In the episode, Dot ends up chained to the floor in a small outbuilding on Roy’s ranch. He comes back from a humiliating experience and takes it out on her, leading to a knock-down, drag-out fight between the two that at one point has Roy trying to beat her with the heavy chain itself. The first part of the confrontation, in which Roy actually beats poor Dot, is thankfully not shown onscreen, but we can still hear the brutality. Temple explained her feelings about it and why they decided to film the sequence on a closed set:
“I thought that was absolutely terrifying just when I read it, with the Bible, reading scripture, and with the shackles, and that. I was just like, ‘Wow.’ […] Not everybody needs to watch it. And, because people who I was working closely with have talked about experiences that they’d been through, it ended up being unbelievably respectfully done.”
Temple didn’t do the stunts in the scene and even joked that she’s dyslexic and might have “rolled the wrong way,” but she did have a shocking revelation while watching her stunt double, Louise Hradsky, do a run-through with the proper protective gear. Temple had “this realization that, normally, women don’t get a crash helmet.” Roy is an unrepentant monster who screams Bible verses about Babylon while trying to kill his wife, but he’s unfortunately all too recognizable a monster for many women.