While Wednesday doesn’t explicitly reveal how Ms. Thornhill knew the Nightshades’ snapping code to enter the library, her sinister plan hints at how she discovered the secret. In Wednesday season 1, episode 2, Wednesday Addams stumbles upon a statue of Edgar Allen Poe, which features a series of riddles written on a book. Wednesday solves the problem and realizes it says to “snap twice” – a nod to The Addams Family’s iconic theme song – which opens a chamber to the secret Nightshades Library. Laurel Gates, uses the code to enter the library in Wednesday episode 3.
How Wednesday Hinted At Thornhill’s Real Identity
Thornhill mysteriously knowing the Nightshades snapping code, despite being a normie, was a big clue that she wasn’t who she claimed to be. Wednesday’s season 1 finale revealed that Marilyn Thornhill was actually Laurel Gates, the sister of Garrett Gates and descendant of Joseph Crackstone, who vowed to rid the world of outcasts. Alongside the snapping code, another important clue to Ms. Thornhill’s secret identity was the theme she chose for the Rave’N dance. According to Enid, Thornhill was on the dance committee and wanted this year’s theme to be “relevant,” so she cleverly chose “extinction,” which she related to the climate crisis rather than her true mission of extinguishing Nevermore Academy’s outcasts.
Why Snapping Twice Was So Important In Wednesday
There are plenty of tributes and callbacks to The Addams Family projects that came before sprinkled throughout Wednesday season 1, with the double snapping being the most significant to the story. The Nightshades’ code wasn’t simply a clever way to feature Christina Ricci snapping twice again; it played an important role in expanding on the family’s history at Nevermore Academy and giving the double snap a functional purpose in Wednesday’s murder mystery.
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