Margaret may have been a bit of a helicopter parent before, but after one look at David her attention towards Abbie becomes practically all-consuming. Because his threat is passive, Margaret is the one who becomes the attacker, and yet twice David manages to easily disarm her when she moves to hurt him, grabbing the weapon and turning it back on her. Obviously, David is the bad man Margaret believes him to be, and she sketches out a relationship of sadism and abuse that helps explain her unflappable demeanor today.