The Favorite Girl

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, mental illness, sexual violence, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and gender discrimination.

Demi, in the bed of her new room, is woken up by a woman named Carla Cross. She presents security camera footage of Demi holding the knife and standing over Misha in the garden. The images make Demi look guilty, but Demi insists that she is innocent. Ian comes in with a nurse, and Demi tells him that she is innocent. He doesn’t believe her, tells her that she has to clean up the crime scene, and has the nurse inject Demi with something. Demi, due to trauma, doubts her own innocence and passes out from the injection.

When Demi wakes up in the morning, Daphne is there. She tells Demi that she needs to get ready for work and rips dead skin off of Demi’s lips, causing her to bleed. After Daphne leaves, Bradley arrives. He asserts that Demi is guilty and that even if she isn’t, she must act as if she is in order to survive. Demi says that taking the job was a mistake. As they walk through the house, he reminds her that her contract was for four years and that she can’t leave.