We all knew that when the couples went away on a spa weekend, things would take a turn in their relationships. Take a look at the events of The Couple Next Door season 1, episode 3.
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS for The Couple Next Door season 1, episode 3.
Pete and Evie’s relationship has changed in an irreparable way. Meanwhile, Alan is caught out now that his wife is able to get up the stairs. This certainly gets us to the halfway mark, and it’s time for the bubbles to burst.
Danny is out, but it’s not that easy in The Couple Next Door
The episode starts with the aftermath of Danny being held at gunpoint during the previous episode. Spencer shares that there were illegal diamonds in the back of the van. Naturally, Danny is worried about his career and his life. He is out, and he makes it clear that Spencer pulled him in on this, so Spencer can deal with the fallout.
We don’t really think that it’s that easy, right? Does Danny really think that it’s going to be that easy? It doesn’t help that Pete clearly saw him and Spencer at the building site just before the incident. Danny is able to brush it off, but he knows that it’s only a matter of time that he’s caught.
The problem is that he was clearly working for a mob. That mob isn’t going to be happy that the diamonds are gone. Who better to blame than Spencer and Danny?
We also get to see more of Danny’s secret. Yes, there is a kid, and that kid is a lot older than many would have likely guessed. He’s easily around seven or eight. The surprising twist is that the kid is deaf, and Danny has attempted to learn some sign language to communicate with him. This is sweet. Danny hasn’t been in this boy, but he clearly wants to be in his life. He wouldn’t learn sign language if he didn’t. Can that work, though? What happens when (because it’s always a when) Becka finds out? This clearly wasn’t part of Danny and Becka’s rules.
A spa weekend gets spicy in The Couple Next Door season 1, episode 3
Speaking of Becka, she gets a spa weekend given to her due to her social media influence. It’s a two-bedroom spa package, so she invites Evie and Pete along for the ride. Becka wants to do some spicy things, but Danny continues to point out the rules. Well, he doesn’t stick with the rules for long. He agrees that he wants a night with Evie, and Becka wants a night with Pete.
What about the other couple? Well, Evie is more than interested in sleeping with Danny. Pete tries to get into the night, but in the end, he can’t do it. He is a one-woman man. As his partner as work says, they’re old-fashioned that way. There’s nothing wrong wit this, but it’s becoming clear that Pete and Evie aren’t compatible in their marriage.
Evie is clearly struggling mentally, though. She’s also setting up to baby trap Danny. We know that Pete has said he’s the one with the weak swimmers. It suggests that Evie doesn’t have a huge issue with conceiving if she has the “right” partner. Considering Evie and Pete wanted a family, there is no way that she’s on the pill. So, Danny points out that the condom broke, he should have acted quickly and got another one. He just wasn’t thinking clearly, which probably isn’t that surprising.
We’re sure to find out that Evie is pregnant with Danny’s baby. He already has one child outside of his marriage, the last thing Becka needs is to find out about that and that Evie is now pregnant with Danny’s baby.
Becka finds the website Alan put up
Becka got more than just a blow to her self-esteem when Pete said that he couldn’t go through with a passionate night with her. She also found the website that Alan put up.
Let’s start with the fact that Alan decided to share the videos on Becka’s social media platform in the comments. This led to a lot of school moms dropping out of Becka’s yoga class. She thought maybe it was a school event, but it was soon clear that the moms are stepping away. The kids on the school playground are calling Becka all sorts of names.
Honestly, women need to get off their high horse when it comes to what people do in the bedroom. This was clearly a leaked video. It’s illegal to do, and yet, the women in the comments are more focused on Becka than the fact that someone has leaked this video. If I’d seen something like that, I’d immediately call out the person sharing the link rather than the victim. I’m also one of those people who think if something isn’t harming other people, then there’s no need to judge. Let people live their lives!
But so many people aren’t like that. Naturally, it’s usually women who turn against other women, and probably more out of jealousy than anything else. They can’t or don’t have the guts to do it themselves, and they’re jealous of the following Becka has online.
It’s heartbreaking for Becka to find out that that link is there. She says that she doesn’t even read the comments, but she does, and now she’s found that. She needs to get to the bottom of who put that link up there, though. It would initially seem like it was Danny considering he filmed it, but we all know it wasn’t him.
Alan gets caught by his wife in The Couple Next Door
Let’s turn to the person who did it. Alan gets back into Becka and Danny’s house while they’re away. He goes through Becka’s panty drawer and watches a video once more.
Meanwhile, his wife has finally had the stairlift installed. She can get back upstairs again, only to find out that she doesn’t know her husband’s password to the computer. That’s not going to protect him, though. She finds his telescope, and she looks through it to see what he watches through the window. That’s when she sees Alan in the neighbor’s house, getting himself off to a video.
His wife is understandably shocked. What I can’t tell is whether Alan realized that his wife had seen him before he collapsed. It looks like he had a heart attack in the neighbor’s house. If anyone sees him getting brought out of the house in an ambulance, it should help Danny prove that he wasn’t the one to upload the video. As much as I dislike that Danny played outside the rules, he doesn’t deserve to have the revenge porn held against him when he didn’t do it.
The episode gets us to the halfway point in a steamy way. There’s a lot of fallout to come in The Couple Next Door season 1, episode 3.
The Couple Next Door airs on Fridays on STARZ.
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