There’s a bitter revelation in the book that isn’t featured in the TV version. The specific circumstances aren’t revealed, but we learn that Adele/Rob started a fire at the shop in revenge for some perceived wrong – another instance of unhinged behaviour and a hint towards the fire started in the plan to steal Louise’s body. Netflix’s Behind Her Eyes Cast: Where Have You Seen Tom Bateman and Eve Hewson Before? By Louisa MellorĪnother minor difference is that in the TV show, Adele/Rob says she’s never really had a job, but in the novel there’s mention of her having briefly worked at a florist shop, but it not having ended well. TV viewers can cope with body-swaps, dumped corpses and faked suicides, but hurt a beloved pet on screen and lord help you. In fact, we later learn, it was Adele/Rob who killed their cat in exactly that way. When Adele/Rob is trying to assassinate David’s character as part of a master plan, she tells David’s mistress Louise that he killed it by stamping on its spine, then buried it in the flowerbed. When they move into their new Islington house, Adele and David have a pet cat of their own. In the book, that’s not the only cat murder committed by Adele/Rob. It’s a neat bit of manipulation and something of a surprise for those who’ve read the book. Hence, the little Charlie-related rug pull in the TV version of events. Then, in front of Marianne, she kills him by – and look away now if you’re squeamish – stamping on his head while wearing spiked high heels. In the book, Adele (who’s actually a man named Rob, it’s a big supernatural twist) first poisons Charlie’s food to make him drowsy. Readers of Sarah Pinborough’s compulsive 2017 novel on which the series is based, would have been particularly convinced that Charlie was a goner, especially when Marianne scoops the cat up in her arms before opening the door to an unhinged Adele holding a kitchen knife.
It’s a little tension-play moment and a neat subversion of our expectations by creators Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna, and director Erik Richter-Strand. Then, after a well-timed pause, in Charlie walks, right as rain.
Obviously, the first thought is that Charlie’s corpse must be somewhere under all that mess and his blood was used to paint those words. She goes upstairs and sees that her bedroom has been trashed and the word ‘Slut’ has been daubed on the wall in dripping red letters. In the show’s sixth and final episode, we see Marianne return to the flat where she lives alone and call out for her cat, Charlie.
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