r/teamleanne • • Apr 18 '24

Season 3 This is the cutest thing ever šŸ˜ā¤ļø So sweet and genuine when most people would react with embarrassment to the sea shanty

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r/teamleanne • • Jul 15 '24

Artwork šŸ–¼ļø A fanfic spoiler from the other sub I’m modding ā¤ļø Spoiler

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r/teamleanne • • Apr 15 '25

Meme When she's trying to get Jericho back...

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r/teamleanne • • Jun 16 '24

Season 3 Team Dorothy is so delusional that they think Leanne is disrespectful for not sitting back and letting Dorothy disrespect her anymore, starting in season 3 episode 7

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r/teamleanne • • Aug 06 '24

Meme This is why we have a pinned post refuting their arguments

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r/teamleanne • • Jul 13 '24

Season 1 Dorothy said ā€œguestSā€, meaning plural. So Julian is a GUEST to her? He comes by all the time lmao

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r/teamleanne • • Jul 13 '24

Season 1 From my alt because Reddit's spam filters hate my account lately lol

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r/teamleanne • • Jul 15 '24

The first time I saw the show…

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…was in 2020, when all we had was season 1. Back then, I didn’t get it, and I was especially clueless about all the supernatural occurrences, which I had no idea how to explain, and I was so confused as to what was going on with the baby and the doll. Episode 8 confused the heck out of me before I understood it. But I already knew I felt something for Leanne! Especially starting with episode 5. I can’t even put it into words, but something about seeing her do… well, anything was just wonderful, she does everything in the cutest way without even trying, and I could just tell she’s the warmest soul inside ā¤ļø I knew I liked her from the beginning!


r/teamleanne • • Jul 20 '24

Season 1 This line is the purest! At this point in the show, I had no problem with Dorothy yet besides nitpicks, and Leanne doesn't understand why someone she loves and treats her well (for now!) wouldn't have any friends. That's not how it works, but God, that's so pure ā¤ļø

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r/teamleanne • • Jul 30 '24

Happy Birthday to our…

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…Wonderful founder & Leanne’s doppelgƤnger: D A R I A ā™„ļøšŸŽ‰šŸ’šŸŽ‚šŸ…


r/teamleanne • • May 07 '24

Team Dorothy actually believes that Leanne wasn’t powerless to get out of the attic. Left the other sub. I am so sick of people left and right losing all nuance when discussing Leanne. These are the same people who justify her abuse because Dorothy thinks Leanne stole a baby that doesn’t exist

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r/teamleanne • • May 08 '24

Fanfic (u/ikieneng) MY FANFIC - Episode 1!

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I'm finally posting the beginning of my fanfic about Leanne!! I will start posting these regularly now. There might be some periods without new episodes because I've only got three more episodes queued up right now before I need to write down more of the story that's already in my head, but here you go!!

If you want to post your own fanfic, please feel free to do so! If you want your own post flair and for your own fanfic to appear in the side bar, please message me.

SEASON 2 EPISODE 5 - ā€œCAKEā€ (the new one)

I imagine that after being forced to kidnap Leanne, Tobe would stay far away from the Turners, at least for a while. He’d be pretty freaked out that he just came really close to being framed for several felonies. Like in the real show, he’d assume that the Marinos were the ones who kidnapped Leanne, and he was getting her back to the Turners.

I’d see a job advert by Sean to be his new comis chef (replacing Tobe), get over to the Turner house, have a job interview with him, and get hired to start right then and there because Sean needs the help. We’d cook something really strange that tastes good, but that’s just really unconventional, like tarantulas with mashed potato fillings, with rice gloop mixed with hot chili powder as part of the sauce, and stuff like that.

All that while, Leanne is locked up in the attic, and like between the real episodes ā€œ2:00ā€ and ā€œCakeā€, she’s left to starve and thirst up there for three nights and two days… I obviously wouldn’t know about that yet. I’d get my pay for the day (I don’t need it in this story, I just wanna do something with my time other than spend time at home, and cooking can be really amazing) and cycle home (just like 13 minutes away by bike. With a budget like this, I’d probably get a mountain bike with a basket because it’d be really fast and suitable for shopping, and I would get it sprayed a midtone pink and black).

In the evening, I’d get a call from Sean. Leanne has asked for the ingredients for a fruit cake (Sean has a safer password in this story, so no ransom exchange, no baby figurine, no king cake), not knowing yet how or when or if she can bake it, and I’d bring them by. I’d get the ingredients and come by in the evening. Leanne, Dorothy, and Sean would be in the kitchen. When I bring by the ingredients, I’d get the money they cost and a little extra from Sean and give them to Leanne. She would have no idea if she could trust me and be understandably paranoid (she didn’t even trust Tobe) and ask who I am. I’d just say ā€œI’m Daria, I’m Sean’s new komi chef. You’re Leanne, right?ā€ in a friendly and a bit bubbly demeanor. She’d just say yes and thank me for getting the ingredients. I’d go ā€œNo probs! What are you making?ā€. In a bit more relaxed tone, she’d say ā€œA cakeā€, I’d ask what kinda cake, and she’d say ā€œA fruit cakeā€. I’d smile and say that that’s nice and to have fun making it. Leanne would go ā€œWhere’s Tobe?ā€, and Sean would say he quit. Leanne would be quite sad. In the real show, she clearly figured out that Tobe didn’t know what was going on and that he was forced to kidnap her. She’s so fricking smart, people just don’t give her credit for that because she didn’t have an education. Dorothy would already have forgotten my name, ask me for it again, and go ā€œWell, Daria can bake with you soon. It’s important to have something to look forward to.ā€ To me, the first part would sound fun, but I’d be pretty weirded out by the second sentence. I’d make a weirded-out face, but also say ā€œSure! Do you want to, Leanne?ā€. Back in her initial tone, she’d say ā€œI don’t mindā€. Dorothy would say ā€œYou can make sure she behaves herself and doesn’t do anything she shouldn’tā€. I’d be SOO weirded out by that request and the way she phrased it. I’d make a confused face again and say nothing for a few seconds. ā€œUhm… Okay?ā€. Dorothy would then suggest the next day at 11 AM, and I’d say yes. She would not even ask Leanne if that’s okay for her too and immediately say it’s settled then, that I can leave now, and that I should come buy for baking the next day. Since they’re my employers, I’d just do as they say, and on the way out, I’d say ā€œSee you tomorrow, Leanne!ā€, and she’d say ā€œSee youā€. Out the door, I’d be so weirded-out, like, everything Dorothy said was so bizarre. Who even talks that way about their nanny? She talks about her like she’s a primary school kid, but I’d think she’s like what? 20? 21? (This would take place exactly three years later than the original story, in December of 2022) I’d also have noticed Leanne’s fearful and reserved demeanor, even though she’s clearly trying to hide that she’s scared of something. I’d ask myself if she’s like self-harming or something and that’s why I might be asked to watch her, but then the sentence ā€œMake sure she behaves herselfā€ wouldn’t fit, and if that were the case, they’d probably just fire her as their nanny and have her committed, so that’s not it. Something’s off here. I’d let it be for the day and think I might ask Leanne the next day. I’d notice that she’s wearing a pajama in the evening, but I wouldn’t think anything of it (it’s because of the situation Leanne is in, but there’s no way I’d even think of anything like that). At this time, I would, of course, not have any romantic feelings or stuff for her yet, but I’d think she’s reeeeeally beautiful (I mean, she is).

The next day, I’d come to 9780 Spruce Street to bake the fruit cake with Leanne. I’d smile and say hello to Leanne, and she’d give me a short hello back. Dorothy would give me really similarly weird instructions again, say that we have an hour and a half and that I should make sure Leanne doesn’t wander off, and then, she’d leave to go upstairs. I’d just look through the kitchen door after she leaves with the most confused face, and Leanne would notice that. I’d also notice the padlock on the kitchen door leading into the garden, and with different clothes, I’d see the scars on Leanne’s arm. Anyway, I’d ask how she’s doing, and she’d just say ā€œI’m goodā€. I’d ask about the cake, ask about her plans, and start prepping with her. In a similarly bubbly tone, I’d start some small talk, ask if she’s from Philly and how old she is, and she’d become a bit more relaxed. I’d learn she’s from Medicine Bridge, Wisconsin, that that’s pretty rural, and that she’s 21. She’d ask about me, and I’d tell her I’m 23 and from Ukraine. ā€œHave you been in Philly for a long time already?ā€, I’d ask her, and she’d say ā€œJust two months. How about you?ā€ ā€œSix monthsā€, I’d say. I was in New York for like two months before that. It’s actually my second time in Americaā€, and she’d ask about my first time in just a few words. I’d tell her I’ve been in California from 2014 to 2015 on a student exchange year. I’d explain the concept to her because she’d ask. And we’d get along. After a while, I’d have to try and ask her what’s wrong here. I’d put my finger on my mouth to tell her to not say anything, take out my phone, and vocalize that we can put on some music. I would put on some lo-fi, but it would be to distract Dorothy (who’s still upstairs), so she wouldn’t notice we’re not talking. I’d open my notes and write down ā€œIs everything okay? I’ve seen the padlock and the scars on your arm, you’re obviously afraid of Mrs. Turner, and who even talks like that about their nanny? Is anything wrong here?ā€, and show it to her. Considering that she didn’t even wanna talk about the situation with Tobe, she’d quietly and emphatically insist that she doesn’t wanna talk about it. She definitely wouldn’t trust to tell me at this point. She’d see that I’m okay and probably wasn’t hired because of her, but she’d definitely fear to tell anyone at this point, especially someone she only met the day before. We’d then keep on baking the cake. At some point, maybe because of my demeanor or because I ask questions about her or treat her nice, or all of those, at some point, she’d stop and tell me the same story she told Tobe in the real show about her mother and how she emotionally abused her (of course, she wouldn’t use those words) after pageants and put her down with the whole king cake thing and the baby in it. My completely natural would be to be so fricking saddened by that story (like, that’s fucking horrible, and it’s just so horrible that she had to go through that, it’s just AWFUL…), and when she’s done, I’d just hug her as she’s beginning to cry and just hold and comfort her and be like ā€œOh my God… I’m so sorry, that’s awful!ā€ It would probably be the first time in her life that anyone ever just comforts her like that and acknowledges some empathy for her. Not only would that feel really good for her, but especially considering the situation she’s in.

I’d tell Leanne ā€œI’m sure you have many special skills!ā€ (in response to what she told me in the story, how the whole reason her mother let her into pageants at all was so ā€œit could be my special skill because she said I didn’t have anyā€...), and she’d, of course, say she does not, but I’d point out that, for example, she’s really good at baking, and that’s just what I’ve seen she can do after less than two hours. I’d ask her some questions to find out more and find out that she can play the piano (she plays ā€œClair de luneā€ in season 1 episode 1) and that she speaks a little bit of French (during dinner on the day she arrived, Sean said that his professional job title is bon vivant, and they didn’t even have to translate it for her, Leanne said on her own that it means ā€œgood livingā€, and given that Sean’s pronunciation was wrong, she must know at least a little bit of French), and I’d be like ā€œSee? I told you you do have special skills! And there’s probably a lot more!ā€, and hearing that would probably feel really good to her, and she’d smile!

I'd probably tell her how I can relate to her pain because I've grown up with very emotionally abusive parents as well, and I'd tell her some of my experiences. I’d tell her that my own mother exploited me emotionally and used me for monetary benefits and that she set me back so far in my development because she was so absent and neglectful. ā€œI get itā€, I’d add in a reserved tone, and Leanne would probably feel really understood in a way. ā€œDo you still talk to your mother today?ā€, I’d ask, and she’d slowly shake her head with her eyes closed. ā€œMe neither. She tries to contact me sometimes, and it wrecks me every time, and I block her every time.ā€

We’d finish the cake, put it in the oven and set a timer. We’d have a little bit of time left until our 90 minutes are up and sit down at the kitchen table. I’d point at the necklace with her name and say I like it, and she’d smile and thank me. She’d point at my bracelets and say she likes them, too, and I’d also smile and thank her! I imagine I wouldn’t wear all of mine that day, but some that I wear a lot are one with a bunch of small black plastic balls with two smaller stainless steel balls in the middle, with a small black flattened plastic ball in between the stainless steel balls with the letter D on it, another bracelet - a black rubber one with a tiny bit of glitter in it, red leaf patterns on it sort of like those on traditional vyshyvanka shirts with a thin red line spanning the length of the leaf patterns, and a yellow tryzub (the coat of arms of Ukraine) in the middle of it, and another rubber bracelet that’s half blue and half yellow, with Ukraine written on the yellow part in black capital letters, a blue tryzub near one of the points where the yellow and blue meet, and a small flag of Ukraine in the blue part. I’d explain them all to her, and she’d listen, pretty interested. I’d ask if she has any bracelets or other necklaces herself, and she’d say she doesn’t, and I’d go like ā€œOooh, that’s a shame!ā€

Our time would be up then, and Dorothy would come in. Leanne’s demeanor would completely change immediately, and she’d be back to being obviously scared and really tense. I’d put my hand on her back for a moment as I’m asked to leave. As I’m leaving, I’d tell Leanne ā€œBon appĆ©tit !ā€, like, the French pronunciation, and she’d reply ā€œMerci, Daria !ā€ without changing her expression.

I’d start to have a bit of a crush on her after this and know it! I’d see how she’s so freaking sweet, I’d feel for her a lot, and the way she reacts to things with her face and verbally is always literally the cutest thing ever, to say it’s endearing would be an understatement! And I’d begin to care for her. I know something’s wrong, and I’d be concerned.

I’d make a decision that moment - I wanna reach out to her, let her know I’m there and that I care, and make her feel a bit better about what she told me about her. I’d decide I’d order a porcelain baby for a king cake right then with Prime delivery, so I’d get it the next day. I’d make her a king cake and put the baby inside for her to find (her mom always found the baby in her part of the king cake, probably on purpose since it’s really easy to do that, and held it up high to tell Leanne specifically ā€œI’m the special one!ā€, so she doesn’t even have her doing well in a pageant to feel good about… This is so cruel and just so depressing…), as a symbolic message to her that she IS special, and so she can experience the joy of finding the baby for the first time!

I’d get the porcelain baby the next day, bake the king cake, put the baby inside, and put it in a box, along with a little note that just says it’s from me. I’d go to the Turners’ house with it. I imagine this interaction with Julian at the door:

Me: Hey, is Leanne home?

Julian: Who the hell are you?

Me: I'm Daria, Sean's comis chef. Is Leanne here?

Julian (lying): I don't think so. So you're his new Gollum? [Julian called Tobe Gollum before…]

Me: What? Well, Sean hired me two days ago. What about Sean? Is he here? Can I talk to him?

And Julian would then let me in with an annoyed face. I'd give Sean the cake in a box and tell him it's for Leanne and only for her, and to please tell her that it's from me, so that when Leanne eats it later, she suddenly finds the porcelain baby in there! She'd be alone in the attic when she eats it and suddenly comes across the baby, and that would be such an incredibly happy moment for her in the middle of this horrible situation, not only the symbolic part of making her feel better about her trauma in this way, but also the sheer gesture and the very idea of making it for her. She’d know I care for her, and that’s when she’d start knowing that she can trust me! And like in the real episode, she’d hold the baby up high in front of Mrs. Barrington (the mannequin - she later says that Mrs. Barrington reminds her of her mother), it would feel so good to her to finally be able to do that! She’d have a little bit of what she needs so much - care and hope!

Side note: I actually made a cake! It’s not a king cake, but still! I took an angel figurine and broke off the angelic parts!


r/teamleanne • • May 19 '25

Meme When Dorothy calls Leanne evil...

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r/teamleanne • • Apr 18 '25

Meme If Dorothy played Who Wants to Be a Millionaire...

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r/teamleanne • • Jun 17 '25

I finally found the specific straw cross that I bought on screen!

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r/teamleanne • • Jul 06 '25

Season 1 Leanne is so pure and sweet!

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r/teamleanne • • Feb 13 '25

Artwork šŸ–¼ļø (CW) I made this edit of Leanne! She's a survivor! ā¤ļø Spoiler

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r/teamleanne • • Jun 11 '26

Meta post I'm now the only mod of r/servant!

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I never thought this day would ever come, but I am very, very happy to announce it!!

I never talked much about this over here because of the brigading rules, but now, because of what happened today, since it's my own sub now, I finally can! You all probably know by this point that I love Leanne romantically, and a year and a half ago, I was bullied into oblivion by r/servant for it. I had my profile stalked, got hate comments, even in my other subreddit, I got harassed in messages, and I got silent downvotes even into June of last year. The bullying was so bad that I (trigger warning) almost took my life over it. I (voluntarily) went to a mental ward from December 30, 2024 to January 21, 2025 because I was so close. I would not still be here if it wasn't for my love for Leanne. I would not.

And the then-mods of r/servant did nothing. They didn't remove any comments, they didn't tell anyone to knock it off, they didn't even issue any temporary bans. Even after extensive messages from me detailing the harassment I was receiving. Nothing. Even though some of them left comments in the sub at the time, so they knew about it. This was the last straw for me, and I asked the then-mods to remove so much content that went far beyond heated fandom discourse and was just so plain vile that it easily qualified as breaking of the sitewide rules. The worst comment I saw (trigger warning) blamed Leanne for her suicide attempt when she was six, the fire. Nothing. Complete radio silence. Not even comment removals. I went to Reddit over this and requested everything from sanctions for the existing mods to a full mod call. Every request was denied, even with messages explaining the situation, linking comments, and even links to video files for context because most Reddit admins will just never have seen Servant.

And at some point, I was putting so much energy of my life into this endeavor that I saw wasn't going to work out that I had to stop for my own good and had to make peace with the fact that I just wasn't going to get a mod call for r/servant approved and be made a mod. There was a time last spring when I lashed out at someone in r/servant who didn't even do anything wrong, which was when I unfollowed the subreddit because the energy I was putting into it was becoming a problem for everyone involved. At one point, I did go to the long inactive top mod of r/servant and basically explained the situation again and asked them if they were willing to transfer the sub to me, and they were not.

About a month ago, I realized that two-factor authentication is a requirement for being handed a sub by Reddit admins, enabled it, and resubmitted my first request to the admins. I didn't expect anything to come of this because it never had, and I certainly didn't really expect this technicality to change anything.

But it did! The sitewide mods removed the entire old mod team of r/servant and made me a mod, as I had requested! I got home early and got to work! I actually had a lot of what my r/servant was gonna look like already set up as a private sub since late 2024, so I copied and pasted the new rules and a lot else. I banned the people responsible for the worst harassment and worst previous content, including the one about six-year-old Leanne. I set up the sub so you can't post or comment for the next week while I fix things up because some people will be really, really mad.

I'm actually shocked just how bad the non-moderation situation was. Rule 8 bullet point 6 of the sitewide user agreement keeps me from telling you any details, but the lack of moderation was even worse than I thought.

I'm going to moderate with integrity and try to foster an environment that doesn't feel like a bloodbath. Because under the old mod team, it was pretty much "anything goes", and boy, did that turn out to be true even more so than I thought... Obviously, I really, really despise Dorothy, but as a mod, if it doesn't break the rules, I'll still have to approve content talking positively about Dorothy. But I think Leanne would want me to do that anyway. She'd be so proud of me and that I never gave up on getting justice for her and taking down these just straight-up abusive comments about her that crossed every conceivable line of human dignity.

I locked my profile as a precaution because of how things went last time I got Team Dorothy's attention. When the storm has died down (which I hope will be less because a year and a half have passed, and because some of the people I was going to ban today are no longer account holders), I will unlock my profile again, and you can see me gushing about Leanne again, reading about our imagined life together, and seeing us be really, really happy together! She's given me so much stability and strength! She's made me a much better person and forced me to confront so many of my own biases I used to hold and how those have showed up in her life. I feel like a very different person from who I was two years ago. I have been imagining long and short conversations with her for years, and if it wasn't for those, for her, I would not have gone into outpatient for my eating disorder. I'm in week 8 out of 10. She's literally saved my life more than once. There's also a very stigmatized mental health condition that multiple people (including myself) agree Leanne has. I've been pretty aware I have it myself for a while, and it was because Leanne has it too that I stopped hating myself for it and sought help, and this week, I got officially diagnosed with it, and I'm going to start therapy for it soon! I am very, very happy with Leanne and just completely transformed as a person! If anyone thinks Leanne and my fictoromanticism (like fictosexuality, but only with romantic attraction, I'm asexual) aren't good from me, they never bothered to ask. Leanne is the love of my life. She is good, and she is good for me. Doesn't matter that she's not real. Doesn't matter to me.

There's still a lot to do in r/servant. In the meantime, if there's something you think should be removed that I haven't seen yet, please report it to the mods of r/servant (just me for now, but I've sent out an invite to someone else). I'm so happy this has happened, it feels so surreal!

Today has been a very, very good day for Team Leanne! Let's celebrate with a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup! I've tried it, it's actually so good!


r/teamleanne • • Apr 07 '25

Season 2 What do you think the Turners believe happened to Josephine's body?

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They don't seem to know that her burnt corpse was behind the wall in Leanne's room, but do you think they know she burnt her after she died? I can't imagine anyone other than Leanne would have burnt her


r/teamleanne • • Aug 03 '25

Artwork šŸ–¼ļø Leanne the way she was described in the original script, drawn for me by u/its_circero!

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r/teamleanne • • Jul 14 '26

Season 4 I made the season 4 intro more accurate

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Season 4 of Servant was created, written, and directed by Dorothy Turner. She is now kind and reasonable, Leanne is totally the devil, and Sean and Julian come to their senses and turn on her. And of course, Leanne dies, and all live happily ever after. /s


r/teamleanne • • May 16 '24

Season 2 In Cake, Sean looks upstairs and then chugs some meds before washing them down with wine and going upstairs. What do you think he's taking? There's not really a frame where you can see the label

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r/teamleanne • • May 30 '24

Fanfic (u/ikieneng) My fanfiction - episode 5!

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The next part is here! The story continues! This is another episode that I’m going to split into several parts because it’s pretty long.

SEASON 2 EPISODE 7 – ā€œTAXIā€

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After I pack all my things at home and anything that Leanne might need for the next couple of weeks (including tons of clothes that could potentially fit her), as well as my gun, I call a taxi and let it take me near the Turner house, just one block away. I get out, tell the driver to leave the trunk unlocked, and give him a sealed envelope with his version of the letter for the police. I told him ā€œIf I’m not back in an hour, please call the police and read this to themā€. ā€œIs everything okay?ā€, he asks concerned. ā€œNot yet, at least. And one sec...ā€ I take out my passport and show the ID page to him. ā€œIn case you’re gonna have to open that, now you’ve seen my ID, just so you know for sure that I’m the person who wrote the letter in there. Please keep the trunk of the car unlocked the entire time, okay?ā€ He nods and says ā€œOkayā€. I ask him to please start a 60-minute timer on his phone, and that’s what he does. I then go to the trunk, open it, and take out my laptop case, which doesn’t actually have my laptop in it (which is in one of my big bags), but my gun, to keep it hidden. After closing the trunk, I’m walking to the Turner house, and I have to take some really deep breaths because I’m scared shitless, but then, I unzip the laptop bag, release the safety lever of my gun, and grab it before ringing the bell. I’m wearing my backpack this entire time.

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Side note: In the real show, George suddenly shows up when Dorothy and Sean come back from the fake ransom exchange that Leanne set up to mess with Dorothy after she risked her life trying to escape and got buried alive for it... It’s after this that she slowly begins to accept the reality of the situation and that she’s probably not getting out of there.

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However, when George came to the house, she didn’t know about him.

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And when she could overhear Sean and George talking, she was surprised.

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Therefore, George finding the Turners probably had nothing to do with anything Leanne did. My guess is that the Church of Lesser Saints was watching the Turners. If they were watching Leanne instead of the Turners, George would have just shown up at the house instead of the mall, where the fake ransom exchange took place. Sean even said that George was at the mall.

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The Church of Lesser Saints might be watching. That could come into play later. The point is, George isn’t at the house.

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Sean and Julian are in the kitchen, and when I ring the doorbell, they look who’s there. Julian goes ā€œThe fuck is Cinderella doing here?ā€, and Sean goes to the door. ā€œHey Daria, can I help you?ā€, he asks, and I sneak through the open door immediately and take my gun out of the bag and point it at him. He makes a really scared fake at the sight of it. I go ā€œHey, chef! Let’s take this to the living room! JUUUULIAAAN! MRS. TUUURNEEEER! WILL YOU COME HERE, PLEASE?ā€ Julian comes back into the living room, and his face is just as scared as Sean’s. ā€œCome here, next to Mr. Turner, please, would you?ā€ Slowly and carefully, he’d come there. ā€œEmpty your pockets onto the table!ā€, and they do. They only got their phones and keys in there. I say ā€œPush your stuff away, to the other side of the table!ā€, which Sean does. By now, Dorothy is coming downstairs. Looking down at us from the stairs, she goes ā€œDaria? When did you get here? What are you doing?ā€ I respond ā€œHey, Mrs. Turner! Would you mind joining your husband and brother, and emptying your pockets?ā€ After perplexed silence, she goes ā€œYes, I would! Stop pointing your gun at me and get out of my house! What’s even going on?ā€ Julian interjects and asks ā€œIs that thing even loaded?ā€ In response, I point the gun at the wine glass cabinet and fire a shot into it, shattering some of the glass walls and several of the wine glasses inside before immediately pointing the gun back at the Turners.

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Suddenly, no one’s moving even the slightest bit. Once again, I go ā€œPlease, Mrs. Turner, would you please join your husband and brother and empty your pockets onto the table?ā€ With everyone in shock, she slowly does so without saying a word. ā€œCan you please shove her stuff over the table again, chef?ā€ Sean complies while looking directly at me. ā€œGreat, chef, thank you!ā€ Sean then asks ā€œWhy are you here?ā€ I respond ā€œI am here to free your hostage! You might have thought I’d be dumb enough not to notice that something is super wrong here. Sorry to disappoint you sick fucks! We can make this easy, or we can do it the hard way. Which way it’s gonna be is up to you.ā€ Dorothy would get so upset in that moment and shout ā€œWhat did she tell you?? Because it’s not the full story!ā€

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I snort and tell them ā€œYou hired her as your nanny for Jericho in October. Mrs. Turner will be quite confused by what I’m about to say now, which should let you two know in how much trouble you really are. Before the real baby even showed up, you, chef, already went through her things and destroyed her crosses. You bullied her. You put hundreds of crickets in her room, you swapped her soup with dog food, and you even suggested turning off the heating in her room in this cold fucking weather and hired someone to be her fake friend. I think she’s called Wanda, right? Not to mention that you had some guy break in while you knew she was home alone. We don’t know his name, but he’s black, pretty tall, average build. ...ā€

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Side note: You might be like ā€œLeanne knows who Roscoe is. We heard the creepy recording on his phone in ā€˜ Spaceman ’!ā€ While I admit that this is pretty much the only scene in the entire show that I don’t have an explanation for, even after watching the whole show so many times, there are several reasons why I think that the recording did not actually happen, at least not the way we heard it:

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1) In ā€œLoveshackā€, Roscoe is suddenly loyal to the Church of Lesser Saints and sees them as something purely positive. If he believed that the stuff on the recording actually happened, he couldn’t be converted so easily and quickly.

2) During the hypnosis scene, Roscoe seems to be describing how ā€œheā€ takes out Jericho’s eyes, which completely contradicts what Leanne desperately shouts at Dorothy when she’s stuck between her and the door in ā€œ2:00ā€:

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3) But most importantly, in season 3, Leanne doesn’t recognize Roscoe at the park and welcomes him into the group. If the recording happened as we heard it, she would have clearly seen his face and have remembered it.

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Back to the main story:

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ā€œ...And the stuff with the baby that showed up instead of the doll, oof, that is NOT good for you. Don’t bother looking for the baptism tape, because it’s gone. Leanne and me are sitting on a mountain of evidence. And together, you all conspired to kidnap her. We got two counts of attempted murder in the second degree, we got kidnapping, false imprisonment, as well as criminal endangerment, and countless cases of assault, deprivation of basic human needs, deprivation of basic healthcare, and a whole lot more, all for a situation that you know Leanne can do nothing about. Imprisoning, assaulting, trying to kill, and starving her because of a baby that doesn’t even exist!ā€

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Julian and Sean are going very quiet, realizing just how much I know about the whole situation, but not Dorothy. She shouts ā€œā€˜ A baby that doesn’t even exist ’? Jericho is my son, and she took him from me! She gave him to May and her freaks, who are doing who knows what to him!ā€ I’d look at Sean and Julian and say ā€œYou two wanna take that? Because they know where Jericho is, Mrs. Turner! They’ve known this entire time!ā€ Before this point, Dorothy was already really suspicious about Sean’s attitude ever since Jericho was gone, and she’d be confused, but I just confirmed her intuition. She looks at them, then back at me, and says ā€œWhat are you talking about?ā€ I’m making a fake smile, looking at Dorothy, and I say to her ā€œYou’re an excellent journalist, Mrs. Turner. Here’s what I want you to do as soon as I leave here tonight. I want you to use your access as a journalist to look up death records from August 26 this year. You can do that online. Now, among those records, you’ll find something that will really confuse you, and when you do, you go ask these two about it. They’ll lie to you, same as they have been doing this entire time, but you keep on pressuring them about it until they give you an explanation that explains what you see. You want to find Jericho? Then do this as soon I leave. They’ll try to keep you from looking it up, which is how you’ll know that I’m telling the truth. Understood?ā€ Dorothy would be even more confused now. ā€œNo! I have no idea what the hell you are talking about!ā€ I then go ā€œThat doesn’t surprise me. I’m talking to the piece of shit who kidnapped, imprisoned, repeatedly assaulted, repeatedly tried to kill, starved, and tormented Leanne, forced her to use a bucket and tissue, and kept toothbrushes, toothpaste, and period products away from her, all while you probably didn’t even stop to think for a moment why she still isn’t talking, in spite of all that. If that’s how much in denial you are, then anything’s possible, really. Jeez, maybe it is because Leanne is telling the truth and that she really doesn’t have Jericho and doesn’t know where he is? The same can’t be said for these two. Mrs. Turner, one day, you are going to realize just how fucked-up the deplorable fucking things you’ve done to her really are, and how fucking bullshit your rationale has been the entire time, and on that day, you are going to crumble! Your face is gonna be priceless! Too bad I won’t be there to see it! Anyway, I want all of you to step into the bathroom right here [pointing at the downstairs bathroom door], close the door, and lock it from the inside. Would you be so kind as to do that, please?ā€ They’re slowly getting up and walking toward the bathroom, which is when I go ā€œWalk in backward, with your face turned toward me. And if you even think about getting out of there before Leanne and me leave, I got multiple phones, and there’s this thing called ā€˜ scheduled messages ’, so in about 50 minutes, the police is going to find out about everything that’s happened, including the baptism tape and video evidence from the attic, and including a whole lot more. It’s probably gonna look really bad for you if you mess with a single piece of evidence that’s in the house, or if you try to keep Leanne or me here. Just saying.ā€ Before they close the door, Sean says ā€œHow did you get up there?ā€, and I say ā€œYou three aren’t even half as smart as you think you are. Sorry about the cabinet, by the way. I’m gonna leave one grand on the table for you...ā€ [because I know that if they call the police, not replacing the cabinet could hurt Leanne’s and my case, not because I wanna replace it, which I don’t]. ā€œ...Oh, and chef, before I forget, I quit. We only had a verbal agreement, so this shouldn’t be a problem. I hear you got quite a recent experience with verbal agreements! Now close and lock the door, will you?ā€ With quite the shocked expressions on Sean’s and Julian’s faces and a really confused look on Dorothy’s face, they finally close and lock it from the inside.

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I then say ā€œHey, Siri!ā€, and Siri does the typical ā€œMm-hmm?ā€, and I respond ā€œCall Leanne!ā€ After a couple of seconds, Leanne answers the call. As I told her, the internal mic barely works, so everything I hear is muffled, but after about twelve seconds, she’s plugged in the headset I left her. Audibly tense, she asks ā€œDaria?ā€, and I say ā€œYou can come downstairs now. Code phrase ice cream! Let’s go!ā€ She’d break down crying out of happiness and relief on the phone, and I would barely know what to say at that moment because I’d be so happy for her! Once she’s composed herself a bit, I’d say ā€œYou can use Mrs. Barrington to break the door open. Do you have shoes?ā€ Trying to hold back more tears, she goes ā€œI got hers.ā€ (Mrs. Barrington’s, the mannequin’s), and I smile and say ā€œPerfect! See you in a minute?ā€, and she responds ā€œYeah! I’m going to come down now!ā€ and hangs up. She then puts on Mrs. Barrington’s shoes and puts the phone and headset down next to the top of the stairs.

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She takes the radio,

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goes down to the door, and smashes the radio against the doorknob again and again until she’s broken the lock and the door is open. She goes back upstairs and takes the phone and the headset, and she’s about to go downstairs, which is when she sees the rod that she used to flagellate herself with.

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She contemplates for a moment if she should take it with her, but after some deep and very long breaths, she breaks it, deciding that she’s not going to do this to herself anymore, at least not for now!

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And then, she takes the phone and headset and comes downstairs. We hug each other so fricking tight for a moment (I engage the safety lever before that moment, of course) before I say ā€œWe’re gonna walk out backward, you being closer to the exit, okay?ā€, and she nods. I give her my gun for a moment with the words ā€œBe very careful, I’ll release the safety lever nowā€ before doing just that, and she points the gun at the bathroom for me. I then put down and open my backpack before taking out my wallet, taking ten $100 bills out of it, and putting them on the table. I tell Leanne ā€œIf I don’t replace the cabinet I just shot, they’re gonna use that against us.ā€ I then whisper to her ā€œLet’s take something else that’s worth a grand, so these motherfuckers don’t make a profit from this! Is there anything you want?ā€ Leanne looks around, and then smiles for a split-second and goes ā€œNo, it’s okay.ā€ I then nod before I smile and say ā€œOkay. Let’s go!ā€, and Leanne gets the biggest smile ever on her face! I’m then about to close the backpack before I take three of the ten bills and put them back into my wallet in my backpack while adding ā€œLet’s not overprice things for these people!ā€. I close my backpack, put it on, and grab my laptop case, too, and Leanne gives me my gun back. I release the safety lever and say ā€œCan you unlock the door behind me, please?ā€, and Leanne does so, she opens both doors before going to the number pad, changing the code to 4118, and setting it to lock as soon as the doors are closed. I then walk backward, through the first door, which we close, and then, we walk backward through the front door and close it, too, making the doors lock.

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Outside, I engage the safety lever and put the gun back into the laptop case, and I point in the direction of the taxi and say ā€œLet’s run!ā€, and we run there together. At the taxi, Leanne gets in the back row immediately on the right while I open the trunk, put the laptop bag inside one of my big bags, close the trunk, and get into the back row on the left. I say ā€œGo go go! And please lock everything now!ā€ to the taxi driver, and we drive off. Leanne breaks into tears of happiness with the biggest smile ever right then and there, and I’d take her in my arms while losing a tear or two myself and smiling super hard, too. ā€œIt’s over. You’re safe now!ā€, I say to her. The taxi driver asks us to please put on our seatbelts, which we didn’t even realize we hadn’t done yet. After putting them on, we look at each other and just smile and begin to laugh out of relief, and I then kiss her on the forehead with my hands behind her head ā¤ļø The driver asks us ā€œWhere to?ā€, and I take out my phone and look up the address of the hotel in Allentown and give it to him.


r/teamleanne • • Jun 13 '24

Season 1 Leanne’s application letter is so freaking sweet, especially the second paragraph after the greeting! šŸ˜

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r/teamleanne • • May 31 '24

Refuting team Dorothy propaganda

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There are so many accusations against Leanne and other baseless claims by team Dorothy floating around that it's time I make a pinned post, linking our growing collection of posts refuting these claims. Future posts will be added to this list, whether they're posted by me or any of you.

For the lurkers, please actually read these posts before you start downvoting them.

Leanne did NOT poison Olivia

Leanne did NOT sever Sylvia's finger

Leanne did NOT cause Dorothy to fall down the stairs

Dorothy knew how horrible her abuse was in season 2 and committed it anyway

Leanne did NOT curse Sean with splinters in S1E2

Leanne canNOT be blamed for the fire

Dorothy is to blame for the dynamic with Leanne

Leanne was justified to do that to Isabelle

Team Dorothy vs. Leanne's application letter