You Killed Me First

Liv reflects on the means she used to obtain the money to fund her studio, recalling that when none of the banks that she approached would give her a loan, she was forced to approach one of the founders of the bank she worked in: an arrogant old man named Lord Robert Harrison. As she expected, Harrison refused to grant Liv a loan. However, he also revealed his knowledge of Liv and Brandon’s online sexual content, and he threatened to terminate her contract.

However, because one of Harrison’s former secretaries had provided her with crucial information, Liv countered by revealing her own knowledge and proof of Harrison’s tendency to solicit sex from underage boys. In return for signing a nondisclosure agreement, Liv received a payout from Harrison and was able to buy her dream home and open her wellness studio.

Margot arrives unexpectedly at Anna’s place. Taking in the scene, she unflinchingly tends to Anna, dressing her wound and making her some tea. She never pries into Anna’s reasons for harming herself. Instead, Margot asserts that everyone, including her, has things that they regret from their past, and she suggests that Anna talk to someone and make peace with it all. Anna is overwhelmed and conflicted by Margot’s kindness, especially given that Margot is the final name on Anna’s kill list.

2000—25 Years Earlier

One night, a 14-year-old Margot accompanies her school friend, Jenny, along with Jenny’s older boyfriend, Warren, and Warren’s friend Zain, another older boy, as they all go to a supermarket. Warren and Zain are part of a group of older teenagers and people in their twenties who drink and abuse drugs; the boys supply drugs to Jenny and Margot as well.

The boys revere an older man named Eddie, who has tasked them with a robbery that night. Another boy, Andy, owes Eddie some money, so he pays off his debt by helping the gang to steal from the supermarket. Andy has instructed them that the money will be kept in a safe, and he also tells them how to find the key. However, when the group arrives at the supermarket, they cannot find the keys. An incensed Warren tries to break the safe apart by hitting it with a cricket bat. Hearing the noise, one of the store owners comes to investigate.

2000

A six-year-old Anna is awakened by her older brother. He leads her into their parents’ room, where Anna’s father instructs the children to hide underneath the bed. Anna’s father steps out of the room to investigate something, and moments later, a deafening bang is heard.

2000

After shooting and killing the supermarket owner, Warren disappears behind the door from which the man appeared and drags out the man’s wife. When she claims not to know where the key is, Warren kills her, too. A terrified Jenny and Zain run away. Before Warren can shoot her for being the sole remaining eyewitness, Margot suggests that they burn the place down together in order to destroy any fingerprints. As the pair of them pour lighter fluid all over the supermarket and the adjoining rooms, Margot drops one of the tins. She crouches down to pick it up and spots two young faces staring out at her from underneath the bed.

2000

Hidden under the bed, Anna tearfully listens as her mother is killed. She witnesses lighter fluid being sprayed all over the space, then catches a glimpse of a face as a girl spots her and her brother. Moments later, the building is ablaze. Anna’s brother drags himself and Anna out from underneath the bed, trying to get them both to safety. He collapses along the way, but Anna makes it out and sends the newly arrived police officers back to help her brother. As she watches them try and revive her unconscious brother, Anna decides that if her brother is dead, she doesn’t want to live either.

September: Two Months Before Bonfire Night

In the present, Anna works on her jewelry in the kitchen. Margot came by earlier that morning, checking in on her. Margot has made a habit of this recently, and her concern feels strange to Anna.

When Drew arrives, Anna asks him to clean up before they head over to Liv’s house, as Liv has invited them for drinks on her birthday. Drew reveals his awareness that Margot has been coming over to visit, and he also knows why. (Having noticed the brand-new white towels and the missing blades, he correctly intuits that Anna has cut herself again.) Drew angrily states that Anna has lost all perspective, especially given that Margot is responsible for Anna’s current state of mind. In his fury, Drew comes close to hurting Anna, but he storms out to avoid doing something that he regrets.

Margot arrives alone at Liv’s party, having had an argument with Nicu earlier that day. She senses Brandon’s attention on her again, and when he seemingly flirts with her, Margot responds in kind.

On Sunday morning, Margot is awakened by a livid Nicu who claims to know what she did, having seen Margot and “him” together. Wondering whether Nicu saw the messages on her phone, Margot admits to having an affair. However, she also claims that she ended it recently, knowing that it was wrong. The man she was seeing has a wife from whom he is separated, but no children; he had nothing to lose, and she did. A confused Nicu shows Margot a video of her and Brandon kissing in Liv’s kitchen, and Margot realizes that Nicu doesn’t know about the affair she has been having with another man for the last three months.

Margot arrives at Anna’s place in tears. She reveals that Nicu has moved out and has taken the children with him after learning of her affair. Anna is shocked to learn about Margot’s kiss with Brandon and her secret affair. Margot clarifies that she was drunk when she kissed Brandon, who immediately brushed her off. She also refuses to divulge any information about the man with whom she had the three-month affair, except to say that they met online. Margot believes that Liv is the one who recorded her infidelity and sent Nicu the video of her and Brandon. When Anna defends Liv, Margot storms off.

Three days after Nicu’s departure, a drunk and upset Margot, determined to save her marriage, spontaneously decides to drive down to Milton Keynes, where Nicu and the children are staying with a friend. On the way there, Margot spots Liv running alone. Livid at the thought that Liv might be responsible for her broken marriage, Margot hits Liv with her car. However, the impact is far greater than Margot anticipated, and Liv goes flying into a ditch. When Margot examines the fallen Liv and cannot find a pulse, she panics at the thought of having killed her and hastily drives back home.

October: One Month Before Bonfire Night

Anna goes to Margot’s with the news that Liv is in the hospital in critical condition following a hit-and-run accident the previous evening. Anna secretly worries that Drew may be responsible, as she smelled alcohol on his breath the previous evening. (Drew often drives home along the same route that Liv uses to go jogging.) Anna is surprised by Margot’s supposed concern and her willingness to help out with Liv’s kids while Liv is in the hospital.

As the police constantly swarm in and out of Liv’s house to investigate her accident, Margot stays largely cooped up inside her own home, only venturing out to help with Liv’s twins. While spending time with them, Margot begins to feel a newfound appreciation for Frankie and Tommy, especially when she recalls that they lost their mother at such a young age.

Margot accompanies Anna on a visit to Liv in the hospital. They are surprised to find her awake. Margot is relieved to learn that Liv doesn’t remember anything about the accident; the last thing Liv remembers is going for a run, before waking up in the hospital. Additionally, Liv’s memory from the week leading up to the accident is also fuzzy, and Margot wonders whether Liv even remembers recording and sending Nicu the video of Brandon and Margot.

When Anna helps Liv to the washroom, Margot goes through Liv’s phone. There are no videos of her and Brandon, but to Margot’s delight, she does find the OnlyFans videos that she had been unable to locate online. Margot immediately sends them to herself.

Margot and Anna spend the day with Liv. When it is time for them to leave, Margot hugs Liv goodbye, and Liv is suddenly struck by a familiar scent. The only detail that she remembers from the accident is a particular perfume: the same one that Margot is wearing.

An agitated Drew is waiting for Anna when she returns; he addresses her as “Joanna.” He admits that he had been drinking and driving on the day that Liv was hit; this is why he has only just now remembered that when he drove past the spot where Liv was found, he saw Margot’s car parked on the side of the road. A disbelieving Anna retorts that Margot never left the house on the day of Liv’s accident. Drew triumphantly shows her footage from the security camera at their door, in which Margot is seen leaving the house shortly after Liv heads out for a run. In the footage, Margot returns in a haste some time later, and a clip from later that night shows her scrubbing the front bumper of her car. When Anna is still incredulous, Drew insists that she believe him because he is her brother.

Anna reflects on vivid images from her past, particularly the moment when she and “Andrew” were hiding underneath the burning bed alone. She also recalls him being revived by the paramedics, and she then ponders the difficult transition that they both endured when their Pakistani uncle and aunt flew down to take care of them in the aftermath of the fire.

Seven years later, Anna spotted Margot on TV and immediately recognized her. Anna tried to report Margot to Detective Sergeant Roger Fenton. Fenton discounted Anna’s report about Margot, believing that Anna’s imagination was playing tricks on her. However, just recently, he recognized Anna in a photograph, standing alongside Margot in a magazine cover depicting Frankie’s recent birthday party. Fenton then came investigating when he realized that Anna and Margot were neighbors and that the other members of Margot’s gang were all dead. (Fenton is the very detective whom Drew murdered.)

Anna recalls that in the past, when her initial allegations came to nothing, she had been frustrated and despondent. However, once she began hearing her mother’s voice in her head, she began to feel a sense of purpose and she decided to seek revenge. Yet now that she knows Margot personally, Anna tells an enraged Drew that she is not going to do anything to Margot.