Too Close to Home

Andi is pulled over for a broken taillight. Overcome with panic at the thought of Tia’s body in the trunk, she vomits on the police officer’s boots, leading him to suspect she is intoxicated. Andi insists she has the flu and passes a field sobriety test. The officer lets her go with a ticket. She proceeds to the river, where she weighs down the tarp-wrapped body with large rocks and pushes it into the current.

When Andi returns home, Carson confronts her, alarmed by her muddy, disheveled appearance. He explains that Regan had called him to check on her, and that someone else told him about Andi’s outburst in the town square parking lot. When Carson asks if she has “done something,” Andi is on the verge of confessing everything.

Regan drives to the Bluebird Café in Windsor Locks, hoping to find the man who looks like her dead husband, Jack. She meets the barista, Beatrice, who confirms she has not seen the man since she asked his name. 

After waiting in the café for hours, Regan returns to her car, defeated. As she prepares to drive away, she glances in the rearview mirror and is stunned to see Jack sitting in the back seat. After her initial shock and anger, Jack calms her down. He insists that they are not safe and urges her to drive immediately.

The next morning, Sasha takes a pistol from the toolshed and follows her son, Drew, to the same smoke shop where she was held captive. She confronts him in the parking lot, and he directs her to meet him at a nearby diner. There, Drew admits he has been paying people for information about the recent car bomb—first hackers at a closed-down Hefty’s who could not help, and then the men at the smoke shop. Drew reveals he knows about Sasha’s “criminal history.” He explains that he looked up public records and visited his father, Raffy, learning that both of his parents were arrested for smuggling drugs in Mexico and that Raffy served a prison sentence. Drew adds that after his release, an anonymous person threatened Raffy and extorted money from him for years as payment for the confiscated cocaine. He proposes that the car bomb may have been meant for Sasha, who also drives a white BMW, as payback for the money the drug dealers lost when the cocaine was discovered. Drew explains that the evidence he has collected is at Roxie’s house and insists they drive there immediately.

Andi lies to Carson, claiming she feels guilty about the argument she had with Tia before her disappearance and that she went searching for Tia in the woods. He believes her and offers comfort. 

The next morning, Ray arrives and tells Andi that Tia’s body has been found in the river. Distraught, Ray urges her to turn on the TV. Andi struggles to conceal her confusion when a local news report states that Tia was bludgeoned to death, not shot.

Searching for her car keys, Andi enters her daughter Roxie’s room and finds a folder. Inside is a detailed investigation, compiled by Roxie and Drew, into Tia’s murder and the car bomb, along with a photo of Regan’s husband Jack and research on Raffy Carro. On Roxie’s computer, an open chat shows their plan to meet at Raffy’s house. 

Andi drives to Sasha’s house to show her the folder but finds no one at home. The garage door opens, and she is confronted by a man whom she recognizes. Lunging at Andi, he chokes her until she loses consciousness.

Regan pulls over at a scenic lookout to confront Jack. He explains that his real name was once Patrick Finch. Years ago, before he met her, he worked in Mexico and witnessed a murder committed by a small-time crime ring. After he testified against them, he changed his identity and went into hiding in Cloverhill Lakes.

Jack reveals that, during a business trip to Colombia, the criminals tracked him, attacked him, and left him for dead. To protect his family from retaliation, he paid contacts to fake his death, complete with a false body and consular report. He then moved to a nearby town to keep watch over Regan and Hallie. When he realized the car bomb was meant for Regan, he panicked and sent her the warning note. Finally understanding his actions were to protect them, Regan embraces him, and they agree to go on the run together.

Sasha and Drew arrive at Roxie’s house to find her distraught on the front porch. Andi and the folder containing their investigation are both missing. Drew then reveals that he saw his father, Raffy, at the Labor Day party just before the car bomb detonated. Roxie reveals that she also found a piece of Tia’s burnt running headband in Raffy’s firepit. Drew and Roxie admit that they were behind the fake bomb threat at the school, explaining it was a “diversion” to buy them more time for their investigation. Drew adds that their research uncovered that Regan’s husband, Jack, testified against a drug dealer in Mexico at the same time Raffy was imprisoned there.

During their conversation, Sasha receives a silent phone call from Raffy’s number. After Drew shows her a photo on his phone, Sasha has a sudden realization. She orders the teens to lock the doors and not leave the house, then speeds away toward Raffy’s home.

Andi awakens in a dark toolshed. Her mouth is taped shut, her hands are bound with zip ties and rope, and her ankles are chained. Remaining calm, she systematically frees herself. She uses a nail to peel off the tape, then bites a screwdriver handle to pick it up and uses its tip to inch a box of matches toward her, lighting one to burn through the nylon rope. Next, she uses a hammer to smash the chain linking her ankles. With her feet now free, she reaches for an X-Acto knife and slices through the zip ties on her wrists.

Once free, Andi peers outside and recognizes she is on Raffy Carro’s property. She sees Raffy stumbling near a firepit, appearing confused and frightened by the sound of shouting from inside his house. Suddenly, a truck screeches away from the property, and the shouting stops. Andi tries to escape the shed but finds that the door is locked from the outside, trapping her inside.