Simon Says: “Tick Tock, time to wake up.”
Janae tells Addy that she and Kris were trying to figure out who Simon really was. Addy is still haunted by Jake’s words from the night before. She asks Janae if she can take the two down before Cooper and Bronwyn notice.
Janae thinks that Maeve and Addy have been feuding since the night before, when Addy mentioned adding Cole to the list of people who need to be killed. Based on their interactions from the night before, Addy is sure Cole was there on Halloween. The two wonder if Cole knows about Simon’s plan and they both get a text from Simon. Simon asks the five to bring Jake’s watch by midnight. ..
At Janae’s house, Cooper thinks that Simon is someone who wants money, considering Jake’s watch was at least worth $5,000. Addy guesses that Cole would want the watch for sentimental reasons but then recalls how the watch was on Jake when he died. This means that the watch was on his body when Nate and Janae disposed of it at the bottom of the ocean. ..
Janae and Nate spill that they hadn’t thrown his body at the bottom of the ocean but in a freezer on her parents’ private yacht. The group thinks about the consequences of bringing the body out in the open when Addy thinks back to how everyone was going to suffer for her mistake. Addy states that she can own up to killing him and end the nightmare but the five state that it is too late for that now.
Janae mentions that they all could work together and trick Simon. Nate and Bronwyn team up and Cooper and Addy team up to “get the watch from Jake’s body” in order to throw Simon off while Janae collects the watch from the yacht. Addy still has constant visions of Jake haunting her. Nate and Bronwyn discuss their predicament and the former claims that they can just leave the town behind and flee.
Bronwyn considers the offer for a moment before declining it, thinking about her family. Cooper gets Addy to open up about Jake where she discusses her nightmares with him. Bronwyn is worried that Addy will crack and rat them all out, bringing everyone down in the process. Nate claims that Bronwyn does not trust anyone from the five but she claps back at him for not trusting her.
Janae goes back to the yacht alone but someone follows her. She unlocks the freezer and sees Jake’s body. When she opens the freezer, she spots the body but hears a noise from outside. Turns out it was Maeve who followed her. She confronts Janae about their fallout and the latter asks Maeve to leave because now was not the right time.
Janae claims that since Maeve was involved with Simon, she cannot trust her or her. Maeve notices that Janae held on to the freezer but leaves without saying a word. After Maeve has left, Janae gets the watch from Jake’s dead body and all five of them go back to their respective homes. Bronwyn finds Maeve crying in her room.
Maeve tells her older sister how she followed Janae to the boat which leaves Bronwyn concerned about how much Maeve saw. Maeve misdirects the conversation and Bronwyn ends up defending Janae and the other four thinking Maeve knows about Jake. Bronwyn is relieved when she learns that Maeve was only talking about her relationship with Janae and that she is still unaware of Jake’s death.
Maeve is upset that her sister Bronwyn does not seem to have any empathy for her and leaves but after Addy has slept, she sneaks into her room and checks the messages on her phone from Janae to the group. The next morning, Addy’s mother asks her to be there for Cole and his family but she is against the idea of pretending of being sympathetic for the sake of their public reputation. Maeve is upset that Bronwyn does not seem to understand how she feels about herself and leaves but after Addy has slept, she sneakily monitors the messages on her phone from Janae to the group. The next morning, Addy’s mother asks Maeve to be there for Cole and his family but Maeve is against the idea of pretending to be sympathetic for the sake of their public reputation.
The group gathers to discuss who should be wearing the watch and Bronwyn mentions that Addy wearing it would be least suspicious since she was still dating him when he allegedly fled out of town. Addy mentions that she can’t do so because she will be meeting Cole after school because he won’t stop hounding her.
Keely tells Cooper that he had landed a talk show appearance later that day something that he was eager to do. He notices the watch on his wrist which also get Keely’s attention. Vanessa is on live stream and she also captures Cooper and Keely together, possibly filming Cooper wearing the watch.
The next day, Janae apologises to Maeve for acting out but the latter demands the truth from her. Janae isn’t able to answer her and leaves. Later that day, Maeve goes back to the yacht which is suspiciously unlocked and discovered the lock on the freezer but is unable to open it. Janae drops Addy at Jake’s house and leaves her call on so that she can hear her conversation with Cole and jump in if she needs help. They plan on “Don’t Kill Me” being Addy’s safe word.
Addy tells Cole that she was at the party with Jake and that they had a good time. She does not remember anything after that. Cole asks her about the last time she saw Jake and Addy lies. Addy says she was at the party with Jake but does not remember anything after that.
Addy posts a plea for Jake to come back on social media, knowing that he would be checking up on her. Cole appears and asks his mother to go back to her room, and tells Addy that he knows she is up to something. She is overwhelmed and flees from the house. Nate is at the tutoring session with Fiona when he gets a text from Bronwyn that she was going back to the abandoned theatre. ..
Nate flirts with Fiona as a joke, but the two end up bonding. After his tutoring, Nate meets Bronwyn at the cinema. Nate distracts the convenience store owner opposite the cinema and Bronwyn checks the security footage from the night they visited. Once Bronwyn gets what she needs, the two flee from the store. Bronwyn had taken a photo of a girl at the cinema wearing the same mask as Janae from the night of the Halloween party. ..
The duo confronts Janae and she says that the mask was with Kris but also mentions that she will talk to him. Cooper is at the talk show where Keely and his father, both ask him to take the watch off because it was not his brand. He ends up taking it off and covers his wrist with the sleeve of his shirt. During the show, Cooper mentions how being forced to come out as gay was hard for him. ..
Kris tells Janae that he burned the mask after learning about Jake’s death. Kris is upset over his break-up with Cooper and consoled by Janae. Cooper’s wrist starts to show texts from Simon warning them about the consequences of disobeying him. ..
Addy gets kidnapped that night by three people, and it turns out it was the cheerleading squad trying to surprise her by kidnapping her as a joke. Addy unwillingly rejoins the squad to get Vanessa and the girls off her back. Bronwyn texts Cooper to watch Vanessa’s live stream that night and she talks about how Cooper was wearing the same watch as Jake. ..
Maeve confronts Bronwyn and is shocked to find out that her sister was blackmailing her. Bronwyn tells Maeve that she was only trying to keep Maeve safe and that she didn’t want anything bad to happen to her. The next day, the five gather and argue about who the real Simon is. They discuss how Vanessa got the photograph of Cooper wearing Jake’s watch and how her phone can help them find out who Simon is. ..
The five decide to attend Vanessa’s #JusticeForJake rally and take her phone away. Janae rats Cooper out for telling Kris what happened but Bronwyn lets it slip that Maeve also knows. They end up pointing fingers at each other but Addy forces them to calm down as Jake’s ghost continues to torment her. Janae confronts Maeve and apologises but the two kiss and make up.
The #JusticeForJake rally is a full-blown party where Cole makes an announcement claiming that they were offering a $100k reward for anyone who tells them the truth about Jake skipping town. After Bronwyn fails to catch hold of Vanessa’s phone, Maeve tries her luck at it. Cole chats up with Cooper and asks him about the watch, forcing him to take it off. Cooper and Addy lie that Jake gave the watch to Cooper himself in a drunken state on Halloween. Cole forces Addy to make a post asking Jake to come back.
Maeve tricks Vanessa into revealing the username of the person who sent her the photo of Jake wearing the same watch as Cooper. Meanwhile, Addy is brought centerstage to make an appeal to Jake and ask him to come back. Instead of doing that, Addy reveals that Jake was really the person that killed Simon and asks him never to come back leaving everyone shocked. Cole hands the watch to the sheriff sure that the group was hiding something.
This show is full of secrets and it is suspicious how the five are slowly handing out their secrets one by one. It seems like they didn’t kill someone and dispose of his body in the freezer of a yacht! Addy blames herself which is why she is seeing Jake’s ghost but the episode ends with her realizing that Jake was actually in the wrong and that he would have killed her had she not.
The Simon Says story is complicated and the five people who are keeping it from each other are raising questions about why they are doing it. Janae, the most suspicious of the group, looks like she could be the one with information that could help solve the mystery.
Janae left her yacht open to let anyone sneak inside, despite the fact that there was a literal dead body inside it. Bronwyn was too dumb to leave her phone with text messages still on it, which allowed Maeve, her hacker sister, to see them. ..
Maeve looks suspicious but she is also far too young to be ‘Simon Says’ which means it could very well be Cole. The show looks very interesting and I am looking forward to the episodes that are to follow.
