When a woman finds a suitcase full of things addressed to her late sister from Hazeltown, Mississippi, the crew looks into the murder of said sister, Miriam Forrester, a housewife and Tupperware saleswoman who was murdered during the Summer of Freedom in 1964, and used her idyllic ‘60s persona to go undercover as a Wednesday’s Woman.
Tropes:
- Beneath the Mask: The victim used her position as the ideal 1960s Housewife and her job as a cheery Tupperware saleswoman to throw white supremacists off her trail as a member of Wednesday’s Women.
- Left the Background Music On: The ending song is Tracie Thoms' rendition of "This Little Light Of Mine", which her character, Kat Miller, is singing to her daughter in-universe.
- Living a Double Life: Miriam used her housewife persona and Tupperware saleswoman job to cover for her mission in helping freedom schools against the Ku Klux Klan.
- Missing White Woman Syndrome: Averted. Miriam’s friends tried to report her murder to the police in Philadelphia, but their claims were not taken seriously since it was two black women and a Jewish woman reporting it. They left Miriam on the side of the road in despair.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: When Jim leads Miriam to a bunch of Klansmen he wanted to impress, she manages to fool them by playing up her Tupperware saleswoman gimmick, causing them to leave in a fit of laughter. The embarrassed Jim runs her down.
- Police Are Useless: Because of the racism at the time, Philadelphia police wouldn’t take the victim's friends' murder accusations seriously since two of them were black and the other one was Jewish.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Averted with Jim Horn; his reason for joining the Klan is ultimately a desire to fit in, and his reason for killing the victim is because she made him look like a jackass in front of the people he was trying to impress.
- Posthumous Character: The fourth Wednesday's Woman, Ella Turner, had died of heart disease three years before the case was reopened in 2005.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Based on the murder of Viola Liuzzo
. - Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Miriam was a kind, empathetic person determined to help the African-Americans suffering in the South, rallied her friends to go through with their mission, and refused to give away the location of the last freedom school, even when she was being threatened and cornered. That last one is what got her killed.
