Season 3 · Episode 3 · October 3, 2025
The Babysitter
Updated
- Season
- Season 3 — Ed Gein
- Episode
- Episode 3 of 8
- Premiere
- October 3, 2025
- Platform
- Netflix
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Part of
- Monster anthology
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Official teaser for the season.
The episode
Sheriff Schley's questioning about Mary Hogan goes nowhere; the town's tolerance of Ed holds. Adeline, showing him photographs of Christine Jorgensen, unlocks a new fixation — and accepts a proposal in a graveyard that Ed immediately forbids himself to consummate.
To keep Ed occupied, Adeline steers him toward babysitting, and the episode builds to the case Plainfield never solved: Evelyn Hartley, taken while watching the neighbors' children. The Hollywood thread follows Perkins into typecasting and conversion therapy — two prisons for the price of one.
Show vs. the record
Evelyn Hartley disappeared in La Crosse in 1953 while babysitting. The case is unsolved. Investigators did not establish that Gein took her. Christine Jorgensen was a public figure. A correspondence that unlocks Ed is the episode's invention.
The graveyard proposal, and Adeline steering him toward babysitting, are fiction built on a name. The Anthony Perkins thread is cultural history set beside a crime the record does not connect to Gein.
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