“There are at least two sides to every story. Yours and mine, ours and theirs, his and hers…which means someone is always lying.” If these opening strains didn’t give it away, the Netflix drama His & Herswhich debuted on January 8, is a twisty psychological thriller the place nothing is because it appears. The collection, based mostly on Alice Feeney’s mystery-thriller novel of the identical title, stars Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal as information reporter Anna Andrews and detective Jack Harper, who each have connections to a surprising homicide case of their rural Georgia hometown—oh, and they’re estranged spouses, too.
The threads of why Anna and Jack are so on this case—past her want to report on a sensational information story and his obligation as native legislation enforcement—are simply the tip of the iceberg right here. Dahlonega is the sort of small city the place all people is aware of everybody, and the locals have lots to cover. Anna and Jack do too, which is why they’re each additionally suspicious of the different’s involvement in the case.
The six-episode thriller is stacked with stunning revelations, a number of murders, and a conclusion you most likely didn’t see coming. Read on as we break all of it down, together with the way it results in the surprising ending of His & Hers.
Detectives Priya (Sunita Mani) and Jack (Jon Bernthal) uncover Rachel’s (Jamie Tisdale) lifeless physique in His & Hers.
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Who killed Rachel Hopkins in ‘His & Hers?’
The brutal homicide of Rachel (Jamie Tisdale), who was discovered stabbed to demise a number of occasions on the hood of her automobile in the center of the woods, is the preliminary incident that units off all of the motion in the collection. It’s what brings Anna, freshly again at her job at a information station in Atlanta after an extended absence, again to Dahlonega to report on the story, and places Jack on the case together with his associate, Priya Patel (Sunita Mani). By the time His & Hers concludes, two extra ladies are lifeless: Helen (Poppy Liu) and Zoe (Marin Ireland), each of whom, like Rachel, had been childhood pals of Anna’s.
Potential suspects abounded: Could it have been Rachel’s husband, Clyde (Chris Bauer), a pizza chain mogul together with his personal secrets and techniques? Jack, who had his personal very current historical past with Rachel? Or Lexy Jones (Rebecca Rittenhouse), the Atlanta information anchor who took over Anna’s job and has her personal connections to Dahlonega?
As it seems, the reply is none of them—and the perpetrator is somebody you probably by no means suspected. The killer was Anna’s mom, Alice (Crystal Fox), who uncovered a secret from the buddy group’s previous and plotted revenge on behalf of her daughter. When we meet Alice, she seems to be a form however confused lady affected by dementia. (At one level, she’s discovered wandering round alone, and Jack known as to deliver her residence.) But this, apparently, was all an act. As she factors out in the handwritten confession that she leaves Anna at the finish of the collection, no one thought to suspect her, in order that they didn’t. “They could have stopped me, but they see what they want to see—even when the truth is right in front of us,” she writes.
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Why did Alice kill Rachel, Helen, and Zoe in ‘His & Hers?’
Rachel, Helen, and Zoe had been all childhood pals of Anna’s, and all attended the fancy St. Hilary’s personal college. Unlike her pals, Anna was a scholarship pupil, and her mom labored at the college as a cleaner. The connection between their previous and the murders rapidly turns into evident when friendship bracelets are discovered on each Rachel’s and Helen’s our bodies.
If grownup Rachel was a imply lady, teenage Rachel was an absolute monster. On Anna’s sixteenth birthday, she schemed to take Anna and one other classmate, the awkward Catherine (Astrid Rotenberry), out to the woods, the place she, Helen, and Zoe acquired them drunk and then introduced in males who paid Rachel to come back and assault them. Catherine managed to run away, however Anna was raped as her “friends” seemed on and recorded what occurred.
Alice doesn’t uncover this till a lot later, after Anna disappears in grief over the demise of her child lady. So Alice may nonetheless really feel near her daughter, she would watch movies that Anna had stored in her childhood bed room. While most of those tapes had been clips from her information reviews, the sixteenth birthday video was there too—and as soon as Alice sees what occurred, she plots to kill Rachel, Helen, and Zoe.
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How had been Jack and Rachel related in ‘His & Hers?’
There’s a motive Jack was so desperate to pin Rachel’s homicide on Clyde, and why he was so uneasy about giving a DNA pattern to the medical expert: Rachel and Jack had been having an affair. In truth, that they had intercourse in his truck the identical night time she was murdered.
That can be sufficient to set off alarm bells for any good investigator, however it wasn’t the solely connection between them: Jack can be Zoe’s brother. He’s been residing together with her and her daughter, Meg (Ellie Rose Sawyer), whereas he acquired again on his ft following the demise of his and Anna’s daughter and the subsequent breakdown of their marriage. So he’s as shut as you could possibly get to not only one, however two of the victims.
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What occurred to Catherine in ‘His & Hers?’
His & Hers first introduces Catherine as a clumsy teen whom Rachel enjoys tormenting. (At one level, the then-high-schooler arms Catherine a drink and then tells her it’s urine after she takes a sip.) But it seems, we’ve met her as an grownup, too.
When Anna’s resort reservation in Dahlonega is suspiciously canceled, her cameraman, Richard (Pablo Schreiber), presents an answer: They can drive out to his in-laws’s lake home and end submitting their report from there earlier than they head again to Atlanta. We’ve recognized from the begin that his spouse is Anna’s work nemesis, Lexy Jones, however it seems that Lexy is truly Catherine.
Anna discovers this after recognizing some household pictures round the residence. Catherine, whose center title was Alexis, modified her look and began going by Lexy—and has her personal rating to settle with Anna, who she thinks knew about the plan to lure them into the woods 20 years in the past. Anna swears she had no thought, however Lexy does not imagine her.
While the two ladies are preventing, Jack speeds to get to the lake home to rescue Anna, who had known as him for assist, considering Lexy and Richard had been answerable for the different murders. He will get there, however solely simply in time: Lexy has tried firing Anna’s gun at her, solely to find it’s out of bullets. At that subsequent second, Priya (who had been retaining tabs on Jack, considering his habits round the investigation was suspicious) fires her personal gun and shoots Lexy in the head, killing her.
What occurred to Catherine’s sister Andrea in ‘His & Hers?’
Lexy didn’t kill Rachel, Helen, and Zoe, although she actually had the motive. However, her arms aren’t clear both. In a flashback, we be taught she’s answerable for the demise of her sister, Andrea (Savanna Gann). When Catherine was nonetheless a young person, Andrea fat-shamed her earlier than the household was about to move out on the lake for a ship journey. In retaliation, Catherine took her sister’s inhaler and intentionally emptied the treatment from it. Andrea had an bronchial asthma assault on the boat, and the household was too far-off from shore to get her assist earlier than she died.
Later, Clyde reveals that Catherine/Lexy made the mistake of confiding this data to Rachel in some unspecified time in the future, and Rachel and Helen later tried to blackmail her. This all gave ammo to Lexy being a suspect in the murders, however in the end wound up being a purple herring.
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What occurred to Anna and Jack’s child in ‘His & Hers?’
Tragically, Anna and Jack’s daughter, Charlotte, died when she was only some months outdated. The couple had gone out for a date night time and left her with Alice to babysit. When they got here again, the home was surrounded by ambulances.
Alice later says the trigger was unexplained (“crib death”) and no one’s fault, however she felt like she had failed her daughter. The child’s demise spun all of them into grief, with Anna taking a depart of absence from her job for a 12 months and Jack transferring again to Dahlonega.
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What occurs to Anna and Jack at the finish of ‘His & Hers?’
Things appear to have fallen again into place for Anna and Jack, who’ve reunited and introduced Zoe’s daughter/Jack’s niece Meg into their household, together with anticipating a brand new child of their very own.
But is it nonetheless home bliss as soon as Anna learns what it took to get it? As Jack and Meg sit with Alice, she finds the handwritten confession notice in her childhood room, the place her mom explains how she faked dementia to commit these murders and get away with it, all in the title of getting Anna her life again. Killing Rachel, she explains, introduced Anna again to Dahlonega. Killing Helen stored her there, and killing Zoe gave her again the household she’d misplaced. She’d by no means supposed to kill Catherine/Lexy, considering that going to jail was punishment sufficient for abandoning her that night time in the woods—plus, it allowed for a handy killer on this juicy story.
She tells Anna that she’s revealing all this now that she’s about to turn into a mom once more, and urges her to “love my grandbabies as I loved you…Show them that a mother’s love never dims, never weakens. It’s constant, continual, relentless.”
The collection then ends with Anna making eye contact together with her mom, and Alice assembly it with an ambiguous smile.