Dark Places
Genre: Mystery/Drama
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Writer: H.G. Hansen
Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn
Cast: Katherine Waterston, David Harbour, Caleb Landry Jones, Dominique McElligott, Morena Baccarin, Roselyn Sanchez, Andy Serkis, Taylor Kitsch, Peyton Roi Lost, Alice Englert, Josh Hartnett
Plot: A TV turns on in a dark room as it shows an old news report from the night of January 30th, 1985. That night, young Libby Day, was the sole survivor of a massacre in the rural town, Kinnakee, Kansas. The report reveals that several members of her family were murdered when she was only seven years old. To make matters worse, the alleged killer was her older brother, Ben (David Harbour). After the murders of her two sisters and mother, in what appeared to be a satanic cult ritual, Libby escaped through a window and ran away from the scene. After other numerous allegations of being accused of child molestation, Libby later testified in court against her teenage brother, basically saying he was the one who shot both her mother, Patty Day, and her sister, Diane Day, then after strangled her other sister, Michelle. The report then goes on to say how the case has become a nationwide phenomenon, making poor, sweet Libby Day an icon. We see footage of a broken Libby in the back of a car and then Ben been dragged to prison. The news anchor finishes the report with how they may not know the full story but this may one of the biggest cases of the 1980s.
Libby (Katherine Waterston) is seen on her porch smoking a cigarette as her wild red hair covers half her face. She watches the people who walk by. She looks upset about something as the calendar besides her says “January 28th, 2009”. Libby hears the voicemail goes off about how she owes money for rent, bills, and how the author, who wrote the famous book of the Kinnakee Day Murders, wants to write the second book and for her to attend the anniversary of the incident. Libby dyes her hair blonde as she hears all the voicemails again as she looks dead tired. She gets herself dressed casually and drives to her bank. Libby sits down with her banker as she is dressed in a The Who tank top and cut up jeans. The banker tells her she has been living off the inheritance money left by her mother and the funds that were raised to help take care of her after the murders of her family members, given that she was so young. Now, twenty-five years after the massacre, Libby is running out of money. The banker tells her she has enough for three more months and then that’s it. Libby seems upset by this as she basically tells him off as she goes on to tell him she does not have any employable skills. The banker doesn’t seem to care as he tells he has told her many times the money was gonna dry up eventually. With all her endless drinking and other habits, she’s lucky to have anything at all.
Libby walks out upset by recent event till Lyle (Caleb Landry Jones) is seen waiting for her to leave. He grabs her attention and tells her he needs to talk with her. Libby doesn’t look interested as Lyle follows. Lyle tells her the he knows who she is. Libby isn’t interested as she continues to her car. Lyle tells her he runs a group called the Kill Club. The Kill Club is a group that is obsessed with studying crimes and criminals. He says they are fascinated with Libby because many of the members believe Ben is innocent. Lyle is willing to pay Libby to speak with them, but Libby doesn’t want anything to do with them as she goes to her car. Lyle tries to plead for her to listen to him and even offers money. Libby stops asks how much to which Lyle offers whatever she’drad like. Libby says $100,000 and Lyle tells her he doesn’t have that much. Libby continues to walk on as Lyle then offers $25,000 because of how interesting the case is. Libby gets in her car and starts it up. He slides a card through the crack of her window. Libby closes the window and just drives along as she doesn’t want to hear anymore. Lyle is left standing behind defeated.
Libby lies in bed as she hears the headlines of the news talking about the incident. She then remembers the trail about how the prosecutor blaming Ben for the murder. She then remembers how the lawyer tells some girl to describe how Ben sexual assaulted her. She sees the girl use the dolls. The sequences run through her head till she hears a bang of a shotgun. She wakes up shooting out of her bed. She walks around the house to a closet where she had kept her old family photos. She sees how young she is and sees how her whole family looked happy. She looks at Ben as he looks completely unburdened; not knowing what will arise to his life. Libby is seen calling the card Lyle gave her. Lyle picks up and agrees to help him because she needs the money.
The club members, who are amateur investigators, bring up a lot of details the police either missed or ignored, pointing out that Libby’s testimony was forced, given that she did not actually see any of the murders. It did not help that during the 80s, everyone was afraid of satanic cults, and supposedly, Ben committed the murders because he was said to be part of such a cult. The club members, however, believe her brother is innocent of the crime. Libby doesn’t hear it as she is dead set on Ben doing the crime. Lyle tells her that they have done research on this and that they have come with a better conclusion than what the law enforcement could do. Libby tells them they wasted her time and walks away. Lyle tells the guys he’ll handle it and follows her.
Libby goes to her car and Lyle asks what she is doing. Libby tells him how mad she is about wasting her time as she needs to find out what to do about her money issues. Lyle then tells her they have the money. Libby doesn’t seem to care as she doesn’t want to go through something that has made her life hell and how they’re going on a hunch. Libby gets into the driver’s seat but Lyle gets into the passenger seat before she locks the car. Lyle tells her to take the time to listen to them. Libby makes a case about how she doesn’t to revisit the worst moment of her life based on a hunch. Lyle defeated them tells her why he made the Kill Club. He talks about his sister who died because of an abusive boyfriend she wanted to marry. His parents wanted him too publicly to disown his sister. Then since he couldn’t and didn’t pay attention to the time she called for his help, she died the next day. Libby asks if the boyfriend was the one who did it. Lyle tells her how the cops were slow on the case and how when they found out the boyfriend did it, he disappeared. That’s the reason he takes interest of other people’s cases. He started the Kill Club so no one had to live with the unresolved he had to live through. How his parents disowned him and hated him for not speaking out. Lyle then tells her about if he had the chance she has, he’d take it. Libby sees something in Lyle’s eyes. Libby can see something that has caught her interest. Lyle gets out of the car and wishes her luck if she drives away. Libby breathes deep and then gets out of the car.
Libby sits in a meeting room as she waits for her brother in the prison visitation room. Ben is seen walking up, bald, with ache, and wearing his glasses. He looks surprised to see Libby as she is to see how he looks. Libby then tries to start the conversation good as he tells him how she has been thinking about him lately. Ben doesn’t fall for it cause after the first ten years of sending her letters about how he is doing, he doesn’t believe she’s there for him now. Libby sighs and then tells the truth as she has reason to believe she was wrong all those years which upsets Ben to the point he starts scream which also makes guard warn him to calm down. She then tells him how she may have been wrong all those years and how she was forced to say all those things. Ben rolls his eyes and then tells his case about how she never once asked if he actually did it. She just listened to the prosecutor and did everything they said to do and how after so many years never made up for it. Libby tries to say she had her reasons but Ben doesn’t buy it as he knows she has been getting money for being the girl who survived. She didn’t have a reason to visit him because she was living just fine. Ben then talks about how everyday he had to earn his way to not being called a “family murderer” How he had to earn his way to a quiet life in the cell. All the horrible things and acts he had to endure. Libby watches in horror as Ben calls her on her own BS as he then goes on to how she was too young to know how terrible his life was before this. He then goes on how he was always the one people picked on to make themselves feel better. He goes to how he took those beatings and name calling, because mom taught him better. Then how she could say he murdered the only people who believed in him almost broke him. Libby begins to tear up as she sees the pain she has caused. She tells him she’s gonna make it up to him but Ben just doesn’t listen as he can’t believe she is gonna try to get his hopes up after everything. He then goes on about how he had to leave… He stops as he knows he’s about to say something. Libby catches on to this and asks what he is talking about. Ben ends the conversation and calls for a guard as Libby wildly asks what does he mean. Ben doesn’t look back as he just walks back to his cell.
Flashbacks are told from the points of view of Libby’s mother, Patty (Dominique
McElligott), and Libby’s convicted brother, Ben. Patty discusses the difficulties of trying to keep the family farm while raising four children alone; Ben tells his story of a troubled teenager who gets mixed up with a bad crowd.
These viewpoints paint a picture of a grim life of desperate poverty, marital abuse, and abandonment on the farm prior to the murder.
So Libby does her own detective work with Lyle after visiting Ben. She tells him about how Ben was hiding something. They decide to look for clues as they goes to interview her estranged father, Runner (Andy Serkis), who is now a homeless steel worker. They get to the steel mill where a bunch of men are. Libby and Lyle walk up as Lyle asks how long has it been since she talked to her father. Libby tells him to mind his own business that then tells him how she never knew the guy. She only heard stories from her mother, sisters, and some from Ben. A manager asks what they are doing there as Lyle tries to tell them they are there for a reason but Libby tells him she wants to see her father, Runner Day. The manager looks over and calls for Runner. Runner runs over to them and asks what this is for. Libby just says “Hi Dad.” And Runner then sees who Libby is and grows a worried look on his face.
Runner takes them to a trailer and Runner welcomes them in. Libby tells Lyle to wait outside for this is a personal matter for her. Lyle agrees and waits outside. They talk in his small trailer as he takes out a tallboy which Libby asks if that’s a good idea. Runner doesn’t care as he makes a comment about how can it get worse for him. Libby makes a comment about whose fault that really was since he was the one who ran away and left his family behind. Runner explains how he never was parent material which Libby doesn’t buy. She asks why he left and if he doesn’t answer he’ll leave and never speak to him again. Runner tells her to leave then and Libby does. Runner stops her as he was only bluffing. Runner tells her he can tell she got her mother’s moxie. She asks questions about if he knew about Ben’s accusations. Runner can’t believe she’s there because of Ben since she was the reason he ended up in prison. Libby tells him she had a change of heart recently and repeats her question. Runner then tells her that he did know but that’s not the reason he left. He left because the property they owed was overdue. The bills were stacking so high that the bank planned to take the house. Runner admits he was a wreck and left when Patty told him to go to hell about selling the house.
Libby then asks if mom believed that Ben was innocent. Runner tells her about how everyone in town used Ben as a punching bag. Ben was just some janitor who was caught masturbating at someone’s locker. No one knew who and that upset some people. Runner then goes on how he didn’t understand him. Runner talks about how he used to yell at his kids and how Patty would stop him. The fighting got so bad that Patty basically pointed a shotgun at his head and told him to leave forever. Libby then states how he came back though. Runner doesn’t disagree as he told her how he found out how their land was actual valuable. Patty didn’t want to give it up because no one liked their son. Libby then asks who the girl that accused Ben was. He tells her about Krissi Cates about how her locker was the one Ben was relieving himself next to. Krissi’s parents were filthy rich folk who don’t like negative attention. So they brought down hell from the heavens on Ben. Runner then mentions about how seeing her mother with another man at the time. Libby is taken back by this news as she asks why he thinks this. Runner tells the story of how he went to house to pick up some things and saw a man with her through the kitchen window. Libby asks when this was and Runner says January 27th, 1985. The last thing he ever saw her. Libby asks if he heard what they were talking about but Runner tells her no since he was upset how easily she moved on which Libby makes a comment about how that may have been a good thing. Runner is hurt by that and then goes on about how he did love his children and how he is a natural mess in life. If he had a chance to be better he would have taken it but he always has been nothing since his dad was and his dad’s dad was too before him. Libby begins to leave as what Runner says hits home and she doesn’t want him to see her cry. She then asks where he was when everything happened. Runner tells he was he getting drunk with local buds, which she asks if they can vouch for him. Runner then says they are here with him if she needs to find out if he’s being honest. Libby then leaves with a remark how that would be a first.
Runner runs out to stop her by asking how she has been doing. Libby doesn’t seem convinced that he actually cares because if he did, he would have called after 25 years. Runner then goes into a deep speech about how awful a human being he was and still is, how he didn’t want to see his kid how he was, and how after what everything happened he was too scared to be there. Libby reassures her dad only to make a remark that he wasn’t there because he didn’t give a shit in the first place. She leaves Runner with his drink as he begins to tear up by his shame.
Libby and Lyle are driving as Lyle gets off the phone. He tells her he knows where to find Krissi. Lyle then tries to comfort Libby about what she was talking about with her father. Libby doesn’t want to discuss it as she tells him she never wanted anything to do with him anyway. Lyle sees though that Libby is disturbed by what happened and tells her he has father issues too. Libby makes a remark about maybe it has something to do with how he loves murder cases. Lyle silences himself and Libby sees she hit home. She apologizes and says she still is upset after being around her father. Lyle says he didn’t seem that bad and Libby then asks why he thinks that. Lyle just says “AT least your father wanted to be around you and talk.”
Libby & Lyle drives up to the pussycat Lounge and walks inside to find Krissi Cates (Roeslyn Sanchez). Libby asks around for her till the manager points her out after Libby says she’s an old friend. Krissi, now a stripper, sees her and then leads Libby to the back where Krissi takes out a joint and smokes it. Libby begins to tell her who she is. But Krissi doesn’t waste time since she already knows who is she is and why she’s here. Libby then takes Krissi’s politeness as a way to start the question on why she accused her brother back in the day. Krissi responds with why she says he killed their family.
Libby is bothered by the remark and Krissi feels guilty for saying it. She then makes a comment about how it seems like both of them were coached into giving false testimony back in the day. Libby then asks her to go on and Krissi puffs deep into her joint and puts it out. She then goes on to the real story of what happened. In the '80s, especially in the middle of the "Satanic panic," people were eager to pin blame on anyone different, especially an outcast like Ben. So what did happen with Krissi? Well, one day a rumor started. Rumor had it that Ben was engaged in inappropriate conduct with a young girl in his sister's class, Krissi... Krissi was coached into saying that Ben had molested her. When Ben's mother, Patty, found out, she and her sister, Diane, tried to find Ben and get the true story.
But Ben was with his girlfriend, Diondra, and their "friend," Trey (Taylor Krisch). And she puts friend in sarcastic quotes there, because Trey is terrible to Ben. Trey made fun of him at every opportunity. Diondra wasn't any better. When she wasn't laughing at Ben with Trey, she was manipulating Ben. She goes on to how Trey would fake very explicit love letters to the other girls and make them says they were from Ben. Trey found every chance to humiliate Ben because he found it funny since Ben never defended himself. One day, Trey just vanished and never went back to school. Most of the students, who were actual friends with Trey, thought Ben finally snapped and killed him. But the students, who knew the full story, knew Trey picked a fight with a black kid who happened to have his big brothers around. They beat Trey to a bloody pulp. Ben was gonna help Trey but Diondra convinced him to run away with her. Police later found Trey in an alley, dead from internal bleeding, looking like what the police said “raw hamburger”.
Rumor has it that Ben actually was never the same. He was paranoid and nervous but Diondra didn’t worry about if Ben was gonna tell the police what really happened. Libby asks whys that. Because of the big gun in her arsenal: she was totally pregnant. She used the baby to guilt trip Ben and wrap him around her little finger. Lyle asks if this is actually true to which Krissi swears to God it is. Krissi then goes on to say how everyone nicknamed Diondra, the Kinnakee Bitch. Lyle asks if there is anything else they should know. Krissi thinks then mentions how some rumored that Diondra had a man on the side that no one knew. Libby asks the name of the man but Krissi says she was one of the ones who didn’t know him. Libby asks where she is now and Krissi says she’s at Libby’s old house. Both of them shocked by this piece of news and Lyle ask why she took the house. Krissi tells them that it was the cheapest place in the whole town. No one would take it though after what happened but Diondra took it in a heartbeat.
Libby and Lyle walk outside as Lyle tells her they gotta follow but Libby tells him she has to go alone. Lyle doesn’t agree to which she tells him she has to to move on from this. Lyle hesitantly agrees and says to call her if anything comes up.
Libby eventually finds Diondra (Morena Baccarin) living under an assumed name, along with Ben's now-grown daughter, Crystal (Alice Englert). But Crystal lets slipped a quote that only Michelle and Patty would say. Libby is instantly put on notice as she sees Diondra’s reaction to Crystal. Libby tries to excuse herself as she says she should really get going. Diondra tries to make Libby stay but Libby insists on leaving. Crystal then blocks the door and Libby asks her to move aside. Diondra’s voice then grows grim saying how Libby knows why they can’t do that. Libby makes a break for it through the living room but Diondra tackles her. Libby and Diondra struggle till Libby kicks her in the gut. Libby scrambles to her feet but Diondra yells at Crystal to help. Crystal smashes a flowerpot over Libby’s head.
Libby wakes up from a daze and finds herself tied tightly to a chair in a dark room. Diondra is seen sitting in the dark smoking as she has been waiting for Libby to wake up. She starts by saying she would say sorry for her getting knocked out but they both know that be a lie too many. Libby tries to get out of her bondage but no cigar. Diondra tells her about how she really planned things. She was originally gonna leave Ben but after what happened with Trey Ben became a problem. Ben wanted to tell the police about their involvement. Even after everything Trey did to Ben, Ben still wanted to do the right thing. She was gonna abort the child till she saw an opportunity to use it to her advantage. She made a some pity fuck turned into a cash cow for her. She then used Ben’s allegations and her pregnancy to score some money. She then goes on to tell her about that night.
Here's what really happened in 1985. After convincing Ben to engage in a Satanic animal sacrifice, Diondra persuades him to steal money from his family and run away with her, even though she's the one with money. Ben's family has no money. Worried about finances even more now that Ben might need a lawyer against Krissi's false accusations, Patty has made a deal… not with the Devil, but close enough. She's hired a man named Calvin Diehl (Josh Hartnett) to murder her so that her family can collect the life insurance. Everything happens at once. While Ben is getting his money, his younger sister Michelle (Peyton List), overhears Diondra saying she's pregnant. Michelle threatens to tell Patty, so Diondra strangles the girl to death. As this is going on, Calvin Diehl comes to the door and stabs Patty… but Ben's other sister, Debby, witnesses it. Diehl shoots Debby and Patty and then runs away.
Hearing the commotion, young Libby runs away and hides in a field. Diondra tries to convince Ben to bring Libby back so that she can kill her, too. If the whole family is gone, the entire insurance settlement will be all theirs. Ben follows Libby into the field, calling out to her to stay where she is—not because he wants to kill her, but because he wants to save her.
Libby can’t believe the story as she asks how Diondra can live with herself. She makes a comment about she feels great about it just like she did when she killed Michelle. Diondra agrees with Libby about how Michelle was always the town gossiper. She would have told everyone what she heard and ruined the whole thing. It’s not her fault Libby’s mom planned on getting herself killed. If Ben did what she told him to do when she told him to do it, she wouldn’t have had to get her hands clean. Libby talks about how she’ll escape but Diondra then lets her on how that won’t happen. She then talks about how everyone will find the broken, junkie victim of the town tragedy 25 years ago dead along a creek. Feeling broken by what happened; Libby will be looked as someone who committed involuntary suicide and how all the inherence money will go to Crystal.
Libby then realizes this was her plan all along. She needed to wait till the pity money tried up for Libby to go looking. Diondra confirms it by saying how she was the one to tell the club to know where to find Libby. She knew once Libby went looking around it be a matter of time before she found out about Crystal. Diondra even blackmailed the banker to tell Libby that the inherence money was gone and since he didn’t like her as well, he agreed. Diondra then goes on to how her father knew about Patty’s deal, which she had him hanged by this. Then she has silenced Krissi by lacing the weed she was smoking. Everything will make it look like Libby went on a revenge path and then took her own life. Libby asks why as Diondra then explains how she’ll be the sole inheritor of the money. She then says how all she has to do is wait till Lyle notices how long she has been gone and she’ll get rid of the last connection to the truth. A car is heard outside to which Diondra tells her she has to leave. Libby makes a lot of noise trying to get out but it only makes Diondra smile. Libby asks what’s so funny and she replies that her struggling reminds her of Michelle’s last moments. Libby gets furious till she hears a car door closing, which makes Diondra looks out the window as sees Lyle walking to the house.
Libby starts to yell but Diondra beats her to it and gags her. Diondra tells her mockingly that she’ll be back to end this conversation. Libby tries get out of her sit as Diondra leaves the room and takes out the light. Diondra goes up and sees Crystal worried as she tells Diondra they have went too far till Diondra slaps her into sense. She sternly tells Crystal to go upstairs and stay there. Crystal obeys and as soon as Crystal goes into her room sighs deeply. Diondra goes to open the door and welcomes Lyle, who welcomes her too back.
Libby struggles to get out of her retardants. She hears Diondra and Lyle talks as she tries to move close to something sharp but finds nothing. She then huffs and puffs preparing herself for something then tries to jump up high enough to break the chair.
Lyle goes on about how he had a friend visit her and she hasn’t replied to his calls or texts. Diondra plays pretend as she tells him he must have the wrong house. Lyle thinks the same till he hears thud as he leaves. Lyle looks at Diondra and asks what that was. Diondra tries to lie and say it was mice but Lyle asks if she has a phone he can use because his phone is died and Diondra has no choice but to let him in. She says he can use the landline as she watches him go inside. Libby almost broke the chair as Lyle calls her cell. Her phone goes off as Lyle hears it from afar. Lyle hears it as he turns to see Diondra smiling at him and whacks him with a baseball bat. Diondra sighs and then takes the phone to call someone.
Libby moves hard in her seat as she breaks free moving part of the rope through a broken leg. She breaks off the rope and removes her gag as she hears a car coming. She looks through the window and sees a man walking up to the house. Libby looks for another way out as she sees another window and goes to get out of it as it seem stuck compared to the other one.
Diondra opens the door to see Calvin Diehl smiling at her. They talk about how they can solve this problem to which Diondra doesn’t think so as she tells him both Lyle and Libby are here. That news upsets Calvin as he tells her she had to handle this on her own. Diondra argues it’s not her fault she had to deal with someone who wasn’t paid his part of the money when Patty died. Calvin then threatens how he kept her safe while he waited to be paid and how 25 years is more than he has ever been patient with. Diondra tells him to not worry and how once they get rid of them both, the money will be his. Libby pushes and shoves through the window as she finally breaks free.
Calvin thinks he hears a sound but only hears nothing. He tells her to bring him to Lyle so they can settle this since they already have Libby. Libby crawls out of the window and crawls to walks around the house. She can hear how Diondra and Calvin go to a tied up Lyle and start asking him questions about how he found them and why he is there. Lyle tries to play innocent but Calvin doesn’t buy it. Libby quietly goes to the garage and finds any tool to help her till she finds a shotgun and some shell casings. She quietly then walks up to the house going through the backdoor as she hears Calvin beat Lyle to a pulp for answers. Lyle keeps telling them how he was just in the neighborhood and how he is a fan of murder cases. Calvin doesn’t buy it and asks how he found out about them two. Lyle is almost broken as he swears he doesn’t know what they are talking about. Diondra suggests they are wasting their time as Calvin agrees. Calvin takes out a gun as Libby walks behind them and aims her shotgun. Lyle sees Libby from the corner and lets out a hint to her to shoot right now. Diondra and Calvin are confused as Diondra looks around and see Libby cocks the gun. Diondra tries to warn Calvin but is too slow as Libby shoots the gun and hits a few of the buckshot into Diondra’s left shoulder as Calvin dives away dropping his gun in slow motion. Libby shoots again as she tries to hit Calvin who only gets behind something to avoid the shot.
Libby rushes to free Lyle who then warns her of Calvin but before she can react. Calvin tackles her and they toss and turn for a bit. Libby tries to get on top but Calvin gets the advantage. He gets on top of her and strangles her tight around the throat. Crystal runs down stairs to see what the noise is about and Diondra yells frantically to help her and Calvin. Confused by the current set of events, she runs back upstairs as Diondra yells how she wasted her good years on her. Diondra runs out to the backdoor to escape by how things went to hell. Calvin smiles as he thinks he’s about to end Libby. He makes a comment how this scene is familiar to how he killed her mother. Libby looks around as sees a silver cross next to her. She struggles to reach for it as Calvin tightens his grip. Libby through her breathes tells Calvin there’s a difference between her and her mother. Calvin asks for his own amusement what that would be and Libby replies that her mother wasn’t fighting when he tries to kill her. Libby grabs the cross and stabs Calvin in the neck. Calvin, with a shocked look on his face, holds the side of his neck as blood rushes out of the stab wound. Calvin falls to the ground as Libby looks for something as she finds the baseball bat, which has written owned by Ben Day, and walks to Calvin. She stares down at him as he gasps for air. He puts his arms out for defensive but Libby, with a dark look on her face, starts beating him with the object. The rage of all the suffering she and everyone involved overcomes her. Over and over again till blood starts gushing off the bat. She hears the sounds of Calvin’s gasps stop by every smash till she hears nothing but liquid. She stops her fiercely attack as she looks down to see if Calvin is dead and drops the bat. She stares angrily at Calvin’s corpse almost enjoying killing the man who murdered her mother and caused so much more damage. Libby calms down as she finally has unleashed every bit of the anger that was brewing inside of her over the years.
Libby goes to Lyle and helps untie him. Libby asks if he is alright but Lyle tells her the whole thing isn’t over as Diondra is getting away. Libby tells him how she needs to call the police but Lyle reassures her and tells her how she needs to finally get closure. Not for her, but for Ben and her family. Libby nods, goes to grabs Calvin’s gun and heads to the backdoor to chase after Diondra.
Diondra races through the cornfields as she now can hear Libby chasing after her. Libby cries out Diondra’s name as they continue their chase. Cornstalk after cornstalk, not one of them stops till Diondra hits a dead end as she has no idea where to go till she hears a gun locking behind her. Diondra turns slowly as she sees Libby looking her back with violent intentions. Diondra then tries to get out of this as she asks what Libby tends to gain out of this. Libby runs down the things and ways how Diondra has damaged her, her family, tried to ruin her life, and did it in a way where n to even the devil is okay keeping her around in Hell. Diondra then asks what Libby is gonna do, shoot her… Libby aims the gun at her with intent to use as she stares at murderous vengeance. Libby watches as Diondra stares back at her without guilt. Libby then chooses to not murder her and turns to walk away. Diondra doesn’t like this as she begs for Libby to murder her. Libby then tells her it wouldn’t be the best for her and how for what Diondra did, she should suffer in prison for awhile till she does actually. Diondra doesn’t like that and bum rushes Libby but Libby was prepared for that. She knocks Diondra out with the gun and stares at her while the police lights can be seen from afar.
With everything they learn, Libby and Lyle are able to present the new evidence to the police, and Ben is finally freed from prison on January 30th. Ben does not know what he wants to do with his life because he has been behind bars for so long. He feels as if the world is still against him. Libby reassures him and tells him she’s sorry. en smiles at her and reminds her she may have been the reason he was in prison because of her but she’s also the reason he gets to get out. Libby watches Ben go meet with his daughter as Lyle appears beside her.
He notices how Libby has her hair red again. Libby tells him how she wants to stop avoiding the past. Lyle then asks if Ben will alright know Crystal helped her mom. Libby tells him she didn’t tell Ben because he already has gone through enough. Libby then talks about how she can’t believe all this suffering was because someone got greedy. Libby turns her head and sees that look in Lyle’s eyes. The one she saw when he convinced her to stay. Libby tells him he never told her if they caught the boyfriend and what happened to his parents. Lyle takes a moment as he tells her what happened happens to anyone in that situation. His mother went insane and his father stopped talking to him and drank his heart out. Libby reminds him he still hasn’t told her if he found the boyfriend.
Lyle hangs his head and sighs deeply. Libby gives up and begins to walk away. Lyle stops her by telling her how he found the guy. First year of the killer club and after his father’s heart gave out; he looked into the case and found the boyfriend as a gas station clerk on Route 66. Lyle talks about how angry he got when the boyfriend didn’t even recognize him. So, Lyle waited till closing time and poured gasoline all over the boyfriend’s car and on the guy. The fire blew up the whole middle of nowhere gas station. He thought he’d feel better at the moment after he did it, but he didn’t. Then he talks about how everyone has their dark place that nobody wants to look at. Libby agrees as she says how thankful he helped her out of hers. She thanks Lyle and then walks away to join her brother. Lyle watches as they all look happy and relaxed. Lyle smiles big and then turns to walk away.
