If you expected the series to end with Elliot Ward as the person responsible for everything at the beginning of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, you would have been close, but you would have been wrong.

We find out the extent of Elliot’s wrongdoings in the season finale of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, which is based on the book series of the same name by Holly Jackson.

After Pippa hears someone in the attic at the end of episode 5, she finds a woman being held captive by Elliot Ward for a long time. She tells Pippa what happened. Elliot thought she was Andie when he found her living by a train station. Then, Elliot gave her a place to stay. One night when he was drinking, he admitted to killing Sal to make sure that Andie’s disappearance didn’t come back on him or his family.