The beginning of the episode Nora paid a hooker $3,000 to shoot her in the chest. She was fukked up emotionally, anyone that's willing to pay a stack up front for someone to hug the pain away is someone that would believe that dude has powers to actually make that happen.
In general if someone is bottling emotions up, especially for a period of 3 years, letting that shyt out would do wonders for them.
Ya her fukked up ass was trying ANYTHING to deal with the pain, it wasn't working, so I don't see why a stack up front would just make her believe the hug works.
Plus there's the black author. He's preaching all this
actual bullshyt about how people should deal with the pain. Everyone else is eating it up, just like self-help author's we see in real life, cuz he lost so many people yet has managed to move on. But really, Wayne hugged him and now he's capitalizing off of his life free of pain.
Nora sees right through his bullshyt INSTANTANEOUSLY. She's had a similar loss so she knows what he's saying is bullshyt. If she was just going to let anything work cuz she wanted it to work, she would've given that guy a real chance. Nora was a wreck with so much bottled up emotion that she couldn't let anything work, she was too much of a cynic for that.
Then she got hugged
Wayne had a big ass ranch, a harem of 13 year old Asian girls and vulnerable people paying him money to spit some game and give them a hug.
He's traveling in trunks and hallways now because the feds are after his ass.
Fair point, but running from the feds does not require him to sleep, alone, on cots in desolate conditions like that. There was something visibly wrong with him sitting curled up in the fetal position. He's deteriorating. He's becoming deranged, as evident by the fact that he forgot who Tom was when he called him!
There is clearly
something happening with Wayne right now.