Never Lie

The narrative maintains the present-day point of view of Tricia. Tricia enters Adrienne’s office with a knife in hand. Tricia and Luke start talking, and Luke says, “I’m pretty sure that isn’t Adrienne under the floorboards” (271-72). Luke notes that Adrienne never wore jeans, while the figure under the floorboards was clearly in denim. Tricia realizes that Luke may be right; Tricia had previously gone through Adrienne’s closet and marveled at the fancy, expensive clothing—there were no jeans. Tricia asks Luke if he knows who the person under the floorboards is, and Luke says he thinks so, without elaborating. Luke reiterates that he did not kill Adrienne. Tricia ignores him. Tricia takes the last tapes from the office and returns them to their appropriate spot in the secret room—“Every tape is in the same place it was when I first walked in here. Every tape except one” (274).

The narrative provides the transcript of the one missing tape. It is session #185 with PL, the 27-year-old female suffering from PTSD after a brutal attacker killed her boyfriend and two best friends and left her injured. PL is getting ready to move to Manhattan.