Ten hours after the prior confrontation with Alejandro, Sarah Morgan is told by Sheriff Marcus Hudson and Chief Deputy Pam Olson that her husband, Bob Miller, is dead. They explain Bob’s body was found in the basement of an abandoned farmhouse with two gunshot wounds, and that a woman, Stacy Howard, was discovered chained there and claims Bob abducted her and another woman. Sarah feigns shock and grief, calibrating her tears to appear credible given their ongoing separation.

When asked about the details, Sarah learns from Hudson that Stacy identified the second captive as Carissa Brooks, but Carissa cannot be located and there is blood in the farmhouse consistent with a struggle. Internally, Sarah reveals she orchestrated Stacy’s abduction and framed Bob: she drugged Stacy with chloroform and propofol, transported her to the farmhouse, and manipulated timelines and text messages using a burner labeled as Bob in Stacy’s phone to shift the disappearance window. She regularly visited via foundation vehicles, removed Bob’s tracker from her car, and kept Stacy drugged with scopolamine while staging noises and heavy footsteps with men’s work boots to impersonate Bob.

Sarah further discloses that Carissa had come to her seven weeks earlier to escape her abusive ex, George Carrigan. Sarah set up a plan for Carissa to fake her death: drawing and storing her own blood over weeks, staging a ransacked salon with three pints of blood, altering her appearance, and providing a getaway car, cash, disguises, new identity documents, and a flight to Ecuador. Sarah coordinated Carissa’s disappearance to coincide with Bob’s standing salon appointment to implicate him.

To convince Stacy that Carissa was killed by Bob, Sarah staged a violent scene at the farmhouse using the remaining blood, dragging a sleeping bag full of bricks to simulate a body, and spreading blood throughout the house. She also crafted a narrative for Stacy to repeat, including overheard threats about Sarah, which had actually been spoken by Sarah while disguising her identity.

Questioned about Bob’s relationship with Carissa, Sarah presents them as merely friendly via the salon, while expressing doubt about an affair. She pivots to depict Bob as increasingly abusive and unhinged after the separation and protective order, suggesting he might have tried to frame her to gain full custody of their daughter, Summer, seeding that theory for the investigators without stating it outright.

Before leaving, Hudson notes they will execute search warrants for Bob’s apartment and office. Sarah anticipates they will find the murder knife she planted in Bob’s wall safe, bearing Kelly Summers’s blood and Bob’s fingerprints, having previously swapped Bob’s cleaned knife with one coated in pig’s blood to ensure he kept the real weapon. After the officers depart, Sarah privately rejoices, confident that all evidence will incriminate Bob alone, even as she expects public speculation about her involvement.