Warning: This story incorporates spoilers for “The Fall of the Home of Usher,” which was launched on Netflix on Oct. 12.
She wears completely different costumes, however she’s at all times there.
Amid the myriad of mysterious storylines and numerous literary references in new horror Netflix present “The Fall of the Home of Usher,” one factor retains reappearing: Verna, the mysterious character performed by Carla Gugino.
The Netflix present follows the Usher household — twins Roderick (Bruce Greenwood) and Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell) and his many youngsters — as they die off, one after the other. In every dying, the identical seemingly ageless lady appears to at all times be concerned.
What does Verna must do with the household’s sluggish demise? Learn on to seek out out.
Verna provides away her function within the present throughout her first dialog
Verna appears mysterious — however she provides herself away throughout her first dialog on the present, minutes earlier than Prospero Usher (Sauriyan Sapkota), the youngest Usher, turns into the fist sibling to die.
The night time of his blowout rave occasion, Verna seems, seductively luring him right into a bed room.
After Prospero asks who she is, Verna responds, “Consequence, and tonight is consequential.”
Following a short dialog, through which Prospero Usher suggests they sleep collectively, Verna exits the room and disappears into the group. Instantly, the sprinkler system begins up, which the youngest Usher little one expects will make the night time all of the extra full of life.
However the liquid that falls from the ceiling is not water — it is acid taken from a Fortunato Pharmaceutical laboratory, inflicting each attendee’s pores and skin to burn off.
Because the over 70 useless our bodies lay on the bottom of the membership, Verna approaches Prospero Usher within the middle and places her masks over his face earlier than leaving.
Verna reveals up through the different Usher household deaths. Here is how
Verna is a stranger at first, making it straightforward to intrude with the Usher siblings lives and arrange situations that result in their deaths. She unleashes their fears, preys on their worst impulses, all utilizing a little bit of inexplicable magic.
Camille L’Espanaye (Kate Siegel) is the nosy, PR-oriented daughter attempting to dig up a secret from her sister Victorine Lafourcade’s (T’Nia Miller) animal laboratory. Verna transforms from a safety guard right into a chimpanzee and fatally assaults her.
At this level, Roderick and Madeline Usher, together with their personal investigator Arthur Pym (Mark Hamil), pay attention to the mysterious determine on the occasion and the misplaced safety guard, however can’t place her.
When Verna sells Napoleon Usher (Rahul Kohli) a black cat, the son snaps a close-up image of the lady, which brings the siblings a step additional to recognizing her. However earlier than they’ll cease her, she drives Napoleon Usher so loopy that he falls to his dying off his balcony chasing down the cat.
Even because the household awakens to Verna’s presence, the lady would not cease wrecking havoc on the household. She agrees to be the primary affected person for a human trial for Victorine’s cardiac medical machine, which arguably is not able to hit the market.
After Victorine Usher unintentionally kills her girlfriend and lead physician, Alessandra Ruiz (Paola Núñez), and shops her physique in a grotesque method, Verna appears to trigger a relentless clicking noise, which resembles that of the center contraption, to drive the Usher daughter into insanity till she kills herself.
Tamerlane Usher (Samantha Sloyan) is up subsequent. First showing as a intercourse employee for the Usher and her husband, Verna retains displaying up in her life, prompting Tamerlane Usher to query her vital different’s loyalty. The final straw comes when Verna seems within the second row of the group at a gap for the daughter’s way of life model. At residence, she will be able to’t assist however hear Verna’s booming voice talking to her as she crashes mirrors and dies from the glass shards piercing her physique.
As for Fredrick Usher (Henry Thomas), the final of the youngsters to die, Verna ensures he takes an excessive amount of of the paralyzing drug that he is been vindictively force-feeding his injured spouse, who’s severely burned from Prospero Usher’s occasion.
Whereas visiting a development web site, Fredrick Usher runs into Verna and abruptly cannot transfer his physique and collapses to the ground. As an enormous pendulum sweeps backwards and forwards inching nearer to the Usher, Verna lays with him to elucidate why she selected to have him killed in such a brutal method.
Verna’s connection to the Ushers goes again to a fateful night time at a bar
The ultimate episode of the present reveals Verna to be the satan, or at the very least one in every of his demonic emissaries — she’s an entity designed to steer people astray. She is the catalyst for the Usher household’s immense fortune, then subsequent downfall.
Whereas the youngest youngsters are all assembly dying’s door in brutal fashions, Madeline Usher lastly identifies Verna: She’s the bartender they met on New Yr’s Eve in 1980, after she and her brother conspired to commit a criminal offense.
Initially solely giving glimpses into flashbacks of that night time years in the past, Verna seems to take a selected curiosity in a younger Roderick and Madeline Usher.
That night time, she acted as a bartender who served Roderick and Madeline Usher after the 2 killed his boss simply hours prior. Verna is aware of this data with out them saying something and asks them about resolutions — particularly, in the event that they would favor wealth or fame.
Once they each instantly reply they’re searching for wealth, Verna says she will be able to promise to make them extremely wealthy and dwell a lifetime of ease and luxurious on one situation: Their offspring will solely dwell so long as Roderick and Madeline Usher do.
After solely a slight hesitation, the 2 make a take care of Verna, which is solidified with a shared drink.
Verna does have a second of humanization, although, when coping with the dying of Roderick Usher’s candy and courageous granddaughter, Lenore Usher (Kyliegh Curran).
Sitting on the mattress subsequent to Lenore Usher within the closing moments of the present, Verna explains that she would not get any “pleasure” from moments like that, versus different “components of her job.” She advised Lenore Usher that she saved her mother’s life and can proceed to make an affect, even after her personal dying.
Verna abruptly locations a hand on Lenore Usher’s head and the woman peacefully falls asleep to her dying.
Verna is related to different well-known households
By way of Pym’s analysis, they discover that Verna has been pictured with a variety of rich and well-known individuals all through historical past, showing to by no means age.
At one level, she tells Roderick Usher, nevertheless, that he has one of many high “physique counts” of all these she’s “labored with.”
Fortunato Prescribed drugs produced a drug known as Ligadone, a fictional painkiller that brought on tens of millions of dying.
On the finish of the present, with Roderick and Madeline useless of their childhood residence, Verna seems atop the home sporting a black lace gown after which transforms right into a raven earlier than flying away.
