[The_Long_Run]

Originally posted by Frankly_Mr_Shankly
This is the most bizarre and confusing aspect of this Bea tirade. Despite her long winding, emotional bullying of Freddie she has yet to reveal what her problem with him is . We all know she is just trying to manipulate Freddie but he needs to go on the offensive and ask her in clear terms what her problem is.

Bea and Freddie were friends until Fag-gate. When they both 'made shocked faces' at Marcus over it, he turned against Bea who he had inteded to give the cigarettes to as a present. She thought this idea of Marcus giving her a present (which he was not entitled to give to her) was creepy.

Marcus objecte to her response so he started teling Freddie that he needed to distance himself from her because she was a 'negative influence' Freddie is highly suggestible when dealing with someone of high intelligence like Marcus.

Freddie had now become highly sensitized and told Bea that shewas a negtive influenece in the house. She ws stunned that her best friend in the house should say this, and could not see how she was a negative influence. She refelcted this back on Freddie and a spiral commenced between them, with him trying to keep her friendship but maintaining the perspective planted in his mind by Marcus. He as giving very mixed messages to Bea and she reacted as she must.