Dead to Me season 3 recap guide: All 10 episodes explained

Dead to Me season 3, episode 10 recap: We’ve Reached the End

Well, we’ve reached the end, a fitting episode title for the final episode of Dead to Me. Jen and Judy are headed to Mexico but on the way there they come face-to-face with the Greeks. They stop on the side of the road to pee and Stavros and his buddy confront them, demanding the money that Steve stole.

Judy pretends that she needs her cancer medicine so she returns the car and pulls a gun out of the glove department, using it to threaten the Greeks and allow her and Jen to escape. After that, Jen and Judy finally make it to Steve’s old vacation home and find a cat inside that Judy immediately befriends.

They spend several blissful days enjoying their vacation in a way that is eerily similar to the dream Jen had at the very beginning of the season. Judy eventually forces Jen to go out on a boat with her, but when they open the garage they find the old mustang that hit Ted! Both of them are shocked to see it there since they took it apart, but Judy supposes that Steve must have put it back together. She recalls finding a random key in one of Steve’s paintings and realizes it must be to the car.

Jen is obviously a little shaken up seeing the vehicle that killed her husband. At least she no longer has to go out on the boat! Judy lets her just sit on the shore inside the boat and talks about how when she was a kid, her mom had a boyfriend who would take her on the water and she always loved it out there and felt truly free. She also wonders if that boyfriend or “uncle” as she referred to him at the time, might have been her biological father.

They also talk about just staying in Mexico for now. They can bring the kids and Jen can do real estate from anywhere. But then they notice that Jen is bleeding and they rush her to a hospital. Thankfully, there is nothing seriously wrong with her and actually, the baby is very healthy. And it’s a girl! Jen gets emotional at this and is thrilled to be having a daughter.

That night, Jen and Judy go to a taqueria and enjoy a beautiful dinner outside. Judy feels the baby kicking and Ben calls again from jail. Jen finally tells him that she’s pregnant and he’s thrilled. When they get back to the house that night, Jen realizes how much pain Judy is in. She’s been trying to hide it but it’s clear she’s getting increasingly sick. Judy tells Jen that she’s not going back to Laguna with her. Jen says she’ll come to visit her.

But the next morning, Judy is gone and she’s left a message and her bracelet behind for Jen. Jen races downstairs and notices the cat, Sammy, scratching at the door. As she steps outside and sees the boat on the water, Jen knows that Judy is gone.

The next time we see her, Jen is driving home in Steve’s mustang with Sammy in the backseat. Jen sees a vision of Judy beside her, who tells her she’s happy that the car is Jen’s now.

Jen makes it back home in time for Henry’s concert. They’ve strung up all of Judy’s paper cranes above. Jen gets emotional as she sits in the pew with Charlie and then Ben shows up! He got out early on good behavior and he comforts Jen as she tells him that Judy died.

There is a little bit of a time jump ahead, during which Jen has her baby, a little girl named Joey. She takes her to the grief support group and some of them comment on the name “Joey” wondering why Jen didn’t name her Judy. In typical Jen fashion, she says this isn’t a Hallmark movie! “No, I named her Joey because what if one day she’s gender-fluid?”

The series ends with a happy scene of Jen and Ben hanging out by the pool while Charlie and Henry are swimming. And finally, Jen turns to Ben and says,  “Ben, I have to tell you something.” It looks like Jen is finally ready to tell the truth about Steve! But the episode ends before we can see what happens next.