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Benedict Cumberbatch on Where ‘Eric’ Leaves Its Troubled Puppeteer: ‘He’s Gone Through This Dark Night of the Soul’
'Eric' stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III and creator Abi Morgan discuss the ending of the Netflix series about a missing boy.
What Vincent doesn’t know, of course, is that his volatility at home is what drove his son to run away to begin with and end up down a manhole, where he is held captive by members of the homeless community living in the abandoned subway tunnels under New York City. Morgan says she made careful considerations in the finale to acknowledge that Vincent’s swift recovery (described as a “few weeks”) and opportunity to reclaim his life and job, not to mention the chance to prove to Edgar that he’s changed, is one of his privileges as an white man with access to money. One of the ways Morgan chose to acknowledge those privileges can be seen in the long-awaited reunion between Edgar and his parents, which cuts away to the lobby of the NYPD station where Cecile (Adepero Oduye), the mother of Marlon, still sits each day to remind detectives that her son never came home.
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