Ain't No Lukewarm

Part 1: The Recap

The main character, who we later find out to be Victoria, wakes up with a migraine and cannot remember who she is. She notices bandages on her wrists but cannot remember why they are there. She goes downstairs where she finds a picture of a little girl, which triggers flashbacks and more migraines. She gets a cup of water, walks outside, and notices people standing in windows with cameras. She shouts at them to help them but none of them respond. She then hears someone take a picture of her and proceeds to chase the culprit but then stops when a car swerves forward and a guy gets out with a shotgun. He proceeds to chase her and she eventually reaches a gas station where two people in camo urge her to come inside after their tires of their car got shot. They escape the gas station but one of the people in camo got shot trying to hold off the hunter. They reach a house where Victoria and the other girl get to talk one on one, and the girl says that the symbols on the televisions have made people pretty much zombie like. She then breaks out a map and says the only way that they can stop the symbols from appearing is to take out the headquarters in White Bear which triggers another migraine. She leaves there and goes outside and yells at the spectators and tries to pick up one of the phones when the girl pulls a taser on her (probably because Victoria would've seen that they are streaming her online). Around this time, a guy in a van pulls up and tells them to get in. Victoria wasn't going to but the girl pushes her in (This is where I was starting to have doubts because clearly Victoria is slowing everyone down. Why are they still helping her and taking her everywhere?). The guy starts talking to them and Victoria states that she knows him somehow but can't explain how. He then says he has a safe place to go and she said "Yeah the woods" and he was shocked that she knew. They reach the woods where he turns on them and attempts to kill them but the girl in camo saves Victoria and they steal his van and drive to White Bear. Victoria says going to White Bear is bad idea and that something happens there but the girl in camo pushes her along anyway (which is another part that started raising concerns. If she was going to burn down the place, why did she need Victoria to come along? She could do that alone right?). They then get inside the control room where they get surrounded. But suddenly, the wall behind Victoria opens up and the strange people tie her up to the chair and the guy in the van comes out in a game show host persona. He then rolls clips back showing Victoria who she is and what she had done while the crowd sits with their phones and records. He then tells them to put her where she belongs (on the back of a truck in a cage with clear walls and lights so everyone can see her) and he then drives to her house while people throw tomatoes at her. They set up the room exactly as it was that morning, put a X on the calendar, and then put a device on her head to erase her memory. A scene is then played where it is explained that this is a show and Victoria's punishment. People pay money to come and watch and record as Victoria struggles through her day everyday.

Part 2: My Argument 

I believe it is fair to say that the Victoria we see in this show is not the Victoria that committed the crime. They may look the same, and they might sound the same, but they are definitely not the same. The Victoria back then was ruthless. She was consciously aware of her actions and everything around her. The Victoria that we see in the park is fragile. She doesn't know who she is, what she's done, where she's at, she doesn't know anything. She is completely unstable and fragile and honestly, treating this Victoria like this is NOT teaching her anything. She is not learning shame for her actions or learning to repent. She is literally being tortured and honestly, this is definitely not the best way to teach somebody a lesson. If you are going to teach somebody a lesson, that somebody has first got to be, well, somebody who needs a lesson. This hurt and fragile version of Victoria doesn't deserve this kind of treatment. But you know what? I don't believe the goal of this form of punishment was to give punishment to Victoria. This was created to give justice to the public. This was created to make the public happy and to make them feel satisfied. The focus was never on her because it was on her, they wouldn't reset her memory everyday. They reset her memory so she can relive everything and that makes them happy because they all get a chance to do to her what she did to that little girl. And with that being said, Victoria is no longer a person. She is an animal. She is an object for entertainment, almost like a circus except not with animals, but with an actual human being. They're making her jump through the same hoops every single day and that is wrong. There is absolutely nothing right about this. Do you guys think the punishment is for Victoria or for the public? Because I don't think you can say both. This isn't about her because if it was she wouldn't have her memory erased to the point where she can't even remember her name everyday. They've literally made her into a doll. A puppet. Something without a purpose or value.