Servant Season 4 Episode 7 Review, Recap, & Ending Explained

Welcome to the ending explained for Episode 7 of Servant’s final season. After last week’s episode, where we witnessed several attempts on Leanne’s life, this week’s episode proved to be slower in pacing but filled with brilliant twists that Shyamalan is known for. The Turners made several important discoveries, and their newfound sense of security might prove to be their undoing. Several characters from the previous episodes made a reappearance in their attempts to shed some light on the mystery of Leanne’s origin and nature, and we might just be one step closer to understanding what exactly Leanne is.

Julian is forced to drop the skeptical facade

The episode starts with Julian waking up early in the morning. He looks at the windows and sees former cultists standing outside the house, staring in the direction of Leanne’s room. He’s still bruised after his confrontation with Sean that happened at Jericho’s birthday party. He wanders the house and comes across a book titled “Significant Forms,” which is filled with biblical tales of Angles and their fall from grace. It seems to be a manual of sorts recounting the different forms that Angels come in. After a brief confrontation with Leanne, where he accuses her of witchcraft, Julian loses his voice.

Meanwhile, Dorothy is still shaken by the fact that Leanne knew her and most likely has watched her from afar for years. After she had uncovered evidence that she met Leanne back when Leanne was a little girl, the growing unrest within her led her to take an investigation into her own. She decided to contact some acquaintances and help them figure out who the real Leanne was.
She’s learned, like Julian and Sean in the first season did, that Leanne is supposed to be dead. She perished some time ago in a house fire that claimed her whole family’s life.

Uncle George appears and reveals the great mystery behind Leanne’s powers

Sean and Julian find themselves in the basement, and Sean discusses his theories on the origin of Leanne’s powers. He shows some pages to Julian, depicting the so-called “Faustian Bargain” and “Fallen Angels.” Sean believes that Leanne is Fallen Angel, and just as Julian is about to ridicule him, they notice Roscoe standing behind them. Sean and Julian are pissed off until Roscoe reveals that he brought Leanne’s uncle George, who has a few things that he needs to clear up with them.

Uncle George is in a visible better state. He seems to be freshly groomed in clean and decent clothes. George drops the first bombshell on them when he says that he has left the Church of the Lesser Saints. He apologizes for causing irreparable damage to the Turner family, and he needs to make amends regarding Leanne and what he led the Turners to believe regarding her.

Before he starts explaining about Leanne, we learn a bit about George’s history. He said that before he joined the cult, he tried to commit suicide. When he woke up in the hospital, he was recruited by a woman that appeared next to his bed on behalf of the Church. Belonging to the cult gave him a renewed sense of purpose. He explained that preying on people who just went through something extremely traumatic was a common strategy employed by the Church of the Lesser Saints, and they usually prey upon insecure and broken people. He explains that the same thing happened to Leanne, who was recruited into the cult after she lost her family in a house fire.

Meanwhile, Dorothy, with the help of her acquaintance, realizes that Leanne has been visiting her secretly every year on the anniversary of her mother’s death, and she has been doing this for years, watching her from afar.

George reveals that Leanne is nothing more but a garden-variety psychopath

We’re back with Sean and Julian in the basement again with George, and he reveals that Leanne doesn’t have any special superpowers. She is a sick and disturbed young girl with clever manipulation schemes.
Julian and Sean are incredulous. They start recounting all the terrible events that happened since Leanne moved in with the Turners. George has an explanation for everything. The house is rotting simply because it is old and ill-maintained. When Leanne was mad at him, Sean lost his sense of taste because he had a common cold. He found splinters all over because Leanne was putting them there.

But the biggest mystery still remained – Jericho. Jericho would come alive only when Leanne was nearby. He would turn into a plastic doll as soon as she was far away. George had an explanation for this as well.

According to him, Leanne knew that Jericho had died. She kidnapped a newborn to infiltrate the family this way. The baby was a child from a deceased addict mother who nobody ever claimed, and that’s why nobody ever looked for the baby. The baby is not a Jericho but technically a kidnapped baby, something that Sean suspected from the start. Leanne used secret tunnels under the house to smuggle the baby in the house and out of the house without anyone noticing.

George revealed that Leanne does not have a hold on them, at least not a supernatural one.

Turners are relaxed and ready to deal with Leanne. In light of everything they’ve found out, Sean, Julian, and Dorothy are confident that they will be able to deal with Leanne soon. We can see them having dinner, and everyone is ignoring Leanne. Julian’s voice returned. Sean is planning to quit the show, which does not bode well for Leanne, who always tries to stay in control of things. After she realizes that the atmosphere in the house has shifted from fear and anxiety to relaxed hopefulness, she is pissed, and after making a few thinly veiled threats toward the family, she storms off. Leaving Turners to have dinner in peace.

Turners are no longer under supernatural threat. George did everything in his power to convince the Turners that Leanne is harmless, at least in the supernatural sense, but, and there’s a big but coming, he lied.

In the last scene, George punishes himself with a whip. This means that he never left the Church and that everything he told them about Leanne was a lie.
It’s obvious that the Church of the Lesser Saints has now changed tactics, and they are trying to deal with Leanne using a different approach. It’s likewise obvious that Turner’s ignorance of the whole matter will play a vital role.

The Church of the Lesser Saints may want to manipulate Turners into not taking Leanne seriously, leading to her perceived loss of control. This will destabilize her, and she will inevitably make a mistake for which she will pay dearly.

We’ll see in which direction the new plan is going next Thursday when Servant’s episode 8 drops on AppleTV.