The Last House Guest

Parker looks for Luce after their argument. Avery stops Connor from leaving the party, and the two have sex in one of the Blue Robin’s bedrooms. Afterward, Avery returns to the party, lost in thought about what she might say to Sadie if she finds out what Avery and Connor just did. Avery loses sight of Connor in the crowd but catches Parker’s eye—the police have just arrived.

Avery remembers when she and Sadie did genealogy tests. The results revealed that Avery does have unknown biological relations out in the world, but she has no blood relation to the Lomans, which disappointed Sadie. In the present, Avery ducks into a coffee shop to avoid Detective Collins. Inside, she has a brief conversation with Ellie and Greg, and their reminiscences of last year’s Plus-One Party prompt Avery to wonder whether the supposedly accidental power outage was actually done on purpose so someone could leave the party unnoticed.

Avery recalls that she always felt like she was enough for Sadie until the previous summer when Luce came to Littleport with them. Avery thought Luce felt threatened by her, or at the very least she was determined to one-up Avery in the Loman family.