Poker Face Season 1 Episode 8 Recap: Ending Explained!

The starts off with a disturbed Max murdering himself by throwing himself off the terrace of Laura’s house and landing on the ground below. His is now bloodied and scraped from hitting the rock. As a means of venting her sorrow over the passing of her ex-husband, Laura confides in the sculptor Arthur, who was also her previous employer. She goes to Him and inquires about the possibility of his creating a statue of Max so that she might plead for his mercy.  Arthur follows suit, believing his pal is in great pain.  It turns out that Max came across video recordings of a crime that Laura did. He pleaded with her to tell Arthur the truth about the crime, but all she did was poison her ex-husband instead. Max falls off the terrace shortly before the consequences of the poison. To get Arthur to agree to construct the sculpture, Laura pretends to be extremely sad because she wants Max’s face to unlock his pc and destroy the tape. Laura then disables the digital version of the tape and opens Max’s computer. She uses Arthur’s creation to open Max’s computer, deletes the digital copy of the footage, and calls archivist Raoul to bring the physical copy to her. She requests that Raoul, who is LAM’s archivist, deliver her the actual copy.

Just a few weeks after Max passed away. Charlie became Arthur’s helper and worked alongside him. He shared with her the tragic story of the actress Lily, who passed away after drowning in a tank during working on his movie. he has been under the impression that he was partially responsible for her death, a fact that drove him to quit LAM and start living as a recluse in his studio. On the day Max’s sculpture is completed, Arthur phones Raoul to give him the raw footage from his incomplete movie. When Charlie goes to bring the statue of Max to Laura, Raoul gives him the same thing. From what he sees on the tape, Arthur learns that Laura switched off the warning lamp that would have alerted her to Lily’s discomfort within the tank. Now he knows that it was Laura, not he, who murdered Lily. Then he approaches Laura, who admits to murdering the actor when questioned by his pal. Laura poisons both Arthur and Max’s drinks because she is afraid that Arthur might reveal her.

Since the first time Laura and Arthur met, for which she asked Arthur to sculpt a likeness of Max, Charlie has had a sneaking suspicion that Laura is up to no good. Arthur goes back to his workshop after his altercation with Laura, but he is unaware that his pal had poisoned him during their argument. Charlie discovers that the sculptor has been murdered, and he also detects a few stones that are connected to a wheel of the automobile that the sculptor was driving. These stones are comparable to those that fill the gardens of Laura’s property. She confronts Laura about the homicides, but Laura claims she was not responsible for both killings. When Charlie discovers the deception and understands that she is responsible for the deaths, she sets out to acquire data. Raoul (Luis Guzman). tells Charlie upon her return to Arthur’s workshop that the same film he supplied to the sculptor was requested by Laura. She believes that Arthur’s visit to Laura and eventual suicide were prompted by something he saw on the tape. Raoul suggests using Max’s login, which requires facial recognition software in order to be accessed, to view the same as they cannot locate the reels of the same. Charlie thinks Laura paid for Max’s sculpture so she could get the account set up and erase the digital copy of the recording. Also, Laura comes to the studio to collect all the video reels there and burn all the videotapes.

Charlie deduces that Arthur stashed the film reels away at the studio. Using Raoul’s ID, she gains access to LAM’s workshop, where the sculpture has been brought for the company anniversary party and removes the reels from Medusa’s hair.  Laura shows her memorial video and gives a heartfelt statement on the passing of Arthur and Max as well as the anniversary of their deaths. During her important speech, she had a brief emotional breakdown after spotting Arthur in the audience and afterward discussing publicly the passing of the actress. She loses her bearings and then thinks about the evidence that is being shown to the gathering of bystanders on the projection screen. Laura murders Max and Arthur, but she does it to safeguard the name of the firm they co-founded, LAM. Charlie and Raoul were successful in their search for the item in question and brought about some kind of justice. Throughout the course of her manic episode, Laura realizes that Max is still alive and decides to pursue him outside. That’s why it scares her when she thinks she sees her ex-husband, Max, or his sculpture, Arthur, in the crowd. Her hallucinations are a manifestation of her guilt, and she gives in to them. Once more, he leaps from the cliff, and this time, Laura is right behind him. She is killed when she falls.