It creeped me the hell out the first time I watched. Just rewatched it and felt a little less creeped out, probably because I knew it was coming. But it still creeped my out a little the 2nd time around too. The fact that she was nude was either a brilliant or a deeply disturbing touch by the showrunners, depending on how you look at it. It basically comes across as her being reduced to sex object/victim for all the miners for all eternity. She didn't naked, nor was she buried naked, so it was impossible not to make the leap there. It was like the most tragic possible ending to what seemed to be a rather tragic life.
Almost as creepy was the fact that Samson seemed sad but unsurprised at seeing her in the window. And it made his killing of the bartender even more chilling. He knew exactly what fate he was condemning the bartender to.
(It was basically a two parter story, so the scene wasn't in "Babylon," incidentally, but the following episode, "Pick a Number.")
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