Happy Face Season 1 Episode 3 Recap: Was It Worth It?

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The man from the convenience store watches Melissa’s appearance on the Dr.

Gregg show. He’s got tears in his eyes as he sits before a fire from the back of a van.

Hazel is thrilled that #freeElijah is trending. Melissa wonders if it’s mostly positive. Except for the white lady tears…

Hazel asks about selling the drawing, and Melissa says this isn’t about getting rich but doing the right thing. They need to stick with who they are. Max isn’t worried. His friends don’t watch Dr. Gregg.

The man calls for his dog and packs up the van, speeding away from the site, leaving rabbits hanging up in the woods behind him.

When Melissa pops by the office, she sees a murder board, which throws her. Tips are pouring, but Adele says most are batshit crazy. There are hundreds of protestors outside of DA Calloway’s house and the other judges on the CCA. 

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Dr. Gregg is thrilled to see his inspirational women. Everybody loves him. He wants her on the story full-time as a consultant producer under Ivy. But she loves her job. He wants her available. He tells her to come to his house tonight and to bring Ben.

Melissa drops all of her dad’s unopened letters on Ivy’s desk. Maybe he DID tell her about the ninth murder. She wouldn’t know.

Ben and Melissa joke that they’d like to turn around as they approach Dr. Gregg’s house. It’s a bit of an ambush. There are network bigwigs there. It’s a more casual ‘do than they expected. She says, it’s so crazy that they all live here in Seattle. When Dr. Gregg says he flew them all in, she wonders if they had an event. Yes, she’s the event.

Hazel and Max are breaking into the safe. Melissa didn’t take Hazel’s birthday card with the other letters.

The man in the van listens to a positive reinforcement audiobook. 

As Melissa reads the letters, Adele listens to a message from a man in Texas who says he has proof that Keith killed Heather.

Keith Jesperson’s artwork only sells for hundreds. That seems unlikely. Nonetheless, Hazel creates a seller account.

The man in the van has arrived at Melissa’s house. He remembers giving a victim impact statement at Louise’s murder trial. His name was Ashton McBride. Louise was his mother. Why does he get to make a deal to avoid the death penalty? That’s not justice; that’s fucking bullshit. As Keith snickers, Ashton launches across the courtroom to attack Keith.

Ash knocks on the door. Max answers and introduces his dog, Buddha. Is his mom home?

Dr. Gregg’s literary agent asks Melissa if she’s thought about her first book. No, she hasn’t. They toss around titles such as Nightmares of My Father (a play on Obama’s book) to something funny like Daddy Issues. Ben says there’s nothing funny about it.

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In prison, Keith settles in to watch his episode.

At dinner, the guests ask Melissa about the cats. She had a barn cat when she was a kid and loved the kittens. Her dad found out about them and squeezed one kitten to death before tying the rest to a clothesline by their tails, where they scratched themselves to death.

They ask her about therapy and how you grow up with parents like that without becoming like them? She excuses herself.

Keith is smiling while watching Melissa until she says she did love her father. Another prisoner says Melissa is hot, and Keith tells him to watch his mouth.

After she exits the restroom, one of the waitstaff approaches Melissa. Her brother killed someone, and she always thinks that if she just tried harder to get him into rehab… Melissa knows she’s blaming herself when it has nothing to do with her.

Keith calls Melissa. She has no idea how he got her number. Does she think he’s helpless? And is she so selfish that she can take the number one crime story of the year and make it about her? Well, she just better wait. If she doesn’t watch it, she’ll get what she wants all along — Elijah’s needle in her arm. 

He wonders which guard messed with her. When she doesn’t answer, he takes it as confirmation.

Max is delivering water to Buddha and chatting with Ash in the driveway. Ash tells him about being bounced around a lot. 

Melissa calls the Oregon Prison warden. How the hell did her dad get a secret phone? He needs to stop calling her immediately. Dr. Gregg finds her, asking if she’s OK. She says everything is slightly not fine. It’s a lot. He talks about leaving LA, and she jokes that he likes being a big fish in a small pond. 

He wants her to take advantage of her moment by getting her father out of her head and deciding who she wants to be now.

Ivy calls Harold Griffin in Texas. He runs a creative arts program and met Keith in one of those sessions. No, he taught Elijah. He’s happy to send her the recording.

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When they get home, the first thing Melissa hears is Max talking with a dog in the backyard. Ash comes around the corner when she goes outside, and Melissa orders Max inside. Tell dad to call the police.

Ash talks about the dark thoughts that may be rushing through her mind. She’s the only one who can help him. Then she recognizes him. Ash, why are you here? He’s so happy how things turned out for her. He’s so lucky that her kids are here. Then he explodes. How dare she put his mother’s picture on the TV! She never even met her. Not once. Who’s going to get justice for his mother, for him?

He puts a happy face on the sliding door and leaves.

Elijah’s song indicates that he did kill Heather. She talked of new beginnings, so he helped her reach the end. Some days, he feels sorry, but in hell, he’ll make amends.

Melissa blames Hazel for not keeping a better eye on Max.

Melissa and Ivy are on a 6 am flight to Texas. They meet with Elijah, who is surprised to see them down there. Dr. Greg pulled some strings with the warden because his wife is a big fan. 

Melissa looks like she could slither down and out of the scene entirely. When Ivy is pulled away, Melissa asks about the song he wrote. As soon as she starts reading it, he slams down the phone and walks away. Ivy is distraught. She later tells Melissa that she leads the interviews, not her.

When Tyler compares Elijah to Johnny Cash and asks if he really shot a man in Reno, Ivy tells him to shut up. She says they came to give Elijah a chance to explain himself. Now, they have nothing.

If this song gets out, they’re fucked. But Tyler says Elijah didn’t write the song; Heather did. At least, that’s what he thinks Elijah says when he screams back at the camera. Melissa can’t believe she spent so much time looking for Heather’s killer that she never took the time to get to know Heather.

The kid from the drugstore offers to let Hazel use his PayPal account, and his girlfriend senses competition.

Keith is being pulled out of his room, which is being thrown while they look for the phone. The bald guard who harassed Melissa tells Keith that she’s the one who reported his phone. Keith ends up in solitary.

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The drawing sold for $200.

Melissa and Ivy go to the salon to visit Denise. They’re there to apologize. Denise tells them to screw off. They aren’t all pig farmers with their heads stuck in the mud. Melissa is sincere with her apology. Denise doesn’t believe Elijah is innocent because as soon as she started going out with Elijah, Heather changed. She was doing drugs, lying, stealing, and had bruises all over her body.

Melissa shows Denise the song, wondering if Heather wrote it. Denise thinks Elijah wrote it, tossing the crumpled-up paper across the room.

Ben calls Melissa with information to begin a restraining order. Melissa thinks Ash has been through enough. She hangs up on Ben as he wonders if he gets a fucking say in this.

Ivy gives Melissa a folder, telling her that being a producer means knowing every inch of your story. Melissa reminds her she didn’t want to be a producer. And this isn’t about her. It’s about them retraumatizing other people. Ivy mentions Ash. 

Ivy’s path used to tell her that the truth is the light, no matter how dark the path is to get her there. Melissa would like to know more about Ivy’s dad. He was a reporter in Watts during the ’92 riots. The white men in the newsroom typed up his reports from the center of it all and won a Pulitzer.

DA Calloway joins them. Bobbi Krazanski was killed by her husband in Oregon in 1992. Thanks to what they put on TV, the DA who handled the case reached out. Keith confessed to doing Bobbi. Keith was offered $10 grand to confess to her murder. Until they have hard evidence, Calloway won’t reopen the case.

Keith’s got friends in prison and gets three minutes with a phone, even in solitary. He tells whoever he called that he’ll need a new phone and will need that person to do something for him.

Ivy and Melissa visit Heather’s friend Jackie Mullins. She doesn’t recognize the song, but Heather was secretive about her music. Heather and Elijah grew close through music, so she could have shared the song.

Elijah introduced Heather to a guy named Lucious Banks, who was trying to be a producer back then. Unfortunately, the guy died a while back. Elijah apologizes for his outburst, and Melissa apologizes, too. 

During a prison art therapy class where the conductor wanted him to be remorseful, he plagiarized Heather’s song to get the guy off of his back. He has no idea why Heather wrote it. Elijah says they weren’t a couple. They got a little loose a couple of times, but they weren’t like that. He recalls she was cute and smelled like grapefruit. Elijah wonders why it took him so long.

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Someone wrote an op-ed about Melissa’s abortion at the age of 15. She panics. The title of the article suggests that she aborted her baby because ‘the devil is in the DNA’ and nobody would want to continue the line.

She is sure it’s Brendan Nulls, her ex. He’s the only one who knew. She wants to call him, but Ivy stops her. Then Ivy sees the “Find God Here” sign on a local church.

The preacher recalls Keith asking about ridding him of spirits who were following him. It was about three or four months before he saw his face on the news as the Happy Face killer. Of course, he worried about the boy with him, too. Early teens, big for his age. Shaggy hair, a bit sullen. It was Shane, Melissa’s brother.

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