As if the intertwined relationships in Showtime's "The Affair" weren't complicated enough, the upcoming episode promises to introduce a new conflict in the show.
Based on the latest episode synopsis for season 3 episode 4, more awkwardness will be caused by Alison's (Ruth Wilson) decision to return to the life of her husband and daughter.
"Cole (Joshua Jackson) is put in an increasingly impossible situation by Alison's return to his life. Alison must contend with Luisa (Catalina Sandino Moreno) while attempting to reconnect with her daughter Joanie. Simultaneously, a dangerous passion threatens to wreck everything."
A report by TV Guide hints that season 3 of the show will finally be revealed who the father of Alison's baby is. It is still unsure whether it is Noah (Dominic West) or her husband Cole.
Meanwhile, it is expected that the news will not be well received by the parties involved. According to the report, the episode will be narrated through Helen (Maura Tierney) and Alison's perspective, and it will also touch on what happened while Noah was in prison.
It can be recalled that at the end of the last season, Noah pleaded guilty to a crime he didn't commit in order to save his wife from jail. However, his time behind bars seemed to have fed into his bitterness and while the season will refer to it in flashbacks, Noah has been rejecting his wife — who is also wallowing in her own guilt — as harshly as possible.
Alison's story will pick up a year before Noah is released while Helen is expected to share what happened while Noah was incarcerated.
Show creator Sarah Treem teased that the season will be very different from the previous seasons.
"The show gets darker. More psychological. What I keep trying to do every year is double down on this idea of POV, perspectives. How do we see ourselves and how do other people see us? This year, this new idea came up about how somebody could even split within themselves. It's not just about you think of yourself one way and I think of you as someway else. It's almost like you don't see some of your own darkness or you don't see that there's another self in you, a shadow self, in you, somewhere. That you yourself are not even aware of. That's the hypothesis of this season, which is exciting. To me it feels like an organic outgrowth of what we've done in the past, where we're still engaging with this idea of identity and self and perspective but in a new fresh way that does have these darker undercurrents," said Treem.
