Warning: This submit comprises spoilers for The Last Thing He Told Me‘s finale.
Apple TV+’s The Last Thing He Told Me ended its season Friday with an episode that largely adopted the closing of the Laura Dave novel on which it was based mostly. After Jennifer Garner’s Hannah found out why her husband had created a false life for himself and his daughter Bailey years earlier than, she made a take care of Bailey’s Mobbed-up maternal grandfather: If Hannah promised by no means to see Owen, her whistle-blowing husband (and the grandfather’s ex-son-in-law), ever once more, Grandpa would be sure that the mafiosos for whom he labored would depart her and Bailey alone.
And that appears to have been the case… till a flash-forward on the finish of the episode. In the present’s closing moments, Hannah is at her gallery when a nearly-unrecognizable Owen is available in, brushes her hand in passing and whispers, “The could-have-been boys still love you” — an in-joke referring to a dialog they’d had years earlier than. Though Hannah is shaken by the briefer-than-brief encounter, she says nothing to a grown-up Bailey when the younger girl reveals up along with her boyfriend moments later.
When TVLine spoke with Garner in regards to the closing scene, we puzzled if she thought Hannah would spend the remainder of her days questioning when and if Owen would possibly make one other look.
“How could she not?” Garner stated incredulously. “It must have taken everything in her power to not just sprint after him!”
As viewers know, Hannah’s love for Bailey, coupled along with her want to maintain the younger girl protected, trumped Hannah’s want to reside the life she’d deliberate with Owen (performed by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). And that alternative paid off: In the ultimate scene, the once-prickly Bailey (performed by Angourie Rice) calls Hannah “Mom” — a reputation she hadn’t used beforehand within the season.
Still, Garner says, “All of the questions [Hannah] had, how lonely she had to be for him, how much she’s had to imagine — there he was to fill in the blanks, and she can’t let herself go after him.” She sighs, then chuckles. “Yes, very much, I have thought about that a lot for her.”
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