All Her Fault Episode 4 Recap: The Shocking Lake Discovery and Kyle’s Secret Connection to Carrie

The man from the surveillance video is seen at a store buying macaroni and cheese when he notices a news report about police searching for Carrie Finch in connection to Milo’s kidnapping. He returns to his car, where we see Milo—now with dark hair—sitting in the backseat. Milo appears physically safe for now. He asks the man why Carrie can’t come with them, and the man explains that Carrie is “too famous.”

Detective Alcaras and his wife discuss the case and also the possibility of enrolling their son, who has special needs, in a specialized school where he would receive better support. Meanwhile, Alcaras shows Jenny’s son Jacob a photo of the man from the video, but Jacob doesn’t recognize him. Alcaras updates Marissa and tells her that it’s time to release the suspect’s picture to the public to generate leads.

We then flash back to a week earlier: Detective Alcaras is drops his son off at school and we can see he is displeased with the setting his son is in. While on the phone with the admissions administrator at St. Mark’s School he finds out there is only one spot left in the lottery for discounted tuition—and he implies the spot could be his if he agrees to alter evidence to help the school owner’s son beat a drug charge. Alcaras firmly refuses.

Back in the present, Esther goes to the police and says she recognizes the man in the photo. His name is Kyle. She fostered him for a year when he was 16. She hasn’t seen him since he was 18, when he worked construction, but heard he later served six years for selling drugs. She insists she never knew him to be violent, which makes all of this deeply shocking to her. Esther says she does not know Carrie Finch and does not remember Kyle ever mentioning her.

The police pull Kyle’s records and discover he had a visitor one week before his release from prison—Carrie Finch. Detectives then visit Kyle’s former cellmate. He didn’t see Carrie himself, but he knew Kyle received a visit, describing it as coming from someone who seemed more like a cousin or friend, not a romantic partner. After that visit, Kyle became unusually quiet for several days. The cellmate suggests the detectives search in Kyle’s old neighborhood.

The detectives return to Kyle’s neighborhood and check a construction site where he might have worked, but no one is willing to talk. They show Carrie’s photo to a woman rushing for a bus; she denies knowing Carrie, but once on the bus, she secretly pulls out her phone, reads a news story about Carrie, and mutters, “What have you done now, Josie?”

Detective Alcaras meets with Marissa to update her. He notes that Kyle sending them to Esther—a kind, caring person—likely means something. He asks Marissa if they’ve received any ransom calls. When she says no, he asks whether her husband might have received one and kept it from her. She insists Peter wouldn’t hide something that significant.

Under mounting pressure and desperate to help his son, Detective Alcaras ultimately decides to tamper with evidence, swapping out the drugs in the evidence room with Tylenol so that the school administrator will give his son a spot at St. Mark’s. Later that night, he gets a call from a gas station clerk who reports seeing Kyle in the store buying macaroni after recognizing him from the news.

The detectives expand their search to homes across the lake near the grocery store. The rental homeowner remembers seeing a woman around Carrie’s age, but with dark hair. Inside the home, detectives find blood, prompting them to sweep the lake.

While Alcaras is at the scene, his wife calls—ecstatic. Their son Sam has been accepted into St. Mark’s. She says they’re incredibly lucky, though she feels terrible for the families who didn’t get in. Then, the police approach Detective Alcaras and inform him that they’ve found a body in the lake.