Another Simple Favor, the sequel to A Simple Favor, came to another twisted ending. The movie stars Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, as they reprise their roles of complicated best friends, Emily Nelson and Stephanie Smothers, five years after the latter sent the former to prison for killing her sister and father and attempting to murder her. Of course, Emily mysteriously found new high-powered attorneys who cut her prison time in half. Emily wastes little time in getting back to her roots and finds Stephanie at a bookstore, where she is reading an excerpt from a book she wrote about their story. After her grand entrance, Emily tells Stephanie that she needs to be her maid of honor for her upcoming wedding in Capri, Italy, or she'll sue her for using her name in the book. Despite fearing that Emily is using the opportunity to get revenge, Stephanie takes the leap and flies to Capri for Emily's wedding to Dante Versano (Michele Morrone). Of course, nothing is ever as it seems, and Stephanie quickly learns that Emily's fiancé is part of an Italian mob, while Emily's aunt also appears out of nowhere. Throughout the film, several characters' lives are mysteriously taken, and people are wrongly framed. The truth is eventually revealed in a crazy plot twist. So, how does Another Simple Favor end? Here’s everything to know about who dies, who killed them and that wild twist. Warning: Another Simple Favor spoilers ahead! How does Another Simple Favor end? As the idyllic Italian wedding plays out, Stephanie begins to notice that something is off with Emily, whose birth name is Hope McLanden, and her family. The night before the wedding, Emily's future mother-in-law Portia Versano (Elena Sofia Ricci) surprises her by flying in her mom Margaret McLanden (Elizabeth Perkins) and her Aunt Linda McLanden (Allison Janney). Emily is not pleased with the surprise and lets her mother-in-law know it. Meanwhile, Stephanie is also suspicious and later learns that Aunt Linda is wanted by the FBI in connection with several mysterious deaths. The plot thickens after Emily and Dante get married in a picturesque ceremony over the cliffs of Capri. During the reception, Stephanie sees Dante get shot and killed by an unknown person and immediately runs to alert the rest of the wedding attendees. Stephanie's whereabouts prove suspicious to the other guests, and she is put under house arrest and believed to have murdered Dante — who also happens to be the leader of the Versano crime family. While she's locked in her room, Stephanie receives a visit from a grieving Emily who tells her that she believes Stephanie is responsible for her husband's death and wants to send her to prison. However, Stephanie notices that something is off with Emily and realizes that she isn't who she appears to be. Stephanie escapes house arrest and visits Emily's mom, Margaret, who tells her that she gave birth to triplets — Hope, Charity and Faith. Margaret's sister, Linda, delivered the girls and told her that Charity was stillborn. Margaret raised Hope (who later changed her name to Emily) and Faith. As fans saw in the first movie, Faith and Hope rebelliously set their house on fire to kill their abusive father and run away. In A Simple Favor, Faith returned to try to blackmail Emily, so Emily drowned her. Stephanie realizes that Charity — who was believed to have been dead — was actually alive at birth, and Aunt Linda stole her to raise her as her own. Aunt Linda treated Charity as a pawn in her past cons and used her for a final grand scheme in Italy by making her impersonate Emily. To make matters more convoluted, Charity developed an eerie obsession with both of her sisters and identifies the three of them as one person. Aunt Linda and Charity conspired to kidnap and drug Emily, so Charity could marry Dante, kill him and become the widowed wife to receive his fortune. Aunt Linda and Charity also threatened to expose Dante's secret — that he was only marrying Emily as a front, because he was in love with the competing Italian mob's leader. However, their plan starts to crumble when Emily escapes and she and Stephanie confront Aunt Linda and Charity near a cliff. Aunt Linda wants to kill both Stephanie and Emily so she and Charity can live with the Versano's money, but Charity refuses to kill Emily because of her obsession. She steals the gun from the woman who raised her, shoots her and pushes her off the cliff. With the three women remaining, Emily convinces her sister to pretend to be her and take accountability for all of the murders. The final scenes of the movie show Charity walking into the courthouse as Emily and getting convicted. Meanwhile, the real Emily flees the scene and goes into hiding as a new person. The film ends with her meeting up with her supposed mother-in-law, Portia, who asks her for "a simple favor." Who dies in Another Simple Favor? The list of victims in Another Simple Favor grew with each scene. The first person who dies is Sean Townsend (Henry Golding), Emily's ex-husband and father to her son. Townsend attends the wedding as their son Nicky Nelson's (Ian Ho) guardian and informs her that he'll be seeking sole custody. After the rehearsal dinner, Townsend — who has been heavily drinking — is showering in his room when a mysterious figure appears and injects his finger with a serum. He becomes unconscious and falls through the glass shower door just a few seconds later. Stephanie initially thinks that Emily killed him because of the custody dispute, but Charity later admits to killing him to help her sister. The next victim is Dante, the man who married Emily (who was actually Charity pretending to be Emily) just a few hours before his death. Aunt Linda later reveals that Charity killed Dante out of jealousy. During their trip to Italy, Stephanie notices that a brunette woman is following her and learns that she is an FBI agent (Taylor Ortega). After Stephanie escapes house arrest, she finds the agent, but her hope for a safehouse gets foiled when someone stabs the agent in the back. Charity also confesses to killing the woman as her third victim in Italy. Meanwhile, Emily's mom, Margaret, also pays for revealing the truth about Charity's birth to Stephanie. Aunt Linda visits her and smothers her to death with a pillow after Margaret admits to telling their family's secret. The murder spree comes to an end in one of the final scenes when Charity kills the woman who raised her, Aunt Linda. What happens to Emily Nelson? In a major plot twist, Emily asks Charity to take her identity for good. During their cliffside confrontation, she convinces Charity that the only way she can prove her love for her is to take her identity and confess to all the crimes she's committed. The movie ends with Charity acting as "Emily" as she walks up the courthouse steps before she's sent to prison for several life sentences. While the fake "Emily" is in prison, the original "Emily" is in hiding in Italy. She lets her son Nicky return to the United States with Stephanie raising him as her own. The movie ends on a cliffhanger when she's approached by her mother-in-law Portia, who assures her that they are "family" and will keep her secret — as long as Emily does "a simple favor" for her. What happens to Stephanie Smothers? Stephanie was initially at a crossroads at the beginning of the film. Her true crime podcast began taking an emotional toll on her, while her book about her first encounter with Emily also wasn't selling. However, after learning some of the McLanden family secrets, she jumps back into the true crime game and helps Emily solve the murders. Stephanie then uses her knowledge and first-hand experiences to write a second bestselling book about all the Italian murders — leaving out some key details, of course. She continues raising her son Miles Smothers (Joshua Satine) while also taking on raising Nicky as her own. At the end of the film, Emily calls Stephanie about the arrangement, and Stephanie assures him that she'll treat him how Emily would. What happens to Emily Nelson’s third sister, Charity? After waiting years to meet her fellow triplet, Charity becomes overwhelmed with love for Emily when she meets her and expresses that she wants to live life as "one" person. Charity's obsession with her sister later becomes her downfall, as she takes the blame for all of the murders and goes to prison. However, her dream of becoming "one" with Emily is completed, in a way, because she takes over Emily's identity before turning herself in. Will there be a third A Simple Favor movie? The ending of Another Simple Favor — when Portia asks Emily for her own "simple favor" — perfectly tees up the series for a third movie. A third movie in the A Simple Favor franchise has not been confirmed, but director Paul Feig previously teased that the ending was made to feel like there could be. “We definitely set it up so [that] the story can continue,” Feig told Decider in May 2025. “I always like to have that open door, if you will. Who knows? We’ll see how the movie does and all that.”