Dear Child

Season One Hannah

Looking through the Netflix app, I came across this series. It caught my attention right away. This is an unbelievable show but I’m sure this happens every day. This show makes you very aware of your surrounding and who you let into your space. This show make you think about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It starts out with a woman and two children playing in a room. They hear the keys and locks at the door and freeze. When the door opens, there’s a man coming in and the three of them are standing in a row with their hands held out. The children are approved by the man, and they get a snack. The woman is reprimanded and is crying. What is going on?

Later, the woman is seen in her nightgown running through the woods. She goes to the road yelling for help. It goes blank and she gets hit by a car. There’s an ambulance showed rushing her to the hospital. And the little girl is in the ambulance with her. Where did she come from? She was not seen running with the woman.

They get to hospital where the woman is taken into surgery. It is discovered that her name is Lena according to what the child says. The little girl is waiting outside but is later greeted by a nurse, Ruth, who takes her to change her clothes because she is in night clothes too.

Hannah seems smart but strange acting. She seems too calm with her “Mama” being hit by a car. Hannah talks to Ruth revealing all kinds of disturbing information about her family. Ruth even learns there is a brother, Jonathan, who is home alone. You can tell Ruth is very uncomfortable.

Later, a detective (Ida) comes in with a doctor (Benedict). When they get to the room, Hannah holds her hands out for inspection. Everyone looks confused. Hannah states that her had hands must be inspected for clean fingernails and to show there are not hiding anything. Ida starts asking Hannah questions, but she shuts down.

While all this is going on, a state detective comes across some information about a woman who had been found. Apparently, she fits the description of a missing woman from 13 years ago named Lena. He calls the couple of the missing woman, and they immediately head to the hospital where the woman is being held.

The couple gets to the hospital and demand to see the woman. They are escorted in the recovery room and discover that the woman named Lena is not their missing daughter. They are understandably upset, and the father causes a scene. At the same time Hannah walks down the hallway and sees the couple. The couple take on look at Hannah and she looks exactly like their Lena when she was a child. Hannah recognized the father as her grandfather. Now, I’m really confused.

The woman is thinking out loud to herself and hearing voice from the man. She is also thinking she knows she is not Lena. Who is this woman??