Bomb Girls night again, and before I go watch Marco visit his dad in the internment camp (where, it seems from the preview, Gladys inexplicably goes with him and gets threatened with indefinite detention herself), I want to think for a moment about another minor character, Edith McAllum.
Her story, though it's just as dramatic as anyone's -- fired, rehired, widowed, unable to tell her kids their father's dead -- doesn't get much screen time. Instead, she is to Lorna Corbett what Carol (q.v.) is to Gladys -- her friend from before the show, lest the viewer think she had none. Edith is also the inadvertent revealer of devastating things. She's the one who let slip to Lorna's husband, Bob, that Lorna was pregnant -- at a time when he knew it couldn't be his. Last week, she unknowingly introduced Bob to the baby's real father. After she'd left, someone got slugged. Not Bob the disabled veteran, either.
It's about time poor Edith got to see the consequences of her words, so she can learn something. If she unintentionally wreaks havoc one more time, I'll start wondering why none of the major characters got this task.
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