One Of Us Is Lying (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - One of Us Is Famous - full transcript
The case makes national news and Nate is forced to confront his past; Bronwyn makes a surprising discovery about Cooper, who must deal with a crisis of his own.
- The fuck?
Well, hello to you too.
- I saw your post.
- You could have
just named names.
- Why do you even care
who I sell to?
- Look,
it's not about the drugs.
It's about the hypocrisy.
Look, man, I'm sure you have
a lot of customers
who just pretend to be
so pure and clean.
I mean, they probably look down
on you for selling
even while buying from you.
I mean, don't you think
those assholes deserve
to be named and shamed?
Look, it's simple.
Give me someone else
to write about,
and I'll stop writing about you.
- If I game up my customers,
I wouldn't have anyone
to sell to.
- I mean,
if money's the issue, man,
name your price.
[suspenseful music]
- I don't want your money.
Oh, and that post?
Great advertising.
I just got
a ton of new customers.
- I don't think advertising
being a criminal
works out well
for anyone in the end.
- A mayor's beloved son,
murdered.
The suspects?
Four of his own classmates.
While police have not made
an official statement
on the matter,
my sources tell me
they're focusing
on the four students
who were with him when he died,
especially the one
with a history
of drug-related arrests.
Could this murder be tied
to the drug trade?
Stay tuned.
- That dead asshole might have
been right, Stan.
- Why aren't you dressed?
- Because I hate all my clothes.
- That's ridiculous.
Put this on.
And remember, there will be
cameras everywhere
now that this case is
national news.
- Is that why you look
like that?
Mom, I don't wanna-
- The media is singling you out
as the beauty of the group.
Wouldn't want to make you
look bad, would I?
- You know what?
I don't want to make you late.
I can find another ride.
[upbeat music]
[Big Data's "Dangerous"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ How could you know?
How could you know? ♪
♪ That those were my eyes ♪
♪ Peepin' through the floor,
it's like they know ♪
♪ It's like they know
I'm looking from the outside ♪
♪ And creeping to the door,
it's like they know ♪
♪ Now they're coming,
yeah, now they're coming ♪
♪ Out from the shadows ♪
♪ To take me to the court
because they know
♪ Then I shut this down ♪
♪ 'Cause they've been
watching all my windows ♪
- What?
- Didn't say anything.
- You want to, though.
- [snickers]
You want to lock it
to the frame,
not just the tire.
See?
- Thanks.
[indistinct chatter]
[apprehensive music]
[whispering] Hey!
Hey, did you guys see that?
Jake with Detective Wheeler.
Why would she be talking to him?
- She talked to Keely
at my showcase too.
- Okay, well,
you can both relax.
According to every news report
and Instagram post,
the police are totally focused
on Nate.
- I don't know.
I've seen a lot of tagged posts
saying we all conspired
together.
- Same.
The Bayview Four theory.
- Right, where Bronwyn's
the Brains, Cooper's the Brawn,
Nate's the Badass,
and Addy's the Blonde?
- Most actually say beauty.
- Those are just dumb memes.
Everyone knows it was Nate.
He had the most motive by far.
I bet he's in jail
before Homecoming.
- We're gonna find out
if this post is true.
And if it is,
it not only gives you motive
in Simon's murder, it's your
third strike in drug offenses.
- I know you're already dealing
with so much, Bronwyn,
but I have to ask about
this rumor that you cheated
in chemistry.
- It's a totally
baseless accusation.
I've never cheated
in any subject.
- Good, then I'm sure
you'll welcome
our disciplinary committee's
investigation.
If you're innocent,
this won't affect
your college applications
at all,
and I promise we'll be discrete.
The last thing we need is
the media reporting
on this too.
- You're a national headline
right now.
Chance of somebody
coming forward
for their 15 minutes of fame
is not small.
If we find any evidence
to corroborate this post,
or the fact that you've been
dealing drugs at all
while on probation,
that's jail time.
[tense music]
- We done?
- What would happen
if they did find something,
or thought they found something?
Just hypothetically.
- Well, then you'd fail
AP Chemistry.
And I suppose we'd have
to inform the police
since it would show motive
in Simon's murder.
But Bronwyn,
that's not gonna happen.
If you did nothing wrong,
there's nothing to worry about.
- I can't not worry.
Before this year,
I'd never been sent
to the principal's office.
Now it's a daily occurrence.
- The whole point of right now
is to just get away
from everything.
There's no staring classmates
or prying principals
or asshole reporters.
Maybe let's just take
a little break.
Just let the sound
of the waves...
- [laughs]
- Crashing.
- The taste
of these strawberries.
- [chuckles]
- And the sight...
[sighs]
Of your boyfriend's
amazing abs...
[soft playful music]
Take your mind off the stresses
of the day.
- I can try.
I'm sorry.
I know I've been
a little preoccupied.
- No, it's okay.
I get it.
Like, being caught up
in a murder investigation
is bound to be distracting.
And it's probably dumb of me
to even try to distract you
from that distraction, but I...
- No, it's... it's not dumb.
It's sweet.
It's just not that easy.
- Yeah.
You see, I did think that
the beach may not be enough,
which is why
I've gotten us tickets
to the Phoebe Bridgers concert
tomorrow night,
which I'm hoping comes under
the category of sweet
and not dumb because
I don't know...
- 'Course it does.
[answering machine beeps]
- Hey, Kris, um, it's me again.
Look, I know I have
a lot of explaining to do,
and I promise I can explain,
if you just give me a chance?
Call me back.
[apprehensive music]
[sighs]
♪ ♪
Yo.
What's up?
- Got your drug test back.
It's negative
for performance enhancers.
- Told you it would be.
- You didn't tell me it was
gonna be positive
for painkillers.
[apprehensive music]
- I thought they were just
testing for steroids.
- No. They did a full panel.
You wanna tell me how long
this has been going on?
- It was just once.
The showcase.
My shoulder was messed up,
and I was not about
to blow my chance... our chance.
- You knew you had
a drug test coming up,
so what were you thinking?
Now, the cops are already
trying to tie this thing
to Nate, so we can't have them
thinking that you have
anything to do with him.
- Yeah.
- Told them that they were from
a doctor back in Mississippi.
- [sighs] Thank you.
- No.
That's dangerous too.
The last thing we need
is for people to be digging
into your past.
What if the media get a hold...
- Dad, I know...
- What do you think...
- I know!
Don't you think
I'm scared about that too?
- You just gotta lie low.
Need you to tell me right now...
[phone buzzes]
If there are any more surprises.
Cooper.
♪ ♪
- There aren't.
- Okay.
- The whole internet thinks
Nate did it.
Wheeler's talking to everyone
close to us,
and the media's turning this
into some true crime,
must-see-TV crap,
so we have to make sure
we're on the same page.
- Let me guess.
That means your page?
You are the brains
of the operation, after all.
- Just tell us
what you think we should do.
I mean, I'm just the blonde one.
I need help.
- Okay,
we don't talk to reporters.
We give them something else
to talk about.
- Like what?
- Like a new suspect.
I mean, we know the cops think
we worked together,
so they're not gonna listen
to any other theories
unless we have hard evidence.
But the media?
Those vultures will turn
the slightest hint of something
into some national news story.
So if we set them
on the right trail,
maybe the cops will follow.
- Okay, but how are we supposed
to do that?
- Someone's posting
on About That,
claiming to be the killer,
so we start there.
I still think it's Janae.
I mean, who else would know
Simon's passwords?
And you said they were fighting
about the app.
Yeah, they were fighting,
but not enough
for her to kill him over it.
- Yeah, I don't think
it was just about the app.
She was mad at him
about something else,
something personal.
- Like what?
Were they together?
I mean, she was definitely
into him, right?
- That's perfect.
We know the media
loves a lover's spat,
so if we lay low
so they don't have
anything new to say about us,
we give them something on Janae,
maybe they'll run with it,
and they won't
go through our trash.
- I actually agree.
I'm trying to be on ESPN,
not TMZ.
- I could talk to her.
Not to brag,
but I'm, like, really good
at getting gossip out of people.
- That's good,
but you'd have to record it.
We need something
to leak to the press.
- I won't fuck it up.
I promise.
- Where were you?
- Nowhere.
- Question, when you lie to me,
do you actually expect me
to believe it,
or do you just hope
that I won't call you out on it?
- I'm not lying.
I went on a drive.
- Okay.
If you can't trust me,
then I guess
I shouldn't trust you, either.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Means that I finally
got into some of Simon's
encrypted files,
and I found something.
But I'm not gonna show me until
you tell me where you were.
- Fine.
I was with Nate
and Addy and Cooper.
- Are you insane?
So you guys really do have
some kind of murder club?
That's what everyone's
calling it on Instagram.
- That doesn't mean
you should call it that.
If anything,
it's a mutual exoneration club
because none of us did it.
- You don't know that.
I think one of them might have.
[suspenseful music]
I found it in a backup
of his drafts.
Simon wrote that the same day
that he wrote the post
about you and Addy and Nate.
- This can't be real.
- It is.
Whoever's posting on About That
changed Cooper's secret,
and my guess is that
that someone is Cooper.
♪ ♪
- Okay, hold on.
Hold on.
Slow down.
What did the original post say?
- It doesn't matter.
The point is that whoever
changed Cooper's post
did it after Simon was dead.
Who would do that
other than Cooper?
- Well,
depends what the secret it.
Are you gonna tell me?
- Okay, but you have to promise
you won't say anything
to anyone.
- I promise.
- The real post says that, um,
he's gay.
- Oh. Wow. Huh.
That's, um, unexpected.
Maeve thinks we should
just drop the laptop off
at the police station
anonymously,
but then, if Cooper isn't
the one that changed the post,
and I've outed him
for no reason,
then it's just unforgivable.
But if he did change it,
the police need to know.
- Right.
- Which is why I couldn't sleep,
and it sucks because we can't
do anything until tomorrow,
and if I could sleep,
maybe I could see things
a little bit more clearly,
but then my brain,
it's just playing
ping pong with itself.
- I actually have
a trick for that.
- I don't want drugs.
- Ha. No.
When I can't stop thinking
about something
I don't want to think about,
I watch horror movies.
- And that makes you
feel better?
- Totally.
I mean, when you're bracing
for the next jump scare,
you don't have time
to think about anything else.
- That actually makes sense.
- So?
Have you seen "The Birds"?
- No.
- [scoffs] What?
Okay, we need to fix that
right now.
- Are you gonna watch with me?
- Yeah, I mean, you kind of got
my head spinning too, Rojas.
I'm gonna send you the link.
You ready?
- Yeah.
- Three, two, one.
[birds cawing]
[seagulls cawing]
[hip-hop music playing
over headphones]
♪ ♪
- Cooper Clay?
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Hey, Nate!
Nate Macauley?
I was hoping for a quick word.
I'm working on a story
about Simon Kelleher.
I understand he wrote
about you a lot,
most recently about someone
overdosing
after you sold her pills?
I'd love to hear your side
of the story.
[upbeat music]
- Last party of the summer.
Both:
Cheers.
- Hey, Nate.
- Uh, hey.
Janae, right?
- Yeah.
- What's up?
- Can we just, um...
- Give me a sec.
- I want some drugs, please.
- I don't think
that's a good idea.
- Why not?
- Because you're wasted.
- I'm not drunk,
I'm just miserable, and I'm mad.
You hate Simon, right?
Me too.
We have that in common,
so we're basically besties,
so I really need to you give me
something that's gonna make
feel less miserable, please.
- You should go home.
- You should do your job.
You can keep the change.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- No comment.
- Or maybe we should start
at the beginning.
What led you to sell drugs
in the first place?
Was it your father's PTSD
or what happened
with your mother?
- Fuck you.
I said no comment.
- ♪ Oh no, oh no ♪
♪ Oh no, no, no, no ♪
- Fuck you. I said no comment.
- 50,000 views, bitches.
I'm literally so viral.
I'm the only one that can do
anything around here.
Ugh, so awkward.
- Hey.
Can I sit here?
- Why?
- 'Cause otherwise
we'd both be sitting alone?
- I don't mind sitting alone.
- I do, it's embarrassing.
- Look,
we don't even have to talk.
We can, like, sit alone,
just together.
- That's an oxymoron.
- You don't have to
call me names.
- That's not
what oxymoron means.
- I know. That was a joke.
- Hmm.
Didn't realize you make jokes.
- I do.
Sometimes they're even funny.
[fake cough]
Freaks.
- Um, this is awkward.
I just realized I, uh,
have to change my tampon.
It's an emergency.
Maybe we could, like, um,
hang out later?
Ride bikes, or whatever?
- Sure, or whatever.
- Okay.
Meet you at the bike rack
after school.
[inquisitive music]
♪ ♪
- I saw Vanessa's TikTok.
- Hey, you said not
to talk to reporters.
- Because I want you
to look less guilty.
Hey, Cooper's not here today.
- I noticed.
- And I heard the cops were
at his house this morning.
- The cops are talking
to everyone.
Might not mean anything.
- Or it may mean
that we're right,
that he changed his post
and he killed Simon.
Point is, we don't know.
We don't know
anything about him.
- I found out where he went
to school in Mississippi.
Maeve's making
a fake Instagram account
so she can see if she can talk
to anyone who knew him.
- Bronwyn.
- I just want to know
if we can trust him.
- There is no point in arguing
with you about this, is there?
- It's not as bad as it looks,
I promise.
They have really good pancakes,
and, bonus,
nobody else from school
would ever be caught dead here.
- I don't love pancakes,
but I do love the idea
of not seeing anyone else
from school, so.
- Hi, what can I get you?
- Blueberry pancakes
with maple syrup, please.
- Okay. You?
- I'll have the same.
- You got it.
- Thank you.
- Didn't you just tell me
you don't like pancakes?
- I said I don't love them.
- Why don't you order something
you do love?
- I hate ordering.
When Jake and I
would go out to eat,
we would split two things,
and he had stronger opinions
about food,
so he would order for us.
- Addy, has it ever occurred
to you
that Jake may have been
a little controlling?
- No. No, okay?
I just don't really care
about food,
and I find choosing stressful.
I like that he took the lead.
I know you think
he's an asshole,
but he's actually
really sweet and funny
when you get to know him.
- Sure.
- Um, sorry.
Just a text from Keely.
- What about Simon?
What was he like
when you got to know him?
- Why do you want to know?
- Because he was your friend?
- I don't know.
He was the coolest.
He wasn't trying to be anybody
but who he was,
and I guess he thought, like,
if he could do it...
Why couldn't anyone else?
That's what About That
was supposed to be for.
You know,
you expose the hypocrites,
and you encourage people
to be more real.
I know he got carried away.
- Did you ever want to stop him?
- Why the fuck
would you ask that?
- Sorry, uh.
Jake would get carried away too.
Like, at parties,
he'd be giving someone shit
and thinks he's being funny,
but...
Sometimes I wished I could
have stopped that side of him.
That's... that's all I meant.
- God.
[laughs]
You know, of all the people
I thought might understand,
I really didn't expect it
to be you.
- Of course I get it.
Janae, we both lost
our best friends,
the men that we were
in love with,
and I'm so glad
that I have someone
to talk about this with,
and I want you to know
that you can talk to me too
about anything...
- Are you serious?
- What?
- First of all,
I wasn't in love with Simon.
I'm gay, which you might know
if you ever paid attention
to anyone other than yourself.
And second of all, your shitty
little boyfriend dumped you.
My best friend was murdered.
It's not even remotely
the same thing.
- I'm sorry, I was just...
- Fuck you, Addy.
- Janae...
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Okay, can I just say,
catfishing works?
I cannot believe
how fast guys respond
when they think they're talking
to Maya Starr.
She's a junior,
really into Cooper,
but freaked out
by the murder rumors.
- Boys are idiots, Maeve.
Now show me the messages.
- Okay.
That guy, Travis, he played
baseball with Cooper
back in Mississippi,
and I really think
he knows something.
I've been really leaning
into the whole crush angle.
Like, can I trust him?
I know he's a great pitcher,
but people are saying
he's a murderer.
I just don't want to get hurt.
You know, woe is me...
- Maeve!
Let me read.
- That's it?
- Mm-hmm.
- He didn't say anything else?
- Nope.
15 minutes,
and it's been radio silence.
Do you think I should send him
another DM?
[phone buzzes]
- No, no, no, no, no!
How does he know what happened?
- What?
I don't know. I was so careful.
[phone buzzes]
[apprehensive music]
♪ ♪
- What?
Okay, Bronwyn,
promise me that you won't go.
What if he actually did it?
I mean, don't you have a date
with Evan tonight, anyway?
- [sighs]
[moaning]
- Okay, nope.
Turning it off.
- You want to come over?
We could watch it together.
And, bonus,
you can meet my lizard.
- Excuse me?
- Uh, that... that wasn't a line.
I actually have
a bearded dragon named Stan.
- [sighs] Thank God.
[phone buzzes]
Aw, he's really cute.
- I'll tell him you said so.
- Nate, are you sure
we shouldn't skip this meeting?
Maybe we should bring
the laptop to the police.
- Can I point out
the movie was working?
We... we turned it off
two seconds ago,
and you're already
worried again.
- We are about to meet
a potential murderer
in the middle of the night.
- I just want to see
what he has to say.
There's usually more to
a story than meets the eye.
[upbeat hip-hop music]
[both panting]
- Whoa, shit, sorry.
- [laughs]
[both panting]
Oh, my God.
- Oh, fuck.
Uh, actually, I changed my mind.
- What the fuck?
- Janae, Janae, hey.
Wake up! Janae.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- 911, what is the nature
of your emergency?
- Um, I need an ambulance,
44 Elm Road.
[whispering]
Please, please, please.
Come on.
Please, Janae.
Come on, I need you to throw up.
I need you to vomit.
- [gags]
[retches]
- It's just,
I know what it's like for people
to assume the worst about you.
I just need you to trust me.
If we still think
Cooper did it after tonight,
we'll go to the cops.
- If we're still alive.
- Coop?
Coop?
Are you gonna tell us
why we're here?
I can tell you guys about
what happened with Janae.
- No, no.
Let's let Cooper talk.
- He's not saying anything.
- Are you Maya Starr?
- Who?
- Travis figured it out.
Wasn't very hard.
He did a reverse image search
and found her real Instagram.
And your sister
happens to follow her.
[tense music]
You see, I thought that
we were working together
to find the police
a new suspect.
Or did you just mean
anyone other than Nate?
- No, um, it's not like that.
I heard your drug test
was negative,
and I just thought it was weird
that your secret was
the only one that was fake,
and then I heard the cops were
at your house this morning,
and I just figured...
- Then you could have asked me.
Instead of catfishing
my friend like a psycho.
- You weren't at school.
- Ugh!
I wasn't in school
because my dad
is in the fucking hospital.
He had a heart attack
this morning.
That's why the police
were at my house.
They came with the paramedics.
Cooper.
I'm so sorry.
- He could have died today,
and the last thing I would have
told him would have been a lie.
He could have died
not knowing who his son is.
- What are you talking about?
Of course he knows who you are.
- No, he doesn't.
None of you do.
[solemn music]
♪ ♪
- Guys...
I'm gay.
Okay, I... and I tell myself
I'm in the closet
just 'cause of baseball, but...
Then why can't I tell
my dad, right?
Maybe I'm just a coward.
And... and...
The only person I want
to talk to about this shit
isn't speaking to me 'cause
he knows I'm a coward.
- Hey.
You're not a coward.
And I'm really sorry.
- Look, you guys
can't tell anybody.
My life is already a total
mess, and if this gets out,
I don't know what I will do.
- Nobody's gonna say anything.
Okay? Don't worry.
- And if it makes you
feel better,
All of our lives
are total messes, man.
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Hey.
[indistinct chatter]
- Can you believe
Cooper and Keely?
I'm honestly impressed.
They're such good liars.
- I think when you tell
the same lie for long enough,
it stops feeling like a lie.
- What do you think he meant
when he said
the only person he wanted
to be talking to
isn't talking to him?
Do you think he has a boyfriend?
Oh, would that still
be cheating?
And which one would he
be cheating on?
- We don't even know
if there is a guy.
- Well, that's not
a suspicious pairing.
- What?
Oh, yeah.
Definitely not a good look.
[phone dings]
[phones dinging]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- "Your four
favorite murder suspects
held a secret midnight meeting
last night."
- "The only question is..."
- "Are they trying to cover up
what they did to Simon?"
- "Or are they choosing
their next victim?"
- It's not what it looks like.
- No?
Is it Photoshop?
Well, no, but...
- This was last night.
I thought you said
that you were sick.
- I... I just had to talk to them
because I thought I knew
who did it, and...
- And you trusted them with
that information instead of me?
Or, I don't know, the police?
So are you gonna explain?
- I don't think I can.
You want me to be the girl
you met this summer,
but she's gone.
This is my life right now,
and I don't want to be
distracted by the beach
or a concert.
I just want to figure out
who killed Simon.
So, yeah, I trusted them
over you and the police
about this because they're
the only ones who know
what I'm going through.
- Yeah.
Especially Nate, right?
- ♪ Come on home ♪
[gentle guitar music]
♪ Come on home ♪
- I'm so sorry.
I can't do this.
Us, anymore.
- Right, well.
I'll see you around, Bronwyn.
- ♪ Come on home ♪
- I don't even know
where to start.
- I'm so sorry.
- You're sorry?
Like you were sorry when you
cheated on your chemistry exam,
or how you were sorry
when your father
caught you skipping school?
Sorry isn't going to cut it
anymore, Bronwyn.
[doorbell rings]
I don't think you realize
how serious this is.
- Of course I do.
- Then you need to start
acting like it.
- Mr. Rojas?
- Yes.
- We have a warrant
to search your home.
- On what grounds?
- On the grounds that we have
a picture of your daughter
and three other
murder suspects trespassing
and conspiring together.
- Conspiring together?
And you can see that
in the picture?
- Well, apparently the judge
that signed this warrant could.
Miss, I'm gonna need you
to stay where I can see you.
- Sorry, officer, of course.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- This officer wants
to look through your shit.
- Is there anybody else
on the premises?
Are your parents home?
- No.
- Are you sure?
I don't want any surprises.
- Yes, sir. I'm sure.
- Coop, should I call Dad
or Nonny, or...
- No.
We don't want to worry them.
[siren wailing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[knock at door]
- How can I help you, officer?
- What are you looking for?
Don't warrants have to be
for something specific?
- Anything related
to Simon's murder.
Peanut oil, EpiPens,
his computer,
drugs you might be thinking
of selling,
as that would prove motive.
- Hands where I can see them.
- Ah, wouldn't the dog be
barking if I had drugs in here?
- You know a lot
about drug dogs?
- I watch a lot of TV.
[dog whimpers]
- I'm gonna need you
to open this.
♪ ♪
[safe beeps]
- It's me and my mom.
I didn't want my dad
to destroy it.
[indistinct radio chatter]
- This yours?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mind taking the cover off?
♪ ♪
- Do you need me to turn it on,
officer?
- That's okay.
That's not Simon's laptop.
- I really am sorry
the place is so messy.
I always wanted to be one
of those women
with the perfectly
organized home,
but I'm just not.
Maybe when I'm older.
Anyway, I... I hope
I didn't make your job harder.
- No, not at all,
but I should get going.
If either of you think
of anything else
that could be helpful, call me.
- Oh. I will.
Thank you, officer.
Anything I can do to help.
[whispers] Bye.
I hope you were
paying attention.
That's how you treat the police
if you want them on your side.
- You want me to flirt
with older men?
- [scoffs]
I was just being friendly.
- You know he thinks
I'm an actual murderer, right?
- Baby, he was just
doing his job.
Nobody wants to think you had
anything to do with this.
Look at you.
You're beautiful
and you're sweet.
That how people want to see you.
You just have to let them.
- But what if I want to be seen
as more than that?
- Like what?
[apprehensive music]
Like it or not, this is
your fifteen minutes of fame.
You're the blonde beauty, Addy.
You need to start
embracing that.
You should be going to school
everyday looking your best,
giving interviews,
posting more on Instagram.
If you play this right,
you could become an influencer.
This could be your chance
at a real future, baby.
- Wow, Mom, you're right.
I guess I really hadn't been
looking for the upside
to all of this.
- Bro, look at my room.
That guy was a dick.
- Man, I thought they were
gonna plant evidence to find.
Like, OJ style.
- You do know that OJ
was guilty, right?
- Well, yeah, but you know
the cops planted that glove.
- Ha-ha, you sounding
a lot like Dad.
- It's 'cause Dad knows
what he's talking about.
He would've flipped
if he was here.
Yeah, he would've.
I'm glad he wasn't.
He doesn't need any more stress,
which is why we're not gonna
tell him about this.
- Yeah, that's good. More lies.
- We gotta let him recover.
- Yeah.
He's gonna be okay, though.
Right?
- Yeah, of course.
- And what about you?
Gonna be okay?
[pensive music]
[phone buzzes]
- Yeah, little bro,
don't worry about me.
I'm gonna be fine.
[upbeat synth music]
♪ ♪
- Can I help you?
- I want it gone.
- Okay, um, I think a little bob
could look adorable...
- No.
Shorter. I want it all off.
- Wh... I... I don't think
you mean that.
Your hair is so beautiful,
I would hate to do...
- Do you guys do haircuts here?
Or do I go somewhere else?
- ♪ A while for a moment ♪
♪ To say I don't owe you
a goddamn thing! ♪
♪ I keep a record
of the wreckage of my life ♪
♪ I gotta recognize... ♪
Fix it.
- Where's the laptop?
- I'm not gonna tell you.
- Where is it?
- If I tell you where it is,
do you promise
that you'll bring it
to the cops?
[knock at window]
[gasps]
I'm sorry,
what is he doing here?
Mom and Dad will
literally kill you.
- I'm already grounded.
They're already gonna kill me
over the photo,
how much worse can it get?
- Look what I found.
- Seriously?
On the roof?
- I had to think fast.
You're welcome?
- You ready?
- Yeah.
- Where are you going?
- We're destroying it.
- What? You can't.
- The police just searched
our house, Maeve.
- Right, they obviously still
think that you're involved.
They need to know they should
be looking at Cooper.
- I don't think Cooper did it.
[suspenseful music]
- [scoffs] Okay,
just because someone cries
and tells you that their dad
had a heart attack
doesn't mean
that they're not a murderer.
- Maeve, if anyone has reason
to bring this thing
to the cops, it's me.
Okay?
We can't do that to Cooper.
♪ ♪
- I really hope you're right.
♪ ♪
- I feel like we're
about to scatter
his ashes or something.
Like, maybe we should
say something?
- You read my post this morning?
- I don't read that shit.
- You might want to on Friday.
Gonna be a good one.
- Sure it will be.
- What happened to Janae
was your fault.
You didn't think I'd just let
you get away with it, did you?
- Yeah, well, I'm not the one
that left my best friend wasted
and alone at a party.
- No, you're the one who sold
her enough pills to kill her.
Soon everyone's gonna find out.
- Look, man,
when are you gonna realize
that I don't give a shit
what you write about me?
- I think you might if your
probation officer reads it.
And if that doesn't work?
Well, I'll just keep looking.
Everyone gives
a shit about something.
Girlfriend...
[tense music]
Parent?
Getting warm.
Whatever it is,
I'm gonna find out.
I'm gonna destroy you with it.
♪ ♪
- Good riddance.
[mellow guitar music]
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
Did we really just do that?
- Yeah, we did.
- Holy shit.
- Thanks for trusting me.
- Who said I trust you?
- You talked to Cooper with me.
And now you are standing
on the edge of a cliff with me,
a suspected murderer.
- You're standing
on the edge of a cliff with me,
also a suspected murderer.
- Maybe we're both idiots.
- [chuckles]
- Bronwyn Rojas,
I solemnly swear
not to murder you today
or any day in the future.
- [chuckles]
- Do you?
- You are ridiculous,
you know that?
- It concerns me that
you're avoiding a promise
not to murder me.
- [clears throat]
Nate Macauley,
I promise not to murder you.
- That's hot.
- ♪ Yeah, I know
it seems surprising ♪
♪ When this lipstick
sits on the glass ♪
[engine revving]
- [gasps]
- You okay?
- Yeah.
We should...
We should get out of here.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Okay, um, my room is a mess.
Please don't judge.
- Oh, well, in that case...
I'm just kidding, I won't.
- Okay, wait,
are you sure your parents
aren't going to notice
you're gone?
- If they haven't by now,
I think I'm in the clear.
And I really want to meet Stan.
- Okay.
- Nathaniel.
- Mom?
[sentimental music]
♪ ♪
Well, hello to you too.
- I saw your post.
- You could have
just named names.
- Why do you even care
who I sell to?
- Look,
it's not about the drugs.
It's about the hypocrisy.
Look, man, I'm sure you have
a lot of customers
who just pretend to be
so pure and clean.
I mean, they probably look down
on you for selling
even while buying from you.
I mean, don't you think
those assholes deserve
to be named and shamed?
Look, it's simple.
Give me someone else
to write about,
and I'll stop writing about you.
- If I game up my customers,
I wouldn't have anyone
to sell to.
- I mean,
if money's the issue, man,
name your price.
[suspenseful music]
- I don't want your money.
Oh, and that post?
Great advertising.
I just got
a ton of new customers.
- I don't think advertising
being a criminal
works out well
for anyone in the end.
- A mayor's beloved son,
murdered.
The suspects?
Four of his own classmates.
While police have not made
an official statement
on the matter,
my sources tell me
they're focusing
on the four students
who were with him when he died,
especially the one
with a history
of drug-related arrests.
Could this murder be tied
to the drug trade?
Stay tuned.
- That dead asshole might have
been right, Stan.
- Why aren't you dressed?
- Because I hate all my clothes.
- That's ridiculous.
Put this on.
And remember, there will be
cameras everywhere
now that this case is
national news.
- Is that why you look
like that?
Mom, I don't wanna-
- The media is singling you out
as the beauty of the group.
Wouldn't want to make you
look bad, would I?
- You know what?
I don't want to make you late.
I can find another ride.
[upbeat music]
[Big Data's "Dangerous"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ How could you know?
How could you know? ♪
♪ That those were my eyes ♪
♪ Peepin' through the floor,
it's like they know ♪
♪ It's like they know
I'm looking from the outside ♪
♪ And creeping to the door,
it's like they know ♪
♪ Now they're coming,
yeah, now they're coming ♪
♪ Out from the shadows ♪
♪ To take me to the court
because they know
♪ Then I shut this down ♪
♪ 'Cause they've been
watching all my windows ♪
- What?
- Didn't say anything.
- You want to, though.
- [snickers]
You want to lock it
to the frame,
not just the tire.
See?
- Thanks.
[indistinct chatter]
[apprehensive music]
[whispering] Hey!
Hey, did you guys see that?
Jake with Detective Wheeler.
Why would she be talking to him?
- She talked to Keely
at my showcase too.
- Okay, well,
you can both relax.
According to every news report
and Instagram post,
the police are totally focused
on Nate.
- I don't know.
I've seen a lot of tagged posts
saying we all conspired
together.
- Same.
The Bayview Four theory.
- Right, where Bronwyn's
the Brains, Cooper's the Brawn,
Nate's the Badass,
and Addy's the Blonde?
- Most actually say beauty.
- Those are just dumb memes.
Everyone knows it was Nate.
He had the most motive by far.
I bet he's in jail
before Homecoming.
- We're gonna find out
if this post is true.
And if it is,
it not only gives you motive
in Simon's murder, it's your
third strike in drug offenses.
- I know you're already dealing
with so much, Bronwyn,
but I have to ask about
this rumor that you cheated
in chemistry.
- It's a totally
baseless accusation.
I've never cheated
in any subject.
- Good, then I'm sure
you'll welcome
our disciplinary committee's
investigation.
If you're innocent,
this won't affect
your college applications
at all,
and I promise we'll be discrete.
The last thing we need is
the media reporting
on this too.
- You're a national headline
right now.
Chance of somebody
coming forward
for their 15 minutes of fame
is not small.
If we find any evidence
to corroborate this post,
or the fact that you've been
dealing drugs at all
while on probation,
that's jail time.
[tense music]
- We done?
- What would happen
if they did find something,
or thought they found something?
Just hypothetically.
- Well, then you'd fail
AP Chemistry.
And I suppose we'd have
to inform the police
since it would show motive
in Simon's murder.
But Bronwyn,
that's not gonna happen.
If you did nothing wrong,
there's nothing to worry about.
- I can't not worry.
Before this year,
I'd never been sent
to the principal's office.
Now it's a daily occurrence.
- The whole point of right now
is to just get away
from everything.
There's no staring classmates
or prying principals
or asshole reporters.
Maybe let's just take
a little break.
Just let the sound
of the waves...
- [laughs]
- Crashing.
- The taste
of these strawberries.
- [chuckles]
- And the sight...
[sighs]
Of your boyfriend's
amazing abs...
[soft playful music]
Take your mind off the stresses
of the day.
- I can try.
I'm sorry.
I know I've been
a little preoccupied.
- No, it's okay.
I get it.
Like, being caught up
in a murder investigation
is bound to be distracting.
And it's probably dumb of me
to even try to distract you
from that distraction, but I...
- No, it's... it's not dumb.
It's sweet.
It's just not that easy.
- Yeah.
You see, I did think that
the beach may not be enough,
which is why
I've gotten us tickets
to the Phoebe Bridgers concert
tomorrow night,
which I'm hoping comes under
the category of sweet
and not dumb because
I don't know...
- 'Course it does.
[answering machine beeps]
- Hey, Kris, um, it's me again.
Look, I know I have
a lot of explaining to do,
and I promise I can explain,
if you just give me a chance?
Call me back.
[apprehensive music]
[sighs]
♪ ♪
Yo.
What's up?
- Got your drug test back.
It's negative
for performance enhancers.
- Told you it would be.
- You didn't tell me it was
gonna be positive
for painkillers.
[apprehensive music]
- I thought they were just
testing for steroids.
- No. They did a full panel.
You wanna tell me how long
this has been going on?
- It was just once.
The showcase.
My shoulder was messed up,
and I was not about
to blow my chance... our chance.
- You knew you had
a drug test coming up,
so what were you thinking?
Now, the cops are already
trying to tie this thing
to Nate, so we can't have them
thinking that you have
anything to do with him.
- Yeah.
- Told them that they were from
a doctor back in Mississippi.
- [sighs] Thank you.
- No.
That's dangerous too.
The last thing we need
is for people to be digging
into your past.
What if the media get a hold...
- Dad, I know...
- What do you think...
- I know!
Don't you think
I'm scared about that too?
- You just gotta lie low.
Need you to tell me right now...
[phone buzzes]
If there are any more surprises.
Cooper.
♪ ♪
- There aren't.
- Okay.
- The whole internet thinks
Nate did it.
Wheeler's talking to everyone
close to us,
and the media's turning this
into some true crime,
must-see-TV crap,
so we have to make sure
we're on the same page.
- Let me guess.
That means your page?
You are the brains
of the operation, after all.
- Just tell us
what you think we should do.
I mean, I'm just the blonde one.
I need help.
- Okay,
we don't talk to reporters.
We give them something else
to talk about.
- Like what?
- Like a new suspect.
I mean, we know the cops think
we worked together,
so they're not gonna listen
to any other theories
unless we have hard evidence.
But the media?
Those vultures will turn
the slightest hint of something
into some national news story.
So if we set them
on the right trail,
maybe the cops will follow.
- Okay, but how are we supposed
to do that?
- Someone's posting
on About That,
claiming to be the killer,
so we start there.
I still think it's Janae.
I mean, who else would know
Simon's passwords?
And you said they were fighting
about the app.
Yeah, they were fighting,
but not enough
for her to kill him over it.
- Yeah, I don't think
it was just about the app.
She was mad at him
about something else,
something personal.
- Like what?
Were they together?
I mean, she was definitely
into him, right?
- That's perfect.
We know the media
loves a lover's spat,
so if we lay low
so they don't have
anything new to say about us,
we give them something on Janae,
maybe they'll run with it,
and they won't
go through our trash.
- I actually agree.
I'm trying to be on ESPN,
not TMZ.
- I could talk to her.
Not to brag,
but I'm, like, really good
at getting gossip out of people.
- That's good,
but you'd have to record it.
We need something
to leak to the press.
- I won't fuck it up.
I promise.
- Where were you?
- Nowhere.
- Question, when you lie to me,
do you actually expect me
to believe it,
or do you just hope
that I won't call you out on it?
- I'm not lying.
I went on a drive.
- Okay.
If you can't trust me,
then I guess
I shouldn't trust you, either.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Means that I finally
got into some of Simon's
encrypted files,
and I found something.
But I'm not gonna show me until
you tell me where you were.
- Fine.
I was with Nate
and Addy and Cooper.
- Are you insane?
So you guys really do have
some kind of murder club?
That's what everyone's
calling it on Instagram.
- That doesn't mean
you should call it that.
If anything,
it's a mutual exoneration club
because none of us did it.
- You don't know that.
I think one of them might have.
[suspenseful music]
I found it in a backup
of his drafts.
Simon wrote that the same day
that he wrote the post
about you and Addy and Nate.
- This can't be real.
- It is.
Whoever's posting on About That
changed Cooper's secret,
and my guess is that
that someone is Cooper.
♪ ♪
- Okay, hold on.
Hold on.
Slow down.
What did the original post say?
- It doesn't matter.
The point is that whoever
changed Cooper's post
did it after Simon was dead.
Who would do that
other than Cooper?
- Well,
depends what the secret it.
Are you gonna tell me?
- Okay, but you have to promise
you won't say anything
to anyone.
- I promise.
- The real post says that, um,
he's gay.
- Oh. Wow. Huh.
That's, um, unexpected.
Maeve thinks we should
just drop the laptop off
at the police station
anonymously,
but then, if Cooper isn't
the one that changed the post,
and I've outed him
for no reason,
then it's just unforgivable.
But if he did change it,
the police need to know.
- Right.
- Which is why I couldn't sleep,
and it sucks because we can't
do anything until tomorrow,
and if I could sleep,
maybe I could see things
a little bit more clearly,
but then my brain,
it's just playing
ping pong with itself.
- I actually have
a trick for that.
- I don't want drugs.
- Ha. No.
When I can't stop thinking
about something
I don't want to think about,
I watch horror movies.
- And that makes you
feel better?
- Totally.
I mean, when you're bracing
for the next jump scare,
you don't have time
to think about anything else.
- That actually makes sense.
- So?
Have you seen "The Birds"?
- No.
- [scoffs] What?
Okay, we need to fix that
right now.
- Are you gonna watch with me?
- Yeah, I mean, you kind of got
my head spinning too, Rojas.
I'm gonna send you the link.
You ready?
- Yeah.
- Three, two, one.
[birds cawing]
[seagulls cawing]
[hip-hop music playing
over headphones]
♪ ♪
- Cooper Clay?
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Hey, Nate!
Nate Macauley?
I was hoping for a quick word.
I'm working on a story
about Simon Kelleher.
I understand he wrote
about you a lot,
most recently about someone
overdosing
after you sold her pills?
I'd love to hear your side
of the story.
[upbeat music]
- Last party of the summer.
Both:
Cheers.
- Hey, Nate.
- Uh, hey.
Janae, right?
- Yeah.
- What's up?
- Can we just, um...
- Give me a sec.
- I want some drugs, please.
- I don't think
that's a good idea.
- Why not?
- Because you're wasted.
- I'm not drunk,
I'm just miserable, and I'm mad.
You hate Simon, right?
Me too.
We have that in common,
so we're basically besties,
so I really need to you give me
something that's gonna make
feel less miserable, please.
- You should go home.
- You should do your job.
You can keep the change.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- No comment.
- Or maybe we should start
at the beginning.
What led you to sell drugs
in the first place?
Was it your father's PTSD
or what happened
with your mother?
- Fuck you.
I said no comment.
- ♪ Oh no, oh no ♪
♪ Oh no, no, no, no ♪
- Fuck you. I said no comment.
- 50,000 views, bitches.
I'm literally so viral.
I'm the only one that can do
anything around here.
Ugh, so awkward.
- Hey.
Can I sit here?
- Why?
- 'Cause otherwise
we'd both be sitting alone?
- I don't mind sitting alone.
- I do, it's embarrassing.
- Look,
we don't even have to talk.
We can, like, sit alone,
just together.
- That's an oxymoron.
- You don't have to
call me names.
- That's not
what oxymoron means.
- I know. That was a joke.
- Hmm.
Didn't realize you make jokes.
- I do.
Sometimes they're even funny.
[fake cough]
Freaks.
- Um, this is awkward.
I just realized I, uh,
have to change my tampon.
It's an emergency.
Maybe we could, like, um,
hang out later?
Ride bikes, or whatever?
- Sure, or whatever.
- Okay.
Meet you at the bike rack
after school.
[inquisitive music]
♪ ♪
- I saw Vanessa's TikTok.
- Hey, you said not
to talk to reporters.
- Because I want you
to look less guilty.
Hey, Cooper's not here today.
- I noticed.
- And I heard the cops were
at his house this morning.
- The cops are talking
to everyone.
Might not mean anything.
- Or it may mean
that we're right,
that he changed his post
and he killed Simon.
Point is, we don't know.
We don't know
anything about him.
- I found out where he went
to school in Mississippi.
Maeve's making
a fake Instagram account
so she can see if she can talk
to anyone who knew him.
- Bronwyn.
- I just want to know
if we can trust him.
- There is no point in arguing
with you about this, is there?
- It's not as bad as it looks,
I promise.
They have really good pancakes,
and, bonus,
nobody else from school
would ever be caught dead here.
- I don't love pancakes,
but I do love the idea
of not seeing anyone else
from school, so.
- Hi, what can I get you?
- Blueberry pancakes
with maple syrup, please.
- Okay. You?
- I'll have the same.
- You got it.
- Thank you.
- Didn't you just tell me
you don't like pancakes?
- I said I don't love them.
- Why don't you order something
you do love?
- I hate ordering.
When Jake and I
would go out to eat,
we would split two things,
and he had stronger opinions
about food,
so he would order for us.
- Addy, has it ever occurred
to you
that Jake may have been
a little controlling?
- No. No, okay?
I just don't really care
about food,
and I find choosing stressful.
I like that he took the lead.
I know you think
he's an asshole,
but he's actually
really sweet and funny
when you get to know him.
- Sure.
- Um, sorry.
Just a text from Keely.
- What about Simon?
What was he like
when you got to know him?
- Why do you want to know?
- Because he was your friend?
- I don't know.
He was the coolest.
He wasn't trying to be anybody
but who he was,
and I guess he thought, like,
if he could do it...
Why couldn't anyone else?
That's what About That
was supposed to be for.
You know,
you expose the hypocrites,
and you encourage people
to be more real.
I know he got carried away.
- Did you ever want to stop him?
- Why the fuck
would you ask that?
- Sorry, uh.
Jake would get carried away too.
Like, at parties,
he'd be giving someone shit
and thinks he's being funny,
but...
Sometimes I wished I could
have stopped that side of him.
That's... that's all I meant.
- God.
[laughs]
You know, of all the people
I thought might understand,
I really didn't expect it
to be you.
- Of course I get it.
Janae, we both lost
our best friends,
the men that we were
in love with,
and I'm so glad
that I have someone
to talk about this with,
and I want you to know
that you can talk to me too
about anything...
- Are you serious?
- What?
- First of all,
I wasn't in love with Simon.
I'm gay, which you might know
if you ever paid attention
to anyone other than yourself.
And second of all, your shitty
little boyfriend dumped you.
My best friend was murdered.
It's not even remotely
the same thing.
- I'm sorry, I was just...
- Fuck you, Addy.
- Janae...
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Okay, can I just say,
catfishing works?
I cannot believe
how fast guys respond
when they think they're talking
to Maya Starr.
She's a junior,
really into Cooper,
but freaked out
by the murder rumors.
- Boys are idiots, Maeve.
Now show me the messages.
- Okay.
That guy, Travis, he played
baseball with Cooper
back in Mississippi,
and I really think
he knows something.
I've been really leaning
into the whole crush angle.
Like, can I trust him?
I know he's a great pitcher,
but people are saying
he's a murderer.
I just don't want to get hurt.
You know, woe is me...
- Maeve!
Let me read.
- That's it?
- Mm-hmm.
- He didn't say anything else?
- Nope.
15 minutes,
and it's been radio silence.
Do you think I should send him
another DM?
[phone buzzes]
- No, no, no, no, no!
How does he know what happened?
- What?
I don't know. I was so careful.
[phone buzzes]
[apprehensive music]
♪ ♪
- What?
Okay, Bronwyn,
promise me that you won't go.
What if he actually did it?
I mean, don't you have a date
with Evan tonight, anyway?
- [sighs]
[moaning]
- Okay, nope.
Turning it off.
- You want to come over?
We could watch it together.
And, bonus,
you can meet my lizard.
- Excuse me?
- Uh, that... that wasn't a line.
I actually have
a bearded dragon named Stan.
- [sighs] Thank God.
[phone buzzes]
Aw, he's really cute.
- I'll tell him you said so.
- Nate, are you sure
we shouldn't skip this meeting?
Maybe we should bring
the laptop to the police.
- Can I point out
the movie was working?
We... we turned it off
two seconds ago,
and you're already
worried again.
- We are about to meet
a potential murderer
in the middle of the night.
- I just want to see
what he has to say.
There's usually more to
a story than meets the eye.
[upbeat hip-hop music]
[both panting]
- Whoa, shit, sorry.
- [laughs]
[both panting]
Oh, my God.
- Oh, fuck.
Uh, actually, I changed my mind.
- What the fuck?
- Janae, Janae, hey.
Wake up! Janae.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- 911, what is the nature
of your emergency?
- Um, I need an ambulance,
44 Elm Road.
[whispering]
Please, please, please.
Come on.
Please, Janae.
Come on, I need you to throw up.
I need you to vomit.
- [gags]
[retches]
- It's just,
I know what it's like for people
to assume the worst about you.
I just need you to trust me.
If we still think
Cooper did it after tonight,
we'll go to the cops.
- If we're still alive.
- Coop?
Coop?
Are you gonna tell us
why we're here?
I can tell you guys about
what happened with Janae.
- No, no.
Let's let Cooper talk.
- He's not saying anything.
- Are you Maya Starr?
- Who?
- Travis figured it out.
Wasn't very hard.
He did a reverse image search
and found her real Instagram.
And your sister
happens to follow her.
[tense music]
You see, I thought that
we were working together
to find the police
a new suspect.
Or did you just mean
anyone other than Nate?
- No, um, it's not like that.
I heard your drug test
was negative,
and I just thought it was weird
that your secret was
the only one that was fake,
and then I heard the cops were
at your house this morning,
and I just figured...
- Then you could have asked me.
Instead of catfishing
my friend like a psycho.
- You weren't at school.
- Ugh!
I wasn't in school
because my dad
is in the fucking hospital.
He had a heart attack
this morning.
That's why the police
were at my house.
They came with the paramedics.
Cooper.
I'm so sorry.
- He could have died today,
and the last thing I would have
told him would have been a lie.
He could have died
not knowing who his son is.
- What are you talking about?
Of course he knows who you are.
- No, he doesn't.
None of you do.
[solemn music]
♪ ♪
- Guys...
I'm gay.
Okay, I... and I tell myself
I'm in the closet
just 'cause of baseball, but...
Then why can't I tell
my dad, right?
Maybe I'm just a coward.
And... and...
The only person I want
to talk to about this shit
isn't speaking to me 'cause
he knows I'm a coward.
- Hey.
You're not a coward.
And I'm really sorry.
- Look, you guys
can't tell anybody.
My life is already a total
mess, and if this gets out,
I don't know what I will do.
- Nobody's gonna say anything.
Okay? Don't worry.
- And if it makes you
feel better,
All of our lives
are total messes, man.
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Hey.
[indistinct chatter]
- Can you believe
Cooper and Keely?
I'm honestly impressed.
They're such good liars.
- I think when you tell
the same lie for long enough,
it stops feeling like a lie.
- What do you think he meant
when he said
the only person he wanted
to be talking to
isn't talking to him?
Do you think he has a boyfriend?
Oh, would that still
be cheating?
And which one would he
be cheating on?
- We don't even know
if there is a guy.
- Well, that's not
a suspicious pairing.
- What?
Oh, yeah.
Definitely not a good look.
[phone dings]
[phones dinging]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- "Your four
favorite murder suspects
held a secret midnight meeting
last night."
- "The only question is..."
- "Are they trying to cover up
what they did to Simon?"
- "Or are they choosing
their next victim?"
- It's not what it looks like.
- No?
Is it Photoshop?
Well, no, but...
- This was last night.
I thought you said
that you were sick.
- I... I just had to talk to them
because I thought I knew
who did it, and...
- And you trusted them with
that information instead of me?
Or, I don't know, the police?
So are you gonna explain?
- I don't think I can.
You want me to be the girl
you met this summer,
but she's gone.
This is my life right now,
and I don't want to be
distracted by the beach
or a concert.
I just want to figure out
who killed Simon.
So, yeah, I trusted them
over you and the police
about this because they're
the only ones who know
what I'm going through.
- Yeah.
Especially Nate, right?
- ♪ Come on home ♪
[gentle guitar music]
♪ Come on home ♪
- I'm so sorry.
I can't do this.
Us, anymore.
- Right, well.
I'll see you around, Bronwyn.
- ♪ Come on home ♪
- I don't even know
where to start.
- I'm so sorry.
- You're sorry?
Like you were sorry when you
cheated on your chemistry exam,
or how you were sorry
when your father
caught you skipping school?
Sorry isn't going to cut it
anymore, Bronwyn.
[doorbell rings]
I don't think you realize
how serious this is.
- Of course I do.
- Then you need to start
acting like it.
- Mr. Rojas?
- Yes.
- We have a warrant
to search your home.
- On what grounds?
- On the grounds that we have
a picture of your daughter
and three other
murder suspects trespassing
and conspiring together.
- Conspiring together?
And you can see that
in the picture?
- Well, apparently the judge
that signed this warrant could.
Miss, I'm gonna need you
to stay where I can see you.
- Sorry, officer, of course.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- This officer wants
to look through your shit.
- Is there anybody else
on the premises?
Are your parents home?
- No.
- Are you sure?
I don't want any surprises.
- Yes, sir. I'm sure.
- Coop, should I call Dad
or Nonny, or...
- No.
We don't want to worry them.
[siren wailing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[knock at door]
- How can I help you, officer?
- What are you looking for?
Don't warrants have to be
for something specific?
- Anything related
to Simon's murder.
Peanut oil, EpiPens,
his computer,
drugs you might be thinking
of selling,
as that would prove motive.
- Hands where I can see them.
- Ah, wouldn't the dog be
barking if I had drugs in here?
- You know a lot
about drug dogs?
- I watch a lot of TV.
[dog whimpers]
- I'm gonna need you
to open this.
♪ ♪
[safe beeps]
- It's me and my mom.
I didn't want my dad
to destroy it.
[indistinct radio chatter]
- This yours?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mind taking the cover off?
♪ ♪
- Do you need me to turn it on,
officer?
- That's okay.
That's not Simon's laptop.
- I really am sorry
the place is so messy.
I always wanted to be one
of those women
with the perfectly
organized home,
but I'm just not.
Maybe when I'm older.
Anyway, I... I hope
I didn't make your job harder.
- No, not at all,
but I should get going.
If either of you think
of anything else
that could be helpful, call me.
- Oh. I will.
Thank you, officer.
Anything I can do to help.
[whispers] Bye.
I hope you were
paying attention.
That's how you treat the police
if you want them on your side.
- You want me to flirt
with older men?
- [scoffs]
I was just being friendly.
- You know he thinks
I'm an actual murderer, right?
- Baby, he was just
doing his job.
Nobody wants to think you had
anything to do with this.
Look at you.
You're beautiful
and you're sweet.
That how people want to see you.
You just have to let them.
- But what if I want to be seen
as more than that?
- Like what?
[apprehensive music]
Like it or not, this is
your fifteen minutes of fame.
You're the blonde beauty, Addy.
You need to start
embracing that.
You should be going to school
everyday looking your best,
giving interviews,
posting more on Instagram.
If you play this right,
you could become an influencer.
This could be your chance
at a real future, baby.
- Wow, Mom, you're right.
I guess I really hadn't been
looking for the upside
to all of this.
- Bro, look at my room.
That guy was a dick.
- Man, I thought they were
gonna plant evidence to find.
Like, OJ style.
- You do know that OJ
was guilty, right?
- Well, yeah, but you know
the cops planted that glove.
- Ha-ha, you sounding
a lot like Dad.
- It's 'cause Dad knows
what he's talking about.
He would've flipped
if he was here.
Yeah, he would've.
I'm glad he wasn't.
He doesn't need any more stress,
which is why we're not gonna
tell him about this.
- Yeah, that's good. More lies.
- We gotta let him recover.
- Yeah.
He's gonna be okay, though.
Right?
- Yeah, of course.
- And what about you?
Gonna be okay?
[pensive music]
[phone buzzes]
- Yeah, little bro,
don't worry about me.
I'm gonna be fine.
[upbeat synth music]
♪ ♪
- Can I help you?
- I want it gone.
- Okay, um, I think a little bob
could look adorable...
- No.
Shorter. I want it all off.
- Wh... I... I don't think
you mean that.
Your hair is so beautiful,
I would hate to do...
- Do you guys do haircuts here?
Or do I go somewhere else?
- ♪ A while for a moment ♪
♪ To say I don't owe you
a goddamn thing! ♪
♪ I keep a record
of the wreckage of my life ♪
♪ I gotta recognize... ♪
Fix it.
- Where's the laptop?
- I'm not gonna tell you.
- Where is it?
- If I tell you where it is,
do you promise
that you'll bring it
to the cops?
[knock at window]
[gasps]
I'm sorry,
what is he doing here?
Mom and Dad will
literally kill you.
- I'm already grounded.
They're already gonna kill me
over the photo,
how much worse can it get?
- Look what I found.
- Seriously?
On the roof?
- I had to think fast.
You're welcome?
- You ready?
- Yeah.
- Where are you going?
- We're destroying it.
- What? You can't.
- The police just searched
our house, Maeve.
- Right, they obviously still
think that you're involved.
They need to know they should
be looking at Cooper.
- I don't think Cooper did it.
[suspenseful music]
- [scoffs] Okay,
just because someone cries
and tells you that their dad
had a heart attack
doesn't mean
that they're not a murderer.
- Maeve, if anyone has reason
to bring this thing
to the cops, it's me.
Okay?
We can't do that to Cooper.
♪ ♪
- I really hope you're right.
♪ ♪
- I feel like we're
about to scatter
his ashes or something.
Like, maybe we should
say something?
- You read my post this morning?
- I don't read that shit.
- You might want to on Friday.
Gonna be a good one.
- Sure it will be.
- What happened to Janae
was your fault.
You didn't think I'd just let
you get away with it, did you?
- Yeah, well, I'm not the one
that left my best friend wasted
and alone at a party.
- No, you're the one who sold
her enough pills to kill her.
Soon everyone's gonna find out.
- Look, man,
when are you gonna realize
that I don't give a shit
what you write about me?
- I think you might if your
probation officer reads it.
And if that doesn't work?
Well, I'll just keep looking.
Everyone gives
a shit about something.
Girlfriend...
[tense music]
Parent?
Getting warm.
Whatever it is,
I'm gonna find out.
I'm gonna destroy you with it.
♪ ♪
- Good riddance.
[mellow guitar music]
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
Did we really just do that?
- Yeah, we did.
- Holy shit.
- Thanks for trusting me.
- Who said I trust you?
- You talked to Cooper with me.
And now you are standing
on the edge of a cliff with me,
a suspected murderer.
- You're standing
on the edge of a cliff with me,
also a suspected murderer.
- Maybe we're both idiots.
- [chuckles]
- Bronwyn Rojas,
I solemnly swear
not to murder you today
or any day in the future.
- [chuckles]
- Do you?
- You are ridiculous,
you know that?
- It concerns me that
you're avoiding a promise
not to murder me.
- [clears throat]
Nate Macauley,
I promise not to murder you.
- That's hot.
- ♪ Yeah, I know
it seems surprising ♪
♪ When this lipstick
sits on the glass ♪
[engine revving]
- [gasps]
- You okay?
- Yeah.
We should...
We should get out of here.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Okay, um, my room is a mess.
Please don't judge.
- Oh, well, in that case...
I'm just kidding, I won't.
- Okay, wait,
are you sure your parents
aren't going to notice
you're gone?
- If they haven't by now,
I think I'm in the clear.
And I really want to meet Stan.
- Okay.
- Nathaniel.
- Mom?
[sentimental music]
♪ ♪