Not Quite Dead Yet

At the Woodstock Halloween Fair, Jet Mason tries to avoid her ex, JJ Lim, and sparring with her brother, Luke Mason, about her stalled life. Local politics simmer around the Mason family and the police department’s leadership. A drunk, belligerent Andrew Smith lashes out, briefly attacking Billy Finney before Sergeant Jack Finney and Chief Lou Jankowski intervene. Later that night, Jet returns home alone. An unseen attacker ambushes her from behind and strikes her repeatedly in the head. Billy, hearing Jet’s dog Reggie screaming, breaks in and calls 911, convinced Jet is dead.

Jet wakes in the hospital to devastating news. Dr. Lee explains that, beyond the repaired skull fracture and subdural hematoma, Jet has a rare clivus fracture: a bone fragment presses against her basilar artery. Because Jet has polycystic kidney disease, her vessels are weakened and an aneurysm is expected to form and rupture quickly. The only possible intervention is a near-impossible operation with less than a ten percent chance of survival. Jet also develops mild anomic aphasia, making certain words difficult to retrieve. The police interview her immediately: the weapon and Jet’s phone are missing, and JJ has abruptly left town and cannot be reached.

Jet refuses the surgery, choosing days of clarity over likely dying on an operating table. She decides she will “solve” her own murder. Back at her house—still an active crime scene—Jack walks her through what forensics suggest: Jet was hit three times, from behind and then while on the floor, with downward, right-handed strikes by someone taller than her. The doorbell camera shows no intruder at the front door; the likely entry and exit is the unlocked back door. Jet then uses her Apple Watch data to pinpoint the attack at 10:46 p.m. She sees a text from JJ—“Sorry”—sent at 10:58 p.m., and locates her stolen phone’s last ping at 10:56 p.m. near River Street and North Street.

Jet moves into Billy’s apartment so she doesn’t have to spend her final days under her mother Dianne Mason’s suffocating pressure to choose surgery. While digging for leads, Jet discovers a late notice from a lender: a £30,000 loan was taken out online in her name (addressed as Margaret Mason) and secured against her truck. She gives the letter to Detective George Ecker, but the response is cautious and noncommittal. Privately, Jack tells Jet forensics found a synthetic red hair under her blood—consistent with a costume wig—tightening suspicion around JJ, who wore a red wig at the fair. Yet photos from Owen Clay show Andrew Smith also wore what appears to be the same wig, widening the pool again.

Jet and Billy confront Andrew at Billy’s bar. Andrew insists he didn’t attack Jet and provides a partial timeline: Jack escorted him home and he texted at 10:29 p.m., leaving a gap before 10:46. Andrew’s resentment toward the Masons spills out—he blames Dianne and Luke for his daughter Nina Smith’s downfall and death and claims the Masons bought and demolished his family home for development. He also reveals Scott Mason plans to sell Mason Construction to Nell Jankowski, Lou’s wife, rather than leave it to Luke. Reconsidering the phone ping, Jet realizes “River Street near North” could point toward the North Street construction site tied to the former Smith property.

At the North Street site, Jet and Billy learn fresh foundations were poured Saturday morning. Jet, convinced the attacker buried the missing phone and weapon before the concrete set, smashes through the slab with a sledgehammer. In the mud beneath, she finds her shattered iPhone and the black-handled hammer used to strike her, wrapped in a Mason dish towel. Ecker arrives furious about contamination and chain-of-custody problems, but the discovery confirms the hiding place required knowledge of the concrete schedule and access to the site.

As Jet’s neurological symptoms worsen, her suspicion shifts closer to home. She notices inconsistencies in Luke and Sophia Mason’s alibis, including texts that contradict Sophia’s claims about leaving her phone behind and a “Call me” message at 10:52 p.m. Jet visits Henry Lim—JJ’s brother—only to be met with a gun. Henry is terrified and injured, and he insists JJ wouldn’t hurt Jet. When Jet asks about the hammer set, Henry denies owning it and, startlingly, claims he never worked for Mason Construction, contradicting what Jet believes to be true. Soon after, Jet wakes from a short nap with her right arm paralyzed. At the hospital, Dr. Lee confirms the aneurysm is large and has produced a sentinel bleed—a leak that often precedes a fatal rupture within days.

Police then arrest JJ, citing the red wig hair, his “Sorry” text, his flight, and a motive: the loan fraud allegedly routed money into JJ’s account. Jet refuses to accept the neat solution. With Billy, she re-examines Ring footage and discovers a pattern: Sophia repeatedly enters the Mason home briefly when the family is away. On July 4 footage, Sophia drops and later returns a Lotrel pill bottle. Jet and Billy check the medication and realize Sophia didn’t tamper with Jet’s pills—she tampered with Scott’s. Scott’s Lotrel capsules have been opened and refilled with table salt, depriving him of treatment while worsening his kidney disease and blood pressure. Jet confronts Sophia, who admits she’s been doing it for months to make Scott “a little sicker” so he’ll retire and Luke can inherit the company. Sophia begs Jet to keep it secret and threatens to hurt Jet by telling Billy about a past betrayal involving Billy’s mother, Beth Finney.

Determined to learn what Luke is hiding, Jet and Billy break into Mason Construction. They find payroll, tax, and workers’ comp records that omit known workers like Henry Lim and Angie Rice, suggesting off-the-books labor and fraud. Paperwork also proves Henry signed a North Street delivery notice, contradicting Henry’s denial. Before they can preserve the evidence, a gasoline-fueled arson engulfs the building while they are inside. Jet and Billy narrowly escape as floors collapse. Jet becomes convinced someone tried to kill them to destroy records and stop her investigation.

Henry later admits the truth: Luke hired him off the books. Henry’s “accident” was a roof collapse that wrecked his knee and eyes, leaving him with massive debt and no coverage; Luke paid hush money to keep him quiet. JJ, desperate to help Henry, committed the identity fraud loan in Jet’s name—explaining the police’s motive without proving JJ attacked Jet. Henry also reveals Luke came to his house on Halloween and assaulted him, and Luke left at 10:56 p.m., complicating everyone’s alibis. Meanwhile, Jet is questioned about the Mason Construction fire and lies that she was with Billy all night, as the police focus on JJ and now begin to suspect Jet of arson.

A new lead comes from an old village Zoom meeting: an anonymous “cat filter” caller threatened Dianne Mason about Mason Construction and claimed Emily Mason knew Dianne’s secret before she died. Jet and Billy analyze the caller’s window view and deduce the caller was Nina Smith, speaking from the Smith home at River and North. They break into Andrew Smith’s apartment to retrieve Nina’s rose-gold MacBook. In Nina’s messages with Emily, Jet finds hints that Emily planned to talk to Mrs. Finney—Billy’s mother—about something Emily overheard involving Luke, shortly before Emily’s death.

Jet and Billy revisit the pool where Emily drowned. Billy recounts the day and, with fresh context, doubts Luke’s story about never being in the water. In Beth Finney’s old planner, they find a chilling note from the day Emily died: “He was already wet. Before.” Jet is forced to consider that Emily’s “accident” may have been murder.

Pressure explodes when Sophia reveals to Billy that Jet once coerced Beth Finney into falsifying a grade, contributing to Beth’s departure and Billy’s abandonment. Billy walks away devastated. Police then arrest Jet for suspected arson, citing a time-stamped photo placing her truck near the burning building. In custody, Jet deduces the “witness” behind the photo is Luke—meaning Luke likely set the fire and framed her to steal her remaining time. Billy ultimately corroborates Jet’s cover story to secure her release, and they reconcile.

Jet confronts Luke at the burned site, armed with Henry’s gun. Under threat, Luke confesses he drowned Emily years ago, claiming he snapped after Emily taunted him about not being “really” a Mason and revealed Scott wasn’t his biological father. Luke also admits he set the Mason Construction fire to stop Jet and frame her. Jet plants a tracker on him, convinced he’ll lead them to his biological father and the person behind the latest violence. At Billy’s home, Jet briefly spirals when she discovers Billy owns a Coleby toolkit like the murder weapon’s set—and the hammer is missing—before her aneurysm worsens into a violent seizure. She gives Billy her farewell letters and he promises to finish the case.

Billy confronts his father, Sergeant Jack Finney, accusing him of being Luke’s real father, covering up Emily’s murder, and attacking Jet to protect Luke. At gunpoint, Jack confesses he killed Jet on Halloween, describing how he took a hammer from Billy’s unused tool kit, entered the Mason home through an unsecured door, and hid the phone and weapon at the North Street site before responding as an officer to appear uninvolved. Billy’s plan is for Luke to overhear the confession through Billy’s phone, but Luke’s rage erupts. Luke seizes the gun, fires during the struggle, then chases Jack to the Mason home and shoots him dead at the front door as Dianne, Scott, and Sophia witness the aftermath—leaving the truth exposed, but the family shattered by the violence it took to reach it.