The Woman In The Window

**"The Woman In The Window"** is the second episode of the second season of Paramount+'s *Why Women Kill*, and the twelfth episode overall. It was released on June 3, 2021.

## Synopsis

A shaken Alma investigates Bertram's disturbing collection of "souvenirs," determined not to let this discovery complicate her Garden Club aspirations. Meanwhile, Rita is still suspicious of Scooter's devotion and is further aggravated by the arrival of Catherine, her ailing husband's daughter.

## Plot

After Alma found the items hidden last night in a cylinder box, she deduces that Bertram has a secret but doubts it as she reminisce on how they both first met after having her heart broken by a guy named Tom Madison. But she pushes herself to find out about Bertram's secret. She takes the box and finds Maisie's fan that is recently added. Vern lies to Rita about Scooter's affair as he doesn't tell her who he found at Scooter's place. Rita later visits Carlo at the hospital but is surprised to see his daughter, Catherine Castillo, who found out about his illness through Carlo's lawyer. She reveals to Rita that family trust lets her create her own decisions about her father's health and also decides to take him to Texas. Rita is secretly overjoyed knowing about this.

Scooter visits Dee at the diner but Vern appears. She confronts Vern and asks him if he saw her. He confirms that he did but reassures her that he won't mind them. He further tells her that he thinks Scooter is a jerk but she believes Scooter is good. Alma goes to Maisie's room but finds her in the couch unconscious. She suddenly finds out that Maisie is dead. At Bertram's veterinary clinic, Grace Berk, the woman Alma spoke to at the party, goes to the clinic to have a checkup to her dog but she talks to Bertram that Alma returned to her her Aunt Enid's brooch and that Alma found it at a rummage sale. He immediately returns home but finds Alma at the stairs waiting for him, while she carries his box. The two talk and Bertram reveals that the items are mementos to his former patients. He confesses that he had indeed kill Maisie via euthanasia because she was suffering from an illness. He further reveals that the owners of the items had different sufferings. He claims that he had "help" them in peace because there was no cure. Alma is distraught but Bertram explains that he helped them to put into peace because they were all alone. He then opens up to her that the first person he put into peace begged for him to do it. After that incident, he believes he has a calling to help them. However, Alma escapes out of the window but learns that Bertram's car keys are inside the house. As she tried to snuck herself inside, Bertram finds her but she threatens him that she'll go to the police to confess his crime.

Rita visits Scooter at his place and asks him to live with her since Carlo will be in Texas with his daughter. He accepts her offer but she wants him to work as her chauffeur as a cover story. He rejects since he is an aspiring actor and that he wants her as his lover, not boss. She tries to have him accept her offer since Carlo will soon die and that they will both spend his inheritance for a movie. Hearing the last part, he accepts her offer. Alma arrives at the police station but stands outside. Rita finds her and they both talk. She tells her that Grace nominated her in the club after she returned her Aunt's brooch. Alma asks Rita if she has a chance to be part of the club. Rita thinks that she can and reveals that she was suppose to nominate someone but rescinds her offer because the woman's husband is involved in embezzling money. She further states that it would ruin the club's reputation if they let anyone with a bad history joins the club. Hearing this, Alma goes home.

Later, Rita's maid, Isabela, tells Rita that having her lover to be her driver is a bad idea because it might cause a scandal in the house. Suddenly, Rita finds both Catherine and Carlo as Catherine tells her that she changed her mind after seeing how it made Rita happy and thought to live instead in the mansion where she will take care of her father and keep an eye on Rita. Rita becomes distraught but Catherine notices Rita's eagerness to have Carlo gone and suspects that Rita might have a gigolo. Scooter arrives suddenly but Rita throws him out and pretends that he is her cleaner. She later returns to him and tells him that Carlo's daughter has returned. As he leaves, Carlo watches them at the window. Alma visits Dee at the diner and tells her that she will have to stay at a friend's place for the night so that she can have a talk with Bertram. Noticing her odd behavior, Dee talks to her and asks if her dad has a woman. Alma suddenly see Maisie and confirms he had one. She opens to her daughter that she is afraid of what they will talk about her. Dee gives her mom an advice to be selfish and to do what makes her happy. Before leaving, Dee asks her "what happens now?" Alma only answers "What a good question," unsure what will happen next.

At the Castillo's, Catherine bathes her father but forgets his pills. She tasks Rita to bathe her husband while she buys him a new pill. Rita goes to the bathroom and intentionally turns the faucet on so that he will die from drowning but Catherine arrives while Rita flushes the water down to what it normally was to avoid detection. Dee calls her father on their home and confronts him about his affair. Bertram doesn't object since Alma didn't reveal his secret but is dejected as Dee calls him a disappointment. After the calls, Bertram decides to kill himself.

Dee arrives at Scooter's place and asks to stay for the night. But out of fear that he might get caught, he rejects her. Vern, who had witnessed the conversation, follows after her. As he tries to talk to her, Dee suddenly realizes that Vern is following after Scooter. She rejects his offer to get inside his car but soon relents since she was wet from the rain. Inside the car, the two argue after he confesses that it was Scooter's lover who hired him to follow Scooter. She opens up on why she loves him despite that she can only get him shortly. After he drops her off at the motel, she takes back what she said to him and calls him a good guy. Alma returns home but sees Bertram writing a suicide note. She becomes enraged and tells him that she still loves despite after what he had done. She makes him promise to stop the killings. He promises but then she decides to throw all of the items in the box. He tries to talk to her to rethink but she refuses. The two are oblivious, however, that their neighbor, Mrs. Yost, is listening to their argument. While they continue to argue, Mrs. Yost grabs one of the items and decides to climb at the trellis to continue to listen to their argument about his crime. Alma unintentionally closes the window where Mrs. Yost is hanging on to and falls down as gets stabbed by the shears. Hearing her scream, they soon find her dead body as they realize that she was listening to their conversation. Bertram decides to call after the police to report but Alma stops him, fearing that they will know about his secret. She immediately thinks to bury Mrs. Yost.

## Cast

* Lana Parrilla as Rita Castillo
* B.K. Cannon as Dee Fillcot
* Jordane Christie as Vern Loomis
* Matthew Daddario as Scooter Polarsky
* Veronica Falcón as Catherine Castillo
* Nick Frost as Bertram Fillcot
* Daniel Zacapa as Carlo Castillo
* Eileen Galindo as Isabel Vega
* Virginia Williams as Grace Berk
* Rondi Reed as Mrs. Yost
* Rachel Redleaf as Young Alma
* Jack Seavor McDonald as Young Bertram
* Jack Davenport as The Narrator

### Co-Starring

* Alex Lange as Young Tom
* Kayla Carlson as Ruth
* Sidne Phillips as Ivy
* Peyton Woolf as Dottie

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