'Black Mirror' Season 6 Episode 2 Ending Explained: Davis gains nothing despite winning the BAFTA award
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: The small fictional town of Loch Henry receives two aspiring filmmakers in the second episode of the sixth installment of ‘Black Mirror'. Davis is a native while Pia is tagging along with him to finish their documentary on a man who protects valuable eggs from being sold or auctioned to the highest bidder. But the tiny town has a sinister story that has drained the tourism off its shores. A man named Iain Adair killed a couple on honeymoon in a bunker of his cottage and later shot his parents and himself before the police could catch him.
Davis’s friend, Stuart owns a local pub. Davis and Pia arrive and conversations flare off. Davis and Stuart tell Pia about Adair’s story and his heinous deeds of murdering multiple people and specifically Dawn and Simon Challis, the honeymoon couple who visited the town. Before Pia could ask any further questions, Davis revealed that his father was a local policeman who was also shot by Adair when he went to confront him on the unfortunate night when he killed himself. All these killings a while ago had given a bad reputation to the town and since Adair’s discovery, tourists have looked away from the picturesque beauty of this small town. Pia now wants to make a crime-specific documentary on Adair’s killings and tries to convince Davis. Stuart is on board as a film on Loch Henry will only help accelerate the town’s economy once again. But as Davis is injured after an accident, Pia learns about the truth behind the killing of the honeymoon couple.
Janet and her love for Bergerac expose her
Janet, Davis’s mother is a big fan of the British crime drama television series, Bergerac. She often keeps tapes of the show to watch it later and unfortunately, this turns out to be her biggest mistake. When Pia returns to Davis’s house after he’s stuck in the hospital after a small accident, she resumes digitizing footage from tapes and then suddenly, the video sputters into another video. To her horror, Pia sees Janet in a red cabaret mask, torturing the honeymoon couple with Kenneth and Adair. The trio had made a snuff film. Janet returns to the room and Pia freezes. She knows that Janet is the manic killer behind the murders of Dawn and Simon which was pinned on Adair until now.
She manages to flee the house but Janet chases her in her car. When Pia tries to cross the river, she slips and smacks her head on a rock, and her dead body drifts along the water. In a moment of truth, Janet returns home, gathers all the evidence of her killing deeds, puts it in a box, writes a note for her son, and then hangs herself.
Davis wins but at what costs?
Davis and Pia were asked by a producer to find a more personal angle to the story of Davis’ dad being shot by the Adair and his subsequent death. She asks for something unseen, unheard, and unexplored. The duo even break into the Adair house and film fresh footage of the murder room but given Pia’s discovery about Davis’ mother and then Janet hanging herself to death, there was little left for Davis to live for despite his documentary ‘Loch Henry: Truth Will Out’ winning the BAFTA award for Best Documentary Feature. He’s unmoved and unfazed by all the preceding events and locks himself in a hotel room, drinking alone. Even though the town of Loch Henry has gained tourists after the release of the documentary, Davis has lost his mother, her friend, and the will to give a f**k about the winning prize.
‘Black Mirror’ Season 6 is currently streaming on Netflix.