Fool Me Once is a mystery series, based on a Harlan Coben novel,
about a woman trying to find out whether her murdered husband is,
in fact, alive.
When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam,
she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.
This adaptation of Harlan Coben's bestseller stars Michelle Keegan,
Adeel Akhtar, Joanna Lumley, and Richard Armitage.
Maya also learns some troubling secrets about her late husband,
including the fact that he had a violent history. In high school,
Joe killed his soccer team rival and, later, his brother to prevent
him from telling others what he did.
You might be able to guess where this is going: Joe repeated the
pattern and killed Claire once she became a threat to the family name.
In the novel final pages, Maya reveals that she knew about this and
killed Joe in revenge.
The mystery was never about who killed Joe, then, but how he
appeared on the nanny cam despite being very much dead. This, Maya learns,
was a plot by Joe's mother, Judith (with the help of some video editing),
to make Maya “trip up,” question her own sanity, and confess to Joe's murder.
During their final confrontation, Judith's surviving son, Neil, shot
and killed Maya. But unlike their son's crimes, they couldn't cover
this one up: A nanny cam captured it all, and shared it with the world
via live feed.