Love & Death Episode 5 Recap & Ending Explained: After taking an ample amount of time to build a foundation for Candy and Allan’s affair, ‘Love & Death’ is finally getting to the headline-making case. The previous episode showed the gruesome murder incident and its aftermath. Candy kept the secret hidden and pretended that she had nothing to do with it. Allan made an effort to maintain the mental stability of his family. However, after reflecting upon his affair with Candy, he decided to come clean to the Feds. He called the office late at night and revealed this information.
Now the new episode focuses on the intensified questioning by the detectives after Allan’s big reveal. While Candy retains Don Crowder as her attorney, she struggles to keep her facade intact.
Spoilers ahead.
Love & Death Episode 5 Recap
Candy (Elizabeth Olsen) wakes up unreasonably early to make breakfast, which makes Pat (Patrick Fugit) concerned about her. Meanwhile, Allan (Jesse Plemons) goes up to the detectives to share the details of his affair. They question him about plans of having any kind of future with Candy. He says they contemplated a future. He is asked whether he killed his wife. Allan gets emotional and shares that he did not. In the end, the detectives read out his rights; for now, he is not just a grieving relative but a suspect in Betty’s murder.
Afterward, Chief Abbott (Brad Leland) calls Candy to come to his office, claiming they forgot to ask some questions before. She goes there to find a crowd peeking from the windows while she gives her fingerprints for the records. Later, the detectives question her about the affairs within the Montgomery and Gore families. They ultimately lead to put her on the spot and question her about her affair with Allan. She ends up confessing to the affair but does not admit to having killed Betty.
What do the detectives question Candy about after Allan’s reveal?
The detectives question how calm and composed Candy is, despite all the accusations. By accusing her of violently killing her friend Betty, they crush her spirits. Candy controls herself despite the detectives repeatedly asking her to share the truth. They also make her fear what the jury would think about her fingerprints and shoeprints being present at the scene of the crime. She does not fall for it and swears that she is innocent. Before she leaves, she is asked to submit her sandals and shoes on her feet to the station.
Concerned by these accusations, Candy and Pat go meet Don Crowder (Tom Pelphrey). He asks the couple to hire him as their counsel so that he can fight for her. He realizes Candy may not want Pat present in the room while speaking the truth. So he summons Pat to go out for a drive until he speaks with her alone. Candy confesses to the affair, and Betty having knowledge of it before her murder. Don tells her not to communicate with Allan henceforth.
Why does Allan admit his affair to Betty’s relatives?
Betty’s relatives grieve her death at her funeral. Allan keeps getting calls from the detectives to cooperate further. Due to his overbearing guilt and also because of the high chance of the truth coming out sooner or later, Allan decides to come clean to Betty’s relatives. He shares that it was over months before she died. He also reveals that Candy, the woman he had an affair with, will probably get arrested.
The TV news starts talking about a ‘Female friend of Allan Gore’ having killed Betty. Sherry (Krysten Ritter) worries about what this public villainizing will do to Candy. They are even more concerned since Candy has not shared a single word about her conversation with Don to her or Pat. Suddenly, someone knocks on the door. It turns out to be a reporter looking to get details into her story. Candy calls Don to inform him about it. He asks her to come to his house right away.
Candy drives up to Don’s house, singing to the radio tunes, still trying to control her apprehension. Once she reaches there, Don asks her to share the truth and whether she is trying to protect someone. Don tells her how the truth will come out one or the other way. She says Allan wasn’t present at home at the time. Soon after, she confesses having committed the murder herself. Don does not believe her. “She came at me. So, I did it,” Candy finally says.
They decide not to share this with Pat since he may end up telling it to the Feds. Don thinks Candy should hire a criminal lawyer who is more competent to handle this case. But she wants Don to fight for her since she trusts him. The scene is followed by her and Allan’s truth-telling tests. She also starts smoking again because of the stress of getting exposed. Pat does not appreciate that and regrets not sensing the signs of her affair in the past.
Don and his associate try to find other suspects to pin down the blame on. They also learn that the people from her church mostly didn’t like Betty, and they use it for their case. Back at home, while Sherry tries to relieve Candy’s stress as a friendly gesture, Don calls her to inform her about a warrant for her arrest. He plans to stop it with a bail bond of $10,000 and expects Pat to procure that amount the same day. The radio news also starts talking about Candy being a suspect in the murder. He tries to keep up a façade for his children that everything is normal.
Sherry drives Candy to Don’s office. While the Sheriff puts pressure on them, Candy even goes on to make cookies, pretending everything is a-okay. Since Don can’t find a way around, he tells his associate to drive Candy to the sheriff’s office. She goes in while trying to hide her face from the journalists waiting nearby. The feds arrest her, and she walks through the excruciating practice of getting stripped down naked. It finally dawns upon her that she can’t run away from the truth.
What strategy does Don intend to use to prove Candy’s innocence?
Pat cannot stay calm since Don’s efforts to put up a bond don’t work out. Allan struggles to stay sane since he has to live in the same house where his wife was brutally murdered. While the news antagonizes Candy, Don puts forth the narrative of Candy being a frail lady incapable of brutally beating someone with an axe. He orders her to follow the course of the same narrative, to abandon the church choir, and be a meek figure to appeal to the jury in the same way. Don wants to make the jury members believe that she could not have possibly done it.
Love & Death Episode 5 Ending Explained
Does the help from the psychiatrist help Don in his case for Candy?
Two weeks later, during a pre-trial, Don takes an aggressive approach against the Judge. He does not want the case to be fought in the Colin County. Meanwhile, Candy’s eery silence about her talks with Don troubles Pat. Even their ex-pastor and a close family friend, Jackie Ponder (Elizabeth Marvel), can’t get Candy to speak truthfully to her. On the other hand, Don decides to hire a psychiatrist to make Candy open up about the incident. She reluctantly walks into Dr. Fred Fason’s room and gets under his spell within moments.
Soon after, Candy starts screaming, ‘I hate her’ – referring to Betty. Fred establishes a connection between this murder to trauma from her childhood, where her mother kept shushing her to stop her from crying. Candy says she wants to scream and gets an outlet to express her repressed emotions. Once she comes back to her senses, Don has a word with Fred in private. He then establishes the narrative that Candy is not a psychopath and that she attacked Betty because she snapped.
How does Pat react to knowing the truth about Candy?
Candy gets known throughout the country as the ‘axe murderer.’ But Pat believes in her innocence since Candy does not tell him the truth. While they have a family dinner, Don calls their landline to share the truth. Don says that Candy wanted Pat to know the truth and then shares it with him. While Candy tries to tell the children about how she will be proven innocent, Pat contemplates how to process this information and pretend to be a normal family thereafter. He becomes frustrated over being kept in the dark about it.
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