- In the final episodes of His & Hers, the killer strikes again, killing Zoe Harper, and Anna Andrews seems to be next.
- Lexy Jones becomes the prime suspect in the Dahlonega killing spree.
- Just when we think the mystery's solved, and that Jack and Anna got their happy ending, the real killer gives their fully fleshed-out confession. Read on to find out more.
Netflix's 2026 slate is off to a great start with their new mini series His & Hers, a small town murder mystery starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal. News reporter Anna Andrews (Thompson) and Detective Jack Harper (Bernthal) are estranged spouses who find themselves smack dab in the middle of a murder case in their small hometown Dahlonega, Georgia, with each of them suspecting the other of committing the heinous crime. All signs certainly point that way throughout the first few episodes.
There are a lot of complicated feelings between the two, given the fact that they both lost their infant daughter, and that Jack still cares for Anna's ailing mother Alice (Crystal Fox) who has dementia. So despite their suspicions, they come to each other's defenses. But by the last couple of episodes, a new, unexpected, and extremely viable suspect arises. One that seems to have been forgotten by everyone involved. The action-packed last episode of His & Hers may only be around 35 minutes long, but it squeezes in a lot in that time—including flashbacks and a time jump—and ultimately answers all our questions with a satisfying conclusion.
Here's everything that happened in the His & Hers finale.
Jack's sister Zoe is dead.
Zoe Harper (Marin Ireland) was one of the girls in Anna's high school "friend group." And, just as she herself suspected, she was next on the serial killer's list after both Rachel Hopkins (Jamie Tisdale) and Helen Wang (Poppy Liu) met their demise. Having just arrived home, Jack investigates water dripping from the kitchen ceiling and eventually finds his sister's on the second floor in a bathtub full of her own blood.
Lexy Jones is actually Catherine Kelly.
Meanwhile, having been turned away from their hotel, Anna and cameraman Richard Jones (Pablo Schreiber) head over to his in-laws' lake house nearby at Richard's suggestion. He says that his wife, Anna's career nemesis news anchor Lexy Jones (Rebecca Rittenhouse), knows about their situation and is also ready to clear the air/bury the hatchet. Anna, of course, is suspicious about why she's only hearing about this lake house now and why Lexy would all of a sudden be so hospitable after everything that's taken place between them.
This is when Anna sees the family photos on the wall, and realizes that she's made a grave mistake in forgetting the fifth member of their group: Catherine Kelly (Astrid Rotenberry). Since high school, she'd reinvented herself and started going by Lexy. She dropped the weight, and clearly had a bone to pick with her former "friends."
As the sirens go off in Anna's head, she calls Jack to tell him about what she'd discovered. And though distraught, he gets up and tries to rescue his wife. Things escalate when Richard realizes that Anna had called her husband. Anna fires shots from a small handgun she had in her bag, and she locks the cameraman in the back room of the house. But then Lexy arrives, and things get physical between the two women. Though, suspiciously, Lexy isn't moving the way an expert serial killer out for vengeance would.
Detective Priya saves the day, sort of.
As Jack heads out of the house, determined to get to his wife before she becomes the next victim in this serial killer case, Detective Priya Patel (GLOW's Sunita Mani) arrives to try and stop him. Now that Jack was covered in Zoe's blood Priya is ever the more suspicious of her boss. This, and the fact that he'd gone to great lengths to hide the fact that he was having sex with the first victim and knew the second as well, made him the prime suspect in her mind. Jack tried to reason with his colleague, saying that his wife was in grave danger, but she had called for backup instead. But afterwards, Jack was able to knock her out and make his way to rescue his wife.
Later on, when backup arrives, Priya goes to chase her boss down. But while on the way to the lake house, the chief calls to reveal Lexy Jones' true identity. The detective realizes the gravity of the situation at the lake house, especially knowing the suspicious death of Lexy's a.k.a. Catherine's older sister (which we know was definitely caused by Catherine).
Back at the lake house, Anna and Lexy are still going at it. They end up smashing down on a glass coffee table, which knocks the wind out of both of them. But when Jack arrives, Anna tries to get up while Lexy goes for the gun Anna had dropped earlier. She successfully retrieves it, and just as she shoots Anna, Jack tackles her out of the way just in time—only for Lexy to realize that the gun is all out of bullets. Even so, Lexy gets a direct shot in the head. Jack and Anna are surprised to see Detective Priya, just outside of the house, holding the gun that fired the fatal blow.
Mystery solved! Or is it?
Detective Priya and the police find all the evidence in the Kelly lake house to pin the murder on Lexy, with her husband Richard as an accomplice. But until the end, Richard denies that there was ever such a scheme, and maintains his and his wife's innocence.
And after the rough night they've had, Jack asks Anna to explain why Catherine was out to get them. She then explains what had happened on her 16th birthday, when Rachel, Helen, and Zoe had arranged for three men to attack and rape both her and Catherine. Though it was the three other girls who had committed the crime, Catherine thought that Anna was a liar and was involved. Finally sharing this horrific story, and given everything they've been through together, Jack and Anna reunite with a stronger relationship than ever.
We get a time jump to one year later, where we see Anna back anchoring for Atlanta's news station WSK, and she's pregnant with her and Jack's baby. We also find out that the couple has taken custody of Zoe's daughter, Megan, whom Jack has always adored. The little family packs their bags and head to Dahlonega to visit the couple's deceased daughter, Charlotte Alice Harper, at her grave. They also head over to Anna's mother's house. We see that Ms. Alice now has a caretaker to look after her, and make sure that she doesn't dangerously wander out of the house again.
This murder spree was an act of love.
Then, we hear Anna's narration—which we've been hearing bits of since the beginning of the show—play again. Only in the last moments of the last episode is it revealed that it's not actually Anna's own words. It's from a letter she's been reading off of, which she found on a desk in her old room. As she reads, she comes to the horrific knowledge that it's a confession from her own mother.
This whole time, frail, elderly lady—whom everyone had only been concerned about due to her supposed dementia—is actually the mastermind. After Anna had disappeared when baby Charlotte died, Alice found all her daughter's old camcorder tapes. She decided to play them, just to remember her daughter by. But when she got to the last of the tapes, the one from Anna's 16th birthday, she finds out about the horrific thing Rachel, Helen, and Zoe did. She also sees that after Anna saves Catherine from a terrible fate, she merely abandons her supposed friend.
Ms. Alice then reveals that she had found out about Jack and Rachel's affair in the woods, and plotted her killing spree from there. However, she never intended to kill Cat. She simply planted the evidence in the Kelly house in order to have a viable storyline, a killer to pin it on. What made things better was that it was the same woman who stole her daughter's career. Alice didn't count on Detective Patel being such a good shot.
Alice killed Rachel, which brought Anna back to Dahlonega. She killed Helen, which kept her daughter here. And she killed Zoe to give her the family that she had lost. She did all these things, in large part out of guilt for being the person watching Charlotte when she had died. And now she was glad that her violent acts have led to her daughter finding happiness, and expecting another baby on the way. She writes to Anna to show her daughters that, "a mother's love is constant, continual, and relentless."
We don't know if Anna gives her mother up to the cops, but it's safe to assume not. In the end, with tears streaming down her cheeks, the news anchor makes eye contact with her mother and looks at her with pride.
