One of Us Is Lying

Based on Karen M. McManus' 2017 novel, "One of Us Is Lying," is an investigated teen thriller that follows four students at Bayview High School who are ...

At the end of “One of Us Is Lying” Season 1, Addy, Nate, Bronwyn, Cooper, and Janae receive a disappearing “Simon Says” message that points out that someone else other than them knows their secret and thus blackmails them into following the commands. Janae frequently warned Addy that Jake was a sociopath who decided everything in her life and had made her a puppet, forcing her to live her life in his shadows. Janae, Addy, Nate, Bronwyn, and Cooper decided to hide Jake’s body and fabricated a story that Jake fled to Mexico after Addy confronted Jake about his Xbox chats with Simon. They planted Simon’s Xbox in Jake’s room, and the police conveniently found and unlocked it, in which they discovered the recorded conversation that revealed that Simon orchestrated his own assassination and Jake pulled the strings and killed him. Finally, the police dropped all the charges against Nate and Janae, Addy, Bronwyn, and Cooper went back to their normal lives, burying the secret about Jake’s death. Their plan was to bring these four to the detention by blackmailing Ms. Avery with her secret, and while the teacher was distracted by the jocks, Simon would poison his drink with peanut oil. However, when the Murder Club saved Addy, Jake clicked pictures of the group and posted them online to defame them, and later went for his plan B, where he placed the box of EpiPens on Nate’s motorcycle to frame him for murder. After Simon was murdered, Addy, Nate, Bronwyn, and Cooper decided to put aside their differences to catch Simon’s killer, and during their investigation, they suspected Janae, TJ Forrester, TJ’s girlfriend Vanessa, and teacher Ms. Avery, as well as Simon’s childhood best friend, Jake Riordan. Each of the people had a motive, and the Murder Club finally concluded that Simon was not innocent either. She feared that this secret could have jeopardized her admission to Yale, but by the end of “One of Us Is Lying,” she made peace with it and accepted the fact that there is more to a person than just good grades. When she read Maeve and Simon’s text, she warned Simon to stay out of her sister’s life, and at the same moment, Simon revealed to her that he knew a secret about her. Now, Simon might be an intellectual genius, but he was also obsessed with Jake. Other than that, Simon frequently looked for ways to spice up his boring college life, and exposing others’ secrets was one of his favorite ways to get a kick in life. For the time being, Addy feared that Simon would reveal her secret, which would ruin her relationship with Jake, as he hated people who lied to him or cheated on him. What follows is a criminal investigation into the murder, in which these four students form a Murder Club to investigate their classmate’s death in order to prove their innocence and save their future.