cliffhanger ending of the penultimate episode<\/a>, Coop, Barney, and Nick have a decision to make. Ashe seems pretty dead. If the Feds come snooping around, all of them would be persons of interest, at least. They might even be prime suspects. It\u2019s decided, after some back and forth, that the best-case scenario is to clean up the scene and dump the body, which means Coop and Nick take on the majority of the responsibility, since Barney\u2019s recent vasectomy prohibits him from any heavy lifting. To make matters worse, as they\u2019re carrying Ashe\u2019s body through the foyer, Sam walks in.<\/p>\nSam is horrified, obviously, but for self-serving rather than moral reasons. This is the second man she was romantically involved with who just so happened to end up dead, and now she has become a witness, she has also become complicit. This, and perhaps an innate tendency to do what\u2019s best for her instead of necessarily what\u2019s right, makes it easier for Coop to sell her on the idea of dumping the body where nobody will ever find it. She even tells him about a local property which has a deep hole dug for a pool, with concrete due to be poured in it any day now. If Ashe is buried in there, nobody will ever find him.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t get that far, though, since Ashe, who wasn\u2019t dead after all, springs awake in the car and resumes attacking Coop, Barney, and Nick at high speed. In the scuffle, the car plummets into the lake. Ashe never breaks the surface. But even though the others do, they have to swim back down to move him from the back seat to the front, to create the impression of an accident. This is an opportunity for them, but it also binds them together with the cohesive power of a terrible secret. And you know what people say about how hard one of those is for three people to keep.<\/p>\n
Two Weeks Later<\/p>\n
Ashe\u2019s body isn\u2019t found in the ending of\u00a0Your Friends & Neighbors\u00a0Season 2, leaving everyone to speculate on his potential fate. He was, after all, a shady guy. It\u2019s easy to imagine a weapons-trafficking billionaire might disappear for any number of reasons. Nobody is especially concerned, except of course for Nick, who is struggling mightily with the idea of being complicit in a murder.<\/p>\n
To add insult to injury, Coop lets Delilah stay with them for a while, though to be fair she isn\u2019t especially bothered. She hated Ashe, and not in the way that teenage girls tend to despise their parents. She knew, intuitively, that he was a bad guy. She\u2019s going to stay with an aunt, which means she\u2019ll also be leaving Hunter, but whether she\u2019ll return in a subsequent season is anyone\u2019s guess. At least they get a nice goodbye. Nobody really expected their relationship to be the show\u2019s most authentic, but here we are.<\/p>\n
Sam is also planning on leaving town. As a parting gift to Coop, she gives him Ali\u2019s likeliest address, and he eventually turns up there in the middle of the night. He doesn\u2019t tell her anything, but he does spend the night. He also returns the $600 million he was managing to Ashe\u2019s estate as a goodwill gesture, hoping to wash his hands of any connection to his dirty money. But his altruism doesn\u2019t help Elena, who is still waiting on her share of the money wrapped up in Nick\u2019s gyms, which, thanks to the involvement of Interpol and the FBI, he\u2019s too frightened to touch.<\/p>\n
Father\u2019s Day<\/p>\n
Most of the ongoing subplots in this season take major turns on Father\u2019s Day, celebrated by a lavish night out at the club. In suburbia, life goes on no matter who disappears, who is cheating on whom, and who is quietly harbouring a killer. But Nick hasn\u2019t settled into life as a criminal. He\u2019s mostly annoyed at Barney for taking financial liberties with his gyms, which leads to a fight between the two that Coop has to try and intervene in. Coop and Barney end up being put through a table, and Grace, knowing that Barney is lying to her, tells him that he can\u2019t go home with her and the kids. Nobody knows quite what\u2019s getting between these three men, but everyone\u00a0knows that something is amiss.<\/p>\n
Father\u2019s Day isn\u2019t going well for Elena, either, since Felix breaks into Nick\u2019s place and starts stealing stuff to repay her debt, punching her in the face for the sake of authenticity but also as a warning that she\u2019s pushing her luck. Even though the items he stole outweighed the cost of the original loan, something tells me Felix isn\u2019t going to be satisfied, which will continue to bind Elena to Coop and Barney. Perhaps, even, her problems will become theirs.<\/p>\n
And Coop definitely still has problems. Despite a nice night bowling with his family at the alley his father used to frequent<\/a>, Coop receives a message from Ashe\u2019s lawyer, DeMille, who hands over the incriminating footage of him stealing from Ashe\u2019s house, as per their arrangement, but also tells him that he\u2019ll be sending the money Coop returned to the estate back to his account. Apparently, it wasn\u2019t just Ashe\u2019s finances that Coop was managing, so he\u2019s still in over his head with some unsavoury types. And DeMille also strongly implies that it was Cricket Birch, not he or Ashe, who arranged for Coop\u2019s kidnapping.<\/p>\nIronically, it might be Mel who proves to be the biggest wildcard, almost without realising. Since she can\u2019t sell a book on menopause since it\u2019s boring and out of fashion, she, on her publisher\u2019s advice, begins writing a memoir about the scandal surrounding Sam and Coop. To make matters worse, Season 2 of\u00a0Your Friends & Neighbors\u00a0ends with someone fishing on the lake where Ashe\u2019s body sank to the bottom. Just in time for the credits, he gets a bite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Hamm and Olivia Munn in Your Friends & Neighbors Season 2 | Image via Apple TV Summary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6147,5136,156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-461649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}