Keep Your Friends Close

Brooke hesitates outside Abby’s bedroom door. Abby has abruptly returned after a month away. She casually greeted Brooke, who, feeling disheveled, used Julian spitting up as an excuse to run upstairs and clean up before facing her.

When she returned, Abby made tea, and they chatted. Abby then gently asked about the night Kiersten died. Brooke described pulling Kiersten from the pool while untangling her from a panicked Natasha. Abby offered support, and Brooke interpreted the moment as a tentative restart for their marriage. However, she does not want to push Abby for more too soon.

At a park, Jade meets Whitney with their children. Whitney reports that police are aware of the escort business, which it emerges Jade has been helping to run for the last six months. Panicked, Jade flashes back to a low point when Whitney found her sobbing in a parking lot of a thrift store after a credit card was declined. In that moment, Jade admitted that her family was broke and that Ryan could not hold a job. Whitney kept this a secret, cementing Jade’s faith in her.

Back in the present, Whitney says that she had to give the police the business files, which include Jade’s name.