
On their wedding night, the intimate moment between Ethan and Claire was interrupted by his mother Sophia crying out in pain from back trouble. Ethan spent the night tending to his mother, while Claire sensed something amiss after speaking with a neighbor the next morning. Faced with Sophia's deliberate showing-off and provocations, Claire grew suspicious, only to be accused by Ethan of making a fuss over nothing. That evening, just as the couple was preparing for intimacy again, Sophia summoned Ethan away, claiming she had had a nightmare. Struggling to suppress her anger, Claire followed the sounds late at night to her mother-in-law's door; in a fit of rage, she kicked the door open—and was utterly shocked by the scene that met her eyes.