But now, Noah saw that Gunter wasnвЂ™t actually there - it was a conversation Noah was having with himself, about his own motivations and culpability. On the train back to New Jersey, it was the cold sweats again for Noah - Dominic West really deserves combat pay for all the shaking and twitching heвЂ™s had to do this season - and his flashbacks to the day of his motherвЂ™s death included a new morsel of information: We saw that someone (his father?) was chasing after him as he ran to the lake, yelling, вЂњNoah, what have you done?вЂќ Guilt on top of guilt.ДЄnd there was one last (we can hope) prison flashback, with the taunting Gunther reading passages from NoahвЂ™s new manuscript that described the protagonist actively pushing his sick mother toward suicide. Noah ran, as the concerned Gunther told him to get some help. Noah pulled his knife, but the burlier Gunther disarmed him, and NoahвЂ™s confidence was shaken when he saw that GuntherвЂ™s left palm - the one Noah thought he had slashed - was unharmed. When Noah accused his former warder of stalking and stabbing him, Gunther professed, convincingly, to having no idea what Noah was talking about. There he first encountered their son, who appeared to be autistic - a completely unnecessary flourish, presumably written in to cement the picture of a normal, sympathetic Gunther. Noah found Gunther by locating his wife (using what heвЂ™d learned about her from GuntherвЂ™s mother) and following her home. (Or leading her into it - what actually happened in that cabin 30-some years ago is still up for debate.) It was all meant to be very dramatic, but the whole Gunther story line was so poorly conceived and executed that the only emotion I could summon was relief that it was, perhaps, over.ДЄt least Brendan Fraser, as Gunther, got to act like a human being for one scene, rather than like a grinning psychopath. It was all part of the psychodrama Noah had to go through to deal with his guilt over helping his mother commit suicide. We saw him go back to Pennsylvania to confront Gunther, then return to New Jersey and the apartment where he was вЂњstabbed.вЂќ The anticlimactic revelation: Gunther exists, but everything Noah has been attributing to him - not just the stalking and stabbing in the present tense, but the flashbacks to psychological and physical brutality in prison - has been imagined. LetвЂ™s start with Noah, since thereвЂ™s less to say about it. Sunday nightвЂ™s episode, the second to last of the season, was about 30 minutes of Helen and 20 minutes of Noah, covering separate events. It was the best of вЂњThe Affair,вЂќ it was the worst of вЂњThe Affair.вЂќ Though the worst outnumbered the best by two or three to one.

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