Aggie is running through the woods, branches tearing at her arms, breath unsteady. The FBI is on its way to her house, and she knows exactly who sent them. Nile finally played his masterstroke: framing her for Teddy’s murder. And because Erika is heading the investigation — and because she senses something profoundly wrong — everything is collapsing fast.

Aggie Alone, Aggie Hunted

Aggie tries Shelley first. It’s instinct. It’s love tangled with guilt. But Shelley doesn’t help her — not out of cruelty, but out of exhaustion. Shelley is done being the collateral damage of Aggie’s spiral.

Erika wants to help. She knows Aggie isn’t capable of killing Teddy. But Rick stands between them.
He has one mission now: destroy the evidence that could clear Aggie and bury every tie between Nile and the crimes.

His motive is carved in stone: He will do whatever it takes to protect the Jarvis family.

And that means erasing Aggie Wiggs.

Martin Collapses — and Rick Shows His True Face

Rick finally has a clear moment with Martin — the patriarch slipping towards death. He tries to reassure him that everything is under control. But Martin knows. The horror dawning on him is almost heartbreaking: his son has killed again.

In the hospital, as Martin hovers between life and death, Rick turns on Nile. He doesn’t pretend anymore. He tells Nile the truth he has held for years: You’ve lived a whole life of crime. You were never clean.

It’s the first time we see Nile crack — not out of remorse, but out of fear.

Nina, the Turning Point

Nina tries to understand what’s happening. Nile lies with the confidence of a man who has lied his whole life: He says Aggie killed Teddy. But he cannot answer Nina’s simple, obvious questions.
His certainty is brittle. She sees it.

Aggie finds a way to reach Erika one last time, but Rick has kidnapped her children.
Erika is trapped — heartbroken — but she tells Aggie she can’t help.

With nowhere else to go, Aggie turns to Nina.

The Wife Who Finally Sees the Monster

Aggie calls the police first — clever, desperate, terrified — then talks to Nina. Appeals to her intuition. Begging her to listen to the voice inside her that always whispered that something was wrong.

When Nina returns home, Nile asks where she’s been. She’s recording him — though he doesn’t notice. She pushes. Gently at first. Then directly. “Did you kill Maddie?”

Nile tries to dance around it. Tries to shift the blame. But his ego is bigger than his fear. And finally, he admits it. But he blames her — because she told him Maddie was the FBI informant.
It’s vicious. It’s cruel. It’s classic Nile Jarvis.

Nina says nothing. But everything inside her has shifted.

The Public Reckoning

The next morning, during Olivia Benitez’s press conference, Nina stands behind her husband — serene, composed, unreadable.

Then she sends him the recording.

Seconds later, in front of cameras, microphones, and dozens of political vultures hungry for blood, Nile Jarvis is arrested.

Aggie watches it unfold. She’s not triumphant — she’s emptied out.

Some victories come at the cost of pieces of yourself.

The Aftermath — and the Lies That Remain

Some time later, The Beast in Me becomes a bestseller. We hear, in voice-over, the final pieces:

• Martin Jarvis is dead — killed by Rick.
• Rick traded the evidence of Nile’s crimes for a reduced sentence.
• Nile accepted all charges. Three life sentences. No appeal.

Aggie visits him in prison before publishing the book. She offers him something few men like him ever receive: The last word. “How does it feel,” she asks, “to finally look in the mirror?”

He insists they are the same. She rejects it. But in her narration, she admits Nile saw something in her — a flicker of hatred, of vengeance — and that, in some way, she became complicit in the cycle of blood.

Justice always leaves stains.

The Epilogue — The Monster’s Legacy

Shelley attends the book reading with her new girlfriend. There’s peace, finally, even if it’s fragile.

Nina stands alone with her child—the baby she once feared to carry. She looks at the infant with a question that lands like a knife:

Is evil hereditary? Will the child inherit the darkness Nile carried?

The camera doesn’t answer.

The series ends the way all great tragedies end: with a truth too heavy to resolve, and a future trembling on the edge of becoming.