Want to Know a Secret?

April’s mother then tells the camera that April is keeping her there against her will. She attacks April, scratching her neck, and then two of the nurses and Dr. Williams pull her off.

April waits in the kitchen for news, eating the cheesecake bites that she brought for the staff. When Dr. Williams returns, he tells April that her mother has been sedated. April wonders aloud if she should try to let her mother move home with her, but Dr. Williams insists that it wouldn’t be good for anyone. He repeatedly reminds her that she is doing the right thing.

On the way home, April decides to stop at Elliot’s office. Because Bobby is with her, she hopes that Brianna will let her in. However, when she pulls up outside the building, she sees Elliot outside with Brianna. Brianna straightens her tie, and April thinks about how “intimate” the interaction is. When Elliot gets in his car and leaves, April angrily drives away as well.

One afternoon, Sean has the boys playing soccer. April bakes a pineapple upside-down cake, which she takes over to Sean’s house when she goes to pick up Bobby. She has felt as though things are strange between them lately, with Maria largely avoiding seeing April at all.

At the door, Sean declines the cake because he is eating dinner soon. However, April brings it in and puts it in his kitchen. Maria comes into the kitchen, having just gotten home from work. She is short with both Sean and April and then April realizes that they are both waiting for her to leave.

At the door, April tries to be overly nice to Maria. She tells her how grateful she is to have a “friend” next door and how happy she is that they’re neighbors. Maria thanks her but doesn’t agree or smile. April tries harder, telling her that she is a much better neighbor than the person who used to live there. When Maria says Doris’s name, April is shocked, assuming that Maria didn’t know her since she died before they bought the house. Finally, Maria smiles back at April, telling her that it’s “nice” to have her as a neighbor, too.

A few days later, April spends the day cleaning her house. Julie and Maria are coming over to plan for a fundraiser carnival that weekend.

Fifteen minutes before they arrive, April gets a text from the unknown number. The person tells her that there’s a “secret” buried in her yard.

April goes into the yard and sees a spot of fresh dirt. She digs and finds Owen’s stuffed giraffe buried there. Just as she pulls it out, Maria and Julie come into the yard. Julie angrily exclaims that she “knew” Bobby must have taken it, while Maria takes the giraffe from April’s hands. April tries to apologize and give Maria tips on how to clean the giraffe, but Julie tells her to “shut up,” making April feel like she’d been “slapped.” Maria says that she can’t stay, as she needs to get home and try to clean the dirt off the giraffe. Julie comforts her as they leave together.

At the carnival that Saturday, April is in charge of the bake sale. Because many of the parents backed out of making anything, she did most of the baking herself. However, all morning, she fails to sell anything.

When Carrie comes to the table and declines a brownie, April asks her what’s wrong. Carrie tells her that April shouldn’t be there after what she posted on the school’s Facebook page. Confused, April checks it and finds a post from herself saying that she vomited all night. April looks at the profile and it’s a private, fake account.

April goes into the gym to find Julie and Maria, who are working the raffle table. She takes them apple turnovers. She tries to apologize to Maria, but Maria avoids even looking at her. April realizes that they have become good friends and now want nothing to do with her.

On the verge of tears, April goes to leave when she sees Sean at the bouncy house. She tries to give him the apple turnovers, but he declines, too, barely speaking to her. April angrily goes back outside to the baking table.

Bobby comes up and asks April for more money for the bouncy house. She gives it to him and then decides that she might as well leave the carnival. However, she then hears a loud noise coming from the gym, with somebody shouting to call 911.

When April gets into the gym, she sees Bobby sobbing in the corner. She asks what happened, and he tells her that Leo fell off the slide. She sees Sean go up to Owen. Sean tells her that Leo’s arm is broken. Owen then yells that Bobby pushed Leo off the slide. However, Bobby is adamant that Owen is the one who pushed him. Sean interrupts them, insisting that it doesn’t matter whose fault it is.

April desperately goes over to where Julie is with Leo. She realizes that everyone is looking at her. Julie yells at her, telling her that she is going to have her charged with assault. April realizes that she somehow “made an extremely powerful enemy” (185). She tries to explain that Bobby didn’t do anything wrong, but Julie dismisses her as the EMTs arrive to put Leo on a stretcher.

April hears that Leo broke his arm but didn’t need surgery. She decides to bake an apple pie for them and apologizes.

Julie meets her at the door and is rude and dismissive. April tries to explain that Bobby didn’t do anything, but when she suggests that Leo might have pushed him, Julie gets angry. She tells April to keep Bobby away from her son and then slams the door in April’s face.

At school the next day, Bobby refuses to get out of the car. He tells April that everyone hates him because they think he pushed Leo. April comforts him for several minutes, telling him that everyone will forget about it soon. She finally coaxes him out of the car and then goes with him to the school.

As April is about to leave, Julie stops her. She takes her to the room she uses for PTA business. She tells April that a second bank account has been tied to the silent auction to siphon off money from the donations. Devastated, April insists that she knows nothing about it, but Julie is adamant that she is responsible.

April demands to know how Julie learns about the account. Julie tells her that she got an anonymous text message. April then tells her that she thinks Maria is responsible, as she was working on the silent auction, too. She explains that Maria has been sending her anonymous messages. When Julie asks to see the messages, however, April admits that she deleted them. Annoyed, Julie tells her that she won’t go to the police, but April is done with the PTA and has to return the money. She then leaves the room.

April goes to Maria’s store to confront her. She thinks of how Bobby disappeared that day and insisted that Maria invited him over. She begins to wonder why Maria dislikes her so much—and if it started before April even met her.

In the store, a customer distracts Maria. April checks her purse but doesn’t find the burner phone. She waits until Maria finishes and then asks to speak with her privately.

April asks Maria why she hates her so much, but Maria is adamant she did nothing wrong. She asks about the PTA money. Maria tells her that she doesn’t want to get in the middle of it. April then asks if Maria hates her because Sean is “attracted” to her, which makes Maria even angrier. Maria tells her to leave and then walks away.

On the way out, April sets off the alarm at the door. The security guard takes her purse and finds a pair of earrings inside. She can see Maria watching, smiling slightly. The guard then takes her into the back room, while Maria says that she is going to call the police.

The security guard, Bill, takes April to the back room where he leaves her. April gets a message from her phone. It’s a picture of the security guard confronting her. The image was taken from inside the store. April considers deleting it, is embarrassed, and then decides that she needs to save it as proof.

She calls Elliot and tells him what happened. He explains that she won’t be arrested, but instead, she will just get a summons. He warns her not to talk to anyone or sign anything.

Bill comes back into the room. He tells her that Maria is not going to press charges, as long as April signs a statement that she tried to steal an item and understands why she is being banned from the store. April hesitates. Wanting to get things over with, April signs it, and then Bill leaves.

A few minutes later, Bill comes into the room with a police officer. He says something about getting April to sign a confession. April’s vision goes blurry, and then she faints.

When April recovers, the policeman, Officer Clark, consoles her. Despite having the signed confession, he tells her that they are not going to arrest her, as April insists that it was just a mistake. He escorts her to her car.

When April gets home, Elliot isn’t there. She watches television in the living room until he finally shows up after nine o’clock. She starts to tell him about what happened and then realizes that he is upset. She asks him what’s wrong, and he tells her that Brianna is pregnant. She initially brushes it off and then realizes that he is the father.

Elliot apologizes profusely, insisting that he only slept with her once, but April reminds him of what happened with Courtney Burns. Elliot tells her that he still loves her and won’t leave her for Brianna. He offers to go to a hotel, and April is so angry with him that she wants him to leave. However, she decides that, with the PTA and the shoplifting, she can’t have another scandal. Instead, she tells him that he can sleep on the living room floor.

The next morning, Elliot has cooked breakfast and gotten Bobby ready for school. April is annoyed, knowing that he only did it to try to apologize. Elliot tells her that he will be there that night so she can go to the book club meeting. April is annoyed, as she actually read the book and doesn’t want to go. However, she realizes that Julie won’t be there, so she decides to go and try to tell her side of things to the other mothers.

April takes Bobby to school. As he goes to get out of the car, he asks why Elliot slept on the floor the night before. She assures him that they’ll talk about it later. On the drive home, she decides that she needs to try to work things out with Elliot for Bobby’s sake.

When April gets back to her house, she sees Brianna coming out of Maria’s house.

April watches Brianna go over to April’s front door. She jumps out of the car and asks Brianna what she’s doing. Brianna tells her that she wants to talk to Elliot, but April demands she leave. Brianna explains that she and Elliot are going to be together to raise her baby. She tells her that Elliot “can’t stand” her and then laughs about the fact that Elliot always pretends to be working so late. Despite what Brianna is saying, April yells at her, demanding that she leave before April calls the police. Finally, Brianna backs away and leaves.

April then goes over to Maria’s house. She rings the bell and pounds on the door, but no one answers. She realizes that no one is home and then wonders if she really saw Brianna come out of there.

Inside, April collapses on the couch. She considers confronting Elliot, but she is afraid that he will tell her that he is leaving her. She thinks about how she will do “anything” to stop her family from falling apart.

When April gets to book club, the woman hosting—Lucy—opens the door but doesn’t let her in. She tells April that the others wouldn’t be “comfortable” with being there. April tries to argue, but then she hears Maria’s voice inside. On the verge of crying, she leaves.

April goes to Taco Bell. She sits in the parking lot and eats and then eats 10 of the cookies she had made for book club. She thinks of how happy she and Elliot both used to be when they got married. Now, she has to figure out how to deal with their “problem”: Brianna.

At home, April struggles to unlock the door. For a second, she panics, thinking that Elliot changed the locks. However, he opens the door and tells her that she is trying to use the mailbox key. He asks if she’s been drinking, but she tells him that she has been “thinking”—mostly about him. The two kiss and then end up having sex on the sofa.

The next morning, a detective knocks on April’s door. She panics, but he introduces himself as Detective Hanrahan and asks to speak to Elliot. April calls Elliot downstairs.

Detective Hanrahan tells them that Brianna was murdered the night before. Elliot seems genuinely shocked by the news. The detective then asks them both where they were. April says that she went to the book club. He then asks if they know about Brianna’s boyfriend, as her friend told the police that she was seeing a married man. However, both April and Elliot deny knowing anything.

The detective thanks them both and starts to leave. However, at the last second, he asks about Courtney Burns. Elliot tells her that she was his secretary five years ago. Detective Hanrahan points out that she died by suicide and then comments on the fact that Elliot has had two secretaries die.

After Detective Hanrahan leaves, Elliot is distraught that his only alibi the night before is Bobby. April then admits that she never actually went to book club. Elliot backs away from her, and April wonders if he actually thinks she would kill Brianna.

Elliot goes to work, and April looks over at Maria’s house. She can see her watching from her window. April is adamant that Maria has something to do with it. She is determined to find the burner phone so she has evidence.

April watches Maria’s house, waiting for her to leave for the day. When she’s finally gone, April decides to go over and check for the phone. However, Detective Hanrahan stops her at the door.

April invites the detective inside, trying to remain cheerful. He asks her where she was last night, as the book club members said she was only there for a minute. She tells him that she went to Taco Bell and then came directly home. He asks if her car is the white SUV in the driveway and then tells her that one was seen driving around Brianna’s house.

The detective then asks April what she was fighting with Brianna about the morning before. The question catches April off guard, and she struggles to answer. Detective Hanrahan asks whether it had anything to do with Brianna’s pregnancy. Shaken, April considers telling him everything that has been happening to her but then realizes that he won’t believe her. Without waiting for an answer, the detective leaves, telling April that he’ll likely be back to talk with Elliot, too.

Once Detective Hanrahan is gone, April goes quickly to Maria’s house. She uses the spare key to get in the back door. She realizes she has mud on her shoes, so she takes them off. She then goes up to Maria’s room and starts searching. However, after only a few moments, she hears the back door open. Maria yells up the stairs for Sean, and April freezes. Her phone buzzes. There is a message which reads, “I know you are inside the house, April” (259).