The Good Boy Box

Lionel Dahmer keeps trying to reroute his son — Ohio State, then the Army, then a room in his mother's house — and the episode tracks how each attempt fails in turn: expulsion, an alcohol-related discharge, an indecent-exposure arrest at the state fair, a firing for drinking blood at the phlebotomy lab.

The escalating record ends with Steven Tuomi, killed in a hotel room in 1987, and a body carried back to his grandmother's basement. The title's good boy box — the locked box his grandmother gave him — becomes the episode's coldest image: the family providing storage space for what they cannot see.