Glorious Rivals

Hours into her confinement, Gigi Grayson rouses the unconscious Slate and confronts Eve, who admits she fed the Watcher information about Lyra as bait. Enraged, Gigi tackles Eve. They free Slate, who denies any romantic past with Eve. A wall opens, and Zella enters. Slate pins her until she identifies the Watcher as her sister, Calla Thorp. Zella returns Slate’s knife and trades help for information, arming Gigi and Eve with the knowledge they can refuse Calla’s demands.

Lyra seeks shelter from the rain in the boathouse to work the LIE clue alone. She cycles through anagrams while memories of Grayson reaffirm their connection. Recalling his advice about perspective, she climbs a ladder and looks down. From above, she sees the dock configuration forms the letters L-I-E. The answer is not in wordplay but in the physical layout.

On the ocean’s shore, Grayson Hawthorne wrestles with regret over Lyra, admitting that he should have told her the truth. He resists an old impulse to numb himself in icy water, reflects on love and loss, and accepts his pain. He resolves not to surrender, promising himself that he will love Lyra differently and better.

Rohan reaches the boathouse and finds Savannah waiting. She confronts him for ending their alliance and reveals that she knows he overheard her talk with Brady Daniels. She hands over incriminating photographs of Calla Thorp, giving him leverage. Savannah challenges Rohan, naming his fear of her, then steps off the slick dock into the storm-lashed water. When she doesn’t surface, he dives in.

Under the docks, panic hits Rohan until Savannah yanks him into an air pocket. He spots a second ledger bolted to the dock’s underside and adds his signature after Lyra’s and Savannah’s. Above the water, a new clue appears: three lines of an Emily Dickinson poem in glowing script. Savannah tells Rohan she will give him the prize money if she wins and will be the one to end their alliance. She kisses him briefly and slips back underwater.

In the hidden corridor, Zella offers Slate freedom in exchange for clarity on what Eve told Calla. Gigi answers: Eve linked Lyra to omega, lilies, and Alice Hawthorne. Zella returns Slate’s knife, reminds them they can refuse Calla’s demands, opens a secret door, and directs Slate to take Gigi to a bar where someone connected to the Hawthornes will find her.

Following the Dickinson clue, Lyra searches the ruins of Hawthorne House. Movement triggers lights in the foundation, revealing a path. Grayson arrives and admits that he lied to protect his family, revealing that Jameson has known about Alice Hawthorne’s survival for over a year and faced threats from her against him and the family. Grayson commits to Lyra and to honesty. Lightning illuminates hundreds of calla lilies floating below the cliffs, and Lyra knows someone is watching.

On the ruined patio, Grayson prepares to dive for the lilies, but Lyra tackles him. She asserts her right to protect him, just as he does for his family. They acknowledge that they both lie for family and agree to new terms of honesty and mutual protection. Their watches buzz: A player has reached the final puzzle. Lyra re-reads the Dickinson clue and pivots toward the library.

In the library, Rohan pulls a platinum gear and a quill charm from a hollowed-out Dickinson volume, signs the ledger, and seats the gear into a mechanism that opens a door. In the next chamber, he sees that Savannah has already paid a toll with her platinum chain. He pays with the five charms he has collected. A speaker plays a hint about dice, and Rohan realizes the last step requires both his and Savannah’s sets. Savannah arrives. Hearing the others, Rohan presses his dice into her hand. She slots both sets into a cylinder, and a screen declares Savannah the winner.

Nearing the designated bar, Eve and Slate prepare to leave Gigi. Slate reassures her that she can handle what comes next. After a brief, emotional goodbye, Gigi heads on alone, set on finding her sister and warning the Hawthornes about Calla.

In the final chamber, the players’ watches instruct them to report to the helipad. A helicopter lands, and security men disembark, insisting they expect five players. Grayson concludes Brady Daniels is missing. A guard cites orders from Oren to secure all players because Avery Grambs has also gone missing. Grayson grabs the man and demands details.

Grayson and Lyra sprint to Alisa Ortega’s office on the Hawthorne yacht and find her on a call with Gigi, who relays what she learned about Calla and Zella. Jameson ends the call and blames Grayson and Lyra for Avery’s disappearance. He punches Grayson. Lyra moves to shield him, and Alisa steps in, threatening Jameson. Alisa reports that Avery left a note telling them not to look for her.

On deck, Rohan calculates that Savannah’s prize money could disappear if chaos derails the payout. Savannah presses him about giving her the dice; he answers that he had no choice. She toys with him, tells him her plan is her business, leans in close, and shoves him back before walking away.

Jameson offers Rohan all his money to help find Avery. Rohan sets his price at £10 million. Jameson agrees and targets Zella as a source, announcing a trip to Prague. Rohan agrees while privately planning his own move against Zella.

Knox Landry arrives at the bar to pick up Gigi and delivers her to Alisa on the yacht. Alisa immediately hires Knox to track down Brady Daniels, flagging Calla or Zella as possible culprits. Knox accepts.

Gigi finds Savannah on deck. After an initial flinch, Savannah accepts a hug, and the twins admit that they hurt each other. Gigi recounts everything: her kidnapping, Slate, Eve’s role, Calla’s identity as the Watcher, and Zella’s intervention. Rohan approaches and offers Gigi a job as his accomplice, explaining he needs someone who can go places he cannot.

Hours later, Lyra and Grayson meet Odette Morales in a hotel. Odette, who was Tobias Hawthorne’s lawyer, outlines a secret, all-female triumvirate: the Lily (the Watcher in red), the Omega (the Hand in black), and the Monoceros (the Judge in white). Lyra connects Calla to the Lily and Alice Hawthorne to the Omega. Odette confirms that a single calla lily stopped her investigation years ago and says the hundreds of lilies in the water signal a larger plan in motion.

Avery wakes in a stark white room with no door or window. She thinks of Jameson, then of Alice, and studies her prison. Etched, intersecting lines cover every surface. She realizes the room itself is a complex maze trapping her inside.