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Netflix Echoes episode 2 recap: Birthday

Echoes episode 2 opens with a flashback to Leni and Gina’s birthday the year before. They took a trip to Paris and did their annual ritual, checking each other’s bodies for new scars and freckles to ensure they could fix anything their respective spouses might notice. Leni felt, even then, that Gina was hiding something from her.

In the present, Leni (remember, at the end of episode 1 we find out that “Gina” was actually Leni the whole time) practices getting back into her normal groove and faint southern drawl. “I get it Gina. You’re not lost. You just don’t want to be found. And until I find you, I have to play both parts.”

Now that Leni is officially back, she has to face Floss to answer questions about her “disappearance,” claiming Gina retreated back to the Riverside to get some rest. It’s clear Floss still thinks something suspicious is going on. Leni’s story about being confronted by intruders wearing ski masks isn’t super believable. Leni claims she heard a noise and went to see what was going on and the horses were already loose.

Floss asks why, if the intruders were there to steal horses, they would release so many into the wild? It gets even worse when Leni mistakenly says she fell on her right side. Prince, the horse that came back with blood on it, had blood on his left side.

And Floss doesn’t miss that inconsistency. She’s definitely not your average dumb small-town cop we often see depicted in these thrillers and I want to take a second to say how much I love Karen Robinson’s performance!

One thing remains consistent in the constant switching and machinations devised by the twins: nothing comes between them. Flashbacks show they were once both interested in Jack back in the day, too. And given that they swap lives once a year… they’re technically sharing Jack and Charlie, too.

Jack confronts Leni regarding her lies to Floss. He thinks she’s having an affair and he knows she’s not telling him the whole story. Where does she go when she disappears for hours at a time? Leni promises that she’s going to fix things. However, she thinks that Jack is keeping things from her, too.

Remember, Jack tried kissing Leni the night before when he thought she was Gina. Now Leni is trying to use that incident as ammunition to imply Jack has secrets, too. Right now, all Leni knows is that Gina has left her with a huge mess, leaving her accused of a crime she didn’t do and doesn’t even understand.

Leni takes Mattie to school and Mattie mentions that she (Gina-as-Leni) used to keep a phone in her glovebox, but it’s not there anymore. At school, Leni notices Meg and tries to talk to her. Meg isn’t having it. Gina must have done something to her while pretending to be Leni for the past year. Meg says that Leni has “ruined his life for a second time.” Who?

After that, Leni calls Gina again, urging her to call back and also questioning the “flip phone” Mattie was referring to. She goes to a nearby phone store to get a new one. The clerk remembers selling “Leni” a phone before so the real Leni is able to use that to get a new one and transfer the old numbers so she can see who Gina was calling.

Outside, she runs into Deputy Paula. It looks like Gina made friends with her during her year in Mt. Echo. That’s interesting. Paula mentions that Floss has been looking into an old church fire that Gina and Leni were caught up in as teenagers. That can’t be good.

In the car, Leni starts getting texts from the new phone as she looks through the call log. Apparently Gina was dealing ketamine for cash. Leni obviously doesn’t know their “usual” spot so they come up with a new place to meet. Leni steals ketamine from the farm. Victor catches her. Leni tries to come up with some story, claiming a local vet needs it.

The problem is, Victor knows the vet Leni mentions closed down awhile back, so she’s obviously lying. He’s not pleased with her dishonesty but he doesn’t push. Victor also alleges that Leni is having an affair. “I know you’ve been gone from us long before you went missing.” It looks like Gina has made a serious mess of things in her time in Mt. Echo.

Before letting Leni leave, Victor tells Leni he wants her and her sister both in attendance at their birthday party the next day. They always go on extravagant vacations, “but this year brought the two of you right here.” Well, Leni is gonna have to figure something out to make sure she and “Gina” are both in attendance!

Leni brings the ketamine to a couple in a public bathroom and she finds out that their initial hook-up came from a “guy in a red truck.” The same guy Floss and Paula noticed lurking around the search party in the first episode.

We find out that the guy in the red truck is Dylan James (Jonathan Tucker), Gina’s boyfriend from when she was a teenager. Apparently they’ve been seeing each other again. So I guess that’s why everyone thinks “Leni” was having an affair. Gina was hooking up with Dylan in secret while pretending to be her sister.

Gina and Dylan had devised a plan of some kind and that’s why they needed to drum up some extra cash. It sounds like they might also have been involved in the whole stolen foal thing. But twist! Dylan knows about the switch and he knows Leni isn’t Gina-pretending-to-be-Leni.

Yes, it’s confusing. In short, while Gina was pretending to be Leni during the past year, she must have told Dylan the truth. And Leni doesn’t fool him, he can tell the twins apart.

Leni pleads with Dylan to tell her what’s going on because she’s trying to find Gina, too. They should work together in this now that they’re both looking for the same person. Leni tells Dylan that she knows they have a history, but he doesn’t really know Gina. Does he know she had a breakdown in college? The miscarriage? Leni thinks she’s running away from both of them, but Dylan begs to differ. “She ain’t running away from me. We had a plan. We have a plan.”

Before leaving, Leni steals a big wad of cash from Dylan and a fake passport Gina had doctored up. It looks like the two were planning on running away from Mt. Echo and this town for good.

At the Riverside, Leni leaves another online audio message for Gina. She’s pissed that Gina is hooking up with Dylan again.

“Do you remember what he did to us? He almost ruined our lives Gina and he would have if I hadn’t stopped him. Now he’s back to finish what he started and I won’t let him. I won’t let him ruin you, us, it’s not happening again. I’m going to find you Gina and I’m going to fix this.” What exactly happened with Dylan and the twins when they were teenagers and how does it relate to the church fire?

While Leni is in her room, Floss stops by to talk to Gina. We know that Leni is alone in the room, but she has to pretend to be both twins briefly, claiming Gina is about to get in the shower. Leni manages to convince Floss that Gina is in the shower and will talk to her later. So now Leni is forced to put her Gina disguise on again to touch base with Charlie and go see Floss.

Leni impersonates Gina to see Floss and answer her questions. Floss mainly wants to know about the money problems Leni and Jack were having. Leni-as-Gina claims they were always too proud to accept money from Gina and Charlie and says Gina never loaned her anything.

Back home, Leni and Claudia have a heart-to-heart. While Claudia is cold as ice toward Gina (or who she thought was Gina) she and Leni are much closer and she wants Leni to meet her new boyfriend. She also wants Leni to come to dinner so she and Victor aren’t alone with “Gina” again.

Obviously since the real Gina is still M.I.A., Leni has to pretend to be Gina again for dinner where her dad reveals that he has congestive heart failure and only a few more months to live. Knowing that, he’s desperate to have both of his daughters, together, for their big birthday celebration the following night. The whole town is invited. While helping her father with the dishes afterward, Leni has another flashback to someone drowning in the bathtub.

In bed that night, Jack confesses to what happened between him and “Gina” the night before. They both agree to try and fix their marriage. Yet again, Leni blames Gina for everything and the mess that has become of her and Jack’s marriage. She leaves in the middle of the night to try and find her once again. She drives to the old church that burnt down while leaving another audio diary for Gina. “You’ve done enough damage. Come home, Gina. Let’s make it right.”

Before she can log off, Leni starts getting a bunch of ominous messages from someone we can safely assume is Gina. She sends Leni a photo of a skeleton and cryptic texts that say, “You killed him. You lied to me. I know everything. Let me go.”

Written by Maddy Lennon