ShowtimeEverything you think you knew was true on The Affair? Every theory you've come up with? Forget about it.
Of course, that's just the nature of the show, with its four point of views and four storytellers. Details, big and small, change. Memories are adjusted. Secrets are kept...even from the audience. And in tonight's episode, one of the Showtime drama's biggest mysteries was finally answered as the father of Alison's (Ruth Wilson) baby was finally revealed.
No, it wasn't her current husband Noah (Dominic West) OR her ex-husband Cole (Joshua Jackson). It was Scotty Lockhart (Colin Donnell), Cole's troublemaker brother whose murder is the show's central mystery. Or wait, is he?!
We never even saw Alison and Scotty hook up, right?! Well, that's because Alison never told us. While the audience assumed it was either Noah or Cole who was the father after it was revealed that Alison and Cole slept together, a key witness from the night of Scotty's death dropped the bombshell: Oscar (Darren Goldstein), the Lockhart brothers' longtime enemy (who also has a history with Alison).
After being paid $100,000 by Helen (Maura Tierney) for providing surveillance footage of Scotty and Alison having a heated discussion on the night he died, Oscar went one stop further revealing (with glee) exactly what the duo was arguing over. "That's our baby," Oscar tells Noah's lawyer he overheard Scotty saying to Alison.
So when did Scotty and Alison have their tryst? Well, it had to be in the six weeks she didn't see Noah. Regardless, the huge revelation is just another reason someone could've killed Scotty. Was it Noah, after he found out his daughter actually isn't his? Or maybe Cole, enraged that his brother slept with his ex-wife, killed him? Then again, Alison could've been trying to prevent Scotty from telling anyone the truth. And we can't rule out Whitney (Goldani Telles), Noah's teenage daughter who was in love with Scotty (and aborted their child in season one).
Of course, that is if Oscar is even telling the truth. And if he is, did Scotty just mean that the baby is actually the Lockharts, as we found out that the family believes they are cursed when it comes to children, after Scotty and Cole's mother revealed their grandfather murdered a baby in Oscar's family back in the day?
Have we mentioned how much we love this show?
Who do you think is the father of Alison's baby: Noah, Cole or Scotty? Sound off in the comments!
The Affair airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on Showtime.