*Warning: This article contains full spoilers for Lady in the Lake episode 7.* What a wild ride we've been on throughout the seven episodes that make up Lady in the Lake , right? We can't quite talk about the final episode without referencing the penultimate sixth one, which ended on quite the cliffhanger as Maddie (Natalie Portman) was visited in hospital by a supposed nurse. Actually, she turned out to be none other than Cleo (Moses Ingram).
Was it a hallucination like she'd been having throughout the episode? Or is Cleo actually alive? Well, the finale seeks to answer all those burning questions and more as the series unpicks what really happened to Cleo, who was assumed missing and then was later found dead. Read on for a full breakdown of the finale of Apple TV+ 's Lady in the Lake. Lady in the Lake ending explained: What happened to Cleo? So, rather than pick right back up from that hazy hospital room where Natalie was visited by Cleo, the finale starts off with a flashback to Cleo's younger years as she took to the clubs with best friend Dora (Jennifer Mogbock).
Despite their age, the pair manage to get into the Pharoah club and enjoy much of the night. That is, until they're accosted by security, who bring the duo into a back room with Shell (Wood Harris). Annoyed at how many people have been snuck into his club and not paid an entry fee, Cleo quickly uses her mental maths to calculate just how many girls the colleagues have been letting in for free.
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