Confused *SPOILERS*

[Duz'Jabowg]

Okay so I thought, it's all over, I thought, it's done, but now? Let me recreate the scene:

I went after Georgie Porgie, got Vivian to kill herself and free the others *yaay*. What If she would be alive after all? I mean if she didn't kill herself? Would Nerissa appeared at the end?

And after all of that, I NEVER thought that Nerissa could be Faith || Faith is already dead and Nerissa plays her (or theory III: Bloody Mary is everyone and does it because it's fun). If that is true, why does Lily made a note "thanks for covering my shift Faith". If they (Lily and Faith) were dead, she couldn't write the note and Faith couldn't attend to the meeting with the woodsman, which leads to the first encounter.

So long story short:

1.) What happens, if Vivian doesn't die in the end? (Does Nerissa appear anyway?)
2.) What about the "thanks for covering my shift Faith" note from Lily? She wrote that, when both were alive. If Nerissa were Faith in Episode 1, they had to be dead. The note proves they're alive at that point, doesn't it?
3.) Nerissa told Georgie about the "rebellion". He told CM, which told Georgie to get the job done. Or am I missing something (Bigby told that she lies, concludes, there were no real evidence against CM)?

I'm kind of stuck .. I'm thankful for every help

[Live from Aporia]

1) My understanding is she dies no matter who you pursue, and no matter what you say to her-- this I think is appropriate, as she emphasizes how she doesn't want other people making her choices for her anymore, so I think including an option to prevent her death would undermine the impact of her choice to commit suicide.

2) That to me supports Theory I, that Faith is who you speak to in the end glamored as Narissa. which I currently subscribe to.

3) I think Narissa told on the girls, then Faith finds out and manages to swap identities with Narissa (through some sort of trickery), has Georgie kill Narissa thinking it was actually her, and disguises herself as Narissa throughout the game to help Bigby solve the case. So it's Faith the whole time-- this makes the most literary sense to me because the entire game is built around the death of Faith, and to turn that fundamental idea upside down in the last few seconds is just pure good writing.

[Austin1222]

*mind blown*

[MarkedAsRed]

1) So far as I can see, Vivian's death is inevitable regardless of the dialogue choices you make during the altercation. I had to play that scene twice due to a game freeze and decided to pick another dialogue branch but Vivian still beheaded herself.
2) Lily leaves the note for Faith before anybody is murdered, probably during the first scenes of the first episode, hoping that Faith will find it after she returns from Woodsman's place. So it follows that whomever got killed were killed after the note was left.
3) That is the essence of it. The trouble is, Crooked Man may have been right when he said he did not order the "murder" but simply ordered Georgie to sort things out and Georgie thought it was a hit order. Nerissa was aware that Crooked Man would be able brush aside any connection through a sort of plausible deniability so she turned up to pin the blame on him. She has plausibility as a "pawn" and Crooked Man doesn't know how much she does or does not know neither is he aware who else might have heard her story.

This rather brings a sobering touch to the whole "justice" of it all, as Nerissa's takedown against the Crooked Man wasn't corraborated and as we see at the end, it was essentially made up: there is no evidence against the Crooked Man, only disgruntled current or former victims.

As for Nerissa being Faith or vice versa:
The plot works alright if everybody are who they appear to be. Nerissa's motives for provoking Wolf to investigate are legitimate causes - deep in debt for her glamour, stuck in prostution and so on. Her role in bringing about Faith's death in the hands of Georgie justifies her guilt for pulling Fabletown down upon Crooked Man.
However, the plot still functions rather well with Faith impersonating Nerissa. As you can hear from the recollections flying through Bigby's mind, bits and pieces of hints suggest that Faith and Nerissa might have swapped identities. There's a bit of a confusion on that front, though: the decapitated head on Woodlands staircase remains Faith's head whereas Lily's head eventually morphs back to her own image - Faith's remains were in Swineheart's care so anything awry would be mentioned while he was patching Bigby up in Episode IV.

However, it has been far too long since I played the whole season, so my chronology might be amiss. A whole new replay marathon would probably knock things back into place.