One of Us Is Back

As Gavin drives Addy to Phoebe’s, Addy complains that she dropped her phone under the car seat. Gavin pulls into the parking lot of an old candy factory to help find it. As they search for the phone, Nate speeds up on his motorcycle. Nate insists Addy get on his bike. Addy refuses, wanting to find her phone first. Gavin finds the phone and reads a couple of message alerts on the screen. He confronts Nate, explaining that Chelsea is his high school sweetheart, and she got the idea a few months ago that her father’s death wasn’t an accident. She wanted to come to Bayview and Gavin followed her. Chelsea broke up with him, and he claims he found something in her apartment. He lures Nate and Addy to his trunk, then hits Nate on the head with a crowbar. He forces Addy into the trunk and ties her up, then puts a gag in her mouth. He closes the trunk and drives away. Addy takes the burner phone out of her purse and texts Bronwyn a message about Nate. The phone buzzes, but Addy doesn’t know if her message went through. Gavin stops the car and takes Addy out of the trunk.

Phoebe wakes tied to a chair. She slowly remembers discovering that Evie is Chelsea Alton. Chelsea comes into the room and Phoebe demands to know why Chelsea put Reggie’s necklace in Owen’s backpack. Chelsea says that Phoebe confessed to Owen’s role in the truth or dare game while she was under the influence of drugs the night of the Fourth of July party. Phoebe wasn’t her target that night, Vanessa was. Chelsea wanted Vanessa and Reggie to pay for their bad behavior, but she hadn’t intended for Reggie to die. Phoebe asks what Chelsea is going to do now, but she doesn’t answer. They are in Chelsea’s childhood home and the room has been soundproofed so her brother could play his drums there. Chelsea tells Phoebe to scream all she wants.

Chelsea is unhappy to see Addy. Gavin explains that Bronwyn found their yearbook pictures, and it won’t be long before they figure out where they are. They should leave town. Chelsea insists that things are under control. Gavin then says that Addy wants to be involved with what they are doing. Addy asks Chelsea about her father and Chelsea insists that she always believed her father’s death wasn’t an accident. Chelsea and her dad were close, and she was devastated by his death, but not as devastated as her mother. Chelsea says they lost everything when her father died.

Chelsea and Gavin take Addy to a bedroom where Jake is tied up. Gavin takes the gag off Jake, and he immediately accuses Addy of being involved from the beginning. Chelsea tells Jake to explain what happened to her father, and when he refuses, she gets a gun from a dresser.

The perspective switches to Jake six years ago. Simon invited himself to spend the night while Jake’s mom is out of town. They arrive at the house to find an unfamiliar car with a Conrad and Olsen folder in the backseat parked in the driveway. They enter the house and overhear Scott arguing with Alexander Alton. Alexander apologizes because he didn’t know Scott would come home so early. He said Katherine asked him to pack her things. Scott demands to know if Alexander thought about Jake. Alexander announces that he has because Jake is his biological son. He had thought Scott knew. Simon and Jake hear a loud crash followed by Scott demanding Alexander get up.

Chelsea explains that Simon wrote her a letter and had it sent via a service that delays mailings. The letter only arrived a few months ago. Jake says Simon was lying, but Chelsea insists there are too many details for the letter to be a lie. When she heard Jake was getting out of juvenile detention, she knew she had to confront him. Chelsea watched her father’s old ad campaigns, including his final campaign for the SAT tutoring service, and formulated a plan. She was going to get justice for her dad step by step. First, she would punish someone who’d done something wrong, but not unforgivable. Her intended victim was Vanessa for supporting Jake during the investigation into Simon’s death, but Phoebe drank the spiked drink instead. When Phoebe confessed to Owen’s role in the truth or dare game, she decided Phoebe was a better target.

Chelsea targeted Reggie because he had made a supportive comment in a newspaper article about Jake. Plus, Reggie secretly recorded girls in his bedroom. Chelsea had wanted to scare Reggie, not hurt him. His death was an accident. Finally, she was going to get justice by killing Jake. Addy argues that Scott killed Alexander, not Jake, but Chelsea says she hasn’t finished her story.

The narrative shifts to Simon six years ago. Simon and Jake hide behind a couch and listen to Scott pace in the kitchen. Jake makes Simon promise not to tell. Simon decides to leave, slipping out while Jake is distracted. Simon expects someone to stop him from leaving, but no one does, and this makes him angry. The Riordans have always acted like Simon is insignificant. Simon returns to the house and peeks in through the kitchen window. He sees Alexander’s body move. Jake comes into the kitchen and smothers Alexander with a kitchen towel. Simon decides he now has power over Jake.

Jake again insists Simon was lying. Addy argues that Chelsea could use Simon’s letter to put Jake in prison, but Chelsea notes that Jake got out of juvenile detention once and could do so again. Chelsea believes the only way to stop Jake is to kill him.

A car comes up the driveway. Gavin describes the car and the two men getting out, and Addy recognizes them as Cooper and Luis. Gavin can’t take on Cooper and Luis and insists they leave. Chelsea hesitates, then says she knows what to do.

Phoebe hears a gunshot and a scream. After a long pause, she hears footsteps. Cooper bursts into the room followed by Addy, asking what happened to Nate. Cooper says Marshall Whitfield came to his house and told him that he saw Phoebe being shoved into a car by two people. Maeve gave Cooper this address after learning it still belonged to the Alton family. Addy borrows Cooper’s phone to make some calls. Phoebe insists on knowing what happened to Jake. Addy says he’s gone.

Nate is found and taken to the hospital, where he complains that he’s always injured when things go down. The truth about Owen has gone public, but most people are sympathetic because of his age and undue influence from Jared Jackson. The police have Simon’s letter to Chelsea, but it is unclear whether there will be charges pressed against Scott Riordan. Chelsea and Gavin have disappeared. The police found a letter from Chelsea insisting she didn’t mean to kill Reggie but that Jake deserved to die because he would continue to hurt people for the rest of his life.

Phoebe, Emma, Owen, and their mother have stayed home for the past three days, spending time together and talking things through. They learn that their mother has a flirtation going on with Emma’s lawyer, Martin. Knox comes by and apologizes for trying to push Phoebe into telling people about Owen. Phoebe tells him he was right, and that she should have listened. Knox says Phoebe is pretty, and they decide to go watch movies at his house, in his bedroom.

Bronwyn throws a going away party for Maeve and Addy. Nate gets a ride from Addy, who has just returned from Cape Cod with Vanessa and Keely. Vanessa is in the car too, announcing she is now a part of the Bayview Crew. Nate can see Addy is struggling emotionally with everything that has happened. He tells her she can’t save everyone but says that she saved him twice—once literally and once figuratively. The literal time was when she got him help after Gavin hit him. The figurative time was when she forced him to attend Bronwyn’s piano recital and tell her how he felt about her. He assures Addy she is a good friend.

They arrive at the party, and everyone begins talking about their future plans. Luis complains that everyone is leaving. Nate reflects on how everything is changing. He pulls Bronwyn aside and tells her that although he won’t do it now, he will marry her one day.

Addy is packing for Peru when Ashton comes to see her. Ashton asks if Addy looked at the envelope with the baby’s gender inside. Addy says no. Ashton makes her promise to destroy it. Ashton tells her they’ve picked out names for the baby: William Elijah for a boy and Iris Adelaide for a girl.

Addy goes to the beach and reflects on the past, recalling good memories of her time with Jake. She wonders when his dark side took over and decides she never really knew him. She throws a picture of the two of them into a small fire she built and says goodbye once and for all. Then she opens the envelope with the baby’s gender inside, keeping the paper to take with her to Peru. She’s happy to know the baby is a girl.