Lights Out

Aly and Josh hike through the snow toward the street and the pick-up spot. Aly can see that Josh is injured. Aly contacts Junior, who says that there are police all over the area and that he had to switch to a backup vehicle nearby. Josh pulls Aly to the ground, avoiding a spotlight scanning the forest. When it passes, they hear Junior tell his driver to reverse as the same spotlight passes over their vehicle. When the spotlight moves far enough away, Aly and Josh slowly make their way to Junior’s vehicle. Aly can feel that her toes are in danger of frostbite, and she tells Junior to turn up the heat. They make it to the vehicle and thank Junior for waiting for them. Aly wonders if their plan was always to leave Josh behind, which makes her glad she stayed back.

On the drive, Junior gets a call and reveals that the police found the dead bodies. Brad’s parents are cooperating, claiming that they did not know about Brad’s crimes. Junior plans to send a man who looks like Brad up to the Canadian border to use Brad’s credit card, which should make the police think that Brad fled the country. Aly and Josh relax, realizing that they might get away with killing Brad, and Josh jokes that he will punish Aly for leaving the van when he told her not to. Aly thanks Junior again, and he reminds Josh that Josh owes Nico a favor. Josh and Aly get into Josh’s car at a warehouse, and Aly says that she needs to examine Josh’s wounds.

Josh and Aly get back to Aly’s house, and Josh enjoys startling Aly, who is ready for the “punishment” he warned her about. Inside, Fred is excited to see them, and Josh takes a shower. Josh has a flashback to his father, brought on by the smell of the decomposing bodies in Brad’s basement. When Aly joins him in the shower, she can tell that Josh is upset, and Josh says that he can still smell the bodies on him. She smells him and says that he smells clean, and Josh tells her about almost finding a body in his father’s car trunk when he was 11 years old. Josh only regrets that he does not remember more about the incident since not all his father’s victims were found. Aly comforts Josh, and they take stock of their wounds. None of them are severe enough to require treatment, but Aly plans to ice Josh’s bruised ribs. They are both uncomfortable with leaving so much of the crime to Nico and his men since they both prefer to be in control. Josh thinks that they can get more information at the new obligatory family dinners. Aly and Josh are aroused, but they delay having sex to eat.

Aly wakes up tied to her bed, and she panics, thinking that Brad might still be alive. A red light floods the bedroom, and Josh, wearing his mask, brandishes a knife at the foot of the bed. They have sex, and Aly consistently notes that she feels safe and aroused. After having rough sex with the mask, Josh takes off the mask to talk. They confess that they are falling for each other. They have sex again without the mask or any violence, and Aly says that it is just as satisfying.

Josh and Aly go to Nico’s home for dinner dressed in formal attire. They both struggle to restrain their arousal. Nico answers the door, followed by his wife, Moira. Aly likes Moira, who jokes and prods at Nico at every opportunity. The cousins greet them in another room, but Greg is missing. Aly tries to force Nico to discuss Brad’s case immediately, but he insists on waiting until after dinner. Small talk is awkward and frequently leads to arguments between Nico and Aly, and Josh wonders if Nico is a sociopath. Moira calms Nico down, though, which tells Josh that Nico might not be too bad of a person. Dinner is filling, and Moira makes coffee afterward.

Nico explains that the police did not find any trace of anyone but Brad at the house, except Aly’s footprints. However, they think that Brad escaped the house with another man, and the planted sightings in Canada have convinced the police that Brad fled the country with an accomplice. Aly and Josh are relieved, but Nico makes a reference to Josh’s father that leads to another argument. While Aly gets ready to leave, Nico privately tells Josh that he does not trust Josh with Aly. Josh threatens Nico with the evidence he has against Nico and says that his father put him through worse suffering than Nico ever could. Nico eventually backs down, and Aly returns, sensing that something is wrong. In the car, Josh tells Aly what he did, and she wishes she could have seen him intimidate Nico. They express their love for one another.

Aly runs through the woods with a five-minute head start on Josh, who is hunting her. Their wager is that Josh will catch her in 20 minutes, and if he does, then Aly has to be in his next video for social media. Aly knows that she would get messages full of hate and jealousy because of the video, but it sounds fun. She checks her watch and sees that 15 minutes have gone by. She fantasizes about the condition of Josh’s victory, which simulates sexual assault. However, she notes that she is excited and consenting. Josh finds her, and they fight. Ultimately, Josh wins, and they have sex. Immediately afterward, Aly asks Josh to marry her but then panics when he does not respond. She turns to find him on one knee with a ring.

They drive home and talk about what they could do differently for the next chase game. At their Airbnb, they find their new kitten, Maud, in a pile of toilet paper fighting with Fred. Josh jokes that he wants eight kids, and Aly says that she is only willing to have two. Aly says that it is the best day of her life.