His & Hers is Netflix’s latest mystery thriller series, premiering on January 8. The story follows Anna, a television news anchor who has withdrawn into a quieter life in Atlanta after a devastating personal loss.
When a woman is found murdered in the small Georgia town where Anna grew up, the case pulls her back into a past she has spent years avoiding.
As Anna begins asking questions and revisiting old connections, the investigation places her on a collision course with Jack Harper, a local detective assigned to the case and her estranged husband. What begins as a single homicide quickly unravels into something more personal, exposing shared history, buried secrets, and long-standing tensions that refuse to stay hidden.
The series is an adaptation of His & Hers, written by Alice Feeney and published in 2020, reworking the novel’s dual perspectives into a six-episode screen narrative.
Below is a full His & Hers recap, breaking down each episode in order and explaining how the story builds toward its final reveal, including the ending.
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Episode 1
The series opens in the rain, with a woman’s body discovered in the woods, positioned unnervingly atop her car. The image is brief but stark, setting the timeline in motion before the episode shifts elsewhere. That same storm frames the introduction of Anna, who rushes into her apartment, visibly shaken. Inside, the space is in disarray. She cleans herself and the apartment with urgency, discarding items and trying to erase whatever happened before she arrived home. Nothing is explained yet, but the unease is clear.
The focus then moves to Jack, who wakes in his bed after being roused by a young girl named Meg. Their interaction suggests a close family bond, though the exact nature of the relationship is not immediately spelled out. Downstairs, another woman, Zoe, is present, and her familiarity with both Jack and Meg points to a shared domestic arrangement that feels established but unexplained. Jack prepares for work and heads out.
At the police station, Jack reconnects with his partner, Detective Priya Patel. He learns that a body has been found in the woods near Dahlonega. The person who discovered it has chosen to remain anonymous. When Jack and Priya arrive on site, it becomes clear this is the same victim shown at the start of the episode. The woman has been stabbed multiple times, and a message has been carved into her fingernails. The words “two-faced” immediately shift the case from a possible random act to something personal. Jack instructs the officers not to notify the victim’s husband yet and insists that any recovered phone be brought directly to him.
At the same time, Anna returns to work at a television news station in Atlanta. She has been away for a year, and her former anchor position has been filled by Lexy Jones. Anna pushes to reclaim her role, pressing her boss, Jim, for an opportunity. While he initially resists, she convinces him to let her report in the field on the Dahlonega murder. Assigned as her cameraman is Richard Jones, Lexy’s husband, a choice that immediately adds tension given Anna’s strained history with Lexy.
Back at the crime scene, reporters gather as police attempt to manage the press. Jack shares only minimal details, including the victim’s age range and race, before moving on. As he turns away, Anna calls out to him, asking whether he knew the victim. The moment unsettles him. Priya notices the reaction, but Jack brushes it off, presenting Anna as just another reporter. He does not acknowledge their past.
Later, Jack watches Anna and Richard eat together from his car, observing them without intervening. A phone call from his boss confirms the victim’s identity as Rachel Hopkins and identifies her husband as Clyde. Jack then follows Anna to her hotel, intending to confront her. Before he can, he hears her having sex with Richard inside the room. He knocks once, then leaves. Anna opens the door just in time to see him walking away. Before leaving the hotel herself, she tells Richard that Jack is her husband.
Jack calls Priya and asks her to run a background check on Richard. The request feels professionally justified but is clearly tangled with personal resentment.
Anna returns to her childhood home, where she finds her mother, Alice, asleep in a chair. Their reunion is warm but brief. Jack soon arrives as well, comfortable enough to clean up around the house, which contrasts sharply with Anna’s hostility toward him. Alice welcomes Jack easily, hinting that his presence there has been consistent even in Anna’s absence.
Jack tells Anna the victim’s name and asks her to keep it off the record. She agrees. He also suggests that Anna once knew Rachel, a claim Anna denies. A confusing moment follows when Alice speaks as though Jack had arrived earlier than he actually did. Jack explains privately that Alice has shown signs of cognitive decline, including a recent incident where she was found wandering naked. He suspects Alzheimer’s disease, though Alice refuses medical help.
Their conversation turns to the year Anna disappeared. Jack reveals that he searched for her extensively and lost his detective position in Atlanta during that time, which led him back to Dahlonega. The discussion ends unresolved, with Anna pulling away emotionally and physically.
At the morgue, Jack and Priya learn more about Rachel’s death. The medical examiner suggests that the victim likely knew her killer. Evidence also indicates sexual contact shortly before the murder. Both detectives are asked to submit DNA samples as a precaution due to their presence at the crime scene. Jack postpones his, saying he needs to notify the victim’s husband first.
Back at the house, Anna goes through her old belongings and finds a box containing videotapes and a camcorder. One tape shows footage from her sixteenth birthday, featuring a younger version of herself alongside Rachel, Zoe, and other girls. After watching briefly, Anna shuts it off and finds an old friendship bracelet. In a parallel moment at the morgue, the medical examiner removes that same bracelet from inside Rachel’s mouth.
Anna receives confirmation from Jim that she will be going live on air that evening. Meanwhile, Jack and Priya attempt to reach Clyde at his home but receive no answer and decide to return the next day.
That night, Jack arrives home to find Zoe watching the news. It is revealed that Zoe is his sister. Anna appears on screen, reporting that Rachel Hopkins is the murder victim. Jack realizes she has broken her promise and shared information he explicitly asked her to withhold.
The episode ends with a flashback to the night of Rachel’s death. Jack and Rachel are shown together in his truck, unaware that Anna is nearby, watching them from outside. The moment reframes the case entirely, placing Jack directly inside the story he is supposed to investigate.
Episode 2
The second episode begins with Jack driving aggressively through the rain, still reeling from Anna’s decision to identify Rachel publicly on the news. His anger contrasts with Anna’s quiet isolation back at her hotel, where she scrolls through old social media profiles tied to her teenage years. The names confirm what the home video hinted at earlier: Anna, Rachel, and Zoe were once part of a tight-knit group, along with two other girls. One of them is now identified as Helen Wang.
Jack soon appears at Anna’s hotel room. Their exchange is sharp and hostile. He warns her to stay away from the investigation and makes it clear that she has crossed a line. The confrontation ends abruptly, leaving nothing resolved. At the morgue, Jack and Priya receive more information from the medical examiner, who explains that the friendship bracelet recovered from Rachel’s mouth is being treated as potential evidence. When asked again for a DNA sample, Jack deflects and says he will return later.
The investigation moves to Rachel’s husband, Clyde Duffie. Jack and Priya inform him of Rachel’s death, and the conversation quickly reveals the nature of their marriage. Clyde explains that their relationship was open, with specific boundaries Rachel followed. He speaks candidly about her sexual habits and implies that her recklessness may have put her in danger. He insists he was home the night she died and backs up his claim with security footage showing Rachel leaving the house while he takes their dog out.
Priya mentions that Rachel’s phone is being traced. Clyde casually admits he has been calling it, which alarms Jack. He warns Clyde to stop, explaining that repeated calls could drain the battery and cut off their ability to track it. Clyde’s knowledge of the number of stab wounds raises suspicion, and he reveals that Anna had already visited him earlier that morning. According to Clyde, Anna asked whether Rachel had mentioned meeting anyone, and he suggested Helen Wang as someone Rachel trusted.
Anna is already on her way to St. Hilary’s, speaking with Jim as he and Lexy review her earlier broadcast back in Atlanta. Lexy notices the intimacy between Anna and Richard once his microphone is removed, confirming her suspicions. Back at Clyde’s house, Jack instructs Priya to document all exterior security cameras. Though she questions his instincts, she follows through. Jack then calls St. Hilary’s, attempting to reach Helen.
Inside the house, Clyde is already speaking to Helen by phone. Their conversation reveals panic and mutual fear. Whatever they were involved in, they believe it is tied to Rachel’s phone. Clyde reassures Helen that once the battery dies, the problem will disappear. He insists she answer when he calls later, then immediately dials Rachel’s number again.
Jack, sitting in his truck outside, hears a phone ringing that does not belong to him. He locates Rachel’s phone nearby. When Priya approaches, he conceals it without explanation. At St. Hilary’s, Anna arrives, and a flashback reveals how the group first formed. Rachel, Zoe, and Helen approach Anna and her mother on Anna’s first day. Rachel already knows Alice from her work as a maid and agrees to look after Anna, though her friendliness feels performative even then.
In the present, Anna meets Helen in her office. Their conversation is tense and evasive. Anna presses for information about who Rachel was meeting, claiming to have an anonymous source. Helen immediately sees through the lie. When Anna prepares to leave, Helen references a long-buried secret and makes a cruel remark about a child who died years earlier, visibly rattling Anna. As Anna exits, she overhears Helen learning that Jack has been trying to contact her.
Back at the station, Jack directs Priya to pursue a court order for Clyde’s phone records and determine whether he continued calling Rachel’s phone after being warned. Once alone, Jack quietly cancels the phone trace order he had previously requested. He tries to access Rachel’s phone but fails, then returns home and manipulates his niece Meg into giving a DNA swab. He knows submitting his own DNA would expose his affair with Rachel.
Anna, meanwhile, sits outside her former home, triggering a flashback to when she and Jack once planned a future there. In that moment, she reveals she is pregnant. The memory cuts back to the present as Priya confirms that Clyde did continue calling Rachel’s phone.
At home, Anna finally confronts Alice about her health. Alice admits she tried to reach out during Anna’s disappearance but never heard back. Anna explains that she lost her daughter and needed to grieve alone. She urges Alice to see a doctor, but Alice resists. A call from Jim interrupts them. Lexy has not shown up for the evening broadcast, and Anna is asked to anchor at the last minute. She agrees and leaves for Atlanta.
At the morgue, Jack submits Meg’s DNA sample, then invents a story about a lost wedding ring to gain access to the area. While a worker steps away, Jack unlocks Rachel’s phone using her face. He deletes their text thread and reviews messages between Rachel and Helen, discovering they had been blackmailing Clyde. He also learns that Helen knew about his affair.
Priya later receives crime scene photos showing boot prints near the body. At the same time, Zoe asks Meg to bring Jack’s boots upstairs. The tread matches the prints exactly. The episode ends with Helen alone in her office late at night, calling the police station.
Episode 3
The third episode opens in Atlanta, where Anna arrives at the news station expecting to anchor the evening broadcast after being called in as a last-minute replacement. She prepares to go on air, only for Lexy to appear moments before airtime, reclaiming her position and leaving Anna sidelined once again. The interruption triggers a brief flashback to Anna’s teenage years at St. Hilary’s. During lunch, Anna, Rachel, Helen, and Zoe sit together when Rachel suggests they invite another student to join them. The girl, Catherine Kelly, is clearly an outsider. What initially appears to be an act of inclusion turns cruel when Rachel offers Catherine a drink and then publicly reveals she contaminated it. Laughter erupts around the cafeteria as Catherine flees in humiliation, exposing the power dynamics within the group.
Back in the present, Jack is at home scrolling through the contents of Rachel’s phone. Among the files, he finds explicit videos involving Rachel, Helen, and Clyde, confirming that these recordings were likely used as leverage against Clyde. The discovery deepens Jack’s awareness of how entangled the victim’s private life had become with the investigation. He is interrupted by Meg and eventually joins Zoe for dinner, where tension quickly escalates. Jack admits to Zoe that he had an affair with Rachel and that they were together the night she was killed. He insists he did not murder her. Zoe responds by revealing that she knows he substituted Meg’s DNA for his own at the morgue, making it clear she understands how far he has gone to protect himself.
At the morgue, Priya submits her DNA sample and is casually asked whether Jack ever recovered a wedding ring he claimed to have lost. The comment catches her off guard, given what she knows about Jack’s separation from Anna. She does not confront the issue directly, but the doubt lingers.
Later, Jack drives toward Helen’s house while speaking with Priya. He reiterates his belief that Clyde remains the primary suspect, while also suggesting Helen may be more involved than she appears. When Priya mentions the boot print cast from the crime scene, Jack quickly redirects the conversation, aware that the evidence could implicate him. He similarly deflects when Priya references the morgue worker’s comment about the missing ring, then orders her to surveil Clyde instead.
Helen is not home, and a neighbor informs Jack she is still at St. Hilary’s. He attempts to gain access to the school but is unsuccessful and eventually leaves. Priya, meanwhile, follows Clyde as instructed. Clyde stops on a deserted street, disposes of a bag in a dumpster, and drives away. Priya retrieves the bag and finds bondage equipment inside. She immediately calls Jack with the update.
After running errands, Jack returns alone to the woods where Rachel was killed. He scans the ground with a flashlight, searching for overlooked details, until a passing car startles him. Following the sound, he wanders into a nearby cemetery, where a groundskeeper confronts him at gunpoint before recognizing him. The groundskeeper mentions security cameras in the area and allows Jack to view footage from the night of the murder. What Jack sees is not Rachel, but Anna, standing at a gravestone. The marker belongs to their daughter, Charlotte. Jack realizes Anna must have been there the same night he was with Rachel and likely witnessed the affair.
Elsewhere, Anna drives back to her hotel through heavy rain when a memory overtakes her. In the flashback, she and Jack struggle to calm their crying infant daughter as they prepare for a night out. Anna wants to stay home, but Jack convinces her that Charlotte will settle once they leave her with Alice. The memory fades as Anna arrives at the hotel. Richard appears shortly afterward with wine, offering comfort after a difficult day.
Later that night, Jack receives a call informing him that Alice has been found wandering the streets again. He brings her home, and they talk quietly about her condition before the conversation turns to Anna. Alice urges Jack not to give up on his marriage and tells him that if he still loves Anna, he needs to fight for her. Taking the advice to heart, Jack texts Anna, asking to talk, then falls asleep in his chair.
The next morning, Jack is jolted awake by a call from Priya. Another body has been found. He rushes to St. Hilary’s, where he enters the building and finds Helen dead, her body laid out with her face obscured by her hair and blood pooled beneath her head. Jack asks who discovered the body. The episode ends when Anna steps forward and reveals.
Episode 4
The fourth episode opens with Anna reporting on Helen’s death, placing herself once again at the center of the story. As police examine the crime scene at St. Hilary’s, Jack presses Priya for details about Anna’s account of how she found the body. Priya explains that Anna claimed Helen left a message at her hotel asking to meet. According to Anna, she arrived at the school, discovered Helen’s body, contacted Richard, and then called the police. Jack instructs Priya to verify whether Helen actually left a message at the hotel.
Jack briefly confronts Anna outside the school. The exchange is restrained but tense, ending with Jack telling her she cannot leave yet because the investigation is ongoing. Soon after, Priya reports back with new information. Helen’s call to the hotel came in after midnight, but Anna did not receive the message until early morning. The timeline raises questions, though Priya still cannot determine who is responsible. What she does know is that Rachel’s murder and Helen’s killing share striking similarities. Both victims were stabbed, and both had friendship bracelets placed in their mouths.
Despite the parallels, Jack remains convinced that Clyde is involved, either directly or through a hired agent. He asks Priya to review Clyde’s recent phone records and bank activity. Priya counters with findings from a background check on Richard, revealing that he was charged with assault several years earlier after seriously injuring a woman. The information complicates Jack’s assumptions, though his focus remains fixed elsewhere.
When Jack goes outside to find Anna, she has already left. Her destination becomes clear when she arrives at the mayor’s office. With fear spreading through Dahlonega after two murders, Anna proposes a televised town hall meeting to address the community. The mayor initially resists, but Anna pushes hard, pointing out the political consequences of inaction. Her insistence suggests a personal motive beyond public service.
Back at the morgue, Jack and Priya examine Helen’s body more closely. The medical examiner details the brutality of the killing. Helen’s major neck veins were severed, her eyes were stapled shut, and a word was written across her forehead in black ink. The message reads “Liar.” The murder is clearly deliberate and symbolic. As they leave, Jack and Priya learn that Helen was already dead at the time the call was placed to Anna’s hotel. That means the message could not have come from Helen at all. Someone else made the call, and identifying its origin becomes a priority.
After a second friendship bracelet is recovered from Helen’s mouth, Jack searches through Zoe’s belongings, knowing she once shared a close bond with Helen. He finds a similar bracelet, only to be caught in the act by Zoe. Though upset by his intrusion, Zoe explains that Anna made matching bracelets for the group when they were teenagers. Their conversation is cut short when Jack receives a call from the sheriff, instructing him to attend the town hall meeting that evening.
Meanwhile, Anna checks her voicemail at the hotel and hears a message from the police regarding Alice, who was found wandering again the night before. Alarmed, Anna goes to her mother’s house, determined to finally address Alice’s condition. Before their conversation unfolds, a flashback interrupts. On the night of Anna’s sixteenth birthday, she and Rachel are in her bedroom when Zoe and Helen arrive with alcohol, followed by Catherine. Rachel claims she apologized for the earlier humiliation and smoothed things over. The moment shifts when Rachel takes photos, first of Catherine, then of Anna, while she is partially undressed. The memory lingers uncomfortably before cutting back to the present.
Anna and Alice finally speak honestly. Alice opens up about her struggles, and Anna insists it is time to seek medical help.
At the police station, Priya contacts the agency handling the phone trace for the call to Anna’s hotel. She also follows up on Rachel’s phone records and is stunned to learn that Jack personally canceled the request. The discovery deepens her unease about her partner’s actions.
The town hall meeting begins with restraint but quickly unravels. Residents demand answers, and Jack fails to regain control of the room. Voices rise, tempers flare, and the situation spirals out of control. Jack exits the stage, and Anna steps in to take over. Rather than calming the crowd, the chaos intensifies. Anna watches it unfold with a quiet satisfaction. In Atlanta, Jim observes the live broadcast with approval, recognizing the spectacle for what it is. Lexy, meanwhile, decides to head to Dahlonega herself, intent on reclaiming ground Anna has taken from her.
Lexy and Richard visit Clyde for an on-camera interview. Clyde announces a substantial reward for information about Rachel’s death, though his delivery feels calculated. Afterward, Lexy and Richard share an intimate moment outside his house before leaving, their actions driven as much by spite as ambition.
Elsewhere, Priya receives troubling news from the morgue. Jack’s DNA sample shows signs of contamination, containing material from more than one person. Confused, she later flips through an old St. Hilary’s yearbook and freezes when she spots a photo of Anna, Rachel, Zoe, and Helen seated together in the cafeteria, each wearing the same friendship bracelet. She photographs the image, the pieces beginning to align.
After the town hall, Anna responds to Jack’s earlier message and agrees to meet. They talk by a waterfall, away from the town and its noise. The conversation turns raw and honest. They speak about losing their daughter, the distance that followed, and Jack’s affair with Rachel. Anna explains why she disappeared for a year, describing how grief overwhelmed her while Jack seemed determined to move forward. She needed time alone to survive it.
Jack listens, remorseful. He comforts her, and the moment draws them close again. They kiss, and the episode ends with them together in the back of Jack’s truck, their unresolved history pulling them back into each other’s orbit.
Episode 5
The fifth episode resumes immediately after Jack and Anna part ways following their encounter in his truck. Anna leaves without much explanation, and by morning, Jack is left second-guessing both the night before and whether he should reach out to her at all. He wants reconciliation but has no sense of where Anna stands.
At the police station, tension is high. Officers are overwhelmed by the number of tips pouring in from residents desperate for answers. Jack is called into a meeting with his superiors, who make it clear that public unrest is growing and the department needs an arrest. Jack maintains that Clyde is responsible for both murders, but Priya interrupts with new findings that shift the conversation.
Priya reveals that Anna, Rachel, Helen, and Zoe were childhood friends who attended St. Hilary’s together. Each of them once wore matching friendship bracelets, identical to the ones found in Rachel’s and Helen’s mouths. Priya suggests that unresolved resentment within the group may have escalated into violence. With only two members of the group still alive, she raises the possibility that Anna could be involved. Jack reacts with disbelief and anger, but the sheriff authorizes Priya to interview Anna anyway.
Jack heads to Clyde’s house, convinced this is his last chance to force a confession. He confronts Clyde aggressively, referencing the explicit material found on Rachel’s phone and accusing him of killing Rachel and Helen to prevent exposure. Jack brings up messages between Rachel and Helen discussing blackmail and implies Clyde was the target. Clyde calmly counters that the blackmail was aimed at someone else whose name also begins with the letter “C.” He then makes it clear that he knows Jack was sleeping with Rachel and warns him to prepare for legal trouble.
Back at the station, Jack follows up on a tip from a local man who claims he once drove Rachel to an apartment complex in Atlanta. According to him, she returned to the car visibly injured, as though she had been slapped. Jack contacts the apartment complex to request a list of recent tenants, hoping to identify who Rachel may have confronted.
Meanwhile, Priya visits Alice’s house to speak with Anna. While waiting, she notices Alice’s increasing confusion but says nothing. The interview itself yields no clear evidence against Anna, and Priya leaves without grounds to detain her.
Jack receives the tenant list shortly after Zoe enters his office, visibly frightened and worried she may be next. She alludes to something disturbing that happened on Anna’s sixteenth birthday but is interrupted before she can explain further. The tenant records confirm that Richard and Lexy once lived at the Atlanta apartment complex. Jack immediately tracks Richard down at a local bar and questions him about Rachel. Richard denies being in the country at the time and explains that his past assault charge stemmed from a confrontation with someone stalking Lexy.
The exchange escalates when Richard makes a pointed remark about Anna. Jack loses control, and a fight breaks out before bystanders intervene. Anna later pleads with Richard not to press charges, but the damage is done. The sheriff removes Jack from the case.
Priya continues digging and learns from Zoe that the original friend group included a fifth girl named Catherine. Zoe shows her a yearbook photo confirming her place in the group. That night, Zoe returns home alone and draws a bath. As she relaxes, an unseen intruder enters the house. The episode cuts away just as the figure reaches the bathroom.
Elsewhere, Priya researches Catherine online and discovers she had a sister who died. During a phone call, she also learns that Jack had been in contact with Rachel, deepening her suspicion of him.
At Anna’s hotel, she and Richard are told their reservations have been canceled by someone from the news station. With nowhere else to stay, Richard suggests his in-laws’ lake house. Anna hesitates but agrees. On the drive, a flashback revisits Anna’s sixteenth birthday. Rachel leads the group into the woods under the guise of celebration, but older boys arrive with alcohol. Rachel has secretly arranged the meeting for money. The memory turns harrowing as Catherine is targeted, crying out for help.
Back in the present, Jack returns home and notices water dripping through the ceiling. He rushes upstairs and finds Zoe dead in the bathtub. The discovery is intercut with Anna and Richard arriving at the lake house, where Lexy is already waiting. Richard claims she wants to reconcile. While exploring the house, Anna notices photographs lining the walls. Some show Catherine as a child. Others are recent.
The realization hits her suddenly. Lexy is Catherine. The episode ends as the truth about her identity finally comes into focus.
Episode 6
The final episode opens with a flashback to Catherine’s childhood, long before she reinvented herself as Lexy. She and her sister Andrea are preparing for a family boat trip, lingering in the kitchen of the lake house while their parents head outside. Andrea mocks Catherine’s weight and reminds her to bring her inhaler. Catherine, humiliated and angry, empties the inhaler before joining the others. Out on the water, Andrea suffers a severe asthma attack and dies before help can arrive. The memory ends abruptly, framing a loss that shaped everything that followed.
Back in the present, Anna is alone at the lake house, reeling from the realization that Lexy is Catherine. She calls Jack in a panic, drops a location pin, and urges him to come immediately. Jack answers in pieces, barely able to speak as he tells her that Zoe has been murdered. Anna responds with certainty, saying Lexy is responsible and that Richard is involved. Before the call can continue, Richard appears and snatches Anna’s phone away.
Jack tries to leave, but Priya confronts him outside, gun drawn. With everything she has uncovered about his role in the case, she demands answers. Jack, desperate and unraveling, manages to strike her and escape, racing toward the lake house.
Inside, the situation escalates quickly. Anna and Richard clash, and when he bolts, she fires at him, emptying her weapon. He charges back at her, but she manages to trap him in a room. Almost immediately, Lexy attacks Anna with a heavy object, and the two struggle violently.
Police arrive at Jack’s house and help Priya, who contacts the sheriff as she heads to the lake. During the drive, the truth finally comes into focus. Clyde has revealed that Rachel and Helen were blackmailing Lexy over her sister’s death. Rachel’s bruised face, the apartment incident, and the mysterious “C” all point back to Catherine.
At the lake house, Lexy gains control of Anna’s gun and aims it at her, unaware that it is empty. As she pulls the trigger, Jack bursts inside to shield Anna. The gun clicks uselessly. A moment later, a shot rings out from outside the house. Lexy is struck and killed instantly. Priya fired the fatal shot.
The police secure the scene as Anna and Jack speak quietly outside. Anna finally tells him the full truth about her sixteenth birthday and the assault she endured. She explains why she buried it, why she never told him, and how pretending it never happened felt like the only way to survive. Jack listens and holds her, their shared grief settling into something steadier. Richard is taken into custody.
Inside the lake house, Priya and the sheriff go through Lexy’s belongings. The sheriff recalls a disturbing memory from Andrea’s funeral, describing Lexy’s sudden emotional detachment. Evidence mounts, including nail clippings and a hidden knife, seemingly confirming Lexy as the killer.
Time jumps forward one year.
Anna and Jack are together, expecting a child, and living in Atlanta with Meg. Anna has returned to her job as a news anchor. On a visit to Dahlonega, they stop at Charlotte’s grave before heading to Alice’s house.
There, Anna finds a letter addressed to her. As she reads, the final truth is revealed. Alice was the killer.
Through flashbacks, Alice explains what happened after Charlotte’s death and Anna’s disappearance. Isolated and grieving, she revisited old tapes and memories, waiting for her daughter to come home. One night, she saw Rachel and Jack together in the woods but said nothing. Later, she watched the tape of Anna’s sixteenth birthday in full and realized that Anna had been assaulted as well.
That knowledge broke her. Alice decided to take revenge on those who had harmed her daughter. Rachel was killed on the anniversary of Charlotte’s death. Alice knew Anna was nearby that night and staged her own erratic behavior afterward to deflect suspicion. The same access that once made her invisible allowed her to kill Helen and Zoe. Lexy was never meant to die. Alice intended to frame her by planting evidence and leaving the weapon behind, a plan disrupted by Priya’s intervention.
In the letter, Alice asks Anna to love her future child fiercely and to accept that the world is dangerous and unpredictable. When Anna looks up, Alice stands outside with Jack and Meg. They exchange a quiet, knowing look.
The series ends not with justice, but with understanding, as the truth settles into place and the screen fades to black.
