Why did Terry kill herself?

It seemed that Terry was told about what the plans were. I can only assume that she was told BEFORE she was impregnated, as the baby would have shown up on the autopsy.

Ro overhears Minnie yelling at Roman "If you'd listened to me, we'd be all ready to go instead of starting over from SCRATCH! I TOLD you not to tell her, I don't you she wouldn't be open-minded!"

Whether Terry killed herself or the coven made it look like she did (Ro & Guy overhear the coven chanting, so they could have been 'summoning' a hex then).



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She was a former drug addict with severe psychological problems. The police were not disturbed by her note nor did they extensively question Minnie and Roman.

So we don't know why and never will except to make the logical conclusion that she suffered from severe Depression.

We can't take what Rosemary thought she heard through that wall. She was half asleep and did not/ could not hear clearly. The Castavets could have been talking about anyone. The reason the snippets of conversation are there is to make you jump to conclusions. Just like Rosemary.

I never thought Terry did kill herself to be honest.

Few people understand this scene. Terry was killed by the Castavets or some of the other witches, because when the Castavets told her the plan of impregnating her with the devil....she obviously freaked out. They we're probably afraid she would tell someone, that's why they killed her and made it look like a suicide. If you watch the scene closely, and listen to the dialogue you will get it. Also, the Castavets had Terry cremated, so nobody would find out that (most likely) she had been drugged /poisoned.

At first Terry knew nothing about the Castevetes.

First, she was drugged and impregnated with the anti-Christ.

We know this because just before the scene in which she's discovered dead, we hear chanting from the Castevets' apartment. This chanting is summoning Satan to impregnate Terry. We know this because the changing is verbatim to the chanting in Rosemary's impregnation scene. (I know because I have the soundtrack on my iPhone). Therefore Terry had been impregnated as well.

Then, Roman told her she was carrying the anti-Christ because, A, she's going to realize she's pregnant eventually, might as well get it over with, and B, they might as well get her used to the idea of who she's carrying.

We know Roman told her because we overhear Minnie scolding him over it, "I told you not to tell her in advance, I told you she wouldn't be open-minded!"

Terry didn't want to bring the anti-Christ into the world so she killed herself.

The coven did not kill her by throwing her out of a seven story window. Nor did they "brainwash" her into jumping out a seven story window. That's the kind of ludicrous *beep* that happened in the miniseries; Ira Levin and Roman Polanski are above that. If the coven wanted her dead, all they'd have to do is cast a spell, just like the did to Hutch.

Any other theory of what happened to Terry is seriously overreaching and over complicating things.

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I believe she had already been impregnated when the Castevets informed her about the ritual. Her suicide was likely due to her not being "open-minded" to carrying Satan's child. Remember when Guy and Roe are kissing on the bed, and the ritualistic sounds and music come through the wall? I think that was when Teri was being implanted with Satan's seed. It is ironic that when she met Rosemary in the laundry room, she said (about the Castevets), "at first I thought it was for some sex thing...". As it turns out, that is exactly what their agenda was for her!





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Yeah, I doubt she was pregnant when she died because it would've shown up, or ~something weird would have. I assume they told her to get her ready for the ritual except she freaked. Her being a depressive drug addict was relevant to the Castavets because it made her an easy target to take her off the streets, nobody looking for her (the Castavets are obviously trying to stop the police looking for anyone related to Terry before Rosemary shows up and slightly spoils matters by telling them about her brother), make her care for them and then isolate her into doing the cult's bidding.

It's definitely left up to interpretation whether she committed suicide or the cult killed her because she was going to expose them; the first time I watched it, I assumed that it was suicide, but the cult are shown to be murderous (Hutch), and it seemed a little convenient that Terry's note wouldn't mention anything of the Satanic plot. That's another bonus with her being an ex-drug addict, though, because if she tried to tell anyone about the Castavets, she would have undoubtedly been dismissed as an addled nut. Still, the Castavets "letting" her kill herself seems to leave a lot up to chance, which seems pretty unlikely.

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Once Rosemary moved in, they had found a better womb so Satan pushed Terry. It's my theory anyhow...

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