The Girlfriend Ending Shocks Fans With Its Final Twist—Who Dies at the End?

If you just finished The Girlfriend on Prime Video and you are wondering who the show actually kills off at the end, you are not alone. It is a slick little thriller about a mother and her son’s new girlfriend locked in a quiet war, and it keeps both women in that murky, no-one’s-totally-innocent space. Then the finale drops a death that is both messy and darkly ironic.

So, who dies?

Laura. Daniel’s mother.

How it spirals into the finale

After months of friction and some truly wild moves from Laura to split up Daniel and Cherry, the last episode lights the fuse. Laura actually drugs her own son (yes, really) to force him to sit and listen to a secret recording she got from Cherry’s mother, a clip she thinks will make Daniel turn on Cherry.

While Daniel is zonked, Laura and Cherry blow up at each other. It spills outside, into the pool. Laura gets the upper hand and is moments from drowning Cherry when Daniel wades in to pull Cherry free. But he’s still under the influence, and in that fog he shoves Laura under the water for too long. She doesn’t come back up.

So Laura dies, and technically it is at her son’s hands. It’s impulsive, not premeditated, and the show plays it as the tragic endpoint of all that paranoia and control.

The time jump and the last sting

Cut to a time jump: Cherry is pregnant with Daniel’s baby, and on the surface they look settled and happy. Then Daniel finds Laura’s phone. He hits play on the recording from Cherry’s mother — the same one Laura was so desperate for him to hear — and this is what it says:

'Tell your son, don’t be fooled by the good times. Sooner or later, she’ll want something from you that you’re not prepared to give, and then... she’ll find a way to get rid of you.'

It is a neat, nasty little twist: even after Laura’s gone, her warning shot lingers in the room, and the show leaves you wondering if she was dead wrong, dead right, or both.