Alas, pure entertainment is the last thing on Perry's mind in this scene (ironically set in Italy in 1943), which culminates in a pilot being shot down, and a bloody letter being retrieved from his pocket. The earnest drama then flashes back a year prior, to the blossoming Pennsylvania ...
In the show, Daisy opens a letter from her mother and calls her, only for her mother to call her a "selfish little shit." Immediately after the call, Daisy nosedives out of control and is doing copious amounts of cocaine and drinking heavily. While the conflict with her mother simplifie...