“No one is ever going to hurt you like that again...Coz I love you, and I'm not going to let anything like that happen to you again," said Connell to Marianne, in the car taking them away from her home, with the moon above following them outside the window along the way, and that's the moment when depressed and diffident Connell gets closest to insecure low self-esteemed Marianne through the whole series in my eyes. No more painful repetition, M., no more repetition compulsion.