Freeform’s newest murder mystery thickens the level of scandal everyone is deep in. Guilt kicked off the summer with multiple soapy twists based on an all too real murder case. The show veers more towards the dramatic intrigue than events based in reality. Everyone has something to hide, and no one’s secrets are safe, not even the dead’s.
Grace underestimates how the power of social media makes her look guilty as sin. Every risque thing she and Molly ever did is coming under a microscope. Her lawyer Stan is none too happy that the press gets ahold of a video where Grace and Molly have a physical altercation over a text between Molly and Grace’s stepfather James. When asked if there are any other surprises in stores, Grace says no. Grace is a terrible liar. Grace doesn’t help herself any by going to Molly’s memorial. Yes she gives a touching speech, but her public laughter at a good memory of Molly is twisted by the press into a cruel moment. Hence the immediate tweets #AmericanPsycho.
Not to worry, there are plenty of other suspects if you think Grace is innocent. Detective Sergeant Bruno works against the interests of Special Prosecutor Hall, with whom he is having an affair. She remains radar focused on Grace and Luc for the murder, but Bruno wonders what the professor Grace had an affair with has to say. He also isn’t convinced that Molly wasn’t being stalked.
What Grace’s sister Natalie is stuck on is that their stepfather James seemed to have an intimate relationship with Molly. Grace won’t hear a bad word against James because of his generosity, but Natalie decides she should check if James has been in town to see Molly recently. Natalie’s intuition is spot on, but she won’t let any of James’s indiscretions fall back on Grace. So long as James stays away, no one needs to know about his dirty dealings.
Molly’s brother Patrick confronts Grace, and she manages to steer him in a different direction so that he doesn’t figure out what she has been up to. The truth is Grace has been trying to protect Molly’s memory, specifically from people finding out that Molly was a high-end prostitute. Grace wonders if one of her clients could have become obsessed with her, but their roommate/Molly’s pimp Roz blames Grace for carelessly leaving Molly alone. If anyone has the most to hide it’s Roz. She is the one who has Molly’s phone because she knows there is evidence on it of her secret life.
Everyone in Molly’s orbit had something to hide, including Molly herself. Her brother Patrick can’t see that. Blinded by grief he goes to the professor’s house because he thinks the man fathered his deceased sister’s baby. Their fight is interrupted by the professor’s wife, who shoots her husband dead, then presumably shoots Patrick.
Did one murder investigation just become three?
