Story summary
The third episode of the series "Carrie" delves into historical accounts of women accused of psychic abilities from 1955, exploring cases from France, Italy, Poland, Germany, and Soviet Russia. These women were often ridiculed or worse due to their claims being dismissed as fraud by men. Meanwhile, in the present day, Carrie is researching witch trials and the persecution of magical women at her school library, noting that even if the supernatural wasn't real, the consequences for those accused certainly were harsh.
Chris's Instagram account dedicated to Carrie Red starts gaining followers but remains private. Sue prompts Chris to apologize to Carrie for past bullying behavior, acknowledging it was unjust.
Written for “Carrie TV Show Recaps” on 2026-10-08,
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How about we kick this one off with a 1955 film about telekinesis, deriving “from the ancient Greek for far-off motion”?
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we → kick → motion
Our narrator (Kate Siegel, this episode of Carrie’s director) steps in to chronologically run down the stories of five women across two centuries who gained attention for their psychic abilities.
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who → step → abilities
France’s Angélique Cottin, Italy’s Eusapia Palladino, Poland’s Stanisława Janina Tomczyk, Germany’s Annemarie Schaberl, Soviet Russia’s Nina Kulagina — all accused of fraud and/or occultism, “often by a man,” and ultimately “ridiculed, disgraced, or — sometimes — far worse.”
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all → accuse → man
Carrie is actively, worriedly investigating this stuff in the school library, specifically witch trials and the murder and torture of magical women.
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Carrie → investigate → women
(Also visible: the article about the mom who lifted the car in the last episode.)
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who → lift → episode
Emaline pops up again to ask if Carrie believes any of it’s real.
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any → pop → it
“Well, the consequences were certainly real,” Carrie points out.
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Carrie → point → ?
Chris’s Carrie Red account on Instagram is slowly attracting follow requests — it’s on private for now.
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it → attract → requests
At Sue’s prodding, Chris admits to Carrie that she was “a total monster bitch” in the locker room and says she’s truly sorry.
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she → admit → room
As alleged penance, she invites Carrie to a party in “an empty McMansion” that night, a “rite of passage.”
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she → allege → passage
Chris writes the address and a heart on the phoneless Carrie’s palm.
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Chris → write → palm
Margaret unboxes some tiny security cameras and seeks her late husband’s opinion.
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Margaret → unbox → opinion
“You always think I overreact,” she eerily tells the empty chair draped with his shirt.
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she → think → shirt
“No, you’re right.
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you → ’re → ?
You’re right.”
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You → ’re → ?
The funeral home is struggling to get her to pick up Ralph’s ashes, noting they’ll soon be “respectfully disposed of.”
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they → struggle → ashes
Mr. Morton confers with Chris about the unlikelihood of getting financial aid to attend Duke this late in the game.
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Morton → confer → game
He recommends starting at community college, which she’s predictably disgusted by.
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she → recommend → which
It’s an even lower blow than her dad saying she’ll need to go to a state school.
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she → ’ → school
(If this version of Chamberlain is in Maine, I can personally attest the University of Maine is great!)
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University → attest → Maine
With characteristic tenderness, Morton tells Chris “who you are at this school, who your family is to this town, none of that means anything the second you cross that county line.”
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you → tell → line
He tells her to start appraising “who you’re going to be.”
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you → tell → who
Her entitlement’s taking her down the wrong path.
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entitlement → take → path
Sue’s in a much better place, riding around with Tommy while he delivers food.
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he → ’ → food
(His father’s unwell and Tommy’s picking up the slack.)
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Tommy → ’ → slack
She gets him to ditch his work for the evening by telling him she wants to take things to the next level at the house party.
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she → get → party
Carrie gets ready for the shindig, using her sewing machine to modify the shirt she got from the lost and found.
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she → get → lost
Margaret’s working a night shift, bumped from cashier to custodian, where she’ll contend with piss, shit, crackpipes, and condoms in the S-Mart bathrooms.
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she → work → bathrooms
Carrie gets a ride from Stella, the neighbor who’s stoked to see the little pilgrim child survived to become a partygoing teenager.
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child → get → Stella
Carrie apologizes the moment she’s through the door, for…needing someone to move six inches so she can get in.
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she → apologize → inches
Tommy greets her with a beaming smile and a fist bump, says she looks great, and offers to get her a brewski.
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she → greet → brewski
Chris steals her for a tour and a selfie.
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Chris → steal → tour
“The goal’s to get fucked-up, but not so fucked-up you do anything stupid,” Chris advises.
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Chris → ’ → anything
She raises a toast to Carrie, gallingly says she’s “under my protection tonight, so none of y’all be dicks,” then partners with her for beer pong.
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none → raise → pong
Soon enough Carrie will be dancing the night away, sipping from Solo cups, and being surreptitiously filmed by Tina.
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Carrie → dance → Tina
(Whose lost shirt Carrie is wearing, though Chris shuts down the line of inquiry by calling Tina “so fucking dramatic.”
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Chris → wear → Tina
Expelled cattle prod–boy Billy Nolan shows up to sell weed and pills.
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Nolan → expel → weed
Tina kinda shoots her shot and fails; Chris flashes her ID to prove she’s a legal adult and secures Billy’s attention.
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she → shoot → attention
He calls her a prom queen (heh) and little princess.
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He → call → her
He’s a farm worker, on the other hand.
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He → ’ → hand
…and 65 more, not listed.
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