I guess my problem with Ben overall is that he was pure id. He either was going crazy, making wild accusations at all his neighbors, or he was blindly taking the fall for Abby without a moment’s thought. While I have no problem with Abby being the killer and the reveal that she is one stone cold psychopath at the end, I was frustrated as hell with Ben insisting to take the fall for Tom’s murder. Were you satisfied with Secrets and Lies‘ finale? In the event it’s renewed, would you watch Season 2? Grade the finale in our poll below, then hit the comments with your thoughts. Natalie will have to testify against her sister (which she agrees to do) in order to overturn Ben’s conviction, but there’s something more important at play in the scene: Is Ben - gulp - dead? The way everyone is talking - wistfully, and in the past tense - sure makes it seem that way. UPDATE: But wait! There’s more! In an extra scene posted on ABC’s website - titled “14 Months Later” - Cornell tracks down Natalie and Dave, still hell-bent on getting Abby behind bars. Don’t run away from home, kids! And don’t run with scissors flashlights, either.)

(In short: The Crawfords have a lot of problems. As for Abby? As she drives away with her mom, she admits, “None of this would have happened if I’d gotten Tom to the river.” She’s convinced it was Abby - “I’m going to put Abby Crawford away,” she says, extinguishing our hopes that we might hear her say something nice - but Ben tells her where to find the murder weapon and is taken into custody in shackles. “I took him into the woods and I killed him.”Ĭornell, on the other hand, isn’t buying Ben’s confession. “Tom would follow me anywhere,” Ben lies. Ben did know Tom was his son, he asserts to Cornell, and knew it was only a matter of time before he lost his family over the ordeal.

Once Christy and Abby have safely driven away (with Natalie agreeing to stay with Michael), Ben returns to the police station and insists his innocence was all a lie. Upon hearing Abby’s story, Ben does what any dad might do: turns himself in. She and Tom were planning to run away from home that night - the only way to end their respective parents’ fighting, they believed - but when Tom got cold feet, Abby chased him down and whacked him with Ben’s flashlight, which she’d stolen from his truck earlier that night. When Ben returns to the house, panicked, Abby insists that she didn’t want to get in a trouble, because hurting Tom was an accident.

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