"Someone must have been in a bad way to walk away from you, little one."
I keep thinking about the grace that Robby shows Baby Jane Doe's mother here. (Yes, BJD has a father, but we know this is about mothers.)
Later, he tells Dana he had a mother, she left, and he doesn't need another one. Later, he tells BJD that he was abandoned.
Which is so fascinating to me because we see Robby's understandable anger and hurt about his own circumstances, but he can still find compassion for a mother who did to Baby Jane Doe, what his own mother did to him.
It would have been a valid writing choice for Robby to show anger toward BJD's mother and have that be part of the reveal about Robby's childhood. But he's not angry in this scene, and that just makes me wonder even more about Robby's mother, the circumstances of her departure, and what he's internalized about her abandonment.
