Secrets

**Secrets** is the sixth episode of Stab. It aired on July 13, 2017.

## Plot

The killer sends Amanda to her childhood home where she makes a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, someone close to Amanda is threatened by the killer.

## Summary

Amanda walks into school and sees Jessica, Stephanie and Paul in the hallway. She walks up to them and they all ask her how she's doing after what happened at Jennifer's house the night before. Amanda says she's fine and that Jennifer texted her saying she had to get stitches for her knife wound and that she'd be going to school that day. At that moment, Jennifer walks into school and walks up to them in the hallway. They all ask how she's doing. Jennifer says that she's doing fine. Stephanie asks her where she's going to live since her house burned down and Jennifer says that her and her mother decided to rent a smaller house in the meantime. At that moment, Kyle walks up to them. Amanda rolls her eyes when she sees Kyle which results in Kyle getting upset and telling everyone that he's not the killer. Amanda says that she still doesn't trust him and will be keeping an eye on him until it's proven that he's not the killer. She and Jennifer both walk away. Kyle then looks at Jessica and Paul who both say that they don't what to think about anyone and they both walk away. Kyle then looks at Stephanie and asks her if she believes him. She seems hesitant at first but then she says that she still has some trust in Kyle. He then tells her that he needs a favor from her. She asks him what the favor is. He tells her that she can't say a thing to anyone and she promises that she won't. Kyle then tells her that the night before he met with Jennifer's mother, Evelyn. When Stephanie asks why he explains that she's trying to blackmail him into doing something for her. Stephanie asks Kyle to give her more details. Kyle tells her that about a year ago his parents went out for a drive while he stayed home alone. He says that they disappeared and never returned from that drive and that he doesn't know what happened to them but that people in the city had started to blame Kyle for their disappearance so he moved out of the city and changed his last name. He mentions that Evelyn somehow found out and that she's threatening to out him to the whole town if he doesn't sneak into Sheriff Dylan's office and send her pictures of Amanda's friends' files. Stephanie asks why he's telling her all this information. Kyle tells her that he needs her to distract Sheriff Dylan so he can sneak into his office for a minute and get the pictures of the files. Stephanie reluctantly agrees and they agree to go at lunch time. Meanwhile, Amanda and Jennifer are seen walking in the school hallway talking about the events that took place the night before including Jennifer's house being burnt down when they notice someone familiar in the hallway. At that moment, they both realize that it's Miss Miranda. She walks up to them and Amanda asks what she's doing there. She tells Amanda and Jennifer that she was looking for them after hearing what happened at Jennifer's house the night before and wanted to make sure they were ok. Amanda asks why she cares so much about them and Miss Miranda tells them that she is considering writing a book about the recent murders and how it ties in with psychology and wanted to know as much information as possible so her book is accurate. Amanda tells Miss Miranda to leave her and her friends alone or else she'll call Sheriff Dylan and tell him that Miss Miranda returned to the school to look for her. Miss Miranda tells Amanda that she didn't do anything wrong and Amanda reminds her that she filmed her and her friends without permission. Miss Miranda once again apologizes for filming them and tells Amanda and Jennifer that she wants to help them find out who the killer is. Jennifer tells her that for all they know she could be the killer and Miss Miranda tells them that she is not the killer. Amanda tells her that everyone says they're not the killer but that she'll get to the bottom of it and that one day the truth will come out. Miss Miranda gives Amanda a piece of paper with her phone number written on it and tells her that if she wants to talk through things to give her a call. Amanda crumples the paper and throws it back at her and says she wants nothing to do with her. Miss Miranda has a look of disappointment on her face and then turns around and leaves. After she leaves, Amanda and Jennifer both continue walking in the hallway and start discussing how strange that encounter was. Later that day, Jessica, Paul, Michelle, Stephanie and Kyle are all seen sitting together in the library. At that moment, Amanda and Jennifer both come walking in and sit with them. Amanda looks at Paul with a look on her face that shows that she's uncomfortable with Kyle being but Paul motions her to just go with it. Jennifer tells them all that the strangest thing just happened to her and Amanda. When everyone asks what she's talking about, Amanda says that they just ran into Miss Miranda in the hallway who apparently came to the school to check up on how she and Jennifer were doing. Jessica mentions how she thinks that's very suspicious and Jennifer says that it gets even more suspicious. Amanda brings up the fact that Miss Miranda said she's going to be writing a book on the recent murders and wanted her and Jennifer to give her full details on their attack at Jennifer's house so her book could be very accurate. Michelle says that she feels like Miss Miranda could be the killer because nobody knew where she was the night before and also at the time when everyone else was murdered. Jennifer says that she brings up a good point but that they also don't know where anyone else in the room was the night before apart from her and Amanda. Jessica and Paul both say that they were at their own houses. Stephanie says she was also at her house. Amanda turns to Kyle and asks him where he was the night before. Kyle lies and says that he was with Stephanie at her house and gives Stephanie a look to go with it. Stephanie, knowingly protecting Kyle from suspicion, pretends to confirm that he was really at her house. At that moment the bell rings and everyone gets up to go to class. Kyle pulls Stephanie aside and reminds her about them going to the police station after class and tells her that they need to come up with a way to get Sheriff Dylan out of his office.

During the lunch break, Kyle and Stephanie are seen walking towards the police station. Kyle asks Stephanie if she remembers the plan and she says she does. They both walk into the police station and Kyle hides around the corner of a hallway. Stephanie walks up to Detective Lorraine sitting at the main desk and tells her that she urgently needs to speak to the sheriff. Detective Lorraine calls Sheriff Dylan and asks if he could see someone quickly. She hangs up and tells Stephanie to wait in the lobby. Moments later, Sheriff Dylan comes out of his office and sees Stephanie. She tells him that she wants to talk to him about the recent murders and that she's in shock at how her friends are being murdered and begins to walk around the building with Sheriff Dylan. Meanwhile, Kyle sneaks out from his hiding spot and makes his way into Sheriff Dylan's office. While inside, he closes the blinds and quickly looks for the files. He comes across all the files in one of the drawers and takes pictures of the inside of all of them. When he gets to his file, he looks closely at it and removes a paper which blames him for the disappearance of his parents, takes the picture, puts the paper he took out from the file back into the file and puts all the files back the way they were before exiting from Sheriff Dylan's office. Kyle exits through the back door and texts all the pictures to Evelyn. Almost immediately, she replies saying "Good job. I'll get in touch with you again shortly for your next job." Kyle looks up from his phone with a look of disappointment on his face and texts Stephanie saying "It's done. You can quit stalling him now." Later that day, after school, Amanda is seen talking to Caroline in the kitchen at her house. Amanda tells Caroline that she is in absolute shock from what happened the night before and Caroline tells her that it's normal as she just went through a traumatic experience. They continue talking for a bit when Amanda gets a text from the killer with an address written down. Along with the address are the words "Come here now or else I'll set YOUR house on fire tonight." Amanda comes up with an excuse, telling Caroline that Jessica texted her and asked her to go over to help her with a school project. Caroline allows Amanda to leave but tells her not to come home too late. Amanda leaves and gets in her car and starts driving down the street. While in the car, she calls Paul and tells him that she really needs his help as a friend. When he asks what she needs from him she tells him that the killer is forcing her to go somewhere again and doesn't want to go alone. Paul tells her to text him the address and that he'll meet her there. She texts him the address and keeps driving. Meanwhile, Caroline, who is home alone, receives a phone call on the landline. She picks it up and the killer is revealed to be on the other line. Caroline, who is unaware she is talking to the killer, asks who she's speaking to, to which the killer responds saying "I'm the one who's gonna show the world the truth. The truth about you and your lies. Your game is over, Caroline. But mine is just beginning, bitch." Caroline hangs up and then hears a noise coming from the bathroom on the main floor. She enters the bathroom and notices the sink is running. She turns the sink off and leaves the bathroom and heads towards the kitchen again. She then suddenly gets another phone call on the landline from the killer. She picks up and hears the killer laughing and asking if she's scared yet. Caroline tells the killer that she's not playing any games and asks why he's messing with her. The killer tells her that he knows the truth about her and that he knows she'd do anything to keep it a secret from Amanda. Caroline begs the killer not to tell Amanda anything and the killer says not to count on anything. Caroline, who is becoming frustrated, tells the killer to go to hell which results in the killer running up to her from beside her and holding a knife up to her neck. Caroline pushes the killer off of her causing the killer to drop his knife. Caroline tries to pick it up but the killer reaches it before her and uses it to slice her arm. Caroline then kicks the killer in the stomach and starts running for the back door. When she reaches the back door she notices that it's stuck and the killer runs behind her and stabs her back causing her to fall to floor.

Meanwhile, Amanda is waiting for Paul outside the place where the killer told her to go. Finally, Paul arrives and parks his car next to Amanda's. When he gets out of the car, he walks up to Amanda and asks her why the killer would want her to go to some abandoned house. As they both walk towards the entrance, Amanda explains that it used to be her childhood home before she moved out. She also mentions that her and her mother moved out of the house following her parents' divorce. She also recalls that nobody moved into the house afterwards and it just went abandoned. When Amanda and Paul get inside, they both agree not to split up. They both walk into one of the bedrooms and Amanda recalls that it used to be her bedroom. Paul notices something on the floor near a corner of the room. Amanda looks closely at it and realizes that it's the yearbook for their school from the previous year. She opens it to find the pictures of all the victims (not including Detective Cox) cut out from the yearbook. She also notices there's a drawn in arrow on each page and she keeps turning the pages until she gets to the last page that is blank but has hand written text on it that reads "It ends with you" with a picture of Amanda stuck onto the page. Amanda drops the yearbook and Paul picks it up and tells her that he'll hold onto it in case she wants to use it as evidence. Amanda, who is visibly freaked out, tells Paul that she wants to leave and walks out of the room. Paul follows her but Amanda stops walking when she notices something odd. The door to her mother's former bedroom is partially opened and she notices things hanging from the ceiling inside the room. As she walks in to get a closer look she notices that the missing pictures from inside the yearbook are hanging from the ceiling and shaped like a circle. She notices that in the middle of the "circle" is a picture of herself with her mother, Caroline, from a few years ago. Amanda takes her phone out and takes pictures of what she is seeing. After Amanda takes some pictures on her phone, she notices that there is also a paper hanging from the ceiling. She takes the paper and sees that it's a handwritten letter from many years ago from her mother, Caroline, to Jennifer's mother, Evelyn. Amanda read the letter out loud which read: "Dear Evelyn, I'm so glad that we started this. It was such a good idea and ever since I had to put my child up for adoption I've been so miserable. But this is what makes me happy. We need to keep on burning down all your old abandoned buildings so we can collect the insurance money. I just need a little bit more then we can stop. Sincerely, Caroline" with a date written on the top reading December 4, 1997. Amanda looks at Paul with a shocked look on her face. Amanda tells Paul that she was the only child her mother said she had and that she was not born in 1997 or put up for adoption, which makes Amanda realize her mother had another child before her without telling her. Meanwhile, Caroline is seen lying on her kitchen floor with blood all over her back from where she got stabbed. She crawls up to the counter and reaches for phone. While still on the floor, she calls an ambulance and tells them she needs medical attention immediately.

When Amanda gets home she notices an ambulance parked outside her house as she pulls up into her driveway. Amanda gets out of her car and sees her mother, Caroline, in a stretcher, getting rolled into the ambulance. Amanda runs up to Caroline and asks the paramedics what happened. They tell her that she called in for medical attention and that when they got there they found her on the floor with a knife wound in her back. Amanda then gets into the back of the ambulance with Caroline. Later, at the hospital, Amanda is seen sitting next to Caroline, who is in a hospital bed recovering from her injuries. At that moment, Paul walks in. Amanda tells Caroline that she'll be right back and goes to speak to Paul in the hallway. Paul tells her he's sorry to hear about Caroline and Amanda asks him which part he's referring to; her mystery child that nobody knows about or the fact that she got attacked. Paul says he's sorry about both and that if Amanda needs anyone to talk to that he's there for her. Amanda wraps her arms around him and gives him a hug. Meanwhile, Evelyn is seen meeting up with Kyle once again. They're both in the woods and Evelyn tells him that he did a good job getting the pictures of the files taken. Evelyn then asks him for another favor. Kyle reluctantly asks her what the favor is and she tells him since her former partner, Caroline, is in the hospital that she needs a new partner. Kyle asks what she needs a partner for and Evelyn tells him she'll text him all the details shortly and that they should get going their own way. They both leave and go in separate and Miss Miranda is seen looking through some bushes and trees, listening in on and watching the whole conversation that just took place between Kyle and Evelyn.

## Notes

* Detective Cox does not appear in this episode.
* This is the second episode of the series not to have a death.
* Caroline was attacked by the killer in this episode, but she survived the attack.
* This episode was viewed live by 0.42 million people.

## Cast

### Main cast

* Emma Roberts as Amanda
* Evan Peters as Drew  (picture)
* Billie Lourd as Jennifer
* Taissa Farmiga as Stephanie
* Taylor Lautner as Kevin  (picture)
* Lea Michele as Jessica
* Finn Wittrock as Kyle

### Recurring cast

* Sarah Paulson as Caroline
* Lily Rabe as Miss Miranda
* Darren Criss as Paul
* Halle Berry as Detective Lorraine
* Bella Thorne as Michelle
* Jamie Lee Curtis as Evelyn
* Cheyenne Jackson as Sheriff Dylan