Nothing More to Tell

Tripp gets lost in the woods after he separates from Shane. He doesn’t have cell phone service. Tripp eventually gets close to the fire pit where Shane was meeting Charlotte, then Tripp hears screaming.

Tripp tells Brynn about Gunnar and Lisa Marie scheming together to make money off his story. Brynn comforts him and seems to empathize. They meet with the new groundskeeper, but he just insults them and then tells them to Google what plants to include. They decide they’ll try Mr. Solomon again but not enter his backyard.

Brynn, Nadia, and Mason chat over coffee at the bakery about the winter dance. The group tease each other over their prospective crushes. When Tripp finishes his bakery shift, he goes with Brynn to Mr. Solomon’s house to try to speak to him again. Tripp cautions Brynn about knocking and respecting the boundaries of other people’s homes, but when they arrive, they discover that Mr. Solomon’s door is wide open. They tentatively enter the house and call his name, but he doesn’t answer. Brynn comes across Mr. Solomon’s dead body and instantly scrambles to find her phone. Tripp, in his shock, starts saying things that don’t make sense to Brynn. He asks Brynn what she did and tells her to stop screaming, even though she clearly didn’t do anything and isn’t screaming. Brynn calls the police.

A doctor evaluates Tripp and says he was just having a PTSD response when he thought he heard screaming. Later, with Regina, Tripp reflects on his lack of memory of finding Mr. Solomon dead. Officer Patz interviews Tripp about the incident. Regina wonders why the police are involved with what was probably an accidental death. Patz explains that there were signs of a robbery at the scene and the police cannot find Mr. Solomon’s tackle box where he kept all his cash. Tripp tries to be helpful in his interview with Officer Patz but seems unable to offer anything useful, and Patz reassures him that Brynn’s eye for detail will help fill in the blanks. Patz reveals that Brynn has an internship with Motive, which comes as an unpleasant surprise to Tripp.

In the aftermath of Mr. Solomon’s death and the police investigation, Brynn ruminates on how she’s messed up many of her relationships, from hiding details from her parents, to ignoring Carly’s directions, to keeping her internship a secret from everyone else. She hangs out with her sister Ellie, who she believes is the only person who doesn’t hate her. Tripp won’t return Brynn’s calls, and Ellie tells her she needs to be patient.

Paul Goldstein, a teacher from Mr. Larkin’s former school, calls Brynn. Goldstein says Mr. Larkin wasn’t very social at their school and didn’t talk much about his family or background. However, one time at a faculty social event, Mr. Larkin was drinking and shared that he was switching to Saint Ambrose to be at the same school as his brother.

Tripp skips school to drink whiskey and wander around town. He doesn’t want to be around Brynn. He visits Mr. Larkin at the cemetery and apologizes. Lisa Marie’s friend Valerie, with whom Lisa is staying, lives next to the cemetery, and Tripp decides to go see them. Nobody answers the door, but Tripp enters anyway, and finds his mother’s cell phone. He discovers a video she sent to Gunnar where she’s talking about Tripp as if he killed Mr. Larkin. He reads her and Gunnar’s texts plotting to frame Tripp as a murderer on television. Gunnar offers to pay Lisa Marie extra to pretend her son committed a murder and she witnessed it. Tripp also finds a burner phone from which Lisa Marie has apparently been sending the anonymous “murderer” texts.

Lisa Marie then appears, and they argue over the texts and Tripp’s refusal to go along with her plans for media fame. Lisa Marie blames trip for her decision to frame him for the murder and says that everything would have been fine if he had just done what she asked and gone on Gunnar’s show. Tripp is furious and leaves.

Tripp continues to skip school and avoid his friends. Nadia and Mason are a little upset Brynn didn’t tell them about her internship, but still sit with her at lunch. Brynn gets to keep her internship but is no longer allowed to pursue the story about Mr. Larkin. However, she overhears Lindzi talking to Carly about an article relevant to Mr. Larkin, which she’s emailing to Carly. Brynn sneaks into Lindzi’s office and forwards the email to herself.

Lindzi received a tip that William Larkin looks like a man named William (Billy) Robbins, and she speculates that he may have changed his name. William Robbins is the son of Dexter and Lila Robbins, who also had younger son named Mikey. Dexter became overly controlling and wouldn’t let Lila and Mikey leave the house without him. One weekend, Dexter went hunting with his teenage son William, and while they were gone, Lila and Mikey disappeared. Neighbors claimed that Lila probably ran away because Dexter was abusive and wouldn’t let Mikey get treatment for his asthma. There’s a photo of Lila Robbins at age 18, and Michael Robbins at age 3. Brynn calculates that if William Robbins is Mr. Larkin, then Mikey would be the same age as her. Mikey is likely one of her classmates.

Tripp continues to drink excessively and skip school and work. Regina visits him and demands that he sober up and take a shower. He begins to follow her instructions because she is the best person he knows, but once he looks at himself in the mirror, he loses his motivation to clean up. He reflects on the texts his mother sent to Gunnar, which makes him not want to look at his own face. He quickly goes out of the house when Charlotte and Shane drive up and tell him to get into their car.

Brynn makes cookies to apologize to Mason and Nadia. She goes over details of Mr. Larkin’s case with Ellie, while Ellie prepares for a date with a girl named Paige. None of Brynn’s classmates ever talked about Mr. Larkin being their brother. Also, the photos of Mikey and Lila look generic enough that they’re not very helpful. But as Brynn reviews the photos from her files on Mr. Larkin’s case, she realizes something significant about the turquoise envelope, which inspires her to go find Tripp.

Brynn goes to Charlotte’s house to find Tripp, but Charlotte lies and says Tripp isn’t there. After the two girls argue a bit more and Charlotte tells her to leave, Brynn sneaks around to the backyard where she finds Tripp.