What Happened to Leni on Netflix’s ‘Echoes’?

Echoes is the creepy new drama collection from Netflix that has all people speaking.

The seven-part thriller sees True Detective star Michelle Monaghan play the 2 lead roles, equivalent twins Leni and Gina.

A earlier trailer for Echoes teased the storyline of the restricted collection; a pair of equivalent twins have been switching identities since they have been little ladies however every thing of their double lives is thrown into chaos when one of many sisters, Leni, goes lacking.

So what precisely did occur to Leni? Did she go lacking? Or did she run away? Is she nonetheless alive?

Newsweek has every thing you want to find out about Leni’s disappearance and what occurred to her on Netflix collection Echoes.

Warning: The following story accommodates main spoilers for Episodes 1-6 of Echoes on Netflix.

What occurred to Leni on Netflix’s Echoes?

At the start of the collection we’re launched to Gina McCleary, a profitable writer who lives in Los Angeles together with her husband Charlie Davenport (performed by Daniel Sunjata). She is pressured to journey to her hometown of Mount Echo when the husband of her equivalent twin sister, Leni, telephones to inform her Leni is lacking.

Leni and her husband Jack Beck (Matt Bomer) lead a really totally different life to Gina and Charlie, working a farm and elevating their daughter Mattie. When Gina arrives in Mount Echo she reunites with father Victor (Michael O’Neill) and older sister Claudia (Ali Stroker) and it shortly turns into clear that Gina is considered the “naughty” twin who left house way back and stayed away.

We later discover out that Claudia was by accident pushed by Gina after they have been kids, resulting in her needing a wheelchair.

Gina begins to get rattled when she finds an previous doll in her dad’s home that has the pinnacle eliminated and he or she later goes to an previous cave the place she and Leni used to cover. There, she finds one in every of Leni’s outfits laid out for her with the lacking doll head on high. There can also be a duplicate of one in every of her books there, with notes scribbled on it saying “You get both lives” and “Choose.”

It turns into apparent that Leni will not be truly lacking in any respect and has in actual fact ran away, leaving Gina to select up the items. Gina then places on Leni’s outfit, injures herself with a rock and makes her means house, pretending to be a chilly and confused Leni. She fabricates a narrative that she was kidnapped by a gaggle of males who have been making an attempt to steal a foal from the farm.

What Happens in Echoes After Gina Realizes Leni Has Run Away?

After realizing that Leni is alive and effectively, Gina is then pressured to play each sisters, switching between the 2 as she works her means across the city, making an attempt to work out what Leni is as much as.

Things begin to get further complicated when it’s revealed that the Gina viewers met at the beginning of the collection was truly Leni all alongside. Turns out, the sisters have switched lives yearly on their birthday. Leni would spend a 12 months as herself in Mount Echo and Gina would stay in L.A. for a 12 months, then they’d swap till the following birthday.

Later, we discover out that this association was arrange after Mattie’s delivery in order that Gina might secretly stay in Mount Echo with Jack and Mattie as Leni for a 12 months, whereas Leni, who was affected by post-natal melancholy and nearly let Mattie drown, might recuperate in L.A.

Back within the current, why would Gina (dwelling as Leni) run away? Well, we discover out that whereas Leni was pregnant with Mattie, Gina was pregnant, too, however she sadly misplaced the newborn. Years later, whereas dwelling as Gina, who’s an writer, Leni pitched a ebook about her miscarriage. When Gina discovered that Leni was making an attempt to become profitable off of her tragedy she was livid and tried to distance herself from her sister – which didn’t go down effectively with Leni.

Gina additionally found that her husband Charlie, a therapist, truly knew that her and Leni have been switching all this time. Feeling betrayed, and with Leni making an attempt to maintain her nearer than ever, Gina spends the following 12 months in Mount Echo, as Leni, and strikes up an affair together with her previous highschool boyfriend Dylan. She tells Dylan that she is admittedly Gina and the pair make a plan to run away collectively. Hence, why “Leni” has disappeared.

We do not need to spoil all of the storylines however let’s simply say that much more drama ensues and all through the episodes followers are by no means actually positive which sister, if any, to root for. There are additionally a number of disturbing flashbacks all through the season, together with a church on hearth and what seems to be somebody drowning in a bath, hinting that there’s much more to the story than what we expect.

While viewers are not sure which sister’s facet they’re on, the native police drive are equally suspicious of the twins and Schitt’s Creek star Karen Robinson actually shines as Sheriff Floss, who will not be shopping for the sisters’ tales because the drama unravels.

All seven episodes of Echoes can be found to stream on Netflix now.