The suspense is getting intense on FX’s A Murder at the End of the World with just two episodes left. Episode six, “Crime Seen,” quickly reveals that Darby (Emma Corrin) survives after being trapped under a pool cover at the end of episode five. Lee (Brit Marling) and David (Raul Esparza) rescue her, but David leaves the two women alone.
Back in Darby’s room, Lee confirms she was the one who sent Darby the Morse code message to meet. Darby really wants to trust Lee, but she brings up the fake passport she found and feels she isn’t being honest with her. Lee admits everyone she’s been honest with is gone, except for David. She insists she just wants to keep Darby safe.
Lee knows Andy can’t be trusted. At first, it was little things she noticed Andy would do or say, but then it became bigger. He controls everything Zoomer does, including how much he eats and sleeps. Andy became abusive to Lee, and Zoomer witnessed it. Lee also realized that when Andy’s hotel was complete, she and Zoomer would be trapped there.
Lee hatched an escape plan. She got a fake ID, a wig, and a beat-up old car and left with Zoomer. She crossed over into Canada and arrived at a cabin in the woods that was off the grid. It was her friend’s cabin, and she was shocked to see Andy (Clive Owen) standing there with her friend when she pulled up. Somehow, he found out.
Darby learns that Bill was invited by Andy and that Bill initially refused. She puts the pieces together and figures out she was only invited by Andy as bait to get to Bill.
The clues are beginning to fall into place for Darby, but the overall picture remains unclear.
Lee asked Bill for help, and in turn, he enlisted Rohan’s help because Rohan had a boat. Lee and Bill pulled in David to help as well. That’s why Bill and David were together the night that Bill died.
Darby has an epiphany. Instead of trying to understand the killer, she should try to understand the victim. She and Lee head to Bill’s room, but they’re interrupted by the door opening. They’re afraid it’s Andy, but it is just Oliver (Ryan J. Haddad). Apparently, David sent him to get Lee and Darby and take them to his room.
Darby still wants to go to Bill’s room, and Lee and Oliver go with her.
While in Bill’s room, Oliver hands over the device he hid from Todd to Darby. It contains the footage from Bill’s doorbell camera on the night of his murder. There’s a light as if Bill opened his door, but there’s no one there. Darby thinks someone edited themselves out of the video.
As Darby goes over how Bill died, she realizes he had her book. There must be something in there he wants her to see. She thinks it’s the last chapter because that’s what she reads at book signings.
As she begins to read, memories flood her of the night they went to the serial killer’s house. A quick recap of what we learned in episode one: They found skeletal remains in the vacant house, and the killer caught them. This time, we see that when the man cocks his gun, Bill (Harris Dickinson) steps in front of Darby and the man kills himself.
After fleeing the basement, she checks the man’s ID and finds out he’s a former cop. Darby runs to a nearby house and asks the owner to call the police.
Later at the motel, Darby discusses what just happened and starts to make a comment about the serial killer thinking they appreciated what he had done. Bill cuts her off fast, completely disagreeing and saying the killer certainly wasn’t appreciating anything.
Bill and Darby view things very differently. They could have died, and Darby doesn’t seem to get that.
The following day, Darby finds Bill’s note that he had to take off and left her the car. She also discovers his laptop and phone in the bathtub filled with water.
The action returns to Bill’s room, with Darby crying and Lee embracing her. Darby admits she hasn’t read that part of her book since she wrote it. She confesses, “I didn’t want to see all the ways I left him before he left me.”
Oliver’s struck by something Bill said about the serial killer and “faulty programming.” Oliver wonders what Bill meant by that, and Lee thinks Bill picked that part in the book because Bill knew his killer was a hacker. Oliver believes that maybe David was right about Lu Mei. Oliver adds that Lu Mei builds smart cities where everyone is tracked.
Darby considers it but is also suspicious of Eva. She had access to the pacemaker device and the morphine.
As Darby attempts to come up with a plan to get Lee and Zoomer out of there, someone in distress begins to call out Lee’s name. It’s David, and he’s not alone. He’s with Andy and his head of security, Todd.
Episode six ends with Andy saying, “There’s my wife.”
- A Murder at the End of the World Episode 1 “Homme Fatal” Recap
- A Murder at the End of the World Episode 2 “The Silver Doe” Recap
- A Murder at the End of the World Episode 3 “Survivors” Recap
- A Murder at the End of the World Episode 4 “Family Secrets” Recap
- A Murder at the End of the World Episode 5 “Crypt” Recap
- A Murder at the End of the World Episode 7 “Retreat” Finale Recap
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New episodes of FX’s A Murder at the End of the World air on Tuesdays on Hulu.
Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (The OA) created the series and serve as writers, directors, and executive producers. Andrea Sperling, Melanie Marnich, and Nicki Paluga also executive produce.
