Rynn's line of "You're a rat." was improvised.

You don't even trust me with your rat.

It's s hamster.

It looks like a rat.

You look like a rat.

No.

A nice little hint at the novel. Could it be Mario can't tell a hamster from a rat? Or just a little teasing? I think it's a given that a rat is considered to be (by us, the audience and the two kids) inferior, worse, negative to hamster and basically derogatory for naming someone's pet. And isn't Rynn quick with her payback, calling her very new and very helpful friend rat in return? Is it he's not in her circle of trust, not yet?

I was close, ha ha. I've heard some say Gordon represented Rynn's youth, as a child may have such a pet. When Frank kills it (brutally, I may ad) that could have been foreshadowing of his plan on taking something else from Rynn. You'll notice how playful she was with presenting Gordon to Mario and how coldly she reacted when Hallett wanted to see it. As in, some kind of feral response that animals have towards good and bad people.

The young lady probably lost her youth, childhood, whatever, the day she put sth in tea that 'calmed down' evil mum... And the more you think about and go down the dark stairs to the abyss of child abuse, including chipped teeth and all kind of violence, you wonder if that kid ever had a childhood at all...

I just took a chipped tooth as something that happened accidentally. A child wouldn't mind, but the growing Rynn began to see it more self consciously. Your stairs comment got me thinking of another odd theory that the cellar would represent her dark past, the main floor would be her troubled present and the 2nd floor as a hopeful future.

In any event, the house in one of the posters looks nothing like the one that was shown.

@wreckage3001 said: And the more you think about and go down the dark stairs to the abyss of child abuse, including chipped teeth and all kind of violence, you wonder if that kid ever had a childhood at all...

I always thought the chipped tooth was an accident, never thought of domestic abuse. So it was her mother?

Yes, sure. Very bad mum. I wonder if Lester Jacobs had already tried to get rid of her before, back in Europe. Seems he prepared everything very good for the day of her return. A little too good if you ask me...

I'll have to reread the novel. That idea never ocurred to me. Good point!