Did you guess Erin's killer right? The MareofEasttown finale was filled with twists. Spoilers:
— a confession that John basically had to force out of him. Afterward, Lori that Billy was the father of baby DJ. So, it seemed clear. After finding out that Erin’s necklace was bought by someone with the last name Ross, Mare was convinced it was Billy and headed to find them during their fishing trip.
That’s when the premiere picked up. Upon arriving to the lake, she found John pointing a gun at Billy. It was revealed that that had been why John suggested the trip. His plan was to make it look like Billy killed himself. “Like you said, you’ve got a family and I’ve got nobody,” Billy recalled.Mare couldn’t hear the conversation but saw the gun. Once John saw her, he put the gun to his own head. She quickly tackled it out of his hands and he begged her just to kill him.
It turns out, the photo that Jess took out of Erin’s journals was of her and John in bed together. She explained that Dylan burned the journals because he wanted his parents to keep DJ and was afraid that if they saw that, DJ’s real father would be revealed.At the police station, John details his “connection” with Erin and claims it was more than sex. He had asked her to get an abortion, but she wouldn’t.
He claimed that when he arrived, she was waving the gun around and he tried to wrestle it away from her, accidentally shooting her in the hand. After that, he shot and killed her because he panicked.Lori apparently also knew as John told Mare that he had convinced his wife to lie and say it was Billy. Mare was so angry she refused to speak to Lori after John’s hearing.
The mystery, however, didn’t end there. During a check in on Mr. Carroll — the man who had the intruder in the beginning of the series — he revealed that his gun was stolen from his shed, and the only people who had access inside were him and the kid who cuts his lawn: Ryan Ross (
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