met. Before he leaves the room, he tells her again that itâs over. She pretends that sheâs unbothered, but later on, during a tryst with another man, Olivia starts to cry, showing that she actually does care.
The Order of the Dragon - While Roman was getting drunk at a bar. The bartender knows heâs underage but slides him the booze anyways, though he does call Olivia Godfrey to pick Roman up â just in time, because Roman looks like heâs about to get sucked into a bar fight. Later Peter goes to the Godfrey Mansion where Olivia answers the door. She does not want her son hanging aroung wih a gypsy so she told him that Roman was not home even though his car was in the drive way. However Roman came to the door and Olivia left.
The Crucible - The as-always impeccably dressed Olivia Godfrey pulls her truck up to the last place where we would least expect to find her the long abandoned and decrepit ruins of the Godfrey Steel Mill. She inspects the insides of the building with disgust, then vomits up a pulpy looking mess of red disgustingness before calling up Sheriff Sworn to request for more patrols around the place because there are âurban explorers or some such nonsense.â Olivia and her daughter Shelley take a trip down to the local library so Olivia can look at a book on Romany studies, though she doesn't find whatever it is sheâs looking for. She then goes to help Shelley get herself some books when the flashing red lights on a childâs shoes causes her to collapse to the ground. Norman leaves an appointment with Francis Pullman, who agitatedly tells Norman to find someone named H. Varga if he wants to find the truth about what is happening at the Godfrey Institute so he can come to Oliviaâs rescue. The two of them flirt uncomfortably before and after Norman drops Olivia and Shelley off at their house, and are most likely about to bump uglies again when Roman walks in and catches them holding hands. Olivia instructs Roman to take Norman home, which he does. Later that day Norman calls for Olivia to come to his office to question her about Dr. Pryce and why on earth Letha would want to go to the Institute when she gives birth instead of an actual hospital that isn't rumoured to be experimenting on humans. Since that whole thing was Oliviaâs idea in the first place, sheâs far from surprised. They have a lot of sex, after which Olivia discovers that her prodigal son has been arrested.
What Peter Can Live Without - Olivia is first seen walking around her son's bed in a elegant white dress. Norman over at the Godfrey Mansion performing cunnilingus on Olivia. The pair awkwardly get dressed afterwards, and then Norman leaves to go back home to his wife. Elsewhere, Olivia goes to the auto shop to check up on the condition of her sonâs car, and runs into Marie, her sister-in-law and wife to Oliviaâs lover Norman. Peterâs mother, Lynda Rumancek, is paying Olivia Godfrey an unannounced visit up at her huge ass mansion so she can deal her her drugs. Lynda watches as Olivia takes a hit, and starts musing on how Peter was born. Olivia and Lynda bond over being women, both of them single mothers raising men. Peter and Letha end up getting a ride home from Olivia. When Peter, Letha, and Olivia get back to the Rumancek Trailer, Lynda is beside herself with worry, and jumps straight into fussing over Peterâs swollen face before letting Peter and Letha spend some time together alone. In the other room, Lynda and Olivia share a joint as Olivia suggests Peter stay up at the Godfrey mansion for a few days to make sure he stays safe and she agrees. When Peter goes to look for some snacks in the kitchen, he runs into Olivia, who explains that sheâs helping him because her son needs all the friends he can get, and then cracks a joke about his werewolfism.
The Price - At the ruins of the Godfrey Mansion Dr. Pryce is called by Olivia. And he is not happy that Olivia made him âtake out the trash.â He stalks angrily up to Olivia wearing a pair of thick white rubber gloves and coldly informs her that âyour dogcatcher has been taken care of.â Late elsewhere, Olivia and Norman talk about the Sworn girlsâ untimely demises. Before Olivia leaves, Norman tells her heâs going to leave his wife for Olivia but though she acts pleased to Normanâs face, she has a weird expression on when she turns away from him. Later at the Godfrey estate Olivia is waiting to give Roman a present, and axe because she knows that Roman is going to help Peter defeat the bargulf At Oliviaâs insistence, Roman approaches a picture of a wolf painted on a mirrior and smashes it with the axe.
Birth - After defeating the vargulf Roman returns to the Godfrey mansion and updates Olivia on what just happened, and tells her that he canât find Shelley anywhere. On the other side of town, Olivia and Roman make plans to protect Shelley if and when she comes back to Hemlock Grove. Letha is then rushed to the hospital to deliver her baby where she dies in child birth. After losin his cousin Olivia takes her son to go see Peter, but the Rumanceks are long gone. As Roman cries at having lost both his best friend and his close cousin, Olivia stands outside and remembers her childhood, the daughter of a wealthy and powerful man, she had in her youth fallen in love and run away with a slave on her fatherâs property. The slave, named Dimitri, had eventually betrayed her by stealing all her jewels and both of their horses, leaving her alone and impregnated, to die in the cold woods. Abandoned, young Olivia then took a sharp rock and carved off her tail. Oliviaâs family found her a few days later, and when she gave birth to a daughter she ordered her to be taken away. Back in present day, Norman and his wife are finally separating from each other. Norman goes to Olivia, where she accepts his presence with open arms. That night, Olivia brings Roman up to Shelleyâs attic, where she shows him his birthday present, a baby. Olivia recounts how sheâd committed infanticide countless times before finally giving birth to Roman. You know how Letha thought sheâd gotten impregnated by an angel? The angel was revealed to have beenher own cousin, Roman. The baby in the pram is Roman and Lethaâs daughter, and Olivia means for him to kill the child to fulfil his destiny. Horrified, Roman rejects this information and tries to mesmerize himself into âmaking his heart steel,â as dream Shelley had told him to do. Roman then pulls a razor out of his pocket and slices deep into both arms, committing suicide. Olivia seems largely unbothered, and itâs clear why in the next scene: suicide is how their upir side is born. When Olivia had cut off her tail all those years ago, she had bled out and died, only to rise again and become a Upir. Roman is then resurrected as a full-Upir and ites off Olivia's tongue killing her. Back at the Institute, Dr. Pryce is shown putting Oliviaâs corpse in the hospital morgue with a little smirk on his face. |
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Olivia Godfrey/Season 1
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