At this point, it doesnt even feel like they betrayed her. McBell seemed to be fine with her group going free in return for her ending up in prison.

The mayor seems pretty happy!

To be fair, I suspect there’s nobody in our whole country whose mental health is doing particularly well.
And we don’t even get police with rubber clown noses.

The bigger call will be calling Eliza playing McBell from the get-go.

How sad it would be if all the character development was up front, and then all the characters were just frozen, like a superhero comic.

Kudos for doing it right.

I mean, we’re talking about a town where clowns are the primary law enforcement. Forget the main cast, I suspect there’s nobody in the whole county whose mental health is doing particularly well! There might be something in the water.

Sure.

But also just gotta remember that while the group was willing to throw McBell under the bus, McBell was willing to throw herself under it too. There had to be a relationship there-something strong enough to make her willing to do that for people who were in the middle of betraying her.

Course there was friendship. And then we hit a point where friendship went head to head with self preservation.

Just cause one lost doesn’t mean you don’t regret it.

I think our girl here set up this crime bit to try and get the band back together. To try and return to normal. But her conscience (such as it is), lingering aftermath of the betrayal and just care for McBell won’t let her.