The genre this week is grotesque body horror, and the episode succeeds in making the viewer feel that horror.

We watch as she looks at her hands, then rushes to the mirror, only to react in horror: she’s in a white woman’s body, and one we’ve seen before: It’s Dell (Jamie Neumann), the woman in Ardham who Letitia hit with a shovel in “Whitey’s on the Moon.” Ruby, in this white body, escapes to the South Side.

They assume the young Black teenager trying to help Ruby is trying to hurt her.

Ruby tells the officers to leave him alone, and it’s the first time she’s aware of her “power” as a white woman: the police stop at her command.

It feels like an important choice that she wasn’t stuck in the form of a white woman for days (or the entire episode, a dark-skinned actress relegated to exist only offscreen in her own story).

It’s more.” The potion Ruby was given “just mimics metamorphosis” and “wears off after a time.” It’s enough of an explanation so that we get an idea of the situation, even if it’s not the complete details and specifics.

When she interacts with Tamara, the other Black woman working for the store, everything she says reads as slightly more threatening coming from a white woman.

In “Holy Ghost” Ruby said, “If more colored folks fought like me, the race would be a lot further along.” It’s an arrogant thing to say, a bootstraps mentality wrapped up in respectability that isn’t entirely fair.

She occupies this position for a while, always blending in with her coworkers until a white woman, referring to Tamara, says, “of course she’s unqualified, she’s a Negro,” and it stops Ruby in her tracks.

The most uncomfortable part of the episode for me is Ruby’s final act of vengeance.

It was an invitation to do whatever the fuck you want.” She holds up the potion to Ruby, asking “Who are you really uninterrupted?” Earlier at the South Side bar, Ruby witnessed her manager try to assault a Black woman (it’s unclear to me if it’s Tamara or someone else, we don’t get a close enough glimpse).

Thinking of this episode as an art object, I suppose I’m interested in the question of what proper retribution looks like in this situation.

Again, I think this episode wants to make us uncomfortable, but what Ruby does to this man — sodomizing him seven times with a stiletto — keeps me from celebrating.

Maybe the true horror of this episode is what Leti speaks about, that these horrors might be corrupting everyone.

Ruby leaves her manager alive, and repeats his words from earlier back to him: she wants him to know someone like her did this to him.

• We do get some visually stellar horror imagery in this episode, like when a bloodied Ruby watches her manager through the wooden peephole.

Atticus spends the episode trying to decipher them.

Hyde; there are many characters this episode of whom we see different sides.

• Captain Lancaster seems to have … what looks like a Black person’s torso when he removes his shirt.

• It still feels like Christina and William might be separate individuals sharing a body, different from how Ruby simply exists in Dell’s body.

There’s a lot of backstory about “William” in this episode and it’s hard to believe it was all just a ruse.