Florence is fired from Forrester Books and a restraining order is filed after she sends blackmail photos to Simon Reed.

Literary agent Greta Frost calls Florence and offers her an interview to become Maud Dixon's personal assistant.

Florence meets the author behind the Maud Dixon pseudonym in person and learns her true name is Helen Wilcox.

Florence moves into the carriage house on Helen Wilcox's property in Cairo, New York, to begin working as her assistant.

Helen announces she wants to travel to Semat, Morocco, to research her new novel and asks Florence to arrange the trip.

Helen orders whiskey for both of them at a Moroccan restaurant, and Florence loses consciousness before the drive home.

Florence wakes up in a Moroccan hospital where staff call her Helen Wilcox because she is carrying Helen's passport.

Florence decides to assume Helen's identity, believing Helen died in the crash and that she deserves the opportunity.

Investigators Idrissi and Massey arrive at the villa to inform Florence that a body was found in her compost pile in Cairo.

Helen reappears alive at an expat party hosted by Meg, introducing herself to the guests as Florence Darrow.

Florence hacks into Helen's laptop and discovers a hidden manuscript revealing that Helen planned the car accident to murder her.

Florence dives into the villa pool and finds Nick's body submerged beneath the surface, confirming Helen has killed him.

Helen shoots off the locked bathroom door and enters; Florence strikes her with a towel rack and seizes her gun.

Florence shoves Helen over an upstairs banister and then smothers her to death with a pillow on the floor below.

Florence calls New York City's largest talent agency and announces she is Maud Dixon with a new manuscript ready.

Florence Darrow is fired from her publishing job and soon hired as the personal assistant to the reclusive novelist Maud Dixon, who turns out to be a woman named Helen Wilcox living in upstate New York. Helen lures Florence to Morocco under the guise of novel research, drugs her at a restaurant, and engineers a car accident intended to kill her. Florence survives, assumes Helen's identity using her passport, and begins building a new life — until investigators arrive to reveal that a body was found in Helen's compost pile back in New York. Helen reappears alive, and Florence soon discovers a hidden manuscript proving that Helen planned the crash and intends to finish the job. Florence fights back in a brutal confrontation, kills Helen, and then murders her literary agent Greta to remove the last obstacle before calling a major talent agency to declare herself Maud Dixon.

Florence Darrow's rise from fired assistant to self-declared Maud Dixon.

Florence overhears a heated debate about Maud Dixon's gender and identity at a holiday publishing party at Forrester Books.

Florence begins a secret affair with her married editorial director Simon Reed after he pursues her following a work party.

Florence follows Simon Reed's wife and daughters to a dentist appointment and covertly photographs them over several weeks.

Florence completes a video interview for Maud Dixon's assistant role, with the author's camera kept off to protect her anonymity.

Florence accesses Helen's bank accounts as part of her duties and discovers that Helen has more than three million dollars.

Florence secretly edits Helen's manuscript while typing it up, coming to believe she has become Helen's literary collaborator.

A neighbor tells Florence that Helen recently had a visitor; Helen flatly denies that anyone came to the property.

Florence uses Helen's driver's license to collect a rental car in Morocco, noticing how similar the two women look.

Florence attends an expat party hosted by Meg and begins a romantic relationship with a kiteboarder named Nick.

Greta Frost travels to Morocco after becoming alarmed that Helen has gone silent and stopped responding to her messages.

Florence's high school friend Whitney spots her in Semat and nearly calls out Florence's real name in front of Nick.

Florence reads a news article and identifies Jeanette Byrd, whose body was found in Cairo, as the real-life Jenny from Mississippi Foxtrot.

Florence tells investigator Massey she is Florence Darrow and not Helen Wilcox, but Massey confiscates the passport and refuses to believe her.

Florence meets Greta at a hotel in Marrakesh, explains Helen's crimes in full, and asks to take over the Maud Dixon name.

Florence returns to Helen's house in Cairo, New York, after inheriting Helen's estate and settling into her new identity.

Before Florence reinvents herself, she is a restless and insecure editorial assistant who blackmails her boss and covertly stalks his family in a desperate bid to get her writing published. She earns the Maud Dixon job through a strange anonymous interview and slowly immerses herself in Helen's world, gaining access to her finances and secretly shaping her manuscript. Small warnings about Helen's past accumulate — a denied visitor, an unexplained police car in the driveway — that Florence overlooks in her eagerness to be mentored. In Morocco, Florence begins a romance with a man named Nick while managing mounting pressure from agent Greta Frost and near-exposures from people who know her real identity. The discovery of a real murder victim linked to Helen forces Florence to piece together the truth, and even after surviving everything, her ambition drives her to seize the one prize she always wanted.

The hidden details behind Florence's transformation and the world around her.

Simon Reed reads Florence's manuscript and tells her she has talent but lacks a compelling story worth publishing yet.

Florence drunkenly emails photographs of Simon Reed's family to him as a threat, an act that will cost her her career.

During a cooking lesson at Helen's house, Florence discovers a prescription for clonazepam in Helen's bathroom cabinet.

A police officer visits Helen's property and Helen dismisses the visit to Florence as being about her outstanding speeding tickets.

At Helen's suggestion, Florence sends Vera a text saying she will be unreachable for weeks, severing her closest outside contact.

Helen reveals over dinner in Morocco that Mississippi Foxtrot is based on true events and the real Jenny served twenty-five years in prison.

Florence signs Helen Wilcox's name on her hospital discharge papers, formally committing herself to the stolen identity.

Florence secretly grinds pain pills into her friend Whitney's drink to prevent Whitney from revealing Florence's real name in Morocco.

Florence discovers that the manuscript Helen gave her to copy is actually stolen pages from a Peter Bowles novel, not Helen's writing.

Helen privately tells Florence she killed Jenny in self-defense and buried the body after panicking about the consequences.

Florence calls the Cairo police and learns that Jeanette Byrd was shot twice in the back of the head, exposing Helen's lie.

Helen reveals through the bathroom door that she named Florence the beneficiary of her estate so she could reclaim her own fortune.

Idrissi arrives and Florence tells him she killed Helen in self-defense, concealing that Helen was the author behind Maud Dixon.

Florence drugs Greta's wine and injects her with heroin taken from Helen's belongings, killing her in her hotel room.

Flying home in first class, Florence revises Helen's manuscript to center on Iris's dangerous point of view, making it her own.

Florence's moral descent begins long before Morocco, with a rejected manuscript and a deliberate choice to blackmail her boss that destroys her career at Forrester Books. At Helen's home in Cairo, quiet discoveries — a hidden prescription, an unexplained police visit, a neighbor's denied story — hint at danger that Florence refuses to see. Once in Morocco, Florence commits to her stolen identity step by step, from forging Helen's signature on hospital paperwork to drugging an old friend to bury the truth. Helen's private confessions and Florence's own investigation expose the full picture: Helen is a calculating murderer who has been planning Florence's death since before they left New York. Florence survives by adopting Helen's ruthless logic, and after killing both Helen and Greta, she rewrites the story of her own life and claims the name Maud Dixon as her own.