Netflix Echoes recap guide: All 7 episodes explained

Netflix Echoes episode 3 recap: Party

Well, after the shocking ending of Echoes episode 2, Echoes episode 3 starts to get us on an easier-to-follow path. As you can see from the above photo, the real Gina finally re-enters the picture and we begin to see the season’s mystery take firmer shape. It’s also much easier to write about who’s who when both twins are around again and they’re not impersonating each other… at least not as much.

The third episode begins with Leni venting about the fact Gina told Dylan the truth. She doesn’t understand why Gina would go back to him when all he ever did was try to break them up. A flashback to them as teenagers shows the twins fighting over a diary entry where Gina once wrote that she wished she wasn’t a twin. Yet again we see a flashback to the bathtub as Leni goes to bathe.

Returning to the past, it becomes clear that Leni and Jack are growing closer and Gina feels like she’s on the outskirts. Leni agrees that they can keep secrets from each other by writing them down in the book, but they can’t keep the book hidden from the other one. So basically they can write secrets inside it but the other twin can still read it anytime.

Things are tense the next morning. Leni promises Mattie that she won’t be leaving again for a long time after sorting things out with Gina and again, Victor reiterates his desire to see both of his girls together at the birthday party planned for the evening. Natasha is there to babysit Mattie since it’s Thursday, and Gina-as-Leni usually had Thursday plans.

Those plans appear to be a standing breakfast meeting with Deputy Paula who informs Leni that Floss wants to question Dylan regarding the old church fire. That photo Gina sent Leni in the previous episode appears to be the body of someone who died in that fire and Floss thinks what’s going on now is connected to the fire.

Leni disguises herself as Gina again to meet up with Meg. It turns out that Gina, while impersonating Leni, was blackmailing Meg because Meg knew about Gina-as-Leni and Dylan. Dylan and Meg are cousins and Meg was trying to look out for him. Well, Gina couldn’t have Meg blabbing so she threatened her to keep her quiet.

Dressed as herself again, Leni visits Dylan’s grandma Georgia (Celia Weston) to see if she can help her find Dylan. On her way out, Leni gets a call from the United National Bank in Los Angeles, who think she’s Gina. Apparently Gina is wiring $60,000 from LA to Mount Echo for pick-up that afternoon. Leni tells him to keep the delivery for 2:30 p.m.

But before she can make it there, she gets held up by Claudia asking her to pick up the birthday cake from the bakery and of course she runs into Floss there who wants to talk to Leni and Jack about the “horse thieves.”

Floss knows that the foal was stolen and that Jack and Leni aren’t known for being criminals. She’s got more questions but Leni manages to brush her off for now. Leni makes it to the bank just in time to see Dylan and Gina leaving. It’s the first time Leni has set eyes on Gina yet and she tries to catch up to her but they run. Gina makes a cutting motion on the side of her jaw when she sees Leni. What the heck does that mean?

Apparently Gina could not withdraw the money from the bank, but Leni can since she stole Gina’s stuff when she was at Dylan’s. All she has to is make herself look like Gina again and Leni is able to take the $60,000 cashier’s check that Gina and Dylan were after but couldn’t get because Gina didn’t have an up-to-date ID card.

Remember, Leni was pretending to be Gina for the past year so her ID is obviously the most accurate one. The banker couldn’t give it to the real Gina because her ID was over a year out of date and the most they can fudge is by a month or so. Leni just has to pretend she found her “new” one.

Flashing back to when they were teenagers, a young Gina finds Jack’s pocketknife in Leni’s bed and realizes they’ve been sleeping together. “I thought we were the same. Are we the same when you’re with him?” Gina uses Jack’s knife to slice her jawline. Later that night, Leni promises to make things right. “Two as one. Always.” She takes a razor and cuts herself in the same place on her jawline. I guess that’s what Gina was referring to when she made that motion in town. Two as one.

The flashbacks throughout Echoes episode 3 also show us the beginnings of Gina and Dylan, who she seemed to seek out when Leni got closer to Jack.

Back home, Leni finds Dylan waiting for her and the two have a terse confrontation in the driveway. He’s pissed that Leni took the money and passports and threatens to tell Jack about the switching and everything else. Leni counters by saying she could turn him into Floss for being involved in letting the horses loose and whatever else was going on with the stolen foal. She proposes he bring Gina back to her and all of this will go away. Jack watches all of this happen from the upstairs bedroom and assumes the worst about them.

Back to the past again and after the whole jawline-cutting insanity, Leni tells Gina, “what’s mine is yours,” a.k.a. Jack. They switch clothes and Gina goes to sleep with Jack. Man this is one twisted family.

Leni goes looking for anything incriminating in the stable office that could get them in trouble for stealing horses and with Floss. If you’re still confused about the horse-stealing, here’s the deal: Jack and Leni are having serious money problems, to the point where they would need to sell property or the farm could go under.

Jack agreed to board a stolen foal for two shady guys named Towers and Payne. Well, that foal got killed in the incident involving Gina and whatever she and Dylan cooked up. So now Leni and Jack owe the actual horse thieves money, but more on that later.

The real Leni didn’t know anything about the stolen horse since she was in LA pretending to be Gina, but Gina-as-Leni definitely knew even if Jack didn’t outright tell her, she knew. But beyond that, Jack is convinced that Leni is having an affair with Dylan. Technically, he’s right since Gina-as-Leni was having an affair with Dylan (Gina is still married to Charlie, after all), it just wasn’t the real Leni. Yeah, my head’s spinning.

While arguing with Jack, Gina calls Leni to toy with her. She’s in her room at Riverside. Leni goes there immediately and finds that Gina has left her a present on the bed. It’s their old diary where they kept their secrets from each other (albeit they shared the book so if you pause to read you’ll see them arguing back and forth in written word). Then she follows up by sending Leni a photo of her with their dad. “Catching up with dad. Maybe I should tell him everything?”

Leni goes straight for Gina at the party, but gets stopped by Jack and Floss. Floss has noticed two mysterious fellows hanging out at the party—Towers and Payne. Them being there can’t be a good sign. Charlie is also in town for the party and he tells Jack that he and Gina are happy to help them with money. It sounds like Gina might have contacted Charlie and he was the one to orchestrate the wire from LA to Mt. Echo. Jack had no clue.

He confronts Leni loudly, and publicly, at the party, asking her about where the $60k came from and if she “gave it to her boyfriend.” Leni swears nothing is happening between her and Dylan. Jack doesn’t believe her. Shortly after that, Meg also confronts Leni, telling her she won’t be threatened anymore. Meg comes out as gay with her new girlfriend in attendance at the party. That’s what Gina-as-Leni was threatening to reveal. Floss watches all of this happen.

Gina and Leni finally get into a confrontation at the party. Gina has backed up their back-and-forth online diary and threatens to send it to everyone if Leni doesn’t give her back the money and passports. Essentially, Gina is willing to destroy their family and break a lot of hearts if Leni doesn’t do what she wants. The only thing Leni knows that Gina doesn’t is that their dad is dying, which she does tell her.

Then it’s time for cake and it’s a very tense affair for basically everyone. Victor warns Leni that dishonesty will catch up her with her and Claudia stops Leni to introduce her to a new boyfriend, Beau. Amid the hold-up, Gina somehow makes off into the night…with Mattie.

Written by Maddy Lennon