Jodie confirms Erin is dead and realizes she will be blamed. To protect herself, she meticulously wipes her fingerprints from every surface she touched, including Erin’s phone and laptop. She places a tea towel used for cleaning into a trash bag and puts it in Roy’s jacket pocket. Upon returning home, Jodie hears a noise and discovers the back door ajar and a scuff mark on the floor, suggesting an intruder. She checks Marie’s room to rule out her presence but finds it locked and dark. Concluding she is alone, Jodie goes to her bedroom.

After a nightmare about Erin, Jodie wakes late to find Roy still passed out in his office from the Ambien she gave him. When she wakes him, he panics, realizing he missed his rendezvous with Veronica. 

While preparing breakfast, Jodie is horrified to discover her wedding ring is missing. She frantically searches her bedroom and bathroom without success, consumed by the fear that the police will find the ring at the crime scene and connect it to her. To create a plausible reason for not wearing it, she deliberately places her hand on a hot stove burner, screaming in pain.

Jodie’s scream brings Roy and Marie running. Roy soon leaves for work, but Marie offers to treat the burn and does so surprisingly tenderly. She admits she was a nurse but was fired from her job for stealing fentanyl. She explains that Roy helped her through an addiction program to avoid a prison sentence and then hired her. Jodie questions Marie about the week before Deborah’s death. Marie confirms Roy gave her the week off but called her back the day Deborah died. That was when she discovered Deborah’s body. Marie insists Roy loved his first wife.

Still panicked about the lost ring, Jodie remembers the tea towel from Erin’s house is in Roy’s jacket. She retrieves it, but the ring isn’t there. She throws the towel and her blood-stained jeans into the outside trash. 

Jodie’s attention is drawn by screams from Meredith’s house. She finds Meredith verbally abusing and about to strike her housekeeper’s deaf 11-year-old son, Mikey, for allegedly stealing a pearl brooch. 

The event triggers a flashback to Jodie’s own abusive childhood when her mother slapped her after accusing her of stealing a barrette she found on the street. Jodie violently attacks Meredith, choking her against a wall. After Mikey pulls her away, Jodie “finds” the brooch, covertly returning it to the bowl she stole it from. She then forces a terrified Meredith to apologize. Jodie threatens to kill Meredith if she ever harms Mikey again or tells anyone what happened.

Roy returns home late, drunk and miserable after being unable to contact Veronica. The next day, Jodie searches his clothes for the USB thumb drive but finds nothing. She then discovers the safe in Roy’s office is open and empty. 

To maintain a facade of normalcy, Jodie bakes macarons obsessively. When Roy gets home, he questions her about using his car, noting the gas level is low, but she denies it. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of two policemen, Detective Bates and Detective Marcos. They inform Roy that Veronica Greenwood has been found dead. Jodie feigns ignorance while Roy admits he had recently been in contact with her. The detectives reveal Veronica’s Ring camera had not been turned on since 8 pm the night before last. Jodie, secretly relieved, leaves the room so they can question Roy alone.

Jodie eavesdrops on the police questioning Roy. The housekeeper, Marie, silently joins her. The detectives confront Roy with text messages sent from his phone to Veronica, which he denies sending. Roy explains he was supposed to meet Veronica the night she died but fell asleep in his office. He admits he had been in a relationship with Veronica and wished to rekindle it. When the detectives ask him to come to the station for a formal interview, Roy requests a lawyer. 

After the police leave, Marie reveals the missing USB thumb drive, confirming she found it and has already watched the video of Roy abusing Deborah.

Later that night, Jodie goes to Marie’s room. A tearful Marie is horrified by the video and now believes Jodie’s accusations against Roy. Jodie states that Roy is abusing her as well, pointing out her facial changes. They form an alliance to expose him. 

Jodie realizes Veronica was the client Roy used as a false alibi on the day of Deborah’s death. Marie then voices the theory that Roy killed Veronica to silence her, and Jodie eagerly agrees. To buy herself time to deal with her missing ring, Jodie persuades Marie to wait a day or two before going to the police. Fearing Roy might become violent, they agree to hide the ammunition for his rifle. Jodie promises to retrieve the box of cartridges from the office and leave it outside Marie’s door.

On her way to Roy’s office, Jodie discovers Mikey in the kitchen foraging for food. Noticing how thin he is, Jodie realizes that Meredith restricts the rations of her housekeeper and son. She reassures Mikey and gives him macarons. Using a small tablet to communicate, Mikey reveals that Deborah gave him the back door code so he could enter the house at night and take items from the snack shelf. Just as Jodie begins to ask if he saw Deb on the day she died, Roy stirs upstairs, and Mikey flees. 

After Roy returns to bed, Jodie enters his office. Finding the laptop is now password-protected, she instead takes his old paper appointment book. She also collects the box of rifle cartridges, leaving it for Marie before returning to her room. She hides the appointment book in a hamper.

The next morning, a distraught Roy questions Jodie about texts sent from his phone, which she denies sending. As he leaves for the police station, he spots something on the floor of his car: Jodie’s missing wedding ring. She quickly snatches it, claiming it must have fallen from her pocket, and sends him on his way. 

Alone, Jodie examines the old appointment book she took from his office. She discovers that on the day of Deborah’s death, Roy had no appointments between 1:25 and 2:30 pm and therefore no alibi. The appointment that appeared in the computer version of his schedule for that slot was fabricated after the fact.

While waiting for Marie to get ready to go to the police, Jodie visits the room where Roy imprisoned Deborah. Tucked into a crevice, she discovers a letter from her sister. The letter reveals that Marie was secretly helping Deborah plan an escape by whispering to her during tray collection and promising to steal the key. This revelation contradicts Marie’s earlier claim to Jodie that Roy had sent her away. 

Realizing Marie has been lying, Jodie rushes to the housekeeper’s room and, while Marie is in the shower, searches for the thumb drive. In a drawer, she finds syringes and vials, understanding now that Marie was the one injecting both Deborah and herself. She finds the thumb drive and pockets it. When Marie emerges from the bathroom, Jodie asks her what field of nursing she worked in. Marie confirms she was a cosmetic surgery nurse. Jodie claims she needs to quickly visit Meredith. 

Shutting herself in the master bathroom, Jodie re-examines a page in Deborah’s appointment book and sees it reads “IT’S M DOING IT” (287), not “HIM.” Her realization is cut short when she hears someone in her bedroom. She turns to see Marie searching through her drawers.