You Belong Here

As news of the lockdown spreads, a media van appears. Beckett goes to see Cliff, who argues with his son’s mother, Jane, about who’ll look after their son. The mother is about to start a 12-hour shift, while Cliff claims he’s occupied with the lockdown.

The boy and the mother leave, and Beckett questions Cliff about what happened to the girl. Cliff claims he has no information—the pit doesn’t have cameras. Beckett wonders if someone pushed her. Cliff reveals that the power went out last night.

Outside Beckett’s parents’ house is a police officer, who wants to talk to Delilah and establish a timeline. Beckett realizes that the dead body coincides with Delilah’s absence. As Delilah’s last name is Bowery, people suspect her.

Beckett informs Trevor about the dead body, and to get Delilah away from the scene, Trevor drives her an hour away to get a new phone and pick up groceries. Beckett takes a shower and receives odious texts from the FordGroup email address.

Beckett wants to make a list of who could be behind the FordGroup. While searching Hal’s desk for a pen and paper, she finds mortgage documents. As she believed her parents owned the house, she’s confused. She reasons that they misled her about ownership and took out a mortgage to stay near Wyatt College, which is “their world.”

Beckett asks the FordGroup to identify themselves. She hears the creaky gate and waits for someone to enter; instead, someone is “sneaking out” as if they were in the yard watching Beckett.

For their senior year howling, Adalyn and Beckett planned to use the tunnels to get to the old president’s house and defend the perimeter. To secure the skeleton key for the tunnels, Beckett acquired her father’s ID card on the pretext that she forgot her ID card in her dorm room. Later in the day, Cliff warned Beckett that Charlie and Micah would target them during the howling to avenge Charlie’s truck.

Trevor and Delilah return. Trevor jokes about knowing how to do his laundry, and Beckett imagines what her life would have been like if she had stayed with him. Beckett has dated, and her last partner claimed she’s bad at committing. Beckett believes she excels at commitment; she just doesn’t want to commit to them.

Beckett notices the bruises on Delilah’s knees and tells her about the body that Sierra found. Beckett questions Delilah about Hanna and her dorm situation. Delilah reveals that she hasn’t been staying at her grandparents’ house but at the school’s theater, where it’s quiet. Delilah is the victim of bullying. She thought Hanna was stealing her items, but then the items went missing when Hanna wasn’t around. The thefts escalated, from a photo on the wall to her laptop, which is why Delilah asked Trevor for money. Delilah believes someone has a key. Beckett wants to take Delilah back to Charlotte, but Delilah wants to stay.

Delilah makes sure her friends are fine in the lockdown, and then she helps Trevor with his macaroni bake. Beckett notes that Trevor is a good father, and Trevor wonders about the antique clock in the basement. While they eat, Delilah gets a message that the lockdown is done.

Alone with Trevor, Beckett reveals that Delilah is keeping secrets. Delilah hasn’t been confiding in Trevor, but she was texting Trevor “fun facts,” like Beckett was actually named after Beckett Hall, not Samuel Beckett. She then told Trevor that her tattoo is of the mountains, not a heartbeat. Trevor admits he didn’t respond admirably to Beckett’s pregnancy; Beckett concedes that she should’ve been patient.

Delilah knows the basics about Beckett’s history, but Beckett typically starts her story “in the after” when Beckett is abroad and pregnant. Beckett believes Delilah is in danger. While trying to use the dumbwaiter to send Trevor’s laundry upstairs, Beckett spots Delilah’s lost phone in the dumbwaiter box.

Beckett assumes that Delilah lied about losing her phone, came to the house, and threw her shattered phone in a hidden space. Beckett drops the phone into the dumbwaiter shaft and lowers the dumbwaiter. She tells Trevor the dumbwaiter isn’t working and goes upstairs.

Mayhew informs her that they found Adalyn Vale’s student ID on the dead body. As she wasn’t buried, authorities believe Adalyn died within the last two days.

Beckett claims the town is full of suspects, referring friends and family of Micah and Charlie who’d want vengeance. Beckett even suspects Mayhew; he was at the Low Bar when the two young men forced Adalyn to give them her necklace, and he chose “inaction.”

Beckett thinks of Adalyn as the howling noise and a shadow. She assumes Adalyn had been following and bullying Delilah. After much effort, she retrieves the phone from the dumbwaiter shaft, where she also finds a skeleton key around a necklace—the original key to the tunnels, the key that Hal could access. Trevor finds Beckett in the shaft, and Beckett doesn’t know what to tell Trevor; she doesn’t want to tell him that Delilah lied and destroyed evidence.

Beckett warned Adalyn that Charlie and Micah would track them in the woods, and Beckett advised that they skip the final howling. Adalyn believed that the young men should be scared of them. Beckett showed Adalyn the skeleton key to the tunnels, and Adalyn smiled.

Beckett tells Trevor about the phone and her theory that Adalyn was harassing Delilah. Beckett wants to talk directly to Delilah, but Delilah went to school. Worried for Delilah’s safety, Beckett drives to the school; to avoid the increased security, she parks in a lot that doesn’t require tags.

Blending in with a group of students, Beckett enters Beckett Hall and tests the key: It works. She goes to the third floor to return the key to the archives, but another key, a fake one, is there. Beckett assumes her father quietly made a replica years ago to “cover” for her taking it on the night of the men’s deaths. Dill and Cliff spot Beckett, and Dill asks Beckett to leave.