We knew Stephanie would find herself in some sort of trouble thanks to Emily in Another Simple Favor. However, it turned out that it wasn’t quite Emily who was the problem.
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS from Another Simple Favor.
Another Simple Favor opened up with Stephanie doing a vlog post, sharing that she didn’t kill Emily’s husband. However, sheison house arrest in Capri, and that means we needed to find out what had happened up to this point.
It didn’t take too long to get into the details. While doing a book reading, Emily turned up despite supposedly being in prison. Well, it turns out that she got conditional release so that she could get married, and she wants Stephanie to be her maid of honor.
Who ends up murdered in Another Simple Favor?
There are a few key players from the first movie back in the story. One of those is Shaun, Emily’s ex-husband, who is there because Nicky is at the wedding. He quickly makes it clear that he is going to fight for full custody of their son, so it’s not that surprising to find out that someone kills him, injecting him with a non-coagulant drug so he ends up bleeding out.
The police decided not to investigate that death. After all, Emily was marrying into the Italian mob, so the police wouldn’t want to look into that murder. The investigation happened after Dante, Emily’s new husband, was killed. Dante was shot and then ended up falling back into a shed filled with fireworks, which went off due to the gunshots.
Stephanie saw the whole thing, and naturally, she was blamed for the murder. Only as Emily came into the room, it was clear that something was off. This wasn’t the same Emily, and it didn’t take Stephanie long to figure out what had happened.
There was a third sister in A Simple Favor
If we go back to the first movie, we were told that there were three sisters, Hope, Faith, and Charity. However, Charity died at birth. At least, that’s the story that everyone was told. That wasn’t the case, though. She was taken by Linda, Hope and Faith’s aunt, and raised alone. With all that isolation, she came out a little cuckoo, and that’s what tips Stephanie off that something is going on.
While the FBI is trying to work on getting Stephanie out of Capri, it’s not surprising that the agent is killed. She was a bumbling fool, as Stephanie said. The mafia family took Stephanie and drugged her with a truth serum to make her confess to the murder of Dante. Well, she didn’t do it, so she couldn’t confess to that.
Just as it looked like Stephanie was going to be killed by the mafia goons, the lights went out and Emily came in to save the day. With that, we learned that Stephanie’s instincts were right. Linda was the one up to it all, and Charity wanted her sister back in her life. That led to a showdown, which had Linda explaining the entire plan.
Linda wanted to become the head to the mob family, and she could do that with Emily marrying Dante. Of course, she needed Charity, who she could control better, so she switched out the triplets without Dante’s mom finding out. With Emily’s new personality, the two ended up getting along, and there was a chance of success for Linda. She just needed to kill Stephanie and Emily to make it work.
Charity did not want to lose another sister, so she shot Linda and was then going to kill Stephanie. However, Emily made it clear that that couldn’t happen. Charity now had to pay for what she did.
Stephanie was off the hook, coming back to the U.S. with Nicky in tow. She’ll raise him, while she also successfully sells a sequel to her first book. Her own son finally realizes that maybe his mom isn’t as sad as she initially seemed.
What happened to Emily in Another Simple Favor?
The end of the movie gets us back to Capri, where Emily meets with her mother-in-law. While her mother-in-law wants her dead, she has come to respect her. After all, it turned out that Dante was gay and in love with the rival mob boss, and that would have brought shame and complications. Emily marrying Dante was a way to cover for that, and Dante’s mom respected that.
However, Dante’s mom also has high expectations of family. She ends the movie passing a letter to Emily and asking for “a simple favor.” We don’t get to know what it is, but it looks like a third movie in the A Simple Favor franchise is possible.
Another Simple Favor is now available to stream on Prime Video.
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