Lauren had stared at him. Allegra had been there? She hadn’t known.

Allegra and his partner listened in as Lauren questioned Graham. Her accusations were those not of a woman who’d known for a while that Graham had been with Piper but of someone who was blindsided. Then, Lauren fainted; Graham took off. The team tailing him was so discombobulated that Graham was running that he managed to lose them on the highway. They figured he’d gone back to Raisin Beach, and after trying other likely spots, they went to Piper’s house on a routine check. Imagine their surprise when they found Lauren there as well. And Andrea, and Ronnie.

While in custody, Graham had admitted to “fighting” with Piper back in the day. He’d also admitted that Lauren’s anger didn’t result in harm to anyone but herself and that he’d maybe used it to his advantage to control her—“though she’s blowing it all out of proportion.” They got him to own up to being too rough with Matthew, causing minor bruises and blaming Lauren. But he would not take the blame for North’s death. Again and again, too, he swore he hadn’t been the one to hurt Piper—when pushed, he’d admitted that he’d snuck to her house shortly after making the connection about who she was. He’d tried to break in, desperate to get the photos he suspected she had so that she could never use them against him with Lauren. He hadn’t been successful, though, because he was pretty sure a neighbor down the street saw him lurking around—the guy turned on his porch lights, leashed up his dog, called out “Hey!” a few times. Graham got cold feet, left. A few days later, Piper called him to meet. Hours after that, she was lying bleeding in the hallway of her school.

Did Lauren think Graham had been the one to hurt Piper? So much had been revealed about Graham’s true nature that she could believe anything at this point. Here was a man so deceptive that he threw his own wife under the bus to escape blame.