The Perry Mason Season 2 Premiere Just Severed Its Last Tie To ...

When we last saw Emily Dodson, she was a free woman in the sense that she didn't end up in prison (the case ended in a mistrial), but she was still haunted. It turned out her baby, Charlie, died when a sex worker breastfed him while under the influence of heroin, a horrible accident that was made even worse by the circumstances of his kidnapping and recovery. Emily's reputation was still tarnished by the court, especially when the world found out she was having an affair, and she was never able to fully process Charlie's death.

In the season one finale, Emily joins a traveling church, and in a weird turn of events, starts to raise a baby that she believes is her own son resurrected. But a horror-tinged scene in the second season premiere reveals that Emily's story didn't end there. Mason, already previously haunted by his military service, is having a new type of stress dream – if not seeing apparitions outright. During a quiet moment in the new episode, he suddenly sees a ghost-like Emily in his home, desperately choking on water as she attempts to ask him a question. A shot that pans over some paperwork on Mason's table shows us that Emily is dead via suicide by drowning.