How Woman In The House Hinted At Lisa's Killer Identity Twist All Along
Warning: Contains spoilers for The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window.
The identity of Lisa's killer in The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window was a shocking twist, but the Netflix miniseries did provide several hints throughout. In The Woman in the House episode 2, Anna Whitaker witnessed her neighbor across the street collapse from a gash in her neck. Although no one initially believed that the woman, Lisa, was dead, Anna spent the remainder of the show trying to uncover her killer. Her suspects included the boyfriend Neil Coleman, Lisa's scamming partner Rex, and even Anna's handyman Buell, but Lisa's killer was revealed to be Neil's nine-year-old daughter Emma.
The Woman in the House was meant to parody popular psychological thriller mysteries, as evidenced by the books Anna read with titles like The Woman Across the Lake and The Girl on the Cruise, and her daughter's ever-changing tombstone. The Netflix show began with Anna suffering from grief for the past three years because her daughter passed away and her marriage ended. Ever since, Anna has had a fear of the rain, known as ombrophobia, and experienced hallucinations from mixing her medication with red wine.
Anna's instability made it difficult for anyone to believe her about Lisa, and after police discovered the body, the evidence seemed to point toward her being responsible. Anna even feared herself that she was guilty, worrying that she had become so separated from reality that she simply forgot she did it. Never once did anyone suspect the sweet little girl Emma was actually the killer, even though The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window did provide clues to her identity. Here's every hint that Emma killed Lisa:
The first hint that Emma was responsible for Lisa's death in The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window was her presence when her mother, Meredith Coleman, died. Neil explained to Anna that his late wife drowned in a tragic accident while the family was on vacation, and Emma witnessed it happen. Neil and Anna were both saddened by the thought of such a young girl witnessing her own mother's death, but this information was also an important clue. Only Emma was there when the "accident" happened, meaning only she could have been responsible if foul play was involved. As the sole witness, Emma could also control the narrative, and was the only one who could say for certain whether or not it was actually an accident.
During Lisa's brief return to Neil's house before her death, she threw out the markers Anna had given to Emma. This infuriated Kristen Bell's Anna, who was already upset that Neil was in a romantic relationship with someone and not available like she assumed, and led to a confrontation between her and Lisa in the street. Their short disagreement, which her neighbor Carol witnessed, was used as further evidence connecting Anna to Lisa's death, but it could have also been a very subtle clue for Emma. Emma had wanted, and was excited for, the light green marker Anna provided, and wouldn't have been too pleased with Lisa throwing such a gift away. Although Emma admitted in The Woman in the House's finale that her primary motivation for killing Lisa was the woman's refusal to buy any of her chocolate bars, it's possible that the marker incident contributed as well. Emma had demonstrated over and over that she did not need much of a reason to decide to kill somebody.
Anna had called the police when Lisa collapsed, and The Woman in the House episode 3 opened with the cops checking in with the Coleman residence before berating Anna for filing a false report. Since everyone initially believed that Lisa was still alive, the incident just angered Neil, mostly because he thought it had upset his daughter. When complaining to Anna about it later, Neil said that Emma was really freaked out about the police showing up at night like that. Both he and Anna assumed Emma was just scared because she didn't know what was going on, but that couldn't have been further from the truth. Emma had simply been worried that her crime had been discovered and tied back to her.
The first time Emma sold Anna boxes of chocolate for her school's fundraiser, Anna was dismayed to learn that she was out of the ones with almonds. Yet, a few days later, Emma returned with more almond ones, and Anna was eager to buy them as an apology for upsetting her and her dad by calling the police. Emma later admitted in The Woman in the House finale that she used this visit to steal one of Anna's palette knives when she went upstairs to retrieve her checkbook. Emma later dropped this knife near the corpse to frame Anna as Lisa's killer. She also took advantage of Anna's growing suspicion of Neil during this visit to suggest that her father had a nasty temper, even implying that he was an abusive spouse before his wife's death.
Both times Emma visited Anna's house to sell chocolate in The Woman in the House, she kept her cart covered so that the characters — and audience — couldn't see what was inside. It seemed a bit odd that Emma wanted to cover her boxes of chocolate so thoroughly with a blanket, especially since the cart wasn't traveling far, just visiting her neighbors. Later, during Emma's explanation of her past crimes in The Woman in the House episode 8, the camera revealed that pieces of Lisa's body had been hidden beneath the blanket. Emma presumably used her chocolate sales as a cover to disguise why she was walking around the neighborhood hiding Lisa's remains.
While investigating Neil's past in Netflix's Woman in the House, Anna learned that Emma's teacher, Miss Patrick, passed away just weeks after her mother Meredith did. While Emma's elementary school was on a field trip to a lighthouse, Miss Patrick fell in a freak accident. Anna assumed that her death was more evidence against Neil, since he was chaperoning the trip, but there was another common denominator in both her and Meredith's deaths. Although The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window did indeed hint more than once that Emma killed Lisa, her identity was still a shocking reveal in the Netflix show's final episode.
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