When No One Is Watching

Theo comforts Sydney as she cries over her mother. Sydney worries that the construction crew will find her mother’s remains. Drea helped her bury the body, but between Drea’s disappearance and the check that she found, Sydney is uncertain what to do. Theo helps Sydney sleep, and she feels relief for the first time. The next morning, Theo returns to Sydney’s house, his hands dirty from digging. He tried to exhume Sydney’s mother’s body but couldn’t find it. Sydney is shocked by the body missing and Theo’s attempt to help her. She brings him to her bedroom, and they have passionate sex.

Theo tries to forget the memory of his first dead body, heightened by his night digging for Sydney’s mother. Sydney remembers the man who pretended to be from Con Ed and tells Theo about her Uber driver. She considers young Preston’s arrest, Drea’s disappearance, and the bed bugs in Drea’s bed, wondering if someone is purposefully trying to mess with the neighborhood.

A moving truck pulls up next door. A white couple, college student Melissa’s parents, greet Theo and Sydney. They say they’ve bought Mr. Perkins’s house and are moving in. When Sydney challenges the plausibility of Mr.