The final episode of this season of The Gilded Age airs tonight, full of questions. Bertha (Carrie Coon) has been victorious in every battle, will she have a draw or defeat in the War of the Operas? Is Marian really going to get married? Are the Van Rhijns poor?

The synopsis feeds our anxiety: The van Rhijn team questions their employment. Jack’s patent was approved. Peggy wins in local schools and considers leaving the NY Globe. Marian reveals feelings to Dashiell. Bertha and Mrs. Astor perform final war maneuvers at the opera.

And this is what the images confirm: we see Larry (Harry Richardson), probably at the request of Marian (Louisa Jacobson), helping Jack (Ben Ahlers) with his invention for the clock alarm. This will bring the couple even closer together as all the cheering is not enough. Marian also appears having a serious conversation with her future (?) stepdaughter. Could this be the end of the engagement with Dashiell (David Furr)?

Peggy (Denée Benton) appears talking to Agnes (Christine Baranski) at the Van Rhijn house but also has a chat in a park with her boss and romantic interest, T. Thomas Fortune (Sullivan Jones). Any goodbyes for our girl?

Mrs. Fish (Ashlie Atkinson) with a nervous expression in a theater. Would she be in the empty Academy of Music? It’s my bet because it looks like Bertha will win. After all, the photos of her look divine, smiling at the Metropolitan.

As there is no sign of life from Maud Beaton or Oscar, certainly, Van Rhijns’ financial situation – after he invested all of his family’s money in a fake railway company – is one of the secrets of the season finale. The stakes range from Marian sacrificing herself (which we can already rule out) to Maud’s arrest or Ada (Cynthia Nixon) discovering herself as Luke Forte’s (Robert Sean Leonard) heir. By the way, how long were they married? Days or weeks?

Returning to the theories, some bet that it is Dashiell who will bail when he finds out about the immediate impoverishment of his aunts and fiancée. Although he would resolve it, I don’t think it would be like him to do so.

There is a theory that I also find unlikely that George Russell (Morgan Spector) would lend the money to compensate for the loss, conditional on Agnes accepting and helping Bertha. I don’t think the Russells need Agnes anymore, but who knows? Her support for the opening of the new Opera House could have value. We’ll find out in a few hours…

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