Did Jeanette Lie About Knowing Where Kate Was?
With Kate and Jeanette seemingly finding closure in the 1995 storyline, the final scene of the episode flashes back to 1994 as Jeanette sneaks into Martin's home. Its in this scene that we learn the chilling truth that while Jeanette didn't technically see Kate in Martin's home, she did know she was there. As Jeanette walks down the hallway, she hears Kate's voice, who reveals that Martin has locked her in the basement and pleads for help. Jeanette instinctively goes to open the door, but eventually decides against it, dropping her hand and looking up at the camera with a smile.
So, how exactly should fans interpret that scene? Aurelia admitted there is certainly "a lot to unpack there and a lot of questions." For starters, why didn't Jeanette tell the truth about knowing where Kate was? "I think that the biggest desire for Jeanette over the course of the whole season is just to fit in and feel loved, and clearly, she was intimidated by Kate," she said. "She was probably scared, and didn't know what to do. That's horrible. She made some really bad choices and some horrible mistakes, and you kind of watch them take her whole life down and unravel this whole journey. Because although she didn't do what Kate said she did, it's kind of like you're waiting for episode 10 to figure out which one of them is worse? They're both making mistakes. They're both lying, but who really is the bad guy? You end up realising it doesn't really have anything to do with that situation you think you're waiting to find out. It has a lot more to do with them as human beings."
"They're both lying, but who really is the bad guy?"
While she admitted that Jeanette definitely has "a devious side" and there's "more going on that we don't know about," she also doesn't see her as the villain of the story. "Something that I think is really special about our story is that people are three dimensional," she said. "Human beings are three three-dimensional. Women are three dimensional. There is so much more going on than just good or bad, a villain or a victim. She's a human being and she's made some horrible choices, but she has to live with those decisions. Those cause some karma that come back and bite her throughout the next year of her life."
"And the same thing for Kate," she continued. "The bad choices that Kate has made and Mallory has made, these ghosts haunt these characters as the years go on and they follow them. They never disappear. So having those kind of moments make you question, 'Well, who is in the right here? Who is in the wrong here?' But the last moment of the show is finally the moment where you go, 'Oh, maybe Jeanette really could be bad. Maybe there is no humanity in her. Maybe she's just a horrible person. Or maybe there's more than this story that we don't know yet.' And that's kind of for you to guess and find out."