The Woman in Suite 11

In the morning, Lo takes a bath and thinks about Carrie’s and Marcus’s baths. Lo gets out, wakes up Judah, and tells him to call the room phone. While they’re on the call, she walks down the hall with the cordless. Judah can hear her clearly when she’s in front of Marcus’s room. Lo keeps going, and Judah can still hear her. She almost runs into other guests and stops walking. Back in her room, Lo realizes that Judah is right: Carrie was involved in the murder.

Lo explains her theory about Carrie. When she tells Judah that Carrie took her bag, Judah says he put an AirTag tracker on it. They locate the bag in a small town called Woodingdean. Lo wonders if it’s Carrie’s mother’s house. After some convincing, Judah agrees to go there with Lo to get Carrie’s side of the story.

Two hours later, Judah and Lo arrive at the AirTag location. Lo remembers Carrie hurting her on the Aurora. However, she doesn’t think Carrie will talk in front of Judah, so Judah stays in the rented car. He’ll text her if she stays longer than 10 minutes, and if she doesn’t answer, he’ll come to the door. Lo tells Judah about the photograph of her and Cole and explains that it isn’t what it looks like. He believes her, saying she’s honest to a fault. Lo remembers Filippo saying, “Honesty is always the best policy” (322).

When Lo knocks, an old woman answers the door. Lo asks for Carrie, and the woman calls inside for her. Carrie is shocked to see Lo and asks her grandmother for some time alone with Lo. Lo explains that she found Carrie via the AirTag. Then, Lo offers her full theory about what happened:

Carrie worked with Pieter to lure Marcus to the Old Manor. When Lo was at breakfast, Carrie went to Marcus’s room. Pieter faked a conversation with his father in front of Lo, and then established alibis at breakfast. Carrie took Marcus’s phone to Lo’s bathroom and made the call for room service using a recording of Marcus; he always ordered the same thing. There’s a pause in the call where Carrie would have had to switch to another recording for Marcus to say “no” to needing anything else.

While Lo helped the housekeeper with Marcus’s body, Pieter got the phone from Carrie and took it with him to Marcus’s bathroom. Carrie’s sapphire ring left a mark on Marcus’s body from when she drowned him with Pieter; the police thought it was from Lo’s wedding ring. Carrie and Pieter drowned Marcus by holding up his legs so that his head went underwater.

Carrie admits that Lo is right. Lo condemns Carrie’s betrayal and use of her. Carrie explains that Lo was supposed to be with her mother when the murder occurred. Lo stayed the extra night because Pam broke her ankle; Lo wasn’t part of Carrie and Pieter’s plan. After hearing this and realizing that it’s true, Lo doesn’t want to tell the police about Carrie’s role in the murder. Lo wonders if the murder was justifiable because Marcus was abusing and imprisoning Carrie.

Carrie explains that Pieter killed Marcus because Marcus’s insistence on having a second child killed Pieter’s mother. Also, Marcus threatened to disinherit Pieter after he stood up for Carrie against Marcus’s abuse. Carrie knew about the picture of Lo and Cole; Marcus got leverage on everyone he could in his endless quest for power. Carrie apologizes for not letting Lo know about it before the police did. Lo tells Carrie to turn herself in and explain the abuse.

Carrie says she’ll only turn herself in to the Interpol officer Filippo Capaldi. Lo thanks her and says she’ll help Carrie in any way she can. Carrie touches a scar she left on Lo’s arm, apologizes, says she doesn’t regret helping Lo, and adds that she loves Lo. Lo says she loves Carrie and heads out to the car to find Filippo’s number.

An hour later, Filippo arrives. Lo is surprised that he’s alone, and he says he wants to keep the British police out of it until Carrie can supply information about Marcus for a plea bargain. Carrie packs a few things in a shopping bag, with Filippo’s permission, and returns Lo’s suitcase. Then, Carrie says goodbye to Lo, Judah, and her grandmother. Filippo waits to cuff Carrie until they’re outside, to keep her grandmother from knowing it’s an arrest. Lo and Judah leave the house; Lo is sad to see Carrie’s grandmother alone as they drive away.

Lo and Judah go to Pam’s house. She tries to do too much, against the doctor’s orders, but will listen to Judah. Judah’s mother, Gail, calls and puts Eli and Teddy on FaceTime. They talk about how Gail took them to see an E.T. anniversary screening at a theater. After their call, she’s taking them to the Museum of Natural History. Lo thanks Gail.

The next call Lo gets is from Dan. She had left a message about Interpol taking in someone working with Pieter. Dan says Interpol isn’t in town and wouldn’t make this kind of arrest; Filippo isn’t from Interpol. Lo realizes that she may not have seen Filippo’s identification. After Dan ends the call, Lo vomits.

Lo tells Judah what Dan said. She’s worried that Filippo is working for Pieter. Cole texted Lo some pictures from the foraging expedition. In the photos, a man who looks just like Filippo is their driver. Judah encourages Lo to tell Dan the whole truth about Carrie. Lo does, in person. Judah tells Dan that their priority is getting Pieter charged so that Lo is free from any retribution from him. Dan leaves the room to make some calls. Lo is homesick, and Judah hugs her.

Dan returns and says he updated Dickers about everything. Lo will stay with her mother for the night; she’ll probably need to make another statement. Dan warns her not to talk to the police without him. Back at Pam’s house, Pam is getting ready to go to the grocery store alone with her broken ankle. Lo offers to go, but Pam refuses. Judah offers to take Pam to a nice store where she can sit in a cafe while he shops.

After they leave, Lo takes a bath. She hears the doorbell, but ignores it. Then, she hears a phone ringing and follows the unfamiliar ringtone until she finds a burner phone. Lo answers it, and the person on the other end is a masked man who is in the house with her. She screams.

Lo runs down the stairs and calls the police. The front door is deadlocked from the outside. Lo redirects and is tackled by the intruder. He twists her arm and demands that she give him the phone, but it gets stuck in her robe. She knees him in the crotch and runs toward the open back door. However, the floor in front of it is covered in glass where the man broke it. Lo gets a shard stuck in her foot. She resists fainting and asks the man if he’s Pieter. He removes his mask and reveals that he is.

Pieter is looking for Carrie’s phone, but he won’t tell Lo what’s on it that will incriminate him. He thought Lo was at the store; he’d been waiting for everyone to leave so that he could come in and look for the phone. Lo says the police are coming. Pieter says he’ll escape in his waiting private jet. Lo asks if he could live a life on the run and hears sirens approaching. As Judah opens the door, Pieter pulls out a gun.

Pieter shoots himself with the gun, dying by suicide, and pieces of him splatter on Lo. She collapses. Judah grabs her and tells Pam to call an ambulance. Lo passes out. When she comes to, she’s still holding Carrie’s phone and tells Judah he must keep it safe. The ambulance takes her to the hospital, where the glass is removed from her foot and she’s put in a recovery ward. She has morphine dreams: One is about putting Pieter’s brains back in his head. In another dream, she chases Carrie, but Carrie is her. In a third dream, she tries to reassemble Carrie’s phone, but it’s made of a gooey substance, as Judah walks away from her.

When she wakes up, she looks for her phone, wanting to make sure he took care of Carrie’s phone. She can’t find it, so she goes to the nursing station and asks to call her husband. The nurse tells her to get off her foot and says Judah will return during visiting hours, which start in three hours.

Judah arrives, and Lo starts crying. He has Carrie’s phone and told Dan, Dickers, and Wright about it. Lo continues to worry that she turned Carrie over to one of Pieter’s henchmen. Judah assures her that the worst is over, and she isn’t responsible for Carrie. Lo feels like she failed Carrie.

Lo arrives back in New York City and feels like it’s her true home. However, she plans to wait a little while to report her UK passport as stolen and get a new one. Gail, Eli, and Teddy pick up Judah and Lo at the airport. At home, she tells the boys extra bedtime stories and almost falls asleep with them. Gail goes to her place and leaves some spaghetti behind for them. Judah wonders if Carrie survived.

Lo thinks about how Carrie left the phone for Lo to find in her jacket. She realizes (but would never say aloud to anyone) that Carrie and Filippo could be working together. Lo no longer thinks Filippo was working for Pieter. She hopes Carrie and Filippo have escaped and are happy.

Lo writes a successful piece about the collapse of the Leidmann Group for the Financial Times and (a few weeks later) gets an Instagram message. It’s a picture of Carrie and Filippo on a beach. Lo replies, “Dear Tigger, glad you bounced” (384). Then, she takes Eli and Teddy home for dinner.