Helen and Sean leave together, but Sean disappears one day and Helen does not look for him. Jules and Lena go to London and have a much stronger relationship than they did at the beginning. In the months after Patrick’s confession, each of the characters leaves Beckford. Patrick then confesses to killing Nel and to killing his own wife, Lauren, years ago. Jules goes to the Townsend house and accuses Helen of murdering Nel. Lena tells Jules that Nel was murdered, having learned from Mark that Helen Townsend, Sean’s wife, had a bracelet in her office that was missing from Nel’s body after her death. Lena shows up in a nearby village and Sean brings her back to Beckford. Meanwhile, Erin learns that Sean was romantically involved with Nel, which calls his involvement in the investigation into question. She learns that a key fact she believed about Nel-that Nel knew of her rape-was untrue, and this reframes her whole relationship with her sister. Jules realizes that Lena is Robbie’s daughter and goes to confront him. They fight, and Mark drives out of town with Lena in his trunk. Lena tells Jules that Nel scared or threatened Katie and drove her to suicide she then runs away from home and goes back to Mark’s house. Louise confronts Lena over her knowledge of Katie’s relationship with Mark. Sean and Erin question Lena, who tells them that Katie killed herself to protect Mark. Josh, unable to continue repressing what he knows, reveals Katie’s relationship with Mark to DI Townsend. Lena and Katie’s sister, Josh, break the windows at Mark’s house in revenge for his driving Katie to her death. Lena reveals that she bought the pills for herself but recalls that Katie had a sexual relationship with her teacher Mark Henderson, who has now left town.

While cleaning Katie’s room, her mother, Louise, finds diet pills prescribed to Nel and goes to the police, believing that Nel must have been responsible for Katie’s death. The Whittakers-Katie’s family-decide to leave town to get away from the feelings surrounding Katie’s death. As with her death, reactions to Nel’s funeral are varied. At Nel’s funeral, Jules sees Robbie Cannon, Nel’s high school boyfriend who raped Jules when she was 13.

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