As her investigation unfolds, Pip discovers that Andie was having a secret relationship with an older man before she went missing. That “Secret Older Guy” turns out to be her English teacher and best friend’s dad, Elliot Ward (Mathew Baynton). When Pip confronts Elliot about this, he reveals that Andie had threatened to tell everyone that he took advantage of her unless he gave her £5,000 to help her run away from home. (She had initially saved up the money to leave home by selling drugs, but her father discovered the funds and took them from her.) When Elliot refused to give her the money, Andie became upset and he pushed her — causing her to fall and hit her head on the countertop. But before Elliot could call an ambulance, Andie had already left.
After leaving Elliot’s, Andie went back home where her younger sister, Becca (Carla Woodcock), confronted her about her plans to leave town with Sal. Becca was angry that Andie would leave her alone to deal with their controlling father, Jason (Matthew Chambers), and also resentful that her sister wouldn’t come with her to the police to report that she had been drugged and raped by another student, Max Hastings (Henry Ashton). That’s because Andie sold Max the drugs that he used to assault Becca. When the sisters fought that night, Becca pushed Andie — who had already suffered a serious head injury — into the wall, and watched as she fell to the floor and choked to death on her own vomit.
What happened to Sal Singh?
Andie’s boyfriend Sal was the primary suspect in her murder. When a text was sent from his phone confessing to killing her before he was found dead of an overdose, it was case closed for the police. But Pip, who teams up with Sal’s brother Ravi to investigate the case, doesn’t believe that Sal could have done this. As it turns out, there was more to the story. When Andie went missing after she confronted Elliot and attempted to blackmail him, he thought she had died of her head injury and was desperate for someone else to take the fall when her body turned up. So he came up with a plan to frame Sal for Andie’s death. Elliot drugged and suffocated Sal, then sent the confession from Sal’s phone and made it look like the teenager had killed himself. But the confession text is the first red flag for Pip and Ravi — who notice that, unlike the rest of Sal’s messages, this one is written in perfect (dare we say, English teacher–level perfect?) grammar.
Who was blackmailing Pip?
Two people, it turned out — the two people who have the most to lose if Pip discovered what really happened to Andie. The threatening “STOP DIGGING, PIPPA” note that Pip finds in her sleeping bag during her best friend Cara Ward’s (Asha Banks) birthday camping trip was left there by Cara’s father, Elliot. But he isn’t the same person who blackmails Pip via text. Those texts — including threats about the family dog, Barney — come from Becca.
Who killed Barney?
After sending threats to Pip about Barney, Becca kills the beloved family dog in retaliation to Pip posting a video on social media announcing that she would release all the findings of her investigation.
Who was blackmailing Naomi and Max?
Elliot blackmailed his older daughter, Naomi (Yasmin Al-Khudhairi), and her friend Max because he didn’t want to be held responsible for Andie’s death. So here’s how it happened: Naomi and Max were involved in a hit-and-run on New Year’s Eve, for which they never faced any consequences. As it turns out, Max made a call that night to police officer Dan Da Silva (Jackson Bews), who had a fling with Andie two years earlier when she was a minor. Max knew about the relationship and was using it as blackmail to force Dan into helping them cover up the car wreck. When Andie disappeared, Naomi and Max received a note instructing them to lie to the police about how long Sal was with them the night she went missing –– otherwise, the blackmailer would tell the police about the hit-and-run. That note came from Elliot, who learned about the incident while reading Naomi’s diary, and used the information to blackmail his daughter and Max into lying about Sal’s alibi, making it seem like he was involved in Andie’s murder.
Naomi and Max told the police Sal left their group early the night Andie went missing, and covered their tracks by deleting any photos that proved otherwise — all but one. Naomi subtly points Pip towards a 2019 photo still up on Max’s Instagram account, which shows the friends hanging out at 12:06 a.m. She later confirms to Pip that the photo was taken by Sal, thereby proving his innocence.
Who is the woman in Elliot’s attic?
When Pip tracks Elliot down to the Wards’ old family home — which he lied about selling — to confront him about Sal, she hears someone banging on the pipes and rushes up to the attic. There, she finds a young woman named Isla (Georgia Lock) who tells Pip that Elliot saw her in the street one night while driving around and appeared relieved, presumably because he thought she was Andie, and brought her back to the house. She says that Elliot drunkenly revealed to her that he had killed Sal, and then locked her in the attic to prevent her from talking to the police. Thanks to Pip’s quick thinking, she had Ravi send police to arrive at the home while she was there.
Got it. But why did Pip want to investigate Andie’s murder in the first place?
Though she tries to convince herself that her reasons for investigating Andie’s death aren’t personal, even Pip has her own motives. It turns out that young Pip was one of the last people to see Andie at school before she went missing five years earlier. Andie gestured at a young Pip (Kitty Anderson) to be quiet as she passed in the hallway, but Pip pointed Sal in Andie’s direction when he came looking for her. After Andie went missing, Pip couldn’t live with herself knowing she had led Sal to Andie, which is one reason she refused to believe that Sal killed her. We learn later on that the meeting between Andie and Sal wasn’t contentious at all — rather, the couple were making plans to leave town together.
How does A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder end?
The season ends with Pip connecting all the dots and looking into one final loose end after Elliot’s arrest: Becca Bell. She heads over to the Bell residence where Becca tells her what happened the night Andie died, and offers to take Pip to the woods to show her where she dumped her sister’s body. But Pip doesn’t realize until it’s too late that Becca drugged her and intends to dispose of her, too. Luckily, Becca’s plan is thwarted when Ravi and Cara track Pip down using a Find My Friends app and come to her rescue. As the season comes to a close, Pip finds herself at a turning point in more ways than one — questioning whether or not she actually wants to go to Cambridge, vowing to seek justice for anyone else Max has hurt, and sharing a sweet kiss with Ravi. What happens next for them, and everyone else in Little Kilton … well, that’s the start of a new mystery, isn’t it?
