Too Close to Home

Sasha arrives at Raffy’s house. She finds her ex-husband tied to a chair and terrified. Her current husband, Tom, appears holding a gun. Raffy reveals that Tom’s family runs an organized crime ring and was responsible for sending him to prison. Barbecue Blanc is a front for the family’s criminal activities. Tom strikes Raffy with his gun to silence him.

Tom confesses that he was sent to Cloverhill Lakes to kill her and Raffy years ago as payback for the confiscated cocaine. However, he fell in love with her instead. Consequently, he pleaded for her life and paid off Raffy’s “debt” to his family. He explains that he wanted out of the family business, and his assigned last job was to kill Regan as punishment for Jack testifying against his brother. Tom also confesses to murdering Tia Hainsley after she saw incriminating information on his phone. He dumped her body at Andi’s to frame Andi after her public fight with Tia. Their conversation is interrupted by Andi screaming for help from outside. Tom locks Sasha in the bathroom and goes to confront Andi.

Andi uses a bat to break out of the shed where she is being held captive. She finds her phone near a firepit, taps Regan’s number to share her location, and then attempts to dial 911. Tom catches her and destroys her phone in the fire. As they both grapple for Tom’s gun, Tom shoots Andi in the stomach. She collapses on the muddy ground, bleeding heavily.

While waiting at the hospital for news about Jack, Regan tells the police she suspects Tom is the shooter. She then receives Andi’s shared location and a voicemail containing the sounds of a struggle. Taking a shotgun from her home, Regan drives Jack’s old pickup truck to the rural address. She finds Andi gravely wounded but alive and calls 911.

Regan holds Tom at gunpoint outside, and he walks backward up the porch stairs into the house. Inside, she sees Raffy bound to a chair with zip ties. She kicks away the chair blocking the bathroom door, and Sasha emerges. Regan shoots at Tom, grazing his shoulder, but he swiftly disarms her. Raffy kicks a tray with a steak knife closer to Regan. She grabs the knife and stabs it through Tom’s hand. As police sirens become audible, Sasha runs out into the woods to give Raffy and Regan the opportunity to escape. As predicted, Tom runs after her.

Tom catches Sasha in the woods and forces her into his truck. As he drives recklessly in heavy rain to escape the approaching police, he confesses everything: He used Raffy’s gun to kill Andi, used Raffy’s truck when he shot Jack, and planted Tia’s headband in Raffy’s firepit—framing Raffy for all three. He loses control of the truck, which crashes through a guardrail and comes to rest on a rock ledge dangling over a cliff.

Tom is thrown from the vehicle during the crash. Sasha, who was wearing a seatbelt, manages to climb out of the wrecked truck. She finds Tom hanging from a broken piece of the guardrail below the ledge, begging her to save him. Sasha gives him her hand, but he falls into the darkness below. Afterward, she isn't sure whether the rain made her hand slippery or whether she intentionally let go. Alone on the cliffside, she waits to be rescued.

Two weeks later, Andi attends Tia’s funeral while recovering from two surgeries. On a muted TV at the wake, she sees a news report about the arrest of Tom’s father, Al, whose real name is Murphy Terreli. The report also reveals that Tom was found on a rock ledge thirty feet below the cliff, survived his injuries, and is being held under police guard at a hospital. The media portrays Andi, Regan, and Sasha as heroes who took down a major organized crime ring. Her daughter, Roxie, proudly calls her a hero. Andi, however, feels guilty, reflecting on how she hid and disposed of Tia’s body, and has never admitted it to anyone.

Regan makes a brief appearance at Tia’s memorial. She hugs Andi and asks Roxie how Drew is liking Tucson before leaving quickly. She is tired of having to explain Jack’s return from the dead. 

At home, Regan finds her daughter, Hallie, caring for Jack as he recovers from his gunshot wound. Although Regan understands that Jack faked his death to protect their family, she harbors a deep resentment for his abandonment. Feeling emotionally estranged from him, she views the man who has returned as “a stranger.”

Six weeks later, Sasha is living in Tucson with her children to be near Raffy, who is in a rehabilitation center. During a visit, she sees a breaking news report: Tom Blanc has escaped from the hospital. The power at the facility suddenly cuts out, followed by a gunshot. Sasha runs to find Tom holding Raffy at gunpoint in a standoff with a young security guard.

Tom grabs Sasha, using her as a human shield, and shoots the guard in the leg. Sasha bites Tom’s wrist, forcing him to drop his gun. She and Raffy flee into the facility’s kitchen, but Tom retrieves the guard’s gun and follows them. As Tom aims at Raffy, Sasha attacks him from behind, screaming as she thrusts the blade of a pair of kitchen scissors into the side of Tom’s neck. Tom collapses and goes still. Raffy holds a sobbing Sasha as police and medics arrive.