laughingpinecone wrote:Thank you! I was talking about it just yesterday with friends... the way we saw it, Tammy's comment that Audrey never tested for paternity, maybe because deep down she knew basically boils down to three major options...
I think the whole crux to all of this is JJW and whether or not he was retconned. The Ben now owning Ghostwood switch-up makes me wonder if JJW even came to town since I thought the whole impetus for his arrival was Ben being forced to give Ghostwood over to Catherine and being on the verge of financial ruin. To me, if Audrey assumed it was his child, I'm not sure why she wouldn't have reached out to him since they were clearly smitten with each other at the end of Season 2 - unless, as someone else had hypothesized, he was killed by his business partner or wanted nothing to do with the child. I think the whole Ghostwood retcon makes it more likely that they never met, though. If Audrey never met JJW and found out she was pregnant though she hadn't had sex with anyone, it's possible she assumed (or hoped - not saying it's right) that something had happened between her and Coop prior to the bank blast that she couldn't remember as a result of her injuries, opposed to the darker possibility of being assaulted by an orderly in the hospital while in a coma. This might be why she never had the paternity test - because she was too scared to know the truth.
I think Tammy just means and is assuming that Audrey never had the paternity test because she thinks Audrey knew who the father was. Tammy doesn't know that Mr. C is Richard's father. She takes the framed picture of Cooper as a hint as to who Richard's father could be, but she doesn't have the info we have from TR where Mr. C confirms it's his son. To me, if Audrey remembered the assault, she wouldn't have kept a framed picture of Cooper as this would have been the ultimate betrayal by the one person she trusted the most. I think this points more to her not remembering it or this Audrey possibly being a tulpa.