![]() Instead, she stays in with her housemate, Julian, and tries to find the peace and the strength to sit with her trauma, rebuild her life and move forward. ![]() ![]() She doesn't see her assailant and never puts the pieces of the puzzle together. In the final scenario, Arabella decides not to go back to the bar at all. In this version, Arabella takes control and begins to control her own narrative. She tells him to go, and both Davids - the naked version she just had consensual sex with, and the bloody, beaten version she stored under the bed - get up and leave the room. "I'm not gonna go unless you tell me to," he says the next morning, representing that she's realised she has the power to move forward. This time they go into the toilet cubicle together and kiss and then end up going to her house and having consensual sex. Suddenly she's his equal, and she holds the power in the situation. He stumbles over his answer and can't believe she approached him. In the third scenario, Arabella approaches David in the bar and offers to buy him a drink. Listen to The Spill, Mamamia's daily pop culture and celebrity podcast. Again, it's not a scenario that's likely to play out in reality as perpetrators are rarely brought to justice and victims rarely gain insight into why they did what they did to them. This is a confronting scenario to watch as the perpetrator becomes the victim, and the victim becomes the support person. She takes him home and comforts him until the police arrive. This time he begins to sob, and he tells her about how he was abused as a child. In the next scenario, Arabella and Terry hatch a plan to trap David and call the police.Īrabella once again uses herself as bait and confronts David in the toilet. But one that sexual assault victims rarely get to experience in real life. Arabella and Theodora then beat him up and Arabella takes him home and puts him under the bed, where she keeps the "bad things". They follow him out of the bar, and along the street, until he passes out. From the next stall, Theodora stabs him in the ankle with a syringe full of the date rape drug. Then she looks him directly in the eye and says "Hello, David". When he drags her into the bathroom stall to assault her - a harrowing reminder of what happened in the first episode - Arabella plays along. ![]() Arabella, Terry, and their high school friend Theodora (Harriet Webb), hatch a plan to give David a taste of his own medicine.Īrabella, acting as bait, approaches David in the bar and allows him to spike her drink. The first scenario is a pure revenge fantasy. It takes the audience through four possible scenarios.Ĭoel told Vulture she decided to explore multiple scenarios after seeing her friend's reaction when she presented her with a few different ideas of how she could finish off the series. The last episode answers that question, over and over again. So, armed with the information she's been desperately seeking throughout the series, and with the opportunity to seek justice or revenge, what does she do? The night in question comes back to her in flashbacks and she's finally able to put together the pieces of the puzzle. Arabella and her best friend Terry Pratchard (Weruche Opia) are at Ego Death, the bar where Arabella was spiked in episode one.Īrabella sees her assailant, David, back at the scene of the crime, with the friend he was with on the night she was assaulted. The series finale picks up right where episode 11 left off.
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