RACHEL

Not really surprised about getting send home Lucy doesn't look very upset which isn't great for the show. The contestants aren't supposed to brush it off like this when they lose the game. If they aren't invested why should the viewers be? There need to be tears of loss or desperation for being misunderstood or rejected. Best case scenario for a contestant going home early is that they take a lesson from this experience and recommend themselves for more reality shows. Otherwise Rachel isn't doing her job right. She needs to bring out everyone's madness or some kind of emotion.

But the girl sitting in front of her in the limo to the airport for a flight back home tells her that there was just no spark between her and Matt anyway. "I mean, I had a great time with him and the girls, but he has to say goodbye to someone and with my competition I get why he picked me." She looks out of the window thinking. "It can't be easy making that decision. I certainly wouldn't want to switch roles with him."

Hearing her genuine laugh Rachel also knows that she's not even pretending. Most times contestants don't want to show how affected they actually are, whether they really were into the suitor or whether they were in it to win it. Lucy seemed even kind of relieved to go. Maybe she should be, since recent events she's unaware of made things a bit more complicated.

"Are you looking forward to getting home? Is there anyone you've missed?" Hopefully she'll give her something to work with here.

"My dog." Great. A fucking pet is the first thing that comes to her mind. "He's still quite young and I've not been away for this long yet. I did miss him because he's the best company I have. My best friend moved to Boston a couple of months ago. We used to watch Game of Thrones together and argue about what's going on. It was strange being this cut off from him and the rest of the world for weeks."

Taking people's phones can have a strange effect on them. Having nobody to confide in apart from Rachel and her team makes it easier to influence them. And the world keeps going, things keep happening. If nothing else works... "So, you missed the finale." She's a bit of a nerd. Maybe that'll get her.

"Yeah, I think the first thing I'll do is catch up on our favourite show, so that we can discuss it." Lucy giggles, then she takes in Rachel's expression. "What...?"

"No, no... you probably don't want to know."

"Have you watched it...?"

Rachel shakes her head. "I've never been a fan. But I've read that there is a petition to reshoot of the last season."

Lucy's eyes widen considerably. "You're kidding... Why? No, don't tell me...!"

"I don't know anything anyway." Rachel shrugs. "I mean, we're almost done anyway. I could give you your phone back now, if you want to check."

"No, no. I can watch it... first thing tomorrow I guess..."

About half an hour later Lucy asks for her phone. The first thing she does, or pretends to do, is inform everyone that she's coming home. But then she also reads some things. Jeremy catches every one of her expressions while she scrolls through her phone, puts it down several times and then opens it up again to write to someone or look for something else.

It's enough useful footage for her. Now it just depends on how they're gonna cut it together. Whether the viewers will think that she's upset about the messages on her phone or the end of a TV show she seemed to care much more about than her own Everlasting departure.

Lucy even hugs Rachel goodbye at the airport, giving her a letter for Nina for when she is send home. Jeremy also shakes their contestant's hand and films her leaving. "Well done," he comments, not that anyone cares. "You know who'll have to go next."

Rachel tries hard not to roll her eyes. But it's not like she can tell the guy who's shooting this shit show that their lives are at stake and that the past is the least of their concerns right now. "I'll see what I can do. But don't worry, I've got this." She gives him a sweet smile.

It really puts things into perspective when the usual mind games aren't the worst things happening on set. But whether they all take this competition serious or not this is now around the time the show starts getting a bit less casual and more dramatic. A time in which people start confessing their feelings or reveal secrets to each other. Two things Matt will try to avoid at all costs.

JESSICA

When she wakes up she doesn't really know which country they landed in. All she knows is this: There are beaches and the people there speak Spanish, so Matt can show off his language skills.

Annie didn't try anything during the flight this time. Probably knows she's being watched. Jessica made sure that Elektra had her eyes on her while she slept a little. It was weird to depend on the other woman like that, since she didn't actually trust her, especially after Matt suspected that she could have killed Annie, as if that was something he'd expect her to do.

By the time they arrive at their hotel Jessica takes Nina aside to be blunt with her. "Your parents hired me to look after you."

After a moment of confusion a humourless laugh escapes the doctor. "Oh, why am I not surprised? They probably just wanted to know why I came on the show."

"But it's getting dangerous and Lucy left as well..."

"You think I should leave? But will there be more attacks on Matt?" Nina frowns at the PI, not believing what she's hearing.

"There is someone on set..." With her client's daughter gone Jessica's job would be done. She'd be free to leave this madness behind. Matt can deal with his own crap, right? Although, without having a medical expert around...

Nina sighs. "You think if something happens again he could go to the hospital?"

Based on her limited experience with the man? "No, I don't think so. But this isn't your fight. You don't have to..."

"I'll stay." Nina smiles. "I've not taken risks in my life and I feel like this could be worthwhile. And there's also a guy on set I like."

Okay, looks like Jessica might have to stay. "There is something you should know: Someone picked you to come here. We think it's because you're able to help." The woman's face looks alarmed. "There was a list of people with medical training and your name was on it." But was she planted there for Matt? Elektra or maybe even Annie?

"Wow..." With raised eyebrows Nina shrugs. "And you'll have my back as long as I stay?"

"I promise."

"Good. Because we can't leave Matt alone in this. He's blind." Well... not her secret to tell.

A part of Jessica is relieved while she makes her way to check what Annie is up to. But she's neither in her room nor is she with the others who are currently complaining about Matt going on another date with Elektra. "It's just that Kelly and me didn't even have alone time with him yet."

"I mean, you can just go and take your time with him. Interrupt them," Jane suggests to Bedisa.

"Yeah, right. That'll get us further. I'm sure." Kelly snorts.

"Hey, Elektra was bold from the beginning. Didn't seem to hurt." Jane shrugs her shoulders. "If you want to talk to him, do it. There's no rulebook here."

"He'll think we're desperate or needy..."

"I don't know," Jessica can hear Bedisa contemplate this while she sees Annie through a window rushing over the street and vanishing in an alley. "Maybe Jane's right. Maybe stealing him away is our last chance to make anyone notice us in some way."

Following the sneaky woman carefully, without any cameras, she finds her waiting somewhere two streets over. When her phone vibrates and she picks up quickly.

"Hey Jessica! How are things?" She hasn't told Trish what's actually happening since their flight to Japan. Jessica doesn't want her sister anywhere near this investigation if she can help it. She's done enough already.

"It's good. I'll just stay as long as Nina's still here." Jessica talks as quietly as possible.

"No big dark reality show secrets? Bummer, I was hoping if that journalist on the show last season was murdered you'd know by now." She probably would if she didn't have to worry about bombs and organised crime and a lawyer who's a bit annoying.

"Maybe she wasn't even murdered. Maybe it was an accident."

"Or maybe you're distracted."

"Trish..." Not that again.

"Come on, Jessica." She can hear the amusement in her sister's voice. "Have a little fun while you're working your ass off. He's hot and he's totally into you."

"It just looks like that because of the way they edit the footage and because of the background music. If you were here, you'd know." Rolling her eyes Jessica watches a man approach Annie with a bag. Could it be a weapon? It's not like she could have taken a gun on the flight.

"And what about you? Don't tell me you don't find him attractive."

She isn't blind. Jessica walks a bit away from her two persons of interest, to get her point across. "Look, I don't want to date to entertain an audience. We're just selling it. That's all this is."

There's a tense pause. "But I think you're fighting it a little too much..."

"Because you keep annoying me with it! It's just so fucking irritating that you of all people want me to start a public relationship, Trish." Her voice may have gotten a little louder there. Hopefully Annie and the guy didn't hear, but as she looks around again they're gone.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

What if she's off to kill Matt and Elektra? Jessica runs around the corner, barely listening to her sister. "I'm not saying that you should tell your innermost secrets. But Jessica, you care about him and you can tell him that when nobody is listening. You're protecting his little secret and you're even staying around when you don't have to. What happens on the show doesn't matter, but if you're not careful you'll miss your chance at something real."

"Yeah, yeah. See you soon."

KAREN

It is one thing to watch an actor you fancy kiss a girl on screen, but it is quite another to see a man do it whom you've developed a bit of a crush on while working with him. It hasn't happened yet, but it's only a matter of time now she figures as Matt is walking along the beach with Elektra, chatting... flirting...

Karen has no right to be angry with him, of course. She never made a move and now she doesn't know what she was waiting for. It was quite a shock when she was informed of their plan to send Matt on that show. He didn't even feel that he should maybe check this with her, although she was pretty sure their relationship was building up to... something. So she was casually presented with the decision that he was going to leave on that shoot short notice and all she did was laugh and joke about it.

At the same time it also felt like it was so out of character for him. It takes a long time to get to know Matt Murdock for real. Why then would he present himself on TV for strangers? It made her very suspicious. When even Foggy acted like this was all normal for his best friend, things seemed to make no sense.

Of course, now she knows that they've all kept secrets from each other and maybe that is almost a bit of a relief, because the reason she didn't push her relationship with Matt was because she felt if he knew who she really is or what she's done he'd judge her.

Now she thinks that maybe he would have understood. But apparently now it's too late, because now he's going to make out with Elektra and she can't take her eyes off. Their clothes are wet after walking into the waves and splashing each other with water and she can tell that the tension is real.

And of course that's when he calls her. Karen sees his name pop up on her phone and she can't ignore it, because she doesn't know when he'll be able to call next. But before she picks up she switches the volume of her TV off. Otherwise this would get embarrassing. "Hello?"

"Hey Karen. Any news?" His voice is calm and quiet.

"Wait a second." She takes a deep breath. "Okay, so... Annie: She doesn't exist. All the information the producers were given is completely made up it seems."

"Shit... I was really hoping you'd find more."

"Well, I have some more." She has to brag a little. "I was trying to figure out who made Gary pick her because I had a suspicion and it was right. He's the same guy who asked about you."

There's a pause, before he asks: "What does he look like? So that I can tell Jessica to..." Oh, really? It doesn't help him one bit?

Karen's jaw tenses. "I haven't seen him myself, but he's apparently not so noticable. Normal height, regular haircut, dresses ordinarily. Around 30 years old... He also has a deep voice and someone mentioned he smelled of onions."

TV Matt and Elektra seem to be done talking then. Not that she could hear it with her sound off, but she can see clearly that their lips are busy with other activities now. "Okay... we'll look out for him. Thanks, Karen."

"There's more." Ignore the stupid TV.

"Karen, please, if you see this guy again: Just run the other way. He might be a terrorist."

"It's not about him."

"Okay, go on...?"

They are still fully dressed, but with the way their wet clothes cling to them it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. How close is the camera exactly? Is this already voyeurism? But they have to know they're being filmed, right?

Karen swallows. "Well, Jessica is trouble, but the good kind I think. Elektra... you probably know a lot more about her than I do." Intimately. "And Bedisa checks out, too. I don't think she has very dark secrets. Her Facebook feed is very convincing. Only that instagram model, Kelly, documents her life more accurately. So, that's everyone on that list you gave me."

"Kelly wasn't on the list."

"No, she wasn't." Okay, maybe she did a little more than he asked of her. She was worried. While he was apparently making out with his ex. "I wanted to be sure they're all real. Kelly's account felt so plastic I had to make sure she's an actual person who eats and sleeps. Three years back she went through a very public break-up. The point is: you don't have to worry about her."

"Okay. Thank you Karen, really." She can hear him sigh a little. "It means a lot that you bothered to do this... I..."

"Don't worry. That's what friends are for. I'm sure they are missing you already. The star of the show..." She has to end this conversation now. "Bye Matt."

"Goodbye."

Karen hangs up and wonders if she just should have asked: "Did you meet someone?" He told her it wouldn't mean anything. That it was just for the firm and she believed it. She believed that no relationship he could build on a TV show could be as strong as theirs, but that was before she realised she didn't know him all that well. Before his ex showed up as a contestant.

What if he keeps dating one of these women? And... does she even like the real Matt Murdock?

Right that moment she watches as Bedisa walks towards them onto the beach with determined big strides. Elektra notices their audience, but she's apparently not determined to let it show. So the woman ends up standing perplexed on the sand not knowing what to say to get the blind man's attention that doesn't make herself look weird.

Elektra then turns to her with a sly grin, shrugs her shoulders and puts her arm around Matt while he is peppering her jaw with kisses. She's really owning her villain role. Does he know, though, what's going on there? Did he just ignore Bedisa and avoid an awkward scene this way? Okay, maybe he didn't notice her because of the noise of the waves, but after she leaves them alone again, Karen suddenly sees him tense and step away from Elektra.

A few seconds later the camera zooms out to show Jessica standing in a distance all by herself. Watching them. She then quickly jumps up on a cliff, far away from the camera.