Secrets We Keep spoilers ahead.
Looking for your next addictive watch? Look no further than Netflix TV series Secrets We Keep.
The series follows a shocking murder in an affluent Danish community, as well as the dynamics between the wealthy families and their au pairs and housekeepers. We see a married couple named Cecilie and Mike hire Angel to be their housekeeper, with Angel's friend and au pair Ruby going missing shortly after.
Ruby works as an au pair for Cecilie and Mike's friends, Rasmus and Katarina. Cecilie is soon inspired to help solve the mystery of Ruby's disappearance.
Let's do a deep dive of that ending.
“I’ve always been fascinated by the power structures within a family,” series creator Ingeborg Topsøe told Netflix's TUDUM. “Few people associate Denmark with such ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ homes. Denmark is often portrayed as a very egalitarian society, and I’ve never seen homes like these portrayed on TV.
"Perhaps it’s a reality we don’t want to acknowledge the existence of …. Au pairs are ‘part of the family,’ while being employed, and parents are well-meaning, while absent. It’s these cold, hard facts — hidden beneath a soft layer of niceness — that intrigues me.”
Here's everything we know about the cliffhanger of an ending for Secrets We Keep.
What happened at the end of Secrets We Keep?
Cecilie discovers a pregnancy test in the rubbish bin and immediately suspects that Ruby was pregnant before she disappeared. She suspects a few men: her husband Mike, Katarina's husband Rasmus and her teenage son Oscar.
When Rasmus agrees to take a DNA test to prove he is not involved, it's discovered that while he is not the father of Ruby's baby, he is related to the father – his son Oscar.
Cecile then fires Angel and buys her a plane ticket back to the Philippines. After Oscar confides to Cecilie that he heard Katarina and Ruby arguing the night she disappeared, leading to a dramatic confrontation between Cecilie and Katarina at the end of the pier.
When Cecilie demands to know whether Katarina killed Ruby, she doesn't admit it but responds: "Those men, they think everything sorts itself out", in reference to their husbands. The finale episode ends in an extremely ambiguous fashion, with the women separating on the pier and the camera zooming out from the scene, with no confirmation as to who murdered Ruby.
What did the police discover about Ruby’s disappearance?
Unfortunately, Ruby was found dead, floating facedown in the marina in episode 4. Death by suicide was listed as her official cause of death.
It was also discovered that Ruby was 5-8 weeks pregnant, with the coroner revealing that she had been dead for up to a week by the time she was found.
Did Oscar pay for what he did?
The video evidence of Oscar raping Ruby as caught on a nanny cam, and unfortunately destroyed by his mother Katarina before the police could seize it as evidence. He ends up not being brought to justice by the authorities, but sent off to boarding school.
What has the show's creator said about the Secrets We Keep ending?
When the trailer dropped for the series earlier this year, the show's creator Topsøe said that she had enjoyed "experimenting with the genre because it requires the audience’s full attention, and placing a crime story in this particular setting is especially compelling."
She continued, “What happens when care and intimacy within the home are outsourced to an au pair? What does that stir in us — and in those closest to us? Does it reveal the best in us, or the worst?”
Is there a Secrets We Keep season 2?
We reckon it's pretty unlikely, seeing as Netflix called it a limited series – meaning that a set number of episodes was planned. But you never know!
