First Lie Wins

In Atlanta, Evie meets with Rachel and two detectives who want to question her about her connection to Amy Holder’s death. Evie explains that she was using an alias to escape an abusive boyfriend, and that she knew Amy because they were members of the same country club—something the detectives can verify since Mr. Smith got Regina Hale a club membership as part of her alias. The detectives then show Evie the footage, sent to them by Mr. Smith, of her entering Amy’s hotel room moments before the room went up in flames.

Evie tells the detectives that the person in that photo isn’t her, but is Lucca Marino. When the detectives search for information on Lucca Marino, they find the carefully crafted online presence that Mr. Smith and the Lucca-imposter created in order to give the Lucca-imposter a convincing alias. They also find photos of the Lucca-imposter, which confirm that the woman posing as Lucca did look uncannily similar to Evie. Evie reveals through her narration that she went back to Eden in order to upload dental records from the Lucca-imposter so that they’ll match a set of records with a dentist in her old hometown. The detectives ask if Evie has an alibi for the night of Amy’s death, and Evie directs them to Tyron, now a famous football player, who confirms that Evie was with him and his family that night.

After the detectives are finished with her, Evie heads to the bank where the safety deposit box Mr. Smith wants access to is kept. George meets Evie outside the bank and tells her that he will escort her inside to see what’s in the box.

Regina’s narration skips to the moment when Regina flees Amy’s hotel room, which is on fire. She calls Mr. Smith as she leaves and tells him that Amy, drunk and on the bed, let a cigarette fall which started the fire. She says she wasn’t able to get any information out of the room, and Mr. Smith acts as though she’s lying. Regina gets off the phone with him and heads to a bank.

Evie and George—who Evie has now deduced is Mr. Smith—enter the bank vault. Mr. Smith watches as Evie opens the lockbox and reveals only an origami swan inside. Evie reveals that she’s been planning to betray Mr. Smith for the past four years, ever since the Tate job. She got documents from Amy Holder that prove that Mr. Smith had double-crossed the Connolly family. She tells Mr. Smith that, now that she knows his true identity, he can no longer escape the Connollys’ retribution. She has told the Connolly family who he is—and they’re waiting for him outside. After the Connollys take Mr. Smith, Evie flies to a safe house set up by Devon. There, she meets up with Amy Holder, who is revealed to be still alive.

After the Tate job, Lucca and Devon track down the other Mr. Smith employees who were on the job. Mr. Smith appears to have killed all of them except one—Amy Holder. Holder was the only other party on the Tate job who figured out that the painting was hidden in the laundry room, but she got there just after Evie. Lucca and Amy survived Mr. Smith’s cull because they were the only ones who passed his test. Lucca convinces Amy that they need to work together to expose Mr. Smith, or they’ll end up killed when they inevitably disappoint Mr. Smith.

Through her narration, Evie reveals that she and Amy have been working together for the past four years to destroy Mr. Smith. They faked Amy’s death in the hotel fire so that Amy could be free of Mr. Smith’s surveillance. Meanwhile, Evie got back in contact with Andrew Marshall in order to make Mr. Smith think that Evie had been gaining leverage over the people she’s assigned to and hiding that leverage from Mr. Smith. By slowly angering Mr. Smith, Evie was able to lure Mr. Smith to the lockbox. Devon tells Evie that he’s found that Ryan was only briefly involved with Mr. Smith, who planned on taking over Ryan’s business.

Evie recounts the moment when she first met Ryan and he changed her tire. He was more charming in person than she expected, and they began to bond over drinks afterward.

Three months later, Evie returns to Ryan and tells him everything she’s been keeping secret from him. Though Ryan is initially cagey, he slowly warms to her and their intimacy resumes. Over the following weeks Evie settles into domestic life with Ryan, picking up where they left off. Ryan continues to run his illegal business in East Texas, and Evie, now knowing how Mr. Smith communicated with his clients because of her bugging of Cameron’s phone, takes over Mr. Smith’s role. She calls herself Miss Smith.