Cooper Mall

Tanya should have made an excuse to get out of there.

If Leona recognized her in front of Joe, the whole facade could collapse.

Leona had visited her in prison barely a decade earlier, plenty recent enough to spot her.

And if she did, who's to say she wouldn't call the police?

But instead, Tanya did something curious, nostalgic even.

Tanya was really playing with fire here.

What was her plan if Leona recognized her?

She didn't have one.

It probably broke her heart that her aunt didn't know who she was.

No one imagines this part of disappearing.

It isn't just avoiding police or changing your name.

It's walking past someone who once loved you and acting like you never met.

Moments like this stayed with her.

They reminded her how thin the membrane was between the life she built and the one she left behind.

I just needed to connect with my past.

As fully committed as she was to the life of Tanya, it's like sometimes she'd get homesick for Margot.

And fragments of Margot's past were woven into Tanya's present, blurring the line between who she had been and who she became.

Take when Jo asked Tanya about her family.

She told Joe what she needed to.

Not the truth, but the lie she needed him to believe.