Archie answers “Thoughts on the ending?”

Frances asked this question about Verity:

Thoughts on the ending?

Archie As fas as I think, the manuscript and the letters are both partially true.

Everything that Verity wrote in the manuscript is true because I see absolu…moreAs fas as I think, the manuscript and the letters are both partially true.

Everything that Verity wrote in the manuscript is true because I see absolutely no point in writing about all those detailed intimate scenes recollecting the time she had with Jeremy in the creepy ass exercise she was doing called “antagonist journaling” I presume, in order to improve her writing skills. Not to judge, but what kind of a twisted person gets peace after writing such fucked up shit, anyways? Thus, she's a psychopath and needs to be isolated away from human kind either way. Wheather she killed her daughter or not.

But I don't think she's completely lying in the letter either. I mean, of course she's lying about how Harper actually died but I don't think she's lying about whether Jeremy read the manuscript on the laptop or not. Primarily because, she wrote the letter addressing Jeremy and had Jeremy not read the manuscript before her accident, he obviously would've told Lowen that. Or maybe she intended for Lowen to get the letter cause Lowen did see Verity on the staircase and knew/suspected that Verity was faking the brain damage, so in order to drive her away from Jeremy she wrote all that letter hoping Lowen would get the letter be hella spooked and leave their mansion. It's also noticeable how she explain everything that happened between her and Jeremy like Jeremy wasn't actually there to witness it all firsthand. Or who knows, maybe she meant for the feds to find that letter because she obviously could not get to the physical copy of the manuscript as she admits in the letter. So she figured it was only a matter a time before that manuscript ended up in the hands of the police and she was in rotting a medical ward. But obviously after such strong allegations the police would check their house and voila they have the manuscript and the police arrests Jeremy and set Verity free.

Also, when Jeremy is handed the manuscript by Lowen he asks her “Where did you find it?” suggesting he already knew if it's existence. Lowen even admits it took him a lot less time than she'd expected him to read it which further solidifies that he already knew of the manuscript.

Not to forget, he moved into a room on the second floor after Crew wanted to be closer to his mother and chose the room in between Verity's and Crew's as if creating a metaphorical barrier between them exactly the way he did that night when Verity wrote the last chapter and he asked her why she told Crew to hold his breath before the canoe tipped over.

Not sure whether Jeremy actually tried to kill Verity or not but that just depends upon the perception him that he the readers have.

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