All That Was Lost

***All That Was Lost*** is the eightth episode of the first season of Truth Be Told. It is the eighth episode of the series overall, and Season 1 Finale.

## Synopsis

*Poppy enlists an unlikely ally in her hunt. The events of Halloween 1999 are revealed*.

## Plot

After it is discovered through Lanie’s childhood diary that she was regularly molested by her father, the suspicion then falls on her mother, Chuck’s wife — Erin, who is thought to have killed her husband to protect her daughter. The widow’s alibi is also found to be weak, and Poppy finally convinces her to appear on the podcast and reveal the truth to all the listeners.

However, before she can, Erin is killed by her daughter Lanie who doses her with Fentanyl. Soon after, Lanie is fired from her job as an end-of-life caregiver for inappropriate behavior and stealing her client’s drugs, making it all the more clear that she gave her mother the fatal dose. Her psychiatric records from the time, apart from diagnosing her with psychosis and an unhealthy obsession with her sister, also show that her counselor suspected Lanie of lying about being molested to cause a rift between her sister Josie and their father.

Poppy approaches Josie and warns her of her twin sister, who is suspected of killing both their parents. Being the timid one of the two, Josie agrees to help Poppy look for the elusive murder weapon and takes her to a spot she remembers seeing Lanie bury a dead bird as a child. There, they discover a silver sculpture of a bird covered in blood. As she looks at it, memories come flooding back into Josie’s mind, and she realizes that it was her that killed her father to save her sister Lanie from being molested. She tells Poppy as much, and Lanie and Josie had gone to the authorities and pinned the blame on their mother. Lanie admits to lying in her testimony all those years ago, and Warren is finally released.

Later, Josie and Lanie are meeting at a cafe where they reminisce about their childhood and how Lanie has always been exceedingly attached to Josie. The former seems overjoyed at being reunited with her sister but is shocked when the police show up and arrest her for her mother’s murder.

Poppy then recording the final episode of her podcast, which she closes on a thoughtful note, remarking on what a life-changing journey it has been for all those involved.

Despite Josie confessing, Poppy cannot bring herself to reveal the same to the public. This is because Josie is also a victim of her circumstances and killed her father, thinking he was molesting Lanie. It is, of course, revealed that Lanie lied about this to cause a rift between Josie and their father. Her obsession with her sister Josie, coupled with a host of mental disorders (as described by her counselor) that Lanie suffered from, is the real cause of Chuck Buhrman’s death.

Though the two sisters pin the murder on their mother Erin, Lanie is then arrested for Erin’s subsequent murder, which she made to look like a suicide. The fate of Josie, who helps get her sister arrested, remains unknown. Left with no family except for her incarcerated sister and abandoned by her husband Caleb (who is scared away by Lanie’s lies).

After spending 19 years, which is more than half his life in prison, Warren is finally released after Lanie and Josie tell the authorities that it was their mother that killed Chuck. In the end, he does get to meet his mother before she passes away from cancer. Shortly before being let out of prison, when he fears that he will be killed, Warren also blacks out all the Nazi tattoos he has on his arms, essentially discarding any association he has with the Aryan Brotherhood. While removing the tattoos, he says that he’s doing it so that he may save his soul.

## Cast

### Main

* Octavia Spencer as Poppy Parnell
* Aaron Paul as Warren Cave
* Elizabeth Perkins as Melanie Cave
* Mekhi Phifer as Markus Killebrew
* Michael Beach as Ingram Rhodes
* Tracie Thoms as Desiree Scoville
* Lizzy Caplan as Lanie Buhrman Dunn and Josie Buhrman
* Haneefah Wood as Cydie Scoville
* Ron Cephas Jones as Leander "Shreve" Scoville

### Recurring

* Katherine LaNasa as Noa Havilland
* Billy Miller as Alex Dunn
* Annabella Sciorra as Erin Buhrman
* Brett Cullen as Owen Cave
* Nicholas Bishop as Chuck Buhrman
* Molly Hagan as Susan Carver
* Andy Mackenzie as Rodgers
* Arianna Ortiz as Detective Theresa Ribero

### Co-Starring

* Hunter Doohan as Teenage Warren
* Mayson Weinstein as Young Josie
* Stella Weinstein as Young Lanie
* Rebecca Huey as Teenage Josie
* Caroline Huey as Teenage Lanie
* Colby French as Detective Hunter
* Desiree Hall as Rosemary
* Jance Enslin as Jeremy
* Scott Subiono as Detective Clark Stitt
* Andrew Carter as Rafe Polin
* Al Pugliese as Harlan Walsh
* Bruce Katzman as Dr. Ian Poole
* Brett Brock as Corrigan
* Ari Frenkel as Michael

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