This Spoiler Discussion for One Perfect Couple includes include a character list, a full summary of One Perfect Couple and the One Perfect Couple Ending Explained!
Spoiler Discussion for One Perfect Couple
- Character List and Villa Assignments in One Perfect Couple
- Full Plot Summary with Spoilers for One Perfect Couple
- One Perfect Couple: Ending Explained
- My Questions About One Perfect Couple
Characters and Villa Assignments in One Perfect Couple
Lyla and Nico (Palm Tree Rest)
- Lyla: a postdoc virologist
- Nico: an aspiring actor
Angel and Bayer (Ocean Bluff)
- Bayer: a bodybuilder/ fitness instructor
- Angel: French influencer who looks like a silver haired Zoe Kravitz
Zara and Conor
- Conor: NFT trader, politics YouTuber with 10 million subscribers
- Zara: model with a delicate, gamine appearance
Romi and Joel
- Romi: bubbly blond beauty influencer
- Joel: a lecturer in journalism
Santana and Dan
- Santana: champagne socialite (looks like a redheaded Adele)
- Dan: surfer dude/ swimsuit model (looks like a boy bander)
Ever After/ Water Villa
- First Joel and Lyla
- Then Conor and Zana
Minor Characters
- Professor Bianchi: Lyla’s boss
- Basil “Baz” Ferrier: Australian producer of One Perfect Couple
- Camille: production assistant
- Calista “Cally:” Baz’s niece, Conor’s ex who took her own life
Plot Summary for One Perfect Couple
- The Reality Show: One Perfect Couple: who’ll get their happy ever after?
- The Location: Ever After Island, in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia
Part One: The Calm
- Nico, an aspiring actor, convinces his girlfriend Lyla, a virologist, to agree to appear on The Perfect Couple, a new reality show with five couples on a deserted island over 10 weeks.
- Lyla and Nico fly to Jakarta and then board the yacht Over Easy, where they meet the other couples. Lyla overhears a crew member warning about an approaching storm.
- Dan tells Lyla that Conor dated Baz’s niece. Dan also mentions that he’s not in a relationship with Santana. He’s gay and has a boyfriend.
- Lyla is upset about how unfinished the island is and that there’s no staff or engineer on site. She also notices Santana is a type two diabetic.
- Camille asks the couples to fill out a questionnaire about their partner. The group gathers to guess the answers their partners gave. Lyla gets the highest score guessing Nico’s answers but Nico gets the lowest score guessing hers and is eliminated. He angrily accuses Lyla of sabotaging him.
- Camille announces that as the winner, Lyla will be spending the night in the Ever After villa with the person she’s most compatible with: Joel
Part Two: The Storm
Zana’s journal:
It’s been two weeks on the island. Water is running low and there’s no help in sight.
- After the crew leaves in the yacht with Nico, the storm blows in. The power goes out in the middle of the night and Lyla goes outside to explore. She finds a shack with filming equipment and another with a radio which she uses to try to contact the Over Easy.
- The next morning, Joel goes to check on Romi, while Dan tells Lyla that Santana is badly hurt.
- Joel’s villa is completely destroyed and Romi is dead. Santana has a bad leg injury. Lyla goes to hunt for first aid supplies. She tries to radio for help and finds a producer dead.
- The group discusses the damage and reluctantly agrees to bury the bodies. They decide to send regular maydays on the radio. They discuss the fact that they only have a couple weeks’ worth of food and water.
Zana’s journal:
Zara and Conor have offered Bayer and Angel their villa because Bayer hurt his shoulder.
- Conor rebuilds the jetty so he and Zana can move to the water villa. Bayer and Conor fight over the water allotment.
- Angel wakes up Lyla to tell her all the food and water is missing. Conor says he took it to the water villa to protect it from rats. He and Bayer start physically fighting and Bayer is killed. The group buries him. Santana reveals to Lyla that she only has a limited amount of insulin.
Zana’s journal:
She explains Bayer’s death: He “wasn’t looking well” and then fell and hit his head.
- Lyla is shocked when Joel defends Conor.Dan tries to confront Conor about his control over the food and water and is upset when the rest of the group doesn’t back him up.
Zana’s journal
Dan was the villain in the food dispute.
- As Angel, Santana and Lyla work on a bonfire to signal their location, Santana tells Lyla that Conor’s ex, Cally, took her own life. She was nineteen when she died. Santana thinks Zana is his new victim.
- Santana is horrified as her insulin is missing. Dan goes to confront Conor about it but doesn’t return. Angel points out that Conor he was in their sight the whole day.
Zana’s journal:
Dan is back and everyone made up.
- Spirits and food are low, Dan is still missing, and the radio batteries are dead. Conor calls the group to the beach where they see Dan’s body washed up on shore.
- Lyla tells Joel that she found Santana’s insulin clutched in Dan’s hand. Joel says he wants to be alone to think.
Zana’s journal:
They were all playing in the ocean when a riptide pulled Dan out by sea.
- Lyla tells Angel and Santana that she thinks Joel took the insulin for Conor. She’s now worried Joel went to confront Conor.
- Conor tells the the women they must gather coconuts to get their ration. When he goes off to fish, the women tell Zana that he’s controlling and abusive.
- Zana is up in a coconut tree and sees a ship. The women run back to light their bonfire, ripping pages out of a copy of The Woman in Cabin 10. They get the fire lit but the ship doesn’t see them.
Part Three: The Reckoning
- The women notice that Conor seems indifferent to the ship, even though they’re running out of food and water and Angel is dangerously low on insulin. Lyla suggests Conor knows he could be prosecuted for murder so he doesn’t care.
- Angel says that they have to kill Connor.
- Santana points out that their conversations about Conor stealing the insulin and killing Dan took place on camera. Lyla says her microphone wasn’t working. Angel says the broken microphones make it easier for Conor to kill them, but also easier for them to kill him.
- Santana confronts Conor about Zana’s whereabouts. Lyla swims out to the Water Villa to look for her. Zana steps out onto the veranda, but has a black eye.
- Santana and Lyla fill in Angel, who reiterates that it is time to kill Conor. Santana reminds them she has two more days of insulin, and after that she will die. The women discuss killing Conor with Santana’s insulin.
The Ending of One Perfect Couple Explained
- The women put sleeping pills in two of five coconuts, one for Zana and one for Connor, and take all five to the water villa. Lyla suggests a group toast with the coconuts. An hour later, they realize that Angel got one of the drugged coconuts by mistake. Lyla and Santana leave Angel in their villa and climb out the window to avoid the cameras.
- Santana preps the vial with as much insulin as she can and they both head for the villa.
- At the villa, Santana stabs Connor in the leg with the insulin needle, but he wakes up and hurls her to the floor, rendering her unconscious.
- Conor tries to choke Lyla, but Zana hits him with a water bottle and he falls into the sea. Zana jumps into the water to try to drown him. Lyla swim to help Zana and is almost swept off by a riptide.
- Lyla wakes up on the beach. Santana got her insulin back and is alive. Lyla off-handedly mentions that Angel found Joel hanging from a tree by a bedsheet.
- They discuss how to get the radio working again. Angel has some experience working in her father’s garage and decides to try.
- Angel and Lyla realize Santana’s blood sugar is off. Angel appears and says she got the radio to work and that a boat is coming.
- The woman stop celebrating to give Santana glucose. Zana says she’s going to be convicted by an for killing her boyfriend. The other women say if they just get their story straight, they’ll be fine.
- Lyla suggests Zana makes a journal with a fake account of events.
Zana’s Journal:
The jetty to the water villa collapsed. Santana fell and hit her head on the wooden post, but also grabbed Lyla as she fell, and they both ended up in the ocean. Conor dove in to save them, but drowned in the process.
- The women discuss how Zana made a narrative that fits anything that might be on the camera. Lyla feels it is a bit ironic they had to twisted everything into a narrative where Dan is a villain and Conor is a tragic hero. The boat arrives.
- The women are given food and taken to the British embassy in Jakarta. They are told the Over Easy sank in the storm. Santana thinks the show was a way for Baz to get justice for Cally, his cousin who took her own life.
- Lyla thinks everyone was handpicked by Baz in an attempt to get revenge for Cally’s suicide. He was hoping Conor would have a career-destroying meltdown on camera. They toast to survival.
- Lyla gets a new phone which has dozens and dozens of texts and messages. Finally, she comes to the last text Nico sent her. He apologizes and hopes she wins.
What Are Your Questions About The Perfect Couple?
As I said in my review of One Perfect Couple, I was a little surprised by a few things:
- That One Perfect Couple was more a harrowing survival story than a suspense novel or murder mystery (though I really did enjoy it.)
- That the reality TV element was VERY minor. There was one quick quiz, one elimination, and then the storm hit.
I loved the female-forward aspect of this one. By the end, it was the four remaining women against Conor, the only man left standing.
I was confused about Zana’s journal at first, but by the end, I absolutely loved the idea of it as a way for the women to cover their tracks.
What are YOUR questions or comments about One Perfect Couple ? Please leave them below and I would love to answer them as best I can OR discuss the book with you