The Identicals

Eleanor returns to her Nantucket home with her sister, Flossie, and housekeeper, Felipa. Upon arriving, Eleanor is unsettled to see a navy-blue Bronco she recognizes as Harper’s parked outside. Confused, Eleanor sends Flossie to the carriage house to find Tabitha, but it’s empty. After another call to Tabitha goes unanswered, Eleanor retires.

The next morning, Harper appears in Eleanor’s bedroom. She tearfully explains that she and Tabitha have switched islands and that Tabitha blames Harper for ruining her new relationship. Eleanor calls Tabitha and leaves a stern message demanding she return to Nantucket at once.

Reed has been living in isolation at a borrowed cottage after Sadie exposed his affair with Harper. After he told Sadie he wanted to have children, Sadie became distant, and they stopped having sex. In his rental cottage, Reed’s only connection to the outside world is a newspaper, where he reads that Harper’s friend Brendan has died. Reed intuits that this news will bring Harper back to the island. That evening, a woman whom he believes to be Harper arrives at his cottage. Overjoyed, he greets her with a passionate kiss and professes his love.