Episode 6 of "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" opens with a poignant flashback, where Frank Worden pleads with his mother, Bernice, to host a Thanksgiving dinner for them. Initially reluctant, Bernice eventually concedes, agreeing to prepare a lavish feast in an effort to comfort Frank, who is visibly wrestling with his mental well-being.
The narrative then shifts back to the aftermath of the harrowing incident involving Ed. Frank arrives at the hardware store accompanied by his colleague, Sheriff Arthur Schley. The gruesome sight of bloodstains sends Frank into a panic. Determined to uncover the truth, he and the sheriff begin a search, stumbling upon a gift box bearing Ed’s name. Their curiosity piqued, the lawmen head to Ed’s dilapidated house, only to find it deserted.
Inside, the house is revealed to be in a horrific state, littered with macabre relics of human remains—internal organs, nails, skulls, and skin—laid bare in the kitchen. Sheriff Arthur discovers a human heart simmering in a pot, prompting him to urgently call for backup. A phalanx of detectives soon converges outside Ed’s residence to conduct a thorough investigation.
Meanwhile, Frank is engulfed by a whirlwind of emotions, struggling to make sense of the chaos and consumed by worry when he cannot locate his mother. Driven by a desperate need for answers, he ventures into the barn and is met with a horrifying sight: his mother’s mutilated and desecrated body. Overwhelmed by grief and fury, Frank unleashes his pent-up emotions on Ed when he returns home, mercilessly punching and beating him despite Ed’s feeble protests of innocence.
In a chilling exchange, Ed asks to go inside his house to see his mother, only for Arthur to reveal the cold truth—that Ed’s mother has been deceased for quite some time. Ed is subsequently taken into custody, his dark secrets finally exposed. Meanwhile, Adeline, tainted by her association with Ed, finds herself struggling to forge new friendships, her life forever altered by the shadow cast by Ed’s heinous acts.
The forensic team meticulously attempts to reconstruct Bernice's body, yet they find themselves unable to piece together all the fragments. The forensic expert asserts that a significant portion of Bernice’s remains is, in fact, missing. Meanwhile, Adeline is relishing the media spotlight that the case has cast upon her.
She issues a statement, insisting that she had no involvement in Ed’s heinous crimes and that their relationship was merely that of casual acquaintances. Adeline even pleads with the media to interview her based on her own accomplishments, but the press shows little interest, much to her dismay.
During the interrogation, Arthur bombards Ed with questions regarding the deceased bodies and body parts discovered in his residence. He queries Ed about the alleged murder of 200 women, to which Ed responds nonchalantly, claiming to be merely a collector who stole the bodies from cemeteries. Ed stumbles over most of the officer’s inquiries and, in a moment of frustration, suggests that they administer a lie detector test on him.
A polygraph is duly set up, and Ed is subjected to another round of questioning. He admits to robbing graves and collecting bodies but vehemently denies any knowledge of the missing organs or consuming human flesh. A flashback reveals Ed offering some meat to a neighbor, prompting the sheriff to question whether the meat was human, given that Ed had never been known to go hunting.
Ed becomes incensed with the officer for never having invited him on a hunting excursion. Arthur probes further, asking if Ed had been eating human flesh, citing the discovery of a human heart on Ed’s stove. However, Ed remains silent and unresponsive to the barrage of questions.
Throughout the interrogation, Ed repeatedly claims to have no recollection of killing Bernice, Mary, the two hitchhikers, or even his own brother, Henry.
Frank stands there, utterly shattered at his mother's funeral, his world crumbling around him like a house of cards in a storm. Just then, Adeline makes her unwelcome appearance, slithering in under the guise of a press representative. With a cold and callous air, she probes Frank, asking him to recount the harrowing moment of discovering his mother's mutilated corpse. But before the words can fully escape Frank's lips, Arthur, with a protective and stern demeanor, swoops in like a guardian angel, shooing Adeline away as if she were a pesky fly.
In an attempt to offer some solace, Arthur extends an invitation to Frank, urging him to come over to his house for Thanksgiving dinner, a gesture that seems both kind and desperate in its hope to mend the broken pieces of Frank's heart. As the dinner unfolds, Frank finds himself adrift in a sea of unfamiliar faces and forced cheer, feeling more isolated and out of place than ever. His thoughts keep drifting back to his mother, her absence a gaping void that no amount of food or forced laughter can fill.
And then, in a cruel twist of fate, as Arthur wields the electric turkey cutter with a clumsy flourish, Frank's mind spirals into a nightmarish vision. In that fleeting moment, he sees not Arthur, but Ed, the very person responsible for his mother's gruesome end, mercilessly slicing through her lifeless body with the same cold, detached precision.
