The Unwedding

Ellery points out that the folding painted screen that once stood behind the reception desk is missing, and Ravi and Nina agree. The group can’t agree on when they last saw the screen. Brook reluctantly allows Ellery to remain alone in her single suite. Rachel approaches Ellery and asks her to break the new rules and hike to Slipstream, a bar on the edge of the property that Olivia once mentioned to her.

After a difficult, muddy hike, Ellery and Rachel reach Slipstream and find that the surrounding clearing has been trashed by the storm. The trailers that make up the bar are locked, but Rachel reveals that she has keys, given to her by Maddox. Ellery doesn’t question Rachel but grows increasingly uncomfortable being alone with her so far from the rest of the group. The pair enter the trailers and see muddy footprints, which they attribute to the search party for Olivia. As Ellery moves to leave, Rachel discovers the sweatshirt Olivia was wearing, covered in blood.

Ellery and Rachel keep the sweatshirt as evidence. Rachel notices a piece of cloth in a firepit, but they decide not to disturb the scene further. Later, Ellery studies the photo of Ben on Olivia’s sweatshirt, noting his obvious love for both his parents. When Ellery mentions the missing screen, Rachel reveals that it has been in Catherine’s suite since the morning of the wedding. Rachel implies that Maddox gave her the resort keys because he understands her desire to find Olivia, but notes that she does not trust him.

Ellery reluctantly agrees not to mention Olivia’s sweatshirt to anyone until Rachel has the chance to talk to Brook. Brook appears at Ellery’s room with a package delivered for her Saturday. Brook asks if Ellery has discovered anything about the missing art, and Ellery says no. Brook tells Ellery to be safe and stop investigating. Alone, Ellery finds that the package contains a cake. The attached note congratulates Ellery on surviving the anniversary and tells her to trust her gut.

Ellery shares the cake with the other guests, despite Nina’s worries that it might be poisoned. Ravi and Nina debate whether to trust Brook’s statement that the missing piece is a sculpture. Morgan interrupts to point out that the cake is the same one famously delivered by movie star Aiden Stone to his employees. Ellery denies knowing him and does not share the details of the card. Rachel reveals that she works for the reviled Senator Blaine Welch. Catherine’s husband Rick enters holding what looks like a face, and Ellery faints.

Ellery wakes late Wednesday and learns that she fainted at the sight of Rick and was carried to the doctor by Andy. Ellery is shocked that Ravi and Nina have stayed by her side all night. Ravi reveals that the face Rick held was taken from a sculpture and found buried outside Catherine’s cottage. Ellery suggests that Catherine may have used the metal face to kill first Ben and then Matt. As Ellery is leaving the infirmary, Dr. Anand privately reveals that he recognizes her.

The thought of being recognized makes Ellery panic. As she approaches her room, she is greeted coldly by Rachel, who questions why Brook didn’t suggest they share a room. When Ellery points out that they are basically strangers, Rachel tells Ellery not to try to save her if she hears screams coming from her room next door. Ellery finds a note on her door asking her to meet at the ceremony site that evening, signed from Olivia. Andy appears and asks Ellery to hike off the property with him.

Rachel’s comments make Ellery think that she, too, has recognized her, and Ellery agrees to leave with Andy. As they hike out of the property, Andy tells Ellery that he and Ben grew up together and that they camped at Big Sur with Ben’s father before his death. The pair discover that a landslide has completely blocked the highway. When Andy suggests they try to climb over it and continue, Ellery panics and asks if he is the killer. Andy asks for an opportunity to explain, but Ellery runs.

Ellery loses her hiking poles as she runs away from Andy and toward the ceremony site. She does not see Olivia but follows a series of arrows made of stones deeper into the forest. The arrows lead to a clearing containing a giant sculpture of a bird guarding a nest. Olivia stands in the clearing with Nina and Grace. Catherine appears and tries to hug her daughter, but Olivia rejects her, explaining that that she summoned the four of them because one of them is Ben’s killer.

Olivia outlines each person’s potential for guilt. She accuses Grace of burying the metal face outside her mother’s cottage. Grace admits it, revealing that her father, Gary, is the anonymous sculptor of the larger artwork, and that he stole back a piece modeled after his late wife. Olivia then accuses Nina of being Ben’s godmother, who disappeared from his life after his parents’ death rather than take him in. Nina denies it, but Olivia insists. Finally, Olivia reveals that Ellery has killed someone before.