- The HBO limited series "Mare of Easttown" is airing its final episode on Sunday.
- Ahead of the finale, there remain some pretty big unanswered questions.
- For example, what was in the photograph Erin's best friend Jess showed the police chief?
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Warning: This post contains major spoilers for "Mare of Easttown" through episode six.
"Mare of Easttown" is airing its finale this weekend and somehow we have even more questions after last Sunday's sixth episode that seemed to reveal the killer in the show's central murder mystery.
The seven-part HBO thriller tells the story of a small town where a young girl, Katie (played by Caitlin Houlahan), went missing for over a year and another teenage girl, Erin (played by Cailee Spaeny), was found murdered.
Detective Mare Sheehan (played by Kate Winslet) is tasked with finding answers to these cases while she also works through some complicated issues in her personal life.
In the fifth episode, which aired on May 16, Mare finally found Katie. Katie was being held captive by a local man named Wayne Potts (played by Jeb Kreager) in his attic before Mare tracked down the abductor using license-plate numbers.
The penultimate episode, which aired last Sunday, features Billy, an older male relative of Erin's (played by Robbie Tann), confessing to killing her and also to fathering her baby.
Even though the show appears to have already solved its two biggest mysteries — Erin's murder and Katie's disappearance — viewers still have a few questions.
Where did Dylan go the night that Erin was murdered?
Dylan (played by Jack Mulhern) is introduced in the first episode as Erin's boyfriend and the father of her child, although viewers find out soon afterward that he's not actually the baby's dad and that Erin was also in a relationship with someone else (revealed to be Billy in the sixth episode).
Dylan is rude to Erin and does absolutely nothing when his current girlfriend, Brianna (played by Mackenzie Lansing), physically assaults Erin at a party in the first episode.
His general unpleasantness earns him little sympathy in Easttown, least of all from Erin's dad Kenny (played by Patrick Murney), who suspects that Dylan killed Erin and shoots him in the back.
While being rude and unpleasant doesn't necessarily mean Dylan murdered Erin, Brianna raises some questions about his whereabouts the night the young mother was killed.
"You know there are things from that night — when I woke up, you weren't in bed," Brianna is seen telling Dylan in a heated chat during the fifth episode.
After he doesn't give her a proper answer and, she says, lies about getting up to feed Erin's son (at that point in the series, everyone still thought that Dylan was the baby's father), Brianna goes to Mare in the sixth episode to tell the detective that Dylan disappeared from his house the night Erin was murdered.
It also certainly doesn't make him look less suspicious that he threatened Erin's best friend, Jess (played by Ruby Cruz), with a gun to warn her against speaking to Mare and the police about the murder.
We don't know much about the confrontation between Dylan and Jess, except that Dylan really, really doesn't want Jess to talk to the police. That brings us to our next question ...
What was in the picture that Jess showed the police chief?
Last Sunday's "Mare of Easttown" episode ends with a cliffhanger where, despite Dylan's violent threats, Jess doesn't hesitate to reach out to Chief Carter (played by John Douglas Thompson).
With her mother next to her, Jess shows the chief a photo that is visibly shocking to him and makes him say, "Get Mare on the phone. Do it now."
In the fifth episode, Jess, Dylan, and a third teen are seen burning Erin's journals. Jess retrieves the photo from one of the journals and hides it without telling the other two.
Jess presumably told the chief, in dialogue off-screen, about what they did to Erin's diaries, and when he asks her why they burnt the journals, she produces the picture.
Vulture writer Nate Jones suggests that, in the photo, you can see Erin "in the top-left corner of the frame, reclining with her right arm folded over her chest," although it's inconclusive because all the viewers see is the white backside.
Some "Mare of Easttown" viewers were definitely fixated on trying to deduce the significance of the picture.
—Ryan (@ry3889) May 24, 2021
While we might not know what was in the picture, or in Erin's journals, the chief's facial expressions suggest it's something very damning.
Did Billy really kill Erin?
While the sixth episode appeared to reveal that Billy is Erin's killer, "Mare of Easttown" viewers aren't completely convinced.
Some fans of the show think it's actually John (played by Joe Tippett), Billy's brother, who killed Erin and that Billy is either being set up or willingly taking the fall to protect his brother and brother's family.
—CJ Dorschel 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (@atlas2112) May 24, 2021
—Vinhinton (@Vinhinton) May 24, 2021
Even legendary horror author and known TV buff Stephen King isn't entirely convinced by the explanation about Erin's murder offered in the sixth episode and has his own theories about who killed the teen, although he says he won't publicly say anything until after the finale airs.
—Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 25, 2021
The "Mare of Easttown" finale airs Sunday, May 30, at 10 p.m. ET on HBO.
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