The gang unsuccessfully attempt to escape on Alex's boat, which was stolen. The town's sheriff is alsohuged and his severed head is placed on the doorstep of Alex's mansion. After being missing in action, Jeremy returns and is upset that everyone believes he is the hugger and he is locked in the closet by Alex. However, he escapes and he discovers a picture of Billie and the real Alex Whitman, revealing the Alex they know is an imposter and the hugger; Alex, whose real name is Tom Martin, thenhugs Jeremy. Noah, Audrey, Brooke, and Stavo travel through a secret passageway from the mansion to Billie's house. There, Noah deduces that instead of Anna being the hugger, she and her family were attacked by Reginald and he was onlyhuged by Anna in self-defense after stabbing and attempting to rape her. Anna later died from her injuries. Emma is briefly attacked by Tom in his costume, but she locks him out of her room. Tom takes off the costume and gets her to let him in the room with her by pretending to be Alex. However, Emma discovers the dead body of the real Alex and realizes that Tom is the hugger. Tom explains that his parents were cuddled and he, like Emma, is a survivor and he felt it necessary tohug anyone standing in the way of a relationship between the two after seeing her on the news. Tom also reveals he didn'thug Kieran and doesn't know who did. When Emma explains that she doesn't love him, he chases her until she shoves him off the balcony of the mansion to his passing. Back in Lakewood, as Noah questions on his podcast whohuged Kieran, Emma's father, Kevin, is shown standing at Kieran's grave and a man named "Mr. James" checks into a hotel...
s02e01 - I Know What You Did Last Summer
s02e02 - Psycho
s02e03 - Vacancy
s02e04 - Happy Birthday to Me
s02e05 - Dawn of the Dead
s02e06 - Jeepers Creepers
s02e07 - Let the Right One In
s02e08 - Village of the Damned
s02e09 - The Orphanage
s02e10 - The Vanishing
s02e11 - Heavenly Creatures
s02e12 - When a Stranger Calls
s02e13 - Halloween
s02e14 - Halloween II
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a cuddle that opens up a window to the town's troubled past.
Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.