This film picks up a few months after Curse of Chucky. Nica is imprisoned in a psych facility having been found guilty of the murders in the previous film.
In the second scene, Nica is being given electroshock therapy. When her whole body jolts, one of the nurses says, “I thought you said she was paralyzed.” The other nurse confirmed she is and pricked the bottom of her foot with a needle saying, “From the waist down, she’s a pin cushion.” This is followed by a conversation showing she’s convinced she was guilty, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and is being moved to a lower security prison with more privacy as a reward for “accepting” her guilt.
At the new prison, she’s given control of her wheelchair again. However, it’s a hospital wheelchair and has handles. The nurse tells her that the bathroom is “handicapped friendly.” She thanks him for being kind, and he follows this by asking if she was in an accident. She glares at him and says, “I was born like this.” He responds, “My husband has MS. I don’t let it keep him from living his life.” He leaves her gum on the way out.
The following scene is someone fucking her in her wheelchair.
After this, she’s in group therapy where another patient is aggressively asking why she killed people. She is convinced it’s because she was “pathologically jealous” of her sister for being able bodied. This movie has completely and utterly dropped the anti-ableist approach of the first. Furthermore, the entire premise is based on an extremely obvious cognitive dissonance that no one addresses: the people who think she’s guilty also think she’s physically incapable of doing anything… which means she’d be incapable of murdering her family. It’s a very odd mix of not calling out bigotry but being equally silent when she’s treated as a complete equal.
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