The Girl I Used to Be

Duncan takes Olivia up to a treehouse where they can observe and eavesdrop on the party guests. They kiss. Beneath them, Carly, Richard, Sam, Jason, and Audrey gather to talk about Terry. Carly says that every time she received a message from an unknown person, she hoped it was Terry. Jason accuses Richard of having killed Terry and Naomi for the child support money Terry was carrying.

Sam says that the way he makes money is unethical but not illegal; he finds old women who are behind on their property taxes and pays them in exchange for the deed to the house, which becomes his when the owner dies. Richard says that his knuckles were bruised because he fought back against his mother’s abusive boyfriend. He says that he never thought Terry was guilty and asks if they can say the same.

Thrown by the kiss and the new information, Olivia goes inside to splash water on her face. She hears Sam inside and thinks she may be crying, but Carly tells her Sam is bulimic. Sam emerges from the bathroom and tells them that Terry was the only person who ever tried to help her, but that he dropped her after he got together with Naomi. She says that she kept her old email address all these years because she would have run away with Terry if he reached out to her.

Carly hugs Sam while Olivia goes inside the bathroom. When she emerges, Jason is there. He asks her what she’s doing and why she’s following him. He says that he hears clicks on his phone and knows that he’s being tapped; he thinks Carly is a cop. She’s frightened but insists that she’s just Duncan’s girlfriend. Olivia wonders if Jason has just confessed to killing her parents.

When she returns to the yard, Ben Gault (Benjy) is there. Carly asks how he’s doing, and he rambles about various conspiracies against him. They make him a plate while Duncan tells Olivia that Benjy is harmless. Benjy calls her Naomi again, but the others believe he’s saying that Naomi is there in spirit. After he leaves, they discuss how smart and motivated Benjy was as a child; he went to Stanford but dropped out when his mental illness began incapacitating him. Olivia tells them that Benjy mentioned an orange truck to her at the cemetery; they say that Terry’s truck was orange and realize that Benjy started experiencing psychosis right around that time. They pressure the police chief Spaulding to investigate and he promises to look into it. 

Olivia goes to the forest to find the place where her parents were murdered. She wanders, looking for something she recognizes from her memory or from the crime scene photos. She comes across a tree that appears to be the same as the one in her photograph. She falls.