Prime Video’s psychological thriller, The Girlfriend, arrives at its sixth and final episode with the question of both Laura and Cherry’s true nature still up for debate. The suspense is palpable as the series heads toward a shocking ending. Which of the two women vying for Daniel’s affection is truly psychotic, and which is genuinely motivated by love? Or are they both a disturbing blend of the two?
This recap of the sixth episode is filled with spoilers. You’ve been warned.
Daniel (Laurie Davidson) and Cherry (Olivia Cooke) come home from an apparent shopping spree. She wants to announce the engagement on Instagram, and he wants to enjoy it for a while. She’s sad that he wants to keep it a secret, but Daniel just doesn’t want people to ask too many questions. Seeing her disappointment, Daniel has a change of heart and thinks Cherry deserves a party.
Laura (Robin Wright) waits outside of the hospital for Daniel to finish his shift. She demands to know if he thinks she’s a violent person and he doesn’t want to have that discussion now. While Laura frantically insists that she didn’t attack Cherry, Daniel blurts out that he and Cherry are engaged and want to be left alone.
Cherry meets up with Daniel and sees Laura just standing there after Daniel walks away.
Howard (Waleed Zuaiter) comes home and packs up his things. Laura begs Howard to talk to Daniel, but he won’t listen. Instead, he suggests she just stop. He sings Cherry’s praises, complimenting her charitable work, including donations to a nursing home where they believe her dad, John, died. (We know from episode four that he’s not dead.) Howard asks, “Why can’t you love me the way I love you?” Laura’s only response is that she tried.
Howard comes clean, confessing that he’s been begging friends for years to invest in her gallery and buy the art that won’t sell. Howard is done with it all, including Laura.
Laura remembers the nursing home bill she has of Cherry’s and pays the facility a visit. She’s shocked to discover John is still alive. When she mentions Cherry’s name, John begins to get upset. The nurse informs Laura that John gets like that whenever Cherry is brought up. Laura asks the nurse what happened to him and learns he fell off a building and broke his spinal cord.
Howard and Cherry enjoy a glass of champagne together. He thinks she must miss her dad, and she believes he must miss his daughter. Cherry asks Howard to walk her down the aisle.
Laura visits Cherry’s mother, Tracey (Karen Henthorn), seeking advice. Laura doesn’t want Daniel to end up like Cherry’s father; Laura believes Cherry pushed her father off the building. Tracey doesn’t care what Cherry does. She is her daughter, and she will always protect her. Laura also needs to protect her son. Tracey thinks no one will believe Laura if she tells anyone.
“If she finds out what you are trying to do, then god help you and your son,” warns Tracey.
Laura recorded their conversation and leaves a voice message for Daniel, begging him to meet her. While Daniel is in the shower, Cherry sees the text messages from Laura. She deletes them just as Daniel catches her on his phone. She lies, claiming she’s looking for a wedding song.
Tracey doesn’t want to go to the engagement party and she gives Cherry a warning to be careful because Laura has it out for her. Tracey admits that Laura visited her and asked about her dad. Tracey claims she told her to get lost.
Cherry breaks into the gallery at night and burns the eyes out of a painting of Laura.
Laura discovers a stuffed bear on her porch that was in her gallery. She rushes to her gallery only to find all the art has been vandalized. The police are there when Lilith shows up. Upset, Lilith (Anna Chancellor) no longer believes or trusts Laura.
Everyone attends the engagement except for Tracey, while Laura shows up uninvited. Isabella (Tanya Moodie) intercepts Laura while Cherry tells Daniel that his mom is there. The police arrive and arrest Cherry for criminal damage.
Cherry laughs while waiting in the integration room. The police inform her that there is CCTV footage of a woman of her build and height breaking into the gallery. Cherry tells them Laura is harassing her and brings up what people are saying online about her. Cherry also mentions Laura firing Harriet. Grasping at straws, she tries to blame Harriet for the vandalism.
Laura is still trying to call Daniel when her cat, Moses, shows up at the door.
Cherry is released and Tracey confirms she lied to the police for her. She doesn’t want to hear whatever excuse Cherry is about to give her. When Cherry says she and Daniel are in love, Tracey says Daniel doesn’t even know who Cherry really is.
Tracey comes clean. Laura knows everything and is prepared to tell Daniel.
Daniel visits Laura but before she can play him the audio she made of Tracey, he tosses her phone aside. He’s been forced to take on the role of the perfect golden boy, and he feels as if he can’t breathe.
Daniel chooses Cherry over Laura and Laura seems to give up. She asks him to stay for a few minutes and have a drink. He agrees and instead of trying again to show him proof that Cherry is dangerous, she drugs her son. While he is drugged, she tries to play him the message.
Cherry breaks into Laura’s house and confronts her mother-in-law, demanding to know why she disliked her from the get-go. Laura refuses to let her son go and asks why Cherry hurt her own father. Cherry admits she did!
Cherry tries to help Daniel and Laura shoves her in a room and locks the door. She’s forced to climb out the window and jump off the balcony, injuring herself in the process. As Cherry attempts to get back inside the house, Laura grabs a butcher knife.
The two women embark on an intense chase, just as Daniel starts coming around and making his way down the stairs. Laura and Cherry run into each other, and Laura threatens Cherry with the knife. Cherry and Laura fall into the pool and engage in a fight for their lives.
In a heart-pounding moment, Daniel jumps in and holds his mother underwater while yelling at Cherry to get out of the pool. By the time Daniel releases Laura, it’s too late. Laura is dead.
The series concludes with a time jump, catching up with Daniel and Cherry after they’ve married and have a baby on the way. Cherry’s outside while Daniel’s in the kitchen when Moses the cat reacts to something Daniel can’t see. Daniel checks it out and finds a cell phone.
The battery’s drained and he charges it, discovering it’s his mom’s phone. Daniel finally listens to the recording she so desperately wanted him to hear, and it is so much worse than he expected.
Tracey told Laura every psychotic thing Cherry has done and it’s a lengthy list. Horrified, Daniel listens to Tracey’s final warning to Laura: “So you tell your son, don’t be fooled by the good times. Sooner or later, she’ll want something from you that you’re not prepared to give and then she’ll find a way to get rid of you.”
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