Episode 4 of Tell Me Lies season 3, titled Fix Me Up, Girl, is yet another emotionally volatile hour but with its own flavour. Anchoring its drama around Diana's pregnancy revealed at the end of episode 3, the episode studies Stephen’s escalating cruelty, and the new, rather quiet but dangerous intimacy brewing somewhere else.

The through-line is unmistakable: Stephen’s influence poisons everything it touches, and Diana has it decoded.

The episode’s most pivotal storyline centres on Diana, who learns she is pregnant, with the implication strongly pointing to Stephen as the father. Rather than spiralling, Diana makes a swift, decisive choice: she schedules an abortion, keeping the information tightly guarded as she processes it on her own terms.

That privacy is short-lived. Diana confides in her friend Molly, who lets the news slip to Evan. Evan, in turn, tells Stephen, an act that immediately detonates the situation. Stephen’s reaction is not concerned but opportunistic, setting the stage for one of the episode’s most explosive confrontations.

Already emotionally unhinged, Stephen storms into Diana’s dorm room. He insists she keep the baby, framing it not as a responsibility but as an opportunity. He attempts to manipulate Diana by suggesting that having the child could repair her strained relationship with her father.

Diana, however, refuses to play along. In a moment of rare clarity and strength, she shuts Stephen down completely, telling him she is looking forward to aborting his baby before slamming the door in his face. It is perhaps one of the show’s most cathartic moments, redefining Diana not as collateral damage, but as someone actively choosing herself.

 Bree (Catherine Missal), meanwhile, teeters on the brink of psychological collapse. After claiming to have reported Oliver to the dean, Bree is confronted by him, only to be met with calculated dismissal. Oliver denies any wrongdoing and reframes Bree’s actions as insecurity, calling her needy and emotionally unstable.  

The exchange devastates Bree, echoing the emotional wounds left by her past with Evan. Oliver’s gaslighting is effective precisely because it weaponises Bree’s existing fears, leaving her doubting her own reality.

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The events reinforce how authoritative figures in Bree’s life continue to exploit her vulnerability under the guise of intellectual or emotional superiority, except for a certain someone elsewhere.

Wrigley finds Bree between the carcasses of the devastation. While stopping by their dorm room to pick Pippa up, he asks a disturbed Bree about what is troubling her and then offers something rare in this series: uncomplicated validation. Facing her question about whether she is a clingy and needy person, he reassures her that Evan—and even his late brother Drew—were deeply in love with her, reframing Bree not as disposable, but as desired.

Their bond deepens quietly but significantly, but not yet romantically, as Bree then goes to seemingly reconcile with Evan. The bonding, however, does culminate in an unexpectedly tender moment during the 2015 wedding timeline. At Bree’s wedding, Wrigley confesses to Pippa.

“I’m pretending you’re the one I’m still in love with,” he says, while watching Bree across the dance floor. The confession exposes the emotional truth Wrigley has been suppressing, and who his unresolved feelings truly are for.

While defeatedly watching Bree and Evan in the throes of a successful wedding day, Stephen, per usual, clocks the growing closeness between Bree and Wrigley immediately. Despite being taken aback, he retains enough attention and steals Wrigley’s phone, discovering a slew of calls between him and Bree.

Stephen absorbs the information, finally gaining the upper hand he had lost through Bree’s previous autonomy. This moment, however, signals a looming threat. Stephen does not act impulsively here—he calculates. The discovery adds another weapon to his arsenal, suggesting that Bree and Wrigley’s connection may soon become collateral damage in Stephen’s larger game of control.

In the 2009 timeline, Lucy is pressured by Caitie to publicly support allegations against Chris. Lucy refuses, unwilling to become the face of the accusation over Pippa’s trauma. Despite momentarily fading into the background, a Facebook group starring Lucy and Caitie as prime victims of Chris’s a------ pushed Lucy over the edge once again. In desperation, she confides in Diana about what she should do and reveals getting her confession recorded on tape by Stephen. Diana, in disbelief yet concerned, advises her to do nothing, for once.

Fix Me Up, Girl pushes Tell Me Lies into darker, more consequential territory that Carola Loverling has carved. Diana’s rejection of Stephen marks a rare victory against his manipulation, while Bree’s growing connection with Wrigley hints at an explosive place within her carefully constructed future.

Stephen’s quiet accumulation of leverage signals more calculated destruction ahead, and Lucy’s secrets loom over and start biting back more than ever. As the season moves forward, the episode makes one thing clear: the lies are no longer private—and the fallout will be impossible to contain.

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