This episode explores Max as we get flashbacks to his childhood.
The cruelty of his father Walter as Max is educated by a tutor in his father's factory. The scenes in the foundry reminded me of Richard Gere in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven.
Max grew up without his mother who had mental health issues. Walter wanted forge Max to be steel rather than iron. This is mirrored by Max who wanted to raise Caden without his mother's influence. That was the reason for the divorce, he did not want Kathryn to have no further involvement in his upbringing.
As the older Max arrives to see Caden and Kathryn, he wants to divert attention for the real reason they wanted to see him. Caden knows how Max operates, how he would had bugged his room. For Kathryn it is a revelation as to how dark Max can go.
The drama is more psychological in this episode. The scene where the teenage Max is given a gift of a prostitute for his birthday, mirrors in some way Caden's scene with the prostitute in the first episode. Both men conditioned to have a loveless relationships with women.
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