Dangerous Lies on Netflix is a hell of a wild ride from beginning to end. This Netflix original thriller has a little bit of everything: murder, robbery, creepy guys prowling around the house, and the diamonds! The film stars Riverdale‘s Camila Mendes next to Jessie T. Usher as a young married couple in Chicago, and when we say it takes many twists and turns, that truly means. For a detailed breakdown of how all the movie is playing, between the bit ambiguous end — keep reading.
How the Story Starts
In the beginning of the movie, Katie (Mendes) is as a waitress in a restaurant in Chicago, when a gunman storms in to rob the place. Katie’s husband, Adam (Usher), who is studying in the cafeteria see more of Katie, manages to stop the gunman by knocking him unconscious. The film fast forwards a few months to Katie now works as a care assistant in the home of a man named Leonard (Elliott Gould). Although Katie’s apparently going to work for Leonard because it is a safer option than a risky diner center of the city, things rapidly go awry in Leonard, casa grande, too.
When Things Take a Turn
A man named Hayden (Cam Gigandet) shows up at Leonard’s door one day saying Katie has a customer who wants to buy the house. She tells him that it is not for sale and the man that lives there would never agree to sell. This is just at the time that Katie gets Adam a job at Leonard’s house to work in the garden so that they can make ends meet.
Shortly after, Leonard dies in his sleep, and while Katie is upset, she thinks nothing of it, because of his age. After Leonard dies, Katie and Adam discovers thousands of dollars in cash in the attic and decides that he must keep because Leonard has no family and no one is going to know that they have it. They end up locked in a safety deposit box.
The police are investigating Leonard’s death, and Katie and Adam are suddenly under a microscope as the possibility of having something to do with what happened. Julia (Jamie Chung), a lawyer who claims to have been contacted by Leonard recently, he shows up and tells Katie that Leonard left everything, including her house, to her, as he had no family. Despite the rarity of this, Katie and Adam move in. It is then when they discover a dead body and a lot of diamonds in the house’s garage.
Then Things Really Go South
As Katie is to get rid of Leonard, medications, she realizes that one of the bottles of pills is empty and that should not be, and that he knows someone purposely poisoned Leonard. The detective investigating the case, Detective Chesler (Sasha Alexander), continues to push to Katie and Adam for answers and, finally, believe that Adam may be the culprit. When Julia starts planting the same ideas in Katie’s head, Katie thinks that might be to the right and begins to doubt her husband. And when Katie is going to get their money out of the safe and discovers that it is gone, she fears that Adam has taken the money and run.
She returns home to find Adam packing a bag, not to run away from her, but with her. Then Hayden shows nothing new, after recently appearing in the courtyard of his house only to be sent away by Katie, and asks him where the diamonds are. It turns out that the dead body of Katie and Adam found was from Hayden, former partner in crime that keeps all the diamonds for himself. After a brief fight between the two, Adam and Hayden both shoot each other. As Katie is crying over Adam’s dying body, he whispers, “In the garden” apparently points to the location of the diamonds. Julia, the lawyer of the sample, also of the nothing, and reveals that she is in the diamond heist, too. Now she wants to know where are the diamonds, but seeing as Adam is the one who hid it and is now dead, Katie can’t do anything to help her.
In what refers to Detective Chesler, who faces Julia (that totally made the will give Katie all of Leonard’s belongings) and ends up killing her.
We then fast forward another six months, when the Detective Chesler tells Katie the case is finally closed and their future child is not going to grow up thinking that I had a dad with a record. Oh yes, because Katie is pregnant with Adam’s baby and still living in Leonard’s house. The Detective Chesler asks if she knows where the diamonds, and Katie insists that its location was to the grave with Adam. The sprinklers in the courtyard of the kick at the end of the film, revealing the diamonds resting in the mulch in the garden. Whether or not Katie actually knows that it is not up to you to decide.
