Cat Missal, who plays Bree, says her character’s secret affair with Wrigley “just feels worse” than Lucy’s past betrayal with Evan, leading to a major discovery in the season’s most tense episode yet.
Season 3 of Tell Me Lies has been building toward this moment of revelation. In Episode 7, titled “As I Climb Onto Your Back, I Will Promise Not to Sting,” Bree’s world shatters under the weight of two major betrayals. Her secret relationship with Wrigley crumbles at the exact moment she stumbles upon the long-hidden truth about her fiancé, Evan. This collision of secrets and lies forms the emotional core of the penultimate episode, which is now streaming on Hulu.
The Secret Plan Between Bree and Wrigley
The episode picks up immediately after Bree and Wrigley share their first kiss. They make a pact: break up with their current partners, wait a respectful amount of time, and then be together properly. Wrigley feels he and Pippa are more like best friends than lovers, and he wants something real with Bree. It’s a hopeful plan for a fresh start, and for a moment, it seems like a genuine path to happiness for two characters often caught in other people’s drama.
This new dynamic has excited many fans who have long speculated about a connection between the two. Social media was filled with reactions like “THE WAY I GASPED!!! I knewwwww it,” as viewers saw their theories confirmed on screen. However, their plan is fragile and quickly derailed by the complex emotions and manipulations of the people around them.
Evan’s Calculated Sabotage
While Bree intends to end things with Evan, he is actively working to ensure she never leaves. Sensing her slipping away, Evan seeks advice from a disturbing source: Professor Oliver. Oliver, who had his own inappropriate relationship with Bree, tells Evan that Bree is “frightened” and craves stability. His manipulative advice is clear: “If she feels like she needs you, she won’t push you away”.
Evan puts this toxic plan into action on the night of Bree’s important photography exhibit. He volunteers to pick up Bree’s mother, Mary, from the train station. Knowing Mary has struggled with alcoholism, Evan deliberately takes her for drinks before the event. His goal is to present Bree with a drunk, unreliable mother, thereby sabotaging their reunion and making himself look like Bree’s only source of support. He later lies, claiming Mary was already drunk when he collected her.
Cat Missal, who plays Bree, explained Evan’s motives: “He is entrapping her. He’s just convincing her that he is the only safe space in her life and so that’s why she chooses him again”.
This act crosses a line for many viewers, solidifying Evan as a more calculating and sinister figure than previously shown.
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The Unraveling of Pippa and a Painful Discovery
Wrigley’s attempt to do the right thing by honestly breaking up with Pippa backfires. Although Pippa has been secretly seeing Diana, she takes the breakup hard, seeing it as a rejection. Reeling from this and a subsequent breakup with Diana, a devastated Pippa calls Wrigley for comfort. She pleads with him, and he reluctantly agrees to sleep with her one last time, a decision shown on his face to be filled with guilt and conflict.
The next morning, Pippa casually mentions to Bree that she might have a UTI from not peeing after sex the night before. Bree is stunned. Wrigley had told her the breakup was done. This revelation sends Bree into a spiral, locking herself in a bathroom to cry quietly. At that exact moment of despair, she receives an “I love you” text from Evan, further entangling her in his web.
Bree’s Shocking Discovery About Lucy and Evan
In the episode’s final moments, a heartbroken Bree seeks refuge at Evan’s apartment. While there, she gets a Facebook notification. Someone has finally posted photos from the Hawaiian party nearly a year earlier. As Bree clicks through, she freezes. In the background of one photo, barely clear but unmistakable, are Evan and Lucy—moments away from the drunken hookup that happened freshman year. The secret that Stephen threatened to expose is now laid bare for Bree to see on her own screen.
This discovery connects directly to Lucy’s simultaneous storyline in the episode, where she desperately tries to retrieve a damning confession tape from Stephen. In a rare moment, Stephen appears to show mercy, handing the tape over to a broken Lucy and claiming he made no copies. While Lucy feels a wave of relief and even gets accepted into a study abroad program, the damage to her friendship with Bree is now unavoidable.
Cat Missal on Bree’s “Villain” Turn and the Fallout
In discussing the episode, actor Cat Missal did not shy away from Bree’s flaws. Missal stated that Bree’s ongoing, secretive affair with Wrigley is, in some ways, worse than Lucy’s one-time mistake with Evan.
“I agree. I think that what Lucy did was for attention, and what Bree is doing is incredibly secretive and way deeper. It just feels worse,” Missal told Variety. “She’s kind of a villain in my eyes. If you wanted to be with Wrigley, just leave Evan!”
Missal describes Bree as a “lost little puppy” who is compartmentalizing her life to survive, likely explaining how she and Lucy could still be friends years later at the wedding. The actor also teased that the fallout from the photo exhibit with her mother is “the beginning of the beginning of the end” for their relationship.
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