Catherine goes to stay with her mother Helen, who suffers from dementia, and tells her the full truth of her past while she sleeps. Stephen visits Catherine's office with copies of The Perfect Stranger and tells Jisoo, Catherine's assistant, that the book recounts Catherine's choice to leave her lover to die. By the time Catherine arrives at work, all of her co-workers have read the book and shun her; she storms out and slaps her colleague, Simon, for touching her arm, which is caught on video and goes viral. Catherine knocks on Stephen's door demanding to talk to him, but he does not answer. Stephen and Robert later meet for dinner, where Robert thanks Stephen for the book. With the help of his publisher, Stephen creates a fake Instagram page for Jonathan and uses it to message Nicholas; he eventually reveals that Jonathan is dead and that Nicholas is the boy he died saving, before sending Jonathan's photos of Catherine to Nicholas as a cross-reference with the book. A horrified Nicholas visits a drug den he frequents, and overdoses on heroin.

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• s01e01 - I
• s01e02 - II
• s01e03 - III
• s01e04 - IV
• s01e05 - V
• s01e06 - VI
• s01e07 - VII

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When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story - one that exposes her darkest secret.