Count My Lies

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of anti-gay bias, suicidal ideation, self-harm, sexual content, cursing, illness, death, emotional abuse, violence, and bullying.

For dinner, Harper has a “perfect” French braid and Sloane wears the red dress. Claiming she has menstrual cramps, Violet excuses herself, so only Sloane, Harper, and Jay go to the lobster house. By herself, she uses her burner phone to call DS, who turns out to be Danny Shepherd. Violet fills in Danny’s backstory. He broke up with her because he’s gay. His anti-gay parents kicked him out of the house, so he moved in with Violet and her grandmother. Violet stopped him from harming himself, and by the time he left to live with a cousin, Danny felt like a brother.

After Violet visited Block Island last spring and realized her marriage was done, she called Danny. Danny became an EMT, and he now runs Block Island’s EMT department. Danny saw Violet, Harper, and Jay last spring, but he didn’t want to impose himself on her. Later, he saw Jay have a sexual interaction with a waitress.

Violet threw the flip phone against the couch because Danny backed out of the plan.