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Verity:
Thoughts on the ending?
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I don’t see this discussed, so I am not sure if I am alone in these thoughts or I just have not come across someone else saying them yet, so, here goe…moreI don’t see this discussed, so I am not sure if I am alone in these thoughts or I just have not come across someone else saying them yet, so, here goes:
My starting point is that I feel Jeremy is 1. Too good to be true with Lowen and 2. Is not “stable” himself to rule him out of suspicion.
I think he has been trying to groom Lowen from the start. Asking her about her favourite meal, getting too close and personal. I think from the get go he was trying to foster a connection and there was not a real attempt to keep his distance or respect to the professional work Lowen was supposed to be doing, nor to his wife.
If he had intentionally picked Lowen, then the scene in the elevator where he pretends to google her books was not fully truthful neither. This is a man comfortable with lying as we see with the limousine story with Verity, he is not above having lied to Lowen, point one for him not being a saint.
Had he even especially selected her because of her history with hospice and mental health? Because of the evictions? Because he is rich enough to order a background check if that information was not online. She is perfect to understand his situation, be suspicious of herself enough and homeless to stay at the house.
Point two is that he has found a second Verity to love. She is a writer, also writes thriller books like his wife, uses his wife’s office, seems to have a similar nocturnal schedule. At this point in tragedy, he should be fully repulsed by or scared off, or creeped out by someone that similar to his wife, that much of a reminder. Or then, maybe he fell in love with Lowen just because she was Verity? I don’t know but I would like some psychological input on this and both explanations make him creepy AF to me.
And, jee, how many times is he going to impregnate women without their explicit consent? And a woman he has been with for less then 2 weeks and 2 nights? What does he know about her?
So, given these suspicions I have over Jeremy, I think that he intentionally re-planted the manuscript in the office for Lowen to find and fall in love with him and understand when he either 1. Puts Verity in a facility yet still being respect by Lowen as an amazing husband father, rather than one who left his wide behind in her need or 2. tries to get rid of Verity again and Lowen would become a witness to clear his name to the police, insurance company etc., maybe that was his starting point: wanting to groom and accomplice that clears his name or as some insurance policy for him, I am not sure.
Verity, sensing that her end in any form was near: either she would be killed by Jeremy or removed from the house, wrote the letter. The letter strikes me as more detailed than necessary to be written to Jeremy, so maybe it was written to Lowen or to the police, but not to him. This is not how she would plead with him I think, if it was truly for him.
The letter was written to plant doubt in Lowen and destroy their life, if it was meant for Lowen. And it was there to at least attempt to frame Jeremy if it made its way to the police. An insurance policy for Verity, and lashing out out of anger. I don’t think she meant to run, ever. She loved Jeremy too much to leave or harm him by seeking police protection. She hoped they would remain in this care relationship for ever, or for as long as she felt he started to forgive her, but if he killed her, it was better to die then to live without him.
Verity, manuscript and letter Verity, would never hurt Jeremy or Crew (mini Jeremy). But she tried to spook out Lowen a couple of times without blowing her cover. She hoped Lowen would just leave with that spookiness but she didn’t. And then Lowen was never truly alone for Verity to harm her, except for one evening, so, Verity could not harm her without getting caught or burning the house, harming Crew and Jeremy for example. That one night she was left alone with Lowen in the house, maybe she was on the floor to get the knife out and kill Lowen? Because why else would she be on all fours on the floor? I don’t see why she did not continue with her plan though or fight off Lowen. Maybe she was only planning to sneak up on Lowen and felt that in an all out confrontation, she would loose. She would die or be found out and sent away from Jeremy. So, she ended up changing her confrontational plan.
When Lowen presented Jeremy with the manuscript, he put on an act. Maybe he did not plan for it to end up with Verity’s death, maybe he genuinely lost it when he realised she was faking it after all of this. If Verity was not faking it, then he anyway would have a very solid excuse for Lowen to send Verity to a facility and appear like a noble, heartbroken man that she would still love and re-start a life on a clean slate, continuing to be with a Verity he was obsessed with
My conviction is Verity was not a great person. Jeremy was borderline and all of this pushed him over the edge. Lowen was so much in love, and also generally gullable to question things(less)
My starting point is that I feel Jeremy is 1. Too good to be true with Lowen and 2. Is not “stable” himself to rule him out of suspicion.
I think he has been trying to groom Lowen from the start. Asking her about her favourite meal, getting too close and personal. I think from the get go he was trying to foster a connection and there was not a real attempt to keep his distance or respect to the professional work Lowen was supposed to be doing, nor to his wife.
If he had intentionally picked Lowen, then the scene in the elevator where he pretends to google her books was not fully truthful neither. This is a man comfortable with lying as we see with the limousine story with Verity, he is not above having lied to Lowen, point one for him not being a saint.
Had he even especially selected her because of her history with hospice and mental health? Because of the evictions? Because he is rich enough to order a background check if that information was not online. She is perfect to understand his situation, be suspicious of herself enough and homeless to stay at the house.
Point two is that he has found a second Verity to love. She is a writer, also writes thriller books like his wife, uses his wife’s office, seems to have a similar nocturnal schedule. At this point in tragedy, he should be fully repulsed by or scared off, or creeped out by someone that similar to his wife, that much of a reminder. Or then, maybe he fell in love with Lowen just because she was Verity? I don’t know but I would like some psychological input on this and both explanations make him creepy AF to me.
And, jee, how many times is he going to impregnate women without their explicit consent? And a woman he has been with for less then 2 weeks and 2 nights? What does he know about her?
So, given these suspicions I have over Jeremy, I think that he intentionally re-planted the manuscript in the office for Lowen to find and fall in love with him and understand when he either 1. Puts Verity in a facility yet still being respect by Lowen as an amazing husband father, rather than one who left his wide behind in her need or 2. tries to get rid of Verity again and Lowen would become a witness to clear his name to the police, insurance company etc., maybe that was his starting point: wanting to groom and accomplice that clears his name or as some insurance policy for him, I am not sure.
Verity, sensing that her end in any form was near: either she would be killed by Jeremy or removed from the house, wrote the letter. The letter strikes me as more detailed than necessary to be written to Jeremy, so maybe it was written to Lowen or to the police, but not to him. This is not how she would plead with him I think, if it was truly for him.
The letter was written to plant doubt in Lowen and destroy their life, if it was meant for Lowen. And it was there to at least attempt to frame Jeremy if it made its way to the police. An insurance policy for Verity, and lashing out out of anger. I don’t think she meant to run, ever. She loved Jeremy too much to leave or harm him by seeking police protection. She hoped they would remain in this care relationship for ever, or for as long as she felt he started to forgive her, but if he killed her, it was better to die then to live without him.
Verity, manuscript and letter Verity, would never hurt Jeremy or Crew (mini Jeremy). But she tried to spook out Lowen a couple of times without blowing her cover. She hoped Lowen would just leave with that spookiness but she didn’t. And then Lowen was never truly alone for Verity to harm her, except for one evening, so, Verity could not harm her without getting caught or burning the house, harming Crew and Jeremy for example. That one night she was left alone with Lowen in the house, maybe she was on the floor to get the knife out and kill Lowen? Because why else would she be on all fours on the floor? I don’t see why she did not continue with her plan though or fight off Lowen. Maybe she was only planning to sneak up on Lowen and felt that in an all out confrontation, she would loose. She would die or be found out and sent away from Jeremy. So, she ended up changing her confrontational plan.
When Lowen presented Jeremy with the manuscript, he put on an act. Maybe he did not plan for it to end up with Verity’s death, maybe he genuinely lost it when he realised she was faking it after all of this. If Verity was not faking it, then he anyway would have a very solid excuse for Lowen to send Verity to a facility and appear like a noble, heartbroken man that she would still love and re-start a life on a clean slate, continuing to be with a Verity he was obsessed with
My conviction is Verity was not a great person. Jeremy was borderline and all of this pushed him over the edge. Lowen was so much in love, and also generally gullable to question things(less)
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