
He knows about the tunnel because he is the one who murdered Guy and dumped his body there. In Parts I and II, Tallulah Knox and Zach Allister are a 19-year-old couple with a 1-year-old baby, Noah. For Liam, this painting represents the way he has thrown away his ambitions, desires, and potential to be at Scarlett’s beck and call. The Night She Disappeared it told via three intertwined timelines, one beginning a year before the disappearance, one around the time of the disappearance and one a year after the disappearance. In another painting that hangs in Liam’s room, Scarlett depicts the most secret and evil part of Dark Place: the hidden tunnel that becomes the repository of the corpses of Guy Croft and Zach. In October, we're reading Lisa Jewell's The Night She Disappeared, a thriller about the disappearance of 19-year-old mother Tallulah who doesn't return home after a night out. Executed in shades of pink, green, and gray, with “shocking splashes and spots of red” (100), the painting features chaotic dissonance that suggests the complexity of her character: She is at once sweet and childlike, but also someone who has a very dark side. Traumatized by her earlier rape and Liam’s murder of the rapist, she is haunted by images of life on the verge of death-the bloody knife, the heart. This painting denotes many aspects of Scarlett’s troubled character.


In her self-portrait, Scarlett includes many symbolic objects: a gun, a still-beating heart, a knife with blood dripping from it, and phone chargers.
