Too Old for This

Late Sunday evening, Lottie discovers Norma’s credit cards are declined. She checks out of the Harmony Hotel and creates a new paper trail for Norma at the cheaper Dew Drop Inn, paying cash and texting Burke with the new location. Burke tries to get Norma to visit Lottie again, making her wonder if he is suspicious of what’s going on.

Back home, Lottie stages a stumble for the camera to reinforce her image of decline. She listens to voicemails from her grandson Noah and her son Archie.

Lottie returns Archie’s call. He confronts her about using a cane, a detail he learned from Morgan. He says her house is too much for her and mentions retirement communities he researched.

When Lottie realizes Archie knows about her recent movements, he admits he installed a tracking app on her phone.

Archie admits that he has been tracking her movements since Christmas. Lottie feels extremely “betrayed” by his actions, though he insists he only did it out of concern for her safety. When he asks her why she went to the Harmony Hotel, Lottie realizes that she accidentally took her phone there before bingo. Feeling betrayed, Lottie refuses to answer and ends the call.

Furious, Lottie tapes her phone to the kitchen counter to neutralize the tracking. She realizes that she is most upset that Archie discussed retirement homes without ever suggesting that she move to California to be closer to him.

Lottie goes to the Dew Drop. She checks Norma’s phone and finds a text from her boss placing Norma on administrative leave. On Thursday, Lottie attends church bingo to keep her routine.

Afterward, she drives back to the Dew Drop Inn. She studies an unidentified woman with cropped hair who appears to manage illicit activity, quietly directing those involved with the club across the street.

Lottie’s real estate agent brings a potential cash buyer to tour her house. The buyer notices the broken study door. Using Norma’s phone, Lottie confirms another dinner with herself. Burke tells her to bring up the names Marilyn and Walter.

Lottie returns to the Dew Drop Inn and watches the woman with cropped hair subtly direct a police officer, confirming a link to law enforcement. Lottie decides to use this woman as a witness.

That evening, Lottie sets her dining table and marks the camera’s sightline. She fakes Norma’s arrival, then reactivates the camera and stages an attack, screaming and collapsing out of view. She exits through the garage and drives to the Dew Drop Inn.

On Norma’s phone, she finds urgent messages from Burke. She responds in a distressed tone that she is safe. Burke replies that he is coming to Baycliff.

In a flashback, Lottie recalls murdering a woman named Monica at a cabin by cutting her throat, then burning the cabin to destroy evidence. In the present, she goes and buys a new hammer and a utility knife. She considers her distaste for the mess knives create after she used one on Monica but is adamant that she needs to be prepared. When she gets home, she has an apologetic voicemail from Archie.

Around midnight at the Dew Drop Inn, Lottie assumes Burke will arrive early and moves to establish a witness. Wearing a wig and Norma’s coat, she heads to the vending machines to cross paths with the woman with cropped hair.

When the woman approaches, Lottie recognizes her as Danielle, the daughter of her friend, Bonnie. Lottie retreats, realizing her witness plan has collapsed.

Needing an alternate witness, Lottie repeatedly calls the motel office from Room 219. She identifies herself as Norma Dixon and badgers the night clerk with questions, ensuring the clerk remembers the name.

Later, an intruder bursts in and injures her arm. She drops her knife but fires her stun gun and incapacitates him. She ties him to a chair and sees he is not Burke.

The intruder wakes, calls her Lorena, and reveals he is Burke’s son, whom Lottie calls Junior. Lottie seizes his phone and finds only texts between him and his father.

She assumes Burke sent him to kill Norma, but his confusion shows he does not fully understand the plan. Lottie places her new knife and hammer where he can see them.

To force answers, Lottie slices Junior’s Achilles tendon. He reveals Burke found her using facial recognition on a photo Morgan posted online. Burke then contacted Plum Dixon to set up the docuseries, hoping to make Lottie slip.

Junior says Burke believes Lottie killed Plum. Once Lottie learns the full scope of the plan, she kills Junior with a hammer.

Before dawn, Lottie sets fire to the room to destroy Junior’s body, pulls the fire alarm, and escapes in his SUV. A nurse treats her injured arm at an urgent care clinic. Using Norma’s and Junior’s phones, she texts Burke conflicting alibis.

She drives to Spokane, parks near Burke’s house, and slips into his backyard. She finds an unlocked door and enters, recognizing a trap as Burke cocks a gun.

In his office, the elderly, wheelchair-bound Burke holds Lottie at gunpoint. His computer wallpaper is her photo. He says his son’s phone location gave her away and demands to know if she killed Junior and Norma. Lottie denies killing Junior and claims Norma attacked her first.

Lottie notices files from her old case and taunts Burke about his obsession. She deduces Burke faked a key piece of evidence—the strand of hair—40 years ago. Burke erupts at the exposure and fires his gun, destroying the screen displaying her image.

Lottie and Burke argue about his 40-year obsession. He admits he sent Plum to interview her. Lottie realizes that he was hoping he would get famous from the docuseries, either by getting Lottie to confess or catching her in a lie and finally arresting her. When Lottie jokes about the two of them, old and frail, on TV talking about something from decades ago, they both laugh.

Lottie begins telling Burke a story. She talks about a police officer who wanted to make a name for himself, so he investigated a serial killer. After a year, he caught the killer, putting them in jail. However, a few days later, another person dies, then another. When she tells Burke that there will always be another killer, he protests. She uses his momentary distraction to grab the gun.

Lottie knocks Burke unconscious. She finds texts confirming he orchestrated everything with Plum and Cole Fletcher. To frame Norma, she plants Norma’s teeth in the house and leaves Norma’s and Junior’s phones behind.

She sets Burke’s office on fire and positions his body near his oxygen tank to trigger an explosion. After the house explodes, she flees and takes a bus back to Oregon.

On Sunday, Lottie returns home, peels the tape off her phone, and calls Archie to reconcile. At church, she learns raffle money is missing and Glenda is the prime suspect. Bonnie acts normal, which tells Lottie that Danielle did not recognize her.

Lottie calls Stephanie to arrange for her grandchildren to stay with her during the wedding. She calls her real estate agent, telling her that she can’t show the house during the week of the wedding. Her agent is convinced that she can create a bidding war among a few interested buyers. Lottie decides to use the same tactics in her own negotiations.

In the days before the wedding, Lottie tours Oak Manor. She tells Tom Wallace, the sales executive, that she wants a ground-floor unit with a garden patio.

In his office, she creates a reverse bidding war by mentioning offers from other communities. Tom recognizes the tactic and asks her to name her price.

At the wedding, Lottie spends time with her grandchildren, Olive and Noah. She notices Morgan carefully conceals her pregnancy and shares a slow dance with Archie.

Detective Rey Tula approaches, and they speak as friends, reinforcing the narrative of Norma’s guilt. Lottie leaves, confident that her secrets are safe.

The week after the wedding, Cole Fletcher arrives unannounced. He plans to finish Plum’s docuseries and asks to interview Lottie. She considers killing him with an umbrella but chooses a different path.

She proposes they co-produce a new series about other wrongfully accused elderly people. Cole agrees, giving Lottie a new, “murder-adjacent” purpose.