After Lexi’s death, Jack and Anna get back together and get pregnant again, and Anna has her old job as a news anchor back. It’s then that Anna’s mother leaves her a letter which explains exactly what went down.
After Anna disappeared, Alice was heartbroken. Feeling disconnected, she went into Anna’s old room and found all of her old video recordings, most of which were faux news broadcasts filmed in Anna’s childhood bedroom. She watches them one by one, attempting to feel close to her missing daughter, until she comes across the tape of the 16th birthday party.
She is enraged on her daughter’s behalf, but still can’t reach her. She waits at the cemetery, hoping that she might find Anna visiting her daughter’s grave. On the anniversary of the baby’s death, Alice finally sees Anna—and then watches as Anna witnesses her husband having sex with her high school bully. At some point, Alice slashes the tires on Rachel’s car. After Jack drives away, Rachel realizes her predicament and exits her car to find Alice. She is confused but not suspicious, therefore completely taken aback when Alice begins stabbing her over and over.
As Alice says in the letter, her position in life—an elderly woman who has been written off as crazy—has afforded her the perfect cover. After she kills Rachel, she sheds her clothes and wanders the highway naked, faking a lapse of memory. She uses keys from her housekeeping days to get into Helen’s office and Zoe’s house, where she commits both murders, and also to enter Lexi’s lake house to plant the evidence she’d been collecting from her victims. She then shakes suspicion by playing up symptoms of dementia, leaning into a crazy but harmless old lady role.
In the end, Alice explains in the letter, it was for the love of her daughter that she committed the murders.
How did Jack and Anna’s first baby die?
Though the writers left some room for speculation early on that there may have been foul play in the death of Jack and Anna’s daughter, it is later confirmed that no one was at fault. In her letter to Anna, Alice writes that the baby died of “crib death,” also known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Are Jack and Anna back together?
In the final scene of the show, Jack and Anna are very much back together, and Anna is expecting another child with Jack. Perhaps that’s why Alice’s motivations for the killings—”a mother’s love”—struck such a chord with her daughter.
Will there be a season 2 of His & Hers?
This is a mystery easily solved. There will not be a second season of His & Hers, which is a limited series. However, several of author Alice Feeney’s other works are coming to the screen. Beautiful Ugly is being adapted for a film, while Sometimes I Lie is being adapted for a TV series.