CHAOS CHOREOGRAPHY open thread!

I think, maybe, that much of what Verity and the rest interpret as instability, and perhaps a less than complete hold on sanity, is simply a generation gap, of sorts. All they know of Fran is stories, so they can't see just how much like her mother Alice is. Fran was always in favor of the direct, guns a-blazing and knives a-flying approach to solving problems, and that's something Alice seems to share.

Then there's the fact that she's spent much of the last few decades, not out of touch with reality, but rather in touch with a much different, darker reality. Also I'd imagine that what Verity and her siblings feel about Alice has to have been influenced greatly by Kevin, who has ample reason to feel some serious resentment towards his mother. Even with that influence, however, it's clear that Verity loves Alice very much.

Your last comment is very tantalizing. This would be an excellent time for Thomas to reappear, wouldn't it? His knowledge of the Covenant is many decades out of date, but in this case I don't see that as being a big issue, as the Covenant seems to be very set in its ways. The technology they employ may have changed but the basic tactics haven't, which is ultimately why they'll lose. The Price family, and the cryptids they work to protect, know nature's most basic rule quite well ... the inability to adapt leads to only one end, extinction.