What happened at the end of the woman in the house across?

Your friends: keep telling you to watch The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window.

You: can’t pivot away from Below Deck at the moment, sorry.

Your friends: discuss who killed Lisa to the point that you’re getting FOMO.

You: hit Google for spoilers.

Which brings us here, to the big twist at the end of the show where we find out whokilled Lisa—aka the woman in the house across the street from the girl in the window (aka Anna, played by Kristen Bell). Finding out the identity of Lisa’s killer is Anna’s main focus throughout TWATSFTGITW (< so sorry about that), and possible suspects include:

1. Lisa’s boyfriend Neil, who moves in across the street and is at home when Anna sees someone slit Lisa’s throat through the window. Note: Neil’s wife mysteriously died just a few months earlier, so he seems like a likely candidate.
2. Lisa’s “business associate” Rex, who ran cons with her pre-murder. Anna is suspicious of him for only a few episodes before they have super-hot sex and his name is cleared.
3. Anna herself, mostly due to the whole unreliable narrator trope—plus the fact that one of her painting tools is the murder weapon.
4. Buell, the omnipresent handyman who Anna’s ex Douglas hired years ago to fix a mailbox and is still fixing said mailbox—not to mention secretly living in her attic.

But the killer’s real identity? That’d be Emma, Neil’s daughter who turns out to be a casual murderer.

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If you’ve pressed play on The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, chances are you’re a bit confused. And that confusion doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with that obscenely long name.

Netflix’s latest original is an odd duck in the world of crime dramas and mysteries. It’s both a spoof on the genre and a mystery in its own right. Want to know what happened to the woman in the house without spending four hours of your limited time alive listening to casserole jokes? We have you covered. Consider this your guide to the the ending of red wine-drenched Anna’s woes. Spoilers ahead, obviously.

Did Lisa Really Die in The Woman in the House Across the Street…?

Unfortunately, Shelley Hennig will never be returning to this universe. In the final two episodes of The Woman in the House…, it was revealed that Lisa had, in fact, been murdered. They found her body and everything. So Anna (Kristen Bell) may be a bit unhinged from all of those pills and glasses of wine, but she didn’t imagine a murder.

Who Was the Killer?

Are you ready for a truly WTF revelation? Lisa’s killer was none other than…. Emma (Samsara Yett), Neil the neighbor’s (Tom Riley) nine-year-old daughter.

It was the typical bratty child story. Though Emma appeared sweet, she was secretly furious at her mom for getting pregnant again without telling her. So Emma set a trap that ensured her mom would drown. But her reign of terror didn’t stop there. She pushed her teacher off the lighthouse for calling her crazy. Then there was Lisa. Emma turned on the flight attendant when Lisa refused to buy any of the chocolate bars Emma was selling for her school. She had a pretty sick line with that kill, saying “I don’t think sugar is the worst thing you can put in your body. I think this is,” before slashing Lisa’s throat with a knife. Ten out of 10 Freddy Krugers, Emma. She even killed her father offscreen. What sin did he commit? Emma thought that Neil’s ventriloquist act sucked, and honestly? She wasn’t wrong.

So how did Anna become the prime suspect for Emma’s crimes? One time when Anna went upstairs to get her checkbook so that she could buy more chocolate, Emma swiped one of Anna’s palette knives. She then hid it near Lisa’s body. When the police found the knife, they traced it to Anna and arrested her. Clever, creepy girl.

What Happened to Anna?

There was no way that Emma was going to confess all of this to Anna just to let her walk away. Emma was prepared to kill her neighbor once and for all. Emma and Anna started fighting for their lives. When Emma pulled a knife on the older woman, it looked like it was the beginning of the end. But then the least likely hero of all saved Anna: her dishes.

In the middle of their fight, the duo broke another one of Anna’s endless casserole dishes. While Emma was holding her down, Anna managed to grab a shard of the broken dish and used it to stab Emma. Technically, yes. Anna is guilty of murdering a child. Thankfully for her legal future, Anna’s ex-husband Douglas (Michael Ealy) appeared to witness the whole thing and take Anna to the hospital.

While Anna was recovering, she learned the full extent of what happened. Neill and Emma did, in fact, die. As for Anna, she was on way too much medication thanks to her husband, who has to be the worst psychiatrist in history. He put her on a 50 gram dose of a class 4 psychotropic when she just needed some Zoloft. No wonder she was seeing things.

Somehow, Anna managed to forgive Douglas for overmedicating her and leaving their late daughter in the cell of a serial killer. Toward the end of the finale, Anna learned that Douglas was actually single and, as his purchase of one of her paintings proved, he still had feelings for her. They got caught in the rain together, and for once, Anna wasn’t afraid. As they kissed, it seemed like Anna and Douglas would be officially reuniting.

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What Happened to Buell?

Don’t worry too much about Anna’s loyal handyman. Yes, Emma did stab him. And yes, he was creepily squatting in her attic. But Buell (Cameron Britton) survived her attack, and they even developed a cozy roommate relationship. That’s pretty much best case scenario for anyone who squats in a random house.

How Did The Woman in the House Across the Street… End?

In the final moments of Season 1, this new and improved Anna boarded a plane to visit her long-suffering friend, Sloane (Mary Holland). She turned down the flight attendant’s offer of red wine. But don’t be too proud of her; Anna is now a vodka girl. After unsuccessfully trying to bond with the woman sitting beside her — played by none other than Glenn Close — Anna fell asleep. But when she woke up, horror struck again.

Anna went to the bathroom and found the bloody body of her former seat buddy. Only when she grabbed a flight attendant, that body disappeared. In the final moments of The Woman in the House…, Anna fished a golden compact out of seat beside her, seemingly left by the woman in the seat on the plane who was Glenn Close. Looks like Anna has another mystery on her hands. Season 2, anyone?

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