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[This article contains major spoilers from the series finale of Imperfect Women .]

The whodunnit at the center of Imperfect Women — since Kate Mara ’s Nancy was murdered in episode one — has finally been answered in the thriller’s series finale.

And Mary ( Elisabeth Moss ) was right.

Howard (Corey Stoll), the stay-at-home mom’s gaslighting husband whose once-distant relationship with Nancy turned inappropriately personal when the two began working together on a theater production, killed Nancy hours after she met up with Mary and Eleanor ( Kerry Washington ) for drinks in the series premiere , and told the latter friend she’d break things off with her then-unknown lover later that night.

That plan doesn’t pan out quite as easily as Nancy expected, however. Instead of a mutual parting of ways, Howard professes his love for Nancy and proposes that the two be together.…