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Palm Springs, day two: Meredith's trust exercises dress Lisa in sabotage, two dinner games format the cruelty, and the hostess ejects the crasher — then leaves her own dinner.
Meredith's Palm Springs guest list leaves Angie off a 'team-building' trip, Whitney smuggles her in as a plus-one, Monica pays for her seat with a confession, and Lisa loses a $60,000 ring in an airport restroom.
A rebuilt cast opens with its own ending — a Bermuda flash-forward — then rewinds: Jack Barlow's secret mission, Mary Cosby's return, and a new Housewife whose résumé includes testifying against the woman she replaced.
Part two closes the season around an empty seat: Heather admits she always held Jen to a lower standard than Whitney, the couch holds a seminar on why Jen pleaded guilty, and Sharrieff's chair stays empty and unremarked.
Four women take the couch and the fifth runs the room from a speakerphone: Jen Shah's absence frames the reunion, Meredith phones her mid-taping, and Heather's black eye gets its fullest non-answer yet.
The finale jumps from Heather's book-cover party to plea week in New York: innocence maintained in a hotel room, and a closing card carrying a sentence — 78 months — nobody on screen had heard.
Heather admits she remembers how she got the black eye — and that Whitney is no longer among those who know — while Meredith's fundraiser scolding runs under an on-screen 'I'm not mad' counter.
Heather won't explain her black eye, Meredith's SEC talk about Lisa surfaces, and an evil-eye patch at the Greek goddess dinner says what nobody else will.
A lunch intervention becomes a disclosure — Jen tells Lisa and Heather about the day she tried to end her life — and the night ends with a knock at 4:50 a.m. and a black eye by morning.
A crudité tray and a pair of $1,500 shoes go overboard, Danna reads the dinner table its rights, and Jen's loyalty ultimatum costs her Heather by nightfall.
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