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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a really stupid question: we did not hear the final interviews of the women involved in the death scene, just the clicking of the detective's lighter. I assumed this was intentional, but we weren't 100% sure that maybe our sound just didn't go out. Without hearing those interviews, just not sure what "lying" everyone is talking about. I have to assume they lied in the interviews and in fact, our sound went out for 1 minute. I read the book, so I knew what was going on and thought maybe this was some strange plot device so that we, as viewers, wouldn't know exactly what they said. I hope HBO is replaying this so I can re-record with sound. [/quote]

It wasn't your tv.  There was no audio when they showed the various women being interviewed at the end.  [/quote]

Thank you for clarifying that. Then how does everybody here know what stories they gave? Because of the book? As I said, I figured it was just David Kelley's way of handling it (though I really don't get why), and the cop said enough to imply that their stories matched too precisely which let us know they were covering. But a PP said that their stories were that he tripped, but we never heard that, right?[/quote]

Well my take it is for the viewer to decide on their own, it is inferred that their stories match up, no one seems to get arrested and at the end they are all on the beach together. In the flashback they just show Bonnie pushing Perry and him ending up on the landing of the stairs.  So her push must have killed him.  You see Bonnie and Madeline head to head whispering to each other. I assume from that they are agreeing to tell the same story.  I am a lawyer so IMO this would clearly be a justifiable case of defense of other and Bonnie should get off, she feared Celeste's life was at risk and they only thing she could reasonably do was to push Perry to make him stop given his size vs hers and that at that point it was 4 women vs 1 man before Bonnie and he was still winning.  BUT the author chose to go along with the story line of a group pact and saying Perry tripped.  Why, maybe to show the strength of women coming together, it makes the story more interesting that this group, with all their differences and histories, would do that to protect Bonnie.  BTW, the book ends a little differently.

I will add that my DH, who has never watched the show, watched the finale with me last night and really enjoyed it, but he had a completely different reaction to the ending.  Yes, he was glad Perry died.  But he didn't understand what happened with the women.  He asked me "so what has happened, are they going to rat out Bonnie" and I said "no, I think all of them immediately agree to stick together with one story and they will keep to that promise, no doubt."  DH said "really, I don't think a group of men would".  I guess here is a big difference between men and women, because I do see IRL women coming together under these circumstances.[/quote]

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