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It's Ella's birthday! How do you want to celebrate? I know! Let's get her implicated in Sydney's murder case! Glad we could agree on that. I was just going to get her a gift card. It seems Jane's anonymous tip to Detective Rodriguez last episode was taken seriously and Ella is greeted at WPK by the authorities who want to take her in for questioning. During interrogation, Rodriguez pulls out a photograph which places Ella outside of Coal at 1 AM with a private investigator named Dante Zaretti. It's in direct contradiction to her alibi, which placed her at home with David at Midnight. Ella asks for a release or to be charged. They let her go even though in the real world when you get caught in a lie to the police, they charge you for it. Once out of the interrogation, Ella tries to get in contact with Zaretti to get their stories straight and adjusts her alibi with David.
Flashbacks reveal things got really ugly between Ella and Sydney toward the end, with Ella dumping Sydney as a client and Sydney maxing out Ella's credit card. Ella had hired Zaretti to break into Sydney's apartment the night of her death to get any evidence he could so Ella could take it to police and get Sydney arrested for harassment. At her birthday party, Ella is confronted by Zaretti. They threaten each other because they both look equally guilty in this, but Zaretti gets to police first and tells a half-truth that places Ella at Sydney's before he showed up to break in. Detective Rodriguez is just waiting for Ella to slip up. This is why I hate birthdays.
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