What happened between Jonathan and Sasha and why did she really leave?

of the apple Disclaimer Episode 6 hints at what may have really happened between Jonathan and Sasha in Italy, which could completely flip the script on Stephen’s revenge plan against Catherine. The first four episodes of Disclaimer mainly narrated what was published in The perfect stranger romancewhich was written by Jonathan’s mother, Nancy, and published under the pseudonym Stephen. This was the seed planted in an elaborate attempt to ruin Catherine’s life for allegedly causing Jonathan’s death by drowning.

Disclaimer Episode 5 was the first episode of the 7-part miniseries to suggest that Nancy’s view of events, which are considered fact by Catherine’s co-workers and husband Robert, were intentionally distorted to paint Catherine in a crooked and potentially dangerous light. criminal. At the end of Disclaimer episode 6, the penultimate episode of Apple’s limited series based on the book of the same name by Renée Knight, Catherine forces a face-to-face confrontation with Stephen to finally share her side of the tragic story.

Did Jonathan attack Sasha?

Sasha didn’t leave Jonathan because of a death in the family

Disclaimer episode 6 suggests that something else happened to Sasha in Italy that caused her to leave Jonathan. The scene with Nancy receiving a phone call from Sasha’s mother turns the previous Jonathan and Sasha scenes upside down, revealing that Sasha did not leave Jonathan because of a death in the family. Sasha’s mother is clearly furious and upset on the phone, as if she heard a horrible truth about Jonathan that is too painful to believe.

Catherine also offers brief glimpses of how she remembers meeting Jonathan in Italy, who she described as being much more forward and potentially predatory towards her in a ruthless way. There’s enough talk throughout Catherine’s episode about Jonathan’s creepy behavior to support the theory that Jonathan may have sexually assaulted Sasha before meeting Catherine. The story apparently suggests that this is what happened to Sasha, or at least that Jonathan was being aggressive towards her and pressuring her to have sex. This could also explain how Jonathan got the cut on his arm that Stephen noticed when examining his corpse.

Did the truth about Sasha partially inspire Nancy to write The Perfect Stranger?

Nancy Could Be Covering Up the Disturbing Truth About Her Son

It is interesting to question why Nancy wrote The perfect stranger. At first glance, it’s an attempt to deal with her grief and get her son back, even if it’s a hyperbolized version of events that never existed. Given the new information about Jonathan and Sasha, it makes more sense that Nancy also wrote the book to process and perhaps rewrite the disturbing news about her son.effectively burying him and making Catherine the clear villain, while Jonathan remains a pure victim. Photographs of Catherine taken by Jonathan suggest that she consented. However, his full account of events in the Disclaimer finale should clear the air forever.