As Good As Dead

When Pip calls Ravi to tell him her plan, he is furious and refuses to lose her. She says she will come to say goodbye later in the evening before turning herself in. She wants one last family dinner first. Pip watches her family members eating a meal together and regrets that she never valued the normalcy of it. Afterward, she drives to the Singh house, but nobody is home. Pip heads toward the police station, but Ravi cuts her off in his car. They both get out to talk by the side of the road. Ravi declares, “We’re a team, remember? You and me. And no one’s taking you away from me, not even you” (413).

Ravi preempts Pip’s confession by going to Hawkins and saying he borrowed Pip’s headphones. He accidentally left them at Jason’s house when he went there to discuss a scholarship in the names of Andie and Sal. The headphones must have accidentally slipped out of his bag. Hawkins is forced to believe him because Ravi has a solid alibi for the night of the murder too. Pip is finally convinced that they will get away with the crime.

Now that the news of the murder is all over town, everyone is gossiping about it.