<p>OK, I just looked it up and Scotty is the one who was murdered…now can someone remind me who Scotty is? I really did watch every episode but my aging brain isn’t helping me out at the moment.</p>
<p>Yes, it is Scotty Lockhart, @collage1. He is Cole’s younger brother. He is also presumed to be the father of the baby being carried by Noah’s teenage daughter, Whitney.</p>
<p>Yes it was Scotty. One of the least likable characters in a sea of them. How do you like Cherry, in Noah’s version, protecting and enabling him? Cherry didn’t even appear in Alison’s recollection. </p>
<p>And Alison has a daughter with Noah.</p>
<p>Read a comment with EW recap that says Noah’s perspective is ‘real’ and Alison’s is the novel. </p>
<p>Ugh. This frustrates me. It was a realitively short season and we are suppose to wait nearly a year to resume. I think that I found most of the characters so icky by the last show, I am not sure I will watch season two.
@snowdog The difference in their perspective was sometimes so subtle until the finale. Then it seemed huge. </p>
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<p>That’s interesting. I wonder if the plan for next season to show the perspectives of Cole and Helen are also part of the novel. </p>
<p>Meant to add this but missed the editing window. </p>
<p>Did anyone else recognize Geoffrey Owens(from The Cosby Show) as Victor?</p>
<p>^yes</p>
Who is watching season 2? I loved how in Alison’s eyes, Helen manages to look chic even with her bleached, post-meltdown white highlights.
So glad to see Oscar appear again this week (much diminished as a waiter in a Lockhart-owned restaurant), a jerk but one of the wiliest characters on the show.
We know Alison’s baby will look much like Gabriel, is it possible Cole is the father?
I’m watching! Such a great cast and terrific acting. The addition of Peter Friedman and Joanna Gleason, excellent. The star so far, for me, though, is Joshua Jackson. Just excellently inhabiting the role of Cole.
I’ve wondered this, too!
Watching. It’s like the perfect storm. Everyone is scewed up and it all intersects in the worst way.
It is hard to understand why Alison will not dump Noah; perhaps too needy and it is too painful to stay with Cole. Noah is reprehensible on so many levels.
I got sucked into the first season and hated myself for letting it happen. It’s fleshing out nicely though now, isn’t it?
I agree about Noah. I can understand when troubled people engage in bad behavior just to make everything worse (see Damage) but what is the appeal of Noah?
So what did you all think of the finale? Scotty missed his calling, should have been a singer! That was spooky.
Now if only they had told the truth, or something closer to the truth, about what actually happened. Someone might have been charged with a crime, but probably not murder.
I thought the finale was very good. I liked how they tied things in that they had hinted at in previous episodes. I loved the scenes on the beach. The scenes between Noah and Helen are some of my favorites in this show. In a show filled with very flawed human beings, there is so much to love with the amazing cast, the acting, the writing, the scenery, and the chaos that fills the screen.
I agree that, had the truth been told, it would have been a very different situation. My guess is that Season 3 will explore that, given the unrelenting search for answers by Detective Jefferies.
Colin Donnell who plays Scotty is a longtime theatre actor who has been on Broadway and on several national tours. Musical theatre is his background, so no surprise that he can sing! 
^ I had read that afterward @alwaysamom. That scene with the red lighting and Scotty singing House of the Rising Sun growing from growl to full howl was one of the best of the series IMO. I thought it was a great finale too…turns out the novel ending Noah wanted with the deep secret between them was closer to the truth. I don’t think Noah redeemed himself with this 11th hour ‘confession,’ he made Helen take the wheel when she said she couldn’t - don’t they have Uber on Long Island? Also what’s with his indignant response to Alison’s confession LOL (it really looked to me like he woke up next to Eden in the previous episode)!
I finally caught up and watched the finale. Wow! It was very interesting and I especially loved Alison’s half. She even had a better dress in her POV. The tense whispering was very effective as was Scotty’s song, and when they danced together at the end. Who knows what will come next? Here he was, just trying to protect both the women he loves…