Season 1 · Episode 2 · September 21, 2022
Please Don't Go
Updated
- Season
- Season 1 — Dahmer
- Episode
- Episode 2 of 10
- Premiere
- September 21, 2022
- Platform
- Netflix
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Part of
- Monster anthology
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Official interview: Rashad Robinson on the systemic failures behind the case.
The episode
The series' most devastating thread is the death of Konerak Sinthasomphone, and this episode tells it in full: drugged and injured in Apartment 213, the fourteen-year-old makes it to the stairwell, where Glenda Cleveland and her daughter find him and call the police.
Officers accept Dahmer's story that the boy is an adult and the situation domestic, and escort him back inside. Intercut flashbacks to Dahmer's boyhood — a distracted father, a mother slipping into medication — set up the season's argument that warning signs kept being explained away, by families and institutions alike. The hour closes on the real 1991 call recording.
Show vs. the record
On May 27, 1991, fourteen-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone made it to the hallway. Neighbors called the police, and officers returned him to Dahmer. He was killed afterward. A recording of a 911 call from that night exists.
The boyhood flashbacks, and the words the episode gives the officers, are a reconstruction. The failure is part of the record. The scene as staged is the show.
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