- Key takeaways: Alice, Anna’s mother, is revealed as the killer in His & Hers.
- Lexy (Catherine Kelly) is initially suspected and fatally shot, but she’s not the murderer.
- Alice’s motive: revenge for the sexual assault of teen Anna and the death of Anna’s baby.
- The finale reunites the family outwardly — but dark secrets linger.
Who is the killer in His & Hers?
The Netflix thriller His & Hers ends with a late but decisive reveal: Alice, Anna Andrews’s mother, is the person responsible for the string of murders in Dahlonega. For much of the series viewers — and the characters — believe Lexy Jones (who is really Catherine Kelly) is the avenger targeting Anna’s former high-school tormentors. The finale, however, upends that conclusion when Anna reads a confession letter from Alice admitting to the killings.
How the series leads viewers to suspect Lexy
Lexy’s backstory as Catherine Kelly — an outcast who suffered bullying and later reinvented herself — plus her brittle connection to Anna make her a believable suspect. Lexy is exposed as Catherine in episode 5, a confrontation escalates in episode 6, and when Lexy appears to move to shoot Anna, Jack intervenes. Priya, Jack’s partner, believes she’s stopping the killer and shoots Lexy, who dies. The apparent case-closed scene is complicated when a later letter from Alice flips the investigation’s outcome.
Why Alice killed: motive and method
Alice’s confession ties the murders to a decades-old crime: as a teen Anna was sexually assaulted at a party while peers watched. Alice discovers tapes of that attack and decides to take violent revenge on Rachel, Helen, Zoe and others who enabled it. The series also links the timeline of killings to the death of Anna and Jack’s baby, Charlotte — an event that fractures the family and motivates Alice’s drastic actions. Alice uses ageism and calculated behavior (feigning confusion, leaving misleading clues like barefoot prints) to avoid suspicion.
What happens to Anna, Jack and Lexy after the reveal
A year after Lexy’s death the public story has Anna and Jack rebuilding their lives: they reunite, adopt an orphaned child, and Anna returns to work while expecting again. But the finale leaves moral and relational fractures in place — particularly because Alice murdered people connected to Jack’s family and because Anna has kept her assault secret. The final scene — a silent exchange between Anna and Alice — suggests gratitude, horror, and unresolved complicity.
Final note: adaptation and themes
The series follows Alice Feeney’s novel closely in keeping Alice as the culprit. Creator William Oldroyd frames the ending around maternal love twisted into vigilantism, while also centering trauma, secrecy, and the cost of revenge. His & Hers uses the mystery structure to explore how family, silence, and grief can lead to devastating choices.
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