Silenced

Tony Hughes gets the full episode the structure usually denies victims: his deafness, his joke books, his photography, the move to Madison, the weekends home in Milwaukee. When he meets Dahmer at a bar, the show lets it play as an actual courtship — cautious, mutual, hopeful.

What follows is the season's hardest hour. Shirley Hughes' search for her son runs into the same wall Glenda Cleveland knows by heart — a police department that files it away — and the missing-person posters she staples across the city stand in for every victim the system declined to look for.