After catching Kit trespassing at Ocean View, Detective Vick escorts her to her car while Kit insists Berniece Mayhew has important information about the Hope murders. Vick dismisses Berniece as an old witness already interviewed decades earlier, but Kit argues Berniece lied to police and accuses Vick of failing to investigate properly. When Vick tells Kit to quit Hope’s End and go home to her father, Kit instead pushes him for details from the original case file.

Vick reveals that police received a call shortly after eleven on the night of the murders reporting that two people were dead, and that the caller was Lenora Hope. This detail jolts Kit, because three family members were attacked that night. Remembering Lenora’s typed account of being on the terrace while Virginia screamed inside, Kit realizes Virginia must still have been alive when Lenora called, which makes Lenora’s role look more suspicious. Kit begins to fear Berniece may be right that Lenora was directly involved in the violence.

As Vick continues, he says police found Evangeline on the staircase landing, Winston in the billiard room, and Virginia hanging from the ballroom chandelier, while Lenora was on the terrace. The biggest revelation is that Virginia did not die that night but survived for six months. Vick adds that Ricardo Mayhew became the prime suspect after he vanished and one of Winston Hope’s cars disappeared, but police could not prove he had been in the house. Lenora repeatedly claimed she did not know Ricardo and insisted she saw and heard nothing, even though Kit knows that cannot be entirely true. Vick also confirms no murder weapon was found and mentions that Virginia’s room had recently been cleaned, an odd detail that deepens the mystery for Kit.

The conversation turns personal when Vick alludes to Kit’s mother and the suspicion around Kit’s past. Kit angrily denies helping her mother die and also rejects Vick’s insistence that Mary Milton was not murdered. Vick then produces a water-damaged photocopy of what he says is Mary’s suicide note: im sorry im not the person you thought i was. Kit immediately recognizes that Mary did not write it. Shaken, she drives away realizing the note was typed by someone else and likely connects Mary’s death to the hidden truth at Hope’s End.