WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Chapelwaite Season 1, Episode 2, "Memento Mori," airing now on EPIX.

From the beginning of Chapelwaite, Charles Boone is haunted by his childhood, and in particular by his father Robert Boone's attempt to kill Charles when he was a child. During the attempted murder, as Robert tries to bury Charles alive, he states, "The worm is coming." This statement is the only real reason that Robert gives for his actions before Charles' mother, Sarah, kills Robert and saves Charles. The event is horrific enough that it is understandable that Charles still has lingering trauma. While that trauma seems to be manifesting as hallucinations of worms, there are hints in "Memento Mori," Chapelwaite's second episode, that these hallucinations may have a more supernatural cause.

In "Blood Calls Blood," Charles hallucinated the worms in the bathtub. In one of the episode’s more gruesome scenes, Charles is shaving for the day, and he begins to hallucinate that there are worms coming of his nose. After pulling out two worms, Charles uses his razor to try to dig more worms out, which seems to be an unnecessarily bloody method of extraction. He cannot seem to stop himself from using the razor, which makes his actions even more horrifying. After a few moments, the hallucination ends; Charles is unharmed and there are no worms in his shaving bowl. The shift of the worms, from outside of his body to within, could signify that whatever has been causing these hallucinations has become more firmly rooted within him at Chapelwaite.

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Charles Boone looks concerned at his own reflection in Chapelwaite

Notably, this scene occurs as Honor and Rebecca discuss Susan Mallory's illness in another room. Honor states that Susan's disease sounds "like consumption," the disease which killed Maya Boone, Charles' wife. Despite Honor and Rebecca's conclusion that Susan's illness is mundane in origin, the juxtaposition of their conversation and Charles' hallucination links the two and implies that the disease and Charles' visions of worms may be connected after all.

During Preacher's Corners' All Hallows Eve celebrations, Rebecca tries to console Charles over the town's unwillingness to join in on Charles' business venture. Rebecca jokingly tells Charles that the people of Preacher's Corners believe that "Anyone who spends time in Chapelwaite is either a lunatic or in danger of becoming one." This line is a direct quote from Stephen King's "Jerusalem's Lot," though in the short story, Charles Boone's servant and friend Calvin McCann delivers this information in a more concerned fashion. This conversation with Rebecca shows that Charles is increasingly worried about his own mental state, but Rebecca does not pick up on his fears.

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The woman with the apple wanders through the woods near the road in Chapelwaite

While Charles' hallucinations could be seen as a result of his trauma, there are other hints in the episode that Charles' preoccupation with worms might not be all in his head. When returning home to Chapelwaite after a meeting with the minister, Charles sees a woman in a nightgown eating an apple. She tells him that “the worm is calling,” echoing Charles' father's pronouncement. The woman herself does not seem to be a hallucination because Faith Pringle sees her later in the episode. Thus, the woman with the apple seems to have knowledge of the hallucinations that haunt Charles and may also be connected with their cause.

Charles fears that the hallucinations are a sign that he is becoming like his father and believes that they solely come from his own mind. However, the apple-eating woman's knowledge of the worm calls that belief into question. Charles may find that the visions of the worm have a more supernatural origin, and as he attempts to form new roots in Chapelwaite, he may also find that the house and its horrors are instead becoming rooted within him.

To see how Charles continues to deal with the growing horror of Chapelwaite, new episodes drop each Sunday at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on EPIX.

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