Deep Water

Plot Summary

• Vic (Ben Affleck) and Melinda Van Allen (Ana De Armas) are a couple with a daughter, Trixie (Grace Jenkins), living in the small town of Little Wesley, Louisiana. Vic is a retired robotics engineer, having amassed a great fortune developing the guidance chips used in combat drones.Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby; in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Even then, their open marriage is made no secret among their friends, while Vic silently grows increasingly jealous of Melinda's lovers, while Melinda laments his lack of passion.Melinda is smoking hot, and she deliberately pokes Vic by asking him to choose the provocative dress that she wears to her dates. Vic knows that he can look, but not touch Melinda. Chelsea (Juliet Brett) is their babysitter. Vic has a snail farm in his garage, which is his hobby and passion. Melinda is not a very good mother to Trixie and is more irritated by her. Trixie bonds with Vic instead the duo understand and support each other.Melinda invites one of her lovers, musician Joel Dash (Brendan C. Miller), to a party that Vic is also invited to. Vic sees Melinda kissing Joel by the swimming pool. While alone with Joel, Vic tells him that he murdered her previous boyfriend, Martin McRae, who had disappeared a month earlier. Vic elaborates in private that he killed Martin with a hammer. Joel leaves the party is haste, clearly freaked out with Vic's confession.Joel finds a job in Santa Fe, but when Melinda finds out she makes Vic invites Joel over for dinner and apologize to him for scaring him with a false rumor. But late at night, Vic tells Joel that he did kill Martin McRae. Vic sends Joel off in an Uber, before he can get intimate with Melinda. A TV news report reveals that Martin's body has been found shot to death, and a suspect is arrested.The story spreads through their circle of friends, raising the suspicions of noir writer Don Wilson, and raising questions as to the story's truth. At a social event, Vic has fun dancing with a writer Don Wilson's wife Kelly Wilson (Kristen Connolly). He takes her dancing, and Vic never dances. Vic and Melinda's friends Kristin Peterson (Rachel Blanchard), Jen Fernandez (Jade Fernandez) all notice this and see that Vic is happy with Kelly. That night Melinda gives Vic a blow job. Vic tries to initiate sex, but Melinda at first pushes him back, but later they have sex in Melinda's bedroom.Vic finds out that Melinda has cut a check for $3000 to a piano teacher Charlie De Lisle. Vic starts following Charlie De Lisle (Jacob Elordi). One morning, Melinda returns home after spending the night with Charlie. Vic wants Melinda to stop seeing Charlie.Melinda's next lover, piano teacher Charlie De Lisle, is invited to a pool party at the home of Vic's friend Jonas Fernandez (Dash Mihok). Vic quietly grows jealous when seeing Melinda and Charlie making love in the swimming pool. Everyone rushes inside when it starts raining, but then find, to their horror, Charlie dead in the pool, apparently from drowning.Upon questioning by police, Melinda is quick to accuse Vic of murdering Charlie, raising growing suspicions by their new friend Don Wilson (Tracy Letts). He later asks if she is scared of him, and she says she is not as "I'm the one you killed for".Don's wife Kelly tells Vic that her husband and Melinda have been accusing him of Charlie's murder. With help from Melinda, Don secretly hires a private investigator David Ricigliani (Joel R. Martinez), who later poses as a psychotherapist. Vic, however, is quick to uncover this plot (when Kelly reaches out to Vic and tells him all about what Don is doing) and crashes a Wilson family lunch, accusing Don of his wrongdoings.Sometime later, Melinda reunites with an old college boyfriend, Tony Cameron (Finn Wittrock), whose flirtatious behavior incites jealousy within Vic. Vic overhears Melinda talking to Tony about moving to Brazil. Vic drives Tony into the woods alone, before pushing him off a rocky hill, killing him. Vic then sinks the body into a nearby creek.This is the spot where Melinda and Vic used to go hiking, back when they were dating. Vic returns home and finds Melinda packing a picnic for the same location, with their daughter Trixie. At the picnic, Vic gives her a collection of photographs he has surreptitiously taken of her as a testament to his love. Vic could see that Tony's body was not submerged enough, and its outlines were visible from the shore. Returning home, he offers to go back to the spot in the morning to retrieve Melinda's lost scarf. She notifies Don but invites Vic to share her bed that night.Vic returns to the creek to retrieve Melinda's scarf from a picnic trip they had the previous day, but as he attempts to sink Tony's body further into the water, he is suddenly surprised by Don, who catches him in the act and then recklessly drives his car to flee for help with Vic in pursuit, but in the ensuing chaos (Vic pursues him on his bike and takes a shortcut through the brush to try to head Don off. Vic tumbles out of the bushes and falls off his bike into the car's path. Don actually tried to steer the car to save Vic) Don accidentally swerves his car off a cliff and is killed instantly upon impact.At the same time, Melinda finds Tony's wallet with his identification in one of Vic's snail tanks, confirming Vic's knowledge of Tony's whereabouts. Melinda begins packing, intending to leave with their daughter, only to be defiantly confronted by Trixie to stay.After contemplating, Melinda burns Tony's identity documents, suggesting she intends to stay with Vic as he returns home.

Storyline

• Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Vic becomes fascinated with the unsolved murder of one of Melinda's former lovers, Martin McRae, and, in order to successfully drive away her current fling, takes credit for the killing. When the real murderer is apprehended, Vic's claims are interpreted by the community as dark jokes. The history of a toxic relation. He is a mature, intelligent, introvert and rich man. She is an attractive, extrovert, enigmatic, unhappy, alcoholic and daring woman. They are a married couple with a really smart little girl. The combination is lethal. And mean, literally lethal... — paratilola