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* NotReallyABirthScene: Although not shown onscreen, Ruth's partner's death is described as being like this. He and his friends were out climbing, there was a mistake, and the weight was too heavy. The leader had to cut the cord to let him loose, killing him but saving all their lives. As part of her RoaringRampageofRevenge, she stabs a couple of her male victims in the stomach in an inversion.

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* NotReallyABirthScene: Although not shown onscreen, Ruth's partner's death is described as being like this. He and his friends were out climbing, there was a mistake, and the weight was too heavy. The leader had to cut the cord to let him loose, killing him but saving all their lives. As part of her RoaringRampageofRevenge, RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she stabs a couple of her male victims in the stomach in an inversion.

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Creator/KateDickie, Creator/KayvanNovak, Creator/JoHartley, and Creator/GemmaWhelan also star.




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A heavily pregnant widow, Ruth (Alice Lowe), hears her unborn baby's voice telling her to take revenge on people she holds responsible for the father's death.

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A heavily pregnant widow, Ruth (Alice Lowe), Lowe, who also directed), hears her unborn baby's voice telling her to take revenge on people she holds responsible for the father's death.

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* AssholeVictim: Ruth thinks they're ''all'' assholes, but of the ones we see, only the guy in the bar, Dan, and Ella qualify. We're encouraged to think that Tom is this, but he reveals HiddenDepths when she comes to kill him.



* NotReallyABirthScene: Although not shown onscreen, Ruth's partner's death is described as being like this. He and his friends were out climbing, there was a mistake, and the weight was too heavy. The leader had to cut the cord to let him loose, killing him but saving all their lives. As part of her RoaringRampageofRevenge, she stabs a couple of her male victims in the stomach in an inversion.




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* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Ruth appears to realize that it was her own homicidal urges, and not her baby's, that caused her rampage.]]
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* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Discussed and invoked. Tom cut the cord on Ruth's boyfriend because otherwise he would pull them off the cliff and kill them all.
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A heavily pregnant widow, Ruth (Alice Lowe), hears her unborn baby's voice telling her to take revenge on people she holds responsible for the father's death.

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* ConnectedAllAlong: Ruth appears to be randomly killing people. But it turns out these are all people who were [[spoiler:on the climbing expedition where her partner died.]]
* CrusadingWidow: Ruth is determined to get revenge on the people she holds responsible for her partner's death.
* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:It's ambiguous, but heavily implied, that Ruth was only inventing her fetus's voice as an outlet for her own grief.]]
* FetusTerrible: Ruth hears her unborn baby telling her to kill people. [[spoiler:But the end, where Ruth sees her baby and realises she's "normal", makes it much more likely it was she was making it up.]]
* TheGhost: Although dead, Ruth's partner is never seen.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Ruth was hallucinating her fetus's voice]], but it's never answered.
* PregnancyMakesYouCrazy: Very literally. Ruth hears her baby's voice from inside her womb -- and she's also haunted by [[spoiler:knowing that her partner was ambivalent about having a child.]]

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