Toward the end of the finale, Lorraine admits that she is actually a serial killer who uses the commotion caused by Carnival to mask her crimes.
Instead, the true murderer is Lorraine Griggs (Sarah Parish), detective Broome’s girlfriend in the present timeline and a longtime bartender at Vipers.
Unlike Megan, Ray picks up the body, takes it to a concealed location, hacks it into tiny pieces and drops it into a body of water - all to protect Megan, whom he believes murdered Stewart.īut neither Ray nor Megan killed Stewart. Like Megan, Ray discovers Stewart’s body. Ray sees Cassie sprinting through the woods and goes to figure out what she’d seen. There, she finds Stewart’s bloody corpse and runs away. As we learn during the finale, Megan is lured to the forest behind Vipers by someone. For much of the series, Stay Close hints at two main suspects for the crime: Megan Pierce (Cush Jumbo), who goes by her given name of Cassie during the time of the murder, and her then-fiancé Ray Levine ( Richard Armitage). While Stewart's fate accidentally leads to Carlton's disappearance, very different people actually caused these crimes.īy the midpoint of the finale, we know one thing is true: Stewart is dead. But the mystery’s finale reveals that the true answer isn’t nearly so cut-and-dried. The seven subsequent episodes of Stay Close continue to suggest that the person behind Stewart’s disappearance - or, possibly, murder - also harmed Carlton. Carlton and Stewart were both last seen near Vipers, a nightclub outside of town. Detective Michael Broome (James Nesbitt) realizes the investigation into Carlton’s whereabouts shares a suspicious number of similarities with the cold case of Stewart Green (Rod Hunt), another rich man who disappeared on the same day 17 years earlier. The first mystery is the disappearance of Carlton Flynn, the son of wealthy (and shady) businessman Del Flynn (Ross Boatman). But if you’re here, that means you’re ready for some answers - so expect some massive spoilers ahead. To be a Stay Close fan is to juggle a lot of questions at once as the mystery unravels around two missing-person cases in a seaside British town.