Lionel

The trial gives the season its courtroom hour: the insanity plea rejected, fifteen consecutive life sentences read out, and the victims' statements finally placed on the record by the people the episodes have been following all along.

Dahmer's own statement — remorseful on its face, self-diagnosing to the end — closes the case without resolving anyone. Lionel swings between self-blame and blame of Joyce, the officers suspended in Konerak's case are quietly reinstated, and the book Lionel begins writing becomes both therapy and, by the next hour, a new fight.