Tell Me a Story | Season 1

 

"Chapter 1: Hope"

Kayla is a troubled teenager who has just moved from California to New York City with her widowed father, Tim, to live with her grandmother, Colleen (Tim's mother), after her mother's death. Kayla does not like the move and cannot relate to anyone. In an attempt to fit in, she sneaks out with Laney, a girl from high school and gets into a bar using a fake ID. There she meets Nick Sullivan, who she quickly has sex with. She later finds out he is her new teacher. Jordan Evans and his girlfriend Beth have been fighting over Jordan wanting to marry and have children, while Beth does not want to bring a child into the world. Elsewhere, Gabe Perez and his roommate Billy are dancers and gay male escorts who meet a man, named Dan, in his room one night. When Billy tries to steal from the man, a fight ensues and the man is accidentally killed. Gabe calls his sister Hannah to clean up the mess and they stage it to look like an accident. Brothers Mitch and Eddie, both in desperate need of money, agree to help lifelong thief Sam rob a jewelry store, just as Beth and Jordan agree they want to marry and go to purchase rings. The job quickly goes wrong, and Beth is shot dead along with a security guard.

"Chapter 2: Loss"

Jordan is questioned by the police to see if he can identify anything about the murders, to which he only knows what Eddie's eyes looked like. The police are later able to identify Eddie and Detective Garcia tells him she knows he did not kill those people, but wants more information from him. She later has him participate in a lineup and Jordan identifies him as the man who killed Beth. However, Eddie cannot yet be charged. Nick is worried about getting fired and possibly in trouble after having sex with Kayla, but she tells him not to worry about it. Kayla and her friends, Laney and Ethan, skip school again the next day and Laney tries to get her to tell them what she is hiding, but she refuses to share. Also, Hannah investigates the man who Gabe accidentally killed and learns that he was a businessman caught up in shady business. It is later reported on the news that his body was found in the river. After a fight with her father, Kayla storms out and ends up seeking comfort in Nick. Jordan later visits Eddie at work, which scares him, but Mitch tells him to not be paranoid as Jordan watches Eddie from outside his window.

"Chapter 3: Greed"

Jordan feels like the police are ignoring him and that Beth's murder will never be solved. Hannah wanting to have something to protect herself, turns on Dan's phone and hears Sam on the other end of the line. She hangs up and throws the phone away but finds a storage unit card. Kayla must start working for Colleen at her costume store, and is visited by Ethan, who knows about her and Nick, and tries to blackmail her. Laney confronts Ethan about what he knows, which almost leads to Kayla and Nick's relationship being outed. Elsewhere, Mitch and Eddie try to get their money from Sam, who threatens them. Jordan sneaks into Eddie's house and almost kills him but cannot go through with it. Hannah finds that Dan had two million dollars hidden in a storage locker and wants to take it and start a new life with Gabe who does not want to. Kayla goes to Nick's to see how he is where they talk about their relationship, before having sex again. Gabe comes home to find Billy dead and tortured and realizes that whoever killed him is after Hannah. Before she can escape, she is attacked by a man looking for the money. She ends up killing him and leaving with the money.

"Chapter 4: Rage"

Jordan goes to the police with Eddie's pig mask but Garcia tells him that he has tampered with the investigation and he has not helped. Kayla and Nick's relationship grows, with Nick becoming worried about Kayla talking to Ethan after he finds out that he has a police record. Also, Hannah and Gabe leave the city for North Carolina. Kayla spends the day with Ethan and he ends up sexually assaulting her, with Colleen breaking it up, which makes her curious at Kayla's actions. Hannah reveals she was injured while serving in the military. Jordan tries to get Eddie's girlfriend, Carla, to reveal to him who the shooter was but Eddie ends up beating him up and threatening him to stay away. Ethan later texts Nick a picture of him kissing Kayla, with the words "you're done". While Hannah is sleeping, Gabe instead drives them to their estranged mother's house.

"Chapter 5: Madness"

Jordan has been seeing visions of Beth who tells him that she does not want him to get revenge for her murder, but he ignores them. Nick tracks down Ethan and ties him up and makes him delete all the photos and everyone he sent it to. Hannah cannot forgive her mother for abandoning her family many years ago and does not want anything to do with her. Richard, her new husband, sets her and Gabe up with a flight and access to their house in Puerto Rico. Back in New York, Tim finds out about Kayla's wrongdoings and punishes her while she continues to ice him out. Jordan later taunts Mitch outside his house. Mitch goes to Eddie's house to talk about Jordan when they are attacked with a decapitated pig head and threatened by Jordan for Sam's name. Nick does not trust Ethan, so he kills him and buries his body. Kayla confronts Tim and wants nothing to do with him since he was cheating on her mom which indirectly caused her mother to die. Kayla once again turns to Nick and almost finds him with blood on himself before they have sex again.

"Chapter 6: Guilt"

Nick is still posing as Ethan in his phone and text messages. Mitch gives Eddie $4,000 so he and Carla can get out of town. Kayla skips school yet again and spends the day with Nick. Things are going well until he tells her he loves her. Jordan once again taunts Mitch, leading to him warning Sam about Jordan's actions. In North Carolina, Hannah and Gabe are prepared to leave, until police officers show up looking to take them back to New York. They beg their mother to hide them, but she sells them out. Kayla later breaks up with Nick because she cannot be a part of a relationship with all that is going on. Nick takes the news very badly and physically harms himself, before approaching Tim at the restaurant bar. Hannah and Gabe realize that they are not with actual police officers but with men working for the people after them. Hannah manages to choke the driver and cause the car to flip many times and down a hill. Jordan taunts and threatens Eddie, leading Eddie to shoot through the door. He is horrified to find he accidentally shot and killed Carla. Heartbroken and overcome with guilt, Eddie commits suicide by shooting himself in the head, as Jordan knows what he has done.

"Chapter 7: Betrayal"

The police believe that Eddie killed Carla because he was loaded. Jordan refuses to give up his quest for revenge and wants to go after and kill the two remaining "Little Pigs", something that is hindered when he begins to see and talk to Eddie as his moral compass. Kayla confronts Nick about stalking Tim at the restaurant and warns him to have nothing to do with her. Hannah and Gabe manage to escape the men with the money but are later hunted through the woods by one of them. Hannah buries the money and defeats her attacker while Gabe makes it to a rest stop where he is drugged and kidnapped by Esther, who is working with the company. Garcia questions the story. Jordan kidnaps Shelley and wants Sam's name in return for her. Mitch alerts Sam and they go to the trade-off together. Sam instead kills both Shelley and Mitch and attempts to kill Jordan. Also, Kayla and Laney investigate Nick, where they learn he is using his brother's name and is from Florida, his real name being Joshua. Hannah looks for Gabe and is attacked by one of the men. She kills him and Esther calls and tells her they will be in contact with her. Kayla is horrified to find Nick has one of her mother's paintings in his closet.

"Chapter 8: Truth"

Kayla tells Nick to leave her alone. Abby is shown having an affair with Nick, who was obsessed with her. Tim tried to confront Abby about the affair, but she had to leave to break it off with Nick. When she tried to break it off, he grew violent, which led Abby to run away. He began to pursue her in a high-speed car chase, causing her to wreck her car. She was badly injured and asked Nick to help her, but he killed her. Garcia questions Jordan, who she believes is killing for revenge. Jordan is horrified when Sam enters, who is a detective and investigating Garcia's case and knows all of Jordan's information. Gabe is held and tortured by Esther who wants the money. Hannah eventually agrees to give them the money for Gabe. Sam later confronts Jordan and proposes a truce, as he knows he would not be able to frame anyone for Jordan's murder. Gabe escapes from the basement he is being held in. When he finds himself in a restaurant kitchen and runs into Katrina, he begs her to help him and is horrified when she has two men tie him up again, revealing herself to be the buyer all along.

"Chapter 9: Deception"

Jordan attempts to kidnap Sam's son as "Mr. Wolf". He realizes he has gone too far and calls Tim for help. Katrina and Esther plan to kill Gabe, while Hannah and Terry plan their defense. Nick lures Laney to an abandoned building and forces her to lure Kayla there. Garcia has been growing suspicious of Sam, believing he is dirty. Jordan tells Garcia everything and she says she will charge Sam the next day. Kayla comes to Nick's apartment, but he locks Kayla in so they can talk about a trip. She distracts him, stabs him, finds Laney has been murdered, and escapes. She calls the police and tells them everything. Hannah meets at the trade-off and she and Terry kill all but one of the many henchmen. She follows him back to the hotel where Katrina is. Katrina calls her and threatens her, while Hannah tells her that she plans to kill her and get her brother back. Garcia is murdered by Olsen, who is one of Sam's men. Nick gets Colleen to give him a disguise at her costume shop and then knocks her out and puts her into a suitcase. He then, under a new identity, checks into the hotel, bringing the suitcase with him.

"Chapter 10: Forgiveness"

Jordan breaks into Sam's house and steals the diamonds. Nick demands to Kayla that they meet. Katrina is facing pressure from Sam for the money and kidnaps Hannah. Jordan calls the dirty Olsen and tells him he believes Sam killed Garcia and tells him he has the diamonds. Kayla meets with Nick and he tells her that he killed her mother, Abby. He explains he loved her so much since she gave him Kayla, that he followed her to New York, forced his way into the job as her teacher, and that he had been stalking her from the very beginning. Kayla promises to go anywhere with him if he lets Colleen go. He initially agrees but sets the room on fire. Tim has followed Kayla there and frees them. Jordan manages to escape. Hannah and Gabe escape from the basement and they kill Katrina. Jordan almost shoots Sam but he sees Beth, who distracts him, and Sam shoots him dead. Sam escapes but ends up getting hit and killed by a car. Jordan reunites with Beth in the afterlife. Kayla is again attacked by Nick. A fight ensues during which Nick falls down the stairs to his death.