The Maid's Diary

Five hours before the murder, Jon and Daisy enter the Glass House to find that Vaness is Kit. She hands out drinks and explains that her memory of the Whistler incident only returned after she found Daisy’s hidden flash drive and two NDAs to cover up Jon’s crimes. She realizes the extent to which everybody in town gaslighted her, including her own mother.

Kit demands $900,000 from the Rittenbergs to keep their secret. At first, Jon refuses but Daisy insists that he pay the money. As they part, Jon promises retribution.

On the way back home, Jon and Daisy have a fight in the car. In the house, Daisy packs a bag and prepares to go to her parents. Jon tries to stop her, but she threatens him with a kitchen knife.

Three hours before the murder, Jon is feeling enraged and helpless. He goes back to the house, intending to kill Kit. As he approaches the house, he sees another Audi pull up. A scream emanates from the Glass House, and two people carry out something heavy rolled in a carpet. Drunk and frightened, Jon drives away.

On November 2, Mal prepares to interrogate the Rittenbergs. She starts with Daisy, who is accompanied by her high-powered lawyer. Daisy sticks to her story of leaving the Glass House before even entering it, even though her diamond pendant was found in the couch cushions. Her fingerprints are also on a knife in the kitchen. She explains this evidence away by citing her many visits to Vanessa’s home.

When Mal meets with Jon, he also has brought a lawyer. Mal presses for information about the rape incident in Whistler and about a woman named Mia, but Jon refuses to talk. Mal receives a call that divers have found a female body but are having difficulty freeing it from underwater debris and bringing it to the surface.

The Vancouver news programs are all covering the attempt to retrieve the body of the missing maid. Beulah Brown watches sadly, thinking that she will miss seeing Kit in the neighborhood. She is glad that she made the 911 call that might lead to the girl’s killer. Beulah rests and feels certain that she won’t wake up the next morning.

Boon is staying in the small town of Hope when he sees a local news broadcast about the divers finding a body. He fears that Kit’s dangerous game ended badly and he bursts into tears.

Kit continues to recount her earlier conversation with Boon once she confronts him with the video of the rape. He is overcome with remorse and explains that he feared being killed if he spoke up at the time. Kit discloses in the diary that she never had a therapist. However, the journal has helped her.

On November 4, Benoit continues to oversee efforts to raise the body while Mal visits the crime lab. Forensic evidence links Jon to the murder. Evidence taken from the wine glasses puts Jon and Daisy at the scene of the crime. When she gets back to her office, Mal is surprised to learn that Boon has arrived to make a statement.

Mal questions Boon about his role in the events of Halloween night. He admits that he helped Kit stage the scene in the house, impersonated Haruto North at the Pi Bistro, and also posed for and photographed Mia’s seduction of Jon along with another actor friend. Boon adds that he helped Kit carry the carpet roll to a second Audi to make it look like Jon and Daisy were the killers. He assisted her in dumping her own car off the dock. Now, he fears that Jon must have come back and killed Kit after the scene was set.

Boon says that Kit never expected to stage the perfect murder. It was a kind of performance art: “She wanted to be seen” (347). Kit also hoped to see Jon and Daisy forced to face justice for the crime they committed against her years earlier.

Kit used a syringe to take blood from Jon on the night she drugged him. She later planted it at the crime scene. She had also previously drawn enough of her own blood to make it appear that she had been attacked in the Glass House. Boon then produces the recordings that Kit made using a hidden camera on the night she confronted the Rittenbergs. There are also copies of the signed NDAs intended to silence Kit and Charley Waters. Boom is afraid Kit has been killed.Mal questions Boon about his role in the events of Halloween night. He admits that he helped Kit stage the scene in the house, impersonated Haruto North at the Pi Bistro, and also posed for and photographed Mia’s seduction of Jon along with another actor friend. Boon adds that he helped Kit carry the carpet roll to a second Audi to make it look like Jon and Daisy were the killers. He assisted her in dumping her own car off the dock. Now, he fears that Jon must have come back and killed Kit after the scene was set.

Boon says that Kit never expected to stage the perfect murder. It was a kind of performance art: “She wanted to be seen” (347). Kit also hoped to see Jon and Daisy forced to face justice for the crime they committed against her years earlier.

Kit used a syringe to take blood from Jon on the night she drugged him. She later planted it at the crime scene. She had also previously drawn enough of her own blood to make it appear that she had been attacked in the Glass House. Boon then produces the recordings that Kit made using a hidden camera on the night she confronted the Rittenbergs. There are also copies of the signed NDAs intended to silence Kit and Charley Waters. Boom is afraid Kit has been killed.

Mal confers with her team, recapping all the evidence now linking Jon to two sexual assaults. Boon has agreed to identify all the rape perpetrators at the ski lodge party. Mal thinks that Kit is getting the revenge she intended.

Mal goes to join Benoit to watch the corpse being raised to the surface. To everyone’s surprise, the dead woman is elderly. She is a missing person with dementia who had been gone for a few months and must have drowned accidentally.

In Bali, Kit is happily sipping a tropical drink and starting a new diary. She now calls herself Kat, feeling that she has successfully incorporated all the fragments of her identity into one. Kat still has the money that Jon wired into her account, and Laos has no extradition treaty with Canada.

She watches the news that reports John and Daisy’s convictions. Boon cuts a deal in exchange for evidence. He will also testify at Jon’s trial. Kat thinks about the way she set up Jon while posing as Mia. She posts on her Instagram profile: a picture of a perfect life that is now real.

Back in her office, Mal is reading the final pages of Kit’s diary. Kit’s final entry is told in first person and is entitled “How It Starts.” (This is nearly identical to the first chapter of the novel, “How It Ends.”) The passage details the aftermath of the ski lodge party in which Kit is being driven home by Daisy and an unknown friend. Daisy says, “Guys do things when in packs […] He asked for my help to get her out of the lodge” (364). The girls dump Kit’s body on her parents’ doorstep and flee. Mal finishes reading and makes arrangements to charge Daisy as an active participant in the assault. She will also find the unknown friend, who is likely to give testimony against Daisy to save herself.

Elsewhere, Boon has seen Kit’s latest message on Instagram. He is happy to know she is alive and sees she is in the town in Thailand where Boon was born. Boon feels happy to be forgiven and that he and Kit will see each other again.