You'll Be the Death of Me

After a few minutes of internet searching, Ivy identifies Dominick as Dominick Payne. On the news, Ishaan implies that Ivy killed Boney because she was jealous that he won the election. Ivy’s friend Emily loudly defends Ivy, and Ivy sends her a text in gratitude. She does not respond to any of her brother’s many texts. Anxious about the fact that he hasn’t heard from Autumn, Mateo asks Cal to drive him to the knife-sharpening business where she works. When Cal suggests that they go to the police, Charlie threatens to leak news of Cal’s affair with Lara Jamison. Noticing that Charlie is still drunk, Ivy suggests they drive him to his brother Stefan’s house.

Ivy worries that she won’t have enough time to prepare for her mother’s ceremony. While they wait for the owner of the knife-sharpening shop where Autumn works, Mateo shows Ivy a news article about Dominick Payne’s art gallery being saved from bankruptcy by a mysterious influx of cash. The shop owner says that Autumn left her last stop 10 minutes prior, and gives Mateo Autumn’s route. He says another man also called looking for Autumn. Ivy tries to comfort Mateo but feels overwhelmed with guilt about the secret she needs to tell him.

In a transcript from a Carlton Speaks video, Emily points out that Mateo and Cal are also missing, and if Ivy is considered a suspect, they should be too.

Cal speeds through the streets of Boston so the trio can reach Autumn’s next stop before her scheduled arrival time. When they arrive, there is no sign of Autumn’s van. Ivy suggests they go inside to ask if she’s been by, so they can speed to her next stop if necessary. While waiting for answers inside, Mateo and Ivy question why the anonymous tipster contacted the police and Dale Hawkins’s show rather than a more reputable news station. Cal suddenly bursts in with Autumn, who is unharmed.

Devastated to hear of Boney’s death, Autumn insists that she only ever sold opioids to one customer, a man whose doctor wouldn’t prescribe him painkillers for migraines. When Autumn says that she wants to turn herself in, Mateo says that Autumn going to jail would destroy his mother. He suggests that Autumn travel to New York City, where his mother is on vacation. He convinces her to stay a few extra days to keep them both safe and out of Boston. Before leaving, Autumn makes Ivy and Cal promise that they’ll turn her in and save themselves if they get caught.

Ivy finally admits to Mateo that she unintentionally caused the accident that led to the closure of Mateo’s mother’s bowling alley. After her brother Daniel’s prank humiliated her during a class president speech, Ivy was desperate to get back at him. When she saw him showing off with friends at Patrick DeWitt’s birthday party, she decided to pour baby oil on the lanes to make Daniel fall, embarrassing him as he had embarrassed her. Because she spent the summer in Scotland, she didn’t know that the lawsuit against Mateo’s mother was happening until after the fact. Furious, Mateo rejects Ivy’s apology, telling her that he never wants to see or speak to her again.

When the trio arrives at Carlton High, Mateo storms off. Cal chases after him, asking what he plans to tell the police. Mateo insists that there’s no evidence he or Autumn did anything wrong, and that he’ll say he was home sick. Desperate to prove her innocence, Ivy convinces Cal to break into Lara’s art classroom to see if the “D” signature on the love note matches her signed print from Dominick Payne. Inside the classroom, Cal remembers the excitement he used to feel in art class before he began seeing Lara. To Ivy’s dismay, the “D” is not a match for the signed print. As Ivy searches Lara’s desk, her brother Daniel enters the classroom.

Daniel asks Ivy where she’s been all day, but Ivy refuses to answer. Daniel reveals that the police questioned him about Ivy’s absence from school and asked for her number. He tells her he lied to them because he was worried that she was in trouble and didn’t want to make it worse. When Ivy brings up Daniel’s humiliating prank, he insists that he thought it was a joke, and that he wasn’t trying to hurt her. Ivy realizes that Daniel is hurt that they aren’t closer. She asks Daniel why he took the candy and note Mateo left her in eighth grade. After some pressure from Daniel, Cal admits that he found and took the note and candy.

When Mateo arrives home, he finds his house torn apart just as Charlie’s had been. He regrets speaking so harshly to Ivy and tries to convince himself that she deserved it. Autumn texts with upsetting news: She told Mateo’s mother about her drug dealing and Boney’s death, and Mateo’s mother convinced her to go to the police. Mateo is overwhelmed with anger and shame and, inspired by what he thinks Ivy would do, begins to look for clues in Autumn’s room. Using the code B-R-I-A-N, Mateo unlocks Boney’s phone and calls the number that sent the last text he received: the code to enter the studio building. Although there is no answer, Mateo is suddenly sure of what he needs to do.

After Daniel leaves, Cal explains to Ivy that he stole the note and candy because he was afraid that his friendship with Ivy and Mateo would be different if the pair dated. Cal suggests that Daniel might have protected Ivy from the police in order to protect himself. He points out that Daniel’s shoes cost $1,000 and suggests that he might be the “D” from Lara’s love note or a drug dealer himself. Furious, Ivy storms out, taking the card with her. Cal finds a key hidden under Lara’s desktop and uses it to unlock a bottom drawer. Inside, he finds plastic freezer bags filled with pill bottles. He grabs one of the bags and leaves.

Alone in her car, Ivy receives an alert that her parents’ flight is delayed again and won’t arrive until six o’clock at night. She wrestles with her complicity in Mateo’s family crisis and wonders if she’s been rude to her brother for no reason. Ivy finally allows herself to cry for Brian Mahoney. She wishes that she had reacted to the election more maturely, and wonders if she could have kept him from going into Boston. Daniel texts with news that his friend Trevor’s car has broken down and asks her to pick him up. Determined to do the right thing for once, Ivy agrees.