Her phone buzzes. Maisie: “Can we get takeout? I miss you.”
She waits for the tide to turn.
Clara, cornered, admits the truth: “Sasha is the sister I couldn’t save. She took Lucy because she thinks Paul is the same man who hurt us as children. But Paul isn’t. He’s good. I lied about Nina dying so Sasha could disappear. But she never did.” The climax takes place at low tide, beneath the rusting skeleton of an old pier—a place called “The Strip” by locals, a narrow spit of land only accessible when the bay retreats. Sasha (believing herself to be Nina) has brought Lucy here to perform a “cleansing.” Lucy is not tied up. She is drawing in the sand with a stick, calm. “Auntie Sasha says we’re going on a trip,” Lucy tells Jenn. “To where the water was before.” the bay s02e02 satrip
Sasha explains: “Satrip. St. Adrian’s. They used to take us to the shore. They said the salt would strip the bad selves away. But it doesn’t strip. It just… buries.” Her phone buzzes
Jenn types back: “I’m here.”