[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for We Were Liars Season 1 and Family of Liars by E. Lockhart.]
The stunning finale of Prime Video’s We Had been Liars solved lots of the Sinclair household mysteries, however one huge query stays: What occurred to Rosemary?
Through the second episode of We Had been Liars, Carrie (Mamie Gummer) reveals that there was as soon as a fourth Sinclair sister. Following their Father’s Day celebration, Penny (Caitlin FitzGerald) asks who got here out on prime as the favourite daughter, to which Carrie argues, “Let’s be actual, none of us stand an opportunity.” Voicing over a shot of Harris (David Morse) selecting up a framed picture of a younger woman, she continues, “None of us goes to be his favourite daughter. We grew up, we obtained messy, and Harris hates mess. So his favourite is at all times going to be the daughter that didn’t develop up.” The image body is then revealed to say “Rosemary – eighth Birthday.”
E. Lockhart first mentions Rosemary in Household of Liars, which serves as each a prequel and sequel to We Had been Liars. Throughout Household of Liars, Lockhart reveals that the youngest Sinclair sister died at solely 10 years previous. Carrie, who serves because the narrator for Household of Liars, remembers her sister’s premature loss of life, stating, “It occurred on the finish of August. Rosemary was swimming on the seashore by Goose Cottage. We name it the Tiny Seaside. She wore a inexperienced bathing swimsuit with little denim pockets on it. Ridiculous pockets. You couldn’t put something in them. It was her favourite.” She provides, “I wasn’t there. Nobody within the household was. She was with the au pair we had that 12 months, a twenty-year-old girl from Poland. Agata.”
In keeping with Carrie, Agata had gone inside to fetch some sweaters for her and Rosemary, trusting that Rosemary was a powerful swimmer. “When Agata got here again exterior, Rosemary was far out and struggling. She was past the depraved black rocks that line the cove. Agata wasn’t a lifeguard. She didn’t know CPR. She wasn’t even a quick sufficient swimmer to achieve Rosemary in time,” Carrie reveals.
As we now know, present-day Carrie can see the ghost of her late son, Johnny (Joseph Zada). Nonetheless, Johnny isn’t the primary ghost to hang-out Carrie on the island. All through Household of Liars, Carrie spends the vast majority of her time on Beechwood Island comforting the ghost of her youngest sister, whereas the remainder of her household refuses to even mourn her.
Throughout a latest interview with Swooon, We Had been Liars creators Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie revealed that they intend on that includes the plot of Household of Liars in a possible second season. MacKenzie instructed Swooon, “One in all our massive intentions in constructing out the sisters the way in which that we did was that hopefully viewers will wish to understand how these villainous ladies grew to become [the people that they are],” including that (very like the second ebook) Season 2 would function “the Sinclair sister villain origin story,” whereas nonetheless that includes the present-day forged.
Seeing as the primary season of We Had been Liars launched Rosemary’s loss of life as a canon occasion within the adaptation, we’re pretty sure that her ghost will make an look in Season 2, if the present will get renewed. Now, the one query is: Will Rosemary solely exist in flashbacks, or will Carrie come face-to-face with two ghosts through the current day?
We Had been Liars, Season 1, Prime Video, Streaming Now