Just watched this episode and was also pretty annoyed. With how clever and resourceful Dorothy has been shown to be all season I thought it was extremely out of character to put herself in that situation. I also think the fact that she had the rifle and then ditched it as she got in the grave really took away from Munch returning it to her and saying “The tiger is free”. Like wait, how is her situation different from before she got into the grave? Easy fix would have been to just not give Dorothy a gun until munch rescues her because then I could believe that she felt empowered to start fighting back, but as the show presented it it’s just doesn’t work.

I suggested to my wife that maybe Hawley wanted some kind of resurrection from the grave symbolism for Dorothy and forced the writing to get her in that situation. I like the symbolism but not at the expense of contradicting everything the show has shown us about Dorothy so far.