Season 3 episode 1

Emma had made two cups of hot chocolate and handed one to Mads. She was sitting on the sofa now, calmer and having managed to fill Emma in on most of the evening's key details. "Alec's really..?" Emma hesitated.

Mads nodded. "I think so. Your dad seemed pretty sure." She gave a deep sigh and looked close to tears again. "This is so messed up, Dad's dead and I'm…"

"And you're..?"Emma prompted.

"And I'm just so worried about Jordan,"Mads concluded. "Does that make me a horrible person?"

"No, it doesn't,"Emma reassured her. "It just means you care about him. Have you got any idea with what's happening?"

Mads shook her head. "The police took him away, I went back inside to get Dad and…I just saw him, lying there, your dad checking over him and saying it was no use…and then I ran." She gave her friend a weak smile. "I ran here."

Emma gripped her hand. "It's okay."

"They're the two most important men in my life, along with Thayer…" Mads stopped. "Oh god, Thayer, he doesn't know, someone should tell him…"

Emma hesitated. "It might be best to leave him for now."

"Why?"

"I…I was around there earlier, I told him that it would never happen between us and he…he got upset. I think he needs to be on his own for a while."

Dan looked at thayer hard. "Let's go over this again…"

"No, let me make this simple for you," Thayer retorted. "I did not kill Derek. I did not kill Theresa. I did not kill Alec nor rebecca. Please, I've told you what happened. Alec did all this to frame me…"

"So who did kill Derek and Theresa?"

"Alec."

"I've heard that story before. People have a way of putting the blame on him"

"I'm telling the truth! He told me I'd bring him down, prove I'd been framed. And he said he'd make sure I was put away even if it was the last thing he did. And then he grabbed rebecca's hand and both jumped."

Dan looked at him. he seemed convincing. But then a lot of stories he'd heard recently had sounded convincing. He sighed and got up. "Interview suspended."

He headed out into the corridor where Ethan was sitting. His younger brother stood up. "What's going on?"

"he says she didn't do it."

"Do you believe him?"Ethan asked. Dan shrugged. "Well, what are you going to do?"

"Charge him. Let the DA sort it out once we've actually got a DA again." Dan looked at Ethan suspiciously. "That's not why you're here, is it?"

"Sutton asked me to go and see Emma, tell her what happened. But seeing how you feel about her…"

"Yeah but it's not about me, is it? It's about how you feel about her." Dan sighed. "You know, Theresa thought Sutton was good for you. Whether that means Sutton or Emma or some weird combination of the two, I don't know." He saw Ethan looking awkward and rolled his eyes. "Just go."

Back at the cabin-

Ethan only had to knock once on the cabin door before Emma answered. "There's something I need to tell you,"he began. Then he looked past her and saw Mads sitting on the couch, favouring him with an ironic smile. "But I guess you already know."

"About Alec? Yeah." Emma ushered him in. "Not what we were expecting."

Ethan approached Mads. "How are you doing?"

Mads smiled. "I'm getting there." She gripped Emma's hand. "Emma's helped."

Ethan glanced at his girlfriend. "Yeah, she does that, mads mind if i talk to emma alone?"

" ya sure no problem…" she was a bit scared for emma because the expression on his face made it seem like he needed to talk to her about something serious but she left them alone anyways.

" so ethan what do you need to talk to me about?" said emma still wearing a smile unaware of what would be happening next.

" emma we need to break up, i don't think that this relationship is good for either of us anymore"

" what Ethan please no" she said her voice cracking and tears welling up in her eyes " why would you break up with me?"

" it's simple emma, i don't love u and i never will." after he said and emma felt her heart break even more than it already was. After he said those words he started walking to the door and just left without saying another word. When the door closed emma quickly falls back on the couch and puts her elbows on her knees and puts her hands on her forehead and quickly but quietly she starts to sob.

As emma was thinking about what she did to make ethan break up with her, mads came out after she heard the door close. She walks into the main living area and she sees emma with her elbows on her knees and her hands pressed firmly against her forehead. As mads was getting closer she could tell that emma was sobbing.

" oh emma, oh my god. What happened?" mads asked her but emma just continued to sob even harder. Mads just decided to finish the walk over to her new friend and just hug her. Emma put her head on mads shoulder and just continued to sob." emma, please talk to me? Emma what the hell happened?" mads asked emma with nothing but a caring voice.

Emma took a second to to compose herself but then she lifted her head up and looked at mads with her broken, tearful eyes and said " Ethan broke up with me." she lets a few more tears cascade down her cheeks and whispered" he said he never loved me" and broke down in sobs again. Mads just continued to hold her tight and whisper sweet things in emma's ear. On the outside mads was calm but on the inside she was ready to kill ethan.