Molly's vision with Hale left me amazed. At that point in the story why would she see him? Why not one of her ancestors, as happened to her mother?
Then, I got it. She didn't see Hale. She saw Death.
As she gets worse, Molly has visions. She sees the owl, an omen of death. She sees her mother, who warns her to talk to the man with the hat (and soon after Herbert has a surprise at the door.)
At that point, the line between spirits and humans is blurred. And then she sees Hale, the one primarily responsible for her and her family's misery. It's the most human version of him we've seen (the fact that it's a hallucination says a lot about him.)
Molly tries to touch him because she doesn't know if he's real or not. Hale doesn't let himself be touched. Because it's not Molly's time yet. Death came to visit Molly looking like the man responsible for her pain with a message ''Whoever did this to you will pay.''
It's a powerful vision, and for once, Hale is sincere. Because it's not him with her.
(Dunno if I'm reading too much into this scene, and if it was just a hallucination, but up until that point Molly's hallucinations made sense to the plot. Even when she tells Herbert you'll be next. And it's true. But not in the sense that Hale would kill him. In the sense, Hale would use him as a scapegoat to save himself. KoTFM is a brilliant movie.)
Does king Stephen Fry from the RWRB movie seem like he was once a young gay prince who had to cast aside his lover to marry a women for the sake of the crown as future king. That’s now he has grown bitter, believing that this is the way it had to be because just fantasizing the idea that another reality was possible is too painful. So while he can empathize with his grandson, he must uphold the way things are, for Henry’s sake. “Because the nation will not accept a prince who is… homosexual,” except they do now. And he must make bittersweet peace with the fact that his grandson is able to do what he was not ooooooor was that just me