The Unwedding

Olivia accuses Ellery of finding Ben alive but killing him while trying to help him, noting Ellery’s potentially harmful intervention to help her students after the fatal bus accident. Grace defends Ellery, citing Good Samaritan laws, but Olivia insists that Ellery has a history of fatal interference. Olivia believes that Ben’s murderer must be someone outside of the wedding party since everyone in the wedding loved him, except her mother. Ellery feels a shift in the forest as Olivia accuses her mother.

Catherine tearfully admits that she was responsible for Ben’s death. She explains that she and Ben were arguing because she believed that Ben had left Olivia at the altar. She shoved Ben and he fell backward onto a sculpture of a baby bird, badly injuring his head. Olivia insists that Ben did not leave her at the altar, but the conversation is interrupted by a fifth person rushing into the clearing.

Jason enters, having overheard Catherine’s confession, and refuses to leave despite Nina and Grace’s efforts. Catherine explains that, after Ben failed to show up at the wedding, she opened the dinner to the rest of the resort to get Ben alone. Ben accused her of never being satisfied with Olivia and she got so angry that she pushed him, then panicked and left.